Eldritch Creature's Guide

Chapter 272  Green Beast Pirates (3)

Even despite that, Samiel was confident that the ship's artillery should be able to destroy the shield generator in a few hits before the Greenskins realized what was going on. Samiel knew that the ships manufactured by the Skrånøtiå Kingdom wouldn't be that sloppy.

After several minutes, the artillery was ready as Samiel saw everyone rushing to their position because the moment they started bombarding the target, their stealth would be automatically canceled.

Even if it wasn't, it would become useless because even an idiot could tell from which direction the attack came.

 Soon enough, several magic circles appeared above the artillery canons as they were being loaded; moments later, Samiel heard the firing sounds of artillery shooting.

Due to his orders, they were overloading the canon's capacity and firing at 150% to be sure that their bombardment would destroy the shield generator for sure. If it didn't destroy the shield generator, then their efforts in attacking the Green Beast Pirates would be many times harder.

The siege was something that nobody wished for.

Especially in these conditions.

Samiel was observing the main island of the formation where the Greenskins had their headquarters with keen interest, together with Juulius, who was already ready to lead the Holy Knights of the Holy Templar Order and Yvraine, who was not less eager for a fight.

His familiar Nefertari was peacefully sleeping in his chambers because she wasn't interested in doing anything else aside from sleeping for now, and Juulius's familiar Tytos was next to his master, ready to tear apart some Orks.

Suddenly as they saw that the attacks had hit their targets and the shield generator was completely destroyed, Captain Alvar ordered the ship to dock on the islands so the ground assault could start.

"Bagtork is yours, Juulius; though I would be killing a few of them myself... staying on the ship would be boring."

Samiel stated as his sworn knight nodded before he started organizing two hundred Templar Knights of the Holy Templar Order into neatly ordered battle formations as they were ready to march the very own second they docked.

Soon enough, the ship was close enough to the island as it used an extendable bridge, connecting the humongous battleship with the land of the main island.

Not only did it create a bridge that connected two points, but it also created a magical barrier to prevent anyone from attacking them when they descended from the ship.

Usually, when soldiers were docking down and coming from the ships, they were most vulnerable, so having something like this already in-build in the ships was genial.

This was another neat gadget that the Skrånøtiå Kingdom's shipbuilders and engineers installed onto the battleship.

Under Juulius's leadership, two hundred Holy Knights quickly disembarked from the ship as they marched in perfect formation without wasting any movement or time, as they took place on the beach of the island.

While Juulius was commanding the Holy Templars, Samiel took command of a few tens of priests that came with them, as they would be acting as support for the Holy Knights against the hordes of Greenskins.

Contrary to the Holy Templars, who were wearing full-plated armor, underneath the heavy-plated armor, they were wearing chainmail armor, under which was leather armor and under that was another layer of cloth armor.

All four layers were made from top-notch materials and crafted in a way, that they won't be too bulky and especially not hinder the movements of the knights on the battlefield. Each of them was armed with either sword or hammer in one hand and holding a huge shield in another hand.

No matter how Samiel looked at them, they were armored, walking killing machines.

 Each of the Templars was sculpted by the Holy Templar Order, strengthened by Alchemy and forbidden sorcery rituals to make them the best soldiers of the Hall of Kadath.

"All priests gather behind me and wait for my orders."

Samiel ordered as he summoned Ashimer and Negash, together with a small contingent of a few Undead Warriors that were here to protect the priests in case they were attacked by some lucky Ork that was able to survive the charge of Holy Knights.

With a single command, all priests that were brought by Samiel to the shores of the islands gathered together in formation as the Undead Warriors surrounded them in a protective manner.

Juulius brandished his sword as he pointed forward and they spread, creating a shield wall from their shields because they could sense movement in the forests; clearly, the Greenksins were already here.

The battle would be taking place at the shores first. Considering the number of Greenskins on the island, it wasn't that surprising that the Greenskins found them this soon. Soon enough, hundreds of goblins rushed from the woods directly toward the shields of the Holy Knights.

While severely outnumbered, the Holy Knights didn't falter as they held their weapons and shields, withstand the charge of coéuntless goblins as they counterattacked and with each attack, hundreds of goblins were killed mainly by decapitation.

"Priests, release the spells!"

Samiel yelled the moment the next wave of goblins was approaching, this time with a good number of Orks among them, as several tens of priests released various Spells of various Levels, together with Samiel, Yvraine and Negash.

In a split of a second, a rain of spells fell onto rushing goblins and Orks, annihilating hundreds of lives in a moment, but that didn't deter the greenskins as they crossed over the dead, stepped over the bodies of their compatriots and continued in their frenzy attack.

Using the window of opportunity created by the magic barrage, Juulius ordered the shield wall to move forward as they cleaved through the Orks, killing one after another, slaughtering hundreds of greenskins like it was their sole divine mission.

Meanwhile, Samiel was summoning more and more Undead, ordering them to surround the area and not allow any greenskin to leave the place, as he, together with Negash and Ashimer, coordinated the Undead Scourge on the island.

He noticed that the Nobz and Bagtork were missing, probably still remaining at the core area of the island where their headquarters was located in some kind of fortress if they could build one.

With spells coming from the Priests, boosted by the Divine Power of the Outer Gods and Holy Knights advanced through the hordes of greenskins; soon enough, the waves of the Orks and goblins were growing weaker and weaker.

One after another, they were killed and Samiel's Undead Scourge completely secured the area while also killing a large number of greenskins without much resistance.

While the greenskins were powerful, they were highly disorganized against the coordinated effort of the similarly powerful unit with much better training and equipment.