15 Sneak

It took a short pause before the ones in front of the two men continued their noises and then also silenced by just a raised right hand.

The Troll Leader chuckled a bit, "Now where are those assumed companions of yours?", there was still uneasiness in his mind, but the question of the other party lighten his mood.

"Why would we tell you?", The young man asked mockingly," but I'll give you a chance...I advice you to check your place right now".

" Do you think we're stupid, what if we'll just kill both of you right now," the troll leader took offence," Rain both of them with arrows!".

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"Is that young man stupid? now he brought Zorin together to his death, and Zorin allowed it".

"You're not the only one who saw how strong these bandits are, why do you think we're attacking at night."

The reason why there's only Zorin and Hanzo in the front gate was so that the others can attack separate directions, even pinning the enemy in the process. They know it was risky, there's a possibility of success but having two of them still alive after the fight is almost impossible.

"That's why we have to go faster," one of the twelve men successfully hooked his rope to the wooden wall. He knew it was inappropriate to sneer at his comrades, but he involuntarily did.

He started climbing the wall after succeeding in testing if his hook will hold, tightly holding his rope in every step joined with a grunt he reached the top of the wall then felt a chill on his spine, he nearly died.

"Idiot," the others noticed the careless rise of their comrade.

The man looked to all directions possible, "lucky," he sighed on relief after noticing no one was nearby, in fact, it was empty of people, and he had an idea where those are.

"Guys!".

"Whore shit! don't shout, you'll get us killed".

"No.... it seems all of them are in the front gate, not even servants are roaming the place", some servants did go to the front gate, their freedom is limited, but there's still is, other servants not present there should be in their prison cells.

There should be a joyful expression from the faces of the twelve men that they just escaped possible failure and even death, but then they remembered Zorin and Hanzo.

" If all the Trolls have gathered there then-."

" I did it!", one of the men started climbing the wall after successfully hooking his own rope, " They will succeed because they say so and the trust they gave us should not be returned with disappointment, now get faster!", two of the men stayed on top of the wall helping the others climbed with their ropes.

It took less than a minute to climb down the wall to the inside, knowing that no danger is nearby they ran towards a specific direction, they pass through barracks, some closed rooms, the trolls' stable, their warehouse then they found one of their purposes.

"Is that you Gid?", one of the prisoners who saw the approaching men identified, "How did you get here?", All of them stood up, getting ready on what they're supposed to do, they've been staying in this cell for months with occasional exit if they're bandits needs and grew sick of it. Although they considered themselves somehow lucky, an old man was heavily coughing a week ago was executed just outside the cell, deemed him useless and made two other prisoners clean the mess up themselves.

"Everyone, we'll get you and get some weapons for you," the ones who brought an axe got ready to destroy the wooden walls.

A disappointment was seen on the faces inside the cell, " We never said we'll grant you freedom for free and we clearly don't accept other payments, I assume everyone wants to get out," Gid stares at the man who just called him seconds ago.

" I'll fight for my freedom," he spoke with full sincerity and did not bother looking at his prison mates, but he was slightly surprised when one after another, the rest agreed to.

"That's expected from you Hum, Now we don't want any of you to run after we broke down this, We'll tell you the plan later," the twelve had a joyful expression when the prisoners looked at them with determination.

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Arrows were released to the air, it was fast, but Zorin jumped forward in advance bringing himself the long axe he placed on the back of his seat, the trolls did not notice it because most of it was covered by his cloak, he tightly grasp it with two hands and about to swing it to his enemies.

The Troll Leader put himself in the centre of the crowd to protect himself, the two of them can't defeat all of them, bringing with them two or five, but it doesn't hurt not being on the frontline.

The arrows did land on the wagon, the horse cried in pain, two of them were stuck on its back, " Good thing it's not Uncle's," Hanzo had already jumped towards the enemy.

The two of them can't afford to be in a long distance, they have to stay close so the archers can't shoot but then there's having to face the majority of the enemy.

He looked at Zorin's directions, shields were barely useful, a swing from his axe can knock back the enemy and the one on his back, it doesn't get stuck because of the shield's quality but also because it gets broken, what should be worried about is that Zorin's weapon of choice might not last long.

There's fear in the enemies eyes, but they still continued approaching Zorin, " Just die, you fucking lowlife!", Zorin was just destroying shields a few seconds back, he noticed few of them are approaching him with haste not bringing one so he prepared his will and target them instead, now regrets they felt, the moment they entered the frontline. Zorin swings at them furiously, it only took once to take a troll's life, blood was splashed down in all directions, the bodies fall and the air full of pain, the enemies can't help taking steps back, some even tripped down and get stepped on.

In an instant three of the trolls are dead while few others sustain minor injuries, the troll leader saw it all happened but did not falter, the giant did not look tired yet, but he'll soon be later, the monster will sap his energy dry, and that's when they'll finish him.

The trolls got so distracted that the young man who came with Zorin was forgotten, the truth is Hanzo was getting tired of fighting. It was just yesterday when he accomplished his last duty as one of the "Hell Bandits" and this day he's dealing with bandits too, he started thinking that maybe this is the kind of life is his destiny and he can't escape it any way possible.

Now it's not that the trolls did not see Hanzo, in fact, he was very close to the pack, some were trying to sneak on him while he's on deep thoughts. Eyeing the possible rewards to the one who will kill the merchant.

One of the trolls slashed towards Hanzo, he did so during the merchant was stupidly spacing out in the middle of a fight.

The others were in joy, knowing that the merchant is already dead although they're disappointed they didn't get the kill themselves they soon changed faces when the merchant just dodged the slash by suddenly squatting.

The merchant had a surprised expression then looked at the rest of the trolls who were shocked on his miracle dodge, " I guess I have to finish this tonight".