Office Romance with a Werewolf - Chapter 155

Randell continued thinking as it got darker, eventually becoming completely night. Randell eventually had an idea, but figured it would better to sleep on it. The plan he came up with was insane, the fact that he thought so while he was still tired said a lot. If he still thought it was a good idea in the morning then he would go through with it. Randell looked at Nida and felt a sense of regret about waking her up, if he wasn’t so exhausted he would let her sleep all night. After waking her Randell enter dreamland within seconds.

Randell woke to the familiar scent of Nida, and the glow of the sun behind he mountains. He shot a glare at Nida and said,

“I thought I said wake me a few hours before dawn.” She nodded at his words, neither looking guilty or irritated and replied ,

“Yes, but you needed the extra rest. And don’t pretend you didn’t let me sleep in either, the dawn came too early after you woke me up. You took an extra hour or two of watch last night didn’t you?” Randell suddenly found a stump in the other direction rather fascinating as he pretended not to hear the words of his wife. The two finished the leftover fruits and nuts from the day before, and set out once again.

Only a few hours later they arrived at the edge of a cliff, looking down at the plains leading to the entrance of Tirdaral. Randell groaned as he tried counting the men camped out down there, the number had gotten closer to ten thousand at this point. Randell looked in admiration of the massively carved doors to the dwarven kingdom, still unbelieving that soon he’ll get to meet them for real. The doors were carved into what seemed like a cliff, except it extended all the way up to what seemed like the top of the mountain, past the clouds in the sky. He then looked at the piles of rubble next to the doors, and felt a pang of regret at the loss of what he suspected was another example of flawless dwarven sculpting.

Suddenly there was the sound of a small explosion from the mouth of the cave, and Randell smiled. If they had some kind of explosive, then it made the plan he was coming up with even better. Nida was turning pale at the sight of all the soldiers, and asked,

“So the plan is to go through all of them?” Randell laughed at her words, and shook his head. He then started taking off his shoes, while indicating Nida should do the same. She followed his directions with hesitation, and stowed the shoes in her pack afterword.Then, just like when he grew them out of his fingers, Randell grew claws out of his toenails. He then turned to Nida and said,

“We’re not going to fight all of them, we’re going to cut a line straight through them while destroying and killing as much as possible without stopping. Then we are going to climb the Worlds Crown.” Nida’s face twitched at his words.

“You’re joking, right?” Was all that came out of nida’s mouth. Randell simply shook his head once again, and started explaining.

“The dwarves will be cautious of us if we just walked up to them, and we’ll have to fight the soldiers eventually. By destroying everything we can on our way through, we’ll prove that we’re not with the soldiers while also crippling them before we have to fight. Climbing the Worlds Crown is also a right of passage for dwarven royalty, crippling the human soldiers and undergoing trials meant for royalty should hopefully give them a good opinion of us.”

Randell had read in the book about the dwarves that he bought, that before a king was considered they had to climb the Worlds Crown to prove their determination. If a potential King was unwilling, or unable to then it proved they were unfit for ruling. The only downside was that as Randell wasn’t a dwarf, so him climbing the mountains would most likely be contributed to chi or mana. That was why he also wanted to cripple the encampment, to further raise himself in their eyes. Hearing his reasoning, Nida groaned but didn’t say anything. Randell smiled and handed her his arrows.

“I’m going to be using fire and my sword, I want you to focus on targeting anyone that looks important. The main goal though is speed, if they get a chance to surround us then we’re dead. We’ll have to go as fast as possible.” Nida smiled at his words. They had never tried to go as fast as possible before, even the trip here though it was in haste, was made with moderation for saving energy. She took the arrows and added them to her own quiver.

Randell then stood, and walked off the edge of the cliff like he did in the battle. Nida followed him a split second later, and they both kicked off the base and shot themselves forward. When they ran normally, Randell compared their speed to that of a car on a road. When they sped up at this point however, he compared their speed to a car on a freeway, in other words they were fast. The two raced across the plain towards the encampment. Though he told her to focus on archery, Nida still used the surrounding energy to cloak them so that the guards wouldn’t notice them until it was too late.

As they neared the guard post they erected, Randell threw back his head and howled. Part of his plan was to cause confusion by instigating the trained dogs the humans brought in to attack. He hated the fact that most, if not all of them would die, but even Fenrir agreed that dying in defiance was better than being needlessly sacrificed. So as Randell’s howl echoed across the camp, it was answered by the barking of nearly a hundred dogs. Hearing the amount of canines that answered him made Randell even angrier.

The guards that heard his howl turned to see where the wolf was, only to receive and arrow in each of their throats instead. Randell and Nida then jumped and cleared the minor wall that they built instantly, then kept running. Randell had his sword in his right hand, while his right was covered in flame, and fire arched over the tents until it hit one, then exploded.

At this point the soldiers realized that they were under attack. Randell continued sending fire out while his sword swung at every person he came across without missing a beat. Nida listened to his words, and every time someone who looked more important appeared she let an arrow loose, then moved onto the next one. In this fashion they made their way swiftly thought the camp.

Then Randell saw a pile of something that smelled familiar to him, but not from this world. He smiled evilly, and sent a fire ball at the pile of what seemed to be oil barrels. Leaving a small mushroom cloud behind him as the shockwave added to their speed. The more soldiers came out to meet them, the more fell at his blade. As they were nearing the edge of encampment and the foot of the mountains though, Randell swung his sword and heard a distinct breaking sound.

He felt a brief pang of loss at the weapon, before he saw someone who was dressed in the brightest armor he ever saw. His armor seemed to have the design of an owl, and he looked as if he was a capable fighter. Randell then flung the broken blade at his face, then moved on not even seeing if he hit the man or not. He then used fire in both hands, as the destruction of the camp increased. As they got closer to the cliff like mountains, Randell shouted to Nida,

“JUMP NOW!!” and the two pushed off of the ground soaring briefly in the air, before slamming against the cliff face. They dug their claws into the rock, and then swiftly made their way up not even looking back at the destruction they caused. There were several people shooting arrows at them, but with how fast Randell and Nida were moving only one found its way to Randell’s shoulder. He groaned in pain, before yanking the arrow out and burning it. Soon they moved even out of the range of the arrows.

Alex was furious as he strode through the camp and surveyed the destruction. He had a hand to his face as blood flowed from the wound he sustained. This was the main cause of his fury, as the attacker dared to attack his face. Alex’s instinct had barely alerted him to the danger when the man threw his sword, and it was thrown with such strength that it had even destroyed his own sword just to deflect it.. He still sustained a deep injury to his face however.