Chapter - 90

The noise of the horde was like a landslide made of meat and fury.

The glowing red eyes in the dark surged forward and the wave of muscle crashed through the bushes.

"BRACE YOURSELVES!" the Captain yelled and he locked his shield with the man next to him.

The four guards dug their boots into the dirt and their swords glowed with white light and they were ready to meet the boars. They were prepared for a thousand pounds of angry meat to hit them.

But the impact never happened. The first boars burst into the light and they were frothing at the mouth but they did not use their tusks. They did not aim for the guards and they swerved at the last second.

The stampede split like water around a rock and dozens of huge pigs ran past the cart. They ignored the humans and they ignored the box but they just kept running.

They were not attacking but they were trying to escape from something else in the dark.

"What the fuck is this?" Leo muttered, as he watched a big pig jump over Grendel's head.

The stampede kicked up a massive cloud of dust and the ground shook so hard that the mule was screaming in its harness.

"Holy shit, boiy!" Grendel yelled from the dirt and he was covering his head. "The bacon is running away and that means something worse is coming to kill us all! We are fucking dead!"

The dust cloud was not empty and the Grave Stalkers came out of the dirt. They moved low to the ground and they were silent but they moved with a jerky speed.

Their grey skin was rotting and their jaws were wide open and they showed their jagged teeth. There were hundreds of the bastards.

"READY FOR CONTACT!" the Captain roared and the first stalkers hit the shields. It sounded like old bone hitting steel and the guards became machines of death.

Their swords flashed and they left trails of white light and every swing cut through a body. Black blood sprayed into the air and it coated the white shields in thick slime.

"PURGE THE BLASPHEMY!" one of the guards roared and he kicked a stalker back while splitting it from shoulder to hip.

They were near Level 30 elites but the monsters were only Level 3 and 4 trash and the guards were invincible.

They slaughtered the stalkers by the dozen and they piled up the dead bodies like firewood.

But there were simply too many of the fuckers. For every stalker they killed and three more scrambled over the twitching body of their fallen friend.

They did not care about death and they clawed at the shields and bit at the armour. They even threw their bodies onto the blades to make them heavy and the defense held but it was very tight.

"They are leaking through, you armoured idiots!" Leo shouted and he spotted a gap between the rear guards.

Three Grave Stalkers were smaller and faster than the rest and they dove under the swinging swords of the guardians.

They scuttled on all fours and they slipped past the circle and their eyes locked onto Leo because he was the only thing that smelled like fresh meat.

"Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me," Leo hissed. He stood on the cart and the black box was at his back and he pulled his Short Iron Sword. It was the same shitty starter weapon he had used since day one but it still worked.

The first stalker jumped but Leo did not panic at all. To him the stalker looked like it was moving in slow motion and it was easy to see.

Leo stepped to the side and he turned on his heel and he brought the sword down as the creature sailed past him.

THWACK.

The blade bit into the back of its neck and it snapped the spine. The thing fell to the wooden floor and it twitched until it died.

[Grave Stalker (Level 4) Defeated. +20 EXP]

"Is that all you got? Hilda can hit harder than you, you rotting sack of shit," Leo growled.

The second one tried to climb the wheel but Leo did not wait for it to get up. He kicked it right in the face and his boot crushed the rotting nose and the creature flew back into the mud.

"Back to the mud, fuck-face," Leo said and he looked for the third one.

"Watch your ass, boiy!" Grendel screamed from under the cart and he was shaking like a leaf. "They're going to rip us apart and I'm too old to be a monster's lunch!"

"Don't worry about me, and keep your head down, old man," Leo said and he gripped his sword tighter.

The third monster was already on the cart and it grabbed the bottom of Leo's pants and tore the cloth with its claws.

Leo stabbed down and his sword went right through the creature's eye hole. He twisted the blade and he scrambled the brains and then he kicked the body off the wood.

[Grave Stalker (Level 5) Defeated. +25 EXP]

"Enjoy the floor, you cross-eyed cunt," Leo growled.

It was easy and it felt like playing a game against low-level trash. But the stream of monsters did not stop and the guards were busy with the main wave and more leakers were slipping through the mess of the boar stampede.

Leo fell into a rhythm and he was slashing and kicking and stabbing. He was a machine and black blood was all over his boots but his breath was steady and controlled.

DING!

[Durability Alert: Short Iron Sword (Common)]

[Durability: 50/1500]

Leo did not care and he did not have time to change weapons. A Level 6 stalker jumped at his legs but he blocked the claw and the metal made a dull sound.

DING! [Durability: 20/1500]

"Die already, you persistent shit!" Leo yelled and he swung a heavy chop at a stalker that had grabbed the side of the black box.

The sword hit the bone and there was a loud SNAP. The blade shattered and the top half of the metal flew away into the trees and Leo was left holding a jagged and useless handle.

[System Alert: Weapon Destroyed. Durability: 0.]

"Cheap piece of fucking garbage!" Leo cursed and he stared at the broken hilt.

The stalker was not dead but its shoulder was broken and it did not feel pain because it was undead. It jumped forward and its teeth were inches from Leo's face and the smell of rot was thick in his nose.

"Look out, boiy!" Grendel screamed from the front and he was nearly falling off his seat, "The damn thing is on you!"

Leo leaned back fast but his boots slipped on the blood on the floor and he lost his footing. He fell over and his back hit the hard and cold wood of the palanquin.

Leo was wide open and he was in real trouble. Another Level 6 stalker scrambled up the side of the cart and it grabbed Leo's ankle.

The monster pulled him toward the edge and it opened its jaws to bite his leg off. Leo kicked at it but he couldn't get any power and he reached for his daggers but he knew he was too slow.

"Shit!" Leo yelled and he braced for the pain.

Suddenly something moved in the dark and it was a blur of brown fur. Hilda stood up on her front legs and she tore her leather straps apart. She turned around and she aimed her hooves and she delivered a perfect kick from hell.

BOOM!

Her iron hooves hit the Level 6 stalker right in the side of the head. The sound was sickening and it was like a sledgehammer hitting a wet melon.

The head did not just break but it exploded into a mess of brains and bone. Black goo sprayed in a huge arc and it covered Grendel while he was hiding under the driver's seat.

The headless body flew ten feet back and it knocked over two other monsters like bowling pins.

Leo stared at the mess and he scrambled back up. He kicked the first stalker in the face until it stopped moving and then he looked at the mule.

Hilda stood on all four legs and she shook her mane and she looked back at Leo with a smug face. She even crushed a monster's hand with her hoof and she looked like a boss.

Leo wiped the black slime from his face and his eyes were full of happy tears.

"Hilda!" Leo screamed, his voice was cracking with emotion, "You amazing bitch! You beautiful and magnificent beast! I take back every shitty thing I ever said about you! You are a fucking warhorse in disguise!"

He reached out and he patted her side as hard as he could.

"I promise you, girl! If we live through this then I will find you the biggest and strongest donkey stud in the whole world! I will give you a harem of asses! I will even buy you a golden trough to eat from!"

Grendel stuck his head out from under the seat and he was covered in black guts and brains.

"She just wants a damn carrot, boiy!" Grendel yelled and he looked disgusted. "She isn't a pervert like you!"

But Hilda looked pissed off when Grendel spoke and she brayed loudly at him.

"Look at you, Old bastad!" Leo laughed out like crazy, "You want a different thigh to droop upon every day."

"But for this magnificent beauty, you want to keep her satisfied with a carrot? Fuck No!" Leo roared.

"She gets the carrots and she gets the harem too!"

"She gets everything she fucking wants!"

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