[25th Sun]

“Gasp! Ha…Ha…ha…ha…”

I wakened stunned on a easy mattress.

Trying round I acknowledge that I am on the citadel infirmary.

“DAMN!!!!!!!!”

“FUCK!!!FUCK!!!FUCK!!!”

“WHY AM I SO USELESS!!!!!!!”

Tears stream down my eyes as I set free a myriad of feelings via my voice.

How might I let this occur!?

Why issues find yourself this fashion!?

As I cry on my own, I slowly recall the occasions that led us to now.

…

All this began when the Orcs began their assault on us.

On the primary day our sneak assault destroyed their siege weapons, we additionally hit their chief a tough blow utilizing enchanted weapons. Our goal was to kill or no less than maim their chief and make subsequent fights simpler, sadly it appears we have now failed.

On the second day the chief appeared as if nothing had occurred to him in any respect, their assaults continued with out siege weapons making it extraordinarily ineffective. It was like they had been prepared to change 20 or extra of their warriors for a single lifetime of my elves. In the long run of the day they suffered so many losses that their military ought to have been crippled, making them unable to proceed.

Pondering again, perhaps that is the place our first mistake occurred. We must always have attacked them with all the things we had and completed them off. However my father, the King, was in opposition to it, saying that we’d haven’t any probability exterior the safety of our partitions. I attempted to argue saying my fiance was nonetheless of their arms however he merely mentioned he could not threat the entire metropolis for a single fiance…

On the third day a pink mist surrounded town. We might hear screams and cries from exterior however our military nonetheless did not dare to exit and lose our defensive benefit. I privately despatched a couple of scouts however none of them got here again, making me begin considering perhaps father was proper.

On the fourth day the voices stopped, the mist cleared out and their military got here again stronger than earlier than. I did not perceive what they did however the end result was clear: not solely they had been stronger, their numbers had additionally been replenished.

Because the battles proceeded I attempted all tips in my ebook, from easy baits and traps to enchanted weapons, seals and scrolls, however regardless of how efficient they had been there have been all the time causalities on our aspect, our sources had been step by step being depleted and regardless of what number of of these monsters we killed, extra of them appeared the next days!

It is just like the Orc’s Chief was toying with us, maintaining issues in a balanced state, not killing us simply to get pleasure from extra Conflict! However this made no sense, he ought to know that the people would discover their actions earlier than lengthy after which it could be their flip to struggle defensively.

We fought and fought like there was no tomorrow and for many people, there actually was no future. And at last our numbers had been decreased to lower than a tenth of their unique quantity, making it not possible to maintain on defending with solely these techniques, so, to compensate for the crescent variety of fallen troopers we had been compelled to began utilizing banned artifacts.

The artifacts had immeasurable energy however every activation required us sacrificing a member of our royal household. The sadist inventor who made them mentioned it was so we would not abuse them however now we barely might use them to defend ourselves.

At first it was grandfathers and grandmothers, then my aunts and uncles, then my cousins, and at last my very own mother and father, leaving solely me and my two siblings alive.

The artifacts had been tremendous efficient in opposition to regular orcs, killing them within the a whole bunch. Sadly the identical wasn’t true to their Chief who gave the impression to be protected by a blessing from a robust demigod. Even so we nonetheless had been in a position to flip issues round quickly every time an artifact was used however each time it looks as if we grew near victory the cursed mist appeared and their numbers grew again once more.

And this final time when the mist appeared once more there have been no mother and father to cease me from going out, so I took the few elite knight that had been left and launched a sneak assault on the orcs.

We rode our horses via the pink mist and quickly approached the orc’s camp and as we reached there we noticed an image of Hell. The blood of our brothers was being collected to kind an enormous pool. Inside it, our sisters had been raped and would quickly after give delivery to new orc infants, these infants had runes drawn of their our bodies and compelled to eat the meat of our brothers inflicting them to instantly rework into adults and people grownup orcs would be part of the others in raping our sisters.

Lots of the knights with me had been unable to withstand and began throwing up instantly, unable to struggle anymore. As for the opposite half of us, we quickly discovered our magic was drastically decreased inside this mist, making it not possible to make use of Mana to bolster our strikes or defend ourselves, placing us in a very dangerous state of affairs.

The orcs began noticing our presence and jumped towards us bare as senseless zombies, simply capturing a couple of of us.

Noticing the state of affairs was not in our favor, I readily sounded the retreat. Our horses circled and began operating away.

The orcs began throwing no matter they may discover at us, from lances to stones and even physique components, their ridiculous power made even the commonest object a lethal projectile.

My knights positioned themselves behind me, performing as a wall.

I had no probability to do something, all I might do was preserve operating whereas listening to the their cries of ache from these behind me.

Lastly one thing hit me from behind. The blood speeding via my head made me really feel no ache, simply the influence. I had no thought what had hit me, and all I might do was preserve driving till all the things went black.

…

Remembering my wound I regarded over my physique and noticed an enormous bandage over my stomach.

It looks as if I used to be fairly fortunate to achieve right here alive…

I’m wondering what number of others had been in a position to survive…

As I used to be misplaced in thought a nurse seems via the door. Seeing me awake she cowl her mouth in shock and turns round and dashes away. A couple of minutes later our previous Basic seems via the door, accompanied by the nurse and the physician.

The Basic smiles at me, making me smile again and instantly…

SLAP!

“YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING!!! GOING ALONE TO THE ENEMY CAMP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RED MIST!?!? ARE YOU CRAZY!!??”

His voice resounded like a thunder, spreading via the entire constructing, surprising everybody who heard it.

“YOU ARE THE HEIR TO THE THRONE!!!! YOU CAN’T JUST DISAPPEAR LIKE THIS WITHOUT CONSULTING ANYONE’S OPINION!!! HAVE SOME RESPONSIBILITY!!!! OUR WHOLE KINGDOM IS DEPENDING ON YOU!!!”

I lowered my head in disgrace, figuring out now was not the time or place to seek out excuses.

His sermon saved on going for longer than an hour, reminding me of my duties and what might have occurred. In the meantime the physician acted deaf, making all of the checks to make sure my well being was restored. Lastly the previous normal took a protracted sigh and requested:

“So, what did you noticed? Not less than say it was worthy placing your life in danger!”

“That I’m not certain, however no less than I’ve the solutions on how they’re creating increasingly more troopers and we will use that as a base to formulate our subsequent counter assault plan, and pray we will maintain out no less than till the people arrive…”

“So you’re going to let the people declare the credit score after all of your arduous work?”

“What else can we do? Even when I sacrifice myself and my siblings, it nonetheless will not be sufficient to complete all of them off.”

“That is fully out of query! You’re the final royal elves of the Kingdom! It doesn’t matter what your bloodline have to be preserved!”

“Then all we will do is maintain our floor. Have the people began transferring but?”

“Sure, a message arrived simply this morning, it looks as if their entire military has left the fortress and is heading our method, they need to be two or three days from us.”

“Good. Whereas I’m a bit fear they’ll again stab us in our second of weak point, it’s nonetheless higher to fall to people than orcs.”

“My Lord, please do not joke round! All people are descendants from elves, they need to have the minimal respect for his or her ancestors!”

“I actually want this was a joke. As people and elves separated, so did our costumes and traditions, making our values and views differ drastically. Now a days it is not unusual to seek out people who look down on elves and even worse and if their new Lord is just like the final one, it is a risk we have now to organize for…”

“So, what ought to we do?”

“For now, there’s nothing we will do about that. The orcs have sealed all escape routes, so all that’s left for us is struggle or die.”

“Then we will struggle to dying!”

“Yeah, that we’ll do… Basic, listed here are your new orders.”

“Sure, my Lord!”

“Draft all women and men older than twelve years previous, they shall be part of the defenses beginning tomorrow. Be certain to elucidate the state of affairs to them and supply correct tools.”

“Twelve, my lord?”

“Sure, we received no alternative and it is higher for them to die preventing than being captured and have a destiny worse than dying.”

“I perceive…”

“Subsequent, assemble all retailers and blacksmiths, I would like no matter provides than have.”

“Sure, sir.”

“And the very last thing, kill no matter animals we have now left and put together a giant public banquet to rise the ethical.”

“However sir, this may destroy our future-“

“We have to be alive to have a future, proper now it is extra necessary to rise our ethical, later we will commerce with the people and slowly develop again our shares.”

“Understood…if that is all, this one will now go fulfill his new missions.”

“Go do this, then I’ll-“

The physician who was quiet till now instantly interrupted me.

“You’ll relaxation! Regardless of the grade of the potion I made you drink, your physique nonetheless must relaxation to recuperate. Now lie down and sleep so as to struggle tomorrow.”

“Sigh…understood physician…”

3 extra days…

They need to arrive simply because the mist comes again…

Will we be capable to final that lengthy??