"My lord, don't get too far away from me later." Ashina grabbed Fielder's arm and lowered her voice, "I have the confidence to break out."
Feld understood what she meant and nodded, "I will, but I'm still not willing to run away until the end."
"Dump the cart here for now, crossbows out and strung." Feld had learned his lesson from last time, and had purposely brought his crossbow.
"Roar!" A gnome-like monster with slender arms flipped over the wrecked wall and jumped on top of a guard, grinning its huge mouth and started to tear, "creak creak creak~" Sapphire armor was even bitten out with a sharp sound.
The guard was shocked and flung himself wildly a few times, but he couldn't throw the monster off.
Luckily, Ashina reacted quickly and drew her long sword to cleave the monster in two.
"This is, a corrupted monkey?"
With long hands, long legs, and a tail, it should be a monkey without a doubt.
As if receiving some kind of signal, the entire Rum Village was boiling, there were gnome monsters bouncing haphazardly all over the place, black and pressurized, like a rushing turbid stream.
Felder forced himself to calm down, quickly scanning on the mini-map and trying to project, if he made a wrong step, it might put everyone in a dead end, "Run, head southeast, there's a big yard there!"
One, two, ten, more and more pygmy ghouls tumbled over the ruins of Rum Village and jumped into Feld's line of sight.
"Release the arrows!" Feld gave an order, the guards had been waiting for this moment, immediately activating their crossbows, and those monkey monsters that jumped over immediately exploded in a shower of blood, as if they had hit an invisible wall, and their bodies fell all over the place.
"Open the road." With a wave of Ashina's hand, the Dragon Seed Wolves quickly stepped forward, spitting out deadly flames while rapidly advancing.
Ashena herself was decisively behind, five monkey monsters pounced over at the same time, when the monsters were in a straight line at the same time, Ashena's figure flashed out, her slender cavalry long sword slashed through, after the cold light, the five monsters were chopped off at the waist at the same time, scattering blood and water and falling down.
Afterglow glimpsed a monster lying on the ground crawling at a fast speed, attempting to suddenly leap up to sneak attack, Ashina lifted up her long, white and soft legs and stomped hard on the monster's head. "Splat~" The monster's head was stomped and burst open, its eyes popped open with a grunt.
Borrowing the time bought by Ashena, Feld led his men to quickly rush inside the compound, the guards next to him had already moved rocks and rotting furniture to block the gate of the compound.
"It's not safe here, move back further and rely on the houses for defense." Feld glanced at the mini-map again, the tide of red markers couldn't be seen to the edge, the only consolation was that the monsters weren't aiming at him, they were running in the other direction and just happened to brush up against the Rum Village.
"Block the gates and take turns resting, they're just passing through and will be gone soon." Feld gave the crowd a boost.
With the dragon breed wolves, Ashena and the army, blocking the gate wasn't difficult.
Not long after, the corrupted monkeys launched a furious attack.
Unfortunately, Feld's army formation was a tenacious embankment, allowing the guards to hold up at the gate, and with fully-armored guards, even with heavy shields, the monkeys were unable to break through.
Ashina's giant wolf was even more like a fire-breathing tank, thick armor, even if it was wrapped into a dumpling by the corrupted creatures, it couldn't boom through even a single scale, the only drawback was that Ashina was forced to leave her mount again and become an infantryman.
Feld gasped for air, his heart beating extremely fast. The Cursed Land's reputation was not an empty one, and luck played a large part in his ability to survive this.
"We have to build a towering wall quickly." Rubbing his brow, Feld was glad that the monsters weren't heading towards the Grand Winery.
The crowd covered each other and held out for half an hour before the wave of monsters slowly disappeared.
"Whew, so tired."
Ashena pulled out her long knife and shook off the tainted blood on it, despite being a Divine Chosen, her power was limited, this was the biggest wave of corpses she had encountered since coming to the Nightfall Territory. Luckily, the last Corrupted Monkey was killed, and the surrounding monsters were purged.
"Tough on you." Felder looked at Ashena's sweaty appearance, his heart ached, Ashena not only had to resist the line, but also had to output, and from time to time to reduce the pressure on the defense of the others, thanks to Ashena's presence, there was no death of the guards.
It could be said that everyone was dragging Ashina down, but training the guards was again necessary.
Ashina winked playfully, "Hmph, no meal of meat is wasted."
"Thank you Ashina-sama." The guards also thanked Ashina shyly, their eyes no longer hostile or wary, but simply in awe.
The humans of this world, unlike Earth's group of oddly oriented people, had always held resistance to subhumans, believing them to be monsters that were a cross between beasts and humans, an unclean existence.
"Rest for half an hour, and everyone will move again." Felder poked the monster's corpse with his longsword, curious about their construction, and the purpose of the migration.
Rum Village had undergone a decade of decay, most of the houses had collapsed, windows were broken, and when it was said to be a village, it was actually all a large garbage dump, Feld didn't even hold much hope.
After resting.
"Groups of five, go search for loot, as long as it's useful, you can take it away."
There was a shortage of everything in the Nightfall Collar, pots and pans, even pieces of wood, were of great use.
Placing the fog repelling lamps in the center of the village, Feld looked out over the village of Rum, considering whether this could be a stronghold.
Ashina returned after strolling around the village and reported, "My lord, I just noticed a strange plant, in a farmyard, glowing green, and I felt the power of magic."
"Oh? Let's go take a look." Fielder stood up mischievously, the word magic was extraordinarily attractive, "Could it be a fictional, heavenly treasure?"
Coming to the house located on the west side of the village, the main body of the building had collapsed, however, the outer wall of the yard was made of stone instead of a simple fence, so it was well preserved.
At a glance, Feld saw small patches of green plants, glowing with stars as if instinctively alive, and Feld immediately moved over to them, studying them curiously.
"Kind of like little greens that just broke the ground." Fielder extended his finger and poked it.
A strange smell rushed into his nostrils.
"Achoo!" Fielder sneezed hard.
Ashena saw Fielder choking and let out a light laugh, "My lord, don't just touch strange things."
"Wait, are you okay?" Seeing that Fielder became dazed and his eyes were disoriented, Ashena was startled and rushed forward to check.
The veins on Fielder's forehead throbbed violently, a large amount of sweat seeped out of his skin, and there was an immediate reaction somewhere in his body.
He caught a whiff of Ashina's good-smelling odor.
Unable to control himself, Fielder immediately reached out and grabbed Ashina's wrist.