Thud! Thud! Thud!
As several dozen Minotaurs began their charge, the earth itself started to tremble.
Sitting atop his warhorse, Daz no longer had an ounce of his earlier high spirits. In an instant, his face turned deathly pale.
"Ah!" With a cry of alarm, Daz tried to spur his horse and flee the way he had come.
Yet he discovered that his legs would not obey him. They shook uncontrollably, and he could not even reach the horse's flanks!
"Young Master, watch out!" Fortunately, Daz was the heir to a duke, so he still had loyal subordinates.
Puke, his face filled with alarm, charged toward Daz without a care for his own life.
The thousand-odd cavalrymen behind Puke followed without the slightest hesitation.
As the guards responsible for protecting Daz during his travels, if anything happened to Daz, none of them would have an easy time after returning. Their families might even be implicated.
Puke quickly reached Daz's side. Without sparing another thought, he yanked Daz onto his own Magic Beast mount.
He immediately urged his mount into a mad dash back the way they had come.
But at such close range, the Minotaurs were no pushovers. They had already closed to within a few meters behind them.
Splurt!
One Minotaur raised the enormous battle-axe in his hands and brought it down in a single chop. Daz's top-grade warhorse was split cleanly in two, without even time to let out a dying cry.
Several other Minotaurs charged straight after Daz and Puke, their giant axes likewise already raised.
"Protect the Young Master!" Puke did not dare stop. He could only shout to his subordinates.
"Kill!" Several nearby knights rushed forward without hesitation, wielding their longswords as they began fighting the Minotaurs.
Though most of these Minotaurs were Gold Knights,