Daryn continues tirelessly in his pursuit, each knight is in maximum preparation, after an hour they stop and the tracking experts check the area to define the amount of enemies and citizens of the village, after a few minutes a knight approaches.
"Commander for the marks that the wild beasts left the enemies are in more than a hundred, and residents must be about three hundred people, for the marks they are an hour ahead of us." Concluded the knight.
"Very well we will continue, gentlemen as soon as we are within reach of their spells, I want them to throw barriers to try to separate the humans from them and then they can attack to decrease the maximum of their numbers," said Daryn.
A little more than an hour after from a small hill, the knights can see the orcs advancing at full speed, sparing no care for humans with whips that almost strip their skins, the direction they are going is the southern border with free lands of Alderlake known as poisonvine swamps, an extremely dangerous place where you can be attacked by poisonous vines at any time, a place that stinks of death.
"Move forward if they reach the swamps we are at a disadvantage," ordered Daryn.
The horsemen were leaving at full speed, the orcs already realized they were being followed but continued to keep pace because in the open they are at a disadvantage, some time later they were caught by surprise as a large ball of fire passed them and blocked their front , having no other option, stopped and prepared to use humans as a shield and attack.
Only once they had this idea, an energy barrier isolated all the hostages.
"All wizards strike the maximum, archers shoot the crossbows, Knights of Crawford ATACARRR" shouted Daryn.
With that a great battle started, with their higher numbers the humans were in a ratio of two for each orc, so the continuous massacre and daryn went after the leader of the orcs, measuring more than two meters and with pale skin, a face full of marks of cuts and holding a large iron sword.
Daryn advances and the two begin to exchange ferocious blows, the albino orc has great strength and can stand to defend itself from attacks, but the superiority is clear and as soon as Daryn begins to use his magical powers with his attacks, the orc starts to get nervous, after changing but a few blows Daryn makes a charge against the orc that deviates so Daryn passes him, but the orc did not expect Daryn to turn the sword piercing his back until crossing to the other side.
Taken by surprise, he tries to move even more, he feels the sword being pulled out of himself, thinking that he could still escape, he tries to run sooner afterwards the same sword comes diagonally and passes easily around his neck, and everything the orc sees in the end, the world is spinning.
After killing the leader, Daryn observes the almost finished battle to see if he still needs to do something, noting that everything is fine, he warns the knights.
"Leave an orc alive to take for investigation, the rest do not leave any alive" he ordered.
Walking to the magicians who are protecting the people, he finds that they are relatively well, he orders that the barrier be removed so that he can speak to the people.
"Listen, everyone, I'm Daryn Commander of the Royal Guard and we came to save you at the king's orders, I'll take you back to the village, so stay calm and follow us, if someone's not feeling well let us know so that one of the magicians sees the problem, we'll be out in a few minutes so take the time to rest "he said.
At the end of the battle and with the death of the orcs everything became calmer, yet three knights lost their lives, immediately the bodies were prepared to be taken so that they had a proper funeral, as everyone was already rested the train went back to Olcide, as they were going at a much slower speed, Daryn sent scouts ahead to warn the king that they would only reach the end of the day and they would need to camp there.
King's Camp
Inside his tent is the king, his children and the elders, after hours of waiting no explanation came from Oldice which makes the king frown.
"Real father, let me go with some horsemen to the village and have a look" asks Cristhian with hope.
"Definitely not, Daryn has so far not warned you, if something happened even to him and all those knights and wizards, what could you do, let's wait a little while longer" said the king.
As soon as Cristhian wanted to insist, a horseman entered the tent and said.
"Majesty Commander Daryn has sent messengers," says the knight.
"Send in immediately," said the king.
So one of the magicians who accompanied Daryn came in. The magician enters and bows to the king.
"Okay, tell me what happened in that village and why it takes so long to resolve it" asked the king.
"My king, as soon as we arrived in Oldice, we found only death and destruction. After walking through the village, we found a resident almost on his last breaths, he told us that the orcs had already left and taken several residents. "Said the magician.
"Um, so what happened next, and the people taken" asked Aldric, who until then just watched everything.
"Great Elder the commander immediately ordered us to go in pursuit of the orcs, after a few hours we managed to reach them before they entered poisonvine, after an intense battle everyone was killed and more than three hundred residents were rescued, unfortunately we had the loss of three knights" explained the magician with regret.
"It really is a pity to lose three of ours, return the bodies to the funeral with honors and their families be compensated for their loss, so and Daryn where he is" asked the king.
"As the number of residents was high, and they were very tired of being attacked by the orcs, the walking pace will be slower on the way back, so the commander asked him to warn his majesty that they will probably only return to Oldice at the end of the day, so we will have to camp around here today ", concluded the magician.
"It's okay to go and rest now," said the king.
"Majesty, just one more thing, the commander asked to capture one of the osrcs for questioning," said the wizard, bowing and leaving the tent.
"Majesty interrogating this orc we can have information about where the Demons base is, so we can even plan attacks, it was a good idea from the commander" says Alderic.
"Yes, when he returns, I will reward everyone for their bravery, so we will wait for his return," says the king.