While Adam was in front of the mirror, admiring his handsome figure, when a sudden shout alerted everyone in the Orc camp.
Seeing an arrow flying right in front of his eyes, barely missing his life, Toskr raised his hand and twirled his cane around before declaring "It's an ambush! Deflect the arrows, prepare your sword. THIS IS WAR!!!" and shot out fireballs at the goblin bandits.
"Argh!"
"How is ther-…"
"I- I'm burnin-"
Even from the place where he was standing, Adam could see the fireballs Toskr sprayed, each one hitting the group of goblins, accurately hitting the bandit's bodies.
Suddenly the goblins retaliated. Most of the goblins in leather armor had died off, but there was still an iron vested rank, and they had about more than twice their 50 orc members. and they still had their leader, a big man vested in black chainmail armor.
The iron vested goblin soldiers quickly opened a scroll and snickered while a shit ton of arrows magically found their way into their camp, most of them hitting the orcs at non fatal positions, yet the arrows seemed to poisoned, working to break the orc armor and weapons like a wonder, "Those poison arrows really are strong!" Adam couldn't help but hiss at the arrow's concentrated poison.
"Damn it. Artifacts. Take cover orc legion. It's a poisoned bow, capable of teleporting the arrows shot directly to the target, hide and take over, and don't let them touch you!!" Toskr roared before taking cover himself.
The goblins were mostly massacred, most of them died, the once was a group of 100, now only consist of 15 bandits. All of a sudden, the orc civilians that were in hiding came out, armed with spears, rakes, shovels and sickles and charged out of the huts alongside the hunting routes.
"Victory is in our hand… though, I might need to fight that giant man" Toskr proclaimed, but secretly grimacing in pain from the poison arrow that stabbed him because of his own carelessness.
It is an artifact for god's sake. It isn't a toy to play around with.
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"Cowards! Bring your leader here and ask him to have an honorable duel with me!" The big, muscular man planted his giant sword on the ground and stood straight. The villagers that have surrounded him were nervous and started muttering to each other.
"We took care of his subordinates, but he is simply too strong!" The orcs chattered. Although they were all a bunch of barbarians, they all know better than to risk their comrades and family. Especially with Toskr being poisoned and extremely weak.
"Yeah, should we just call the guardian?, he is the Mage's disciple after all…" An other orc discussed.
One of the orc's with a spear in his hand suddenly ran toward the hut which Adam was in. Soon he reached the place where Adam was standing at. Still panting, he said, "Greetings to the guardian. that goblin's leader wanted a duel with the mage Toskr, but he is currently poisoned. So can it be safe to say that you are the leader of this village and will fight against him?!"
Adam sighed and turned around. He stopped right in front of the man and extended his arm, "Give me your spear, I'll try to win against him in the fight"
The man nervously sweating and slightly trembling at that moment, slowly moved his hand and gave Adam the spear. Adam looked at the spear once again and sighed, "Let's go, we shouldn't keep our opponent waiting for us!"
Not long after, he found himself standing right in front of the man with the big sword, "Hey you! brat! Are you really their leader? You seem like a brat that just came out of your mother's womb , I never saw you around here. Are you sure that you are the one that orchestrated the counter attack and released the fireballs?"
Adam took a deep breath before responding, "You could say that person was me… I'm impressed that you are still standing here right now, all the weapons that the artifact released are covered with a very powerful poison that couldn't cause any damage. I respect your dedication. Wasting an artifact just to try and kill us. I'm honored, really.
The man's face darkened at the annoying comment before raising his gigantic heavy sword from the ground and placing it on his shoulder, his cool face not restricting the fury he currently has. "I'm just really unlucky I guess. Anyway, are you ready?" He asks after holding it down and preparing himself to fight. If the kid was really the leader who made the fire balls, things are about to get rough
Adam nodded, he gripped his spear as hard as he could and took one deep breath. Their duel officially began! They circled around the ground like two tigers fighting, cautiously taunting the opponent and smirking after that.
The villagers watching them seemed to be as nervous as Adam that was sweating and trembling, just a little, "The one who attacks first is doomed… I need to stay patient and wait for the best moment to counter attack"
'Wait a second'