Doomsday Pillars

On the third and fourth days, the fighters of the Star Army focused on completing the preparations while Alex and the swift fighters with either wind or lightning element continued to intercept and finish off the scout orcs that were sent. This made the orcs even more cautious, thus deciding to wait for their entire army to arrive before attacking.

In the first 4 days, Alex had succeeded in eliminating about 25 percent of the total orcs that came out of the gate. But on the fifth day, Alex decided to return and stand on guard at the fort.

This happened because the whole army had arrived, and with it was their leader, the orc shaman Drok'Thal. These Uruks were three times stronger than ordinary orcs and were more disciplined, so Alex couldn't lure them away so easily. Meanwhile, an orc shaman was an orc that had spirit power.

Orcs had very strong physiques, but it was very rare for an orc to be born a shaman. Because of that, an orc shaman had a very high position among the orcs. The presence of this orc shaman not only posed a new threat due to how it was able to use spirit skills, but the presence of the shaman also made the orc leaders, who would normally fight each other very often and sow internal discord, become more united, increasing their prowess even more.

The horde of 1500 orcs consisted of 200 Uruk crossbowmen, 300 Uruks wielding swords and shields, 100 berserker Uruks, 50 rider orcs, and 800 fighter orcs..

Under the shaman Drok'Thal's command, two war chiefs led the orc army. Both of them had symbols on their faces drawn with dye, one white and the other black. The black war chief was wielding a large machete, while the white war chief was wielding two axes. They were both the strongest fighters and the commanders of the Uruks.

No matter how strong and united the Star Army that Alex led was, unless they somehow already managed to reach the Sky Realm, there was basically no way for them to win in a direct battle with a number ratio of 1 to 10.

Dum dum dum dum dum.

Alex saw the horde of orcs coming from behind the rows of trees, closing in on them. It was most likely because of the presence of the orc shaman that the orc army seemed quite disciplined as they marched toward the fort. A total of more than 1,500 orcs encircled the small fort where Alex and his troops were holding out.

The fort was in the shape of a circle. It was about half a football field. Around the fort was a 6-meter-tall stone wall. Supposedly, it was high enough to physically block those green monsters from jumping into the fort right away. However, with the experience from his previous life, this 6-meter wall was unable to block these orcs. That was why the surroundings of the wall were already filled with long sharp spears. Hundreds of long sharp spears attached with a gap of about 10 to 20 centimeters along 500 meters surrounded the fort like a hedgehog.

The fort had four gates. At this time, Alex placed troops with this composition:

North Gate: Aria

South Gate: Raufgar

East Gate: Cindy

West Gate: Darius

40 swordsmen and archers were divided into 4 sides. Meanwhile, 20 of the 80 fighters with spear and shield stood guard in the middle, where the two water fighters were on standby to assist them.

Alex stood at the north gate facing the position of the main army of those orcs. Alex saw the shaman staring at him, as if knowing that Alex was the leader of this army.

Alex remembered that in his previous life, he was just a small soldier. A look like this used to cause his whole body to tremble. But it was different now. Alex intended not only to win this battle, but also to get as many points as possible.

Dum dum dum dum dum.

The war drums sounded again, and according to his estimation, the first attack would be made by 800 orcs. From the four sides of the fort, all of them started running to fill the empty field between the forest and the fort.

GRAAAH!

An army of 800 orcs nearly twice the size of an ordinary adult human charged at their fort all at the same time. It was already quite intimidating if those monsters only charged at them, but those monsters didn't just charge at them disorderly. They charged altogether in an orderly manner, which made it even more intimidating.

"Archers!" He called out to signal them to prepare themselves. He then shouted to all of them, "Be careful with the opponent's crossbow arrows!!"

The crossbows of the enemy troops were quite terrifying. They could reach from a distance of 300 meters. However, because it was quite far away, the fighters on top of the fort could see the direction the arrows were coming from. The row of sharp spears was enough to help them repel the arrows.

"Draw! Shoot!!"

On the other side, the arrows fired by the archers of the Star Army were able to kill the orcs one by one. Unfortunately, Alex didn't have that many archers. There were only 10 archers on each side. Against the attacks of hundreds of orcs, the archers could only kill a total of about 100 orcs before the rest managed to reach the fort walls.

The orcs that were more than 3 meters tall were able to reach the end of the 6-meter wall with just one jump. With their sharp weapons in hand, the orcs had no trouble clinging to the walls. With just one jump, they could grab the sharp spears or destroy the spears. But of course, the fighters of the Star Army there would not let them in so easily.

Pa! Pa! Pa!

The fighters' artifact spear attacks slashed and pierced the orc's dangling body until they were riddled with holes.

Attack!! Attack!! Attack!!

Using the gap between the sharp spears, the fighters unsheathed their respective weapons. Sword slashes, spear thrusts, and arrow shots. These fighters only needed to pay attention not to let a crossbow arrow go through and pierce them through the gaps.

Within minutes, there were 80 to 90 orcs that were killed. Due to their sheer number, dozens of those orcs managed to jump up the fort and destroy the spears.

[Wind Walk] [Energize]

But before these orcs could break down the defenses and start making way for the other orcs to enter, the swordsmen of the Star Army deftly finished them off.

Meanwhile, Alex's attention was still focused on the orc shaman in front of them. And just as he expected, he soon saw the shaman starting to do something.

Several of the injured orcs were carried closer to him, and with one hand holding a strange cane and the other aimed at the several injured orcs, suddenly, a strange green light came out from the injured orcs. The green light entered the staff in the orc shaman's hand, and without delay, the previously injured orcs seemed to have lost their lives.

The shaman swung his cane, and suddenly, a purple fireball attacked, shooting toward Alex's position.

Unfortunately, Alex was already fully prepared for this attack, as he had constantly been on guard against them, especially the orc shaman.

"Ice Wall!!" he quickly reacted.

Instantly, several fighters of the ice element next to him simultaneously used the protective skill.

BAM! Crack!

The combination of the Ice Wall skill by three spirit fighters was able to fully withstand the orc shaman's purple fireball attack. Once again the shaman released the same skill, and again the fighters next to Alex fully blocked it. And this annoyed the orc shaman. He began to deploy some of his berserker troops to join the battle.

The berserker troops had twice the physical strength of ordinary orcs, so they could more easily break into fortresses. The involvement of 50 berserkers increased the strength of the orcs' attack by a great margin.

Each side had more than 200 orcs attacking, while the troops on guard for each side of the fort walls were less than 40. Alex was forced to use the next tactic. With his signal, a flaming arrow shot toward the ground beneath the feet of the attacking orcs. Instantly, huge flames surrounded the fort and burned dozens of orcs.

The huge flames ignited screams of pain from the orcs and cries of victory from the soldiers. The huge fire not only killed dozens of orcs, but it also made the orc army split in half. This indirectly made the attack pressure much less than how it initially was.

Thud! Thud! Splat! 

GRAAA!!

Minute by minute, the orc troops fell. Meanwhile, the wounded fighters of the Star Army were immediately brought to where the medics were.

3 hours had passed, but out of the 800 orcs, still more than half of them were fighting. Unlike humans, these orcs had much higher stamina, and it seemed that the longer the battle lasted, the stronger they would be, and the more that the Star Army would lose their upper hand.

Soon, the fire would be extinguished. From behind the smoke, Alex could already see a group of berserker Uruks ready to charge toward the main gate. With the number or remaining orcs and the berserker Uruks charging at them, Alex believed that this gate would not be able to last very long.

"All right, get ready to guard in front of the gate."