Sword Art Online Volume 16 – Alicization Exploding Chapter 18 – War of the Underworld 55 They began lifting up corpses from their fallen comrades and hiding in their shadows or staying a fair distance from the knight while strafing left and right. Deusolbert should have seen through such a naive plan at once if he had his usual temperament. However, the screams from the guards whose strength left them shaved away at his calm without his notice. The goblins benefited from how the war started at evening as well. The enemy was taking awfully long to fall. By the time Deusolbert noticed that, his stock of more-than- enough iron arrows was nearly exhausted. “Goood, good, looks like he’s finally out of arrows.” Shibori scraped the nape of his neck with the backs of the two machetes against his shoulders as he snickered. The tragic display of the countless corpses of his race, too, failed to instigate much influence on his mind. He inherited that tenacity from his ancestors who had lived through the old «age of blood and iron» which could have been no more appalling. It appeared a whole third of his allies were done in, but there still remained over three thousand soldiers. If they obtained plentiful meat and land after invading the white iums’ lands, they could replenish their race all they liked. However, they had to produce significant results to expand their territories. They would first have to take care of that integrity knight in red armor. “Alright, let’s go, all of you. Surround that archer and drag him down. I’ll take his neck off myself.”