Stu andpany journeyed, they were close to the camp but Stu could not shake the feeling that something was off.


    "Skaei, I want you to hang back. I fear they are prepared for our arrival. My men, follow me…" Stu said; the thing about this attack was that it was not a product of his father''s strategy so he did not have the advantage of a fail-safe n that he had grown so ustomed to.


    "Why? Would it not be more effective if we hit them together and hard?" Skaei questioned, this was a strange move by Stu because this would not only divide their forces but make her susceptible to a counterattack.


    "No, we cannot risk losing men carelessly if my instincts are right. We need to be as cautious as we can be…" Stu was surprisingly calm, and the number of men he had with him was equivalent to the army around the camp, Sighvatur was a cautious man and did notmit too many men for this task.


    Skaei reluctantly epted this proposal, she knew he had the strength to conquer these people.


    Stu was equivalent to a small army but one thing about this was, Stu was human.


    Even he would fall if he charged in there alone hence the existence of an army.


    Stu knew he was strong but he was not conceited and understood that he needed a n to win.


    This camp might have been their weakest but to think it fell in such a short amount of time and no one was spared was nothing short of impressive.


    A feat that made Stu want to put an end to their momentum.


    He advanced with half the army, the other half hanging back with Skaei.


    Stu advanced and what he saw in front of him was Finn alongside ten other men standing in his way.


    It was a strange approach considering theycked the numbers or strength to hold their lines.


    Stu knew he could run through them with ease but he was curious as to what they intended to do.


    He stared Finn down, Finn was visibly shaken but he had to hold his nerve.


    He had anticipated they woulde and had taken preemptive measures byying multiple traps throughout the night, this was a task that left his body feeling fatigued but he knew they needed his help more than ever right now.


    "I do not want to fight a battle I do not have to. Drop your weapons and I will spare your lives." Stu said bluntly, he wanted to try to negotiate with Finn but Finn could not speak properly so he chose silence seeing as he had no intentions of epting whatever it was that Stu proposed.


    "Very well then, you have sealed your fate with your silence," Stu said as he raised his hand, and about twenty men charged forth.


    Stu was smart, he did not know what Finn had in mind but he had no intentions of underestimating the enemy, this was why he was testing them.


    Stu would soon be d he did because the men that advanced would soon be met by a tragic fate.


    They stepped on a boobie trap that Finn hadid beforehand.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    Spikes immediately shot up from beneath the snow, impaling them but the spikes did not stop there, they kept rising and eventually surrounded Stu and his men, it was like they were trapped in an entrapment.


    Unfortunately for the men that died, they were at the genesis of the spiked parameter.


    Stu was fascinated, to think that they had erected this at such a pace was nothing short of impressive.


    "I see, so you are one full of tricks…" Stu said but he noticed something else, the ten men that were with Finn drew the bows and began firing away.


    Now this was a problem, Stu had to use one of his men as a human shield to survive the onught but his men were not so fortunate.


    They could not leap over the entrapment because then they would have no way to defend themselves.


    This was a clever trap that worked in dying them but Finn underestimated something.


    That was just how much Stu wanted this.


    He ran towards them with the dead body acting as a shield, the rest of his men had formed a shield wall and began advancing towards Finn and co at a steady pace, they had managed to kill a few of them but now it seems that was over.


    Stu hurled the corpse right at them, forcing the archers to momentarily take cover.


    Thispse was all he needed as unlike his men, he had the muscle strength to leap over it with no difficulty but even Stu could not defend himself effectively while in mid-air hence why he took preventive measures.


    Stu was out of the entrapment with a single move and with everyone''s attention now on him, the arrows stopped raining as Stu made quick work of the archers before they could draw their bow, Finn tried to defend himself but Stu easily disarmed him.


    Grabbing him by the neck and raising him off the ground.


    Stu was choking him, his hand constricting as he had every intention of snapping Finn''s neck.


    While he had not lost a lot of men, he was still ashamed that they could cut down their numbers with such a small army.


    "You… I need to get rid of you now or you will be a problemter…" Stu said and Finn''s eyes slowly rolled to the back of his head.


    He was on the verge of death but Finn felt a rush of oxygen entering his airway as he dropped to the ground.


    Stu had let go of him, Finn looked up to see why and he saw Gissur and Tyr standing right in front of him with an army at their back.


    "I cannot let you kill our little genius here, Stu," Gissur teased, he was the one that forced him to let go of Finn or he would have lost his hand this time.


    Tyr and Gissur were about to face off with Stu.