THE Knight's Hidden Princess
Chapter 161: The Easy Way Or The Hard way

Chapter 161: The Easy Way Or The Hard way

DAHLIA POV

There was a certain stillness in the air, the kind that comes right before total destruction engulfs everything. The silence instead of bring comfort brought nothing but tension, it felt like the whole mountain was holding its breath and I could tell that it wasn’t just me that was feeling it. The attacks had stopped for a few minutes which could only mean one thing only.

They were here!

The giant oak doors suddenly slammed open. A few scared whimpers went around but one look from me was enough to shut them all up. I turned around and peeked behind the huge statue of Naktus head where we were all hiding. The perfect hiding spot and also just a place to seek divine intervention if the goddess was so kind to offer one to us.

From this position, I could get a perfect view of the whole place and I saw a man step in along with a couple others. I was right, they had underestimated us. The draumheimiers were few in numbers, from where I was hiding, I could at least count like fifty of them. But just because they were few in numbers doesn’t mean they weren’t dangerous.

If anything the low numbers just made it worse because that meant that they were feeling a little too confident.

The draumheimiers did not require numbers to destroy an empire. Every single one of them posed a weapon that practiced in darkness while learning the art of warfare, Each of the warrior possessed more power than what their current numbers indicated because they were nothing but human manifestations of dark nightmares.

"They are not much, we can take on them!" One of the women said holding on her spear tightly, "The gods must be on our side!"

"Yeah, I wouldn’t be saying that so soon!" I mumbled under my breath as I heaved out a quiet sigh.

The power of a single draumheimiers matched ten common soldiers according to the stories and now we found ourselves with fifty warriors led by a single man whose nostrils was flaring as if he was trying to sniff us all out.

I licked my lips as I heaved another breath. I turned to look at the women, "You are all clear on the plan?" I asked a few nods went around the women.

Nodding my head I stood up suddenly and the man’s eyes snapped up to mine. He smiled, showing all his teeth that looked sharp from where I stood and it took all I had in me not to grimace, looks like he filed it that way.

"Princessssssss!" He hissed at me, his voice hoarse and giving that eerie feeling that sent chills down my spine.

I smiled sweetly at him, "And here I was thinking the draumheimiers lived under a rock, I didn’t know I was famous!"

The man smiled slowly as he showed his teeth, "You know this isn’t what I expected. Last I heard you were deaf and dumb." He said his accent thickening with each words he spoke and I could glared at him in response, "You see I heard all you do is sit in court and just keep mute, I just didn’t expect you to have quite a mouth on you princess!"

"Oh well, since you know I do have a voice on my own how about I ask you this politely..." I said stepping forward, "What do you want?"

The man shrugged, "I heard about the wonderful history this place and the treasure it had within!" He said before he smiled again showing those shark teeth like his, "I’m here for what’s mine!"

"The treasure of the goddess Naktus doesn’t belong to you!" One of the women yelled suddenly standing up, revealing herself.

I closed my eyes, a disappointed sigh escaping me as I stared back at the woman who had spoken. We had one plan, just one plan and she had to ruin it.

The man’s gaze snapped to the woman and this time he smirked like a predator that had just found out it’s prey’s hideout.

"So that’s where you are hiding." He murmured more to himself than to me, "I will tell you one thing, you all come out of whatever hole you are hiding and then maybe I’ll go easy on you, though I am not making any promises."

Smirking, I raised my face to look at him. "That’s fair, but let me tell you this instead." I said with a smile on my face, "How about you crawl back into whatever hole you came from and that way, you get to leave with your head still attached to your shoulders."

The minute I spoke that word, a loud laughter went round the men. Just like I had expected of them, they had underestimated us and it doesn’t matter because that was just what I wanted them to do.

The man turned to look at his men, "Did you all hear what this bitch has to say to me?"

Alright, that was it! I thought to myself as I signaled for a woman to pass me her bow and arrow. I nocked it and allowed the arrow to fly. Before the men could call out a warning, the arrow hit the man square on his shoulder causing him to stop laughing.

The man paused and then ever so slowly, he reached for the arrow and yanked it out, he then turned to look at me with a crazed look on his face but all I did was shrug at him.

"You should know better than to turn your back on a woman or call her a bitch!" I waved at him.

"You are going to die for that one, cunyak!" He said pointing the arrow at me!

Cunyak! That means cunt!

I smirked at him, "After I rip out your head shrak tat!" Which means shark teeth!

I could see the surprise on their faces, I could tell that they didn’t expect that I would know their language. They didn’t expect me, a sheltered princess to know the language if the draumheimiers.

"On me!" I called and all the women rose up, holding their arrows in place.

They all looked surprised to see hundreds on women with armed weapons and a bow and arrow.

"On my mark!" I said raising my hand in the air in command, "Very stupid of you to come here without shields, which proved the point that I’ve been saying over the years. Men always underestimate women, fire!" I ordered.

Arrows flew down at our targets like dark storms of vengeance.

The sound of sharp whistles of the arrows fell across the men with deadly and precise accuracy. Scream filled the air as the arrows pierced them and they fell down to the ground. Bowstrings produced a noise that snapped all around me like war drums, rhythmic and ruthless!

The stunned expression on their faces gave me great pleasure and I watched as some of the men ran away seeking shelter from somewhere. It was clear that they had not expected resistance. The draumheimiers had not expected resistance from us and it was working out well in our favor.

I watched as the men ran forward seeking shelter from our arrows but we were relentless in our attacks. I called out another command and the women continued to fire until I was sure that we had gotten a good majority of them.

I lifted my arms to halt the attacks and the women obeyed instantly and I stared down at the men. The leader appeared smarter than he was because he was the only one still standing along with three other men. But he was still a coward because I had watched him hide behind his soldiers too scared to face his own death.

"Now that we’ve gotten that away and established that all you will meet here is nothing but your death, how about you turn around and leave!" One of the women warriors snarled down at him.

The man glared at us with unmistakable rage in his gaze, his chest puffing with anger and perhaps the bitterness of shame. Blood trickled down the side of his head, whether from the cut of an arrow or the spatter off a fallen warrior of his. But his pride I think was what was hurt the most.

"You_" He breathed out as he pointed a finger at us, "You think you’ve won?"

"Haven’t we?" The woman responded and a grin stretched across the man’s face.

"Bring her in!" He suddenly yelled and the doors slammed open immediately and more warriors entered.

Their footsteps slammed across the floors and they dragged in a small figure who was tied at the wrist and was being yanked forward with nothing but a rope. Dread filled my stomach as I realized that it wasn’t them who had underestimated us, it was us who had underestimated them.

"Now, are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way?" He asked as he brought out his sowrd and placed it on the keeper’s neck.