The Throne Of Valor
Edmud: Battle of Death Valley

My recommendation song while reading this chapter > Miles Away – Bring Me Back ft. Claire Ridgely

The moonlight still rose above Edward's head through the sidelines of the dead trees around him.

The wind gently blew around Edward's body, replacing the foggy darkness into bright moonlight.

At this time, Edward was able to see his surroundings clearly again.

Edward turned his gaze into the heart of the forest to his right.

There was a large rock there that stood firmly.

Edward then stepped slowly through the dead trees on the large rock.

When Edward was standing on top of it, Edward drew out his mother's sword and lifted it up.

With complete confidence, Edward hoped that something special would come out of the sword.

But after waiting for some time with the sword raised up, nothing happened to his sword.

Edward was confused, should his sword can light up fire like when held by his mother earlier.

*Auu ….

There was the sound of a wolf roaring from the forest behind Edward, and the distance was not far enough.

Several times the wolves roared loudly, indicating they were hungry and in hunting mode.

With his mother's sword attached to Edward's hand, Edward slowly walked toward the source of the wolf's voice.

Every footstep that Edward took toward the wolves, there was no fear hiding in his body.

*Auu .. auu ..

From behind the bushes in front of Edward the sound of the wolf barking at something, it seemed like they were getting their dinner today.

Edward slowly opened the bushes, and saw what the wolves were dealing with.

In Edward's current observation, Edward saw an old grandmother flailing her staff at the wolves.

Without thinking for a long time who the grandmother really was, Edward immediately ran to protect the old grandmother behind his shield and faced the wolves that numbered 10.

These wolves are different from wolves in general.

The wolf that was surrounding Edward right now had much longer fangs, fiery red eyes, and a body that was almost twice the size of an ordinary wolf.

Edward asked the old grandmother to slowly retreat away as Edward blocked the wolves from heading towards the old grandmother.

Without waiting for long, one-by-one the wolf began to attack Edward from various directions.

*tings

The sound of a wolf's claw from behind Edward managed to be fended off with his shield.

Edward darted forward to divert the focus of the wolves from the old ancestor who was running away behind him.

Edward dashed towards a wolf that seemed to be the Alpha and directly swung his sword at full force.

*wush

Edward's sword swing did not hit anything, it seemed that the wolf had great agility because it could avoid an impromptu attack from Edward.

One tail facing Edward in front of him now seems to be the Alpha, because his body is so big and dare to make eye contact with Edward.

Edward knew that he only needed to cripple the Alpha to disrupt the wolf's attack formation.

The Alpha suddenly leapt towards Edward at full speed which Edward barely realized while reading the situation.

*wush

The wolf's claw almost hit Edward's face without his helmet.

When they saw Edward off guard after dodging Alpha's attack, another wolf attacked from behind his body and managed to pin his claws into Edward's armor.

From the left, from the right, the jump from the top, all the attacks happened in quick succession and Edward attacked.

Edward deliberately fended him off because Edward was reading their attack patterns.

A fierce fight ensued between Edward and the wolves, Edward felt there was no room for him to counterattack as he had to constantly fend off and dodge their attacks.

When he saw that some wolves seemed to be changing formation, Edward immediately swung his sword towards the wolf behind him.

*Srek

One swing of Edward's sword managed to split the body of one of the wolves behind him, now there are nine wolves that revolve around him.

The wolves suddenly stopped spinning, it seemed like they were going to take a swing to jump towards Edward simultaneously.

After successfully reading their next attack, Edward smiled at the wolves.

“Come!” Edward shouted glaringly at the Alpha.

*wush

Sure enough, the wolves jumped simultaneously at Edward except for the Alpha who would pounce after a simultaneous attack from his members.

When the wolves were on top of him, Edward immediately turned his body up by swinging his sword from the ground.

The sound of the bodies of 8 wolves split on it while jumping on it.

One swing of Edward's full-strength sword followed by the trembling ground, and the wind gusting from his sword managed to kill the wolves.

The wolf's blood and body now covered part of Edward's body.

Now in front of Edward there is only the Alpha left.

Without hesitation, Edward immediately ran towards the Alpha.

*tings

The sound of the claw from the Alpha was successfully repelled by Edward using his sword that swung to the side.

With both hands holding the sword, Edward intended to slash the Alpha in one strike.

Edward swung his sword from above his head towards the Alpha's neck in front of him at this moment.

But while swinging his sword, Edward suddenly remembered Edmud's face as he looked into the eyes of the Alpha who was burning red in front of him at this time.

*wush

Edward suddenly swung his sword in another direction.

He immediately lost focus after remembering Edmud's face.

Edward also sees the Alpha suddenly escaping into the dark shadows of the forest.

With a body filled with the blood of the wolves that he managed to slash, and the back of his armor that had been pierced by the claws so that his blood slowly flowed out, he said, Edward began to walk through the forest to meet his troops who were waiting for him at the end of the forest.

…

It was morning and the sun was beginning to show itself in the east.

As Penny was cooking food facing the dead forest in front of her, Penny saw Edward coming with a body full of blood.

“Edward!!” Shouts Penny ran towards Edward and helped Edward walk without feeling disgusted by the blood on Edward's body.

“What happened to you?! Get in the tent, I'll take care of you!” Penny felt so anxious to see Edward always return to her with a body full of blood and hurt.

“I did my job, Penny. Please help you to take care of my body, I am exhausted and will rest for a while.” Edward's tone sounded limp, probably due to having to walk quite a distance with blood continuing to flow out of his back for several hours.

Right now Edward and his army were in front of the mouth of Death Valley.

According to a legend, in Death Valley there are not only Orc bandits, but also wild wolves.

Maybe Edward will come back to face the Alpha there and finish their fight earlier.

After being treated by Penny for two hours, Edward's condition began to improve but still not fully recovered.

As Edward and his troops began to prepare to leave for Death Valley, one of his guards suddenly ran towards Edward with a message, “Edmud! Edmud and his cavalry are heading this way! They number about a thousand people!”

Hearing that, Edward immediately ordered his entire army of 16 people to say, “formation trap! Execute!”

Edward's entire army immediately hid behind the rocks and left only Guntar standing alone in the middle of the road.

They purposely used the Guntar to be a decoy because the strength of the Guntar was the greatest with an incredible body defense.

Slowly, Edward's troops began to disperse around Guntar from behind the rocks.

They had prepared fire oil, fire arrows, and spears to be thrown at the enemy troops.

The atmosphere began to calm down, the wind began to blow in that valley of death.

After waiting for thirty minutes, Edward and his men heard the pounding of the horses' legs leading towards them.

Instead of being frightened, Edward saw Guntar laughing out loud at the enemy troops so much.

Guntar laughed until finally the enemy troops were not far in front of Guntar.

*wush

In one blink of an eye, Edmud suddenly appeared behind Guntar.

“What?!” Shouted Guntar startled in Orc language.

*Srek

The sound of Edmud's sword slashed through the Guntar's armor until it split into two.

Guntar's legs trembled after seeing his skin armor split into two pieces falling down below him.

Seeing that, Edward clenched his hands looking at Edmud with deep hatred.

“Wait for my signal to release the fire oil towards the enemy crowd in front.

Penny, you can light your fire arrows now.

Lucius, lead the invading army from behind the enemy after the fire starts raging in the enemy's vanguard.

I will duel with Edmud, I know that he is much stronger than me but I have absolutely no fear of it.”

... "Be Brave, And You'll Win!"...

... - EDWARD, THE PRINCE...