Kidnapped to Another World

Chapter 151

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Chapter 151

We continued to work with the dwarves while traveling with them, using every chance to beat the enemy siege.

First, I used the new hand signals that I've been learning from Gyle and the Lieutenant to signal to leave all my sharpshooters on the portion of roadway that we held on 3rd West and ten civilians with the best weapons we had that weren't military issue, but took the front line armored dwarves with body shields went with me and my inner team.

This is because to move forward, I have to make sure they don't come up from behind and cut us off or surround us. This will allow me to continue forward on my own momentum as a mage using my skills and mage spells.

My plan is, I'll get new sharpshooters once we get a bit further, or other reinforcements. And I also have it on good authority from Sunghee and Gyle that the goblins will come back to this street so range specialists will be needed here. This street here is a key point in holding the city as a main road after all, and that's also part of it. I did take every civilian that I can with me, but it's starting to look more like a mob than a platoon of soldiers.

The dwarves wouldn't stay behind anyway. The best I can do is try to keep as many of them alive as possible.

But because I'm learning the hand signal codes on the spot for and from the dwarves, I did have to redo my orders several times, and sometimes ask those near me what to confirm the signals I was receiving. Because he's done militia duty before, Gyle has coached me into using it even now, and is still good with it. Sometimes he also stops me when I'm about to make an error, which helps a lot. I'll be able to use this in future battles to know the dwarven hand signal codes to save lives later. Of course I feel like I've only got about 1 percent of all the code and don't understand any of it.

It also seems like the dwarves have a mandatory military service clause, much like some countries on Earth for youth past high school. This is how Gyle knows the military codes, and others also. Its not a bad system for surviving all the mayhem around them.

The civilians fiercely demand the right to be the first to search buildings I found out. This is annoying somewhat, because they are desperate and don't always know how to defend themselves and at the same time won't always follow orders, and act on their own. So I can't protect everyone all the time, though I'm doing a good job so far. But they still expect me to throw all my energy into protecting them just because I'm a mage and have access to shielding magic.

So do dwarves distrust magic because they are too demanding of it when it works?

Plus, there's the attitude of, 'why are we trusting the human again?' They don't say this openly, but I can see it on their faces with how they look at each other all the time to question it, when I give orders. Plus, sometimes they are whispering to each other.

It's some kind of stubbornness in them wanting to take it back themselves but I don't have the patience or resources for it. That's the down side of having few deaths and injuries with shielding magic. Now they think everything is fine but it isn't. They are just seeing red and want revenge and a chance to strike back. And being in tight enclosed spaces with little military training is brutal on them or anyone for that matter. But it's not as bad as it would have been on Earth if it had happened there.