The war had come so suddenly that the Gnolls were ill-prepared and suffered heavy losses right away.
At that moment, chaos reigned both inside and outside the city. Although the Gnoll allied forces reacted quickly, mobilizing the army as a whole still took time.
After all, the Gnoll allied forces had to defend not just this city, but the Gold Panning Plains.
For now, they were only barely holding off the monsters' assault.
After Yeenoghu left, Dunn and the others immediately followed his instructions and hurried out of the city.
Naturally, everyone in the group, including Dunn, looked rather grim, all because of Yeenoghu's final remark about being short-handed.
Under normal circumstances, their surprise decapitation strike required a large number of elite Gnolls to cover them, ensuring Dunn could approach the Broodmother safely.
During that time, they needed to keep Dunn from taking action as much as possible, or the Broodmother would learn about his abilities.
It was a legendary being, after all. Though it had lost its self-awareness, the Broodmother could still identify threats through instinct alone.
It could also easily analyze the characteristics of abilities below the legendary level and quickly develop countermeasures.
Thus, every time Dunn acted before reaching the Broodmother, their chances of killing it would fall a little further.
That meant clearing the way could only be left to Annie, the others, and the Gnolls. Now that it was clear there would not be enough Gnolls, the burden had suddenly fallen on their shoulders.
The Broodmother's personal guards were all at least high-tier beings.
According to Yeenoghu, there were at least several dozen of these guards, possibly over a hundred. Forget Annie and the others-even Dunn might not fare well against over a hundred high-tier monsters.
This dealt a sharp blow to Dunn's confidence. Even