After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

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Night falls.

The clear weather during the day gradually turned cloudy at dusk, and at night it was covered with dark clouds, even the moon was completely obscured and isolated.

As the weather turned cloudy, the temperature began to drop and cold winds howled in the forests of the Central Mountain Range.

This is what is called a dark moon night for murder and a strong wind day for arson.

At least that's what Parker thought.

Before, for three consecutive days, the team he led was repelled by the half-blood village when attacking it, and his boss was very unhappy about it.

Tonight is Parker's last chance.

If he can't massacre the whole village, the boss will probably cut himself into pieces and roast himself over the fire.

Is it scary? Yes, it is scary.

But there is also good news.

In order to ensure the success of tonight's operation, the boss not only sent a hundred people to himself, but also generously deployed several combat magicians.

With this level of power, there is no need to worry about not being able to flatten that damn little village.

The time has come and all the men have entered the attacking position.

A younger brother came over tentatively and asked:

"Boss, the brothers are all ready, shall we charge?"

Parker nodded, drew the saber from his waist and shouted:

"Brothers! Charge!"

The moment the order was given, a group of people roared and rushed towards the dark mountain road in front of them, either on horseback or on foot.

The magicians also began to gather their magic power, and several huge balls of light immediately rose up, illuminating the road ahead as bright as day.

This made Parker very proud.

The previous attack failed because, firstly, the strong orc was too fierce and difficult to deal with, and secondly, the difficult terrain made it easy for the enemy to set ambushes and traps.

Now let’s see what other moves the opponent has.

However, it did not.

His men were almost at the entrance of the village, but the mountain road and the forests on both sides were still quiet, without any resistance.

This situation made Parker mutter:

"What happened? Did they run away?"

"That's impossible, Boss! Our people were watching them all day, but we didn't see them escape."

"Um……"

Parker looked at his men in confusion as they rushed further and further away. The vanguards had even entered the village.

But there was still no movement.

Parker's experience of serving in the Imperial Army made him feel uneasy, and he quickly ordered:

"Go and tell our men to retreat first, quickly!"

Just as he finished speaking, with a "whoosh" sound, an arrow shot out from the depths of the dark forest beside him and accurately hit a magician next to Parker.

The magician twitched and then collapsed to the ground.

"Oh no, I've been fooled—"

Parker realized something was wrong, but it was too late.

An inexplicable strange wind blew, and the lighting ball suspended in the air instantly dissipated and disappeared.

But the battlefield did not fall into darkness.

Because almost at the same time a wall of fire rose up in the direction of the village entrance, blocking the vanguard and follow-up troops that had already rushed into the village.

And in the firelight, the huge figure of the Orc appeared, and let out a deafening war cry.

Chapter 77 When the Forest Begins to Speak

The location of this village was chosen with the possibility of being attacked in mind from the beginning, so it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Due to the dense forest, narrow mountain roads, and Grote's strong body like a city wall, the bandits spent three days without being able to set foot in the village.

Now, the good news is, they're coming in.

The bad news was that a wall of fire blocked the way in, and the already narrow entrance became completely impassable.

The worse news was that the orc who was ridiculously strong for them was now right in front of them.

With a terrifying roar, Groot raised his battle axe and crashed into the panicked bandit group like a meteorite.

The leader of the team was relatively calm.

"Don't panic!! It's just one orc, line up and kill him!"

The shining sabers were all revealed and slashed, hacked, and stabbed at Groot from different angles.

But it didn't have any effect.

These sophisticated weapons, which were carefully forged for large-scale warfare, were actually bounced off the moment they hit the tattered and patchwork armor on Groot's body.

“What…Aaaaaaaaa——”

One of the attacking bandits was chopped in two by a falling axe before he could even comprehend what was happening.

Another person who witnessed this cried out in horror:

"This is enchanted armor. That big idiot is wearing enchanted armor!"

"Idiot! That's the Knights' high-end stuff. How could these poor bastards have that kind of stuff?!"

"I saw the magic flash, how could it be fake...Aaaaaaaa——"

At this point, there is no point in arguing.

The invulnerable orcs were completely unstoppable. Holding their battle axes, they slaughtered the bandits like mowing grass. In a blink of an eye, the place became a river of blood.

On the other side of the firewall, the situation is not much better.

Arrows were constantly shot from the dark forests on both sides of the mountain road. Although their power was low and their accuracy was poor, people still fell to the ground from time to time after being shot.

The bandits set up their weapons and tried to enter the forest to search and capture each other.

however--

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Accompanied by screams one after another, some people fell into the traps that had been dug long ago.

It's full of spikes.

Some people triggered the trip rope and were hit directly on the face by the nail board thrown out from the darkness, turning them into sieves.

As for those half-blood archers who were hiding, they only needed to retreat deeper into the dark forest to continue shooting safely.

The bandits had no way to deal with them, it was as if the entire forest had become their enemy.

"How dare these filthy half-bloods use such despicable methods!"

As the commander, Parker was furious and yelled at the magicians around him:

"Set fire! Burn this forest! Get those sons of bitches out of here!"

"But, in that case, we also..."

“I’ll let you do it!!!”

The losses were unprecedentedly heavy. If we still couldn't achieve our goal, it would be disastrous for us to return.

Since he was going to die anyway, Parker decided to give it a try.

The magicians had no choice but to start accumulating magic power, and flames slowly gathered in front of them.

Then--

Whoosh!!!

Another extremely accurate arrow shot a magician who was accumulating power in the process of being shot in the head, and he collapsed to the ground.

The accuracy is completely different from the random shooting in the forest.

"Alas--"

The remaining two magicians were frightened and dared not continue chanting. They turned around and ran away.

"Come back here! Or I'll kill you! Hurry up!"

However, Parker's shouting was useless.

But after seeing the magician running away, Parker was not so worried anymore - he could just blame them later, there was no need to continue risking his life here.

"Guys! The wind is blowing! Retreat!!"

Those who rushed to the other side of the fire wall were slaughtered by Groot who had activated the invincibility cheat.

The remaining ones who had not been hit by arrows or fallen into traps began to retreat impatiently after hearing their leader's words.

Then--

"oops--"

With a scream, a small figure fell from the treetop not far from Parker.

Parker quickly led his men over. Under the light of the torch, he saw a mixed-race child with black hair and black horns lying on the ground, looking at them with horror on his face.

Parker, who was humiliated by the mixed-bloods, showed a disgusting smile:

"Hey, he came to my door? It's better than going empty-handed. Take him away! I'm going to take my anger out on you tonight!"

"Don't—don't—let me go—don't—"

The child struggled desperately, but to no avail.

The strong men rushed up, grabbed him, stuffed him into the prison van parked at the foot of the mountain, and ran away.

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In the prison van, after drinking the potion, Aize, who was disguised as a half-blood child, took a breath.

The tactics of utilizing terrain and traps to divide, distract and harass the enemy were very successful.

The armor Groot wore was shield armor applied by Villian. The Great Witch herself had applied the buff, so this rabble couldn't cut through it.

And those arrows that headshot the magician were all shot by Aze.

Before officially transforming into a support role, Aize tried many weapons other than the holy sword, wanting to see if there was anything he was particularly good at in order to improve his combat effectiveness.

The result is not.

But thanks to that time, Aize can use almost all types of weapons.

It's not good enough for a brave warrior, but it's enough to beat ordinary people.

In short, after all the operations, this group of rabble was driven away at no cost.

After disguising himself, he was successfully captured.

Everything went well, and now as long as they could get themselves back to the nest, the game would be over.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Aize pretended to be scared and looked at the group of "bandits".

As described previously, they were quite well-equipped, with some of them wearing heavy armor and even having magic users available for them to call upon.

It seems that this is a gang formed by deserters who were scattered in the previous war.

Aize recalled the previous kidnapping case in the restaurant and frowned.

Those kidnappers would commit suicide without hesitation in order to avoid being captured.