In his field of vision, the Wolf Cavalier waving the net in his hand suddenly disappeared.
Sarota's expression was extremely stunned at this moment. He even suspected that he was hallucinating. Because the team had spread out at this time, the distance between each other was more than four to five meters. Therefore, the gap after the Orc suddenly disappeared was particularly obvious.
Where did he go?
Sarota felt that he seemed to have encountered several incredible things in succession today. He couldn't help but be in a daze.
While he was thinking, another Wolf Cavalier suddenly fell to the ground not far from him. There were no arrows or attacks. After looking carefully, Sarota's mouth twitched as he discovered that this tribal warrior had actually fallen into the half-meter-deep puddle because his wolf had missed a step!
Puddle …?
A light suddenly flashed across his mind. He suddenly raised his head and immediately understood the reason. His team had actually been led into the swamp area by those humans unknowingly!
The swamp area was somewhat different from the grassland. The most important thing was that there were various traps that were difficult to detect here. After the continuous heavy rain, there were ash pits of different depths here. Some were only more than ten centimeters deep, some were more than one meter or even several meters deep. There were even ponds that were more than ten meters deep!
For the Orcs, such an area was extremely dangerous. Because in the process of running at high speed, no one could react to how deep the seemingly small puddle in front of them was. If they couldn't avoid it and stepped in, if they were lucky, they might be able to walk through it. If they were unlucky, it would be the situation that the Orcs encountered just now.
After understanding this, Sarota immediately understood the cunning intentions of these humans.
"Gather the team! Follow them! "
Looking at the skillful posture of those humans shuttling through these puddles in a long line, Sarota immediately made the only suitable response even though he didn't understand how they accurately found a path that could allow them to travel together quickly.
However, unavoidable things still happened. Because the team had scattered too far before, when the Wolf Cavalier team tried to regroup and finally carried out Sarota's order, more than 15 people had fallen into the puddle in various positions and were completely separated from the team.
Originally, they should have directly caught up with and killed the opponent, but now, there were unexpected complications. Sarota was a little anxious because he knew that the effect of "Bloodlust" only had about 20 seconds left, but the team's current speed was slightly slowed down due to the crowding. What made Sarota even more unbearable was that the human holding the short bow in front seemed to have noticed their weakness of not being able to counterattack. He actually turned around and shot an arrow directly through the chest of the Orc charging at the forefront!
The Wolf Cavalier who couldn't dodge in time of the huge force of the horn bow fell backward. As he fell to the ground, he was directly trampled into meat paste by the wolf that followed closely behind!
In order to avoid him, several Wolf Cavaliers simultaneously deviated from this route and fell into unidentifiable puddles on the side.
It was a mess. It was a complete mess.
I can't catch up, I can't scatter, and I can't hit him. Sarota was angry at first, but then he felt a chill for no reason. He realized that he seemed to have been tricked by the opponent from the beginning to the end. It was just a chase, and more than 20 Wolf Cavaliers had been reduced by more than 70 people. Moreover, the human who brought up the rear was still shooting arrows non-stop. It was almost as if each arrow was fatal!
In such a situation, because he didn't have any long-range attack skills, Sarota only felt a sincere sense of powerlessness.
However, something even more unexpected happened later. Just as the team was getting closer, the human team in front of them suddenly started to turn left. Because the team was long and narrow, the Orcs who were chasing after them immediately noticed their intentions. All of them got ready to turn left.
But just as they leaned sideways and prepared to let the wolf turn left, the guy at the rear of the scout team suddenly separated from the team alone and suddenly ran in the opposite direction to the right!
This situation caught the Orcs off guard. When Sarota saw this, he immediately understood that the other party was deliberately creating a multiple-choice question to make him hesitate. While he secretly cursed the other party for being cunning, he didn't hesitate and immediately made a decision —
"Those who rush over, don't look back. Those behind, follow me. Kill the guy who shot the arrow!"
While there were still about ten seconds left for the Bloodlust spell, Sarota didn't believe that his troops couldn't do anything to these guys who didn't even bring their weapons!
His prestige and dominance were undoubtedly evident at this moment. The Wolf Cavaliers immediately executed his orders. The more than 40 Wolf Cavaliers in front continued to chase the human scouts, while Sarota and the remaining eight Orcs followed behind Roddy.
It was as if a rushing stream of water was suddenly divided into two. One was the 29 scouts and more than 40 Wolf Cavaliers, and the other was Roddy, Sarota, and the eight Orcs behind him.
"It's about to start …"
Sodelor, who was charging at the front, turned his head and whispered. He saw Roddy's figure gradually disappear into the mist that rose from the depths of the swamp. His mind was thinking about the knowledge that Roddy had just taught him in the morning and the route that he wanted him to memorize. He knew very well that how to deal with the more than 40 Wolf Cavaliers behind him was almost entirely up to him.
The sound of the warhorses panting from running for a long time echoed in the surroundings. The soldiers' faces were tense. Although they understood that this was a plan made in advance, the anxiety in their hearts was unavoidable.
"Keep up! Don't fall behind! "
Sodelor's reminder made them look forward seriously. Speaking of which, most of the soldiers didn't have anything else in front of them except for the constantly swaying back and forth of their teammates in front of them. However, the dull sound of the wolves behind them made them remember that this was a cruel battle that involved life and death.
At this moment, no one dared to look around. The entire team seemed to have gathered as one and rapidly passed through the pitfalls of the swamp. Sodelor, who was in the lead, constantly adjusted his direction. He looked at the pools in front of him that didn't have any discernible pattern. His mind desperately recalled what Roddy said in the morning, and he loudly issued orders. "Turn left! Then turn right! "
The 29 scouts stared at the back of their companions in front of them. Like a swimming snake in the swamp, they began to turn continuously.
In just a few seconds, the Wolf Cavaliers, who had almost caught up to the scouts, suddenly began to greatly slow down. The side effects of the Bloodlust spell finally began to show!
"Continue! Don't stop. Don't look back! "
Hearing the footsteps of the wolf behind him gradually become softer, Sodelor finally heaved a sigh of relief. However, he didn't let down his guard. He loudly commanded the team to shuttle through the narrow path and gradually shake off the Orcs behind them …
Even so, the Wolf Cavaliers at the back didn't give up. They understood that in this situation where the terrain was restricting them, a 'small' mistake from the humans who were bearing the risk in front would definitely cause them to lose the entire game!
What they had to do now was to follow behind these humans and 'reap the benefits'. The Wolf Cavaliers didn't believe that … in such a large swamp, the humans wouldn't make a single mistake!
That was something that Orcs who had lived their entire lives on the grassland couldn't do.
But even though they were looking forward to it, the situation they expected didn't happen. The humans in front of them kept turning left, right, left, and right without any pattern at all. In order not to fall into the inexplicable puddle, the Wolf Cavaliers carefully followed the tracks of their warhorses. But because of their reduced speed, they could only watch as the scouts gradually widened the distance between them and them.
When the distance between them widened, the Wolf Cavaliers couldn't identify the tracks of the horses' hooves on the puddles to begin with. What made them even more depressed was that when the distance between the two sides widened by nearly 100 meters, the Wolf Cavaliers at the front discovered that the swamp road, which was originally full of hoofprints, had suddenly become completely unrecognizable due to the appearance of a large shallow puddle!
"Oh no!"
Just as the Wolf Cavaliers at the front had this thought, the mount wolf beneath them took a step in the air. Their entire body uncontrollably plunged into the puddle in front of them that looked no different from before, but was in fact more than a meter deep!
Immediately after that, a series of spluttering sounds rang out. Because the Wolf Cavaliers had taken the wrong path, almost half of them plunged into the small puddle-like puddle. The Wolf Cavaliers who tried to dodge tried to slow down, but they still inevitably entered the swamp where they didn't know the way out. Their mount wolf's claws inevitably sank into the mud.
In the end, only 16 Wolf Cavaliers were lucky enough to step on the relatively solid mud and stop. When they looked around, they discovered that the remaining 24 of their teammates had all fallen into the puddle. One by one, they sank into the mud and couldn't move.
An Orc jumped down from his mount and wanted to pull his mount wolf out, but found that both his legs were also trapped in the mud.
An Orc desperately crawled out of the puddle. Perhaps it was because there were very few ponds or water sources in the Orc Kingdom, and most of them didn't know how to swim. Even a waist-deep puddle still gave him an inexplicable sense of fear. Fortunately, his natural strength helped a lot. After using his scimitar to struggle for a long time, he finally found a shallow pool. After drinking a few mouthfuls of the smelly swamp water, the Orc was just about to use it to get up when his expression suddenly changed.
"There's something down there! What is this — what is this thing!? "
He desperately kicked his legs, but his body couldn't move even an inch towards the shallow pool that was right in front of him. His shout was filled with undisguised panic and fear, and then it turned into a scream of pain.
"Damn it! What is this? "
He desperately swung the scimitar in his hand at the bottom of his body, but he couldn't see what made him so terrified in the muddy water. Just as an Orc next to him got out of the mud and crawled over to him to pull him over, the struggling Orc suddenly cried out in pain, and then his whole body was dragged into the water without any warning!
Bubbles appeared, and the Orc next to him froze in place. His outstretched hand hung in the air, but he could no longer find the figure of his companion.
"What the hell is going on —"
Not far away, an Orc whose legs were stuck in the mud wanted to say something, but his body suddenly trembled, and then he fell into the shallow pool in fear, screaming as he was dragged down.
The six Orcs standing there were dumbfounded. They tried to help, but they found that one by one, their comrades were dragged into the water by the unknown monster in the water. Even the mount wolves that couldn't escape in time were not spared!
In less than a minute, more than 20 Orcs who were struggling in the pool disappeared without a trace, leaving only 16 Orcs standing where they were, looking around in vain. They were so scared that they didn't even dare to move.
"What? What should we do? "
One of the Orcs stared stiffly at the bloodless swamp around him. The fear in his heart had reached an extreme, and even his legs were trembling slightly.
"Go back the way we came. Let's go back the way we came — "
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