Blasphemy Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Ambush (Part One)       ……………………….   Sunlight was falling in patches throughout the forests.  Even in the midsummer’s high noon, the sunlight that could pa.s.s through the exceptionally luxuriant braches and leaves of the forest were few to see. In the magic domain forest (TL: We are changing magic demon forest to magic domain forest), even the edge of the forest was always cold and damp.   Thirty knights were pa.s.sing through the forest in silent procession, and most of them were well-equipped in body armor, knight issue halberd and more than half of the knights were hanging long bow in their back. This team of knights were precisely were the mercenary group that Rogge and the company created the ‘dragon and beauty’.   Towards the bandits and thieves (or mercenary) occupied Fort Cyrus, they marched for more than 200 miles, with some military experience, Kate led the mercenary group headlong into the magic domain forest. After another painful march in the forest for a day, the mercenary group was nearer to the destination by 100 more miles. The way in the forest went smoothly ad without meeting any high rank monsters, after all the mercenary soldiers were only in the edges of the forests.   Because of the remote location, lack of resources and coupled with Offie Roque’s abandonment, who allowed the fort to be seized for half of year; it had only common people in its surrounding suffering from the lack of concerns. But these were quite outdated information mentioned in the map provided by Offie Roque. Now Rogge had to ultimately rest in the information provided by the reconnaissance.   ……………………………….     In one early afternoon, the mercenary group ‘ dragon and beauty’ were estimated to be near the Fort Cyrus by less than 70 miles, approaching the scope of each other’s scout patrol. Kate issues the order, for some mercenaries to distance and move ahead of the formation, while slowly spreading. Four seasoned mercenary jumped down from their horses and quickly started to search forward.    In the ranks of the center rear position, the soldier wearing black knight armor was Rogge. This place was the standard position for magicians to be in a formation. The little fat man was holding a short handle axe in his hand. The short ax, adhering to the ‘hammer of G.o.d’ which has always been gorgeous style, was beautiful lines  and even make people feel fine, magic inscriptions carved on the back of the axe, handle set with a rare piece of black crystal. After seeing the costume and the appearance, vicious mouthed Franco shot at Rogge: ‘I think that short axe magician is not really funny.”   Because most of the magicians are immersed in magical experiment all the year round, and exposed to all sorts of harmful substances ( for humans, the majority of the monster beast’s body parts are little poisonous), their physical strength was not much, wearing the heavy helmet and armor was absolutely a big burden. Moreover the metal was confirmed to be a big hindrance in the process of gathering mana, even if a magician was standing motionless, wearing body armor, will results in a magic failure rate exceeding 50%. In a life and death battle, this was a huge problem.   For Rogge, these two are not the problem. His spirit power was huge, and controlling that pathetic amount of mana was extremely easy. Moreover, he does not know reason but after his body transformed, Rogge's psychic force was able to pa.s.s through metal and loss while acc.u.mulating mana is very small, the loss only suffices to send a round of rank three magic, even thought this metal armor seal him in the metal ball, he still can emit the magic in the same old way.    …………………     Since entering the territory of the magic domain forest, Rogge has been frequently in the state of trance. Since in the magic field forest, Rogge is often in a State of trance trance. In his eyes, everything around us often turned into a flat picture, all kinds of strange screams ringing in the ears at all times. Rogge looked around blankly, he felt as if he was standing in front of a huge landscape painting, he had several impulse to crush this layer of paper with his axe and to see what is behind it.   He saw Kate to walk to him, and was saying something to him loudly, but he was similar to the fish in water, he could only see the moving of the person’s mouth, but actually could not hear specifically what was said.   Rogge shook his head hard, and it was like breaking a mirror, the flat world was broken. The sound, the color returned to this world.    “Rogge!, What is the matter with you? Kate made an effort to shake him firmly.   “I am all right, what’s wrong?” Rogge felt tired. Kate stared at him for a moment, and said: “We found the whereabouts of the other patrol, I think we should better stop here and lay and ambush, may be we will catch some people to get some information.   Kate found the patrol only 10 miles from the outer edge of the forest, there were very clear Horseshoe prints, mixed old and new, in quant.i.tative terms, were about 7-8 person team. These marks indicated that the same size of the team often moved from this path, maybe this was the path through which the forest patrol move around. It was getting late, mercenaries laid a trap after a good rest in the forest night.   In the Morning, Kate had arranged for new Scout in the edge of the forest, looking, others continue to rest. Military knowledge was extremely limited in the mercenary group as they actually do not know how to ambush, but there were several hired mercenaries, who had some familiarity in this area, arrangement and their layout was good.   Rogge, who after the deliberation of night, felt that these patrols were not so simple; otherwise the two scout that they sent earlier would not have gone missing. However, other than strengthening the preventive measure, there was no other result in that area.   …………………………     After pa.s.sing the night resting, Rogge’s energy was restored. He was caressing a green ring on his hand lightly; he recited an incantation in a soft voice, and a small, non descript ball of light formed and slowly and gradually rising into the sky. Rogge separated a little of his spiritual power into the ball of light, and immediately it felt as if he opened another vision. The ball of light went up in the air slowly and started to slowly stabilize in around 10 meters in the air.   The magician’s eye magic was not very high rank, and the duration was very long, it was a convenient reconnaissance magic. However, the short coming was similarly was also prominent, magician needed to unceasingly replenishment attention, therefore when the magician was fighting, they could not attend to keep on maintaining this magic. Another shortcoming was the fluctuation of this magic was very easy to be surveyed by another magician, and has frequently exposed the position of the magician casting the magic. This was often the deadly threat to a magician.   A clear bird came through the woodland, jumps around the mercenary soldiers who were sitting in the position waiting for the ambush.   The horses of mercenary soldiers were already placed 5 miles away, the cavalry soldier cannot display anything effective in the forest. Along with calm hoof beat began to clear gradually, n.o.ble degenerate’s palm were starting to sweat.   This was different from previous fights, this was the real thing. Rogge did not move, thoroughly immersed in observing the surrounding through the eyes of magician. Of course, he himself was comfortably sitting on a leafy tree.   ……………………..   The position of patrol leader chest area appeared to be painted is some kind of signs, but now they have been sc.r.a.pped down. Rogge, on tree suddenly felt a heart palpitation, as if the dark and poisonous snake was staring at himself. Rogge immediately withdrew his spiritual power from the magician eye, and closed his eyes, to perceive magic fluctuations around.   Rogge with superior spiritual power immediately felt those two miles outside the mercenaries, a touch of magic fluctuation.  When he used the magician’s eye to see him a moment ago, he casted stealth magic to oneself, and was at least an intermediate-rank magician.    Rogge couldn’t find out the position immediately, the energetic fluctuation could only discover the approximate position of opposite party, but cannot crack the invisible magic of at least rank four. However, there always will be a way, Rogge, thinks about it, and smiles darkly, taking advantage of the distance that mage is, he discussed with Emmett, and rapidly vanishes in the magic domain forest as agilely as the monster beast native to the forest.