For the advanced orc priests of the Orc Empire, it didn’t matter how many orcs Abel killed on the orc battlefield. He could deter the Orc Empire’s invasion plan in however ways he wished, and it wouldn’t affect them in any direct way.
The advanced orc priests could live very long. They had plenty of time to wait for the Orc Empire to rise again. In fact, having many dead orcs could help ease the problem of the lack of produce. Even if most of them didn’t die immediately, the mass starvation would still take their lives away.
Still, Abel destroyed sacred relics. That was something that they couldn’t tolerate. It was an act that threatened their core interests, and they were willing to go at any length to lure him to come to the Orc Empire. It was a desperate measure, honestly speaking. With the Budapest Mountain as somewhat of an exception, the advanced priests would always be detected if they tried to step on human territories.
Again, no one wanted to risk a full-on battle between the intermediate-high orc priests and the advanced wizards. Other than that, Abel’s Harry Castle did kill three advanced wizards before, so the orcs weren’t all that confident in committing a direct assault anyway.
When the advanced priests knew about how Abel got his own four griffin knights, that was when they began to do a serious analysis of his personality. From then on, they formed a plan that was based on using Griffins as baits.
Right now, inside two of the human seclusion circles, there were a total of six advanced orc priests. If Abel was bold enough to charge in right away, that would be six advanced orc priests that were going to surround him. He had no ways of knowing about that, actually. He did suspect that some special forces were hidden in this trap, but he didn’t think too much of it.
Still, just for the sake of safety, Abel put on the invisibility cloak himself. With the headband that was sown to his hoodie, his power of the Will was buffed from 300 to 600.
“Lower, White Cloud!’ Abel commanded. Soon, they were about one hundred meters away from the ground. The wind pressure was strong enough to blow up dust from below.
“What’s this?” Priest Cyrus asked, “Why is it getting windy all of a sudden?”
Priest Daniel shook his head, “It’s a bit weird to me. We should go check on it together.”
The advanced priests could try all they wanted, but White Cloud was invisible. While it couldn’t hide the wind pressure coming from its flapping giant wings, no one was able to spot its body or detect its presence. It wasn’t a spiritual beast that excelled at fighting, but it had other perks that would make it be classified as a legendary beast.
Abel was already on Balck Wind’s back. His target was the Griffins, so there wasn’t any need to fight the orcs. It would be a success as long as he could take the Griffins back with him.
“Black Wind!’ Abel shouted, “Instantaneous movement!”
After activating its base ability, Black Wind disappeared from White Cloud’s back with Abel. They then appeared at the yard where the Griffins were captured. Since Abel was already in his invisibility cloak, he and Black Wind became invisible before the instantaneous movement spell was activated.
Still, as soon as he appeared in the yard, the Griffins were starting to take notice of something. They were starved, however. Normally, they would be very rattled by this kind of presence, but they were just too weakened to show many reactions.
A head wolfrider captain howled, “Don’t move, you flying insects!”
This head wolfrider captain had been in a very bad mood lately. He never wanted it, but he was ordered to take his squad to take care of these ten Griffins. Now that these beasts were about to die of starvation, he started to get worried even more every day.
Abel was completely still when he was observing the head wolfrider captain. From what he could see, five regular soldiers were mixing raw beef behind him. It looked like they were trying to prepare food.
“Charge.”
The charge was the only regular head knight commander technique Abel’s ever mastered. Because of the speed buff that Black Wind gave him, it just made the attack several times faster than it should.
The invisibility mode was gone when the head wolfrider captain noticed something strange. It was too late, though. Black Wind had already gone past the five wolfrider soldiers. Abel was cutting through all their throats with one stroke of his knight’s big sword. When he appeared in front of the head wolfrider captain, it looked like the soldiers were still mixing beef in blood.
The head wolfrider captain tried to scream, but his voice was slower than the blade swung at him. “Charge” was a very powerful technique, and the five soldiers weren’t the target at all. They just happened to be in the blade’s way. The real target was the leader himself. Before he even opened his mouth, his head was already severed from his body. He died a very silent death.
When the head wolfrider captain was about to lose consciousness, he saw the human that killed him. It was the target that they were waiting for. It was a human wizard. If he could still speak, he would’ve talked about how surprised he was. The information he got was that Grandmaster Abel was a wizard, but the way he died was through a head knight commander’s legendary technique.
There wasn’t much time left. Soon, combat qi smoke would start to rise from the dead head wolfrider captain. Abel tried to be faster. By pointing with his power of the Will, Black Wind became an invisible shadow running only towards the ten Griffins.
With a swing of his blade, Abel cut the chains that locked up the first Griffin. It was a lot easier than it sounded. Orcs didn’t have a lot of metal, and it wasn’t like they knew about forgery at all. The chains were made with regular steel. Cutting it with a blade made with fine steel was like cutting thin pieces of parchment paper.
Without the time to react, the Griffin that was rescued was swallowed by an empty black hole. Abel just activated his portal beast ring. The same happened to the second and third Griffins. In just a few seconds, all ten Griffins were put into his portal beast rings.
By now, the two human seclusion circles had disappeared. The six advanced orc priests were coming at Abel on their mounts. They already noticed him when he was using his charge technique, but he was just too fast for them to hit. When they got out of the seclusion circles, all the Griffins were already put into the portal beast ring.
There was something else that was faster than the advanced orc priests. About forty-eight skeletons were running towards Abel, and no, they were not skeletons in the mid-low tier. In terms of both offensive and defensive capability, they were all stronger than head wolfrider captains.
“Grandmaster Abel! We got him!”
As the one who came up with the trap himself, it would make sense that Priest Daniel would be so happy to see Abel here. He did get majority support when he proposed the plan, but there was also quite some opposition when it came to the cost that was put in. The worgens living in the wolf garden, especially. They had to sacrifice a lot just to get Abel to come.
Now that Abel was here, the operation was pretty much a success. It was one thing to actually kill Abel, but Priest Daniel’s already proven his intelligence by having him come here. He had already proven plenty of his own worth.
