Blood tax

Chapter 7
How to do?Are you looking at it like this and not going to try it again?Griffith hid in the dark and watched the silent darkness outside the village.

Goblins have good night vision. If they continue to fight after the first round of attack setbacks, they will probably not choose the main entrance but jump over the wall to attack... However, more than 100 goblins have died here , is there any reason for the goblins outside the wall to attack?

The tribes that attacked for the purpose of plundering livestock, food and people will definitely be evacuated, and will not take risks with the remaining tribesmen. Maintaining the survival of the tribe is the first priority of biology.

"Griffith, they're moving!" Galadia, who was watching from the wall, suddenly reminded in a low voice, "There are hundreds of them, they are detouring to the south, and they may want to jump over the wall from an undefended place. Come in."

What?how is this possible!

This is very strange... What's the point of the goblins' fueling tactics that only continue to cause casualties to the village and themselves?

Could it be that they have reached the point where they will exterminate their clan if they do not capture the village?Or is the scale of the ethnic group so large that hundreds of casualties can be ignored!

Since there was no time to think about this issue for too long, Griffith left some villagers to guard the main entrance, and he and Galadia took some militiamen to block the goblin detour.

After running a distance, the goblins were exhausted and out of breath. They chose a short section of the wall, put up a ladder and started to climb over. After crossing the wall, they lowered the rope and slid down the wall.

They also build ladders!Griffith was even more shocked when he saw the action of the goblins from the roof of the fence.

They moved very quickly in the dark, and in a blink of an eye, a dozen or so had crossed the village's earthen wall and entered the inside.

"Don't move, wait until they come in some," Griffith reached out to stop the eager militiamen.His plan was to wait until the goblins half entered the village before attacking.

The goblins who climbed over the dirt wall didn't act immediately, as if they were waiting for something.

Are you waiting for the Goblin Warrior?Griffith looked back at the nearby roof, where Galadia was lying in ambush.

With Spirit Archery's support, I can handle even goblin warriors.Griffith looked at the exquisite recurve bow and calmed down a little.

At this moment, many dark things were thrown in from outside the wall.The goblins picked up the thrown objects and gathered under the corner of the wall.

Before Griffith could see the situation, several flaming torches were thrown over the earthen wall.The goblins immediately picked up and ignited the objects in their hands.

The things thrown over were all torches!
Unexpectedly, the goblins, armed with weapons in one hand and torches in the other, scattered howling and set fire to the village houses.

"Stop!" The militiamen jumped up and charged towards the enemy with their weapons in hand.

"Don't scatter!" Griffith shouted hastily, "The shield is pressed against the shield, don't scatter!"

But no one listened to his cry.What everyone cares about is that the houses in the village are set on fire.

"Destroy them!" The militia captain of Manisa Village took the lead in the charge, wielding shields and iron swords.The battle just now clearly showed that the goblins are weak in combat, and they are not the opponents of adult males at all in a one-on-one situation.

The militia captain wielded an iron sword and chopped down a goblin. Following Griffith's example, he swung his shield in a semi-circle, smashing another enemy to the point of his brains bursting.

no problem!I am strong, these little monsters are no match for me.Seeing the goblin's brain mixed with blood splashing out, the captain of the militia relaxed a lot from his nervous heart.

"Be careful below!"

Before the militia captain understood the meaning of this sentence, a short goblin jumped up from his feet, and the sharp knife in his hand stabbed into his lower abdomen.

Griffith rushed over to help and stabbed the goblin with a sword.But the militia captain swayed and fell to the ground, twitching violently among the goblin corpses.

There's no help... Griffith fought back and retreated under a wall.Above his head, Galadia was shooting arrows one after another, knocking down the goblins who were pouring in like cockroaches.

More and more goblins came in reinforcements and jumped over the wall to join the melee.The goblins who joined later did not have torches, and the arson just now seemed to be some kind of tactic of theirs.

Since the goblins had already thrown their torches at the distant houses, a dozen or so militiamen under the fighting earth wall were besieged from all directions in the dim light.From time to time, people fell to the ground with their hamstrings chopped off or their knees broken, and then they were beaten to death.

Griffith's plan to stop it went bankrupt.

"Come closer to me! Back against the wall!" the apprentice knight shouted, trying to save the Manisa militia that was about to collapse.

But the villagers quickly collapsed amid the fierce battle.After feeling that there were enemies scurrying around, and friends around them were injured and fell to the ground, many militiamen lost their weapons and ran to somewhere.

In this melee, the bloodthirsty goblins became even crazier.After they had knocked down a villager, they swarmed up, cheering and pelting the victim with sticks and stones.Some even started to eat flesh and blood directly.

"Griffith, I only have three arrows left!" Galadia retracted her longbow and announced bad news, "The militia has disintegrated, let's run."

The goblins in the village were fighting in droves, and only a few attacked Griffith.But as the battle goes on, sooner or later the goblins will notice the apprentice knight in this open field and kill him in overwhelming numbers.

"No, you can't run, or the village will be finished!"

"We'll be finished if we don't run quickly." Galadia jumped off the roof and stood beside the apprentice knight.The houses in the village were so far apart from each other that she couldn't let her jump on the roof.

"Then let's shift the attack!" Griffith turned and ran towards the two surrounded militiamen.

Several villagers have fallen by the side of these militiamen, and they would have fled if they hadn't been surrounded by them.

"Follow me," Griffith chopped a goblin into two with a single sword, "follow me so you can survive."

The villagers, already frightened, were persuaded at once, and followed Griffith to another melee spot.There, three bruised militiamen were being beaten by seven or eight goblins.

"Leave these to me!" Galadia pulled out the two slightly curved silver blades around her waist, and she appeared behind the goblin in a flash, swinging the two knives and spinning.

Three or four goblins fell to the ground like saplings swept by a storm.The remaining goblins hadn't reacted yet, and Griffith had rushed to kill them.

This caught the eyes of most of the goblins in the melee.When they saw that there were seven people gathered here, they immediately screamed and surrounded them from all directions.

"Retreat to that alley, I'll cover you!" Griffith, who had gathered five militiamen, held a shield to resist the attack of the goblins, covering them to retreat toward an alley.

Unexpectedly, this retreat was out of control.Three of the newly rescued militiamen lost their weapons and fled without a trace, waving their arms.The remaining two also looked terrified and hesitantly obeyed Griffith's command.

"Don't run! This is your village, where can you run!~" The anxious Galadia and Griffith kept a distance of two meters to cover his right side, facing the goblin who was flanking over. Strike a fatal blow.The silver long knife swung up and caused a rain of blood, as beautiful as dancing under the falling cherry blossoms.

For a moment, Griffith was attracted by Galadia's dance-like swordsmanship, and was almost intoxicated by the beautiful picture.This effect seemed to be effective not only on Griffith, but the goblins who tried to besiege Galadia were also dazed and their movements became sluggish.

Griffith took the two militiamen who did not escape until they retreated into the alley before standing still.This alley is made up of several courtyards connected by earth walls. Only two people can pass side by side, and they will not be flanked by goblins in a short time.

"Hold here," Griffith stood facing the direction of the goblins, and in a blink of an eye, a large group of goblins who had tasted the taste of human blood waved long and short weapons like a wave Like a huge wave, it pressed towards the trainee knight.

These goblins were stacked one on top of the other, their eyes widened and reddened from drinking blood, their mouths full of fangs, and they let out an itchy sound.

"There are too many of them!" Galadia was startled by the swarming enemies.When the two militiamen who were following her saw this scene, they screamed in horror and turned their heads away.

"Go to the roof, Griffith!" shouted the Elf Archer. "We can't stop it!"

"Do not."

Griffith was the last to retreat to the entrance of the alley, blocked the front with his shield, raised his right hand and pressed it on his helmet visor, turned his head and said to the pale-faced elf girl, "I have a chance to win."

Under Galadia's horrified gaze, the black visor dropped.The confident and firm face turned into a cold and ferocious monster.In the gap of the black iron, the blade-like gaze is as strange and evil as a crimson moon soaked in blood.

The apprentice knight turned slightly and took a small step back to the left, leaving only a narrow gap on the left.His longsword was facing diagonally to the right, where the goblin's breach would be.

"Bang!" The goblin slammed into Griffith's shield in the narrow passage, making a dull sound.The apprentice knight's sharp sword stabbed out like lightning, killing the enemy it hit with a single blow.

The swarming little monsters pounced from the gaps below and to the left of the shield.One of them collided with the greaves and fell to the ground. Before it could get up, the heavy iron boots stepped down, and the goblin's chest collapsed on the spot.

Griffith slammed to the left, and the goblin who was about to come through the gap was crushed into a meatloaf.

Having completed this set of actions, Griffith took a step back and stabbed the enemy on the right with another sword.

The large group of goblins in the back stepped on the corpse in front, shouting and jumping over.At this time, Griffith had already completed his retreat, and the goblin who jumped up stabbed the blade straight on.

A stone flew over and made a "thump" sound on the black iron helmet, almost hitting Galadia's face behind.The elf saw that the apprentice knight was staggered, but immediately stabilized his body and swung his sword down, stabbing a goblin trying to get over to the ground.

The apprentice knight blocked most of the alley with his shield and broad shoulders. He hardly attacked with his sword, he just retreated and kept stabbing at the goblins who were trying to get through the gap.

In the eyes of the hordes of goblins, this tall human is ferocious, but there are gaps between his feet and his left hand, and there is a big gap on the right side. If you squeeze it, you can squeeze two goblins into it. , as long as he rushes again, he will definitely be able to kill him.

Griffith fought and retreated, bent over, his shield just against the goblin's path, and even the dwarf creatures had to crawl in if they wanted to get in; After the blade pierced through a Goblin's defenseless body, he took a small step back, not chasing an on-the-spot kill, but leaving an enemy who fell to the ground screaming with blood splashing.

From time to time, the goblins could squeeze in and hit Griffith's leather armor or iron gauntlets with their sharp or blunt weapons.However, this attack could not penetrate the defense of the double armor, and the armorless goblins would soon be killed by the counterattack of the apprentice knight.As the wounded continued to fall to the ground, the narrow path was full of struggling and wailing goblins.

They screamed and grabbed the hands and feet of their companions, begging to pull themselves.

Just like that, the goblins roared one after another mixed with a strange sound.Goblin attacks are getting more and more difficult due to the wounded soldiers all over the place.When Griffith's blade penetrated the goblin's thin body, it made a "pop" sound. As the battle progressed, this strange sound continued, as if someone was using a worn-out saw. Like wood.

Galadia was stunned by the sight in front of her, and she tried to go up to help several times but was unable to start.The apprentice knight is like a reef in a gust of wind and waves, unshakable despite endless attacks.He maintained a mechanical and slightly twisted posture, quickly harvesting the enemy's life with small movements.His attacks were like grinding discs, constantly infused with new life, and then produced one after another of broken limbs and thick bloodstains that smeared the ground.

More and more goblins were attracted. They stepped on the dead or seriously injured goblins in front of them, trudging through the bloody water with one foot deep and one shallow, and after finally knocking down in front of the enemy, they rushed towards their left front. , and then was knocked down by a sword; or drilled into the gap between the shield and the ground and walls, and then smashed the skull and smeared the mud with the brain.

Occasionally, one or two goblins managed to pounce on Griffith's side, waving their weapons in the chaos and attacking the armored humans.Griffith took the attack with double armor without panic, knocked them to the ground with his sword, and then continued to take a small step back.Although goblins also wield various weapons, under the barrier of shields, inferior machetes, axes and short knives are difficult to penetrate the double-layer defense of leather and mail.

In just a few minutes, Griffith was only slightly injured.He had already retreated twenty steps into the alley, and there were dead and wounded goblins everywhere.Above these dead and wounded goblins, there is a mess of goblins.The goblins who came up stepped on the dying goblins, screaming as you pushed me towards the apprentice knight.

Suddenly, the crowded line stopped.The ferocity and madness in the eyes of the goblins full of corpses had been completely washed away, and they looked in horror at the road paved with corpses under their feet and the human armored soldiers who blocked their view at the end of the road.

From just now, the goblins have been pouring their troops, aura, and flesh into this place, and all the living ones have been standing on the ground with shredded flesh and blood.

"Hoo~" A breath of hot air came out from under the black iron visor, and the goblins shrank back nervously.

"Hurrah!" Griffith charged up a little, slammed forward with the shield, and then stabbed forward with a sword to the right.The two goblins fell down.The goblins following behind them fell like dominoes.

The goblins congested in the alley were immediately shaken, and the densely packed team collapsed like rotten beams in an instant.The team that was still advancing just turned their heads collectively and ran in the direction they came from.

The densely packed corpses and black bloodstains on the ground were only a little troublesome when they attacked just now, but now they have become a deadly moat.The goblin's short legs were tripped over by the fleshy stumps of the same kind, and it was almost impossible for him to move.

Griffith threw down his shield and slashed with the axe and long sword from his waist.Two cold rays of light rolled over the back of the goblins' necks like a storm, slashing them to the ground one by one.

Corpses were stacked on top of each other, pus and blood mixed with brains.The goblin group completely collapsed, and they ran for the exit of the alley.Several goblins tripped over the corpses on the ground, and the goblins behind them stepped on their heads and chests and tried to crawl over.The goblins who were trampled under their feet struggled desperately, trying to push the same kind above to escape from the severe pain and suffocation. As a result, more goblins stumbled to the ground, and in the blink of an eye, they were blocked. A tall wall of meat.

The goblin shaman watched it happen from just outside the alley.It and other lucky minions were also terrified.When Griffith stepped on a man-high corpse pile and appeared at the top, the goblins who had not yet fought were slumped to the ground in fright.

"Who else?" Griffith stood on the pile of corpses, panting and shouting in a hoarse voice.At his feet, the few lucky goblins were desperately pulling themselves out of the corpse.

As soon as the words fell, the apprentice knight raised his iron boots and stepped on it hard, and the goblin who was trying to get out from under the corpse opened his mouth and spat out a mass of internal organs and died on the spot.

"Who else? Is that you?" Griffith raised his bloody long sword and pointed to a paralyzed goblin in front of him, his blood-red eyes pierced through the dark mask and projected onto the little monster.

"Or you!?" Griffith raised the axe and threw it towards the stunned shaman.

I saw a flash of blood, and the Goblin Shaman's head was split in half.The other goblins jumped from the ground like springs and ran towards the village's dirt wall.

(End of this chapter)