'Why are the ones who are planning to attack us are soldiers under the direct orders of the kings ?' Zach recognized the coat of arms they had on their armor because Arnold's father explained them when they were little, it was a sword coated in a black flame.
This coat of arms was the signature of the Umbrash warrior solely composed of men with fire or darkness affinity who were only obeying the king. It meant the king had asked the Umbrash warrior to target their carriage for obscure reasons.
'That's not good ! If we have some luck the only ones who got send are the lowest tier warrior supervised by these two soldiers who should then be at most mid tier. But that's only if we are lucky otherwise they could have sent mid level warriors overseen by a high tier which would be a disaster. I need to warn Pedro and Oscar as soon as possible and if it comes to the worst I will try to escape by myself.'
Even if it was only a group of low tier warrior it would be a fight with an uncertain outcome. In the Umbrash warrior, the warriors were divided in 4 groups namely : low, mid, high and peak tier.
A low tier warrior is someone at least at the high rank 1 and at most peak rank 2, mid tier are the ones who are anywhere in the rank 3, high tier are the ones low or mid rank 4 and peak tier are the ones above mid rank 4.
Zach didn't know if they had gathered the cream of the crop of the low tier warriors or if they took average men and same for the two overseeing them. And that was only in the best scenario. Zach got away stealthily from them, when he had put enough distance between them he rushed at his highest speed, time was of essence.
"WAKE UP AND BE READY !" He didn't yelled but said it loud enough to wake up anyone who was sleeping. "What is going on kid ?" Oscar curious about this sudden outburst from Zach asked.
"The Umbrash warriors are there and they are going to attack us in 7 minutes ! I don't know how many of them there is neither their tier but we need to make plans." He explained the situation.
When he heard that Oscar's face turned grim, he expected to be ambushed but he didn't expect that they will be ambushed openly by a powerful kingdom squad.
"Indeed things will be hard, we will make it so it will be us who have the surprise effect. Make decoy to make them think we are still peacefully resting and climb in the trees. Zach show us from where they will probably come."
Zach lead them where he first spotted the scout and everyone climbed in a tree hiding in the darkness waiting for them to come. Everyone who knew about the Umbrash warrior was nervous as for the others the tension was so palpable that they started to sweat.
After 5 minutes of waiting many were almost at their breaking point and would not be able to endure this much pressure for any longer.
That's exactly when they saw 3 men in black clothes going to the camp, once they checked the camp they went back from where they came. A few instants later 30 men in armor walking as silently as possible arrived, they advanced towards the camp.
Everyone in the tree looked at Oscar waiting for his signal but even if they were just in front of them he still did not gave it. He waited, he wanted to stab them in the back, he didn't need to wait too much and when they were behind every soldier he gave the signal.
It was eerily quiet but out of the blue thuds could be heard in the back of the soldiers. Before they could turn back to see what was happening they succeeded in killing 6 of them.
At this instant Zach and Oscar were relieved, this was a low tier squad and thanks to the surprise effect victory was almost guaranteed. "We got screwed, BEHIND US !" One of the supervisor yelled.
As for Zach even if he didn't have instantaneously killed a soldier he managed to inflict him an heavy wound, he had cut his arm off with his scythe. The soldier angry of losing one of his arm rushed toward Zach, he was followed by one of his most trusted friend. Zach was alone against them, everyone around him was busy with more powerful soldier.
Zach steadied his position ready to receive them, the one-armed man brandished his sword while the one behind him had a tight grip on his spear. Zach was ready, the one-armed man slashed at one of Zach arm while the spearman was thrusting towards his opposite leg.
Zach took advantage of the one-armed man blinded by his anger, he had jumped to make his slash so Zach decided to take a bold choice. He used his scythe to push the man on the side and he jumped on the spear, he almost fell when he landed on it but he was fine, surprisingly the spearman was strong enough to lift his spear with Zach on it.
The spearman lifted his spear higher in the air to make Zach an easy prey but Zach let himself fell and slided on the spear. This action took the spearman by surprise not expecting someone would do that and the next instant he found that Zach had placed his palm on his forehead.
He found this curious, they were in a fight to death so he didn't understand the action of the young man but then his head started to feel hot, next instant it wasn't hot but blazing.
The last spearman's thought was how he died, Zach had obviously used the Hell fire, he even made the mana output bigger which made the flame more intense but last shorter.
When the one-armed man turned and saw what happened to his friend he broke, he was already in a great anger for losing his arm but now he knew that because he was blinded by his rage his friend had died.
He saw his friend's head with a big hole of charred flesh, blood, bones and brain matter at the center of it, worst the fire was still burning away the rest of his friend body. He could not take it, his mind just broke and his will to live and fight disappeared from him, he fell on his knees letting out his sword. Zach neared him and beheaded him, he still has a bunch of enemies to fight.
As usual the system's notification sound rang in his head but he paid it no mind. Zach looked around on the battlefield, the fight was nearing his end, the soldiers side only counted 7 men and almost each of them were against 2 men.
Zach supported the ones who were struggling a bit and like that the fight was reduced to Oscar versus a supervisor on one side and on the other side Pedro and Kyle versus the other supervisor.
"Don't come near us you will only be getting on our way, don't worry we will handle it." Oscar stated, it could be heard that he was tired but the tiredness could also be seen on his opponent. The 2 supervisors were each mid rank 3 and they regretted not calling for reinforcements, they could have turned the tables even if they had been amubshed like that.
They went on this mission with the average soldier of the low tier the weakest being peak rank 1 and the strongest being high rank 2. But the surprise attack overwhelmed them and precipitated their defeat, they would not even be able to flee, even as mid rank 3 they would not be able to get out alive from all those canon fooders considering how much they were tired.
Without surprise after another minute of fight the first supervisor fell in battle, the last one left was against Oscar and was in a pitiful state, his clothes were in shreds and he had more or less deep cuts on all his body. Pedro and Kyle joined him in the fight and with no surprise eventually the second supervisor got fatally wounded.
"HA HA HA ! You know the kingdom will never let you live since the moment you decided to try to get this thing back." The supervisor leaughed before he took his last breath. When Zach looked around he could see that even if they won this fight, they had lost quite a few members.
They lost 4 men, it could have been worse if Zach hadn't warned them and they didn't ambushed them but to a group which was already rather small and could not find new people to replace the ones who died it was a heavy blow.
Zach decided to check the few notifications he got after killing the two soldiers, he also roamed around the battlefield and collected the soldiers' souls which totaled to 30.