Chapter: 444
“Ranged.”
With an eye roll, Jay pointed to his right side.
Jay then only had to stare at another one and they moved to Jay’s left. Soon enough, the whole group was diving into two.
“Okay, six melee, three ranged. Another melee including myself. Gather around.”
Next, Jay crouched down and began to write something in the dirt with his gauntlet. It was a simple symbol, causing some to exchange confused glances.
The symbol looked like a V with two dots on either side.
.V.
Next, he drew an arrow which pointed into the V from the top – this would be where the enemies will be attacking from.
Taking into account the high level mobs that would be coming, along with this assortment of troops, Jay formed this basic formation in his head.
It wasn’t some hyper-intelligent battle strategy, but it would be better than nothing.
“Okay, the dots will be where the rangers will stand, while the V will be melee. Just focus on trying to keep the mobs off the rangers and that will be good enough.”
“When a powerful enemy comes, we will funnel it into the middle of the V and then let it through for the guards to finish it off. I will be at the bottom of the V. Using a spell I will damage any high levels that come through so they aggro on me, running past all of you.”
“After the guards slay it I will rejoin the formation. Simple right?”
Jay then looked at the guards, “and hopefully they can finish off anything that gets past us.”
They nodded in response, accepting his plan.
“Alright, let’s get into formation.”
The adventurers quickly got into a V shape with Jay at the centre. On his left and right were the ranged units, including Anya.
Each of them were spaced about four meters from one another – enough to back each other up, but far enough to freely swing their weapons.
Jay’s assortment of human troops was quite varied. One had a two handed glaive, another carried a mace and shield, one guy just had a big axe, and a girl carried a sabre with a buckler.
Jay was glad that at least one of them had a standard sword and shield combo, similar to himself; being different was fine and everything, but it made for a shitty battle formation.
Thankfully they were up against wood-based creatures, so the axe guy would have an advantage.
Jay had to look out for the dagger wielding girl, guessing that she would not do so well when slashing against wood.
He had the dagger-girl come to his left side so he could take some of the burden off her during the fight if need be.
Anya rolled her eyes seeing Jay do this, but he simply ignored it.
“There’s nothing wrong with my battle tactics,” he thought, guessing that’s what the eye roll was about. On the other side was the sabre girl; thankfully both of the girls by Jay’s side didn’t seem to notice Anya’s disapproval.