After riding for most of another day, a Gryphon Rider returned with a report: the Orc Wolf Riders were only ten kilometers away. It seemed the Gryphon Riders' efforts to slow the orcs had gone fairly well.
The Orc Wolf Riders had no way to break through the minefields rigged with fishing nets and horse-tripping ropes. They always went into the marsh, skirted that stretch of road, then returned to the main road.
But by now, the Gryphon Riders had run out of both fishing nets and horse-tripping ropes. They still had Gnome Land Mines, but unfortunately, laying mines alone did little good.
The main road through the Wetlands was not bordered by muddy marshland along its entire length. Every so often, a stretch had fairly large areas of firm ground on both sides. Otherwise, it would never have become the main road.
When this main road through the Wetlands was built, its route had actually been chosen to link the major patches of solid, raised ground from east to west. The stretches between those patches had naturally been bogs, and only a great deal of labor spent filling them with earth had made the road as easy to travel as it was today.
The bogs varied in size, as did the patches of firm ground the main road crossed. The Gryphon Riders mostly planted their minefields along the filled-in stretches, forcing the Orc Wolf Riders into the marshes so they could bomb them more easily from the air.
But with only a hundred or so Gryphon Riders, their bombing runs against more than twelve hundred Orc Wolf Riders were not particularly effective. They merely caused them some trouble.
These Orc Wolf Riders wore full chainmail with Brigandine Chestpieces. The Aerial Bombs supplied by the gnomes could only pierce the