Roschar was holding the enemy, even though going head on with the Nightwalkers would normally end in a one sided massacre.
Just this time, the Goblin mixes fighting weren't scared. Some used their arms as shield, losing them and others threw themselves at the Nightwalker's trying to give the Elves the perfect shot.
With their magic they could kill a Nightwalker in close distance in one shot and because of that their was no real winner right now.
Zeke was shocked at the ferociousness of the Goblin mixes.
"So that's his race. All those mixes. But is that even possible? Shit, are we losing? I have to take the alpha down at least and than retreat.", Zeke thought.
He went past some Nightwalker warriors, with sight only on Roschar. He saw the young crossbreed killing his own warriors with ease.
" Truly terrifying. So young and already so strong. ", Zeke thought, while being determined to kill his opponent today.
He was like a shadow. And you could see his experience as he navigate easily through enemy Goblins. He cut some down and dodged others effortlessly. Till he was only a few meters away from Rosch, who seemed to be in a berserk state. Rosch was ripping enemies apart like they were nothing.
"This will be easy. Time to finish it.", Zeke thought with a smile on his face. He suddenly accelerated, hiding behind one of his own warriors that Rosch just cut down. While the body of his warrior fell to the ground, Zeke suddenly did a side step and stabbed forward with his left bone blade.
Rosch didn't reacting, he got pierced through his right shoulder. It was to fast to react for Rosch and as Zeke wanted to finish it, he attacked the head with his right bone blade.
Rosch on the other hand squeezed all his muscles together. The bone blade of Zeke got stuck in the shoulder of Rosch.
Rosch suddenly smiled brilliantly.
"Finally, I thought you would never come out. But at last, you got finally in my trap.", Rosch said, while blocking the other incoming attack from Zeke.
Zeke got a bit pale.
"That crazy bastard let himself get pierced to trap me. What does he...", but before Zeke could finish his thought, Vilcet who was on the wall, saw everything from a higher position and shot out an arrow, with almost all his magic power concentrated into this one shot.
The arrow was to fast, even if Rosch didn't hold Zeke it would have been hard to dodge that, but now with Rosch holding him it was impossible.
The only thing Zeke could do was to turn his body a bit, to not get killed in a single shot.
The arrow hit him on the right side of the chest, making a clean hole through it.
"Shit, he still moved a bit. I aimed for the heart.", Vilcet thought annoyed.
Rosch on the other side, bashed his knee into Zeke to get some distance. The trap Rosch had in mind was totally improvised, but he believed in his grandfathers experience. Vilcet knew battlefields and would look towards important beings at all time.
Rosch just made a hand gesture, that showed him to wait and with that Vilcet understood instantly. Vilcet almost attacked Zeke before he could reach Rosch.
Zeke looked enraged. His black eyes got darker than black, almost like nothingness. It was terrifying, but Roschar's eyes were bizarre, too. His eyes were black, red and silver, but moved constantly. As if they were fighting against each other for control.
They looked each other in the eyes, around them the warriors stopped and looked their way. It was a terrible aura those two gave out.
Almost suffocating.
"How about we settle it one on one. Don't want more dead warriors of mine.", Rosch suddenly said with a bright smile.
Zeke, who was already enraged, almost lost it.
"This little fuck. Now when the battlefield went silent and many of my warriors could hear him comes the request for a one on one. I can't even feel my right body side. How does he want me to fight? He wants me to lose or say that I give up. He wants to rise his warriors moral even further. Fuck, this war is lost. I can't believe it is going to be against Goblins. I need to walk away without losing face. ", Zeke thought, wanting to jump Rosch and rip his throat out.
" I would gladly take you on, but even if I win, it would seem that overall we will still lose. If the others warriors of your tribe come back it will be over for us. How about we stop fighting and I and my warriors will retreat, if not believe me we will fight and take as many as possible with us. ", Zeke said loudly. His warriors got a sudden boost of moral. They shouted to fight to the death.
In their minds, Zeke wanted to fight, but didn't want to lose his warriors. They felt their loyalty was in good hands.
Rosch on the other hand twitched for a moment. He wanted to wipe his enemies out. He saw on opportunity to destroy their spirit. But his opponent seemed to be smart, even though he was enraged, he could stay calm.
Now both beings stood two to three meters apart, looking into their opponents eyes. On the battlefield more and more warriors stopped fighting, while going backwards to their own faction.
It was a weird stalemate and only Rosch could end it now.
His body wanted to rush forward and slaughter his enemies. His mind was screaming annihilation or capitulation of the enemy. Conquering was his, no the only way right now.
But before he could do something stupid a hand touched his shoulder from behind.
"Take the offer. We still have to do something else remember.", Vilcet said, being out of breath. He rushed to his grandson as fast as possible.
Rosch eyes stopped changing, he closed them and tried his best to control his feelings. After opening them, they were red with a bit of silver again like normal and the terrible aura in the area disappeared. Even Zeke took a deeper breathe.
"You can go. We won't attack you from behind. But this is a warning. Next time, you all will get ripped to pieces. This place is mine now and the southern parts of the forest is my territory. Every breaching of my borders will be punished with death.", the sudden outburst shocked all beings present. It was a declaration of war to all, who would stand against him. His eyes became chaotic for a moment, but after the sentence he changed back to normal and calmed down again.
Zeke almost shouted out that a lowly crossbreed should watch his tone, but he knew that the being in front of him isn't stable right now and just turned around.
"We will see what my father will say to your declaration.", Zeke said, while leaving.
The warriors of Rosch and the villagers looked stunned. Many were hurt badly, but Roschar's medical team saved most and gave them hope. They never thought that they would be treated so good. Healing in a war was saved for the stronger warriors and leaders. Not wasted on Footsoldiers and pawns. All of them saw the young family head in a new light. But others thought now negatively about Rosch. A being with strong ambition isn't good for all allies.
"Good, they left. But now I need to proceed with my plan. After declaring to take this place as my own, some will report it to their family heads.", Rosch thought as he turned around and left with Vilcet.
They walked for a while till they were alone.
Rosch walked towards the hole in the wall that the explosion caused.
" We need to close the hole as fast as possible. I would say we fill it with boulders for now. We need to make sure the only way in are the gates. And after that we will do it grandfather, we will take this place over.", Rosch suddenly said and shocked Vilcet with that statement.
He gulped.
"Are you sure. We wanted to start slowly and take this place over, when you are able to take your father down one on one. We may have started with some preparation to take this place over, but we aren't nearly finished.", Vilcet said, worryingly. He thought his grandson's Alpha aura came to soon. He is to young and inexperienced to control it, but after looking into his eyes he saw those normal red and silver ones, which gave of calmness.
" I know it is rushed, but after my declaration of taking this place over others won't stay quiet. We need to try and if it doesn't work, we will leave and search our own place, because in this war I saw how dangerous it could be to have so many beings at one place who want to be the leader. " Rosch said, but to his shock, only the thought of giving up this place or retreating made his body unwell, as if getting sick. It was crazy, how strong his conquering wish became in this short war. Try being the best or die while doing was his mindset right now and he knew how dangerous that could be.
Vilcet was silent and thought about it. He knew what his grandson said was true. His own village showed how it is with two leaders, who had completely different philosophies. It couldn't work from the get go.
"Okay Rosch. Let's try and take this place and make it our own home. Right now nobody is in the village. We could start with our plans.", Vilcet said.
"Perfect. Grandfather, send Gub. Say to him that I said it is time. He knows what to do. It is the most important piece in our plan.", Rosch suddenly said.
Two pieces are crucial and one is already gone. First was time. They wanted to change the minds of all beings in the village. That was why he wanted to wait till next year and not do it now. The second crucial part was the third faction with Roxer. But this can be handled right now. And Rosch was ready to do it.
"Let's hope that my warriors will be the first to return.", Rosch thought as he looked at the hole in the wall.