Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King

Chapter 507 507 Bear Ambush

507 507 Bear Ambush

The Witches didn't just sit in their camp once the monsters started to move out to the west. They were actively herding them, searching for villages.

Wolfe had heard that they had captured at least one scout, so they likely knew where a few villages in the region were, and he wasn't willing to let them get away with simply running over them quite so easily.

The locals should have some magical ammunition with them as well, and he didn't want that getting into the hands of the Witches this early in the game, so he made a mental note of where the witches were headed, and picked a group near the middle to follow.

On their current course, they would come across a village in a few hours, despite the slow pace of the monster horde.

The villages all kept a night sentry out, so Wolfe raced ahead of his chosen group to warn the locals that there was a Monster Tide, led here by the foreign witches, coming their way.

"There's a what? I knew you can't trust a Witch. Alright, we will be ready. We've got the munitions that your people dropped off this morning, I guess it was for exactly this reason. We wondered why we would need so much ammunition so urgently, but now I understand. The Deep River Bear Clan will fight." The scout informed Wolfe after being explained the situation.

"Then I will circle behind them. When they get too close and your people are in position, begin the attack, and I will back you up by taking out as many of the Witches as I can." Wolfe agreed.

The two shook hands and Wolfe moved off to warn the other villages that had incoming monsters that they had trouble. They all accepted that Wolfe would help the Deep River village, since they were the first to get attacked, and the other villages had more time to prepare, but they all hoped that he would find the time to come rescue them when things didn't go as planned.

With as many warnings as he could find time to hand out, Wolfe returned to the rear of the convoy of Witches that were herding the monsters toward the Deep River Bear Clan.

The Witches were using their ability to manipulate plants to herd the monsters toward the entrance to the village, using a GPS device that was glowing at night for everyone to see. At first, Wolfe was certain that they were going to notice him, but with so many monsters around, they couldn't tell him from all the other magical creatures in the area, and his presence wasn't even attracting their attention, despite the fact he had gotten within a hundred metres of them.

There was a mighty roar in the distance that had a more intelligent note than the others Wolfe had been hearing, and then the ground in front of them lit up with explosions.

"Shit, they have artillery. I thought that these were supposed to be primitive clans living in holes in the ground?" One of the witches shouted.

"Never mind that. Send the monsters forward and get the attack started. [Mind Control] isn't permanent, and that curse has made them rabid. Surround the entrance to the village with quicksand and get the vines growing." The Sergeant in charge, the only Rank Three Witch in the group, demanded.

Wolfe waited a second until he was certain they were engrossed in their work, then emptied an entire mana core to create a [Lightning Storm Array] in an instant.

A hundred lightning bolts streaked down from the sky, shattering barriers and burning witches and monsters alike to piles of ash. Wolfe held the spell active as the screaming continued, targeting anything that he could see, or sense by the disturbance of mana in the area.

The Bear Kin weren't magical beasts, and they barely registered, making his work easy as he annihilated the crowd in a rumble of constant thunder that didn't sound like any natural storm.

As fast as it had started, the fight was over, and the Bears were out cleaning up. Wolfe used [Levitate] to rush forward fifty metres to a running step and began to check the bodies for survivors and useful gear.

He still saw the GPS shining, so the witch holding it must have dropped it when the fight started, and Wolfe was hopeful that they had marked locations for other battles in it.

Wolfe heard groaning, a startling sound on this particular battlefield, and started to search through the craters for the survivor. She was laying next to a small tree, visibly scorched and missing most of one arm, which she was slowly healing.

Next to her was a spear with a metal shaft that she had planted in the ground. It must have served as a lightning rod, but the magical lightning was still too strong, and it had badly burned her before she could escape.

The young woman looked up at him in horror as Wolfe suddenly appeared over her, and shakily pulled a pistol from the holster at her hip.

"You're a monster." She wheezed, her body failing as she stopped the healing magic to deal with his approach.

"Don't stop on my account. I simply have some questions for you. First, how did you know where this village was? Second, why didn't the army wait the seven days that their message promised before they began the efforts to clear the region?" Wolfe asked.

The Witch started to cast a spell, and Wolfe sighed.

"That's not a healing spell. If you wish to live through the night, you need to heal yourself. Now do it and answer my questions before the locals get here?" He demanded.

It was too late for her to avoid capture, there were already a pair of Bear Kin waiting in the shadows out of her line of sight for Wolfe to finish his questioning.

"Seven days? Who ever said that you had seven days to leave? We got the order to deploy and we deployed. They captured a few mutants when we arrived, and they gave us the first targets. Now, will you help me get out of here? You're human, but so are most of our soldiers. You don't need to die if you see reason and leave or join us." She mumbled as she finished the healing spell to regrow her lost limb and began to fade from consciousness.

Wolfe nodded to the Bear Kin, and they came forward to put an anti-magic bracelet on the unconscious witch.

"What did she say?" The larger of the bears asked.

Here, the curses were still in effect, and they would have only heard screaming and wailing as she spoke.

"They didn't know about the seven-day warning. They were deployed here with orders to hold the border and clear the area. They opened their portal close to a pair of scouts and interrogated them for the information." Wolfe replied.

"Alright, we will bring her into the den and lock her up. If she sees reason in a week or two, we will keep her around, if not, we will get rid of her later."

With the bracelet on, she wasn't much of a threat to a five hundred kilogram Bear Kin, so Wolfe just nodded and prepared to head to the next site that should be receiving hostile visitors.