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Chapter 171 - 32 – The Laufgraan War 7

Firynn had a single double edged sword with a wide blade in his hand and a small axe with a very pointy back side on the other. He used the pick side of the axe to pierce his opponents’ mail and the blade of his weapons to cut skin.Ffyr flew around bombarding the upper deck with fireballs while Helen imposed herself on the frontline in the center of a shield wall.

Helen’s build was a pure tank one. At level 20, she had 10 levels in the Defender class and 10 in Warrior. She had the Vitality Boost skill that Matthew also had and used her Imbue Mana skill on her armor and shield to increase their strength to enemy strikes. She also had the Cover skill that allowed her to take damage in place of those her mana reached. However, as she lacked the Mage’s project mana skill, her Cover skill only worked on those that stand shoulder to shoulder with her in the shield wall.

Matthew and Firynn flanked the wall facing the sailors that rushed the upper deck to attack them.

There were about 800 men in that ship and all they had to fight them was 14 men and Ffyr. The sailors attacked with arrows from the distance while armored soldiers attacked with swords and spears. Despite the elves using cannons in naval warfare, they still preferred using arrows over guns in the battlefield. A cultural choice.

The other two helicopters kept fire on the other ships while the battle raged on the cliff by the shore. The ship Matthew was on was left to them to avoid friendly fire.

The fight on the deck was fierce. Arrows rained over them and on Ffyr who easily protected herself with a wind wall. They were holding themselves well against the enemy soldiers until a lightning strike hit Helen, sending her back and breaking the wall.

It was the same that hit their helicopter. An elven mage irradiating electricity came out from the lower decks with his eyes sparkling blue.

He soon sent a lightning bolt that sent one of Matthew’s allies flying into water, dead before he hit it.

Then he turned his attention to Ffyr who still was making rain fire on the soldiers below her.

That’s when Matthew drew a gun, that he picked in the encampment, and shot at the lightning wizard, making him change targets to him. Matthew’s bullets not causing harm, but hitting with as much force as a punch.

Firynn tried to move forward through the enemy forces to meet the mage, but soon he was pushed back by the ship’s captain who held a single scimitar. The captain was as fearsome with a blade as the swordmaster himself. And with the support of his troops shooting arrows and stabbing spears, had the advantage in that fight.

Matthew dodged a lightning bolt due to his Sixth Sense skill warning him. He then used Aym’s dagger to pierce a hole in an elf that tried to kill him with a sword slash.

While the elf fell to the floor with his innards on fire, another lightning strike came down on Matthew, who used the dying elf to shield himself.

Helen got up at this point shaking off the numbness in her body. She charged with her shield pushing back the soldiers that surrounded them and using her spear to down some of them. Her allies soon recovered from their positions as well and reformed the shield wall.

Firynn killed another enemy splitting his head in the middle with his axe and dodged an horizontal slash coming from the captain’s blade. In an upward strike with his sword, the swordmaster sent the captain’s hat flying to the sea, but missed his face.

They trade some more strikes, deflecting and parrying each other with mastery. Then an arrow flew and hit Firynn on his shoulder, making him turn a little and receive a strike on the belly taking the air out of him, but stopping on his armor.

At that moment, Matthew set the cloth of one of his assailants on unholy flames and pushed him with a kick over the others. But this gave an opening for him to be hit on the chest by a lightning bolt which sent him flying and hit the wall of the captain’s quarters.

Ffyr attacked with a huge fireball aiming at the lightning wizard who had to jump aside to dodge it.

Blue flames started to spread on the deck. The soldiers were unable to douse those with water and screamed for a priest in their elven tongue.

Helen downed an elf with a spear strike and moved the wall backwards away from the unholy fire.

Firynn kicked an elf on the knee and decapitated him with a single strike, thinning the number of people fighting him. He looked at the captain who played with his scimitar circling it around his hand.

"You don’t have a priest on board?" He asked in Elven, taking some time to breathe.

"You killed him." The captain answered, also breathing.

"Bad luck." The swordmaster joked and dodged an arrow that flew at him.

The captain then tried to hit Firynn in the middle of his movement, but the elf parried it with his axe and used it as a hook to pull down the opponent’s blade and create a space for him to place a stab on the captain’s chest with the sword.

He drew some blood, but not deep enough to cause much harm.

At this point, Ffyr dodged an upward lightning bolt that came flying at her when the wizard got up.

Matthew rushed forward passing the men who were now throwing pieces of the burning ship onto the sea before the flames spread too far unchallenged.

He shot down two elves who were holding shields to protect the lightning mage of Ffyr’s firebolts and cut at the wizard with Aym’s dagger.

His slash met the wizard’s body and didn’t cut deep. It was stopped by an electrified solid mana armor that sent tremors to Matthew’s arm making it numb by the electricity.

The wizard then place a punch on Matthew’s face electrifying him, making his face spasm because of the lightning current traveling through it.

Matthew quickly replaced the gun on his right hand, storing it in his Inventory and taking out Belial’s dark sword. In the same movement, Matthew brought up the dark blade and cut out the wizard’s arm. His electric armor did nothing to prevent it.

He screamed in pain as his blood poured down on the deck floor.

Matthew didn’t waste that opportunity. He coated himself in his Anesthesia skill and stabbed with Aym’s sword at the wizard’s neck. Matthew pierced the electric armor enduring the currents traveling through his arm and killed the mage opening a hole in his throat.

Firynn and the captain kept fighting fiercely as Helen commanded the shield wall with mastery advancing over the enemy’s troops who were in disarray because of Matthew’s unholy fire.

Using axes, they cut off parts of the ship that were on fire and threw them overboard, saving the vessel, but opening way for their enemies to push forward.

"Keep fighting!" The captain screamed in Elven after noticing that their wizard was taken out. "Keep the pressure! There are only a few of them!"

At this moment, a whirlwind formed under the captain’s feet and lifted him in midair. Ffyr commended the wind to throw the elf overboard before he could react.

Firynn was now free again to resume his charge on the enemy soldiers.

At that point, most soldiers raised their hands and surrendered. The ones who tried to keep fighting were soon convinced otherwise by the others.

The sailors put down their weapons after extinguishing the fires on deck. From the 800 men in the ship, about 50 died from the invasion, another 100 died from the earlier helicopter assault. The rest was now sitting on the upper deck while under the vigilance of Helen and the surviving 7 elves on her side.

The captain swam away and was picked by another ship.

"Let’s rest for a while." Firynn told Matthew and extended his hand asking for a mana potion.

"Alright." Matthew gave him one from his Inventory and took one for himself.

They kept their eyes on the other ships and on the battle raging on the coast. One of the surviving helicopters took heavy damage from a cannon shot and retreated back to the encampment. The other soon followed when it ran out of bullets.

A lucky shell flew from one of the tanks on the coast and opened a hole in the remaining armored ship that quickly began to take in water.

The assault resulted in a major loss for Farynn’s forces. From the 8 ships, 4 sank, 1 was captured and the remaining 3 were too damaged to function. He lost his navy.

When the battle at the sea was lost, Farynn’s cavalry retreated back to the castle suffering minimal damage. The battle on the shore was also won.