Chapter 17

The old man and his girls hurried out of town and were met by Keope the huge ½ orc Cavalier and horses for all of them. They rode to Keal’s army and dressed back into their fighting armor. The scouts reported the enemy forces were split into two groups, just outside of the small-town ground troops were gathering. Estimated numbering about 700, obviously not experienced soldiers just men at arms called to fight. The second group forming to the north, numbered 500 give or take 50. These were real soldiers and nobles with their personal guards. The king was not seen.

The next morning Keal’s forces swept through the soldiers as they were just waking and getting breakfast. Since they only had four lookouts, they never even gave the alarm before they were killed to the last man. The archers took the far side of camp and were waiting for them to run into them, armed with both short swords. The soldiers split half to each side and would gate swing toward the archers forcing the enemy to the waiting archers. The mounted knights pressed forward starting across from the waiting archers.

At lunchtime, the men at arms were lining up to be fed. Using the same tactics, they quickly had them surrounded. They were offered the chance to surrender or die. With no leadership once the half dozen that had given orders were killed by an arrow through the neck. They all surrendered and complied with Keal’s instructions to disarm, remove all armor, pick up their personal items minus weapons and go home. It was funny, almost every one of them were saying it was the young man’s army. The girls just giggled.

Several were asked where the king’s castle was located. Everyone said the same to the north 5 leagues.

A wagon was sent to the castle with the heads of all the leaders in it, and a message for the king to surrender.

Scouts would capture messengers sent to call for help. The army was split surrounding the castle, 50 soldiers, 25 archers to each side with the mounted knights riding patrols around the whole castle.

It was determined that there were only 50 trained soldiers in the castle, and the men-at-arms only numbered another 50. Only 3 nobles were in the castle with the king and their military had been sent to the main army.

After a week, Keal took a small group at night into the castle on a stealth mission. Tia with her death dancer skills, A’Na-Ya for her cleric healing, Mia to watch her back, Raife with his ranger skills, Keope for his strength and fighting skills, lastly Keal made a total of six.

A feigned attack at the main gate, gave enough of a distraction the group easily scaled the wall and entered the castle. The guards were rendered unconscious rather than killed. This was for intimidation and to get to the king. They made their way to the bedroom of the king and had encountered half a dozen guards, not one was able to sound an alarm before being knocked unconscious.

When they entered the king’s chambers, Tia and Mia had to be restrained by Keope as Raife restrained A’na-Ya. On the king’s bed were two young naked females. The human girl looked to be in her early teens, she was bound to a rape rod, without the knot behind her neck she was slowly strangling. The young elven female was frog bound, her ankles were strapped tight to her upper thighs with two leather straps around each leg, the one near her knee wrapped around her thigh just above the knee and after passing through a metal ring which formed the strap into a figure 8 buckled just below the knee on the lower leg. The second strap was high in her groin again with a ring making the figure 8 was strapped around the ankle. Her arms were in a wrist binder that also had cuffs around her upper arms holding her arms parallel across the small of her back with her wrists next to her elbows. The head harness had a metal ring gag keeping her mouth open and from each side of the neck collar were straps that buckled around the thighs of the king and from the forehead strap a belt around his waist keeping her impaled on his cock, she too was struggling to breathe.

Keal quickly cut the strap around the human’s throat allowing her to breathe at the same time delivering an uppercut square to the jaw of the king that almost killed him but did break his jaw and leave him unconscious. With one swipe of his knife across the strap around the throat of the human female, Keal continued over to the belt around the kings waist leaving a small cut on his hip, quickly changing direction, the strap around his thigh was also cut leaving a deeper cut on his outer thigh. The elven female was able to withdraw from the kings cock and catch her breathe as Keal cut the last strap on the other thigh, and because the elf had pulled back the strap was cut without leaving a cut to this thigh.