Basil and Joel had a special way to contact each other. Basil took out a small tube from his pocket and blew.

A sharp noise spread across the area. A moment later, Joel appeared with his horse.

“Basil, Joel. Do you guys know any suitable place around here? Head commander Bodley asked the two scouts.”

He did not ask for a place to set up an ambush for their enemy. He knew that it was useless to set up an ambush against a kobold scout.

Joel pondered and pointed in the direction where he came back, “There was a boulder over there. The orcs won’t be able to attack us if we stay on top of the boulder. However, we can’t escape either. We have to fight to the death.”

Abel was back into the spirit whisperer mode. The trees were sending him the information on the orcs.

“The orcs were tailing us, make haste!”. Abel said.

“We don’t have much time, let’s go over there!” Head commander Bodley said.

The boulder was ten meters high, and five or six people could stand on it. They could avoid attacks from the orcs riders, but they would be easily targeted by the orcs bows.

“Three wizards get up there now. Quickly use all the defensive spells you have!” Head commander Bodley said.

Abel jumped down from his ride. In the meantime, Joel had climbed up the boulder and lowered down a rope. Abel followed K3308 and K3305 as they tried to climb up the boulder. The three of them didn’t have to worry about their mounts. They were smart creatures. They fled the battlefield as soon as they saw that their masters had left.

K3308 took out a “Shattered ice armor” magic scroll to Abel, “Imma use this scroll in the battle, mate. Not gonna waste it anywhere else.”

Abel ignored K3308. He threw a magic circle in the middle of the boulder from his space bracelet. In just ten seconds, a primary defensive magic circle was set up successfully,

K3305 looked around the defensive magic circle. He couldn’t help but be amazed by Abel’s identity. This kind of primary defensive magic circle was extremely valuable. Not many intermediate wizards would dare to carry it around with them.

Abel turned to K3305 and asked, ” K3305, how many passive magic defense items do you have?”

K3305 answered Abel with a smile, “Just one. My family “lent” it to me in case I had an accident.”

“I have one on me, but I’m going to use it for myself. I can’t lend it to you!” K3308 said with the same tone.

Abel took out a passive magic defense item from his portal bag. He handed it to K3305 and said, “I’ll lend this to you first.”

He looked at K3308, who had his eyes wide open in astonishment. There was a bit of pause before either of them said anything.

Abel said with a persistent tone, “I am just lending it to you; it’s not a gift. Remember to give it back to me when the fight is over.”

K3308 reached out his hands, “Imma get one of these myself one day. Hey, do you accept magic stones or coins? If you are ok with it, I’ll just buy it off you right now.”

Instead of letting K3308 pretend that he could afford this kindness, Abel decided to take the passive defense item back into his pocket. He didn’t want to hurt his friend’s pride by implying that he couldn’t get a passive defensive item on his own.

Still, now was not the time to play hero. K3308 understood that, so when he saw Abel taking the defensive item away, he immediately went to grab it. Another layer of defense would definitely increase his chance to survive. It was life over pride over here. He didn’t want to lose his chance of living on the battlefield.

Head commander Bodley saw the defensive magic circle rising from the boulder. He felt a sense of relief. By using the defensive magic circle, the wizards would be able to defend themselves against the orc attacks in the battle.

Head commander Markham, too, felt more at ease. With the defensive magic circle, K3308 should be fine now.

Head commander Bodley said, “Basil and Joel, get up there as well!”

Both elite knights were experts on the battlefield. That being said, they weren’t of much use if they were going with a direct assault. Besides, their expertise was in arrow-shooting, so the best position for them was to stick with the wizards at all times.

When everything settled down, they heard a faint sound had been heard from a short distance away.

“Markham, are you ready for the battle?” Head commander Brodley smiled at Head Commander Markham.

“Let’s see which one of us gets more kills.” Head Commander Markham said.

Head Commander Brodley knew that the person who would get the most kills would be the one that was currently standing on the boulder.

Hundreds of orcs came into their sight. Most of them were wolf riders, and there were six bear-riders and two kobolds.

As the name implied, the bear-riders rode on top of bears. They might look somewhat slow, but it’d be very hard to escape from their rush attacks in close range. Once they got close, you’d almost be guaranteed to be forced to take the full force of their battle axes and iron shields.

Usually, an orc would rarely use an Iron shield due to irons rarity. They also had very few blacksmiths, so it’d be hard to make shields that they could carry to the battlefield. Instead, they used leather shields. As easy as they were to come by, it was (obviously) much weaker than steel. The shield could block attacks from long ranges, but it was very fragile against melee weapons like swords and axes.

Speaking of which, the battle axes in their hands were all forged with iron. Whoever made these weren’t very skilled at all. The shape of the blade was rough. The weight was too unbalanced for the hand to hold. Actually, the width of the handle was just too much to have a human hand around it. Still, with all that being said, if one had the muscles to swing it around, the damage it could do would be unthinkable.

“K3305, aren’t we very far away from Miracle City? Can’t the miracle city spirit still see us?” Abel asked K3305.

“K3516, please don’t think that Miracle City would be able to save our asses. The miracle city spirit wouldn’t know anything that happened here.” K3305 answered.

“K3516, are you afraid of these orcs?” K3308 asked.

Abel didn’t bother to reply, “Good, then I will take out my weapon.”

Abel took out a huge device from his portal bag. It was the large-sized crossbow; then he continued to take out the armor-piercing arrows. He was afraid of leaking too much information to the miracle city spirit. If things got any worse, he was ready to summon Johnson to hold back these orcs.

Yet, that seemed hardly necessary. He was already pretty confident with the large-sized crossbows. The moment he took them out, he was certain that the orcs were not a threat to him.

“No way! How much space does your portal bag have?” K3308 asked in bewilderment.

Abel was using the Kong Kong spiritual beast bag. Since the worgens were no longer a threat to him, he could finally use this legendary item out in the open.

K3308 stared at Abel’s Kong Kong spirit portal bag. He noticed that he had two portal bags hanging on his waist. Moreover, Abel just took out a large-sized city bow from one of them. This meant that there were at least five portal spaces of volume. Whatever wealth Abel was hoarding, this was not something that could be bought with money.