Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 352 - 76: When Antiques Meet Antiques - 2

Chapter 352: Chapter 76: When Antiques Meet Antiques - 2

When the female captain turned around, her flattering expression had turned into stern severity. She put her finger in her sexy mouth and blew a loud whistle, immediately calling back the mercenaries that were in a deadlock around the steps. Under the command of their squad leader, piles of weaponry were moved down from the carriages. They were all long-handled war glaives with reverse hooks. The mercenaries spread a green ointment on the glaives, a potent anesthetic.

The glaive-wielding mercenaries expertly lined up in a row and rushed towards the steps again. The whizzing sound of cutting through the air rang out intermittently, as the archers in the mercenary group started providing suppressive fire from below the steps. Since their opponents were massive warriors, all these archers used phosphorous rockets.

Compared to the goblin robbers they had dealt with before, the quality of these mercenaries truly showed the stay-behind personnel of Felency what real coordination and well-disciplined troop is, and what true cooperative combat and order in advance and retreat means.

The phosphorous rockets of the human archers were made of red phosphorus. When shot out, there was no abnormality but, as soon as they encountered friction, they immediately ignited with a blaze. Without any counter-suppression, these archers, led by their captain, showed their excellent training to the fullest. Since the Shalba family had hired them for this job, equipping them with weapons from Shalba’s shop, the mercenaries showed no restraint. They knew that Orephin warriors were afraid of fire, and these expensive phosphorous rockets came in handy.

As arrows flew about, the glaive-wielding mercenaries took advantage of the opportunity to charge the steps. Their targets were the huge Steel Tusks’ feet. Quite a few mercenaries followed behind them without weapons, carrying bundles of thick rope over their shoulders, ready to tie up the giant warriors as soon as they were knocked down.

The female captain of the "Metal Rose" mercenary group was quite pleased at this time. The performance of her mercenaries showcased her capabilities well in the presence of the future Regent, which should be beneficial to her future prospects.

However, what she didn’t know was that the barrage of arrows from one middle team made Count Totti, who was watching from the side, feel a sharp pain in his heart. But at least the situation was looking good, and the Earl was slightly comforted. He finally hadn’t chosen the wrong person for the job, and he gave the enthusiastic female captain a long-awaited smile.

Caught off guard, some Steel Tusks warriors swatted away a good number of rockets, but a large number were still on target.

Fortunately, following Daisy the Fairy Dragon’s advice, they had repainted their hemp armor with a mix of resin and a powdered concoction made from mashed mollusk shells. This gave them some level of fire protection. Although the Steel Tusks were a bit flustered, the rockets didn’t inflict much damage. Facing heavy crossbow and powerful bows, as long as they protected their faces, these phosphorous rockets essentially couldn’t pose any substantial threat.

The flames produced by the friction of the phosphorus rockets extinguished immediately, leaving only trails of burning white smoke.

The archers were taken aback wondering if the rockets had been dampened and were ineffective.

At this time, Liu Zhenhan was so angry that steam was practically coming out of his seven orifices. According to Daisy’s instructions, he and the militias were playing the role of rearguard. If they had just held on for a while, they could have withdrawn from the tunnel.

Who would’ve known that he decided to be smart and spread a large group of militias around in other places to have a back-up plan. After experiencing the fierce volley of arrows and realizing the power of human weapons, Liu Zhenhan recognized that humans were far superior to robbers. A Fire Avoidance Pearl was the only solution to the rocket issue. Not having them would be very challenging.

"Those boys can really hold their breath," thought Liu Zhenhan, glancing at the pandas, Mastiff people, and Musketeers hidden positions, while he charged forward, waving his two giant tiger head hooks.

The mercenaries were used to such reactions. Numerous war glaives stabbed mercilessly at Piegel, who was charging at them. At this moment, the mercenaries showed him no mercy.

There was a series of cracking sounds as the charging Piegel didn’t dodge or shy away, but rather collided directly against the spearhead of the glaives with his body. The mercenaries haven’t had time to retract their triumphant gaze when they felt an intense tearing pain in their wrists. A huge force broke the wooden handle of their glaives; the sharp blades simply couldn’t penetrate Piegel’s armor.

A flash of cold light came from the two tiger head hooks. The war glaives lunging at the Steel Tusks were like wheat under a farmer’s scythe, cut off with a single "swish".

The worst nightmare had befallen them. Seven or eight giant warriors swung their two giant cleavers like the wind, plunging into the ranks of the mercenaries through the gap cleared by the cut glaives, causing a bloody turmoil. Whether chain mail or leather armor, they were all fragile like thin paper before the death arcs swung out by these bright yellow giant cleavers.

The mercenaries finally understood that they had made a grave error. They shouldn’t have been so presumptuous, not expecting the phosphorous rockets to fail, not expecting their formation to be easily broken by a wild charge, and not expecting the Beamon’s weapons to be this sharp, nor their courage so fierce. Facing so many fighters, they even launched a fierce attack without defending first.

The Fairy Dragon was also floating in the air observing this battle. Even she did not expect the Overlord to be this powerful and daring. What was his purpose? Why were there only seven or eight Steel Tusks along with him, where were the rest?