NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 176: Battle in The Forest I
Chapter 176: Battle in The Forest I
◆Orcs’ Female Patriarch, Bolda
The phaia-heavy chariot I rode on thundered through the forest.
The massive chariot, drawn by six phaia, was a fortress on wheels.
We plundered every place we came across right from this castle.
As for my army, they were always before me, with another phaia-heavy chariot, pushing and breaking the trees on our way to open up a path.
Following behind them were the boar rider troops, and behind all of that was the heavy chariot I rode, where I always gave my command.
「MOVE YER A*SSES LAZY BUMS! THE ELVEN CAPITAL IS JUST BEFORE US!」
「「「GUWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!」」」
My subordinates roared upon hearing my yell!
That was our war cry.These perverts must be thinking about assaulting those elves after this.
Well, the same goes for me.
Naturally, as a woman, I wasn't aiming for the elves.
It was the treasures that those filthy women had.
I heard that there was a mountain of these treasures in the elven capital.
Those beautiful gems should be owned by a beauty like me.
I grabbed one of the treasures that I had gathered a while ago.
It was a choker with a huge diamond inlaid in the center, surrounded by sapphires and emeralds.
「Gufufufufufu. There might be even better treasures than this one over there.」
I licked the diamond inlaid in the choker.
For me, there was nothing more beautiful than gems.
That's why I would do everything to get them.
「Fufufu, mother. I'm interested in those elven knights. I've been wondering what kind of cries they would make in bed.」
「Ee~eh?! They are going to break if you get on top of them, big sis. They're handsome though. We should only admire them as stuffed animals.」
「Yeah. That's a good idea. Too bad… they're quite good looking.」
My daughters were enjoying their sibling conversation.
Though I had given birth to more than two thousand children, only ten of them were female.
The older sisters of these girls had already become independent and lived far away.
They must be surrounded by many men, just like me.
Female orcs have the power to control the male orcs.
But our numbers are exceedingly low.
That’s the reality of us orcs.
「You seem to be in good spirits, Your Highnesses, and Your Majesty Bolda the Great.」
The lamia by my side spoke up.
She had been dispatched to us by the Serpent Prince.
Her role was to stay with us and assist with magic.
Orcs have poor compatibility with magic.
That’s why we couldn’t break through the elves' high confusion spells.
Normally, we would have been left wandering aimlessly in the forest, at the mercy of the elven knights.
But thanks to the lamia’s detection abilities, we were able to find the correct path through the forest.
「Well, those elves don’t just have a mountain of treasures, right? Are you sure I can hoard all of them for myself?」
「Of course, Bolda-sama. Only if you can defeat those elves of course.」
Replied the lamia while bowing her head.
「Humph, we won't lose against those elves in frontal combat.」
I laughed.
Those elves might excel in magic but their strength was weak.
There was no way we were going to lose in frontal combat.
「That matter aside, those guys above really won't come down here right? I mean, it's obvious that we're no match for them.」
「It'll be alright. The heavenly army will be kept in place by the children of the reaper and our prince. You can plunder as much as you like during that time.」
I nodded at her words.
I had no intention of occupying the elven capital anyway.
That would be plain suicide.
I glanced at the lamia.
I had no idea what the lord of this woman was trying to accomplish.
But if there was something to gain from working with him, I was more than willing to cooperate.
「The other side is just elves and dwarves, anyway. Not even those heavenly armies can match Bolda-sama.」
「Dwarves? Aren’t they supposed to be on bad terms with the elves? Those guys might be slow, but they’re tough.」
I recalled something that happened long ago.
When I raided the dwarven village in the past.
We attacked with just one troop since it was only a small village, and suffered a huge loss.
「We’re already covering for that. Those scouts have been probing around, trying to find our invasion route.」
The lamia explained.
The Napaia scouts, flying overhead, were making noise.
Napaia, also known as the Wind Elves, were unmatched in the air and skilled in invisible magic, making them the perfect choice for scouting.
But since their fighting power was nearly nonexistent, they could be ignored.
Still, we’d be in trouble if they discovered our route.
「Are you sure it’ll be alright? Uh, what’s going on?」
As I asked that question,
I noticed the vanguard had slowed down.
「Those elves are coming.」
I strained my eyes to see ahead, upon hearing the lamia’s words.
My eyesight was sharp enough to make out what was happening on the front lines.
It seemed the Aureiad's unicorn riders had been lying in wait, magic at the ready to strike us.
I had heard that only those who swore to keep their virginity for life could become unicorn riders.
They were the kind of poor women who would never get a taste of men, despite the elven knights who rode Ceryneia standing right by their side.
The road ahead was blocked by Earth Spiders, mid-ranking Earth Spirits summoned by those spinsters.
「THE MAGIC OF THOSE SPINSTERS WON’T STOP US! EVERYONE, CHARGEEEEEE!!!」
I raised a war cry. It was effective and raised the morale of my subordinates.
My subordinates who received a morale boost kicked their boars and started charging ahead.
And just as expected, not even those earth spiders could stop our boar riders, those spiders got defeated immediately.
「FASTER! THE ELVEN CAPITAL IS JUST BEFORE US!」
My subordinates raised another battle cry upon hearing my shout.
But then, our advance gradually lost its momentum.
「WHAT NOW?!」
When I strained my eyes, I saw a humanoid stone figure standing in our way.
It was the stone golem of those dwarves.
Above them, a skyboat floated—carrying the dwarves who controlled the golems.
There were many stone golems blocking our path.
Upon closer inspection, I noticed a smaller number of iron golems waiting behind the stone golem army.
「It seems they know our invasion route. They’ve got golems ready in all directions. I never expected the dwarves to go this far.」
The lamia spoke, her voice oddly cheerful.
I had no idea why she seemed happy about this situation.
But in exchange for their formidable penetrating power, the boar riders lacked flexibility.
We had no choice but to charge full speed ahead.
「CHARGE!!! THEIR REINFORCEMENTS ARE ABOUT TO ARRIVE!」
I raised another war cry.
They wouldn't be able to stop our boar riders with only this many golems.
The problem was their reinforcements who might come at any moment.
If they arranged the golems in all directions, it only meant that the number of golems was enough to crush us to death.
The moment they regroup with their reinforcements… forget about breaking through.
They already know the route I’m taking.
We would be in a dangerous situation the longer this battle goes on.
I looked at the lamia again.
She was still laughing.
◆Goblin Prince, Zhagi
The giant spider that carried me on its back was running through the forest.
There was a structure built atop the giant spider’s back—my mansion.
I used this mansion as the base when raiding human settlements.
My army was marching forward in front of me.
The vanguard was left to the giant spiders, who slipped through the trees.
Behind them were the spider riders, and behind them, the infantry.
「GOGOGOGO! THOSE ORCS MIGHT BE FASTER, BUT WE CANNOT LET OUR GUARD DOWN! LEAVE THE ELVEN ARMY TO THOSE ORCS—WE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE REST!」
「GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGYA!!」
My subordinates raised their cries upon hearing my words.
We must not be in a hurry.
The elves were strong. We couldn’t beat them in frontal combat.
Our only chance was to ambush them from the sides.
So, I let those idiotic orcs bear the brunt of the elves’ power.
In the first place, most of my force was infantry. I couldn’t afford to increase our speed and tire my army out.
The infantry consisted of human slaves and goblin soldiers, with goblin warriors at the center.
The goblin soldiers were fine, but the human slaves were slow.
Though they became more obedient thanks to the hypnosis mushroom, that very mushroom affected their stamina.
It made them even slower.
「Those lowly humans won’t speed up unless we whip them! Turn those who are too slow into our feed!」
I gave an order to the goblin warrior chief beside me—my aide.
Humans were livestock.
We worked them to the bone, and once they couldn’t work anymore, we ate them.
「Goblin Prince Zhagi the Great. Mercy…」
Suddenly, one of the women attending me bowed her head.
Now that I thought about it, her husband was among the slaves over there.
Even though I had taken her many times, she still thought about her husband.
But that made her more interesting.
「It can’t be helped, then. Fine, you can save your husband—if you can amuse me tonight. That’s it.」
「I understand, Zhagi-sama.」
The woman bowed her head.
Naturally, I was lying about saving her husband.
I wasn’t even interested in managing the slaves. Her husband was probably already dead.
But there was no need to tell her that. I enjoyed the situation.
Still, I was starting to grow bored of her.
I wanted a new woman.
Let’s take an elven woman next.
Though they were skilled in magic, capturing one or two shouldn’t be a problem.
Elven women were more beautiful than human women, after all.
I wouldn’t get bored of them.
「YOUR HIGHNESS, WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY!」
My shaman aide suddenly appeared just as I was thinking about my future conquests with elven women.
He was my shamanism teacher, the one who had raised me.
His magical power was top-notch among goblins.
Still, I won in terms of overall magical power. No matter how hard they tried, hornless goblins could never defeat horned goblins like me in magic.
I, the horned goblin, was a chosen being.
「Is something the matter, old man?!」
「Yes. The wind of deranged sound weakened for some reason. We need to perform the ceremony again.」
His words shocked me.
Now that I thought about it, the wind did feel weaker.
The wind of deranged sound surrounded me.
This wind was invoked by the ceremony of the shaman, both my teacher and I.
The area where the wind blew became a place where no song could be sung, nor could any outside song enter.
Goblins were weak to song, after all.
Once the wind of deranged sound stopped blowing, the elves’ song would reach us.
And once that happened, we’d be sitting ducks.
「I understand. Let’s perform the ceremony immediately. Call the other shamans too.」
I stood up, preparing for the ceremony.
Unlike the smaller-scale rituals, invoking the wind of deranged sound over the entire army required a lot of power.
The fact that I had the authority to perform this alone made me superior in many ways.
Not even my father understood my greatness.
I still had no idea why he chose my little brother.
I, who was defeated in the battle for succession, had no choice but to leave my homeland.
Why wasn’t it me who was chosen?
I would return one day and show them just how great I truly am.
I swore upon my horn.
「My bad, your wind won’t blow anymore.」
Suddenly, a voice came from above.
When I looked up, I saw a woman with wings on her back, floating in the air.
She was beautiful.
The woman pointed the tip of her sword toward us.
「A-ANGEL!? IMPOSSIBLE!?」
I couldn’t hide my shock upon realizing who she was and fell onto my rear.
How did an angel appear here?
Angels weren’t supposed to fight goblins.
It would be like killing an ant with a sledgehammer.
Goblins like us were nothing more than bugs in their eyes.
They wouldn’t come, even if we used human slaves as part of our army.
The angel looked down at me with a cold, piercing gaze.
My concubines were prostrating on the ground, singing praises to the angel.
For human women, angels were divine beings to be revered.
「Well then, release the human captives.」
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