The trees shook violently, making room for the green tide pouring out of the dense forest.
Eren gripped the heavy orc dagger with bloodstained fingers and took a slow step back. The rhythmic, metallic clinking he heard earlier wasn't a disorganized mob. It was a fully structured, multi-layered army.
In the front lines, massive elite orcs marched in tight groups. They wore the same heavy, blackened plate armor as the Vanguard Chief he just killed, holding giant battle axes and thick shields. But they were just the meat wall.
Behind them, dozens of scrawny, hunched goblins scurried around in packs of twenty. They carried crude wooden staves and short bows, their yellow eyes locked onto Eren. Further back, a swarm of kobolds hissed and screeched acting like completely expendable foot soldiers.
Half of them were riding those featherless dinosaur-looking mounts that Thadric seemed to love but impossible to tame in Elf's level and they snapped their heavy jaws at the air.
