In the Still of the Night

In the previous story, Angelick spent her afternoon in the K46 Realm.

She hunted down a few unprotected warriors and was herself hunted by a hunter who was also there.

It was a great afternoon full of victories and triumphs; after all, Angelick hadn’t expected to win by defending herself, holding off the attack of a more experienced warrior who had taken her by surprise in the middle of her hunt.

And as she had such great experiences in that realm, she saved some coordinates in case she might return one day.

When night fell, Angelick was still in the mood for hunting, and decided to take another look at this realm where she’d had so much fun and to her delight, there was another gentleman without protection.

Without a second thought, Angelick plunged back into the K46 Kingdom and launched a spy mission.

This time the target was Jonsloe, an archer with over 13 million soldiers, completely unprotected.

Angelick studied her spy report carefully, for everyone knows that lords who choose to be archers are generally harder to kill.

Many archers set traps with their bows and kill many warriors before they even reach the walls.

And as Angelick had already fallen into one of these bow traps, she was very cautious when analysing the report.

But today, Angelick was feeling confident and decided to test her limits.

The Jonsloe warrior was fully equipped with attack bows, but as he didn’t have many T1 archers and had a mix of other troops, she decided to attack Jonsloe.

Angelick launched her first attack, prepared with troop reinforcements and the full force of her infantry , she accelerated to the maximum and waited to see if she could retreat without getting trapped by Jonsloe’s archers’ wall.

To her surprise, she held out and returned.

After finding a quiet spot to analyse her attack, she realised that although Jonsloe was well-armed and had a formation of archers on his wall, the first attack had been difficult but not impossible. She suffered a loss of 32.57 million power, whilst Jonsloe suffered a loss of 61.82 million power.

Even so, Angelick decided to see it through to the end.

She took up a strategic position, healed her wounded soldiers, and launched her second attack.

Upon returning, she realised that she had now directly engaged the Jonsloe archers , she had lost 37.08 million power, whilst the Jonsloe had lost 38.55 million.

In such cases, depending on who you attack, launching another attack would carry a high risk of getting trapped by the Jonsloe’s wall of arrows.

But, as Angelick doesn’t give up easily, she decided to press on and take the risk.

Since she was putting all her chips on this attack, she decided she would go all the way, regardless of how many soldiers she might lose.

And so she launched her third attack, remembering that it is always safer to change positions on the map so as not to risk being observed by someone else whilst she attacks.

Angelick was facing all the archers who were holding out, but this time the result was more favourable for her, she suffered 34.44 million casualties and he 73.84 million.

Now she felt more confident, because she realised the archers wouldn’t hold out any longer.

She healed her wounded soldiers, looked carefully around to see if anyone might be watching her, and positioned herself for the fourth attack.

Jonsloe’s archer soldiers were putting up a fight, but Angelick’s infantry was growing ever stronger and more determined to eliminate every soldier still there.

A further 97.86 million archers were killed.

Now Angelick prepares for the grand finale, takes up position elsewhere, and launches her fifth attack with full force against Jonsloe.

At last, she had finally eliminated all the remaining T4 archer soldiers of the Jonsloe warrior, she kept him imprisoned in her dungeon and held him captive whilst she waited for the time she needed to return to her kingdom.

Changing her location several times so as not to make it easy for her to be found, she waited a few more minutes and returned safely to her kingdom.

Upon arriving in her kingdom, she reviewed all her attacks, always trying to analyse where she could improve.

It was not an easy fight, she suffered many casualties and many soldiers were wounded in eliminating the Jonsloe archer, but it was undoubtedly very rewarding, for she realised that today she had conquered a challenge.

And although many warriors avoid facing archers, she saw that it is possible to defeat them.

The Kingdom of K46 now held a special place in her memories, marked not only by successful hunts, but by the challenges that had pushed her beyond her own limits.

Angelick gathered her soldiers together after that momentous day to celebrate, they deserved a rest, for they had brought home many honours.

But, like the warrior she was, she was already looking forward to another day of hunting and set about preparing once more, recruiting new infantrymen and elders, and getting everything ready so that she could set out on another adventure.