Chapter 77 - Defense
Craig (Mindbreaker)
Craig had been watching the camp for a couple of days now and he finally got a decent chance to take it. It was one of the strongest camps he had come across with thick stone walls and catapults fastened to the walls. There was only one that he saw that was stronger.
The camp itself looked like a medieval castle.
All of the other camps were barely holding on when he conquered them and this was a stark difference. Well, except for that stubborn lightning mage but Craig didn't like to think about him.
That fight made him lose a good portion of his army and frustrated him to no end. Lightning was a weakness that Craig hadn't anticipated. After his minions got electrocuted, his mental compulsions were wiped out, turning his army into mindless husks.
His orders wouldn't work and he had to recapture them to reinstate his control. The jolt to their system flushed out the claws he dug into them.
He was glad that he pushed the mage out of his camp but disappointed he hadn't killed him. Craig had been there personally to finish him off but he fled faster than Craig thought he would.
He left a few behind to stall and Craig was too late to stop him. The stone walls they held took too long to get through and the mage ran into the territory of the accursed trapper before Craig could get to him. Craig wasn't going to follow into that death trap.
He had made a few forays into her territory before and they never ended well. His believers weren't mindful enough to look out for traps. There could even be obvious tripwires and his army would walk right into them.
Craig had to rework how he gave orders to get over that issue. If he told a minion to go 'that way' it would override their impulse to watch out for traps. This turned his orders into convoluted messes like 'Watch out for traps while going that way' and every failure made him up the complexity. It was immensely frustrating.
It didn't always work but it ended better than the previous way.
It was the main reason he was saving that camp for last. Craig had taken most of the eastern border and worked his way north from there. After reaching the northeast corner, he turned west to sweep along the northern border.