Chapter 62: Beast Wave (2)

Chapter 62: Beast Wave (2)

The trench dwarves were setting up defense after defense when suddenly the earth underneath them started to shake and the ground seemed to start cracking here and there. As soon as this phenomenon occurred, a scout from on top of the trench mountain shouted out,"Beast wave incoming! Approximately 40 Recutris, 20 Goldnes and a handful of other beasts that I can't recognize!"

Rust and Loominus stood side by side, along with 142 other warriors that would either defend the entrance of the trench or attempt to guide the beast to keep running past them. The latter was more difficult with stronger beasts, so everyone was on extremely high alert.

As the beats that were running towards their home started to get within viewing distance of the normal civilians and non-scouts, the entirety of the tribe was able to see the beasts that were attacking.

First there were the Goldnes, which were large geese-like creatures that were almost twice the trench dwarves' size and were extremely vicious. They had teeth that could bite through the iron spears that Rust had made, as evident by a scout that got killed after one of the beasts literally ATE HIS SPEAR. The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B11n.

Secondly were the large number of Recutris, which were small beasts that resembled armadillos from Jay's past life, except that they were bigger than those and their defensive properties were certainly nothing to scoff at. The good thing about these creatures is that they were usually pretty dumb and could easily be tricked.

Finally, there were at least 5 groups each with 3 to 6 beasts that seemed to have gotten separated from their own species and had instinctually fled with the rest of them. This was not good for the trench dwarves as they had absolutely no idea how to deal with these beasts.

10 warriors rushed forwards to support Loominus and thrust all of their spears towards a few Goldnes and Rucutris, stabbing forwards with all their might. Two of the goldnes were impaled and quickly retreated to avoid the weapons.

Now it was Rust's time to shine as he brought out a rudimentary and crude smithing hammer, and dashed to the side and smashed downwards at the Recutris, shattering the shell and killing it instantly with intense strength. Rust had gotten much stronger without realizing it as he continued down his forging journey. Everytime he had crafted something, he hadn't realized that he was building muscle as well as precise and explosive muscle. All of this was revealed at this moment as even Rust was slightly surprised at how easy it was to kill.

Seeing this, Loominus left the Recutris to Rust and his warriors focused on the greatest known threat to them at the moment, the Goldnes. He couldn't afford to pay attention to anything else or he might just lose his life!

Loominus backed up and filtered back into his soldiers as the Goldnes advanced again. He yelled out,"STRIKE!"

The warriors all roared out at the same time,"KILL!" as they thrust their spears with fervor and passion!

Two Goldnes were stabbed in the chest and instantly fell to the ground, dead. The warriors understood at this moment that they absolutely could do this! They could survive!

Loominus then noticed a creature from one the group run up behind and opened its mouth and a strange orange flame appeared within its maw! Loominus yelled out,"ATTACK! Watch your line!" while pointing at the newcomer beast. Loominus had no idea what this beast could do and so simply warned his warriors.

However, before anyone could even realize the creature suddenly shot out a huge plume of fire from its mouth and straight at them!