Fighting Against all the Odds

The day finished with everyone resting, or at least trying to rest. Everyone was too nervous with the next battle, there were at least 200k orcs and we were no more than 2k adventurers right now.

And everything got even worse after Geoffrey telling that Gremory would lead them into battle. But they eventually agreed after seeing Redwig supporting that decision. There were several adventures between them that alone are strongest than Gremory since he still is a rank B mage. But they had fear of him, he is the monster from the rumors that lived near their city, and his powers confirmed everything.

In the meantime, only one person was enjoying, and that person is Gremory. He tries to avoid his excitement for the next battle, but the feeling is stronger than him.

Many people are going to die soon, many offers to the abyss.

However, he was hiding his feeling, since would not be good to show such things with him leading them. And he didn't want to scare his friends from the Hjmar guild since they came only because Gremory called.

Claire and Rudo were not afraid, they trusted Gremory. But Danton was freaking out, yet he was hiding his feelings just like Gremory.

---In the morning---

The idea was to have rested warriors for the next fight, but not many of them managed to get some sleep. Not even Gremory, animated with the next fight.

Yet, they were ready and left the camp very early. In total, 6 squads from the 20 squads were completed annihilated. Now the total force consisted of 892 adventures of rank C, 658 of rank B, and 157 of rank A, facing an army of 200k orcs.

'This is the most suicide thing I have ever done in my life, why I am so excited about it?' Gremory thought confused with his feeling, he didn't want to die, yet there he was, having a hard time avoiding these strange feelings.

The army went in two different ways, Geoffrey was with his rogue squad going to the points marked on the map by Qetur, to kill their leader and destroy their food storages. While our little army was going to the other point of the orc army to get the attention of the orc army far away from the rogue squad.

They will engage in full confrontation against them until Geoffrey sends some kind of signal, signaling that the mission was finished, then everyone will retreat.

'I just hope that Geoffrey will be enough to kill their leader, or everything here will be in vain...'

---Some hours later---

We should begin as soon as the sun is high in the sky, and the rogue squad would act at the moment they see a chance to infiltrate their camp.

'I think it's finally time.'

"WARRIORS, MANY OF YOU MAY DIE TODAY, BUT MANY OF WE ALREADY DIED. THIS IS THE TIME TO AVENGE THEM, WE WILL MAKE THE FIRST MOVEMENT, BUT WE WILL NOT MAKE A FULL ASSAULT. JUST HOLD YOUR GROUND AND LET THEM COME TO YOU." Gremory screamed for everyone to hear it, they were hidden in the trees near their camp, so that alone already manage to bring some attention over them.

Gremory was mounted on Cerberus and he had not planned to participate side by side with the other warriors since he was not fully recovered yet, his muscles were still very fatigued and he just didn't have the strength to wield a sword right now. Yet he summoned his mandrake shield and raised high and screamed once more.

"LET'S KILL THEM ALL."

They were there to be just a distraction, but Gremory was not able to hide his animation anymore. But that also animated everyone around and screams started everywhere, while they advanced to what would probably be their deaths.

Qetur and Cerberus were now consuming the energy from the crystal, which means that Gremory was with his full mana.

He raised his hand and the energy around started to twist the light while concentrating in his body and going to his hand, and then he screamed once again.

"ABYSS VOID."

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM

That started the battle, with hundreds of orcs dying before even noticing what hit them.

Without thinking twice, he bought every mitre crystal from his dimensional bag, all of them full of mana but without any inscription on it. And them, he absorbed everything, restoring all his mana.

'It's time to play.'

The explosion was more than enough to bring the attention of the entire orc army in that camp, and they all started to run towards the adventurers.

Gremory was in the middle of the battle but had instructed Cerberus to just avoid fight while Qetur was sent ahead with the rest of the adventurers. By doing that, he was now able to absorb the orcs killed in the first attack, but he had a better idea, after all, the dead were surrounded by the living orcs.

Most of the orcs were only rank D, with many rank C and just a few rank B as Qetur. Gremory could see that with his Hanzor body rune, after all, the ability to see the darkness was also a way of seeing the people's energy.

He raised one of those orcs of rank D and that cost 1% of his mana, which means that now on rank B he had enough mana to raise 100 of those rank D orcs.

It was not much, but Gremory knew how to play with their mind, and so he did.

He absorbed some of the dead orcs and that panicked the orcs around them, and then he raised the first 10 undead orcs. That panicked the orcs around even more.

He keeps doing this in every place an orc died, one by one he was breaking their organization while also attacking them from behind. They didn't know who to trust and the chaos started behind their lines while the adventurers were also attacking with all their might.

But several adventurers were dying every second. yet the only thing Gremory was thinking at that moment was.

'This is amazing.'

There was no way to win an army of 200k with only that amount of adventurers even with Gremory tactic. And soon that became clear with the line of adventurers getting weaker every second.