Doghead Gold opened his mouth wide and called out the number to his companions.
"We couldn't beat even one, and now there are five! Go! You guys go first!"
Polaris shouted.
Doghead Gold and Wangwuji exchanged a glance, offered a few words of encouragement, then turned and ran.
Su Keying and Weiyin had ventured too deep. Running back from the Wooden Hut meant passing through the many Lumberjacks. Unfortunately, one Lumberjack targeted them and sent them both packing with two swings of his axe.
Ma Ren, who lay critically wounded on the ground, likewise had his life ended by a passing Lumberjack with a single axe blow.
Morning Twilight and Honey Pomelo gave Polaris encouraging looks, then put away their weapons and prepared to retreat.
But one of the Lumberjacks raised his axe and swung it sideways at a nearby tree.
Honey Pomelo was fleeing after her guild leader when a swiftly swinging axe suddenly emerged out of thin air from a tree beside her. Before she could react at all, it cut her clean in half!
Morning Twilight jumped in fright.
She took a deep breath, quickly calmed herself, and picked up her pace.
The many Lumberjacks behind them, their bodies shrouded in black smoke, strode after the players in pursuit.
Polaris was about to keep holding them back with fireballs when he discovered that the Mechanical Glove had run out of Fuel Blocks. Frequent overloading had also left it scorching hot, rendering it unusable for the time being.
He sighed and could only draw his Flintlock, firing as he retreated.
But although the Lumberjacks seemed to walk slowly, they could actually use trees to travel through space. Within a few breaths, they reached Polaris and hacked him to death in a flurry of axe blows.
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