Rosch and his group were standing there nervously, facing south, were the cavalry approached them from.
"Listen, Draconia, Yvonne. You two are going to be in a team together. Go to one of the trees at the side. Best would be one that is a bit away from here. Hide Basarilia and the witch there. Than wait for a good moment to make your biggest magic attack. Don't attack right away. The light of your magic will be seen to far in the night. You have to attack when we are fighting. When they are distracted.
Thulpina and Suz are another team, Xynthia and Daria are together in the last team. You two teams will hide on each sides of the road. Hide in the snow, while waiting for an opportunity. In the night it would be to hard for them to see good or far . ", Rosch said, while looking forward.
The females wanted to protest, but he wouldn't let them. That they didn't leave when he said them to, was already more than enough for him to let through.
" Why is he sending me in the back? I am his strongest weapon right now.", Draconia thought, as she looked weirdly towards Rosch. She still did what he wanted and went further away with the two unconscious females and Yvonne.
Rosch stood their like a decoy. Trying to bait them in.
And it seemed to work, since the enemy cavalry became faster and faster, moving straight towards Rosch. Still in the snow it was hard to move and they were slower than normal cavalry.
Rosch readied his sword, waiting for the enemy. The attack would be in any second. Rosch knew that one mistake would cost him his life.
The leading enemy was now 10 meters away and it looked like Rosch would get trampled to death.
"Goooooooo. Those enemies of the royal blood were a group. He is alone and only there to distract us. Let's trample him to death and follow the rest fastly. The Demoness has number one priority.", one cavalry rider in the middle shouted out, as he didn't even give a second thought towards Rosch.
But that was his mistake, as Rosch jumped up without run-up. His sword was pointed forward in and instant and went through the gap of the helmet and breastplate of the leading rider with ease.
Rosch than jumped up again kicking the one he pierced against others in the middle.
Rosch started to use some as stepping stone to get to one of the last riders as fastly as possible. On that one Rosch clung with all his might, throwing him down from his horse. As soon as they landed on the ground, Rosch grabbed the helmet ripped it up and bite the throat of the enemy, killing him. Rosch stood up but his leg was done for. He was limping even worse now.
It was so fast that most only saw a black small shadow flying through the night. Killing more than three guys instantly. The one he kicked let others fall down and they were trampled by their own allies.
As Rosch stood up slowly, his females, who were waiting at the sides, came suddenly out attacking the horses of the riders.
7 of them fell down and were finished instantly from stabbing there weak points to smashing their heads in without even removing the helmet. It was brutal, but speed was key right now.
"Fuck, turn around, that was a trap! The Demon is probably somewhere with them. They didn't flee.", one of them shouted.
They had a hard time turning around, because the snow offside the road was much higher. That's how his females could hide that easily in the night.
Rosch and his four females made a line, waiting for them to storm them, which happened.
They started to dash forward again, but got a huge surprise. As soon as they were getting to close to Rosch, a huge light came flying towards the cavalry, hitting them head on. Everyone looked surprised as the middle of the cavalry started to brighten the night sky and the riders crashed into each other, those that burned jumped into the snow.
Rosch and the group ran towards those that fell or jumped themselves, bringing the fight into close combat.
While Rosch and the rest fought 10 riders, those who were still on their horses went after Yvonne. They knew they needed to take her down.
"Smart, he saw that would happen.", Draconia thought, as she jumped down from the tree into those slow moving riders. She started to hack and smash them into pieces.
Her smile grew and her swings became more brutal, as she halved an entire horse and the rider on top of the horse.
Behind Rosch the riders, that weren't hit or fell of united again.
They were only ten left, the rest dead, fighting with Roschars or Draconias group.
The riders where in shock and couldn't believe that this small group could use tactics like that.
"S... Sir those are military tactics. We completely underestimated them. Their leader must have been in some battle before.", one of the riders said sweating heavily.
"I know..... That was completely my mistake, but they lost now anyway. Look behind, the rest of our cavalry unit is approaching.", The horse rider, who looked like the leader, said.
20 more riders were approaching. And the leader of the cavalry was insanely happy. He already felt shameful to have lost so many of his soldiers against lsuch a small group of individuals.
But the leader looked stunned after a while, not because Rosch and Draconia's side was killing one after the other of his riders in close combat, no the rest of the cavalry unit was only half of the 20 that should have appeared normally.
"S..... Sir. The other 10 of us had to stay back and fight. Something insanely fast and strong was attacking us. To that it felt as if that being was able to turn invisible. We didn't even know where the attacks came from. They should be coming a bit later. That's why we split up. ", one of the arriving riders said, while almost looking happy not being the one to have to stay behind.
" Shit, that's why I didn't want to came to this place, while it was dark. You all know how many creatures and monsters wander the snowy mountains. We are to fucking close right now. Let's finish it fast.", the leader of the cavalry unit said.
"Anyway. Bow cavalry unit, fire towards the tree, where our men are fighting right now. The dragon female will be our worst enemy. Those at the road are looking as if they are about to drop to the ground at any moment.", the leader said to the new arriving bow units, while making himself ready to attack Roschar's unit.
The cavalry bow unit drew their bows and fired the first volley right away. They didn't even care if they hit their own, knowing what their leader meant, with how dangerous the dragon female could be. But they all knew that distance was their friend, since the snow was pretty high and she was hurt and tired from the coliseum battle.
The first volley landed and shrieks were heard from them, the loudest shriek came from Yvonne.
Rosch looked towards the tree in shock.
"YVONNE ARE YOU OKAY?", Rosch shouted out with his eyes ripped wide open.
"She is okay. One arrow hit her shoulder, it's pretty painful, but not bleeding much.", Draconia shouted back.
Rosch was feeling a bit better but his rage almost consumed him.
He looked towards the other riders, while he himself was about to go berserk and attack them. His aura leaking out shocking all warriors in front of him.
" Rosch stop it. If you go berseker now, we will die. Yvonne is just a bit hurt. If you go crazy we all will die.", Thulpina said, while lying her hand on his shoulder and waking him up.
She was long enough with Rosch knowing when he loses his mind, which made her act right away, trying to calm him down.
Rosch shook his head sideways and nodded. He took deep breathes, knowing it would be to dangerous. While his berserker state helped him often out, he was unable to do much afterwards. It took to much of a toll on his body. Maybe even the way through the snowy mountains could become impossible after going Berseker.
Rosch saw how Daria killed the last one of the riders, who were on the ground fighting in close combat. He now knew they would attack again and it seemed that they had bow and arrows now.
"If arrows are coming, use the bodies of the dead as shields.", Rosch said, while his females nodded.
The first volley came, but since it was dark they didn't even see them draw their bows, only Roschar's good hearing saved their skins. Still Thulpina is big and one human couldn't cover her completely as she was hit at her left thigh.
"Argghhhh. Shit.", Thulpina shouted out in pain.
That was the signal for the cavalry unit with maces and swords. They accelerated forward trying to kill Roschar and his four females in one go.
"Shit Yvonne won't be able to shoot another magic attack and if we run into the snow, we will be to slow. The horses are much faster in it.", Rosch thought as he got a idea that could work. But only once, too.
"Listen we will make a small mountain with their dead bodies. Fastly.", Rosch shouted out, while throwing the first two bodies on each other. Thulpina, Daria and Xynthia followed with throwing two bodies easily. Only Suz needed time to carry one body at the pile and with that it was already over. They enemies were already to close.
Rosch made his females hide behind the pile of corpses while trying to shield them.
The females of his used one hand and cut the foots of the horses to make them crash, but Roschar's back got still hit by a sword and mace. The cut wasn't the worst one. It was the mace breaking is right shoulder plate. He now couldn't move his arm anymore. Both completely useless and hanging, while they only got three other riders down.
"Haa.... Haaaa... Haaaa..... Fuck what should we do? That little trick won't work again.", Rosch thought while being completely done for. He looked towards Draconia's side but they couldn't move. They hid behind a tree, because of the archers. Even though she killed all the riders there, the archers are the one that made them lose this battle.
Roschar's head was trying to think up any solution but he wasn't able to come up with one.
Till screams were heard in the direction of the archers. Everyone was surprised, but one scream of the other sounded and those screams had pure terror in it.
"W... What is going on?", Rosch asked confused, but nobody knew only shaking their heads sideways.
"S... Sir that must be the creature that attacked the archer unit before. What should we do? We won't be able to be there in time.", one of the riders said.
The leader looked shocked.
"We need to get the Demoness or we will get killed anyway. You know, the royal family wants them dead for what they did, but much more important is the Demoness.", the leader of the cavalry unit said. He knew it was dangerous even more when they don't know what attacked them like that. But he knew without the Demoness they would be dead anyway.
While the riders were still unsure of what to do, Rosch knew. Even though the being that killed the archers could be dangerous, it could still be in their side and just hate those humans. Rosch told his females silently and they dashed forward.
In an instant they were there, but to their shock only brutally massacred corpses were left. Arms, legs, halved bodies and halved horses were lying around everywhere, shocking all of them. The being that did such a thing must be pretty powerful.
But no being was there. It was to weird.
Rosch looked everywhere but nothing was seen. But he knew now was there chance.
"Draconia come out. The archers are dead.", Rosch shouted out loud, hoping she would make it in time. They needed everyone right now.
But that shout woke up the riders, too. They suddenly accelerated towards Rosch again.
"Listen, just dodge as much as you can and try to attack the legs. That is our only chance.", Rosch said, hoping is females wouldn't get hurt.
"But, you are the one, who is the most hurt.", Daria said scaredly. This was her first real death situation and she was really scared, but she still thought about others. She truly was a good female. Rosch felt good about that, but bad, too. He didn't want that any of his female should die, he ran forward first going down to grab a sword with his mouth.
His females looked shocked as he got a head start.
"I need to take their momentum. Till Draconia comes over here. That way all of them will survive.", Rosch thought ready to take on less than half the original riders left.
The cavalry was stunned by the move, but appreciated it. If they separated their enemies it would be much easier for them.
Rosch jumped up even though his leg was killing him, dropkicking his way into the first enemy, who was completely surprised.
He tried to use the sword on others, not to kill but to throw them of their horses, which worked a bit .
While Rosch managed to throw three of the enemies off their horses, the others all around him were swinging down at him.
Rosch saw how the weapons came down on him, he couldn't even rise his arms as protection, that's how broken they were.
But before contact was made, a dark shadow appeared in the air above the rides, beheading all four enemies that tried to strike Rosch. The dark shadow used all its limbs to cut those enemy heads off as if it was nothing.
Rosch was stunned as he crashed on the ground without any scratches, just the fall hurt a bit.
The shadow on the other hand disappeared in the crowed. The shadow was so fast, moving around and slicing legs of off the horses and riders as if it was nothing. The shadow was fast and deadly, almost as if it was solely trained for killing.
In an instant almost all riders were on the ground crying, because some of their limbs were missing.
Only the leader of the cavalry was still up. He started to shiver, but the shadow didn't stop or show any mercy. It just slashed the entire body in front of itself vertically in half, without even listening what the leader had to say. Everything was done clean, fast and without mercy.
The shadow turned around after the kill and went towards Rosch.