XIX. Surprises on the Battlefield

The warriors were managing to control the hordes of zombies, thanks to the tactics and maneuvers of the leaders of each group, especially the way the leaders of Morkhex had prepared the ground, no warrior fought alone and avoided any injury that was caused by the army of the undead manned by the skeletons. While most of the group of those warriors faced the zombies, a small squad that moved silently in the dark with the shadow as a companion to locate the dragons that led the zombies, hoped to capture or kill those responsible for this terrible attack.

From a certain distance from the battle, a terrestrial dragon was watching everything that was happening with his telescope, the warriors that defended the kingdom of Morkhex seemed to handle the combat very well against an enemy as lethal and dangerous as the zombies; He was looking for a particular warrior and was able to find the human girl who handled the situation quite well due to her being accompanied by Commander Sur'Xhe along with a group of dragons. This was a bit annoying to the terrestrial dragon, he hoped that she was completely alone or dead with those warriors that her captain had bought to kill her, even so, the pieces were in place and most of the putrid corpses had already fulfilled the part. her.

"Well if an army of zombies and a group of mercenaries can't get the job done. Well, I guess I have to do it myself."

That mysterious dragon takes out a device while humming a happy melody because he was about to unleash the true horror that the army of the undead hid. Raising his hand he pressed a button and inside the dead, a strange device lit up revealing a red light. A smile is drawn on his face and he presses another button changing the red color of those devices to green.

"Hahaha die you fucking useless zombies."

"I don't understand why we were so concerned about these vermin, nor are they a real challenge."

"True captain," he cuts off the dead man's head "these pieces of rotting meat do not pose any threat when you know well how to attack them."

The three dragons laughed feeling that this threat was a waste of time, it only needed a little preparation and the zombies were easy to eliminate like an annoying plague in the harvest. If the kingdom of Morkhex was willing to waste money on this kind of thing, they would be happy to serve them, they were trusting themselves without imagining what was going to happen now.

"Hey don't let your guard down, zombies are more dangerous than you think so ..!"

A loud explosion occurred at the scene with the four nearby warriors dying from it.

"What the ..?!"

More explosions were happening almost at the same time killing the warriors who were close to the corpses and damaging the others, the other warriors began to move away from the zombies and avoiding both those already killed and those who were still on their feet since they were also beginning to explode. But the worst part of all this was that the warriors who had died from the explosions were infected with the remains of the exploding zombie and it meant that they would rise again as undead and those who were injured also if they came into contact with the remains of those dead.

"This is bad," Sur'Xhe said as he watched his comrades die and possibly be infected by the curse of the undead.

"Commander Sur'Xhe, what should we do?" he watches the human and the rest of her group.

"We must change the combat tactics, if we get close enough to these dead we will explode with them. Signal the other leaders of the groups that are still standing and start using arrows, fire, wind, and even boiling water, yes We continue to lose our people like this, we will only become potential puppets of those who control the zombies. "

The person in charge of sending the messages begins to carry out coded messages with fire so that the warriors who were still fighting would get away from the zombies and only attack him with ranged attacks so that they would be less exposed to the explosions.

"Go with that they changed the tactics, same us. They already know what to do"

A small group of terrestrial dragons disguises themselves as zombies to prepare a new ambush and they could take control of the situation again, with the altered and scared that they left the Morkhex warriors, it would be much easier to surprise them with this move. Two of the dragons nodded to each other and began to approach the human's back, pulling out knives with poison so that either of them could kill her with just one cut. They only had to hope that the other dragons would look away, this was not due to a matter such as worrying about an act of betrayal, they only hoped not to share with more dragons the enormous reward of the human's head.

"We must continue to keep the enemy entertained as long as the search party has located those who lead these dead," orders Sur'Xhe.

"Sir, I suggest we separate, maybe so we can recover a little ground and thus minimize the infection by surprise explosions"

"You are insane?!" Alexandra watches the warrior. "The reason we avoided infection risk was that we are covering every point, now you want us to split up to make it harder to avoid zombie attacks. It's a bad idea."

"I share Alexandra's opinion, the situation may have turned out unexpectedly, even so." he clenches her fist "if we continue together we will get ahead"

Sur'Xhe's group nods although two of them weren't in a good mood about it. Drigielix and Kaipo's group, due to the losses they suffered thanks to the explosions, began to come together in situations of losses, thus the dragon unit was strengthened again.

"Nobody said anything about blasting damn, that tactic was effective."

"Captain Drigielix, it's good to see you still alive." Kaipo smiles "Didn't they infect you?"

"No, not my boys, we already checked ourselves when five of them died from the explosion and four were infected by our allies."

"Because of the ancestors, these zombies are more dangerous than I imagined. How did Alexandra survive against them?" the dragon questioned.

"I bet she saw real dragon warriors slaying zombies, there's no way a weak human could have faced those things alone."

"Captain Zarzzu!!" one of the young warriors writhed while pleading and vomiting blood "I beg you, help"

Captain Zarzzu kills the young warrior before his transformation was completed, for this cold captain things were clear, you were infected, then you were already dead to him.

"Tartatus!" a healer wants to get close to the deceased of her friend, but the captain burns him to avoid risks "Lord was Tartatus!".

"He was infected and there was nothing we could do for him but a death worthy of a warrior. I know even Captain Drigielix sees it the same."

"Remember Sur'Xhe's explanation, even if they are important and loved, when they are infected, it is better to get them out of their misery before they turn against us"

"There might be a way to heal him," said the sad healer.

"Face it; he already died the moment he got infected!" Zarzzu said irritably. "If they hope to stay alive let's continue, I'll take the reins here"

Zarzzu walks with his spear in hand, waiting for them to follow him to continue fighting, the terrestrial female sees her roasted friend for the last time; She only says goodbye with a few words before continuing to walk and support the others, but not before receiving some comfort from Drigielix.

"Why is there no sign of them? They are usually very quick to search for hidden warriors and eliminate them." Sur'Xhe wondered worriedly about his brothers from Morkhex

"Look there" Alexandra points to the sky.

Everyone sees a fire signal shaped like a dragon skull whose meaning only indicated bad news.

"The search party is dying!" She directs her attention to her group "Quick we must ..!"

"Watch out commander!" Alexandra protects him by placing his arm and activating his shield.

Some arrows went in the direction of Sur'Xhe's group attacking most of them, luckily Alexandra was able to save the commander from her, and some thanks to the abilities of her armor.

"Thank you very much Alexandra" "No problem commander," she takes out a small crossbow and starts firing in the direction of the arrows.

"Quick everyone to cover us!" The commander shouted to all those who survived taking refuge behind large rocks that served as cover.

The few survivors were watching the area where the arrows came from, trying to locate the archers who were attacking them; Sur'Xhe sees some zombies using bows or crossbows to attack. This caused the oceanic dragon to question the nature of zombies, his thought was abruptly changed when he saw how those armed zombies bathed the arrows with fluids and guts of the zombies already killed by the warriors. He turns to see how one of his people who were in the cover was removing an arrow buried in his arm and then he focused on the dead who died began to move.

"Weren't they supposed to be dead?" wondered one of the dragons who also observed the scene like the rest.

"Those arrows were infected with the curse of the undead." some comments were heard but were silenced by him "Let's all be honest, how many of us got hit?" six raised their hands to imply that they were now infected.

The situation for Sur'Xhe's group became dire, those arrows had killed seven of them and now six were infected, the situation was clear, the group practically lost thirteen of them with that attack. If they didn't do something against those rotting archers, many poor warriors would be infected and thus would be walking time bombs spreading more zombies.

"Commander, what should we do?" asked one of the infected.

"I can think of a solution to the armed zombies, only if they are willing to sacrifice could we get rid of this type of enemy. I ask them, would they sacrifice themselves?"

Those posing as dead were approaching the area carefully, they were unconcerned about the new undead of the site since every new or old zombie obeyed the dragons that controlled them. Even so, they did not lower their guard against a commander of one of the best guilds in the most important kingdom; He was not easy prey to finish and less if he led several warriors. The enemy arched long enough and waited for Sur'Xhe's group to show their faces to kill him and take his relic from the human as his captain commanded.

The dragons are surprised by a sudden haze of steam caused by the clash of fire and water that a land dragon and an ocean dragon did to surprise their enemies. The enemy shot arrows and some fireballs to kill everything that moved in the fog, Sur'Xhe's group realized that these zombies were fake, they were warriors in disguise who wanted to take advantage of the situation.

Alexandra takes advantage of the mist to use her relic and attack the enemy dragons, she did not require to see them and much less approach them, The Colaza of the Moon moved from the ground easily locating her enemies and seemed to be connected to the human because she knew when He had to move the relic to attack and take better advantage of the surprise factor of the mist, they could not do anything against this relic, with the lack of vision and the lack of knowledge of it; it only made them easy prey. Arrows, cutting winds, and fireballs appeared attacking the enemy and killing or seriously injuring them, when the mist disappeared due to the aggressive winds, those dragons that were badly injured saw how now Sur'Xhe's group had them subdued and before that the warriors tried to extract information from the few survivors, each one commits suicide by sticking a knife in his throat.

"How crazy" commented one of the warriors.

Sur'Xhe observes the bodies of the comrades that were infected that were used as shields for them to move safely in the fog against the enemy, he ordered that he behead the good warriors before they revived. The battlefield seemed quite gloomy because of the terrible surprises that had been prepared by the enemy for those noble warriors, Commander Sur'Xhe if he wanted to finish this before another unexpected and possibly fatal surprise for him and his people happened, he and the few of their own had to take care of this now.

"The search party has failed and they are probably dead. If we want to finish this and avoid more fatal surprises we will have to finish what our comrades started.

"But Commander Sur'Xhe"

"But nothing, we are the group that has advanced more than any other and I am sure that if we cannot locate the dragons responsible for this, all these sacrifices and lost lives will have meant nothing."

The five dragons and Alexandra analyzed what the commander had said and certainly, these explosions and tainted arrows were more than they could handle and if the enemy had something worse than that, maybe they couldn't handle it.