Lord Of Puppets-Chapter 186 – Golems’ Counter Attack – Part 2.

Chapter 186: Chapter 186 – Golems’ Counter Attack – Part 2.

The battle rages on.

The first wave of the golems, the earth golems, a weird golems made out of earth that possessed abnormal defense as well as self-restorative ability.

These golems acted like the meat shields meant to open up path for the golems behind them.

However, their path was blocked off.

The adventurers had at first solid problem against the wall of golems that was approaching them, but thanks to the gunpowder barrels, the golem army’s march straight up came to a halt, allowing the adventurers to gain some room to breathe.

But unfortunately, the second wave of golems had already left the forest and were heading their way.

"BARRIERS! NOW!" – shouted cat beastwoman, ordering the mages to deploy their barriers as the hail of crossbow bolts began flying out of the forest and towards the camp.

Thanks to the adventurers being ready, they were somewhat able to deal with a majority of the crossbow bolts that came their way.

However, right as the hail of crossbow continued, a ballista bolts also flew out of the forest, shattering the walls of earth as well as defensive line of the adventurers, resulting in several people getting injured.

"AHHHHHH! MY ARM! MY FUCKING ARM!" – shouted the soldier who had his entire arm ripped off by the ballista bolt.

"SHIT! MEDICS! MEDISC!" – shouted the human knight as he was dragging away the injured people from the barricade.

"KEEP THESE BASTARD OCCUPIED! SLOW THEM DOWN!" – shouted the giant armored adventurer as he and several frontliners were stopping in tracks the golems from reaching the camp.

"FIRE THE NEXT VOLLEY! SLOW DOWN THE ONES BEHIND THE EARTH GOLEMS WHILE WE HAVE A CHANCE!" – shouted a mage as a rain of spells came down at the second wave of golems, damaging them.... But not stopping them.

"Shit! These bastard are barely slow down by this?!" – said the nervous dwarven knight.

"..."

"KEEP FIRING ANYWAY! WE NEED TO STALL THEM A BIT IN ORDER TO HAVE THEM STACK UP! WE NEED TO FAL-" – shouted dwarven knight before then turning towards the forest and seeing a ballista bolt, coming straight towards him.

The dwarven knight had no time to react as the projectile came his way.... And then hit.

"..."

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However, it didn’t hit him. It instead hit the soldier right next to him, before then piercing several other people.

The dwarf survived the shot, but he saw the brutal remains of the soldiers and adventurers that were pierced by the giant ballista bolt.

"H-help....Me...." – said the half-dead soldier who had his side ripped open by the giant ballista bolt, causing his organs to straight up fall out right in front of the dwarven knight face.

"GET DOWN!" – shouted the young adventurer as he tackled down the dwarven knight as the hail of crossbow bolts came their way.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!? GET A FUCKING GRIP!" – shouted the young adventurer at the dwarven knight.

"Fuck! Hey! Mages! Can’t you fucking do something about this shit?!" – shouted the young adventurer.

"Do you think we can?! Putting half assed walls won’t stop these ballistae! Tanks need to deal with them!" – shouted the panicking mage.

"Nah. Let me." – said the guild master Amelia Smith as she stepped forward, and tabbed the ground with her staff, causing a magic circle to appear, which then shoot out several thick vines from the ground, that upon making their appearance began instantly wrapping themselves together, forming a wall that blocked off the second volley of shots.

"!"

"W-WHY THE HELL YOU DIDN’T THAT EARYL!?" – shouted the dwarven knight as he somewhat regained his focus.

"Because I was dealing with them!" – said the guild master as she pointed at the earth golems, who had several roots attached to their legs, which hindered their movement.

"I’m doing the best I freaking can! Do you really think I can do everything on my own!? If I could deal with these golems all on my own, then why the fuck are you here!" – shouted the guild master as she started walking past the dwarf.

"REINFORCE THE DEFENCES! EVEN IF IT WON’T STOP BALLISTAE BOLTS, IT COULD AT LEAST REDUCE THEIR POWER A BIT AND SAVE SOME LIVES! SO DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE STOP REINFORCING THESE WALLS!"

"DON’T USE GUNPOWDER BARRLES YET! HAVE THE SECOND WAVE OF MONSTER GROUP WITH THE FIRST! BLOW THEM ALL THE HELL UP!"

"Yes guild master!" – replied beast-human adventurer.

"..."

"Tch."

(This isn’t looking good.) – thought guild master as she looked at the multiple bodies that were attached to the ballista bolt.

(Forget the frontliners, the back liners are the real trouble!)

(As long as these freaking golems are on the loses, then we will keep suffering some heavy damage to our defenses... And possible to our own forces.)

(Should we retreat?) – thought the guild master as she saw the frontliners managing to keep the earth golems in tracks, not letting them approach the camp, while the mages and archers were able to fire their attacks at the second wave of golems, hindering them while also reinforcing the defensive line with magic.

(No. We are still holding our position!)

(As long as we play this correctly then we will.)

"FRONTLINERS! BACK AWAY FROM THE EARTH GOLEMS!" – shouted the guild mater.

"RANGERS! LET THE SECOND WAVE COME CLOSER! YOU STALLED LONG ENOUGH! FIRE AT THE GOLEMS IN THE FOREST! WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR LONG-RANGE GOLEMS!" – shouted the guild master, instantly causing the adventurers to change up their strategy.

"[Plant Magic: Nature Grasp]!" – while the adventurers retreated, the guild master once again used her magic, causing several roots to emerge from the ground and wrap themselves around the earth golems’ legs who were in front of the group, effectively hindering the movement of all the golems behind them.

(Common! Come to mama you fucking dolls!) – thought the guild master as the pieces of her plan started slowly coming together.

(Once the second wave gets to you, all of you will get blow sky high!)

"..."

"..."

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"Eh?"

"W-what is going on?" – said confused adventurer as out of nowhere, all of the golems suddenly stopped in their tracks.

Not only the earth golems, but the second wave of golems stopped AND the crossbow wielding golems stopped firing their shots.

Suddenly, all of the golems just... Stopped?

"..."

"What the fuck is going on?" – said confused guild master who was in full alert mode, while all the adventurers and soldiers just stared confused, not knowing what was going on.

"..."

"!"

"THEY ARE MOVING AGAIN!" – shouted the soldier as the golems once against started moving... But something was off once again."

They started walking away from the camp.

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"G-GUILD MASTER!" – shouted the soldier.

"T-the golems! They are r-retreating?!" - said confused soldiers as the adventurers just at the army of monsters just started leaving the area.

"I can see that!" – said the conflicted guild master.

(What is going on?!) – though the guild master who had her guard up.

(They are leaving?!)

(But they were about to reach the camp!)

"DON’T JUST STAND THERE! TAKE DOWN THE GOLEMS THAT ARE TRYING TO BREAK FREE!" – shouted the dwarven knight as he took charge, leading the soldiers and frontliners to attack the golems which were breaking out from the guild master’s trap.

"!"

"LOOK OUT!" – shouted the giant armored adventurer as he used his massive shield to cover the dwarven knight from the hail of bolts.

"CAREFUL!" – shouted the giant adventurer.

"THEY ARE FUCKING STILL SHOOTING AT US!"

"So what?! We can’t fucking let these ones escape! Nu-uh!" – shouted the bear beastwoman as she charged at the earth golems that just broke free from their restrains.

"Tch! Fucking bitch!" – shouted the giant adventurer.

The golems... Retreated.

The first, second and the third wave which did not even came out of the forest.... Just turned around and left.

While the golems were leaving, the crossbow wielding golems continued firing their attacks, giving sometime to the golems to retreat.

The first of the golems, the earth golems, also retreat right as they were underneath their base.

Some of who were trapped by the guild master were hunted down.... But those who had escaped were let go, as the guild master did not wanted the adventurers to go after them, fearing that there could be a possible trap laying inside of the forest.

...

And just like that, the night raid came to the end.

"..."

"What the fuck is going on?" – said the guild master in disbelieve as she stared at the group of adventurers that were coming back from checking out the forest.

"We checked... There was nothing." – said the adventurer with bandana.

"The golems completely left the edge of the forest."

"..."

"And traps?" – asked the guild master.

"Non." – replied the adventurer.

"..."

"What the fuck is going on here?" – asked the guild master as right next to her stood the member of the Silver Talon party who warned the camp about army of golems.

"I.... I don’t know." – replied party member A of the Silver Talons party.

"As I’ve said before, I saw large number of golems coming here, probably their entire army...."

"You say that, but what the fuck was that?!" – shouted the guild master.

"Why did they retreated?! If they really came here at full power, then why did they stopped!?"

"If they really came here with their entire army, they should had charged in!"

(It doesn’t make any sense!) – thought the guild master.

(They came here with a clear intent of destroying our camp!)

(They killed several of our people!)

(The way these golems moved wasn’t something random beasts would do!)

(Just what the hell was their aim here?!)

"...’

(No. Think this through.)

(Why did they retreated suddenly in the first place?)

(Were they ordered to?)

(If so.... That means the dungeon master was observing the entire fight.... But what if the golems were instead instructed to retreat if specific conditions are met?)

(Shit. That doesn’t give confirmation regarding the dungeon mater’s vision.)

(....Let’s ignore this one and focus on other thing.)

(Why?)

(Why would they retreat? No matter if it was order or condition, there is meaning behind their action.... But what is it?)

(Entire army.... Yet they retreated....)

(Did they got scared?)

(Were they not planning on having too big losses?)

(Or did-)

"..."

"Wait a second." – said the guild master as her expression instantly changed to that of pure fear.

(WE DID THAT!)

(The attack and run tactic! We were the ones that did that first!)

(Those bastards!)

(Did they just mimicked us?!)