402 Back To The Village Barely On Time
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“Falco, try to find any surrounding humans as quickly as possible!”
“CRAAH!”
I ordered the four Falcos I had summoned to quickly do as I said. The four green-feathered falcons flew across the skies inspecting every nook and cranny with their amazing eyes but spotting no humans wandering around.
“Sigh…”
I sighed in relief, thinking about the worse that could had happened. Today my father and several other hunters, including Gradus, came to hunt for wild boars. But apparently they were able to escape in time, thankfully.
“Apparently there is nobody around, but the Undead Army might reach the village in roughly fifteen minutes, we have to hurry!” I said. “Blood, Fenrir, go as fast as you can!”
“WOOF!”
Blood led the other three Fenrir, as they moved at sonic speed when they were enhanced by my [Commanding] Skill, which at Level 2 enhanced all Stats by +40% as long as the ones commanded follow my decisions and orders. Their speed was naturally enhanced, moving at incredible speeds.
“We have to hurry… If those Undead get to the village first, we’re going to have a hard time trying to protect everyone else…” Erika said.
“But what do we do now? Do we leave everything to the adults?” Eric asked. “W-We should! We can’t get involved more than we did, we have done enough…!”
“Don’t be a coward now, Eric! There are FIVE HUNDRED Undead! Did you heard Blake?! If we don’t do anything, we’ll regret it later. We are strong, we have to use this strength to help the adults!” Said Chris.
“I agree, I won’t run away from this.” Erdrich said. “That village is where my family lives, if anything happens to them, I won’t be able to forgive myself.”
“Indeed! We are fighting! I won’t let any nasty Undead touch my papa!” Erika said recklessly.
“I agree, we should regroup with papa Ellergest and the rest of the priests, they must be in the front of the village’s walls! They’ll know what we should do!” Said Elizabeth.
“Heh, aren’t you all a bunch of goody-two-shoes?” I sighed with a smile. “Indeed, we are all fighting. Eric, you’re free to escape if you want. But I’ll keep your tree for the meantime.”
“E-Eh? But that’s a family relic… You have to give it back later!” Eric said while pouting.
“Don’t be so selfish, I’ll give you a new staff later!” I sighed.
“Ugh, fine… I’ll fight too anyways!” Said Eric. “I can’t trust you enough to leave it to you…”
“Hah, I guess that little trick did it.” I said.
“Trick?” Erika wondered.
“What trick?” Eric asked.
“Well, you’re rather greedy, incentivizing you to fight using the tree was the right call.” I laughed.
“Ugh…” Eric felt slightly scammed.
“Look, the walls!” Elizabeth pointed out, as we finally reached the village walls, rushing into the entrance.
“Stop right there! Who is there?!”
Suddenly, a group of knights appeared above the wooden walls, sitting over a wooden fortress built right behind the walls, some even pointed arrows at us while panicking, and there were six enormous ballista lined up over the walls alongside four catapults behind. These were all equipment the Duke left behind after he left, which he bought thinking this village needed more protection as it had survived a war against a demon army. However, the moment they saw our faces, they relaxed.
“C-Children?”
“Who are you kids?”
“Wait, they’re mounting wolves?”
“The only one that would do that is…!”
Suddenly, a young knight ran in front of the others.
“Blake! You’re back! Your father is dead worried about you!” Lukas quickly greeted us.
“Lukas! Open the gates now! The undead are coming right behind us!”
“OPEN THE GATES!” Lukas roared.
The knights and soldiers guarding the place panicked, they didn’t wanted to open them to risk letting monsters or undead get inside through this area of the walls which were already finished.
“But if we open them the undead…!”
“They can still enter from behind, idiot! It doesn’t even matter that much; we will only be able to hold them off for a bit until they realize the walls behind are yet to be finished!” Lukas slapped the head of one of the knights as they quickly opened the gates.
CREAAAK…!
The gates quickly opened a little bit, as we all got inside. The guards were all shocked when they saw four enormous wolves enter, but many knew I was the “special child” of the village, as my identity as a summoner was well known after the demon war, and Blood was also known as a tamed monster, he has his collar and all.
Lukas quickly ran to our side as he led us to a camp nearby. As we ran there, we saw several hunters, adventurers, knights, and other volunteers getting ready to fight the Undead. Our numbers were roughly two hundred people, it wasn’t as bad as I thought, but if they charge recklessly they’re all going to die anyways. We needed a strategy.
“Here! Ellergest is here with your father, come!” Said Lukas, leading all of us inside, as we left the wolves outside the camp.
The old Ellergest greeted us first, alongside his two lackeys, Jack, and Seth. My father and Gradus were also in there. I was happy to see him healthy and alright.
“Blake!”
My father ran to my side and quickly hugged me while kissing my forehead and cheeks, his shaggy beard made my face tickle.
“I am so happy you’re okay, I was so worried, you brat!” He said, quickly getting angry after his emotional hug. “Don’t go into the forest so recklessly!”
“Sorry, but I really didn’t knew there would be an army of undead coming here…” I said.
“W-Well, that’s right but still…!” My father said angrily.
“For now we don’t have time for this, dad. But I am also happy to see you healthy, I was worried.” I sighed.
“You’re not the one that should be worrying about me…” He sighed. “Anyways, your mom is safe in the underground room we made.”
“That’s good, I was about to tell you to go there and tell them to do that, it saves time…” I said.
After hugging Elizabeth emotionally, Ellergest quickly called for the strategy meeting to begin, there was even a map over the table showing the entire village and the surrounding forests. Now that we had a fortress and half-made walls, defensive strategies were viable.
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