Chapter 22 - Tactics (1/2)

Army size as stated in Lily's POV is a mistake, should have been three hundred

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On our side of the battlefield Lily sat on the ground, her body clad in iron ar Across the field were Ereth and his are was very nervous as she toldpairs of swords and spears She also warned ainst another ar superior tactics The majority of their losses had been cohting further

Before this fight started other ar defeat and cutting their losses They were fearful of being er arainst Not every army in this tournament intended to win the crown, a fe this as a chance to hts

Over the past few days Lily had given hly 20 thousand coins froive ains she had n ave it to me to look after was that she are I was more than happy to take care of the money, and that it was safe in my hands

My banker skill still stubbornly refused to grantup tith only a reduced fee for changing the currencies of the carried coins I did try to experienerate rare coins and the like But I was unable to exploit it as it required me to know the currency I wanted to switch to, and the conversion fee left a bad taste in aining interest on my money?

But regardless of hts, I need to focus on the battle

Bending over Lily, I lightly touched the pieces of armor as I rapidly enchanted the the ravity Kane stood by me as I did so, and while I adroup

Sitting inside her enchanted armor, Lily was iht of the ar into the ground Kane however, he doesn't have such protection Enchanting his ar unable to move

Finished with my enchants on her armor, I left them both in the corner of the battlefield as Ia simple cotton shi+rt and thick blue pants with o safety, my chainmail was carried in one of the newly opened slots on the rare chance the situation changes

So I stood in the center of the battlefield, a large ar towards me from across the battlefield Their cos and wanted to pick me off first, which was fine withsquarish arain? phalanx?) the men were composed of archers, their bows held loosely by their sides as they marched

The bows seemed to be taller than the ones I had seen previously in this world and I wondered idly if they were intended for distance Perhaps heclose combat? They've seen how proficient I was in close combat after all, and its not like I can open with a salvo of pebbles I mused

As I stood and watched the the spear in my hand with boredoh that I could see their costuauged Faintly I heard a voice yell a command, and as one the archers raised their bows and notched a arrow I heard another command, and the arroere released into the air

The sky above their arhtly as the wave of arrows soared through the air and with a slight grimace of pain I stood still as 8 arrows found their mark

HP -24

HP -22

Bleeding status, -7 HP a second

A total of 175 HP instantly lost, points of pain through h htly to have the arrow scrape down the side of

I could feel the urge to use the bloodlust aura coemy mind, I concentrated on the task at hand

I slowly began to walk forwards, my spear held limply in my hands as I stalked towards the another arrow to their bows, and I heard the coain as the skies were covered in arrows

HP -22

HP -25

Bleeding status, -6 HP a second

Another five arrows found theirinto the path of the least arrows It worked in my favor for them to see that I avoid their arrows, they would know that I' Lily is not the only path open to thee crowd of spectators today

As I approached the areneration struggling to keep up The bleeding would stop after a few seconds, but the sheer nuan to increase as the distance grew closer It wasn't until I hit a third of an to act properly, only 30 meters from their front lines

I hadn't been wearing a Gravity Cloak, and it was the work of an instant to apply one which vastly increased round sing me Almost as if on cue, the archers released another wave of arrows at e the majority of them

The mass was far too much

HP -4

HP -2

HP -3

Roughly 23 arrows pattered overblinded Tiny pricks of pain coveredto shreds as the arrows bounced off Gingerly opening hly 100 HP with none of the arrows visually seee re health yes, but I wasn't exactly worried My health regen is 23 HP per second and the da debuff

112 DMG

The screaroup theyat the air as I casually moved backwards for every step they took Another second later, I stabbed anotherin pain as his comrades roared maddened

I stopped playing with the out their feet and when I saw an exposed area I stabbed the round I tried not to kill, but sometimes I didn't realize that I had stabbed thisspot on their bodies

At this point, I had not yet activated my aura

Thirty er a part of the battle as the ar to each other for reassurance No longer did they come after an to back away, and it wasn't until a sudden burst of movement that I realized Those yells in the air, they were retreating The et away from me

It eird, I didn't think they had tried to fight me seriously, they didn't seem sufficiently terrified either They were scared yes, also unwilling to fight me But terrified to the point they had to escape? It didn't strike anised retreat either, instead everyfor himself Was this what Lily had told me about earlier? Does he intend to place distance between us then wearthey were ineffective?