World at War by Dave Willmarth

Author:Dave Willmarth [Willmarth, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The Bigger They Are…

The enemy wasn’t waiting around for Alexander to execute their plans. A horn rang out from somewhere along the wall, followed quickly by several more. Alexander looked to the tree line as the treetops once again began to shake and sway. Only this time, the movement was coming toward the wall.

A moment later, Alexander and the citizens of Elysia saw the first giant. It stepped out of the shadows of the forest and into the sunlight, shading its eyes and blinking momentarily. The creature was massive. Built like one of the rock trolls, it had thick muscular arms and legs, with mottled skin that would provide perfect camouflage in rocky terrain. Its head was the size of a small car and a shower of thick saliva sprayed from its mouth as it roared a challenge. The fifty-foot giant held a stone club in its right hand that must have weighed at least a ton.

As the monster stepped forward, four others began to emerge from the forest. Giant after giant moved into the sunlight. Each carried what looked like an enormous makeshift shield made of logs from the forest. Five of them, fastened together side by side with crude spikes and vines. Each log was maybe three feet in diameter, making the shields about fifteen feet wide and taller than the giants themselves. The monsters could easily hide behind these as they approached the wall.

From out of the woods came a flood of smaller monsters that flowed around the feet of the giants. The smallest were hobgoblins. Half orc, half goblin, they were larger than their goblin ancestors, standing about four feet tall with muscular bodies gifted to them by their orc blood. They had the same big ears and feet as goblins and the same bloodshot eyes.

Scattered among them were were-beasts. Most were wolf-like creatures that walked upright like men. A few appeared to be of boar ancestry as well, with elongated snouts framed by sharp, curved tusks.

A force of maybe sixty orcs held the center of the of the line. Similar in size to the orcs on the wall, these had nearly black skin. Their bodies were pierced with dozens of bits of jagged metal and bone and each looked up at the wall with red glowing eyes. In fact, Alexander noticed that all of the enemy had the same glowing eyes, including the giants.

The last to arrive were slow-moving mountain trolls. These stood fifteen to twenty feet tall, with thick, slow-moving bodies. They had long arms that reached the ground as they walked and massive shoulders topped by boulder-like heads. Two of them carried a chair, upon which a drow in mage’s robes sat. Alexander focused on the drow.

Drow Wizard’s Apprentice

Level 110

Health: 65,000/65,000

Alexander could sense his people beginning to panic. He quickly levitated himself so that all could see him. Then he told Jeeves to activate loudspeaker.

“They look scary, don’t they?!” he shouted, pointing to the now-stationary giants. “Big enough to swallow any one of us in one bite!”

His people all looked at him like he was insane.

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