The combined small tribes of monster didn't fail arrolyth and successfully manage in ambushing the convoy, the combined mercenary group of each small monster tribes will took the other spoils excluding the sword, arrolyth instruction was to take the sword and the rest can be shared by them.
They were searching for the sword in the convoy, but unfortunately, Kignuz wasn't a complete fool, the mercenary group suddenly realized that it was merely a decoy, that must be why the enemy escorts guards was unnaturally weaker than they would expect it to be.
But arrolyth is a cunning person, such trick is easy to see through, that's why he prepared his elite troop who are on the exact route waiting for ambush,
Arrolyth leave no room for failure, the day before the movement of the convoy, he ordered the spy to capture one of coachman of the decoy convoy, not because he wanted to know if the convoy is a decoy or not because these people don't know about it, he bribed him to sneak weapons in one of the carriages specially bow and arrows, then the next step was he tortured one of his double agent spy that he know and it gave up rather easily can't endure the pain, arrolyth forked out the location of the real convoy and planned a tactical ambush the elite troops of arrolyth waiting to ambush.
They consist of a strong group of monster of different race and shapes, they all ranging from 1st to 3rd to third level demonic cycle.
The guards on real convoy is merely elite of at peak of 1st demonic cycle, and a few who manage to to reach 2nd and 3rd demonic cycle.
But no matter how strong the escorts guard's of the convoy is, the ambush came prepared. While they were fighting, the people who successfully attack the decoy has been sent an instruction, they rode the horse and took the bows and quivers with arrow in it and came rushing to where the fighting was and send a barrage of shots to the enemy. In the end, arrolyth's elite won. With the spoils specially their objective has been met, using a special telepathic device, they first reported the success of the mission which made arrolyth joyfully laugh with promises.
But the elite group didn't expect them, the ambusher got ambushed while resting under the cliff region of coldgate valley, where lies the narrow road towards kiltrant forest. There miscalcution due to the lack of Intel cause them there live, because no one has told them that there will be a human army going in the path where they encamped.
What they knew is that there will be an upcoming blizzard in the cliff region, if they cross it they surely will freeze to death but if took another route, if they take to the route in the bordering forest of the lower part of the mountain where mindless monster dwells, besides the danger of being attack by these monster in berserk for eternity, being attacked by human hunters is grave danger.
And if they choose the to go into the road that connects the two monster kingdom. There is a high chance Kignuz will kill them there, sneaking in won't do.
So they took the risk and they made a detour to the coldgate canyon and quickly arrived in the cliff region, luckily such heavy blizzard is yet to come as they jump down to the narrow ravine where road was and was unaffected by cold temperature and has a balanced climate. Such bizarre thing is still a complete mystery and they only accept it as it was.
But they ran out of luck the moment an army arrived in there way heading straight to kiltrant forest. At first they thought the prey has come to their doorstep and underestimated them. They fought hard with there lives but they couldn't outmatch this humans, their leader was like a frontline warrior, its gleaming sword cut through their tough skins, but they still managed to fight back.
But no matter how they fight on, even if they were a veteran, they can't still defeat a whole regiment of troops, in the end there deaths is destined in the hand of this passerby humans. The last one of them throws a rock at the person with the gleaming sword and manage to injured him unconscious, he thought he had finally killed him so he died with a smile on his face while his head has been separated from his body.
No one knows that in the clash between this elite monster and the human army led by felix, there is a poisonmaster amongst those monster and felix was the one he battled till his death.
[year 93 of gracian era, month 5, day 2, adjacent the cliff region of coldgate canyon.]
5 hours after arrolyth heard the messaged sent by the elite group about there success, he was in the throne room, his room.
This settlement does really look like barbarians encampment, but there is still uniqueness to the design of every houses. With a unique heating system at that too.
Arrolyth was having a leasure time drinking some cup of beer while waiting for the elite group to arrived at his small palace. Wine is a man made product they could hardly make due to the grape and some other fruits can't withstand the demonic erosion even in the lowest part of the 4 mountains. They could only get it from the humans but, human kingdoms and empire are like a mortal enemies with the monster nation.
While happily drinking, suddenly a messenger with his pale face drench in sweat that fall profusely in his cheek arrived in the throne room, and kneel towards arrolyth.
"lord arrolyth, I have a bad news"
"really? A bad news in the middle of merriment? What is it this time speak!"
The messenger flinched a bit, he then spoke.
"the scout patrol's on the starting point in the entrance of coldgate mountain was nowhere to be found, we presumed they were killed by group of humans based on the wounds"
"what?! How could a group of humans suddenly barged in the coldgate canyon unnoticed! damn it, i should've know something about it, but none of the witnessed return atleast?! If there is really an intruder that walk towards the forest of kiltrant, it's fine we'll just kill them off in the end of their road"
"b-but lord arrolyth, that's not the worst news here"
"speak"
"t-these human invaders ambushed the elite group and defeated them, their Contact is unreachable"
"what!?"
He then spoke in domineering and raging manner, with an expression that he was about to kill a person and throw the goblet with a slight wine contained to the messenger in response for his seething anger and frustration.
"damn it!, how useless are you people, you can't even do a simple job?! How dare you let does human scum off, go after them or else you will pay the price for your moronic irresponsibility!"
"y-yes" the messenger quickly left out of fear of losing his life if when arrolyth suddenly plunged him with a spear, just like what happened to the previous people.
But somehow he did not.
Luckily, he lived for another day. That was he thought so. But who knows if he is lucky or not.
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Extra info:
On the north- western side, Gaia mountain is a rocky and full of minerals mountain, gnomish and dwarven kingdoms often have expedition in this place, this mountain is also full of landscape dangers, quicksand, rockfall and falling debris, although the geography isn't much the danger itself, be wary, this place got tons of monstrous predators like gigantic cave spiders and dangerous monster made of stones like golems, there is also a lot of mines in here and dudbears is quite a helper in partnering with dwarves and gnomes in mining. Ancient giants also dwells in this field, like frost giants. The region it in is comprise with deserts and mountains.
Another on the North-Western mountain, the Sky Mountain, a windy mountain with dragons reins sovereign in this place, whirlwinds often happens in this place and magically floating islands is manifested in this place, it is also impossible to cross the upper part of this mountain due to the extremely strong wind that even the mightiest of the dragon race and the strongest can't even cross it, ancient gryphon also dwells in this place, the heavy wind pressure it gives is immeasurable, there is many flying creatures in this place, bladedancers and master swordsman trains their speed in this place, because monster with overlapping speed dwells in the meadow of each floating islands. Also sky mountain is the tallest mountain on par of the world tree.