Chapter 195 - Infiltrating The Enemy's Camp Heading To The River
Arthur didn't need to search long, as he rapidly spotted his scorpion queen, as she was fighting many warriors already, while the trail behind her was littered with a massive number of dead bodies.
"This girl," Arthur chuckled, helplessly, as he shook his head. He knew the scorpion queen would be enough to cause enough distraction and trouble for them, but he already had a very good solution in his hand.
He didn't hurry to summon her back, as he needed her to keep them quite busy for a while, until he finished his plan.
"Land us there, behind this group of trees."
Arthur pointed towards a small forest on the outer edge of the army tents. It was also near the branch of the river coming from the mountains. Despite they were coming from the direction of their camp, the distraction caused by the scorpion helped them to slip by, unseen.
Arthur landed with Lily there, before she resummoned Birdy into his tattoo, before asking:
"What now?"
She was shocked when she spotted this huge number of enemies for the first time. she thought when Arthur spoke of the presence of an army here, it was only formed of a thousand or two at most. However her eyes made her feel quite dizzy, as the tents stretched for a really long distance, making her certain the number greatly exceeded the thousand she previously, wrongly, assumed.
"You stay here," Arthur said, as he vanished into the trees, going straight towards the branch of the river he spotted from above.
The only problem here was the presence of this branch inside the enemy tent zone. Arthur couldn't put his potion on the branch at the city of his, as the river water was running from the mountains towards the forest.
He thought it would be hard to infiltrate the tents, but when he reached the place there, he found no one to guard from this side. He smirked as he directly entered a tent, examined the contents there, and wasn't surprised to see a bottle or two thrown here and there, carelessly, with the potion used to drive monsters crazy.
Arthur wasn't polite and stored these bottles, weapons, rations, even locked boxes. He kept jumping from one tent to another, using the small distance between the tents.
However when he jumped for the twentieth something time, he was met by two warriors inside. Arthur's presence startled them, however they didn't have time to scream for help, as Arthur didn't freeze up for a couple of seconds like them, and his sword killed them both in no time, before he stored their bodies into the ring, with everything else in this tent.
"So the tents will be occupied in the next distance to the river, sigh."
He muttered to himself, before he went ahead to infiltrate the camp using this way. The presence of warriors didn't stop him, after all he was in war with them.
He aimed for the branch of the river at the end of the valley, as he wanted to spill the potion there, as water would take the potion, spread it towards the whole valley, and that would help in achieving his goals.
Arthur was heading in an oblique way, trying not to delve too deep towards the heart of the camp. However, just as he could hear the sound of the water running, he also heard the shouts of a patrol unit guarding this area.
"Damn!"
He cursed, as even in the middle of their distraction with the queen, they kept their vigilance towards the river. Arthur killed four warriors inside one tent easily as usual, stored everything in, and then spied with utmost care towards the outside.
What he saw made him realize he was wrong! This wasn't a patrol team, it was a unit of a hundred warriors stationed here to guard a certain tent. This tent wasn't similar to others, as it was huge, reaching the size of a hundred tents combined.
"Is this their storage tent? Or the armory tent? Or something else?"
Arthur was so curious about this, but he had no way to know the answer right away. He needed to first get rid of this unit, and he already had the right way to do it.
Arthur then didn't wait here, or advance, instead he retreated the whole way until he reached half distance from what he initially crossed. He took out some of his fire ores, and spread them in a large circle, before he spilled his explosive oil on the ground, then he made repeated this in the surrounding tents, before he went to a far tent, took out his bow and one of the explosive arrows, ignited it, and then launched it horizontally towards the ring of ores and explosive oil he created, then stored everything, and darted forward towards the large tent.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
A series of explosions occurred, and suddenly fire was ignited, wildly dancing with its tongues high in the air, while eating a large number of tents in no time!
"Fire! Hurry up and put it down, fast!!"
Shouts of help erupted all over the camp, and chaos suddenly was born in the middle of the camp. Many started to run, and one of those was the unit guarding the precious tent, as it was really close to the fire zone.
The moment the place got empty, Arthur ignored all the shouts and chaos behind, and darted towards the tent. He didn't even enter it, as all he did was to put his palm over its surface, and absorbed it into his ring.
"Shoosh!"
The tent suddenly vanished, and despite its large size, huge shape, no one managed to sense its disappearance in a short time. Arthur didn't stand there for a moment, as he went ahead towards the nearby river branch, using the emptiness created by his fire, and in less than five minutes he reached it.
He didn't hesitate, as he put his palm into the water, made sure it was heading towards the wide valley, then he took out his cauldron, and let it be immersed under water.