Everyone turned their head towards the hole, to see why did a troop screamed all of a sudden... and who is dead? But, there was nothing in there to see. A troop glanced towards his comrade who has just screamed, but what is he looking at? He followed his gaze... next, his mouth agape. "gulp~ aa... look up chaps!"
Everyone looked up, now all of them have the same expression... They saw a Head floating in the air and it was the head of none-other but their senior Magus. Another silhouette of the head appeared on the top of the hole, they all got instantly alert... All of them began to sweat heavily, they must be praying that this head shouldn't be of the person whom they are supposed to protect! If the Prince is dead, what's the meaning of them being alive? They will eventually be killed by the King even if they somehow manage to escape from us, but Wait~! The hair doesn't seem familiar, it is a Head of a... Lady!
A strong woman came out of the hole and a man is following him, looks like he is' her lackey... She has a beautiful face and Grey ombre hair, a charm in her demeanor, a perfecto figure, her red lips' is flawlessly matching with her face and the clothes. she is wearing a Red Coat with a hood... which she is not wearing right now... to show everyone her face. 'Ah, it is me... *jokingly* of course'. As I appear on the surface, I can see everyone gawking at me with their lustful gazes. "yuck! are these humans' always so nasty," *Disgusted* I had to say that cause even in this situation when they are laying on the verge of losing their life, they are lusting over a woman. As I finished saying those words, I flicked my right hands' fingers... cause I can't stand their disgusting face staring at me with all that sweat and salivating mouth.
The Wind Swirl that was holding the Head of the dead Magus flickered and vanished... followed by the dead silence and now even those five magi's who were separated from the main Troops by our Elites' stopped. They all looked towards me, what just happened? The Head of the deceased Magus collapsed on the ground as there is no support under it to make it stay in the air... All of the remaining enemies' drooped on their knees simultaneously! A streak of blood flowed down from the throat of everyone and they tightly grasped their own neck... "gaa...rrhk~ *breathing* Cough... cough~" *coughing blood through the throat* They are now struggling to get the air and now all they could inhale is their own blood... No one realized how did it happen so quickly and who did it?
"Now-now now, do you all still want to stare at me with those rotten eyes?" I mocked them as they all finally collapsed on the ground lifelessly... the blood of the Enemies' Troops made a circle of blood around us. Hugo was still carrying the prince in his right hand, as the other remaining Magi saw this, they began to fight with all their might, but not to fight. They are now fighting to escape from the fight... If they somehow escaped from us they can at least report the unexpected things that happened here and tell the king that his Son is still alive. The king shouldn't be that helpless and he will be able to do something considering his son is not dead yet. But, we can't just fulfill their wish and let them go without getting killed.
The six elite werewolves surrounded the remaining five lower Magus, they have played for too long. *clapping* "You mages are quite tough hu... Too bad! they don't have enough time to play with you," I mocked them a little and command the Elites' to finish them. Now, they will realize the true power of the Elite Werewolves. How ignorant of them to think about escaping... The werewolves' made a circular formation and all of them breathed simultaneously, their chest expanded more than double the previous normal size. Even after expanding their chest, they are still looking a normally buffed werewolves and not like the breasts of a woman. After watching them doing something uncanny but ominous, the Magi's made an 'Aero-shield' around them by Integrating their mana power.
Still, they are very exhausted and depleted of mana... The Elite warriors Howled simultaneously making a huge wave of Violent sound that can pierce a dense wood and break the rocks into pieces. The 'Aero-shield' couldn't hold back the piercing pressure and it shattered making a small wave of outward pressure, but it was like a small wind blow in front of the waves made by the sound of Howling Werewolves. The moment the shield shattered... can be said their last hope crumbled, the work has already been done. "Aargh... aaaaa~" *Screaming in pain and agony*
They are not dead... you can say they are half dead, now all they can do is scream in agony... and slowly die a painful death. The Waves' of the howl completely tear up the outer skin out of their body like a peeled potato... Now they are left with their exposed muscles and bones out of their body... moreover their eyes are popped out and ears are hanging with dripping blood' because of the tearing pressure. Some of them have their eyes hanging outside the socket, their hands holding on them... just to be snapped in their own clutches' made due to extreme pain.
"Let them die on their own... Hurry up~ lets' head back to the camp and don't forget to bring those horses." I commanded them to bring the enemies' horses with them, we didn't kill the horses' in the fight. They are our asset looted from enemies' and they can be used for wars, either can be used as a backup food for us. We actually don't need them, we are as fast as those horses' though we use them in our Major battles' and for logistics. Hugo picks up the Head of the Magus and followed me inside the underground tunnel, we don't need his head anymore. I don't know what Hugo has in his mind, I don't care...
// Sunrise, 12th of February Morning //
We began to retreat to our base, from the hole we can see the first rays of the sun has already fallen on the land of Ulf. The other group has also finished their task and actually faster than us, even though we had started first and they had to travel a further distance to attack the enemies. Though the task was not so hard for them and they were only killing those exhausted Archers and the Logistic groups. It was more like overkill and there was no need for me to send forty warriors for eighty weak enemies troops. It is actually important to kill them earlier in case they may get alert and run away. There seems to be very little causality on that group, on the contrary, we have ten heavily injured warriors.
The reserved Troop were not so easy to deal with, they are elites of their own Kingdom and if not for our surprise attack and overly overnumbered warriors coupled with our Elite warriors' jumping in the battle, we couldn't have possibly won against them. A comprehensive and perfect strategy is necessary to win any battle major or minor. Our rookie soldiers could have lost their lives in vain if we have failed the task due to our inaccurate judgment of enemies' power...
The other group was also in my command, but I have delegated my authority to an Elite because I don't want to hand over my control to these rookies even though we have trained them to be able to act in groups. We took the retreat from both surface and underground Tunnel, my group made the retreat from the surface, and the other group also retreated from the surface with the loots. Only I and Hugo along with the Elites' retreated through the Tunnel, we don't want to show our main force to the enemies and the War is still not over yet, we still have other plans to do so. But we have already won the war, to which the alive soldiers of enemies are not yet aware of...
Along the way, I saw Hugo acting weird and muttering to himself like he is frustrated. So I asked him "Hugo, did you understand the Captain's Plan? Why did she ask you to make this Tunnel exactly one meter and eighty centimeters tall?"
"umm... no!" *Pondering*
"Huh? *A little surprised and disappointed by the fact* I thought you were quite clever!" I thought he already understood the purpose, but he is still so dumb that he can't understand it, even now... "huff...! It's because in the most unlikely case when humans may get the upper hand... and we had to run through the Tunnel. We can escape from this tunnel to our Fortress, and either it can itself become a stronghold for us... did you get it now!"
"Aaa... How? They can also run..." *Scratching head*
"Meh! *Disappointed* You know the height of both, werewolf and human indulging in the war is averagely around two meters... and that's where the advantage is. We werewolves' can stand on both four limbs and two feet according to the situation we are in, but the same can't be said about you humans... Humans can't chase us while bending so much to the point that they can't even chase a chicken..."
"well! I never thought about such details." *Realization*
"You see, our Captain doesn't have a Kids' brain. So do not ever judge her by her age," *Threatening implication* I gave him a little warning.
"Aye commander, I would never judge her decision!" *Trying to hide the truth*
"Hmm... You better not!" I warned him again. I do not mean to frighten him, I just want him to trust every decision of Seren... He did previously questioned her repeatedly about that in the meeting like he is questioning her intelligence, but Seren didn't get angry and only looked towards me. She is not a short-tempered girl and knows what to do, so she glanced at me and I also give her a meaningful gaze... She wanted me to explain the Hugo on her behalf and she must have thought that Hugo will understand it himself later on, but he is such a moron... tsk-tsk! Moreover, he started to argue over the change in the plan also.
He was crying over the work he had done for the past month and now because of the change in plane, it is all in vain. "Like how did you not understand it till now... The Underground Tunnel is both the part of our 'Attack' and 'Retreat' in case of emergency. Humans are really morons..." *Muttering in head*. The huge network of Tunnels can easily bamboozle the enemies and by the time we can escape to our Home... So now, even though we aren't using those tunnels, we can still take them as an emergency course of the retreat... "A good Captain should talk everything out with her subordinates, but it doesn't mean you should fall to the level of your subordinate and Argue over the matters which is obvious without stating." Her concept is, 'Let them think on their own and if they still don't understand it, then tell them how the thing works'.