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"Decisive battle" (Areas near South Window/South Window) Commander Dreyfulus walked to Granmeyer. He seemed worried. “My lord, there are a lot of them. What do you want to do?” “Hmmm....Take one regiment off from the 3rd Company. Split it in two. The other part will join Cleovan’s unit and the other my unit. I think that you can handle with the rest three regiments of your Company.” “Yes, my lord.” “Then you will take the left side and I’ll take the middle. Cleovan will take the right side. We must keep our defence line until the Rune unit is ready.” “As you wish. I’ll get the troops in formation.” Freiderlock watched from the hill how the army moved in to position. He saw commander Cleovan on the right, commander Dreyfulus on the left and Granmeyer in the middle. “Alright. Is a three on one, eh? Well, more the merrier. Monsters, attack!!” The monster horde started to flow down the hill. The hill was covered with monsters. “Here they come!! Get ready!!” Dreyfulus turned to his archer regiment. “Aim!!!.......Fire!!!!” A rain of bows were shot on the monsters. Many of them fell, but more kept coming. Cleovan run to the front line of his regiment and started to swing his sword. The soldiers took their weapons and followed their commander. But monsters were coming from everywhere. Granmeyer got back on his horse. He rode to the middle of a monster group. He swung his sword and slayed a few monsters. His troopers joined him. “Don’t let them through the back! The Rune unit isn’t ready yet!!” Dreyfulus used his sword with a speed of light and killed many monsters with only a one blow. All the soldiers were fighting as hard as they could, but it wasn’t enough. Monsters just kept coming. “Lord Granmeyer! There are too much of them!! We have already lost more than a hundred men!!” “Keep fighting!! The Rune unit will be ready soon!!!......I hope.” Freiderlock laughed. He laughed everytime he saw a army soldier die. “Pitiful fools. Heh heh heh.” Freiderlock jumped down from the fallen tree and took his sword. “Now let’s have some fun.” He run down the hill to the battle. He jumped high in the air and swung his sword. He killed two soldiers with a one swing of his sword. Dreyfulus saw Freiderlock entering the battle. He run towards Freiderlock and swung his sword. Freiderlock defended the strike. “Ha ha ha ha. Well now, if it isn’t commander Dreyfulus.” “Freiderlock, your days end here.” “Hah!!! You wish!” Freiderlock attacked Dreyfulus. Both of them swung their swords and dodged attacks. Cleovan saw the duel between Dreyfulus and Freiderlock. He started to run towards them. When he got closer, one huge monster jumped at him. He fell but quickly got up and started fighting it. “Lord Granmeyer!!! We can’t hold them for much longer!!!” “We have to!! The Rune unit will be ready soon!!” “There isn’t enough time!!! There are too many of them!!!” “Then there is no choice.......” Granmeyer lifted his left hand. “I call the power of the Earth....Earthquake!!!” The ground begin to shake. Soldiers looked at the ground. It begun to open. Soldiers run and the monsters begun to chase the men. But suddenly the ground opened up and the monsters fell in. And in a blink of an eye, all returned to normal, but the monsters were gone. Soldiers stopped. They looked around and tried to see what had just happened. One soldier turned and looked Granmeyer. He was on the ground. “!?!?!?!?! Lord Granmeyer!!!!!” The soldier run to Granmeyer and kneeled down. “My lord, are you alright??? What happened???” “I’m alright....the Rune...takes....a bit...of my strength...when I use it...I’ll be fine..” The soldier helped Granmeyer up. “I’ll take you to the medic-” “No, I’m fine..go and help the others..they need more help than me.” “Are you sure?” “Yes. Go.” “Yes, my lord.” The soldier run back to the others. When he got there, a new group of monsters attacked. “.....huff...You are strong...much stronger that I remembered...huff...” “....Give up Freiderlock...you can’t win.” “...huff....Oh but I can.” Freiderlock suddenly jumped back. He pulled a throwing knife from his pocket. He threw it to Dreyfulus. It was so fast that Dreyfulus didn’t have time to dodge, and he got hit. The knife was pointing from his shoulder. “Aarghh!!!” “HA!!! You weakling.” Freiderlock was about to hit Dreyfulus with his sword, when Cleovan attacked from behind. “!!!! Where did you come from!!??” “Surprise surprise. No let’s finish this.” “Heh heh...as you wish.” Freiderlock attacked Cleovan. Cleovan wasn’t as strong as Dreyfulus, but he was hell of a lot faster. He dodged every attack. “You can’t hit me?” “You just wait and see.” Granmeyer had gathered his strength and walked to the Rune unit. “Why aren’t you attacking? We will lose if you don’t help them.” “My lord, we can’t attack. We would hit our own troops too.” “Don’t you have some smaller magics than Shredding? Use them!!” “But...” “USE THEM NOW!!!!!” “...Yes sir.” The Rune holding soldiers walked to a line. They all lifted their hands. Small fire arrows and fire balls flew to the battle field. Granmeyer watched how many monsters got hit. Soldiers run from the field and the chasing monsters fell. Then Granmeyer noticed Freiderlock and Cleovan fighting. And Dreyfulus was on the ground. Granmeyer took a horse and rode towards the fighting men. Freiderlock swung and Cleovan dodged. The sword nearly touched his helmet. Cleovan jumped back. “You are slower than I thought.” “Slow??? Bhah! You are slow!” Freiderlock attacked but Cleovan easily jumped away from the sword. Freiderlock was furious. “Damn!!! Stop dodging and die!!!!” Freiderlock attacked again and Cleovan defended the hit. Freiderlock kept attacking. Cleovan was having a hard time defending the strikes. Granmeyer stopped and jumped down from the horse. He run closer. He went to Dreyfulus. “Are you alright?” “I’m...fine..please...save your self. After he is finished with Cleovan, he’ll come for you.” “Let him come.” Granmeyer stood up and watched Cleovan and Freiderlock fight. Freiderlock was attacking with rage and Cleovan was defending as hard as he could. Suddenly Cleovan lost his sword. Freiderlock hit so hard that Cleovan’s sword flew to the ground. “HA!!! You are beaten. Prepare to die!!!” Granmeyer looked at Cleovan. Cleovan lifted his hand. Granmeyer saw the Rune on Cleovans hand. Granmeyer lifted his left hand and pointed to Cleovan. “Clay Guardian!!” A green light came over Cleovan. Freiderlock ignored it and hit. He hit Cleovan to the chest. “W....wh....what is this!!!????” Cleovan got up and lifted his right hand. “Finger of Death!!!!” A black shadow appeared on Freiderlock. In a second Freiderlock disappeared. Now there was only a smokin hole where he stood a moment ago. Granmeyer looked at Cleovan again. He was lying on the ground. He had fainted after using his Rune. Granmeyer shouted to the soldiers nearby. “Get a doctor!!!” Granmeyer sat in his office. A week had passed from the battle. He was looking at the reports of the battle. Over 600 men died in the battle and more than 1000 were badly injured. It would take atleast a couple of months to recover all the troopers. Granmeyer looked worried. Highland armies were on the move. They were moving near the Muse-Highland border. It would be a matter of time before they would attack the City-State. Lady Anabelle is an excellent leader, but she can’t fight Highland alone. The other City-State members are only after their own good. Hopefully something can be done to protect the City-State before its too late. “Let’s just hope that we have enough time...” Granmeyer thought to himself. “...Enough time to prepare before another maniac like Freiderlock appears and tries to take over the world.”
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