Warlock of War: My Ares System

Clearly, this was our target.

“MEN! GET READYYYYYYY!” Lu Bu shouted at the top of his lungs, not only warning our army, but also the opposers, who were now gathering as many soldiers that they could in order to defend this raid.

Hm… Something seems off… clearly, they were aware of us but didn’t have an army ready to defend what was clearly our target? Were they truly that stupid, or was there something else?

I opened my mouth ever so slightly to try and warn the flying general, but his shifting eyes told me everything I needed to know.

“Alright, I trust you,”

It wasn’t long before everything was set in place, and a makeshift army greeted us at the wimpy walls that protected this also wimpy town.

“Horses! Split to our rear!” Lu Bu announced, and everybody who was on a horse began to run back towards the rear while I kept my senses sharpened, making sure everything would go according to plan.

Clearly, he was waiting to draw out the other army in the ambush, and if I had to assume,

“They’re probably behind that tree line. It dips into a small hill, so its the perfect place to hide and wait for a scissor attack from behind and upfront,”

𝗈𝗏𝓁xt.𝗇𝓔t

They know they cannot stop Lu Bu, but if they destroy his army from the back and force him to prioritize the front, then they can easily slash and hack at whatever soldier stands in their way, with no consequences.

All of the other horse ridders probably either knew of this plan or could assume what was going to happen, but telling the foot soldiers would put them on edge and cause an unsettling amount of men to probably run away with fear as the tension thicker and thicker.

Lu Bu was smarter than I thought, as I just assumed him to be some kind of overpowered barbarian… but clearly, he’s a general for a reason.

“Hey, newbie. Check out the tree line,” The captain and presiding leader of this horse squadron ordered and I couldn’t help but roll my eyes as I would get absolutely punctured by hundreds and maybe thousands of arrows.

Maybe I could survive if I used my skills, but I didn’t want to reveal that to such a large amount of people.

The troubles that would follow such an event wouldn’t be pretty, and I’d rather keep my status on the low unless I’m seriously in trouble.

“If you want to kill me, then make it less obvious… clearly, they’re waiting just in case they are found out,” I replied sternly.

“And who the hell do you think you are? When I give you orders, you follow them. Otherwise, I will kill you right here and now,”

“Oh? You’re gonna kill me? You? You’re gonna kill me?” I taunted him. “Shouldn’t you check on it if you’re so eager to see if they’re there?”

“Sir, please ignore the newbie. Allow me to check on it,” A blazing soldier asked, clearly wanting to steal some spotlight, and I mean, I wasn’t going to complain.

“*sigh*… Go. Newbie, you will be punished once we get back,” The captain smiled while the excited horseback rider slowly worked his way over to the tree line and then…

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A volley of what seemed to be a thousand arrows launched into the sky, not only slaughtering the man who discovered them but also threatening to slaughter the rest of the army as they tilted down, gravity giving them a boost of encouragement.

“SHIELDS!” Lu Bu shouted before seeing the army at the wall begin to charge towards them, seeing a massive army of about five thousand men erupts from the tree line.

I grabbed the massive metal shield hanging from the side of the horse and brought it up to cover my horse’s head and also my entire body.

There was a long silence of thick malice as these arrows whistled through the air, and eventually, one struck my shield, immediately bouncing off of it.

But, when as I thought I was in the clear, another arrow came and, this time, dented my shield with another one nearly blasting straight through the metal frame.

Sweat dripped down my face as I used [Miasma Infused Presence], helping to support the shield as a rain of arrows showered down on us, slaughtering almost an eighth of our army with one attack.

Everybody had shields, but the tips of these goddamn arrows were so sharp and so strong that they punctured holes through the ones with wooden shields.

Swoosh…

And then, the final arrow had hailed down on us, slaughtering a foot soldier but revealing the end of the attack, and as I lowered my shield, I felt my heart begin to pump my body with adrenaline.

My body shook violently as the adrenaline filled my bloodstream, flowing throughout each and every individual muscle of mine.

The entire passage back to our camp had been filled with so many men that it looked like a horde of mindless zombies charging toward us.

There was absolutely no formation with them, and the ones at the very front reminded me of something… a berserker from my world.

Their eyes were bloodshot, and their muscles bulged with vascularity unknown to the common man, almost breaking the handles of their weapons as they charged toward us.

“ARCHERS! LOOSE!” Lu Bu shouted, and we soon fired off our first wave of arrows, catching them off guard, as for now, we ignored the thin army approaching from the trading town.

It was about two-hundred soldiers, more or less, filled with vigor and violence as they saw their allies begin to overwhelm our front line.

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Our first volley of arrows struck into the very front of their army, killing some of these berserker men, but the rest charged forward, even with arrows going through their limbs.

“R-Retreat-” The captain of our horseback group stuttered before being interrupted by a voice that boomed through the planes like a clap of thunder.

“NOBODY RETREATS! SHIELD WALL! SPEARS! HORSES RETREAT FROM THE BACK LINES AND HELP OUT THE SIDES!”