Three days later, the gno noble led the 1,000 giant gnos toward the mine. As they drew near, the army’s scout noticed that sothing was wrong. “My lord! Undead creatures lurk within the mine.”
The gno noble froze in confusion. He had heard of the undead before. They were monsters raised from corpses. Any area that housed them was considered as ominous and would draw even more of their kind over ti.
The gno noble was in a dilemma. The mine belonged to the gnos, and abandoning it so easily felt unthinkable. Yet, the presence of undead was an ill on, and he dared not march into their lair without more knowledge. After weighing his options, he ordered the scout to monitor the mine and gather more information.
Another three days passed before the scout returned with a full report.
From the report, the gno noble learned that the mine contained only the lowest-ranked skeletons, numbering no more than a few hundred. Even if their summoner was hiding within, the small number suggested that the other party was weak.
Encouraged, the gno noble ordered an all-out attack, sending the entire army of giant gnos charging toward the mine. As they closed in on its outskirts, the skeletons erged to et them, just as the gnos had expected.
The skeletons were pitifully weak. One strike was enough to reduce them to splinters, and none posed any real threat. The army of giant gnos reached the mine’s entrance without much difficulty.
“Attack! Kill the rebelling slaves!” the gno noble thundered.
The 1,000 giant gnos marched forward in single file and pushed into the mine. Han Wu, in the form of a Thunder Sparrow, observed the invasion unfold. He had already learned of the gno noble’s advance when the scout was snooping around the mine. He then tailed it back and discovered the gno army’s location.
A thousand giant gnos were a daunting force for him and the slaves, but the mine itself gave him the advantage. With traps in place, he could whittle them down with ease. For three days he had driven the slaves to rig the mine and to wait for the gno army to step inside.
The mont the giant gnos entered, Han Wu let out a piercing cry. It was the signal that he had agreed upon with the human slaves, who lay near the mine’s vents waiting for his call.
Once they got the signal, they launched their retaliation. Akanzor leapt from hiding and drew the giant gnos’ attention. This was all part of their plan.
“We found a slave! Follow him, and we’ll find the others,” the gno noble shouted.
The giant gnos spotted him at once and chased after Akanzor, driving him deeper into the mine through the cramped corridor. None of them realized that they had walked into the slaves’ trap.
Akanzor reached a dead end, signaling the success of his mission. The giant gnos chuckled when they realized he had nowhere left to flee. “Human, you have nowhere to run. Tell us where the other slaves are.”
Akanzor’s body was shivering as they slowly closed in but not from fear—excitent coursed through him. He crouched low and reached for the weapon that his god had bestowed him: the Overlord Sabre. He had hidden it there ahead of ti.
The giant gnos were shocked and edged back to put so distance between themselves and Akanzor. The sharper among them quickly noticed that his Overlord Sabre was no ordinary weapon.
“Human, hand over your weapon, and we will spare you,” the leader said and carefully approached Akanzor.
The others grumbled because they were one step too late. To them, a human was nothing to fear; even ten together posed no threat. The leader stood ten ters away from Akanzor when the latter shouted and drove the Overlord Sabre into the ground.
The stone floor split under the weapon’s force, and cracks raced outward until they widened into deep fissures before Akanzor. This was the slaves’ trap.
The ground shattered beneath the giant gnos, plunging them into a pit lined with razor-sharp spikes made out of hard stone. More than fifty of the giant gnos were impaled and died, while the rest were heavily injured.
Akanzor smiled, swung the Overlord Sabre into the wall beside him, and revealed a narrow corridor barely wide enough for one person. He quickly escaped through the corridor.
The giant gnos had fallen for Akanzor’s trap. Rather than pursue him, they turned back to retreat. They had barely taken a few steps when the ground shook violently. A cascade of stones and rocks fell from the ceiling and blocked the path to the entrance.
The giant gnos all realized that they had been deceived. With no other path open, they were forced to funnel into the sa corridor that Akanzor had taken, squeezing through one by one in a slow, constricted line.
At the far end of the corridor, hundreds of ard slaves lay in wait, ready to spring their ambush! The terrain gave them every advantage, and they held unwavering confidence that they could kill the giant gnos if they erged one by one.
A Skeleton Knight was standing among the human slaves. Its task was to turn the corpses into skeletons to aid the human slaves in their battle.
The gno noble outside didn’t know that his army was in trouble. He had been waiting for several hours for news. Even the scout that he had sent in hadn’t returned.
He realized that sothing must’ve gone wrong. The giant gnos could have died in the mine. Faced with the prospect of danger, he decided to flee.
When the gno noble turned around, he found Han Wu was blocking the path. He raised his sabre and tried to intimidate Han Wu. “Human, do you know who I am? I am the nephew of the Gno Lord who governs the deep mountains. If you dare lay one hand on , you will suffer his wrath!”
In reality, the gno noble was very afraid. His status as a noble made his life far more valuable than the worth of the giant gnos and the Gno Warriors. A thousand giant gnos did not equal even a single joint of his fingers. At that mont, his only concern was his own safety, not the lives of the 1,000 giant gnos. Once he returned, he would have to report the news to the Gno Lord and request for thousands of Gno Warriors to level this entire mine.
Han Wu ignored the gno noble’s threats. He brandished a 2-Star God longsword and pointed it at the gno noble.
“You dare point a sword at ? You shall die!” the gno noble shouted. He understood that escape depended on defeating the man before him, so he struck first.
Unfortunately for him, the gno noble was woefully inexperienced compared to Han Wu, who was a God. Even as a re clone right now that couldn’t use his powerful Skills, he still retained his muscle mories and battle instincts. Within a few exchanges, he easily injured the gno noble.
Rather than finish him off, Han Wu commanded two skeletons to drag him into the mine. The gno noble’s life could be valuable to him right now.
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