The lizardmen were completely dumbfounded.
They were like the human villagers who were ambushed in the beginning. The warriors in the village were slaughtered one by one, and the elderly, women, and children screamed in terror. There were also some lizardmen who had their bestial instincts stimulated as they charged forward, but they were killed by crossbows before they could even get close. The Whiterun Guards were a well-trained army. Their levels might not be high, and they were no match for adventurers of the same level in a one-on-one fight, but once they formed a battle formation, their strength would increase exponentially.
Conservatively speaking, there were at least 100 warriors who used shields and short swords to defend and counterattack. They pushed forward bit by bit along the village, while the light infantry behind them took care of the survivors. No matter if they were old, weak, women, or children, they were all killed mercilessly. Just like how the lizardmen didn't have the slightest bit of sympathy for the women and children when they first ambushed them, they might let the elderly and children go when they were fighting among their own kind. However, when it came to interracial warfare, there was no mercy.
If the lizardmen children weren't killed, they would grow up with hatred in their hearts. If the women and children weren't killed, they would give birth to more children.
Conflicts between different races were a competition for survival space. Humans weren't as strong as they thought, and they still kept their primitive ways of dealing with other races. That was to kill as many of them as possible, until they didn't dare to approach human settlements, and until they remembered the consequences of their own kind's retaliation when they ambushed ordinary people.
Otherwise, the villages outside Whiterun wouldn't be able to survive for long. From time to time, other monsters would try to take advantage of them.
After all, humans were the most intelligent creatures in the world when it came to farming!
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Søren and Yass took a detour to the back of the village.
To their surprise, they didn't see the leader of the lizardmen. Søren suddenly thought of the Druil he killed. Could it be that he was the leader of the lizardmen?
It was very likely because spellcasters had a very high status.
If the depraved Druil was the leader, then the lizardmen probably hadn't chosen a new leader yet. Without a powerful spellcaster to suppress them, the lizardmen would compete with each other among their own kind, and only then would the strongest and smartest of them inherit the position of leader.
"Here!" Yass's search skill seemed to be very high. Although there was no leader for them to ambush, they still found the leader's house.
Søren quietly followed behind them and slit the throat of one of the lizardmen with his scimitar. They found a box in the room, filled with various coins of varying value, as well as some emeralds and jewels. These were the spoils of war that the lizardmen obtained from attacking other creatures. They rarely had the means to spend these things, so they would often store them. Occasionally, some daring merchants would trade with them if they were not afraid of being swallowed whole.
Yass opened the box and glanced inside. Then, he secretly gestured to Søren behind him and said in a low voice, "Half each."
Søren nodded and took out the items. The two of them quickly split the loot and put the treasures into their own multi-dimensional bags. The battle was led by the Whiterun Guards, so they didn't take everything. They only took the most valuable items and put in the less valuable ones. Adventurers were naturally greedy. They split the most valuable jewels with Kindler and kept some silver thalers for themselves, as well as some other random items.
When the Whiterun Guards cleaned up the battlefield, they would at most think that the lizardmen were poor.
Anyway, there were other places where they could find more valuable items. The two of them obtained quite a lot of good things. Although there were no rare items, each of them had about three to five hundred Kindler coins. Perhaps it was because they had shared the loot together, but after taking the loot, they smiled at each other and felt closer to each other.
They returned from the other side and pretended to hunt the lizardmen, but they didn't join the main battle.
Half of the White Horse Guards had mastered the defensive ability [Defend While Attack], which was a high-level defensive skill that allowed them to block attacks with their shields and counterattack with their medium weapons at the same time. The White Horse Guards were able to use the defensive ability [Defend While Attack], which was a high-level defensive and counterattack skill. If they mastered [Attack in Defense in Defense], they could also use long weapons to counterattack. For example, Captain Hanks, who was fully armored.
Søren killed the lizardmen one by one. Ordinary lizardmen didn't give much Slaughter EXP. Adults only gave about a hundred, and the elderly, women, and children didn't give more than thirty. However, he didn't show any mercy. These lizardmen had slaughtered human women and children in front of him. How could he show mercy to these monsters now? In just a short while, more than ten lizardmen had died at his hands. The battle at the front was about to end. Some of the lizardmen surrendered out of despair, but the Whiterun Guards had no intention of taking them as captives. They simply pierced their hearts with their short swords.
In some places near the sea, such captives would be needed as part of the gladiator arena. However, Whiterun didn't have such a tradition. Instead, it was more common to kill foreign captives. Whiterun was considered an ancient human city. It was able to survive for so long under the influence of various races, and many important traditions had been preserved.
It took less than half an hour to defeat the lizardmen, but it took a lot of time to clean up the battlefield.
Although most of the lizardmen were killed, many of them managed to escape. There were more than two hundred lizardmen corpses on the ground, and about one-third of them had escaped from the village. After such a painful lesson, they wouldn't be able to recover for at least three to five years. Even if they attacked again in the future, it would only be small-scale attacks.
"Captain!" A Whiterun Guard kicked open the door and shouted, "There's a barn here!"
Hanks pulled out his bloodstained sword and walked over to take a look. "It should be the human village that was attacked recently. These guys moved into the wilderness to avoid paying taxes, but they lost their lives here. "
"How stupid!"
Obviously, he already believed that the original villagers had been slaughtered by the lizardmen, and that they were already in their stomachs.
There was still a lot of food in the barn, and if they had moved earlier, they wouldn't have left so much food behind. It seemed that after Søren left, the villagers either moved in a hurry or were killed by the lizardmen. Hanks felt that the first possibility was more likely. After being attacked, they probably didn't stay any longer. Maybe they left in a hurry and couldn't take everything with them. If that was the case, the lizardmen launched a second attack before they left.
That night, the lizardmen were scared away by spells, and most of their strength was still intact.
Hanks could tell from the corpses on the ground that there were at least one or two hundred lizardmen who could still fight.
There were still sounds of fighting coming from all directions.
The Whiterun Guards split up into groups of three to clean up the battlefield. Their tradition was to leave one person behind to cover them.
It was unknown when the wizard had put away the golems. These alchemy golems consumed a lot of energy, and they were rarely used as a regular fighting force outside of the wizard tower. If moving an army would burn money, then moving a golem would burn gems. Their operating principle was the Alchemy of Equivalent Exchange. Due to the loss of certain advanced magical energy techniques, the golems were in a static state most of the time.
The soldiers found spoils of war from all over the place. According to the unspoken rules of the army, they would keep half of the spoils, and the other half would be given to them as a reward after the battle. Hanks divided the spoils of war among Søren, Yass, and the gray robed wizard. The three of them didn't refuse and naturally accepted the spoils. After that, they distributed the spoils. Every warrior got a decent amount of loot, and these were their spoils of war.
A row of data appeared in front of Søren's eyes:
"The battle is over."
"Your skills have improved during the battle! You have learned some skills from other people's battles! … "
"Block + 5, Parry + 1."
"You have a slight understanding of the combat ability [Defend and Attack]! … "
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He actually got a notification about the combat ability?
Søren was quite surprised. [Defend and Attack] was a relatively basic defensive ability, but it shouldn't be that easy to get a notification about it.
Could it be because of his Encyclopedic Knowledge?
Søren tried to recall and realized that he really did remember the defensive counterattack skills of those warriors.
[Defend, Attack] was a relatively basic ability that could be trained through conventional means. Its function was to defend and counterattack. Using the moment of parrying and blocking, it could shift the opponent's attack in a similar way, and then launch a counterattack at the same time. This ability had a prerequisite of parry and block. If one didn't have more than 100 points in parry and block, they wouldn't be able to train it even if they got the notification. This was because even if one remembered the combat skill, they wouldn't be able to learn it if they didn't have the corresponding parry ability.
A similar ability was [Dual-wielding Defense]. This ability had a higher requirement of parry and required more than 150 points in parry.
"I don't have time to train parry now. I'll have to find another opportunity in the future." Søren looked at the others and nodded at Yass who wasn't far away. The two of them began to return as if nothing had happened.
They should be able to get close to the ogre's territory by tomorrow.
The battle on the plains was the key. Only by driving away the ogres could the trade route to Whiterun be reopened.
A direct battle.
These adventurers also had to provide cover for the army.
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