Chapter 248: Capture them!

The fierce blizzard continued to push outwards creating more space between the blizzard's windy walls which shot up into the sky and the outer cities walls.

Inside the windy walls, the sound of loud cracks and shattering ice could be heard along with the roars and Toots coming from the southeast.

As the blizzard wall pushed out the massive swarm of infected nearest to the outer walls were either completely frozen, heavily wounded, or turned into piles of rubble.

The trampled bloody battlefield that the blizzard passed over was completely covered in fresh snow and ice covering the majority of the gruesome battlefield and the thousands of bodies of the allied forces that had not been completely torn apart.

From the southeast, Akira saw a small group of different demon races briskly walking towards the allied army where Akira stood in his stirrups watching everything unfold.

“Zundar, Varbu. Take command of the troops and take care of the rest of the infected,” said Akira.

“We will shatter all of the bodies that have not been taken care of by the blizzard,” said Varbu saluting with his fist thumping his chest.

Akira turned his attention to the approaching small group and urged Grarr to walk over to them. Fluffball followed Akira from behind along with Tanner who was still carrying Kodria's flag that was still fully intact and flapping in the wind.

The small group was made up of five different demon races that Akira was well acquainted with to certain degrees.

“Toot!” said a large furry mammoth in greeting as Akira reached the group.

“It's great to see you once again, great warrior,” said Beary, a large armored bear that now wore a black leather patch to cover his eye that had been destroyed by demigods.

“It's an honor to meet you! I am Sir Mittens. Chief Socks sent us north to help,” said Sir Mittens, who was of the Nyanntail demon race and someone Akira had not met before.

“We have come, sorry that we are so late,” said Crulak, chief of the Kamen demon race.

“I am grateful to see everyone. King Fross, Queen Yukiko, what are all you guys doing here?”

“We all heard of the massive molten onyx army that was coming south and decided that if Kodria fell we all would be next. So we decided now was the time to strike while the enemy was gathered in one place.”

“This was a hard decision for many of us, if it were not for the future Queen Yuki contacting each of us and convincing us all that now was the time to strike a massive blow, I feel we would be facing an entirely different and dire future,” said Sir Mittens.

“Did you contact the Ramia as well?” asked Akira.

“We did... but that lot of cowards did not even answer us or even pay attention to us as we passed their stronghold on our way north,” said Beary.

Although Akira had hoped for their help after they had done them a favor, this did not surprise him with the rocky relationship between the two races.

“What about the safety of Iskald and your territories south? Is it safe for all of you to come so far north?” asked Akira.

“We did what we must to fight this dark enemy that is a threat to the entire continent. We had to come north to be able to activate and control our trump card,” said Queen Yukiko pointing to the raging blizzard.

“It will take us at least a year to recover the resources and energy to use this once again. But with this we hope to hammer the dark forces hard,” said King Fross.

The Blizzard was pushing out faster covering more land and Akira could now see part of the windy wall was thinning as it reached the rear of the swarm of enemies.

“Piii!” shouted Pii'per who was flying high above them.

“What is she saying?” asked Crulak as he looked up into the sky.

“The enemy leaders are trying to get away!” growled Akira angrily.

Ding!

The final wave has been stopped!

Part 2 of branch 3 part 4 starts now!

Chase after and kill the leaders of the wave attacks.

“AWOOOO!” Akira sent out a howl, commanding the Garg cavalry to join him.

“Can you guys help the infantry clean up the rest of the infected?” asked Akira.

“And what will you be doing?” asked King Fross.

“While you guys clean up the surrounding area, I will take the cavalry and capture the culprits behind this attack.”

Klyn, Mileena, Dolph, and Vilkas all joined Akira and the Garg cavalry before they moved out and headed north through the remaining blizzard that was still nipping at the remaining 10% of the molten onyx swarm that had survived the massive blizzard attack.

***

Both Bonestringer and Tibia sat on top of the sole remaining Bryer that was heavily wounded. They were flying north at a fast pace to get away from the battlefield.

“What was that?” asked Bonestringer in a worried tone.

“Damn those demon races! We were so close to victory. If we had taken that city, imagine all the material we could have harvested,” said Tibia.

“Should we gather another swarm and attack again?” asked Bonestringer.

“We can't. We just lost at least a third of our material. If we gathered the rest into an army and that was also wiped out, then what would we do? We must lose any pursuers and return to our hideout to immediately start the ritual.”

“You're right, it is best we gather what we have now.”

***

Pii'per flew in the sky, high above leading the slower cavalry to the destination that she had followed the two enemy leaders to earlier.

Their final destination was an abandoned small town.

Akira was not sure how long the town had been abandoned now that it was on fire. The raging fire was sending large plumes of smoke into the air blocking their vision. But from the look of the nearby trampled ground which had already received a fresh coating of snow, there had been some sort of large army that had been using the town as a base.

Just outside the village in a large crater was the rubble corpse of the Bryer that the two dark-robed figures had escaped on.

Akira scanned the snow for traces of their target and found two human tracks left in the deep snow that led into the snowy woods that were now starting to burn.

The fire was slowly spreading out from icy tree to icy tree as the snow and ice melted off of them.

The smoke from the burning trees made it hard for them to see that far into the forest. The thick forest was surrounding a small desolate mountain range with no known inhabitants.

“What should we do?” asked Mileena.

“If we go in there we may be walking into a trap. Even if it is not, with the fire spreading we will be trapped sooner or later,” said Klyn.

“Even if it is a trap we can't let them escape just because we are afraid of a little bit of fire,” said Akira.

The entire cavalry both Garg and werewolf Cavalrymen had not had proper sleep for several days now and were mainly running on the energy they received from the emergency blue candies that had been supplied to them by the shaman researchers.

It was dangerous to be heading straight for a fight in such a state, but every minute that they wasted sleeping, was an extra minute that the enemy had to make good on their escape or give them enough time to gather another army if they still had such resources left after such a large loss at Kodria.

“Prepare yourselves. The enemy is in there somewhere, we will break through the fire and ride forward to capture them!” said Akira.

The cavalrymen took out the blue candies and fed them to their Garg companion mounts and then ate one themselves feeling energy flowing through them helping them recover a bit.

'Don't shame me or our ancestors! We can run through a little bit of heat,' growled Grarr to the rest of the Gargs.

“AWOOO!” with a howl from Akira the cavalry leaped forward and charged into the smoky burning forest.

***

“Where is she?” asked Rodger as he looked at the empty and broken northern fort.

The fort was small enough and had a stronger defense than most cities allowing it to withstand attacks with a small force of guards yet it was now in shambles.

“Maybe, the queen escaped to another fort?” said Ualtar. He had been completing his Main quest mission to repel the Waves of Infected and now was escorting King Rodger as they fought Infected.

It was a win-win for both of them.

Rodger looked at the dead bodies left in the fort but did not see the queen's body or any of her main Royal guards.

“Let's hope she was able to escape to another fort,” said Rodger.