Green Monster Epic

Chapter 284: Death (Just looking at the chapter title, you know someone's going to die. Everyone, offer some votes as a sacrifice!)

“Kill!!!”

With a wave of his hand, the cavalry leader merged his 20-odd riders into a single force, carving a winding curve through the somewhat cramped mine, accelerating towards A'Xiu in the center.

A'Xiu's heart stirred, but he knew that with his clumsy movements, it was almost impossible to shake off this cavalry pursuit. Therefore, he simply tossed the heavy hammer high into the air, pulling the chain to swing it around, creating a whistling sound, and then waited in anticipation for the gradually accelerating cavalry.

“Ha!!!!!!”

A'Xiu roared, like a thunderclap in spring, suddenly loosening the chain in his hand, sending the heavy hammer like a massive cannonball directly towards the charging cavalry.

“Heh!!”

The cavalry leader at the forefront slammed his spear hard against the heavy hammer, sending him flying backward off his Nightmare Beast, but he was steadily caught by the cavalry behind him. At the same time, several spears thrust forward, combining with the cavalry leader's spear, forcefully blocking the heavy hammer in front of the formation, preventing any damage to the cavalry, only slightly slowing down their charge.

A'Xiu wasn't in a hurry. Although he had temporarily lost the heavy hammer, he gripped the end of the chain with both hands and began to spin, causing the heavy hammer, which had lost momentum and fallen to the ground, to start rising again. However, the cavalry wouldn't give A'Xiu a chance to swing the heavy hammer again. The cavalry leader skillfully jumped from the back of a speeding comrade, landing on the Nightmare Beast that was still leading the charge, and once again began their unfinished assault.

Before the heavy hammer could be fully stirred up, the cavalry had already reached A'Xiu. A'Xiu could only use the chain and hammer as a jump rope, wildly stirring them in the path of the cavalry, causing several warhorses in the cavalry to lose their balance and kneel, tumbling onto the rocky ground. But more of the cavalry, relying on their skilled horsemanship, easily dodged the chain, thrusting their spears towards A'Xiu in front.

“Ah!!!!”

Several spears pierced fiercely into A'Xiu's waist and abdomen, creating bloody holes in his fleshy body, even pushing A'Xiu back several steps.

However, the formidable strength of the Earth Bear Goblin was revealed at this moment. The clumsy physique made A'Xiu slow, but it also gave him great strength and good defensive capabilities. Although bloody holes were pierced in his waist and abdomen, with the spear tips even remaining in his body, A'Xiu's vital points were actually well protected by the heavy fine iron armor, and the thick flesh also absorbed most of the cavalry's massive impact, so the actual injuries were not serious.

On the contrary, A'Xiu grabbed the spears that were stuck in his body with both hands, and then suddenly lifted them upwards, sending several cavalrymen flying off their mounts, landing on the rocky ground.

The other Goblin warriors who had rushed over were worried about not being able to catch the cavalry. Facing these suddenly falling cavalrymen, they didn't hesitate. Led by several advanced Berserker captains, they directly surrounded these isolated cavalrymen, and the two sides immediately engaged in a fierce battle.

On the other side, Black Head was blocked by two cavalrymen, and the two sides were also fighting fiercely. Both cavalrymen were advanced professions. After giving up the spear as an attack method, they took out their personal long knives, cooperating and covering each other, leaving wounds on Black Head's body. At the same time, several dents were smashed into the armor of their mounts by Black Head's spiked hammer, and their progress gradually slowed down.

While A'Xiu was holding several spears with both hands, wrestling with them, the cavalry leader seized the opportunity to lightly kick the Nightmare Beast's abdomen. The Nightmare Beast, with its telepathic connection, let out a neigh and suddenly unleashed its magical ability, instantly increasing its speed to the limit, while also extending its head forward, aiming its single horn at A'Xiu.

The leader's spear first stabbed A'Xiu in the chest, the sharp magic weapon tearing a deep line in the entire piece of fine iron armor with a ripping sound, and then pierced through A'Xiu's left rib. At the same time, A'Xiu was also staggered back several steps by the huge impact, feeling a blackness before his eyes and a huge tremor in his chest, which was the impact force feeding back to his body, causing damage to his flesh. When he looked up again, a dark figure had already burst into his sight, and long, sharp horns thrust in along the line that the cavalry leader had previously cut.

The sturdy chest armor, after two consecutive impacts, was pierced by the Nightmare Beast's horn like a paper window. A'Xiu was hung on the Nightmare Beast's single horn, retreating rapidly, until his legs stretched back, his body leaned forward, and he relied on the strength of his body to stop the cavalry leader and his Nightmare Beast's impact.

“Damn it!!”

A'Xiu cursed, retracting his hands, throwing the spears in his waist and abdomen to the ground, and then with a bear hug, he choked the Nightmare Beast's head that hadn't had time to pull back. Just as he was about to exert force to strangle the beast to death, the cavalry leader swung a long horse knife directly towards A'Xiu's head.

A'Xiu's eyes were bloodshot, and the pain throughout his body had almost made him lose his mind. He tilted his head slightly to dodge the opponent's fatal attack, and then exerted force with both arms at the same time. There was a cracking sound, accompanied by the Nightmare Beast's violent neighing, and its four hooves kept jumping and struggling, but finally gradually subsided and fell softly to the ground.

A'Xiu didn't get any benefit either. Although his head wasn't cut in half by the cavalry leader's knife, the opponent's long knife was deeply embedded in his left shoulder blade, and the scar was so deep that the back of the blade was almost invisible, which also meant that A'Xiu's left arm had lost its combat power at this time.

A'Xiu loosened his hands, and the Nightmare Beast's shattered neck and head fell to the ground with a thud. The cavalry leader, who had lost his mount, had no time to mourn the death of his beloved steed. He jumped back and landed from the overturned Nightmare Beast's corpse, and at the same time drew the horse knife embedded in A'Xiu's shoulder.

“Die!!”

A'Xiao roared, then his heavy body lunged at the opponent before him. Although he had lost his weapon, he believed that his strength alone was enough to strangle this skinny fellow to death.

However, A'Xiao forgot that the cavalry leader was not fighting alone. Behind him, the group of heavy cavalry companions who had been circling and charging, after pulling out an arc and accelerating again, charged back once more. The cavalry leader suddenly leaped high, and was immediately caught by a companion who brushed past. Then, behind him, a ten-man cavalry charge formation appeared. The swift speed of the mounts brought tremendous impact, striking A'Xiao's body one by one along with the spears extended towards his chest.

"Ah! ! ! ! Ah! ! ! !"

Several more spears pierced A'Xiao's body, two of them going straight into A'Xiao's chest through the holes previously torn open by the Nightmare Beast on his chest.

However, A'Xiao seemed impervious to pain, as if he had no vital points. Although the charge of these ten cavalrymen pushed his body backward for more than ten meters, leaving two deep footprints on the solid gravel road, A'Xiao ultimately managed to block this impact.

"… …"

The cavalry leader had not expected that this wilderness native in front of him would be so powerful. His own cavalry had already opened more than a dozen large holes in his body, and pierced many of the opponent's vital points, but still had not brought the opponent down.

Looking at the figure standing upright a few meters away, his round eyes staring fixedly at his side, many cavalrymen's eyes became erratic, and a sense of awe arose in their hearts.

"Hmph! !"

Seeing that things were not right, the cavalry leader kicked the cavalryman behind him off his horse, then kicked the warhorse fiercely in the abdomen with his spurs. The spurs on his riding boots pierced the warhorse's belly, and with the warhorse's sharp cry of pain, he strode forward again, charging towards A'Xiao not far ahead.

Raising his saber high, the cavalry leader, with his high-level strength, poured all his battle aura into this strike, aiming at A'Xiao's large head and slashing down fiercely.

The expected resistance did not occur. The cavalry leader's saber broke in two, cleanly slicing through the bear goblin's fragile neck. With the furry bear-nosed head falling to the ground, A'Xiao's fat, stout body fell straight backward, crashing onto the ground with a dull thud.

It turned out that A'Xiao had already been injured in the heart when the Nightmare Beast's horn pierced him. Subsequently, after being stabbed in the vital points by the charge of ten cavalrymen, and his heart was injured again, how could he have persisted? He had already breathed his last breath. However, until the moment he died, he kept his eyes wide open, standing firmly without wavering, because he was the fierce field owner of the Green Field Tribe's Aoro mine.

"Kill, leave no survivors! !"

With the biggest opponent resolved, the cavalry leader rode his warhorse around the corpse of this respectable opponent, then waved his hand, and the cavalry behind him re-formed their formation, launching charge after charge in this narrow mine, hunting down any green-skinned goblins they could see.

Black Head smashed his war hammer onto his opponent's steel helmet, leaving a deep mark on it. The owner under the helmet, stunned by the dull blow, found that his opponent had taken the initiative to rush forward. A chokehold grabbed the neck protected by armor, and then twisted the steel helmet on the cavalryman's head, directly rotating the head under the helmet 360 degrees, and the cavalryman fell down limply.

Behind Black Head, two warhorse corpses lay horizontally, and another cavalryman's corpse was already cold, having died long ago. On Black Head's body, the steel armor was torn apart, and the exposed areas were covered in a miserable green blood, occasionally mixed with the cavalry and warhorse's bright red blood, making him look extremely ferocious.

Just as Black Head turned around, looking for his next opponent, a ten-man cavalry team went straight through him, piercing Black Head's body with several spears at the front end, then lifting and withdrawing, Black Head's corpse was submerged under the cavalry's iron hooves.

"Dear brothers, what are you waiting for! ! Our God has sent His walking power to rescue you, everyone help together to block that group of damned, ferocious goblins, we must not let them run away! !"

The slave area was unattended at this time. The goblin warriors were all fighting with the cavalry in the field, and had no energy to care about the life and death of this group of slaves. Taking this opportunity, the jackal Dahnay waved his arms and shouted loudly in the field. Immediately, the believers around him made a commotion and rushed out of the cages with Dahnay, returning the injustice, pain, and torment they had suffered for countless days to this group of damned green skins.

The fighting became more intense, and for the goblin warriors fighting fiercely in the field, the most critical moment had arrived.

Another supporting character died in battle. I originally wanted to write something about his and Flower Snake's power struggle in the later stages, but thinking about it, their personalities have already been shaped. Even if a power struggle occurs, they would probably fight to a limited extent under the rules of the wilderness, and it would not be too intense, nor would there be too many dark methods.

In that case, it wouldn't be too meaningful. It's better to use A'Xiao's death to highlight how powerful the destruction of the demons and demon believers is.

Of course, the most important thing is that I hope to write a world of changing situations, where no one can predict what they will be like in the next moment.

In too many farming novels, supporting characters accompany the protagonist's growth and development, and then take charge of the overall situation, which always feels a bit illusory. I very much admire the plot of the first few seasons of "A Song of Ice and Fire", where the vision of each major chapter seems to be portraying the protagonist, but later they directly receive a lunch box.