A white falcon flew high in the air scanning the entire area around a small walled-off village.
Several hundred black stone bodies of various sizes and types were all gathered outside the village banging on all four walls. The majority of stone bodies looked like basic formless rock bodies with nothing special about them.
The falcon turned its head to inspect the walls in greater detail. On top of the walls, there were several fur armored warriors with spears pushing back and large hammers knocking down the stone bodies that tried to climb the wall.
It looked to be a desperate struggle as the villagers and warriors were heavily outnumbered and tiring fast. They had lost track of how long it had been since they had started to fight against the tireless enemy.
The white falcon glided on the cold winds high above, in the distance, it saw a large force of Gargs running towards the village.
Flapping its wings the falcon flew high above everything for several more seconds before diving down and landing on the shoulder of Bo.
Bo was sitting behind Dolph and when he opened his eyes, he looked to Klyn who was riding on a Garg next to him sitting behind Vilkas.
“I counted at least 10 [Grunners], [Puffers], and 5 [Chubbustibles],” said Bo.
The transformed Klyn nodded and, “Awooooo!” let out a howl informing the other Shamen of the formation chant that they needed to perform.
The other transformed shamen were all riding on Gargs sitting behind the cavalrymen. As one, they began to chant in the ancient language creating a holy light screen that surrounded the entire Garg cavalry charging forward.
Akira was at the center point of the wedge formation with Zundar running on his left and a large Ice covered Fluffball on his right.
“Get ready,” Akira shouted to Mileena who sat behind him hugging his back with one arm.
Bam!
Before the slow-witted Molten onyx infected had time to discover the new threat. The cavalry force plowed through the 100 infected near the village’s front gate where there were no special growth infected.
As they pushed through the crowd of infected Akira used his new one-handed warhammer to easily smash the legs of whatever he passed.
Fluffball easily weaved through the mass of bodies continuously spitting out ice shards from his mouth which smashed into the bodies of the infected and froze whatever it touched.
Those that followed behind him had an easier time smashing the frozen parts to nothing but icy rubble.
“Piiiii!”
Not to be outdone by Fluffball, Pii’per swooped down and helped out by grabbing the shoulders of smaller infected with her sharp claws.
Using all of her strength she flew back up into the sky where unceremoniously dropped it on top of a large gathering of infected. The impact damaged several others and shattered the one that had fallen from such a high altitude. In this way, she destroyed the infected as well as damaged those it hit.
As the cavalry force passed through the 100+ infected over 50 of them were completely smashed to rubble by the blunt weapons and repeated trampling of the hundreds of Gargs.
As one, the Garg cavalry wedge turned around and picked up speed once again to start another charge.
By now the infected who had gone through a growth were reacting. They moved from the other walls towards the front gate where Akira and the others had just attacked.
At the last second the cavalry wedge turned right and avoided the gathering growth infected and plowed through the normal infected at the right wall.
As they smashed their way through the infected Akira could hear several joyful cheers coming from the villagers on top of the walls.
Akira and the rest of the cavalry continued to use this tactic to dismantle almost all of the infected surrounding the village before they dared face the Molten onyx growth infected.
“Get ready! The Grunners are coming over! Remember to smash their core gem to kill them!” howled Akira.
The ten thin but nimble Grunners of different species lightly ran over the snow at a quick pace charging towards the fast-moving cavalry wedge.
The Grunners launched themselves at the nearest Garg while several others tried to stand in the way to stop the cavalry charge, but with their light bodies, they had no chance of stopping the several hundreds of charging Gargs and were soon trampled and had core gems smashed.
Behind the destroyed Grunners were the waddling short and fat Chubbustibles and Puffers.
“Fluffball, I leave disabling the Chubbustibles to you,” growled Akira.
“Awoooo!” Fluffball eagerly answered. He was happy to take revenge on the type of infected that had severely wounded him before.
The large ice armored Fluffball picked up speed and ran in front of Akira. A frosty blue light started to gather before his open maw growing bigger every second as he gathered energy for a heavier hitting ice attack. With the growing blue light, his ice armor that covered his entire body sparkled like a gem.
Pew!
A large ice missile the size of a large pumpkin shot forward and slammed into one of the [Chubbustibles] and immediately froze it in place.
He gathered energy four more times and froze the other four Chubbustibles before the Puffers started to spew out a gaseous smog blocking the view.
The shamen riding with the soldiers all started to chant even faster as they neared the smog, strengthening the holy screen around the cavalry.
Klyn and a few others started chanting one of the new cleansing chants they had learned. With the many battles they had been in over the past weeks they were able to get a lot of actual practice in using it and were now fairly skilled using it.
They quickly chanted and pointed their hands forwards at the smog and bright holy white light shot out from each of their hands. The light joined together to pierce the smog clearing all that it touched.
The holy light created a pathway through the smog allowing them to see the Puffers and frozen Chubbustibles.
Akira and nine other cavalrymen split off from the rest of the group and entered the narrow pathway each charging towards one of the Puffers.
The five frozen Chubbustibles were easily smashed to bits by the Busters while Akira and the rest of the group carefully used blunt weapons with extended handles to attack the puffers who were still continuously spewing out the poisonous smog from all over their body.
When the last Puffer had its core gem disabled, the holy light path was able to quickly cleanse the rest of the remaining smog around Akira and the nine others.
Grarr leisurely trotted back towards the main cavalry force with the nine other Gargs and their partners following behind him.
“Yap!” said a now small Fluffball as he slowly walked to Akira. He looked worn out from using several large ice attacks in such a short period.
Akira reached into his bag and then tossed over a blue jelly candy that had been created by Grand elder Hegir and the other potion makers when they had done several experiments with the blue potions.
Fluffball jumped up into the air and snapped up the jelly candy, chewing it a few times before swallowing.
The tired Fluffball regained some of his energy and charged forward, jumped up into the air, and slammed into Akira’s chest.
He sat down and got comfortable on Akira’s lap and began watching the cavalrymen all ride towards the village’s gate which was now opening.
Several tired fur armored warriors exited the gates to meet them.
“I presume you are lord Akira am I right?” asked a burly elderly man.
“You are correct.”
“We are grateful for your help in our time of need. The messenger that came to us months ago said we were safe since we were far enough away from the fog. We did not know that they would exit the fog and start targeting us,” said the man shaking his head.
“Neither did we. For everyone’s safety, we suggest heading to Kodria’s outer city. You will be safer there. But first, you must be inspected by our shaman to make sure no one is infected,” said Akira.
“Not a problem. All of us that have survived the siege are all healthy. We’re all packed and ready to leave. We were just stuck inside and could not escape.”
Akira waved for the shamen to follow the man back into the village, where they began inspecting the surviving villagers.
As Akira sat there waiting, Klyn called out to him.
“Urgent message from Varbu and Prince Gobbers! They request that we hurry back to the main force!”
“What is it?”
“The next main town is surrounded by a large force of infected. They estimate that there are over 1000 surrounding the town… But that is not the main problem… The real problem is… there are demigods inside the besieged city mixed in with the civilians.”
