Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 347

Chapter 347: Group Fight

After the grand funeral, Moramatch returned to calm . Unfortunately, people could not have peace in their heart . No matter whether mercenaries were carefree or ambitious, they all tried to practice as much as they could . They hoped they could improve and be able to survive the battle when death spirits attacked them next time . In Moramatch, training became a habit .

They did not expect the large body of death spirits to suddenly disappear for over a month . They could only see several zombies here and there, wandering outside of town . Every time they showed up, the mercenaries who had pent-up anger would rush out and killed the zombies like cutting melons to vent their anger .

Everybody knew the number of death spirits was enormous . Even though they were in a time of peace, everyone was still alert for any potential dangers .

One day, Anfey brought Suzanna and the Shadow mercenary couple to watch Kumaraghosha train his mercenaries . In fact, both parties suffered from this training . The mercenaries did not enjoyed the training . The formation training was boring . They did not think standing straight or walking in formation was helpful for real wars . Kumaraghosha suffered even more . He could not figure out why these mercenaries would be so stupid . They looked pretty smart, but they messed up the cavalry formation really bad in the training . The mercenaries looked like wild animals . Some went straight forward and knocked others down like bulls, while others jumped around like monkeys . Some mercenaries went out of formation and ran in either direction . They looked like two packs of wolves, running in different directions . Kumaraghosha knew in real battles it was necessary to surround the enemy, but it should be done by cavalries in formation . The mercenaries’ job was to hold the defense line and destroy the enemy’s strength .

Kumaraghosha was experienced in battle, but he was a little too old-fashioned . Mercenaries were good at fighting with a freer styles . Even when their formation was broken by magic beasts, they could form another formation with a few other mercenaries and start another strike . They had a main force, main defense and cooperation, but having hundreds of them repeat one move over and over again was too hard . Kumaraghosha was training them wrong . To motivate the mercenaries, he decided to reward the winners by allowing them to eat the losers’ food . Since the food was being rationed, the losers had to eat left-over soup and rice . In the first drill, the party in formation was defeated by the party with free-style fighting . After having no food for a day, these mercenaries realized there was no point to keeping in formation . They needed to use all the skills they had to fight for their lives .

The battle training was a real mess . The wood swords had lime powder on them . According to the rules, if they were hit and had lime on their bodies, this mercenary would be considered dead and needed to step of the battlefield . Some people simply did not follow the rules just for a good dinner . The opponents were angry when they saw these mercenaries not following the protocols . They copied them and stopped following the protocols as well . When there was one mercenary not following the rules, there would be more following that one . It should have been a hard-fought battle, but some did not leave the field after being hit with the wood sword, especially the strong ones . They would rush everywhere, with clothes turning white with lime, but they still swung their swords on the field . If this were a real battlefield, they would only be able to act this way if they were grandmaster swordsmen .

Long and Ling were laughing so hard that they could not keep themselves straight . This was not a fight drill . It was a fight between two groups of gangsters . Luckily, they were not allowed to use combat power, otherwise there would have been big casualties .

The Anfey broke into a smile after he took a look at that couple . He never asked them to join any group . He provided accommodations for free . The couple felt bad and asked to take on some tasks themselves . Anfey turned their offers down by pointing to their injuries . In fact, he was saving them for more important tasks . If they could hide next to zombies and not being noticed, it showed they had some special effect . They were the perfect candidates for scouts . Anfey currently had mage group to on patrol, so he did not need the couple to do anything yet . However, there would be a time when they would be needed .

Kumaraghosha looked defeated when he walked over . He had given up . At least he gave up for the day . He just let the mercenaries fight without any drilling . He walked up to Anfey and said in a low voice, "Master, they might be good mercenaries, but they would never be good soldiers . I am sorry that I let you down . "

"Kumaraghosha, I think you misunderstood me," Anfey said . "I asked you to train them, but did not want you to train them to become something other than they are . I wanted you to make them better at what were good at . "

"Their strength? This is their strength," Kumaraghosha said, pointing and smiling bitterly .

Anfey shook his head . You have been in the military for a long time and have a different way of doing things than they do . I have an idea . Let’s talk about it tonight . "

"What a chaotic scene . Are they fighting again?" Alice walked over with a smile . There was a sparkling item in her hand .

"Alice, what do you have in your hand?" Anfey asked out of curiosity .

"It is a crossbow made by dwarves . " Alice passed the crossbow to Anfey .

"When did dwarves learn to make crossbows?" Kumaraghosha asked in surprise . Crossbows had been existence for a long time but were not popular . People did not like them since they thought crossbows were shameless weapons . They had such power that a starving beggar could cause damage to knights, swordsmen and mages with crossbows . Kings in many countries liked this weapon a lot . Because of their support, they argued that crossbows did not be banned . The skill of making crossbows improved .

"Don’t underestimate dwarves . They are the smartest craftsmen," Alice said slowly . "Master, would you like to try it?"

Anfely looked around and picked a wall as his target . He was familiar with crossbows . Even though there was a big difference in how they were made in this world and his previous world, they had a lot in common . Anfey pulled the trigger . The arrow shot out with a sharp whooping sound and hit directly into the wall .

With a gust of white smoke, the arrow got visibly softer . It turned into bright red liquid and dripped down against the wall . Where the bright red liquid dripped, it made sizzling sounds .

"Is it a magic arrow?" Kumaraghosha said, wide-eyed . He felt a slight magic surge .

"Yes, unfortunately, Hagan is not here," Alice sighed . "We have so many mages . If we had Hagan’s help, we could make much better magic arrows . Dwarves only have very basic alchemy . This is the best they could do . "

Anfey nodded . "This is not bad . "

"Far from being good, master," Alice heaved a sigh . "Magic arrows have splashing shooting ability . This was a low-level one . "

"Better than nothing . " Anfey thought a moment and said, "Suzanna, if someone hit you with this kind of crossbow, could it cause any damage to you?"

Suzanna shook her head . Alice smiled . "Master, you are way underestimating senior swordsmen . Only well-made magic arrows could pose any threat to Ms . Suzanna . "

"What if thousands of people attacked you with crossbows?" Anfey asked .

"I am not stupid . I would not stand there and wait for them to hit me," Suzanna said .

A dwarf excitedly ran toward them . When he was about a dozen yards away, he raised something high . "Master, we made it . "

There was a crossbow in the dwarf’s hands . It looked a lot smaller, only as big as the hand . Alice nodded . "Bring it over and let master take a look . "

The dwarf had only taken one step when some something flew over from the battlegrounds . A wood sword flew off in a fight . That wood sword arched through the air and hit the dwarf in the back of the head . That dwarf stumbled . With a sharp whooping sound, the crossbow in the dwarf’s hand shot out .

The dwarf had been walking toward Anfey, so the arrow shot in the direction of Anfey . Alice stepped forward, but she was not a swordswoman and was not good with magic either . A woman without any combat power or magic power could not react quickly . By the time she reacted, the arrow had passed her . Kumaraghosha tried to pull his sword out, but the sword was not there . He had taken it off at the drill . Only Suzanna reacted the fast . As her sword was already thrust half way, she paused because Anfey had grabbed that arrow with his bare hand .

Everybody looked stunned . It was not that a big deal for Anfey to catch an arrow with his bare hand . What shocked them was that the arrow quietly stayed on Anfey’s palm without any change . It did not make sense, since it was a magic arrow .

Anfey turned his hand over and let his fingers go . The arrow fell on the ground and turned into bright red liquid instantly . The ground, covered with hard yellow dirt, was burned with a long, deep ditch .

Everybody went silent . Long and Ling stood still, their mouths gaping . What Anfey had done did not make sense . It seemed to them that this could only happen in a legend . Suzanna still looked normal . She knew the secret between Anfey and little Shally . Anfey asked Shally to attack him with magic at the beginning, later he got bolder and tried to take control of Shally’s fireballs . Little Shally felt she was bullied, and told Suzanna on Anfey . Anfey actions showed his improved ability to control fireballs had helped him here .