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Chapter 523: The Lucky Draw
The self-growth attribute on their bodies would allow them to quickly grow up after merging with Kant's forces. They would be able to fulfil all the tasks Kant had given them.
At most, due to their different personalities and methods, they would choose different ways of doing things.
Currently, Kant had six heroes
Wandering knight, Firentis.
Genius merchant, Manid.
Scoundrel noble, Rolf.
Nomadic thug, Baheshtur.
Battlefield doctor, James.
Crossbowman squad leader… No, now it was the Underworld Apostle, Bunduk.
There was still one. Although he wasn't a hero, he had the potential to become one.
The former leader of the trade caravan, Joslin.
This could be considered as Kant poaching someone from the Continent of Caradia.
Among the 6 heroes, Kant's trade caravan was handed over to Manid. Joslin, the half hero also led a trade caravan.
Firentis, Rolf, and Baheshtur, the three heroes, were fighting for him.
His most important base, Drondheim, which was built in the Nahrin Desert, was overseen by the strongest hero under him, the Underworld Apostle, Bunduk.
Aaron, a prosperous town in the Senwaya Range, was entrusted by Kant to James.
Only these 6 heroes.
It was not enough.
He was short of talents.
Even his 3rd fortress city, Sargoth, which was located in the East County of Leo Dukedom, was not guarded by any heroes.
Kant knew that the knight orders of the human sects were aiming for Sargoth Fortress, which was located in the East County, along a tributary of the Resniston River.
Not to mention the Stone Pass which was completely under Kant's control and the huge Dukedom of Leo in the North County.
None of these were guarded by heroes.
Firentis, Rolf and Baheshtur could not be transferred back at all.
They were needed on the battlefield.
Therefore, Kant hoped that he could draw one or two heroes in the system mall to solve his urgent problem.
However, the probability of drawing a hero was too small. He had already drawn more than a hundred times in the system mall, but so far, he had only drawn six heroes from the "Mount and Blade" world.
"Ha!"
Kant looked at his palm and sighed, then rubbed his hands together.
He hoped that his luck would be better this way.
[ System, I want to draw the lucky draw in the mall! ]
Kant's expression became serious as he communicated with the system in his mind.
Almost at the same time as Kant's thought, a dazzling treasure chest appeared on Kant's retina.
This was a treasure chest in the mall.
It was specially used for drawing the lottery.
[ I want to draw ten consecutive times! ]
Kant said firmly like a soldier who was ready to die.
His honor points were only enough for ten consecutive draws.
At this moment, Kant's desire for heroes had reached its peak.
If he didn't have enough heroes to govern his vast territory, would he have to kneel down to the noble of this world?
That was absolutely impossible.
As for promoting the commoners from the world of "Mount and Blade"?
Don't be ridiculous. Even a level 6 troop class that had the common knowledge of a small noble wasn't able to govern and manage a larger estate and appoint commoners?
Anyone who understood the Continent of Caradia would know how ridiculous this idea was.
That was the real dark world. Blood, violence, killing, and war were eternal themes.
Civilians were just the properties of the noble, like livestock being raised.
They did not know how to read, govern, politics, economy, or military. Apart from their strength or some skills, they knew almost nothing.
Compared to Kant's open and pluralistic world in his previous life, which was full of information, the civilians in this world were miserable.
If he were to choose talents from the ordinary commoners in his previous life, Kant would probably laugh in his dreams.
If the commoners who grew up in his previous life were to come to this world and be entrusted with an important task by Kant, they would really be able to fight against the kings, monarchs, and noble families of this world.
They would definitely not be inferior to heroes.
However, Kant was not qualified to do such a good thing.
The commoners of Caradia could never be counted on.
Unless Kant specially collected some commoner children and spent more than ten years to specially train them.
In Kant's perturbed mood, time seemed to have become long.
The multi-colored treasure chest on Kant's retina suddenly burst out with a dazzling brilliance.
Pack after pack gushed out from it.
[ You received a troop class pack: Swadian Royal Knight 50 ]
[ You received a troop class pack: Swadian Royal Knight 50 ]
[ You received a troop class pack: Swadian Royal Knight 50 ]
[ You received a troop class pack: Sarleon Lion Knight 50 ]
[ You received a troop class pack: Sarleon Lion Knight 50 ]
[ You received a troop class pack: Sarleon Lion Knight 50 ]
[ You have received a troop class pack: Mage of the Enfath Empire X 50]
[ You have received a troop class pack: Mage of the Enfath Empire X 50]
[ You have received a troop class pack: Mage of the Enfath Empire X 50]
[ You have received a troop class pack: Mage of the Enfath Empire X 50]
In these ten ten-pack gift packs, there was a pack that the ten-pack system would give out.
[ You have received an item pack: Extraordinary Recovery Scroll X 1]
Rows of words appeared on his retina, and at the same time, eleven glittering cards sank into Kant's mind.
Kant was a little disappointed that there was no hero pack that he desperately desired.
However, the abundance of the pack that the system gave out this time had greatly exceeded Kant's expectations.
They were all troop class with extraordinary power, 150 Royal Swadian Knights, 150 Sarleon Lion Knights, and 200 Enfath Mages.
These were the strongest troop class that he had.
The total number that he had was about this number.
The system had almost doubled it for him.
Based on Kant's understanding of the system, this uniform gift pack definitely had a deep meaning.
The system was strengthening his extraordinary strength.
Kant's expression changed slightly.
He thought that he had prepared well for the Lionheart City attack this time.
The troop class he brought along were all the most elite troop class 5. Even these water bandits were invincible on the water. They could definitely make the south bank soldiers who wanted to cross the river pay a heavy price. They couldn't even successfully cross the river to attack Lionheart City.
To deal with the Association of Mages and the War Temple. Apart from those who had been sent out, he had brought almost all his extraordinary strength.
A hundred Swadian Knights, A hundred Sarleon Lion Knights, Two hundred mages and a hundred mage apprentices.
How much extraordinary strength was this?
Kant was completely confident that with this extraordinary strength, he could crush the Association of Mages and the War Temple.
However, at this moment, his confidence was no longer as strong as before.
The system had replenished him with so many extraordinary powers at once.
Why was that?
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Chapter 524: Urgency in Facing the Situation
There were also two honor points.
Kant had originally planned to keep these two honor points in reserve if he drew a level up world hero in ten draws.
Not only would he be able to accumulate honor points, but he would also be able to draw ten draws in the future to obtain an additional reward.
Moreover, he would be able to use them to level up fortresses or towns.
In Kant's eyes, these honor points were a very powerful system hard currency.
However, the result was not optimistic.
The result of drawing ten in a row was an unimaginable level 6 troop class with powerful extraordinary power.
The system was deliberately strengthening his extraordinary power.
There were no heroes.
This made Kant very unwilling.
He desired heroes.
He needed heroes.
If there were no heroes, the territories he had conquered now simply didn't have enough people to guard and govern them. It would be difficult to develop together, and they would definitely be taken away.
Kant didn't want this to happen.
However, this was already the case.
For his new blueprint, his previous actions and plans were a little faster.
If he took too big a step, he might fell hard.
However, it was absolutely impossible to make Kant spit out the benefits he had eaten.
That was also impossible.
He was no longer the initial weak moment.
There was no need to agitate and sacrifice his own interests.
"A hero! I need a hero!"
Such thoughts lingered in Kant's mind.
If he lost his honor points, Kant would endure.
But now, he still had two honor points, so he could continue to draw.
He couldn't wait any longer.
[ System, I want to draw the lucky draw in the mall. ]
This time, this thought circulated in Kant's mind, and it seemed like he was going to go all out.
Two honor points, only two chances.
Epic victory and legendary victory weren't so easy to obtain. This time, he took advantage of the sneak attack. He didn't know when the next time would be.
As the thought of drawing a prize was confirmed in Kant's mind.
A dazzling treasure chest appeared on Kant's retina.
[ One mall lucky draw ]
Kant took a deep breath and calmed himself down.
On his retina, the dazzling treasure chest shone brightly. It opened slightly and spat out a gift pack. Then, it closed again. The effect of the ten consecutive draws was incomparable.
Then, the colorful treasure chest of the mall disappeared on Kant's retina.
A row of words appeared.
"You have received an Item Pack: Glory. The Protection of Serenity."
A great disappointment appeared in Kant's heart. This time, he was still not a hero.
There was only one last honor point left.
Like a gambler who had lost several times, Kant did not hesitate to conduct the last draw.
[ You have received the Item Pack: Glory. Bright Red Movement ]
Sigh!
A sense of exhaustion welled up in Kant's heart. The hero pack that he longed for did not appear in the end.
This made Kant unwilling, but he could do nothing about it.
His honor points had been completely used up, and he could not do it again even if he wanted to.
He could only put his hope on the next time.
At this time, Kant could only calm down.
Sometimes, things were like this. As long as there was a little hope, people would risk everything to take a gamble.
However, when an unhappy ending happened, people could actually settle down and accept reality.
"Then let's see, other than those level 6 troop class, what are the other three items obtained from the draw? And what use are they?"
Thirteen cards that shone with golden light quietly floated in the depths of Kant's mind.
Ten of the cards had human-shaped patterns on them. They were level 6 troop class items, the possessors of powerful extraordinary powers.
As for the other three cards, one had a scroll on it, one had an emerald necklace on it, and the last one had a bright red cape on it.
[ I want to take out an item: Extraordinary Recovery Scroll ]
As his thoughts raced, countless pitch-black streams of data flowed in Kant's palm, entangling and condensing.
Finally, a silver-white scroll appeared in Kant's hand.
On the unfolded scroll, there were golden threads that were gilded with gold into complicated patterns.
It was hard to imagine that the back of a scroll would have such dense patterns that looked like magic arrays.
When this silver-white scroll was completely materialized, Kant felt his hand sink slightly.
This scroll was extremely heavy.
Kant's current strength was even a little stronger than that of a level 6 troop class.
Possessing two extraordinary powers, the King's Power and the Divine Power, Kant's strength was much greater than his young and immature face that was gradually growing.
However, he could still feel the weight of this scroll.
It was cold to the touch, and it didn't have the texture of leather. Instead, it had the texture of metal, as if this scroll was made of metal.
At the same time, dense words appeared on Kant's retina.
[ Extraordinary Recovery Scroll ]
[ This is a scroll made of mithril foil as the carrier of the scroll. It is carved with melted fine gold as ink, and it gathers extremely powerful extraordinary power. ]
[ Function: One-time recovery of extraordinary power. The user can select the target. It can completely recover all the extraordinary power of 1000 level 6 troop class soldiers. ]
Kant read the description on his retina and was slightly surprised.
If he summoned the 500 level 6 troop class soldiers from the depths of his mind and the level 6 troop class soldiers and mage apprentices that he brought to conquered Lionheart City, didn't he just happen to have 1000 extraordinary power holders?
Whether it was a troop class 6, a mage, or a mage apprentice, their strength came from their extraordinary power.
If their extraordinary power was exhausted, the Swadian Royal Knights and the Sarleon Lion Knights would still do fine. They could still be stronger than a level 5 heavy cavalry troop class.
However, the mages and mage apprentices would instantly become weaker to a troop class 1 infantry once their extraordinary power was exhausted.
Without the spells cast, mages would lose all their power and means.
However, this Extraordinary Recovery Scroll could recover all the extraordinary powers of 1,000 level 6 troop class soldiers at the same time.
This could greatly increase the duration of their extraordinary powers and the damage they could cause.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it could directly double these powers.
Kant felt that a storm was coming.
The system wouldn't allow him to obtain such powerful scrolls for no reason.
Perhaps he needed these scrolls in his current situation.
Kant once again thought about the hostile forces in Lionheart City.
The nobles were eliminated by Kant. As for the Association of Mages, Kant considered it seriously for a while and also eliminated it.
If the noble had the strength to contend against thousands of his extraordinary forces, then the Dukedom of Leo would have long launched a war of revenge against the Silver Platter Kingdom.
As for the mages in the dukedom, if they were so powerful, they would not have to rely on the noble to contend against the pressure from the sect.
In the end, Kant locked his target on the War Temple.
This was an ancient force that had been standing on the continent for 7000 years.
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Chapter 525: The Extraordinary Equipment Set
"Perhaps I haven't truly investigated the power of the War Temple?"
"Knight orders, priest order, anything else?"
Kant carefully recalled the wars of the God of War, Edmund, and his War Temple. He had read about the power that had been revealed during the war.
Only the knight orders and the priest orders.
All of these were already in Kant's consideration. He believed that the power he had prepared could already crush them. Otherwise, Kant would not have launched this war to conquer Lionheart City.
"According to the information, the War Temple participated in the war, and they all won. Even if they didn't win, they still reached a compromise with the noble. Perhaps the War Temple has powers that are far beyond my expectations hidden in the dark?"
Kant completely threw the disappointment of not being able to extract the hero to the back of his mind and couldn't help but think.
"This God of War, Edmund, is the target that I have to eliminate, unless he takes the initiative to withdraw his sphere of influence from the Dukedom of Leo."
"But this is absolutely impossible. The human countries all have their own gods that they believe in. Those gods will never allow the God of War to go to their territory to spread their beliefs."
Perhaps the War Temple really had a powerful hidden power that Kant did not detect.
However, Kant did not have any intention of retreating.
He believed that with his current power, even if the God of War, Edmund, appeared, he would be able to defeat him and make him fall. The strength of 1,000-man troop with extraordinary powers was absolutely not to be underestimated.
However, Kant would not be blindly arrogant in the face of unknown circumstances.
From tomorrow onwards, Kant would pay close attention to the movements of the War Temple in Lionheart City. He made his decision.
After Kant put away the Extraordinary Recovery Scroll, he was ready to continue looking at the other two items.
The situation that deviated from his expectations made Kant shift his attention from the desire to be a hero to the situation.
The item he obtained from the lottery seemed to be increasing his strength.
[ I want to take out the item: Glory. The Protection of Serenity ]
As his thoughts surged, countless pitch-black data flowed in Kant's palm, entangling and condensing.
Finally, an exquisite jade-green necklace appeared in Kant's hand.
The main body of the necklace was an octahedral jade-green crystal.
Just by holding the necklace, Kant felt a sense of tranquility from the bottom of his heart.
This necklace had a mysterious power that could calm him down.
His thoughts seemed to have become clearer.
The entire necklace was emerald green. Whether it was the necklace itself or the main body of the necklace, they both seemed to be made of the same material. They were sparkling and translucent like crystals. However, within them, the emerald green seemed to be slowly circulating.
Especially in the main body of the necklace, the flowing emerald green seemed to form a mysterious rune.
The moment the necklace appeared in Kant's hand, dense text appeared on his retina at the same time.
[ Glory. Protection of Serenity (upgradable) ]
[ One of the components of the extraordinary equipment set "Glory" that runs through eternity and falls into the void, necklace ]
[ This is a top-grade necklace made from the highest-grade magic crystal. It has magical powers. It could survive through time and remain undamaged when it fell into the void. However, a long period of time had caused most of its powers to be lost. Although it was still noble and eternal in nature, it no longer had much power. ]
[ Special effect:
Tranquil Mind: The wearer can possess a tranquil mind that is unshaken by external things. In any chaotic and stimulating environment, the wearer can take the initiative to maintain absolute calmness and tranquility.
2 Protection of Serenity: when the wearer suffers a fatal attack, this special effect will be activated automatically to block a fatal attack for the wearer. Cooldown time: one week.
3 Glory: The wearer will take the initiative to reveal the eternal and noble king's glory, making the ones who bathed in the glory be loyal to him until death. This special effect is the ultimate special effect of the extraordinary equipment set "Glory". It can only be activated by wearing all the "Glory" components. ]
[ Remark: Glory. The Protection of Serenity has lost almost all of its power over a long period of time. Through absorbing extraordinary power, you can obtain a level up and gradually recover its former power. ]
Kant calmly read through the rows of words on his retina and looked down at the necklace in his hand.
He did not know where the system had gotten this necklace.
This didn't seem to be an item from the world of "Mount and Blade".
In the Void?
From the introduction of this necklace, it was very likely so.
However, this necklace seemed to have a very big origin.
It ran through eternity.
Such a comment came from the system's explanation, so it shouldn't be meaningless flattery.
However, even the gods would fall, and it was difficult to say that those gods would last eternally.
Did this necklace have the ability to do so?
And the last "Glory" special effect even made Kant connect to the system.
Weren't the heroes and soldiers from "Mount and Blade" world that Kant obtained through the system had the constant and eternal loyalty to him already?
In Kant's eyes, this wasn't a big deal. After all, it was an omnipotent system.
In fact, Kant valued loyalty of those soldiers and heroes the most.
This was an advantage that the humans of this world couldn't compare to.
And now, the system actually let him draw such an equipment.
Special effect, Glory.
What a terrifying special effect.
He just didn't know how many components this equipment had.
Was it all in the hands of the system?
Kant thought for a while and knew that it was useless to think too much, so he decisively cut off his thoughts.
He put the necklace on his neck and covered it under his clothes.
Then, his thoughts moved.
I want to take out the item: Glory. Bright Red Movement
As his thoughts moved, countless black data flowed in Kant's palm, entangling and condensing.
Finally, a bright red cloak appeared in Kant's hand.
This bright red cloak seemed to have no weight.
If it wasn't for the delicate touch and visual confirmation, Kant wouldn't have thought that he was holding something.
Even if Kant held it in his hand, this cloak would move without wind and dance fiercely.
It was as if it was playing a soundless movement.
This cloak didn't let him enter a certain status like the necklace just now. It only appeared in Kant's hand, that's all.
However, Kant would not think that this was an ordinary cloak.
Having obtained the necklace, he knew that this cloak was also one of the components of the extraordinary equipment set "Glory".
Dense text appeared on Kant's retina in rows.
Even if Kant had not started to look carefully, his heart could not help but be filled with anticipation.
These were the system descriptions of the bright red cloak in his hands.
This is no ordinary cape.
It is one of the components of the "Glory" of the extraordinary equipment set.
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Chapter 526: Inspection of the North and South Main Roads
[ Glory. Bright Red Movement (upgradable) ]
[ One of the components of the extraordinary equipment set "Glory" that can penetrate eternity and fall into the Void, the cape. ]
[ This is a top-grade cape woven from the eternal will of the battlefield. It has magical power. It is immortal after passing through time and undamaged after falling into the void. However, most of its power has been lost due to the passage of time. Although it is still noble and eternal in nature, it no longer has much power. ]
[ Special effects:
Blood Thirst: Active special effect. On the battlefield, within a kilometer of the wearer, the wearer's generals and soldiers entered a bloodthirsty state. Their attack strength increased by 100%, and their defense strength decreased by 30%.
Bright Red Movement: Passive special effect. On the battlefield, within a kilometer of the wearer, the wearer's soldiers were encouraged, and their overall strength increased by 50%. At the same time, their morale rose steadily as they stayed on the battlefield. Eventually, they would reach the highest morale and be fearless, even if they were at an extreme disadvantage, they could still fight until they were completely annihilated without even half a step back.
Glory: Voluntarily revealing the eternal and noble glory of kings, making the bathers loyal to the wearer until death. This special effect was the ultimate special effect of the extraordinary equipment set "Glory." It could only be activated by wearing all the "Glory" components
[ Remark: Glory. The Bright Red Movement has lost almost all its power over the long period of time. It can be upgraded by absorbing extraordinary power and gradually recover its former power. ]
Kant finished reading the dense text on his retina and found that this was a piece of war equipment. It could only be used on the battlefield.
Whether it was special effect one or special effect two, they were both extremely powerful.
They could greatly increase the strength of the entire army.
If it was cooperated with the Flag of Intimidation and the Horn of Commanding Power, Kant could quickly raise the morale of the army to the highest status and not fall anymore.
This was an extremely terrifying battlefield equipment.
With this equipment, Kant's chances of winning the Lionheart City battle would be even greater.
Such a powerful equipment and the components of the mysterious and powerful extraordinary equipment set gave him satisfaction. At the same time, it greatly aroused Kant's new desire and soothed the disappointment of not being able to draw a hero.
As long as there were honor points, a hero could always be drawn.
Kant went to rest with a sense of satisfaction.
Everything was waiting for tomorrow.
The night passed quickly, and it was the next morning.
The sky was only slightly bright, and Kant woke up.
He needed to seize the time to carry out the next strategy.
Kant slept very well last night, but in the entire dock area of Lionheart City, except for Kant and his army, very few people continued to sleep peacefully.
Most of the people did not sleep at all. They were in a state of anxiety, waiting for their fates to be announced.
Whether it was the poor people living in the dock area, the merchants, the members of the gangs, or the people on the merchant ships on the Resniston River, they all knew that their fates needed to be announced by the victors of the war.
Kant did not have to worry about anything. These things had already been written into the war plan by Baheshtur.
However, the system had greatly enhanced his extraordinary strength, Kant realized that he might not have estimated the War Temple's strength enough.
But for now, everything was happening according to Baheshtur's war plan.
Kant washed up and ate breakfast. He said to a Swadian Royal Knight beside him,
"Go and pass the order to the highest commander of the water bandits. Tell them to come and see me."
"As you command, my lord!"
The Swadian Royal Knight respectfully accepted Kant's order and went to the other warships to pass the order.
Because there was no hero by his side, Kant could only do it himself.
Kant stood on the deck. The morning scenery on the Resniston River was still beautiful.
However, looking at the north bank, it was a scene of Hell on Earth.
The cold corpses were laying in pools of blood. Their faces were filled with fear and despair as they bid farewell to this world.
There were about thirty warships that originally belonged to the navy of Lionheart City in the bay. These had undoubtedly become Kant's spoils of war.
This navy camp was also not bad. Compared to the warships he obtained, Kant was more satisfied with it.
As long as they sent out water bandits to clean up the corpses and blood stains, they would be able to treat it as the water bandits' lair in Lionheart City.
This navy camps also had a rich arsenal and food reserves. These were all rich spoils of war.
At least the water bandits wouldn't have to worry about food for a month.
Kant was prepared to call the commander of the water bandits and give them orders.
He wanted them to clean up and take over the navy camp.
At the same time, he gave them an order to patrol the river and guard against the army on the other side.
He also wanted the water bandits to monitor the merchant ships on the river. If anyone dared to escape, they would sink them.
If they wanted to leave, they could. They only needed to pay ten golden eagles or 1,500 great silver coins for each merchant ship.
Ten golden eagles were enough for Joslin to bring to the Pendor Continent as goods. It was equivalent to 12,000 denars, which was a lot.
And there were nearly a thousand merchant ships here, which was enough for Kant to make a good fortune.
Although ten golden eagles were expensive, they were nothing compared to a whole ship of goods. These merchants would make a choice.
Although Kant was almost on the opposite side of this world's noble and religious sects because of the rumors, it did not mean that he could not trade with the noble families of this world.
Noble would not refuse benefits.
Kant also needed to maintain trade with the noble of this world to obtain a continuous supply of golden eagles.
Therefore, he would not slaughter these merchants who were trapped in the docks of Lionheart City for no reason.
…
After giving orders to the water bandits and arranging various matters properly, Kant left ten Sarleon Lion Knights and ten mages to guard the navy camp.
With these twenty people, he did not have to worry about the grand knights and mages from the south bank of the river.
After that, Kant led the Royal Swadian Knights, the Sarleon Lion Knights, the mages, and the mage apprentices into Lionheart City.
As for the people on the dock, as long as they did not cause trouble, Kant would not do anything to them.
He would only send out troops to patrol and maintain order.
Everything would be handled according to the war plan that Baheshtur had already formulated.
"My lord, good morning!"
"Good morning, soldiers!"
The Rhodok Sergeants, who were guarding the arched holesat the south gate of Lionheart City, greeted Kant when they saw Kant's arrival.
Kant led the team and walked along the main road that connected the south gate and the north gate of Lionheart City — the North-South Road.
The North-South Road was divided into the north and south roads. The part of Lionheart City that Kant was heading towards was the south road.
According to Baheshtur's plan, he would meet Baheshtur at the intersection of the North-South Road and the East-West Road.
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Chapter 527: The Hostility of the Human Countries
The East-West Main Road was the main road that connected the east gate of Lionheart City to the west gate of Lionheart City.
Lionheart City was the largest city in the Dukedom of Leo, and it was also a trading city. This had been planned since the beginning of the establishment, so the design was very reasonable.
The planning of the road was extremely orderly, and it extended in all directions. Moreover, the main road was very wide.
The East-West Main Road and the North-South Main Road were like a cross, directly dividing lion heart city into four symmetrical regions.
Of course, the east, west, south, and north regions were not divided in this way.
Instead, they were divided with the four city gates as the central elements.
Moreover, at the junction of the East-West Main Road and the North-South Main Road, it was not the central city area of the four regions.
That was the center of Lionheart City. The four major districts intersected with each other, and it was the most prosperous place in Lionheart City.
Kant and Baheshtur met at the central district.
The surprise attack on Lionheart City was originally an extremely fast war operation.
Therefore, Baheshtur's war plan was linked to one another, and he did not slack off at all.
At this moment, Kant and Baheshtur gathered together and prepared to attack the east city gate.
Even though the noble families in the Eastern District knew that someone had attacked Lionheart City's south city gate and north city gate last night, they did not have enough time to react.
It was only midnight. They had to inform the estate first and then transfer more private soldiers from the estate to Lionheart City. It was impossible.
Not every noble could communicate with magic like Kant.
Kant rode his horse and led fifty Swadian Royal Knights, forty Sarleon Lion Knights, one hundred and ninety mages and one hundred mage apprentices on the Southern District.
Their speed was not very fast, but it was not slow either. They were in a steady charging state.
The mages did not have horses, but after a few mages cast group acceleration on them, the weak mages easily caught up with Kant and the knights' speed.
Mages possessed mysterious and powerful strength, and they had incredible power.
At this time, the sky was already bright, but the sun had not yet risen. It was still very early, between five and six in the morning.
In the southern district of Lionheart City, there were also many people who did not sleep at all.
At this moment, many people stood by the roadside, looking respectfully at Kant leading the army towards the north.
The situation was just like the dock area.
Strength was always awe-inspiring.
The army led by Kant was obviously an extremely elite force, and there were even mages who were famous for their mysterious strength.
The civilians in the Southern District of Lionheart City were mostly poor, and they were in awe.
Kant followed them and showed his strength, which would make it easier for him to rule after he occupied Lionheart City.
As long as they didn't obstruct him, he wouldn't do anything to these civilians.
He didn't have time to do anything to them.
As long as he occupied Lionheart City, these people would naturally become his subjects.
Kant's indulgence naturally made these people more courageous.
Therefore, many people at the Southern District were observing this army from a very close distance.
Some people were whispering.
There were also spies among the poor.
They were well-informed and recognized Kant's army.
The rumor about Kant had caused a great sensation in all the human countries on the continent. Even all the sects in all the human countries had dispatched knight orders towards the Dukedom of Leo.
These spies in Lionheart City naturally knew some of Kant's information that had been announced.
Among them, the most shocking one was the name of the "Swadia" which "used to belong to the demons".
Moreover, Kant openly used the lion as the main body of the badge.
At this moment, all the knights and mages, including Kant, had badges on their chests that were very clearly displayed in the eyes of the spies.
A golden lion with a red background!
"It's Baron Kant!" the spies whispered.
Kant's appearance was naturally well-known by these spies.
Among the humans, the most well-known face probably belonged to Kant.
"Last night, it was actually his army that occupied the south city gate?"
"It seems that Baron Kant is really going to rebel against Grand Duke Cameron."
"This seems to be a fact that is happening. Look at those cavalries, what a terrifying feeling! They are even more terrifying than the army last night."
"Those cavalries are nothing. The people following behind these cavalries are the scariest. Looking at their attire, they are most likely extremely mysterious mages."
"I heard that if a mage were to use all of his strength, a mage would be able to destroy a cavalry squad of fifty people."
"Mages? So many mages?"
"Baron Kant's strength is too terrifying. I'm afraid Lionheart City will have to change its master."
"Let's inform our respective masters as soon as possible so that they can make a decision as soon as possible. Even if they cannot rely on Baron Kant, they must not become enemies with him."
Many spies took a shortcut from the southern district towards the eastern district.
Noble families stood behind many industries in the Southern District.
The slums did not mean that there were few ways to make money.
The population itself was wealth.
The south city gate was at the center of Lionheart City. The intersection of the East-West Main Road and the North-South Main Road was ten miles away.
Kant took an hour to arrive.
This was the central district of Lionheart City, the most prosperous area in the entire city.
Kant's attack on the south city gate of Lionheart City last night had obviously caused quite an impact on this place.
The sky was already bright, and the sun had already risen. However, at this moment, the streets seemed a little deserted.
Normally, there would already be heavy traffic here.
There would be hundreds and thousands of freight carriage going from south to north. The extremely lively scene did not appear today.
Not to mention that the north city gate and south city gate of Lionheart City, which were the main city gates for transporting goods, had already been occupied by Baheshtur. He had also sent out soldiers to seal off the area.
Just the thousands of terrifying troops that were exuding an extremely elite aura that were gathered in the center of Lionheart City — the intersection of the North-South Main Road and the East-West Main Road, had already caused the merchants who had rested in the central area for a night to be terrified, they did not dare to send their own convoy on the road.
Baheshtur was already waiting for Kant at the intersection of the North-South Main Road and the East-West Main Road.
Kant glanced around. The legions led by Baheshtur were neat and orderly. It was very easy to calculate the number.
50 Swadian Royal Knights.
50 Sarleon Lion Knights.
900 Rhodok Sergeants.
400 Rhodok Sharpshooters.
400 Vaegir Marksmen.
400 Ravenstern Rangers.
Excluding the 200 soldiers stationed at the south city gate and north city gate of Lionheart City according to Baheshtur's battle plan.
The remaining troops appeared here unscathed.
This meant that in Baheshtur's battle to capture the north city gate of Lionheart City, their casualties were zero.
"Why isn't there a system prompt for epic victory or legendary victory?"
Kant thought in puzzlement.
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Chapter 528: Strange Situation During the Siege
"Lord Kant!"
When Baheshtur saw Kant's arrival, he quickly rode towards Kant and respectfully saluted him.
When Kant's troops and Baheshtur's troops gathered together.
The Swadian Royal Knights and the Sarleon Lion Knights beside Baheshtur automatically returned to the extraordinary troops behind Kant.
"Baheshtur, tell me about the situation when you occupied the north city gate of Lionheart City last night." Kant casually asked.
He was very curious. Baheshtur had obviously occupied the north city gate of Lionheart City without being injured. But why didn't the system give him an epic victory or a legendary victory comment?
"Lord, the garrison troops at the north city gate of Lionheart City are vulnerable to a single blow!"
Baheshtur recalled the situation when they attacked the north city gate last night, and he couldn't help but show a disdainful expression.
"Can't withstand a single blow?" Kant frowned slightly and asked in confusion.
Could it be that the enemy was too weak and would affect the system's comment?
But this didn't make any sense. The garrison troops at the south city gate of Lionheart City and the north city gate of Lionheart City shouldn't be too much of a difference.
Moreover, according to the battle plan, the attack on the north city gate would be much harder than the attack on the south city gate.
"Lord, before we arrived at the north city gate of Lionheart City last night, they had obviously already known that we're coming." Baheshtur paused and carefully recalled the situation last night.
"When we arrived, they had already set up a few braziers and set up a formation, waiting for us."
Kant nodded.
"This is not surprising. There are many spies in the southern region of Lionheart City."
"It is possible that when you attacked the south city gate, some spies moved and sent your news to the north city gate."
"These are all situations that we had expected." Kant analyzed for a while and continued, "After all, among your troops, some of them are archers and infantrymen. It is impossible for them to be fast."
Kant became more and more curious. The north city gate was ready for battle. It should be an intense battle.
And in such a battle, Baheshtur could still achieve zero casualties. No matter what, his performance in north city gate should be more outstanding than the south city gate.
Kant was curious, and his tone couldn't help but be a little hurried. He asked Baheshtur, "What happened after that? How was the battle?"
Baheshtur smiled. He recalled the battle last night and said, "When I saw that the garrison at the north city gate had already made preparations, I didn't dare to be too careless."
He paused for a moment and continued,
"When we were five hundred meters apart, I ordered the Rhodok Sergeants to hold their shield in front. Then, the Rhodok Sharpshooters followed closely behind. Then, I arranged the Vaegir Marksmen behind the Rhodok Sharpshooters, and finally the Ravenstern Rangers."
Baheshtur first explained his formation.
"Then, maintain the formation and slowly advance forward."
Kant listened to Baheshtur's words, and the scene from last night in front of the north city city gate was took shape in his mind.
Baheshtur continued, "Then, at a distance of 300 meters, I ordered the Rhodok Sharpshooters to shoot directly."
At a distance of 300 meters, Kant nodded.
Rhodok Sharpshooters were equipped with siege crossbow, and its power was extremely shocking. Even at a distance of 300 meters, they could pierce through the inlaid iron-scale armor. Compared to Vaegir Marksmen and Ravenstern Rangers, their shooting range was more than twice as long.
"Well done!" Kant commented. Using the advantage of his own army to find the opponent's weak points to attack was a method that Baheshtur was very good at.
At a distance where the enemy could not be hit, it was effective to directly annihilate the enemy. It was nothing if Baheshtur could take down the north city gate of Lionheart City without any damage.
Baheshtur was cheered up by Kant's praise.
To Baheshtur, there was nothing more wonderful than Kant's praise.
Baheshtur said, "The guards at the north city gate are extremely unbearable."
His tone was filled with contempt.
"After two rounds of shooting, they all collapsed!"
"Then, they threw down more than three hundred corpses and directly gave up guarding the north city gate. They just withdrew from Lionheart City!"
Kant was very surprised, "They left Lionheart City?"
Baheshtur said with certainty, "Yes, they left Lionheart City. The north city gate easily fell into our hands."
"It's even easier than taking down the south city gate!"
Kant thought for a while and said with a serious expression, "This is different from the war situation you predicted in your war plan. Do you have any ideas?"
Kant had carefully read and analyzed Baheshtur's war plan.
Baheshtur had already considered the fact that the guards at the north city gate would be prepared in advance.
Baheshtur was even confident that the guards at the main city gate of Lionheart City would not only have 3,000 guards at the north city gate, but there would also be some private noble troops from the east.
The north city gate of Lionheart City was guarded by Count Rowan. Reeves, one of the four top noble families in the Dukedom of Leo's South County. His private army was stationed there. Among the noble families in the South County, the four top noble families all had a group of small and medium-sized nobles as their subordinates.
According to Baheshtur's judgment, Count Rowan. Reese, as a top noble family, most likely had the means to communicate through magic.
In that case, he could order the nobles in Lionheart City who were under him to send out private soldiers to assist in defense and increase the defense ability of the north city gate.
As long as he could hold on for a while longer, the reinforcements he sent out would be able to reach Lionheart City.
Count Rowan. Reese's castle and manor were not very far from Lionheart City, only about fifty miles away.
If they sent out the heavy cavalries the moment they received the news, they might be able to make it in time for reinforcements.
After all, Baheshtur carried out a night attack from the south city gate to the north city gate. There was a distance of twenty miles. Among his troops, be it the Rhodok Sergeants or the archers, none of them had horses. Even though they were a powerful level 5 troop class and could move quickly, there was still a gap between them and the heavy cavalries.
Baheshtur's war plan had completely taken this into consideration.
Furthermore, there was a concrete plan to defeat the heavy cavalries sent by Count Rowan. Reese.
However, none of them were used.
Although the north city city gate had been captured by them, the battle situation was far from what was expected.
The profits from Lionheart City were definitely not a small amount. Even a top noble would not give up so easily.
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Chapter 529: Adrian's Choice
It was too easy to capture the north city gate.
Baheshtur pondered for a long time before answering Kant's question, "Lord, I thought about it and couldn't come up with a reason. The situation at the north city gate has completely exceeded my expectations."
At this moment, Baheshtur also came to a realization from his contempt for the garrison troops at the north city gate.
His war plan was strict and comprehensive.
If there was a link that was too different from the plan in the war plan, it meant that there must be something that he did not detect that had affected or interfered with this war.
Baheshtur, as the person who made and carried out the war plan, his vision could not be limited to one victory at a time.
He needed to see the overall situation.
"It seems like my lord, and I are still very far apart."
Baheshtur could not help but think so.
When he did not discover anything wrong with the battle at the north city gate, Kant had already keenly sensed that something was wrong.
Kant indeed had some doubts.
Baheshtur's answer had solved a doubt in his heart.
That was the reason why Baheshtur had not suffered any losses in the battle at the north city gate, but he had not received the system's comment of an epic victory or a legendary victory.
The enemy had retreated very cleanly, without much loss.
Baheshtur had practically seized the north city gate as easy as pie. The main reason his victory was more because the enemy had retreated on their own initiative, not because of his plan had succeeded to wipe out a large number of the enemy after an intense battle while he only suffered minor losses in battle.
Kant looked towards the eastern district.
The Eastern District was the noble district. There were small manors that divided the Eastern District. In those small manors, villa-like buildings could be seen in the small manors.
Kant understood that in each manor, there were some private noble soldiers, and they were all absolute elites. The most were in the hundreds, and the least were in the tens.
The noble who could own a small manor in Lionheart City and settle there were all powerful and well-established nobles. They were the true upper-class noble of the Dukedom of Leo.
Although there were only about a hundred of these manors, their combined power was much stronger than the 15,000 heavy cavalries in Seria Castle.
Kant frowned slightly. Whether it was Baheshtur or his plan to conquer Lionheart City, although they were wary of the power of these noble families, they did not treat them as a real obstacle.
Noble families valued benefits.
Kant and Baheshtur understood this point.
They would not use their family's elites or even the most elite part of their power to fight Kant for no reason. This was not in their interests.
Even if Kant took over Lionheart City, in their eyes, it would not have any effect.
Because no matter who took over Lion City, it was not in their hands. It did not have much to do with them.
But now, it seemed that the noble district was somewhat different from what they had expected.
The forces that were supposed to support the noble district at the north city gate did not appear.
Kant sank his thoughts into the depths of his mind.
Ten golden cards floated in the air.
Kant had planned to use them tomorrow to summon the 500 level 6 troop class soldiers and mages with extraordinary powers.
Tomorrow was the first day of the new week. This way, he could save tens of thousands of denars.
As for the attack on the west city gate, Kant planned it on tomorrow.
Today's time was arranged to seize the east city gate, as well as the nobles in the noble district.
But now, the reaction of the noble district was very different from what he and Baheshtur had expected.
Kant had always thought that the extraordinary power the system gave him was used to deal with the War Temple in the Western District. He had long excluded the noble district and the Association of Mages.
But now, Kant suddenly realized.
There was a very high possibility that he had actually underestimated the power of the nobles.
Although he had always understood that the power of the noble was only on the surface, and what was displayed was always the tip of the iceberg. Most of the powerful power was hidden in the dark as a foundation.
But, to easily defeat the noble in the North County and East County, Kant had really neglected the power of the noble.
It was true that the War Temple was very powerful.
The War Temple in Lionheart City alone, as the number one shrine of the god of war, was extremely powerful.
There were more than a hundred priests, three or more troop classes, and even the weakest members of each troop class were official knights.
They were absolutely powerful.
If Kant wasn't confident that his troop class could completely suppress the official knight troops, and he had an absolute advantage in terms of extraordinary power. Otherwise, he wouldn't have thought about invading Lionheart City.
However, Kant had unintentionally overlooked one point.
Kant understood that, from the perspective of the entire Dukedom of Leo, the power of the nobles was stronger the War Temple.
However, he had overlooked that the nobles in Lionheart City might be stronger than the War Temple as well.
Status always came from power.
Among the human race, the noble was above the many sects that had true gods.
This absolutely proved that the power of the noble was stronger than these sects.
Kant revealed a bitter smile.
He claimed to be a noble and understood the noble.
But now that he thought about it, even though he was the second son of Cameron, Grand Duke of Leo, and his mother was the princess of the Silver Platter Kingdom, but did he really understand his father and his mother?
When he was born, his mother had already died.
Kant did not believe that such a noble would die of illness after giving birth to him.
All the nobles Kant saw possessed power.
A mere Baron Dylan, a baron at the very edge, was a powerful grand knight.
Viscount Gibran even controlled the demonic power.
Kant now recalled that the few times he met his father gave him an extremely heavy sense of oppression.
That was also the only time he saw his father.
Kant's eyes could not help but reveal a trace of confusion.
Did he really understand the noble families of this world?
He was the second son of Cameron, the ruler of the Dukedom of Leo, but he grew up in the North District of Lionheart City, which was the civilian district of Lionheart City.
He only had an extremely vague image of his "real home', Lion Fort.
That was when he was very young.
He heard that he had a brother.
Yes, he heard about it.
What was his brother's name? He didn't know. What did he look like? He didn't know.
Kant withdrew his gaze from the noble district.
The East District was the noble district.
The powerful Association of Mages relied on the noble district to not be chased out of Lionheart City by the War Temple, which was extremely hostile to them.
Kant's eyes gradually became firm.
No matter what was in the noble district, he had to see it for himself.
The current him had already become a strong force.
He was not the youth who could be banished and had nothing left.
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Chapter 530: The Anxious Situation in the City
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As Kant's thoughts raced, the ten golden cards in the depths of his mind disappeared one by one.
After a while, a slight tremor came from the ground.
"Lord, an army is coming from the South Main Road!"
Baheshtur saw from afar that on the South Main Road, a dense but orderly army was rapidly advancing towards them.
"It doesn't matter, that's our reinforcements!" Kant replied.
Such things had happened many times. The soldiers who were loyal to him would naturally accept these troops that suddenly appeared to attack the world.
The arriving army soon arrived beside the army led by Kant and Baheshtur.
From the army came a Swadian Royal Knight, a Sarleon Lion Knight, and a mage from the Enfath Empire.
They came before Kant and said respectfully,
"My lord, we have been summoned by you. We are here to return to the army!"
"Very well, gather your knight comrades and mage partners and join my troops!"
Kant sat on the horse; his tone filled with excitement.
No matter what kind of enemies were waiting for him in the noble district of Eastern District, these 500 extraordinary knights and mages truly belonged to him.
He had doubled his high-end battle strength.
With an army of nearly a thousand people with extraordinary power and 2,600 level troop class 5 soldiers, no matter how strong the noble district was, Kant had nothing to fear.
Kant ordered the ten Sarleon Lion Knights to take the lead and advance along the East Main Road to investigate the situation on the East Main Road.
At the same time, he instructed that once they met the enemy, they only needed to see the enemy's lineup clearly and return to report.
After arranging the ten Sarleon Lion Knights to scout the way.
Kant pulled out the magnificent and noble but shining king sword and pointed in the direction of the East Main Road.
"Set off!" Kant rode on a strong warhorse and walked at the front.
Behind him, there were nearly a thousand extraordinary power holders.
Baheshtur led 900 Rhodok Sergeants to follow behind. Behind Rhodok Sergeants, there were 1200 archers, and finally, 500 Mamlukes, riding on warhorses to follow closely behind.
If a private noble army dared to sneak attack from behind, the charge attack of these 500 Mamlukes would make them pay the price.
Kant's army was too terrifying. The shops, taverns, and inns on both sides of the main roads in the central city area of Lionheart City were too afraid to open their doors.
After Kant led the army far away, the central city area of Lionheart City seemed to come alive.
Merchants, civilians, thieves, street entertainers who played tricks, and wanderers who were down and out appeared one after another. However, there was no carriage that traveled north and south, so the central city was much quieter than before.
In the densely populated areas, the news spread very quickly.
At this time, almost everyone knew that the terrifying army that had just left for the Eastern District belonged to Baron Kant.
Although the people lived as usual, there seemed to be some changes.
"Old John, weigh me twenty pounds of black bread!"
A commoner wearing a rough linen robe with patches said to the owner of the bakery.
"Oh, it's Poor Tom. Don't you usually only buy three pounds of black bread?"
Old John, who was baking delicate and fragrant white bread in the bakery, took a moment to glance at the customers who entered the shop and spoke. Obviously, he did not intend to stop his work and immediately served Tom.
"I heard that Baron Kant is going to occupy Lionheart City, so I naturally have to store more food. Maybe I can buy 20 pounds of black bread with small silver coins now, and in a few days, I can only buy 10 pounds or less of black bread."
When Old John heard this, he also sighed.
"God of War, I hope Master Kant is as kind as the rumors say!" Old John said this, but he was not in a good mood. He stopped what he was doing and weighed the black bread for Tom.
In his opinion, it was impossible for Baron Kant to raise so many elite soldiers without paying a heavy tax.
Moreover, Baron Kant had a bad reputation of defecting to the devil recently, which made him worried.
"Hey, I hope you won't go bankrupt!"
After receiving the heavy, almost six or seven pieces of hard black bread, Tom showed a satisfied expression, and then said to Old John with some ridicule.
Tom was not as worried as Old John. Anyway, his small silver coins had all been replaced with black bread. In his heart, he still hoped that Old John would be unlucky, because Old John always looked down on him.
"Get out of here!" Old John's voice was exasperated.
Kant had already entered the Eastern District of Lionheart City, which was also known as the noble district.
The nobles who were able to occupy a piece of land close to the East Main Road were naturally some powerful noble families. Many of them had the title of viscount.
These noble families were all very powerful. In their small manors, there were at least hundreds of elite private soldiers.
Kant guessed that these private soldiers of the noble families would rush out of their small manors and gather on the East Main Road to stop him. They might even want to annihilate him.
The noble area was still the territory of Cameron, Duke of Leo.
In Lionheart City, the four top-tier noble families controlled the four city gates. Just the income tax alone was a huge amount of income. There were also various kinds of gray income that allowed them to obtain extremely rich benefits in Lionheart City.
But even so, they could not compare to Cameron, Duke of Leo.
Just by monopolizing some luxury daily necessities, Duke of Leo could earn far more from these noble families than the four top-tier noble families could earn from the four city gates.
This undoubtedly proved that the strength of the four top-tier noble families was inferior to that of Cameron.
Although some of the nobles in the Eastern District were surrounded by the four top-tier noble families, they were still the vassals of Cameron, Duke of Leo.
If the Duke of Leo gave a forceful order, they had to listen to it.
Otherwise, the Duke of Leo might find an excuse to attack them. At that time, they would be directly exterminated. Such a loss was much more serious than sending the elites in Lionheart City to fight against Baron Kant.
This was decided by the difference in strength. They were not as powerful as the four top-tier noble families. They did not have the capital to be arrogant in front of Cameron, Duke of Leo.
Kant was also prepared to crush the private army of these small and medium-sized noble families.
But in reality, the situation in the noble district of Eastern District was completely different from what Kant had imagined.
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Chapter 531: Knights Advancing In the City
The journey was very smooth. Not a single noble's private army rushed out of their small manor to stop Kant's advance. Their doors were tightly shut, and they were silent.
Kant was even able to enjoy the colorful scenery inside from the walls of the manor that was not tall or small.
Such a scene was rare in the Nahrin Desert or even in the North County, thanks to the fertile land and the suitable climate in the South County.
The sky was already very bright, and the red sun shone with a warm glow.
However, only Kant and his soldiers were walking on the wide East Main Road.
They didn't see any pedestrians along the way.
Kant advanced smoothly.
This situation made Kant feel that it was very abnormal.
Very abnormal.
Even if Kant guessed wrong, the Duke of Lion didn't forcefully order the nobles of the Eastern District to deal with him.
The Duke of Leo himself could not remain indifferent.
Kant was going to occupy Lionheart City. In name, Lionheart City belonged to the Duke of Leo.
Moreover, Kant had openly used the lion as the main body of his noble badge. This was already a blatant provocation. Kant himself was indeed wanted to provoke the dukedom.
Through this noble badge, Kant's ambition was obvious.
Other nobles could watch the show, but Cameron, Duke of Leo, did not have this position.
Could it be that he wanted to watch Kant, who defied him, take over Lionheart City, cut off one of his important economic arteries, and strengthen Kant's own strength?
This was completely illogical.
Half the night was enough for Duke of Leo to send troops from the Lion Fort, bypass the city wall of Lionheart City, and enter Lionheart City from the east city gate.
Kant did not think that if Duke of Leo's army entered Lionheart City, they would wait for a decisive battle with him at the city wall of the east city gate.
That was unrealistic.
Although Kant did not have a concrete understanding of how powerful Duke of Leo was, there was no doubt that he had heavy cavalry as his main force.
The flat plains of the South County were the natural battlefield where the heavy cavalry had the advantage. The Dukedom of Leo also had heavy cavalry as their main force. Kant did not believe that Duke of Leo's main force was not heavy cavalry.
The wide and flat main road of Lionheart city was one of the most advantageous terrain for the heavy cavalry to launch the charge attack.
The walls of the manors on both sides effectively cut off the escape routes for the troops on both sides.
This was the best battlefield for a strong heavy cavalry legion
There was a trace of doubt in his heart.
When the army had traveled nearly five miles and reached the middle of the East Main Road.
Kant gave the order, "Halt all troops. Baheshtur, be on your guard. Be careful that there are noble and private armies surrounding you from behind!"
"Yes, Lord!"
Something was not right.
Kant had sent out ten Sarleon Lion Knights, but they had not returned to report to him.
This was not normal.
Even if the East Main Road was unimpeded, the ten Sarleon Lion Knights whom he had sent out as scouts should have turned around from the east city gate of Lionheart City and returned to meet him again.
Because Kant was worried about the strength of the noble district, his marching speed was not fast.
The marching speed was only about one-third of the speed of the Sarleon Lion Knights when they were scouting.
Although it was slow, it was very orderly.
Once they encountered an emergency, there would definitely be no chaos and they would be able to effectively defend against the enemy.
Logically speaking, he had led his army for five miles and the ten Sarleon Lion Knights had definitely returned to report to him.
However, the truth was the opposite.
They were nowhere to be seen.
The strength of the ten Sarleon Lion Knights was not to be underestimated.
Each of them was definitely not inferior to the supreme grand knights of this world.
When it came to fighting on the battlefield, they could completely crush them.
Their talent was extremely suitable for the battlefield.
If one wanted to defeat all ten Sarleon Lion Knights, it was impossible to do so by relying on high-end combat strength, without three times the number of grand knights or mages besieging them and paying a heavy price.
If one had a large number of troops to encircle them, it would be difficult to trap all ten of the Sarleon Lion Knights at the same time without more than 300 official knight-level soldiers.
Therefore, this point was directly excluded by Kant.
If there were so many troops to encircle them, Kant would be able to see everything from the East Main Road.
Although he could not see it clearly and could only see the outline, he could still see it.
Kant understood, things had changed beyond his control.
At this moment, he was only five miles away from the east city gate. Kant could even see the outline of the east city gate from afar. He could even distinguish the light from the three arched holes.
On the East Main Road, there were no thousands of elite heavy cavalries of the Duke of Leo charging at him.
Nor were there any elite private armies of the noble from the noble's small manor.
On the wide East Main Road, there was no one and no army.
Only him and the army he led.
However, in Kant's eyes, this empty and unobstructed East Main Road was like a soundless mouth of a ferocious beast, waiting for him to walk into the trap himself.
And the small manors of the noble were extremely mysterious.
The door was tightly shut, without a sound.
Kant could not help but have the thought that the private army of the nobles had already hidden behind the tightly shut door, waiting for a command and then charging out.
The environment was silent.
Only the sound of horse hooves occasionally stomping rhythmically on the flat stone floor.
Kant took a deep breath.
At this moment, he did not want to provoke the nobles because he knew very well that his enemies would be the sects.
Although the nobles would not stand on his side and might even be hostile to him, they would not take the initiative to attack him.
The noble would not be like the sects. They would not find trouble with a top noble for their so-called beliefs and not out of interest.
Unless Kant's strength had been weakened to a certain extent by the sect.
Only then would the noble families pounce on Kant like mad dogs and divide up his estate and property.
This was Kant's understanding of noble families.
In the past, Kant had always been successful in dealing with noble families with this understanding. Facts had also proved that his understanding was correct.
However, the reaction of the noble families in the noble district of Lionheart City made Kant's hair stand on end.
Fear often came from the unknown. If it was the unknown that overthrew one's perception, it would often make one even more fearful.
When things that one thought they understood suddenly displayed a completely different side, it would usually shock one's mind.
Kant was in such a situation at this moment.
"Rhodok Sharpshooters, listen up!"
Kant pulled out the Sword of King again and pointed it at the gate of a small noble's manor on the north side of the East Main Road.
"Tear this gate down! I want to see what's hidden in this manor!"
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Chapter 532: The Sleeping Manor
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The sound of arrows piercing through the air gathered together, giving people a shocking feeling.
Five hundred Rhodok Sharpshooters fired in unison.
The archers' shooting skills were without a doubt.
Five hundred arrows with extremely terrifying impact almost simultaneously struck the thick and heavy door of the small manor.
Although the door of this small manor was made of hard and heavy dragon-patterned wood, it was useless against these arrows.
This was a siege crossbow. Within a short distance of 30 to 50 meters, the attack power of a siege crossbow was extremely lethal.
Bang!
With a loud sound, five hundred bolts landed on the door of the small manor, making an extremely loud sound.
Crack! Crack!
Then, the gate of the small manor made of thick and solid dragon-patterned wood was instantly covered with huge cracks that went through the top and bottom.
Immediately after, the gate shattered into pieces, turning into pieces of wood and lying on the ground.
This was also because the gate of the small manor was made of thick and solid dragon-patterned wood. If it was a bit weaker, it would probably be a small piece of wood on the ground.
Rhodok Sharpshooters fired in unison, and the thick and solid gate of the small manor was directly blasted open.
Kant and his troops all looked inside the already opened gate.
Behind the gate of the small manor was a medium-sized field.
This was used to gather soldiers. In order to maintain the elites of the soldiers, it was necessary to have this field for training.
However, there was no one on this field.
It was completely different from Kant's guess.
There were no soldiers lying in ambush behind the gate.
This small manor looked empty, just like this East Main Road.
"The situation is extremely abnormal!"
Kant made a judgment.
"You guys, go in and investigate! If there's danger, retreat with all your strength!"
"If the enemy is too strong and can't escape, call out for help!"
Kant ordered 10 Swadian Royal Knights, 10 Sarleon Lion Knights, and 10 mages of the Enfath Empire to go in and investigate.
"Yes, my lord!"
The knights and mages that Kant ordered respectfully accepted Kant's order.
The Swadian Royal Knights were much stronger in defense than the Sarleon Lion Knights, but their attack power was weaker. The mages had powerful spiritual power, and they were able to keenly observe various powers.
The previous ten Sarleon Lion Knights who were used as scouts had yet to return, which made Kant realize that something was definitely wrong with them. At this moment, even if they were facing a small manor, Kant would rather be cautious.
Things were completely off right now
After 30 knights and mages went in to investigate, the East Main Road returned to silence once again.
Time slowly passed.
The waiting time felt exceptionally long.
In fact, it was not long at all.
After only ten minutes, a Swadian Royal Knight came out of the small manor.
He was here to report to Kant while the others continued to investigate.
"My lord, everyone in this noble's manor is in a deep sleep!"
The Swadian Royal Knight reported the situation to Kant.
"In a deep sleep?" Kant said in confusion.
"Yes, in a deep sleep! No matter if it's the noble, the servant, the soldier, the knight, or even a grand knight, they are all in a deep sleep."
Seeing that my lord was puzzled, the Swadian Royal Knight described the exact situation.
Kant frowned and pondered for a moment but could not think of a reason.
"Wake up the noble inside and bring him to me!"
Kant gave another order.
The Swadian Royal Knight left.
Soon, 30 knights and mages came out of the small manor.
A Sarleon Lion Knight was carrying a fat noble with brown hair slightly curled in one hand. He was fat and wore a velvet nightgown.
For a level 6 troop class, a Sarleon Lion Knight who could fight against a peak grand knight of the world, a fat man was not too heavy for him.
Kant noticed that this fat noble was still sleeping soundly. There was even a dirty smile on his face. Perhaps he was having a sweet dream.
Obviously, no matter whether it was Rhodok Sharpshooters firing in unison, the loud noise when they bombarded the door, or the knights and mages who was investigating, none of them could wake this guy up.
It would be strange if this was a normal sleep.
"What's going on?" Kant's gaze fell on the mage who was walking at the front.
When it came to the mysterious domain, whether it was mysterious events or extraordinary powers, the strong spiritual power and powerful senses of the mages always made it easier for them to understand and discover than others.
"My lord, this noble must have been cast by someone!"
Kant nodded slightly. This answer did not exceed his expectations.
The Association of Mages was located in the noble district.
The Association of Mages had always been protected by the noble. However, they took action against the noble, which made Kant feel a little strange.
However, if it was just to put the noble into a deep sleep, it would not be appropriate to use "took action".
Perhaps, there was something about to happen, and he didn't want them to know about it.
Kant thought about it.
He asked, "Someone cast a spell? What kind of spell is it? Are you unable to undo it?"
There were many types of spells that could put a person into a deep sleep status. It was obviously not something that a simple deep sleep spell could do.
"Lord, according to our investigation, this noble and the others in his manor are all under the same spell: Mind Imprisonment!"
Kant asked in surprise, "Mind Imprisonment? To confine so many people at the same time?"
Kant did not have much research on spells. However, before he made the decision to attack Lionheart City, he had already considered the Association of Mages and the War Temple.
Therefore, he had also studied the information on the Association of Mages. This was before he studied the information on the War Temple.
Therefore, he understood the extremely famous spell, Mind Imprisonment.
To cast Mind Imprisonment on a person, one first had to have a stronger spiritual power than the other party. Then, using one's own spiritual power, one would construct a mental maze to trap the other party's mind.
Therefore, it was not a big deal for a mage to use Mind Imprisonment on a person or a few people.
However, with so many people being imprisoned at the same time, it was a little scary.
This meant that either the other party's spiritual power was very strong, to the point of being abnormal, or the other party had sent out an extremely large number of mages.
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Chapter 533: Noble that Trapped in Mind Imprisonment
If the nobles, servants, warriors, knights, and grand knights in the hundreds of small manors in the noble district had fallen into a deep sleep because of the Mind Imprisonment spell, causing the noble district of the Eastern District to be so quiet, that would be too terrifying.
According to Kant's understanding of the strength of the Association of Mages, even if they were all deployed, they would not be able to achieve such a degree.
Kant's expression turned gloomy.
This was yet another incident that exceeded his expectations.
"Yes, Lord. It's the Mind Imprisonment!" The mage from the Enfath Empire affirmed Kant's words.
Kant's eyes suddenly flashed, "That's not right"!
The Spiritual Imprisonment spell was not a lock-type spiritual spell. It could be undone by other mages.
As long as one's spiritual power exceeded the spiritual power of the mage who cast the spell, they would be able to undo the Mind Imprisonment cast by the other party.
Kant believed that after he gave the order, these mages of the Enfath Empire must have tried to undo the noble's Mind Imprisonment after they tried to do so.
"Have you tried to undo the Mind Imprisonment of others?" Kant asked.
"Yes, Lord!" the mage from the Enfath Empire answered respectfully.
"But all of them failed!"
Kant found it hard to accept this fact. Were all the mages who used the Mind Imprisonment stronger than his mages?
Unless they were all grand mages.
Kant was not willing to accept this conclusion.
He knew that there were no great wizards in the Association of Mages in the Lionheart City.
Unlike the noble families and sects who had the ability to hide their strength, the Association of Mages, which was in a sheltered status, had no need to hide their strength, nor did they have the right to hide their strength.
No matter how much strength they had, they would definitely need to show it in the open to increase their own bargaining chips. One was to deter the sects that were extremely hostile to them, and the other was to gain more investment from the noble families.
"All of them failed? Could it be that the mages who cast spells are all grand wizards?"
Kant's tone had a strong sense of unease.
If that was really the case, he had seriously underestimated the power of the noble, the sect, and the Association of Mages.
When the mage of the Enfath Empire heard Kant's words, he said respectfully, "My Lord, I think you have misunderstood."
"Although these people are all under Mind Imprisonment, the Mind Imprisonment they are under is all the work of the same mage."
The uneasiness in Kant's voice receded a little, "The work of the same mage?"
"He has so much spiritual power? Even a grand mage cannot perform Mind Imprisonment on hundreds of people at the same time!"
The mage of the Enfath Empire said, "Yes, Lord, you're right."
"However, it's not an ordinary Mind Imprisonment spell."
Kant asked curiously, "Why do you say that? Explain it to me in detail. I don't have much in-depth research on spells."
The mage of the Enfath Empire replied respectfully, "Lord, that mage is undoubtedly a grand mage!"
"The Mind Imprisonment that he cast should be a newly developed spell. In this new spell, the great mage only needs to pay a thread of his spiritual energy to complete the Mind Imprisonment."
"In fact, this thread of his spiritual energy only serves as a guide. Those who are trapped by his Mind Imprisonment, their own spiritual maze is built with their own spiritual energy."
Kant first let out a sigh of relief after hearing the mage's explanation.
It turned out that it was not because the great mage had the overpower spiritual power, but because he had developed a new spell.
Kant could accept such a situation better. It was just a new spell. It was not too serious a matter.
However, if it was just a wisp of the grand mage's spiritual power, the mage of the Enfath Empire should have the ability to crack it.
Kant did not know much about spells, but no matter what kind of power it was, as long as there were enough of the power of a lower level, it would definitely be able to suppress the power of a very small number of high-level powers.
If there were enough ants, they could even eat elephants.
With doubts in his heart, Kant asked "Then, you can't crack the Mind Imprisonment cast by a trace of the grand mage's spiritual power?"
The mage had obviously put in a lot of effort on this, and he quickly answered Kant's question.
"Lord, we've already tried."
"That wisp of spiritual power is easy for us to break!"
"But it's useless to break that wisp of spiritual power, because the people who are affected by the spell, the spiritual maze that confines their spiritual power, is built by their own spiritual power."
"Each of us carefully attacked twice, trying to crack it."
"However, we all failed. Those 20 soldiers became mentally deranged idiots!"
Hearing such an answer, Kant didn't say anything and only nodded.
This was a war, and a little cruelty was nothing.
He asked the last question, and the target was the Swadian Royal Knight who had reported to him at the beginning.
"How many soldiers are there in this noble's residence? There aren't many official knights, how many grand knights are there?"
The Swadian Royal Knight replied without hesitation, "Lord, there are 300 soldiers in this noble's residence. These soldiers are elites, half of them are official knights, and the other half are elite knight attendants. The difference between them and official knights isn't too huge."
"In addition, there are 30 grand knights. Including this noble, there are 31 of them."
Kant glanced at the fat noble who was in a deep sleep and revealed a dirty smile. He then ordered the Sarleon Lion Knight,
"Send him back!"
Kant wasn't too surprised that there were 300 elite soldiers in this small manor.
He was surprised that there were 30 grand knights among them.
After all, this was only a small manor in Lionheart City.
Although the power that followed this noble was definitely an elite power, his more powerful power should be guarding his castle and manor.
That was the foundation of this noble, and also the reason why he could enjoy himself in Lionheart City.
"Thirty grand knights!" Kant frowned and pondered for a moment, then dispelled the shock in his heart.
In fact, he understood that this was nothing at all.
A grand knight, if he was willing to make some sacrifices, could guide five official knights to become grand knights.
Of course, this required a lot of precious resources.
However, for a powerful noble with a deep background, these weren't obstacles.
Based on the strength of this noble, there might be no less than 2,000 grand knights in this small manor.
There might even be over 10,000 knights.
Such a force was enough to fight Kant's army head-on.
The outcome might be 50-50.
However, such a huge force was currently sleeping quietly.
Looking at the East Main Road, the unknown tranquility ahead was like the mouth of a silent giant beast, waiting for Kant to walk into the trap.
Kant summoned Baheshtur to his front, "Baheshtur, you saw the situation just now."
"Now, tell me, should we continue moving forward or retreat?"
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Chapter 534: The Strangeness of Lionheart City
After hearing Kant's question, Baheshtur did not immediately answer.
He respectfully said to Kant,
"Lord, please allow me to understand the information in detail."
Kant nodded. His voice was somewhat serious, "Yes!"
Kant knew that Baheshtur placed great importance on information and intelligence.
Although Kant himself had a rough idea of the information of these noble families, he was not specialized in researching and analyzing intelligence. In this aspect, he was slightly inferior to Baheshtur.
Kant asked Baheshtur because of this consideration.
Baheshtur came before the Swadian Royal Knight who had first reported the situation.
With a serious expression, he asked the Swadian Royal Knight,
"Sir, may I ask, when you discovered the sleeping noble, attendants, warriors, knights, grand knights, and so on, what position where they in?"
The Swadian Royal Knight pondered for a while before replying,
"Lord Baheshtur, we found that noble in his bedroom, and the attendants, warriors, knights, grand knights and so on were also found in their resting places."
"In fact, at first, we were very surprised and thought that they were sleeping on the bed."
Baheshtur nodded and said, "Then, did you find any traces of battle in the noble's residence?"
The Swadian Royal Knight answered without hesitation this time, "No, we didn't find any traces of battle."
Baheshtur nodded, "Alright, Knight! Thank you for your answer, which allowed me to confirm some of my guesses."
Baheshtur came in front of the mage from the Enfath Empire who answered Kant's question. He asked him with a serious expression, "Respected mage, I would like to ask, can a grand mage fly?"
Baheshtur came from the Continent of Caradia, which was different from the continent of Pendor where the mage from the Enfath Empire came from.
It was rare to see a mage's power system in the Continent of Caradia.
The mage from the Enfath Empire pondered for a moment and said, "This has to be divided into different factions. If It's a grand mage with evocation or transmutation abilities, they can fly. The grand mages from the other factions don't have the ability to fly."
Baheshtur nodded in understanding and continued to ask, "Then, the grand mage you mentioned who cast the Mind Imprisonment spell on the entire noble's manor, does he know how to fly?"
The mage of the Enfath Empire said with some hesitation, "Mind Imprisonment is not a spell exclusive to a particular faction. In fact, a mage with strong spiritual power can cast it."
"However, since that grand mage is able to specially develop this type of new spell, he is most likely a grand mage of the illusion element. If he doesn't study the evocation or transmutation at the same time, he shouldn't be able to fly."
Baheshtur immediately came to a conclusion, "So it is possible that he cannot fly?"
The mage from the Enfath Empire nodded, "It can indeed be said that the world of magic is difficult and obscure. To be able to become a grand mage in any department is not an easy thing. Even if he has achieved it, he should continue to delve deeper into it. He should not waste his time on another department."
"Therefore, the grand mage is very likely specializing in the illusion spell"
Baheshtur understood, "It seems that the grand mage is unlikely to fly out of the closed Noble's mansion."
He continued to ask, "Then, can the great mage release a spell and then trigger it at a specific time?"
"Alright, what I mean is, is it possible for the grand mage to cast Mind Imprisonment on others and make those who are cast by him fall into a deep sleep after a period of normal activities?"
The mage of the Enfath Empire nodded, "Lord Baheshtur, the situation you are talking about is a supreme magical technique — Spell Delay. Those who can become grand mages will more or less master some supreme magical techniques."
"Therefore, the situation you are talking about is completely possible."
Baheshtur pondered for a moment, then continued to ask the mage of the Enfath Empire,
"Last question! What is the strength of the grand mage? Can he deal with 300 soldiers and 30 grand knights in the noble's manor alone?"
The mage of the Enfath Empire pondered for a long time this time, "If he is a summoner or a master in evocation, there is a possibility. But the illusion spell is more of a support and control element. It is difficult to deal with so many people at the same time, especially the 30 grand knights. Their will is stronger, and their resistance to the illusion element spells is stronger."
Baheshtur nodded, "Okay, thank you for your answer, respected mage!"
Baheshtur asked for some specific details to verify his guess before he came to Kant's side.
"Lord, I believe that we can definitely lead the army to continue moving forward!"
Kant listened to Baheshtur's question and answer regarding the Swadian Royal Knight and the mage of the Enfath Empire. He slightly understood Baheshtur's meaning. Regarding the ability of observing the details, he was indeed inferior to Baheshtur.
However, Baheshtur was completely loyal to him. As long as he could control Baheshtur and let him display his abilities, it would be enough.
For example, the current situation.
"Tell me your analysis!"
Although Kant had made the same guess in his heart, he still needed to listen to Baheshtur's opinion. Perhaps Baheshtur's consideration was more detailed than his.
"Lord, based on the known clues, I judge that the people in this noble's manor were all voluntarily imprisoned by that grand mage. Perhaps that noble even personally sent that grand mage out of the manor and ordered the soldiers to close the door before returning to the bedroom to fall into a deep sleep."
Kant also had this thought. Otherwise, even if a grand mage had the ability to imprison the minds of so many people, those people were not wood. As long as they resisted together, the great mage might not be able to successfully imprison any of them.
Only if the people in the noble's manor actively cooperated would such a situation occur.
"Your analysis is very reasonable, but this cannot be used as a basis for you to decide whether we should advance or retreat."
Baheshtur's spirit was roused, and he continued:
"Lord, there are only two situations that can make people so obedient
"The first is absolute suppression in terms of power. The difference in power is so great that the weaker side cannot muster any thoughts of resistance. We have ruled out this situation. After all, the combined strength of these noble families is quite powerful."
"The other one is the absolute suppression of status. High-ranking people have an extremely powerful deterrent force against low-ranking people. They can even control the fate of low-ranking people with just their words."
"The law of the jungle applies to the first one, but groups with a social system of rules are often more suitable for the second one. The suppression from status comes from the suppression of power."
Kant continued, "But status and power need to be guaranteed by strong strength!"
Baheshtur nodded and said, "Yes, Lord. Status and power indeed need to be guaranteed by strong strength."
"But it doesn't necessarily need to be higher than the combined power of all the low-level people. It only needs to be stronger than every low-level person. There may be such an existence behind the grand mage who makes these nobles cooperate almost unconditionally."
"According to my speculation, it's very likely that he's your father — Cameron, Duke of Leo."
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Kant muttered to himself, "My… Father?"
This was a very vague impression. Now that he thought about it, what made Kant's memory even deeper was his father's majestic pressure that suppressed him to the point of suffocation.
Baheshtur continued, "In my opinion, the other party went to such great lengths to make all the small and medium noble families fall into a deep sleep. It should be specially prepared for you, Lord."
Kant asked in puzzlement, "Specially prepared for me?"
Baheshtur said, "Yes, Lord Kant."
"When I was in the Continent of Caradia, I understood a truth. There are some things that someone who don't stand at a certain height or have a certain status, they don't have the right to know."
"Even if others told me, I wouldn't believe it. I wouldn't even be able to believe it."
"Because those things will often overturn my already formed understanding."
Kant glanced at Baheshtur, deep in thought.
He knew this principle. It was similar to beggars who couldn't eat their fill every day, fantasizing that the emperor was superior to them in eating delicious meat buns every day.
"Continue!" Kant said to Baheshtur.
Baheshtur respectfully continued, "Lord, your strength has far surpassed the small and medium noble families in Lionheart City."
Kant nodded. Even if these small noble families gathered their strength in Lionheart City, Kant was confident that he could fight them.
This was the truth. Kant didn't raise his own strength or belittle the strength of these noble families.
In fact, the strength of these noble families had far exceeded what Kant had once known.
Baheshtur continued, "Perhaps, Lord Kant, your strength has already been recognized by the top noble families. You have the right to know things that the small and medium noble families do not have the qualifications to know and understand."
"And now, it is your chance to understand those things, Lord Kant."
Kant frowned slightly and said, "Even so, these are just your speculations!"
"But before there is a more reasonable explanation, we can only follow this explanation and plan the next step."
"You go and lead the army!"
Kant did not like this feeling very much. This feeling of not having everything under his control made him very unhappy.
Then, Kant gave a firm order, "Everyone, continue to advance!"
This was the inevitable choice.
In fact, Kant had made this choice a long time ago.
However, he still asked about Baheshtur's decision. Baheshtur was an outstanding general. The facts proved that the point he raised did not make Kant blind.
Kant's decision stemmed from the existence of the system.
Because he trusted the system, and since the system had replenished his forces, he believed that his current strength would be able to deal with the current situation.
No matter what was waiting for him in front of him, it would at most be a big battle.
Kant was not afraid of war.
Just capturing the dock of Lionheart City was enough to make him rich.
He already knew the silence of the noble's mansion, most likely because they were sleeping soundly.
The strange feeling from before completely disappeared.
And Baheshtur put forward a somewhat reasonable hypothesis, so he did not feel too much fear in the road ahead.
It was just a flat and wide road that was five miles long.
Soon, Kant arrived at the east city gate of Lionheart City.
The east city gate of Lionheart City was controlled by Count Cody. Maud, one of the four top noble families in the South County.
Logically, on both sides of the east gate, there would be 3,000 soldiers that belonged to Count Cody. Maud's private army acted as the garrison troops at the east city gate.
However, when Kant arrived, he only found an empty city tower, an unguarded city gate, and two empty barracks.
It would be wrong to say that it was empty, because there was a small group of people at the barracks on the left.
They were currently slowly riding their horses out of the barracks.
There were only fifty-one people.
The leader of the group was a heavy-armored knight who was emitting an extremely dense oppressive aura.
His entire body was covered in pitch-black heavy armor. On each shoulder, elbow joints, and knee pads, there were three sinister-looking black steel thorns that were more than ten centimeters long. The helmet that only revealed a pair of calm and deep sea-blue eyes. There were more than ten centimeters sharp steel thorns on the left and right sides of the forehead.
This heavy-armored knight was riding on an extremely tall and strong warhorse.
His warhorse was even taller than the warhorses of the Swadian Royal Knights by a head.
The warhorse was covered in a full set of thick, pitch-black armor. There were also terrifying, sharp steel spikes on it. These steel spikes were definitely not for the aesthetic.
On the right side of the warhorse was a pitch-black, two-handed greatsword. The style was no different from an ordinary knight sword. However, it was more than a meter longer than an ordinary knight sword. At the same time, it was much thicker and heavier.
In terms of weight, this two-handed greatsword was no less than a hundred kilograms. It was even heavier than a four-meter-long knight lance.
There were fifty people behind this knight, and they were all knights.
Their equipment and warhorse were somewhat similar to the knights at the front, but they were clearly thinner.
Although the aura of each knight was inferior to that of the knights at the front, they were far superior to the Swadian Royal Knight and the Sarleon Lion Knights.
They were not the grand mage Kant had expected.
These people rode their warhorse slowly out of the barracks, and the ground shook slightly.
Kant noticed that the warhorse of the knight at the front stepped on the bluestone on the East Main Road of Lionheart City, and the bluestone under the iron hooves cracked.
Very quickly, these fifty-one knights arrived right in front of Kant's army.
They formed a confrontation with Kant's army.
These heavy armored knights who were fully dressed in black armor emitted a strong and fearless, ferocious and brutal aura.
They were actually able to contend with Kant's entire army in terms of aura and were not at a disadvantage at all.
One had to know that all of Kant's army, every soldier was an absolute elite of level 5 troop class and above.
There were even a thousand of Swadian Royal Knights, the Sarleon Lion Knights, and the mages of the Enfath Empire who possessed extraordinary power. With just these troops, they could already be said to be invincible. If not for the fact that he was worried that there were terrifying existences similar to the ancient passage in Lionheart City, he would have already let his troops charge forward!
Furthermore, Kant's soldiers were not just some flashy looking goods. They could all be considered battle-hardened elite soldiers, the strongest elites of their lifetime!
Kant placed his right hand on the hilt of the king's sword, and asked the black armored knight at the front, "Who are you?"
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Chapter 536: The Army of the God of War
"Who am I?"
"You can call me Tyr. Isai. Maud!"
The black-armored heavy knight led 50 powerful black-armored heavy cavalry and stopped 50 meters away from Kant's army. His voice was sonorous and powerful, with a hint of metallic charm.
There was a strange feeling, as if it was not a human voice.
Kant noticed.
When this black-armored knight said his name, the word "Isai "did not seem to be finished. It was forcefully stopped by him.
"Tyr. Isai. Maud?"
Kant thought about this name.
Tyr was a very common name. This name did not mean anything.
Isai seemed to be an incomplete name. This black-armored heavy knight did not finish saying it. Instead, he forcefully stopped it. However, even so, Kant was still connected to one thing.
7,000 years ago, Kingdom of Isai, a powerful kingdom that occupied almost the entire north bank of the Resniston River.
It was the 20,000 invincible cavalries of Kingdom of Isai that annihilated 50,000 imperial guards who claimed to be the most powerful infantrymen in the continent, causing the collapse of Kaischino Empire.
The Kaischino Empire that once ruled the entire human land was divided into dozens of kingdoms and dozens of dukedoms.
As for the Kingdom of Isai, due to its 20,000 invincible cavalries, it had suffered severe losses and was unable to protect the north bank of the Resniston River. Just like the Kaischino Empire, it had fallen apart.
In fact, the Kingdom of Isai was even more miserable than the Kaischino Empire. Even though the Kaischino Empire had fallen apart, the Keyes Kingdom that had fallen apart was the former estate of the Kaischino imperial family. It had survived countless wars until now, it was still the most powerful kingdom of the human race.
However, the entire Kingdom of Isai had fallen apart. The royal family of the Kingdom of Isai seemed to have disappeared without a trace. There were two kingdoms and three dukedoms on the north bank of the Resniston River. However, they didn't seem to have anything to do with the Kingdom of Isai.
If there was anything to do with it, it was the Dukedom of Leo. This was because the God of War, Edmund, whom the Dukedom of Leo worshipped, had directly ascended to godhood after the great war 7,000 years ago.
The God of War, Edmund, was the supreme commander of the 20,000 invincible cavalries in the Kingdom of Isai.
The word "Isai" made Kant involuntarily associate these stories.
Maud, this was the surname of this black-armored knight.
Kant was also not unfamiliar with this surname. This surname was a well-known existence in the entire Dukedom of Leo, and even in the entire human race.
This was Count Cody. Maud's family name, one of the four top noble families in the Dukedom of Leo.
In fact, in the entire Dukedom of Leo, there were only five top noble families that were recognized by the entire human race.
One was the Grand Duke of Leo, Cameron, and the other four were the four top counts in the Dukedom of Leo.
Count Cody. Maud, Count Simon. Prynne, Count Rowan. Reese and Count Seth. Enoch.
The other two viscounts, as well as Countess Agatha from the East County, were only the top noble recognized by the nobles of the Dukedom of Leo. They were not recognized by all the Dukedom of Leo.
Kant placed his right hand on the king sword and could draw it out to kill the enemy at any time.
A distance of 50 meters was advantageous to the enemy, but disadvantageous to him.
A distance of 50 meters was enough for a small team of heavy cavalry to enter the charging stance.
However, for Kant's thousands of cavalries, it was not enough to enter the charging stance.
The enemy chose to come out of the barracks and cut off the distance between Kant's army. It was very appropriate.
This made Kant feel very uncomfortable and he could not advance or retreat.
Kant said to Tyr. Isai. Maud,
"Tyr. Isai. Maud?"
"What a strange name. What is your relationship with Count Cody. Maud?"
The east city gate of Lionheart City was indeed Cody Count. Maud's sphere of influence.
If this fellow was related to Count Cody. Maud, it was normal for him to appear here.
It was just that the number of people and their strength were somewhat unexpected.
"Strange name?"
"Humph!"
"Haha!"
"Kant, the power and strength that you displayed made us think that you have already entered the ranks of a true noble. However, your words and your weak personal strength let me know that you still know nothing about a true noble!"
"What right do you have for me to wait here with the sincerity of an alliance?"
The black-armored heavy knight's words had a strange metallic tone mixed with a disdainful tone.
He did not answer Kant's question.
"Kant, you want Lionheart City, right?"
"Then take it!"
"I'm looking forward to seeing you survive under the pressure of the sect!"
"The sects are very willing to destroy a "top noble" like you!"
The black-armored knight suddenly ordered, "Soldiers, listen up, let's go!"
Then, the black-armored knight and the black-armored cavalry squad he led turned around.
The 50 black-armored knights quickly opened up a path for Tyr. Isai. Maud to pass through and return to the front of the squad.
Then, the black-armored cavalry squad directly left Lionheart City through the east city gate.
Kant held the Sword of King in his right hand, but he didn't pull it out.
The other party's strength really made him wary.
The individual strength of these people all surpassed the strength of a level 6 troop class.
And what did a level 6 troop class mean?
They were existences that could contend against the peak grand knights.
If their strength surpassed theirs, then there was no doubt that the 50 black-armored heavy cavalry, as well as Tyr. Isai. Maud were all extraordinary knights.
Knights were divided into three levels: official knights, grand knights, and extraordinary knights.
Extraordinary knights were existences on the same level as grand mage. They were existences that could contend against the weakest gods, demon nobles, and dragons.
Aamon Qieke, the demon that Kant had once led troops to kill, was one of the lowest-level demon barons.
It was a demon noble that was extremely weak and had been sealed for tens of thousands of years.
As for the extraordinary knights, Kant had never truly faced them.
If there were one or two of them, Kant would not hesitate to order them to stay.
However, fifty-one of them appeared at once. Their aura was no weaker than Kant's army. This made Kant not dare to make up his mind to force them to stay.
Clearly, Baheshtur's guess was not completely accurate.
The other party might not only have absolute power over the small and medium-sized noble families in Lionheart City, but they also had crushing power.
Moreover, Kant did not see the existence of the grand mage that he had guessed. Perhaps, he was hiding in the dark.
If Kant were to fight with the fifty black-armored heavy cavalry, it was hard to guarantee that the grand mage would not come out.
What was even worse was that grand mage might awake the small and medium-sized noble families that were imprisoned by him to assist him in battle.
In this way, Kant's power would be at an absolute disadvantage, and he would be surrounded on the terrain by the 50 black-armored heavy cavalries and the small and medium-sized noble families.
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Chapter 537: New System Quest
Looking at the empty east city gate, it could be said that this was the easiest city gate to take down.
The south city gate, the north city gate, and the east city gate were all easier than the last.
However, Kant was not happy at all.
The power of nobles far exceeded his imagination.
The words of the "Tyr. Isai. Maud" indicated that he still did not have the qualifications to get into the secrets of a true noble.
At the beginning, the other party thought that he had become a real noble because of the strength of his force.
Then, could it be that the real noble had such a powerful force like him?
At the same time, Tyr. Isai. Maud, this name definitely had some special meaning.
Perhaps, this was the name format of a real noble?
There was another point that could be confirmed from Tyr. Isai. Maud's words confirmed that the individual strength of a true noble needed to reach the level of an extraordinary knight at the very least.
Tyr. Isai. Maud denied Kant as a true noble because Kant's current individual strength at the peak of a grand knight but not further.
His strength was even stronger than the level 6 troop class, the Swadian Royal Knights. In Tyr. Isai. Maud's eyes, it was only 'weak strength'.
However, Tyr. Isai. Maud indeed had the qualifications to say that.
Tyr. Isai. Maud had always been unrestrained in his aura. That aura was extremely shocking and was even stronger than the demon Aamon Qieke that Kant had seen before. It gave him an extremely heavy pressure.
Kant's expression was gloomy.
He looked back at the distant Western District of Lionheart City.
That was where the War Temple of the God of War, Edmund, was located. It was also the only obstacle that Kant faced in conquering Lionheart City.
Tyr. Isai. Maud's warning words made Kant understand.
The west city gate of Lionheart City would definitely not be easily taken down by him.
Even Count Seth. Enoch, who occupied the west city gate of Lionheart City had also withdrawn his private army.
"Are these noble forces trying to force me to fight against the Temple?"
"Damn it!"
Thinking of this, Kant seemed to understand why the north city gate and the east city gate were so easily taken.
At this moment, Kant even thought about whether he should give up on Lionheart City.
Lionheart City was an enclave to him.
His original goal was to occupy Lionheart City and cut off the economic lifeline of Cameron, Duke of Leo. At the same time, on the terrain, he would form a north-south alliance with Firentis and Rolf in the South County, surrounding Lion Fort, forming a favorable strategic situation.
But now, he realized that he had seriously underestimated the strength of the nobles.
Then, could such a strategic situation still be formed?
He did not think that Firentis and Rolf in the South County could stop Tyr. Isai. Maud and his terrifying heavy cavalry squad formed by fifty extraordinary knights.
The Lion Fort would only become stronger.
[ Ding… Side Quest issued ]
[ Side Quest: Secret of extraordinary ]
[ Reward: Become an extraordinary knight ]
[ Introduction: After the host's hard work, the host discovered that this world was not as simple as he imagined. Instead, it seemed to be buried in layers of fog. Please defeat the War Temple of Lionheart City, capture the God of War, Edmund, and Occupy Lionheart City! ]
At this moment, Kant heard a ding sound.
At the same time, dense text appeared on his retina.
The system had actually issued a side quest.
Kant carefully read the information on his retina, deep in thought.
"Is my current strength enough to capture the God of War, Edmund?"
"How strange, will the gods accept being captured?"
"It seems like I can't give up on the plan to capture Lionheart City!"
Kant had absolute trust in the system.
Without the system, he would have died at the hands of the Jackalans in the Nahrin Desert.
Moreover, the reward of the mission made Kant very tempted.
Become an extraordinary knight?
The word "true noble" involuntarily appeared in Kant's heart.
After becoming an "extraordinary knight", did he have the right to understand what a true noble was?
He did not forget the main quest that the system had given him.
His main quest required him to conquer the entire Dukedom of Leo and become the only ruler of the Dukedom of Leo.
The noble of the Dukedom of Leo would undoubtedly be a hindrance to him, especially the so-called "true noble". It seemed that their strength was extremely terrifying. Kant did not think that the other party would submit to him.
In that case, it was necessary to understand what a "true noble" was. Otherwise, how could he conquer or destroy them if he did not understand what they were?
After Kant finished thinking, he had already made up his mind.
He would proceed according to the previous plan.
He would occupy Lionheart City and form an encirclement around Lion Fort.
According to Tyr. Isai. Maud's actions seemed to indicate that they did not want to expose the power of extraordinary knights to the eyes of ordinary small and medium noble families — perhaps because they were not "true nobles"?
This gave Kant an opportunity. The territory he occupied in the South County might not be taken back by those top noble families. If he did not send out extraordinary knights and grand mage, Kant did not think that they could take it back.
Therefore, he decided not to be in a hurry to occupy Lion Fort.
Now it seemed that this was not practical.
Instead, he was prepared to fight with the sect and at the same time, develop the land he occupied and formed a deep foundation in this world.
According to Tyr. Isai. Maud's words, the sect seemed to be happy to destroy a "top-tier noble family" like him?
But now, he was carrying rumors and giving the sect a clear excuse.
The sect had already sent out knights to attack him.
From what Tyr. Isai. Maud had said, this war might not be as easy as he had imagined. Even if he dealt a heavy blow to the knight orders, he might not be able to stop the sect's investigation of him.
The strategy of conquering the Dukedom of Leo would not be as easy as he had imagined.
Kant no longer thought about it. He gave an order to Baheshtur, "Baheshtur, send someone to guard the east city gate of Lionheart City!"
Baheshtur slightly bent his waist and lowered his head to say to Kant,
"Baheshtur will follow your orders, Lord Kant."
Immediately after, Kant gave another order to the Sarleon Lion Knights. This time, he ordered ten Sarleon Lion Knights.
"You guys, go to the military camp where the black armored cavalry stayed. See if you can find the Sarleon Lion Knights that I sent out as scouts!"
That Tyr. Isai. Maud, from his words, it seemed that he had originally planned to form an alliance with him. It was unlikely that he would kill his soldiers.
The ten Sarleon Lion Knights received the order and left.
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Chapter 538: The Sky Gradually Darkened
The 10 Sarleon Lion Knights quickly found the other 10 Sarleon Lion Knights that Kant had appointed as scouts. They were all knocked unconscious and hid in the barracks.
Unlike those noble knights who could not be woken up, these 10 Sarleon Lion Knights were jolted awake by their comrades.
The black-armored knight did not kill them as Kant had expected.
Very quickly, Baheshtur set up the defense of the east city gate of Lionheart City.
There were also only 200 soldiers, 150 archers and 50 Rhodok Sergeants.
They were all level 5 troop class, and their coordination were perfect for defending the city.
However, with 200 soldiers at the south city gate of Lionheart City and the north city gate of Lionheart City, they should be able to defend. Even if they faced two-to-three-thousand-man siege troop, they would be able to hold on until Kant sent reinforcements.
But at the east city gate, the situation was hard to say.
This was the noble district. Their strength was really strong.
"Lord, I can only deploy these garrison troops at the east city gate."
Baheshtur said as he reported to Kant.
"The War Temple's strength is unknown. We cannot deploy too many troops above the garrison."
Kant nodded. He glanced at the noble district of the Eastern District and said, "We can only attack the west city gate and then make a fuss!"
Then, Kant did not delay and directly led the army toward the Western District.
The plan today was to attack the east city gate and then coerce the noble district to appease the nobles. But now, these nobles were all in a deep sleep. As for when they would wake up, it completely depended on the settings made by the grand mage who had cast the Mind Imprisonment on them.
Of course, there was no way to coerce and appease them.
Kant led the army to the west. With the existence of the mages, they cast some acceleration spells to speed up the walking army, making Kant's marching speed very fast.
The originally sunny weather suddenly became gloomy.
Kant raised his head to look at the sky. Unknowingly, the sun had been blocked by thick dark clouds.
On both sides of the East Main Road, neatly planted purple-shirted trees were rustling in the strong wind. At the same time, their branches were shaking violently.
Dark clouds were hanging down and the strong wind was blowing.
"It's going to rain!"
At this moment, Kant led his army and was about to reach the central area of Lionheart City. The pedestrians on the road had returned because of Kant's army. Most of them hid in the surrounding buildings again, not daring to show their heads.
Only a few people dared to stand by the roadside and observe Kant's army. They even pointed at them.
After all, Kant did not do anything to them when he passed by earlier.
"Everyone halts!"
"Mages, listen up. Cast 'Sharp Golden Blade' and 'Group Acceleration' on all the knights!"
Kant suddenly gave an order!
Hearing Kant's order, the mages quickly cast a 'Sharp Metal Blade' spell on all the knights. Then, they cast a 'Group Acceleration' spell on the knights. Then, they retreated back to their original team.
Group Acceleration. There was no need to explain. It was a spell that increased group speed.
Sharp Metal Blade was a status buff spell.
The spell that the mages cast to increase the status of the surrounding soldiers was about 10 meters in radius. After casting it, the magic elements would gather on the weapons in the hands of the soldiers, making the blades, spears, and other melee weapons sharper, it would cause more casualties to the enemy.
Immediately after, Kant ordered the cavalries to arrange themselves before charging.
Based on the current dense formation, it was impossible to charge. That would be courting death!
Kant arranged his troop like this because he could see from afar that the West Main Road seven to eight miles away was already filled with densely packed troops.
There were many troops, filling up the West Main Road like a blood-red river.
The knight order of the War Temple wore the uniform blood-red armor. The priests of the War Temple wore the same blood-red robe. There were also some guards of the War Temple who were similar to infantrymen. They were also dressed in blood-red, and even their shields were blood-red.
Their appearance was completely blood-red, but at the same time, it represented a majestic will to fight with fearless courage. On the battlefield, there was no lack of blood that splashed around wantonly. The majestic will to fight and fearless courage were also the most precious qualities on the battlefield.
As the army and priests of the God of War, it was natural for them to be blood-red in color.
From seven to eight miles away, Kant could feel the murderous aura of that army.
But from Kant could not see in detail how many troops were gathered in the west road like a blood-red river.
Just from the size alone, the number was not less than his army.
Moreover, there were a huge number of cavalries!
At this moment, Kant's army numbered three to four thousand.
At the front was Kant leading the heavy cavalry that had already been arranged.
There were 250 Swadian Royal Knights, 240 Sarleon Lion Knights, 500 Mamluke, a total of 990 extremely strong heavy cavalries.
In Lionheart City, the East-West Main Road was as wide as the North-South Main Road, with a width of 30 meters. There was a row of 10 knights, and nearly 100 rows of cavalries.
At the front, there was a row of Royal Swadian Knights and a row of Sarleon Lion Knights. At the back was Mamlukes of the 50th faction. Kant was in the middle of the last row of Sarleon Lion Knights. He was in the center of all the cavalry.
Moreover, every two rows were at least five meters apart.
Cavalry charge required a large enough interval.
Kant left the rest of the army behind Kant's heavy cavalry to Baheshtur. They were not cavalry. The line-up was much denser.
Baheshtur also saw the army on the West Main Road. After hearing Kant's order to stop the army, Baheshtur immediately made arrangements.
He also asked the mage to cast the two buffing spells, 'Sharp Metal Blade' and 'Group Acceleration', on all the troops before arranging them apart from the cavalry.
At the very front were 850 Rhodok Sergeants. Each row had nearly 50 to 60 soldiers. There was a total of 16 to 17 rows of them. They were densely packed.
16 to 17 rows of Rhodok Sergeants only occupied 12 to 13 meters of the length of the East Main Road. One could imagine how densely packed they were.
The infantry could only rely on the dense square formation to resist the cavalries and block the cavalry!
If they couldn't block it, then let the cavalry sink in!
They used the stacking shield method to stack layers and layers of broad shields. Although their defense couldn't compare to the Swadian Sergeants who used the tower shield to pierce deep into the ground on the plain battlefield, the defense strength of Rhodok Sergeants was not to be underestimated.
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Chapter 539: Research on Buff Spells
Although their defense was slightly inferior to the Swadian Sergeants who had used the tower shields, their combat strength was much higher than the Swadian Sergeant's.
Rhodok Sergeants' weapon was a long-handled hook and sickle. In addition to their exquisite combat techniques, they could easily kill the charging heavy cavalry. These fierce heavy footmen could rely on their combat techniques to fight against level 6 troop class soldiers.
On the Continent of Caradia, the Kingdom of Rhodoks, which did not have heavy cavalry, relied on Rhodok Sergeants and Rhodok Sharpshooters to stand firmly among the many kingdoms, becoming one of the overlords of the Continent of Caradia.
Behind Rhodok Sergeants were a dense number of Rhodok Sharpshooters.
The siege crossbows in their hands were definitely not a joke.
The 350 Rhodok Sharpshooters were only arranged in five rows. Each row had close to 70 of them. However, the distance between the two rows had reached two meters. This was their shooting space.
With 16 or 17 rows of Rhodok Sergeants defending them against the cavalries, what the Rhodok Sharpshooters needed to do was to shoot out the crossbows in their hands and ruthlessly kill the incoming cavalries.
With their shooting range that exceeded 300 meters, the heavy cavalries that wanted to charge at the defensive line set up by Rhodok Sergeants would have to pay a heavy price.
After the 350 Rhodok Sharpshooters, there were 350 Vaegir Marksmen. They were also densely arranged in five rows. The dense formation was very advantageous to them. They were famous for their dense covering firepower, fast, accurate, and ruthless were synonymous with them.
If a cavalry was lucky enough to break through the Rhodok Sharpshooters' firepower, the Vaegir Marksmen's dense arrow rain would form a second fatal defense line.
After the 350 Vaegir Marksmen, there were 490 official mages and 100 mage apprentices.
The power of the mages was beyond doubt. Their spells were not to be trifled with.
Just the 490 official mages alone could summon 2,450 golems in front of Rhodok Sergeants when the enemy cavalry charged over.
Each golem's attack and defense would not be lower than a level-5 heavy-armored infantryman. They were very strong, but they were a little clumsy. They could crush an ordinary army, but they could only be used as meat shields and cannon fodder against an elite army.
Behind the mages and mage apprentices were 350 Ravenstern Rangers.
They were not like Vaegir Sharpshooters, who had powerful and swift covering fire. However, their shooting ability, if not their range, was stronger than Rhodok Sharpshooters. Steadiness, accuracy, and ruthlessness were synonymous with them. At the same time, their close combat strength was also extremely strong, and they were not afraid of close combat at all.
It was most suitable to use them to cover the rear. Even at the last position, their 150-meter range could hit the front row of Rhodok Sergeants 100 meters away. Any heavy cavalry that escaped the net and broke through the golems that the mages summoned would become their prey.
The soldiers were all elite troop class 5 soldiers. They quickly followed Baheshtur's orders and arranged themselves into a formation, preparing for the upcoming battle.
At this moment, the opponents of Kant's army, the knight orders and priest orders of the War Temple, as well as a large group of 500 War Temple Guards. When Kant discovered them, they also discovered Kant's army.
They also made preparations for the battle.
There was a total of five knight orders of the War Temple in Lionheart City. At this moment, four of them were sent to the West Main Road to destroy Kant. Each knight order had a quota of 1,000 knights.
Among these 1,000 knights, there were 100 grand knights. The remaining 900 were elite formal knights.
Such a knight order could compete with the 15,000 heavy cavalries of the small and medium nobles in the Seria Castle, which was at the junction of the South County and the North County.
There were four such groups of knights!
There were 400 grand knights!
There were only 490 Swadian Royal Knights and Sarleon Lion Knights in Kant's troop.
Apart from the four knight orders, there were 300 War Temple Priests.
These 300 War Temple Priests included 200 official priests and 100 reserve priests.
The strength of an official priest was similar to that of an official mage, but their buff spells were more numerous than that of an official mage. The 100 reserve priests were like mage apprentices. Although they could cast spells, the number and power of their spells were much lesser than official priests and official mages.
Soon, the 200 priests cast buff spells on all the members of the four knight orders and a large group of War Temple Guards.
Group Acceleration, which needed no explanation and was similar to the effect of the mage, but this spell would greatly increase the power of the charge of the heavy cavalry.
Armor Enhancement: Increases the defensive power of the armor worn by the members of the knight order and the War Temple Guards.
Weapon Enhancement: Similar to the power of a mage's Sharp Golden Blade.
Bloodthirsty Excitement: Increases the excitement of the members of the knight order and the War Temple Guards every time they successfully kill, increasing their morale and attack power.
Battlefield Recovery: the members of the knight order and the War Temple Guards had their physical strength greatly increased. After being injured, they could quickly stop the bleeding and scab, greatly improving their battle endurance on the battlefield.
After the priests cast the buffs on the knight order and the War Temple Guards, they stayed where they were and began to prepare spells.
The 500 War Temple Guards, like Rhodok Sergeants, also formed the stacking shield formation. They lined up in ten rows and blocked in front of the priests of the war temple.
The members of the four knight orders of the War Temple quickly arranged their formations. Just like Kant's heavy cavalry formation, the members of the four knight orders were also lined up in a row of ten knights. However, they were lined up in a total of 400 rows. Just these knight orders alone occupied two to three miles of the West Main Road.
However, compared to Kant's 250 Swadian Royal Knights and 240 Sarleon Lion Knights who were lined up at the front, the knight orders of the War Temple were arranged according to the independent arrangements of each four knight orders.
At the same time, each knight order was arranged according to the knight squads.
Each knight order was divided into 20 knight squads. Each knight squad had 50 members. Among them, there were five grand knights and 45 official knights.
The arrangement of each squad consisted of five grand knights and the five strongest knights. They were arranged in the first row while the remaining 40 knights were arranged in the following four rows. This way, there were a total of five rows.
The knights were arranged in such a way that there was a total of twenty-five rows. They were arranged in front and back.
The four knights were all the same.
Therefore, the members of the knight orders of the War Temple were 80 knight squads. They were arranged in an orderly manner.
They were arranged alternately with Kant's 10 Swadian Royal Knight and 10 Sarleon Lion Knights. The last 500 Mamlukes were arranged in the last charging formation. Who would be the victor? The result of the impending collision will soon be revealed.
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Chapter 540: The Charge that Began In An Instant
After the army's arrangement was completed, Kant pulled out the Sword of King and pointed to the west, giving the order loudly, "Charge!"
Kant's voice, which had been augmented with extraordinary power, spread throughout the entire cavalry.
The 250 Swadian Royal Knights, 240 Sarleon Lion Knights, and 500 Mamlukes held the four-meter-long lances in their hands that was hung diagonally on their warhorse at the same time. They pointed it diagonally towards the sky and shouted at the same time,
"Charge!"
"Charge!"
"Charge!"
The sound was as loud as thunder, shaking the tiles on the houses in the center of Lionheart City.
The sound was so loud that it spread throughout the entire Lionheart City.
The aura of the legions suddenly rose, shaking the dark clouds in the sky.
The 990 iron knights started to move slowly, and their speed gradually increased!
The level 5 cavalries from the system and the even more powerful level 6 knights possessed the best riding skills. They could control the warhorse like an arm and a finger, and they were superb.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The sound of the horses' hooves gathered together, and it was no longer the clatter of the hooves. It was like a huge iron hammer striking the earth in a regular manner, causing the entire central area of Lionheart City to feel the regular vibrations.
The Swadian Royal Knights, the Sarleon Lion Knights, and Mamlukes were all wearing full-body heavy metal armor. The Swadian Royal Knights and the Sarleon Lion Knights were wearing different types of plate armor, while Mamlukes was wearing heavy Sarrandian chain mail.
These armors were from the system, so there was no need to say anything more about their excellent forging and strong defensive abilities.
Under the gloomy sky, their armor that was supposed to be shining with silver light now looked silver-gray. The 990-galloping cavalries were like a silver-gray torrent, rushing toward the west.
Woo… woo… woo…
Kant was in the middle of the cavalries. He took down the "Commanding Power" horn from his waist and blew it hard.
As the "Commanding Power" horn blew, the morale of the cavalries within 500 meters of Kant began to rise. At the same time, the cavalry began to enter an "excited" status.
The Swadian Royal Knights, the Sarleon Lion Knights, and Mamlukes all had blood rushing through their bodies. At this moment, their eyes were filled with fanaticism. They could not help but shout,
"Kill! For the honor of His Highness Kant!"
"Kill! For the honor of His Highness Kant!"
"Kill! For the honor of His Highness Kant!"
This voice pierced through the clouds and cracked the rocks. Many civilians in the central city of Lionheart City, who were hiding in their houses, could not help but tremble in fear. Many of them could not control themselves and were terrified.
In just a short while, the morale of the 990 cavalries had reached its peak status.
The cape of "Glory, Bright Red Movement", which had been fluttering slowly behind Kant or even a strong wind could not make it shake more violently, began to dance fiercely.
"Glory, Bright Red Movement" was a piece of battlefield equipment. At this time, the two armies had already begun to confront each other. The East-West Main Road of Lionheart City had become a battlefield.
"Glory, Bright Red Movement" passive special effect, "Bright Red Movement", was directly triggered. A faint, hazy, and faint red halo suddenly spread out from the cloak that was fluttering fiercely behind Kant.
This faint red halo covered an area of 1,000 meters, completely covering the 990 knights led by Kant.
Shrouded in this faint red halo, the 990 cavalries' aura suddenly increased.
The strength of all the cavalry increased by 50% at the same time.
Then, Kant unhesitatingly activated the active special effect of the "Glory, Bright Red Movement", "Blood Thirst". The strength of the 990 cavalries increased by 100% again.
This was an extremely strong buff.
With their current strength, they were completely capable of dealing with the three of themselves from before!
Although "Blood Thirst" would reduce the soldiers' defensive power, when two cavalry troop charged at the same time, their defensive power wouldn't be of much use.
Originally, the morale that had been raised to the peak by the "Commanding Power" horn could only last for ten minutes before dropping. But now, in the shallow red halo, their morale would forever be at its highest status and wouldn't change until death!
This was also the terrifying passive effect of the battlefield equipment, the "Glory, Bright Red Movement".
Just as Kant's cavalry unit started to move, the knight orders of the War Temple on the West Main Road also started to charge.
"Charge, for the honor of the God of War, Edmund!"
"Charge, for the honor of the God of War, Edmund!"
"Charge, for the honor of the God of War, Edmund!"
Four thousand knights, including four hundred grand knights, shouted together. Their voices were not inferior to the 990 cavalries led by Kant, whose individual strength surpassed theirs.
Although the residents of Lionheart City could not see it, they could know that two extremely powerful heavy cavalry legions were about to fight in Lionheart City.
This was because the voices of the two heavy cavalry legions had spread throughout the city and even made their blood boil.
The 4,000 knights in blood-red armor charged forward like a still blood-red river, suddenly roaring.
This blood-red river gradually sped up and swept towards the east.
Due to the formation that was advantageous for the charge, the distance between the two armies was only a few hundred meters.
However, such a long distance was enough for the two strong heavy cavalry troops to enter their charging stance.
On the East-West Main Road, silver-gray torrents surged from the east to the west while the blood-red river swept from the west to the east.
Their speed was extremely fast.
Soon, the two armies met!
Thunder!
A bolt of lightning suddenly flashed, instantly illuminating the sky and earth.
Boom!
A huge thunder sounded, as if it wanted to turn the entire Lionheart City upside down.
At the moment the two armies met.
Between the sky and earth, heavy rain poured down.
This was a downpour!
The rain fell heavily, and the raindrops were as big as beans.
The rain fell on the faces of the two heavy cavalry generals who were charging at high speed, causing them to feel pain.
The dense rain line caused the charging cavalry's vision to become hazy.
However, this was unable to extinguish their burning desire to kill.
At the instant the rain poured down, the lightning flashed and rumbled, the first row of Swadian Royal Knights clashed with the first row of the knights of God of War.
This was the moment of confrontation between the two legions!
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Chapter 541: Blood-red River In the Rain
The soldiers of both sides rode on warhorses that were galloping at high speeds. They only had a chance to exchange blows in an instant.
The 30-meter-wide West Main Road was enough for 30 horses to gallop in a row.
The were 10 knights on each of the first two rows of charging formation.
There was a distance of two to three meters between the two rows This was enough for them to cross each other.
They also had enough riding skills to do so.
Each of the Swadian Royal Knights in the first row and each of the knights of the War Temple of God of War in the first row had their own clear targets.
That was the enemy that charging toward them on their right.
Both sides with rich experience on the battlefield would not make a mistake because of this!
"Kill! For the honor of His Highness Kant!"
"Kill! For the honor of the God of War, Edmund!"
A Swadian Royal Knight from the first row had already grabbed the four-meter-long lance with both of his hands when they were still 50 meters away from the enemy. His eyes were fixed on the grand knight in the front row.
He only needed to kill this grand knight. The others would be dealt with by other comrades.
A distance of 50 meters, in the blink of an eye, it had already crossed 30 meters, leaving only 20 meters.
This Swadian Royal Knight viciously thrust his lance at the grand knight of the War Temple whom he had targeted.
That grand knight and this Swadian Royal Knight made the same choice.
The lance of the Swadian Royal Knight emitted a faint golden glow, while the lance of the grand knight of the War Temple emitted a faint blood-red glow.
They both activated their extraordinary powers at the same time, which could greatly increase their power.
The Swadian Royal Knight and the grand knight both shook their lance at the same time, and clashed against each other's lance.
Clang!
At the instant the two lances clashed, a clear sound of metal colliding rang out.
At the same time, lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled, as heavy rain poured down!
Across the dense rain, the grand knight of War Temple saw the slightly ferocious and fanatical eyes of the Swadian Royal Knight. The knight lance in his hand was knocked away by the Swadian Royal Knight. Although it did not slip out of his hand, it was twiddled to the left. He couldn't stab the other party like this.
However, after the Swadian Royal Knight saw the panic eyes of the grand knight of War Temple through the dense raindrops. He did not have the slightest bit of mercy and used all his strength to stabilize his lance.
As the horses galloped at high speed, the lance in the hands of the Swadian Royal Knight instantly pierced through the grand knight.
Under the extreme speed of the thick conical lance, it easily pierced through the iron armor of the grand knight of War Temple. Even though the other party had a priest who had cast a defensive spell on his armor, it was useless.
The lance of the Swadian Royal Knight pierced through the grand knight of War Temple and went through his heart. He was directly hit by the lance of Swadian Royal Knight.
Fresh blood flowed down from the lance, but it was quickly washed away by the heavy rain.
The Swadian Royal Knight won the first round of battle. He successfully penetrated through the gap between the two rows of the knight orders of War Temple.
He did not even have the time to throw the grand knight off his lance. He had to take on the second knight of the knight orders of War Temple.
He only needed to deal with the enemies in this row.
This knight was following behind that grand knight. He was just an official knight.
"Kill! For the honor of the God of War, Edmund!"
The official knight was not afraid at all. He pointed his lance at the Swadian Royal Knight. He did not care whether the other party was a grand knight or not, because even if his opponent was a grand knight, he would still be pierced by his lance.
He was very clear that he had already entered the charging stance. As long as his lance pierced the other party, the other party would still die even he was a grand knight.
His strength came from the speed of the warhorse, not just his own strength.
However, the Swadian Royal Knight was already an expert at the peak level of grand knights. At this moment, his strength had been increased by the active and passive special effects of the "Glory. Bright Red Movement" cloak, it was simply not something that this official knight could deal with.
With a light tap, he knocked the lance of the second official knight to the side and stabbed him to death again.
When it came to the third knight, the Swadian Royal Knight stopped killing. He only knocked his opponent's lance away to ensure his own safety. At the same time, he took the opportunity to throw the two corpses on the lance to the ground.
He handed the third knight over to the Sarleon Lion Knight behind him to take care of.
This first row of Swadian Royal Knight continued to kill one grand knight after another.
It was only when he came across the seventh grand knight that he was killed by the opponent due to his exhaustion of his extraordinary powers. His strength was reduced to a level that was lower than the opponent's. His corpse was pierced through by the lance of the grand knight, while his warhorse continued to gallop forward.
In the pouring rain, Kant's cavalry and the enemy's cavalry crossed each other.
The knight order members of War Temple were like weeds in this battle, being harvested by Kant's subordinates, the Swadian Royal Knights, the Sarleon Lion Knights, and Mamlukes. Their corpses were flung down by the lances of the knights, it was one to two kilometers long on the West Main Road.
Blood flowed out of the wounds that were pierced by the lance of the knights and merged with the rainwater that accumulated on the ground. It almost dyed the entire West Main Road a bright red color.
It was only because of the heavy rain that the smell of blood did not disperse widely. Otherwise, the entire Western District would be covered in a thick smell of blood.
The blood river formed by the four knight orders of War Temple seemed to have been cut off by the silver-gray steel flood, which devoured the blood river bit by bit.
When the two heavy cavalry legions passed through each other, out of the 4,000 members of the knight orders of War Temple, only 600 remained.
As for the 990 heavy cavalries under Kant, they only lost 50 Swadian Royal Knights, 40 Sarleon Lion Knights, and 100 Mamlukes.
The ratio of losses between two sides were close to 1:20.
It was obvious which of the two cavalry legions was stronger.
"Slow down the entire army!" Kant gathered his remaining extraordinary powers and gave the order tiredly.
The remaining cavalry immediately slowed down.
Kant did not feel that it was not necessary for the knights to attack the phalanx of the temple guards when facing the spells of two hundred temple priests and one hundred reserve priests of War Temple.
In this charge, Kant also killed two grand knights of War Temple, and more than ten ordinary knights.
At this time, the remaining knights of the war shrine were already like fish in a barrel. Baheshtur was leading the Rhodok Sergeants, all the archers, and the mages, maintaining a strict formation. At the same time, they were advancing quickly under the effect of mages' Group Acceleration spell.
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Chapter 542: The Furious Viscount Kemil
The remaining 600 knights of the four knight orders of War Temple did not escape the fate of being massacred by Kant's army.
The priests of War Temple, who were originally guarding the other side, led the guards of War Temple to retreat from the West Main Road.
This battle was very tragic, but the results were also very good.
The 4,000 knights and grand knights of the four knight orders were all wearing standard armor, along with knight lances and knight swords. Even if most of the armors were damaged to a certain extent, it was still an extremely rich spoils of war.
The knight orders of War Temple were undoubtedly elite troops, and their equipment was also very good. However, all of Kant's soldiers had their own set of equipment that came from the system, so they did not need these armors.
Although his army could not use them, it did not mean that these armors had no value.
If these armors were sold to a noble, it would be easy to sell them for 80 great silver coins per set. Two sets would be enough to gather a golden eagle.
The equipment of these four knight orders was enough for Kant to exchange for more than 2,000 golden eagles. With so many golden eagles, it was enough for Joslin to exchange for nearly 2.5 million to 6 million denars on the Pendor Continent.
In addition to this war, due to the terrain, the loss of warhorses was not too much. The capture of nearly 3,500 warhorses was a considerable profit.
However, Kant did not plan to sell the warhorses.
His three fortresses or towns were far away and inconvenient to travel. These horses were just right for use.
At this time, the heavy rain was still pouring. Kant did not plan to continue attacking the War Temple.
Firstly, the battlefield environment was too terrible.
Cavalry could not be the main force in a war like attacking the War Temple.
The main force should be the archers and mages. However, such a heavy rain would have an adverse effect on the power and range of the arrows.
At the same time, the mages might be affected more than the archers.
Their physiques were weak. It was too harsh to let them cast spells in such a storm.
Secondly, the War Temple had just suffered a huge defeat. If Kant pressed on, it would definitely cause the War Temple to be in a desperate situation.
The army of the War Temple was not weak, kept pushing the enemy might backfire on Kant.
However, if they were given some time to digest the news of the War Temple's defeat, this news would definitely cause a huge impact on the soldiers of War Temple who had never lost before.
It was very likely that it would directly destroy their invincible belief of winning the war, demoralize their morale, and greatly weaken the resistance that Kant would encounter when he attacked the War Temple in the future.
"Baheshtur, you command the soldiers to pack up the spoils of war!"
"Yes, Lord Kant!"
After tidying up the battlefield, all of Kant's soldiers became 'cavalries'. Even the original cavalry squad carried an extra warhorse.
Although the iron equipment of the knights of the War Temple was heavier, with so many warhorses, everything was no longer a problem.
"Send the order: withdraw the army and return to the barracks at the south city gate of Lionheart City to rest!"
After Baheshtur led the soldiers to tidy up all the spoils of war, Kant once again gave the order.
The East-West Main Road and the North-South Main Road divided Lionheart City into four big blocks.
The main temple of War Temple was located in the regions surrounding the South and West Main Roads.
Half of this region belonged to the West District and the other half belonged to the South District.
After the army rested at the south city gate of Lionheart City and the weather became good, Kant could lead the army to pass through the South District and surround the War Temple.
…
It was raining cats and dogs in Lionheart City, but it did not rain at Seria Castle, which was at the junction of the North County and South County.
The sun was still shining brightly.
At this moment, Firentis slowly led his army and approached Seria Castle.
The number of soldiers in Firentis's army was reduced by one-third.
The army that Firentis originally led was made up of three parts.
One of them was Kant's army, which had the least number of soldiers but was the most elite.
The other was the North County noble alliance army. These people had joined forces to attack the Stone Pass controlled by Kant, but before the army reached the Stone Pass, they were all captured by Firentis.
The third was the East County noble alliance army. When they saw that His Highness Kant was powerful, they had the idea of submitting to him, so they sent their army to support him.
But now, because of the rumors and slander of the nobles of the South County in Seria Castle, His Highness Kant was branded with the name of submitting to the demon. The East County noble alliance army was in a hurry to cut ties with Baron Kant, so they directly withdrew their army from the allied army.
Of course, they were able to withdraw because of His Highness Kant's benevolence. At the beginning, he saw that they had come to support him with the intention of serving him.
However, the North County noble alliance army who had the same thoughts, they also wanted to break away and return to their own estate.
In the eyes of Firentis, this was simply a dream. They did not understand their own situation at all.
They were just captives!
With Kant's order, Firentis treated them as cannon fodder.
Hence, the number of troops under Firentis's command had increased from 30,000 to 20,000 people.
There were 1,200 Swadian Sergeants, 800 Swadian Footmen, 3,000 Swadian Light Footmen, and 15,000 infantrymen of North County noble alliance army.
At this moment, at the border between the South County and the North County, the blue sky was graciously clear, and the sun shone brightly on the earth.
The gentle breeze blew gently, making people feel very comfortable.
This was the best weather.
However, in the commander's meeting room in Seria Castle, the atmosphere was gloomy.
Pa!
Viscount Kemil threw his beloved exquisite clay cup onto the floor of the meeting room. His face was ashen, and he could no longer maintain his composure.
He quickly stood up from the chair on the main seat of the meeting table, and in a few steps, he arrived in front of the knight who was reporting the news. He grabbed the rough brown linen robe of the knight angrily. He was unable to control his emotions, he said viciously, "What did you say?"
"Repeat what you just said!"
"You basta… I'm sorry, my knight, I've lost my mind."
Viscount Kemil did not say the word "b*stard".
After breathing heavily for a few times, he tried his best to calm down his anger, and let go of his hands that were grabbing onto the knight's robe. He apologized to the knight, even though his tone were rather reluctant.
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Chapter 543: The Brutal Slaughter In the Room
The knight was scared just now because Viscount Kemil was really terrifying. The aura that he burst out made him feel like a small boat in the vast ocean, which could be overturned by the waves at any time.
The Viscount Kemil was a peak grand knight. The aura that he burst out with his full strength was indeed a little too terrifying for an ordinary official knight like him.
The knight fearfully repeated what he had said earlier, "My Lords, Grand Duke Cameron has rejected your request to take your side!"
"Grand Duke Cameron said that he doesn't dare to trust a noble who doesn't follow the rules."
As soon as the knight finished speaking, he stood on the spot with some trepidation. Even he knew what this meant.
The atmosphere in the meeting room was extremely stifling.
A noble knight suddenly spoke to the knight, "Sir Knight, you can leave first. Help me close the door!"
After the knight left, the baron, who was sitting at the top left of the long table in the meeting room, spoke to Viscount Kemil with a sarcastic tone, "Viscount Kemil, your brilliant plan has completely failed!"
"Baron Kant indeed bears the stigma of defecting to the demon."
"However, he did not withdraw the extremely powerful 'Swadia' army that belonged to him."
"With this 'Swadian army' around, we can't do anything to them."
The baron, who was sitting at the top right of the long table in the conference room, frowned slightly and shouted at the baron opposite him in a low voice, "Enough, Baron David!"
"Now that things have come to this, we are all in the same boat. What's the use of you mocking Viscount Kemil? You should think of something!"
Viscount Kemil walked to his seat of honor without saying a word.
He had miscalculated.
When they created that rumor together, they had completely lost the opportunity to side with Baron Kant in this battle for the throne.
And now, even Grand Duke Cameron had explicitly rejected their side.
This meant that their greatest confidence, relying on the strength they had in their hands, and the opportunity to make both sides happy, had been personally destroyed by them.
If they did not seek death, they would not die.
"Facing the current situation, what good ideas do you have?"
"Now, Baron Kant's subordinates, leading the North County noble alliance army, are approaching our Seria Castle step by step.".
Viscount Kemil was not in high spirits at all. His tone of voice was very low, which showed that he was in a very low mood.
In fact, many of the nobles in the room had eyes filled with anger and hatred. This was what worried Viscount Kemil the most.
According to the current situation, it was his speech that brought all the nobles here to this point.
This was a desperate situation.
Their homes were destroyed, the road ahead was blocked, the road back was cut off, the food crisis, and the strong enemy had arrived.
At this moment, the baron, who was sitting at the first seat on the upper left, suddenly stood up.
He said with some schadenfreude, "Okay, I won't play with you anymore!"
"You are at the end of your rope, there is no way out, but I still have a chance!"
"I can seek refuge with my mother's family. My mother was born into a noble family. As long as I seek refuge with them, they will not reject me. At least, they will not reject the expansion of their own estate."
"I can still ask for their help to reclaim my estate in the South County!"
"With their protection, no one will dare to lay their hands on me when I have little power!"
There were clear barriers between the nobles. As a middle-level noble, the baron was considered a pretty good noble to have a territory in the South County. His mother was actually from a high-level noble. This could only mean that his father's methods were superb.
At this moment, almost half of the people heard the baron's words and their eyes lit up. One of them said, "Baron David, please take me with you. I'm willing to pay one-third of the territory as the price to obtain the protection of your mother's family!"
"I'm also willing to pay one-third of my territory…"
"And me…"
These noble families were like grasping at a life-saving straw in a desperate situation.
They were even willing to give up a part of the land that was the foundation of the family.
They could not be blamed for this. They were in a desperate situation. If they did not seize this opportunity, they might not be able to take back even a single bit of their family's land.
Who knew if they would die on the battlefield or become bandits? No matter what, it was an extremely difficult task to rely on them to take back the land.
Even if they took back the land, they would not be able to keep it.
Seeing so many noble families agree with him, a smile of triumph flashed across Baron David's face.
If so many noble families supported his mother's family with him, he could completely rely on his identity to become the big shot among these noble families.
There were endless benefits.
"Good!"
"Since everyone wants to take shelter with my mother's family, let's hurry up and lead the family's private soldiers to leave this place. Baron Kant's subordinates are about to arrive."
At this moment, the originally gloomy Viscount Kemil suddenly stood up and pulled out the knight sword from his waist.
Following that, a faint orange light was emitted from the knight sword, which was originally just an artifact.
! !
Viscount Kemil took two or three steps and quickly arrived beside Baron David, whose mother was a noble from the upper class. Without any hesitation, he raised his sword and slashed.
"Viscount Kemil! How dare you commit murder?"
"Stop!"
"No!"
A group of nobles screamed in panic, but they were too far away.
Baron David pulled out the knight sword, which was also an artifact, in a panic.
However, he was only an official knight. How could he be a match for Viscount Kemil, who was a grand knight.
Kacha!
The two knight swords clashed. The one in Viscount Kemil's hand was like a sword that could cut through iron like it was mud. It directly cut off the knight sword in Baron David's hand.
Then, without hesitation, it continued to slash at Baron David's neck.
Splash!
The artifact knight sword that was infused with extraordinary power by Viscount Kemil was not inferior to a real knight sword. It cut off the baron's head without any obstruction.
Fresh blood gushed out from Baron David's broken neck, directly spraying blood all over Viscount Kemil's body.
Viscount Kemil grinned and said, "Now, do you still want to betray the alliance agreement?"
The many noble families were not intimidated by Viscount Kemil at all. Most of them had the strength of a knight, and there were even one or two grand knights among them.
One of the barons who had the strength of a grand knight looked at Viscount Kemil with hatred, "Devil! Viscount Kemil, I think you are the real devil!"
"You have brought us to the abyss of despair again and again!"
Those nobles who wanted to leave with Baron David looked at Viscount Kemil with hatred, cursing crazily and cursing Viscount Kemil.
They did not care about the dignity of a noble anymore.
"If you have the time to hate me, you might as well think of a way!"
"You want to escape? That's impossible!"
"I can only tell you that not only were our paths closed by Baron Kant's men, but our paths of retreat were also cut off by some extremely valiant knights!"
"They were also wearing Baron Kant's Red Background Gold Lion Badge!"
Viscount Kemil looked at the nobles and said mockingly, "If you want to escape, you will find that it is meaningless to scatter your power. You will be mercilessly devoured and killed by Baron Kant!"
"Since you are in a desperate situation, noble, show your courage!"
"Don't forget why the noble is the ruler of this continent!"
After saying that, Viscount Kemil walked out of the meeting room with a bloody knight sword in his hand.
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Chapter 544: The Choice of Seria Castle
Firentis led the army and was only one kilometer away from Seria Castle.
At this moment, Seria Castle was still silent and there was no reaction.
"You want to use cavalry to defend the castle?"
Firentis looked at the distant Seria Castle and thought in confusion.
Seria Castle only had a little more than 14,000 cavalries. In reality, the plains were their best battlefield, and they were not defending a small castle.
They were a lone army with no supplies or reinforcements.
They did not have many resources to defend the castle.
The nobles of the South County in Seria Castle did not consider that they would be forced to defend the castle.
Soon, Firentis led 20,000 infantrymen and arrived at Seria Castle.
Seria Castle was a fortress-type castle with only one gate.
Therefore, the 14,000 cavalries of Seria Castle had been surrounded in Seria Castle.
On the square in the center of Seria Castle.
"You idiots!"
"The best opportunity to ride out of the castle has been wasted by you trash!"
Viscount Kemil led his family's private army to confront the "allies" who surrounded them. Hearing the movement outside the castle, he roared angrily.
"Viscount Kemil, you killed my master, Baron David, in public. Do you think we will listen to your command?"
"You are not worthy!"
"That's right, you murderer. You should be hanged!"
The grand knights under Baron David who were guarding outside the meeting room heard what happened in the meeting room. At this moment, they led the heavy cavalries under Baron David and encouraged the troops of the other noble families to denounce Viscount Kemil.
However, they did not dare to make a move against Viscount Kemil.
Viscount Kemil was a noble, but they were not.
If they killed the noble, it would be treason. No noble family would allow such an act.
Even if they avenged Baron David, the other noble families would definitely lead their subordinates to eliminate them without hesitation.
They could only encircle Viscount Kemil here, hoping that the other nobles would take Viscount Kemil down and send him to the court of the noble.
At this time, after Viscount Kemil left the meeting room, the nobles who had been dragging their feet for a long time finally made up their minds to fight to the death and came out of the meeting room one after another.
Then, they saw the situation in the square.
Boom!
At this moment, the gate of Seria Castle let out an earth-shattering boom.
"Oh no, Baron Kant's subordinates have already led the army to attack the city!"
Many of the noble looked panicked. Although they had already made up their minds to fight to the death, they were still panicking because they were about to enter the war so soon.
The nobles of the South County did not have heavy cavalry that rode on horses. Right now, they were panicking and quarrelling in the central square of the Seria Castle.
This was the disadvantage of this kind of alliance army.
When there was hope for victory, they could still cooperate with each other. However, when they were faced with such a desperate situation, they could no longer be like before. Instead, they began to form their own groups and turned hostile to each other.
What was worse was that the noble had the authority to command, but they did not give any specific orders for a long time.
There were still some elite heavy cavalry troops, but according to the current situation in the square of Seria Castle, they were completely scattered.
"Baron Sayre, you will be the highest commander in this battle!"
"Noble families! I hope that you can quickly calm your own troops and listen to Baron Sayre's orders! Let Baron Sayre reorganize his troops as quickly as possible!"
"My knights! Follow me. We will block the gates of Seria Castle and buy time for Baron Sayre to reorganize his troops!"
At this moment, Viscount Kemil stepped forward and made a few suggestions in an orderly manner. Then, he led his private army and headed towards the castle gate quickly.
Baron Sayre was the baron who sat at the head of the right side in the meeting room.
He looked at Viscount Kemil with a complicated gaze. When it came to talent and courage, this was the best way to show it in this critical moment.
At this moment, Viscount Kemil's performance was something that he knew he could not compare to.
The many nobles were the same as Baron Sayre. They looked at the back view of Viscount Kemil leading his army and instantly had the same thoughts as Baron Sayre. At this moment, their anger and resentment towards Viscount Kemil had unknowingly dissipated a little.
Viscount Kemil's actions were undoubtedly to use the lives of himself and his subordinates to buy time for them.
The many noble families could not help but think that perhaps it was not that Viscount Kemil was too weak, but that his opponent was too strong.
An image of a golden-haired noble with amber-colored eyes and a young and tender face appeared in their minds.
It was Baron Kant, a noble who had forced them into a desperate situation.
At this moment, this image suddenly became profound and terrifying in the hearts of these noble.
Baron Sayre withdrew his gaze from Viscount Kemil and said, "Silence!"
Baron Sayre, who also had the strength of a grand knight, activated his extraordinary power and his voice instantly covered the entire central square of Seria Castle.
The crowd quickly quieted down!
At this moment, the people in the square of Seria Castle were in a panic. They needed someone to stand up and lead them.
Of course, other than Viscount Kemil, the soldiers were willing to accept any other nobles.
The hatred and resentment of the noble towards Viscount Kemil had deeply infected their private soldiers.
Boom!
Another loud sound came from the castle gate.
"Hold on!"
Viscount Kemil roared angrily. At this moment, he was wearing leather armor and took the lead to use his body to hold on to the castle gate of Seria Castle. His body was emitting a faint orange light, which was the radiance of extraordinary power.
The faces of Viscount Kemil's private soldiers were also flushed red. Each of them used their utmost strength to firmly hold on to the castle gate of Seria Castle.
The position of the castle gate was limited, and many of Viscount Kemil's private soldiers pressed against their comrades.
"Nobles, all of you go and command your own private armies!"
"At the same time, according to the original heavy cavalry troop deployment, arrange a square formation on this square!"
"Hurry up!"
Baron Sayre quickly found his private army and arranged his private army into a small square formation. At the same time, he circulated his extraordinary power and issued orders.
At this moment, with the coordination of the noble, these 14,000 heavy cavalry soldiers seemed to have found their backbone. They efficiently followed Baron Sayre's orders and arranged a neat square formation on the square of Seria Castle.
However, the original heavy cavalry square formation had now become a heavy footman square formation.
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Chapter 545: Fighting In the Square
There was not enough space for 14,000 heavy cavalries to ride on their horses and set up their formation. If they did not have the distance to charge, they might as well use the infantry formation to face the enemy.
Although most of the cavalry's training was on horses, fighting with knight sword was also a part of the training. At this moment, they had abandoned their horses and turned into infantry. They also had a strong fighting strength.
Outside of Seria Castle, Firentis looked at the empty walls of Seria Castle with some doubt.
Logically speaking, when the enemy troop attacked the castle, they were already at the foot of the city wall. This wall was the most advantageous defensive terrain. As long as some archers were deployed, they would be able to cause great losses to the attacking troops.
Firentis knew that Seria Castle was full of cavalries.
However, even so, they should not give up such an excellent defensive space on the city wall.
In Firentis's opinion, the 14,000 heavy cavalry soldiers of Seria Castle were already trapped in the castle.
The methods of their heavy cavalries could no longer be used.
Hence, their long and heavy lance could actually be used as a pilum. When thrown from the city wall, the lethality would definitely not be lower than the archers.
For this, Firentis's cannon fodders were already prepared. The 15,000 infantry troops of North County noble alliance army were completely thrown into chaos. Firentis led the Swadian army to drive them to the front.
At this moment, they were carrying the siege logs that Firentis had prepared earlier and were ramming into the castle gate of Seria Castle.
Boom!
Boom!
The thick and heavy siege wood was carried by the hundreds of infantry soldiers of the North County noble alliance army, and they were ramming the castle gates of Seria Castle.
However, what Firentis did not expect was that the castle gate of Seria Castle, which could be blasted open with a maximum of ten ramming attacks, was still as stable as a mountain even thought it had already been rammed more than thirty times by the siege wood.
Its sturdiness and resistance to impact far exceeded Firentis's expectations.
"Send out the second siege wood!"
Firentis's order was repeated by the ten Swadian Royal Knights beside him. It was clearly spread throughout the entire army.
In Seria Castle, the orange light on Viscount Kemil's body was already somewhat weak.
He looked back and found that Baron Sayre had already reorganized his army. He immediately ordered his private army, "Knights, get into formation. We will also retreat to the main army."
Soon, Viscount Kemil led his private army and quickly retreated to the military formation in Seria Castle.
Baron Sayre and the many nobles did not speak to stop Viscount Kemil, even though deep in their hearts, they still harbored hatred and resentment towards him.
Viscount Kemil's private army was a very powerful force after all.
Moreover, Viscount Kemil's previous actions were practically using his life to buy time for them. Although the enemy seemed to be weaker than they had imagined, Viscount Kemil had managed to hold on for so long. They had already reorganized themselves, indeed, they did not have the right to ask Viscount Kemil and the other viscounts to stand at the front all the time.
Boom!
Boom!
Two consecutive loud bangs rang out. The gate of Seria Castle, which had already been loosened, was instantly broken through and fell to the ground with a loud bang.
The castle gate had been broken, and there was no longer any barrier between the two armies.
Through the castle gate of Seria Castle, Firentis looked at the square of Seria Castle. Heavy infantrymen, who were neatly dressed in heavy armor and carrying a knight sword, their eyes were filled with resolution.
This was especially so for the nobles of the South County who were wearing leather armor and standing in front of the army. At this moment, they were no longer holding a knight sword that looked like an artifact, but a real knight sword.
Firentis was extremely angry with the nobles of the South County. It was because of them, a rumor had disrupted his meticulous plan and pushed Kant to the opposition of the entire human noble families.
"Send the order! Attack the castle with the entire army!"
Firentis didn't have any extra words and directly gave the order.
"Send the order! Attack the city with the entire army!"
As the ten Swadian Royal Knights circulated their extraordinary powers and spread his order throughout the entire army.
The North County's infantrymen at the front were extremely excited as they surged into Seria Castle like a tidal wave.
In reality, they didn't know that they had been treated as cannon fodders by Firentis.
They had long been separated from their true masters, the noble lords of the North County. At the same time, Firentis had completely disrupted their formation and rearranged it.
After the stunning battle, they were convinced of Firentis's orders.
Although they had only played a part in the formation, this did not stop them from taking credit for their victory. As a result, the fearsome heavy cavalries of the South County that they initially scared of had become an ordinary army in their eyes.
In this battle, it was the South County's army had been beaten so badly that they did not even dare to take a single step forward. They had actually allowed them to attack the castle gate without any obstruction.
This was much easier than when they had attacked Maas Castle.
Hence, the moment the castle gate was breached, the 15,000 North County alliance army's infantrymen, who had no idea that they had been treated as cannon foddesr, immediately rushed into Seria Castle with high morale.
"Kill! Kill the weaklings of the South County!"
"The heavy cavalries of the South County are just a bunch of trash. Kill them!"
"Kill them! They are trash who can't even break through the shield formation of our infantry formation!"
"Kill them! Charge! The trash of the South County has turned into infantry!"
"Let us reap this bunch of trash who don't even have a shield. Charge!"
The soldiers of the North County noble alliance army's infantry troop were equipped with large machetes that were specially used to fight on foot, as well as light and sturdy round wooden shields, in addition to the spear that was specially used to deal with cavalry.
"Knights! Fight back!"
Baron Sayre stood at the front of the square formation in Seria Square. He was dressed in exquisite leather armor and held a sharp knight sword in his hand. His entire body emitted a faint green supernatural power as he loudly issued orders.
At the same time, he took the lead and faced the infantrymen of the North County noble alliance army.
"Knights! Follow me to kill the enemy!"
The South County's nobles also shouted loudly.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Let the b*stards of the North County taste of our knight sword!"
The infantrymen of the North County noble alliance army swarmed into Seria Castle and soon started to fight with the 14,000 knights or knight attendants who had turned into a heavy infantryman square formation in the square.
The central square of Seria Castle was filled with soldiers.
The intense fighting between the two sides, the sound of shouting, the sound of weapons colliding, and the sound of sharp blades cutting, gathered into one. It was extremely noisy. In such an environment, all the soldiers who were fighting were no different from deaf people, their ears kept ringing.
They could only see a dozen or so people around them. They did not know the overall situation of the war at all. They only knew that when they saw someone who was not from their own camp, they could only use the machete in their hands or the knight sword in their hands to fiercely greet them.
In such a killing environment, everyone became frantic and restless. They only cared about fighting with their eyes red. There was no danger of their morale collapsing.
In the central square of Seria Castle, it quickly turned into a meat grinder, continuously devouring fresh lives.
The ground began to thicken. It was a thick flow of blood that was slowly condensing.
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Chapter 546: Regretful Rebellion Army
The sounds of battle continued for more than half a day.
By the afternoon, the sounds of battle had gradually weakened.
At this moment, Firentis ordered the Swadian Sergeants, the Swadian Footmen, and the Swadian Heavy Footmen who had been blocking the entrance of the castle to slowly push into the castle.
"Order: Kill the rest in the castle!"
"Order: if you find anyone who is not dead, kill them immediately."
Firentis looked at Seria Castle with a cold and determined gaze.
At this moment, in Seria Castle, after half a day of fighting, less than 3,000 out of 30,000 people were left, and almost all of them were injured.
At this moment, the Swadian Footmen held a shield in one hand and a spatha in the other hand as they slowly pushed forward.
"Hahaha, scum of the South County, your end is here!"
"The elites of our army are here to reap your lives!"
The infantry belonging to the North County noble alliance army laughed in surprise when they saw the arrival of the Swadian Footmen. At the same time, they mocked the soldiers of the South County.
Splash!
An infantryman of the North County noble alliance army, who was cursing happily, was suddenly pulled back Swadian Footman and was pierced through in his heart.
"I… I'm the alliance army… The alliance army… why…"
The infantryman was bleeding from his mouth. He asked in puzzlement, but before he could finish his words, he fell to the ground.
The Swadian Footman who had killed him stepped forward and looked at the soldier who fell to the ground. He said softly, "This is the order we received!"
Whether it was the soldiers of the North County noble alliance army or the soldiers under Kant.
They did not know that this order was because of the rebellion and strife of the North County's noble. They had forgotten their identity as captives. Their actions that crossed the line had brought about a fate of destruction for themselves and their soldiers.
However, due to the loyalty of the system, the soldiers under Kant completely obeyed the orders of their superiors.
The 3000 or so people who survived on the battlefield, whether it was the infantrymen of the North County noble alliance army or the heavy cavalries of the South County noble alliance army, they didn't have much combat strength left.
Facing the Swadian soldiers who were advancing step by step and mercilessly killing, they had almost no ability to resist.
The merciless and gruesome slaughter completely ended the remaining soldiers in Seria Castle.
In Seria Castle, corpses piled up layer by layer, reaching the ankles of the soldiers.
Hundreds of vultures were attracted by the smell of blood that soared into the sky. At this moment, they were circling above Seria Castle.
"Order: Plunder the spoils of war!"
"Order: Drag the corpses to gather outside of Seria Castle and cremate them!"
At this moment, there were no spies from other countries on the battlefield. After Firentis's plan was destroyed by the rumors of the noble families in the South County, those spies no longer needed to exist.
They were mercilessly chased away by the desert bandits and the Swadian Heavy Cavalries led by Rolf.
Some of the spies, who relied on their numbers and were unwilling to retreat, were forced to stay forever by Rolf.
Along with a huge fire, it lit up at the side of Seria Castle, marking the first step of Firentis's plan to invade the South County.
It also meant that the land of the North County had completely become Lord Kant's territory, and half of the South County had become the barrier of the North County.
As long as Rolf successfully destroyed the rebellion army, half of the South County would fall into Lord Kant's hands.
On the same night, in an abandoned farm deep within the South County.
The rebellion army of the South County was stationed here.
At this moment, the commander of the rebellion army, Korod, was drinking wine to make himself feel better. If not, he would be filled with regret.
Yes, the commander-in-chief of the rebellion army, Korod was very regret now.
He regretted betraying the alliance agreement that Kant had given him with extremely generous conditions.
After betraying Kant's very formal alliance agreement, Korod tried to lead the South County rebellion army to seek refuge with Cameron, Duke of Leo. He used the land that they "controlled" and the number of soldiers as bargaining chips. They sought the identity of a noble, but like the nobles of South County of Seria Castle, they were mercilessly rejected by Duke of Leo.
If Cameron accepted them, it would undoubtedly be a challenge to the order of the noble class.
Rebels like them were the existence that all the nobles loathed the most. Their own actions were a challenge to the rationality of the noble ruling this world. If Grand Duke Cameron really gave them the title of nobility, then this world that was ruled by the noble families might completely fall into chaos.
Once that was a precedent, more would come. If the South County rebellion army was able to successfully turn from a slave into a noble through a rebellion, then the slaves of the other kingdoms and dukedoms might follow suit.
Therefore, from the moment they started the rebellion, their ending was already destined.
After being rejected by the Grand Duke of Leo, Cameron, the commander of the rebellion army, Korod, expressed his intention to surrender to the four top noble families in South County, but the ending was equally tragic.
With the Grand Duke of Leo, Cameron, and the four top noble families leading the way, the other nobles in South County all expressed their condemnation of the rebellion army in South County. The noble families naturally called them the rebel army. They swore that as long as Grand Duke of Leo, Cameron, summoned to take the rebellion army, they would definitely send their private army to support them.
Under such circumstances, the commander of the rebellion army of South County and the other commanders were like the nobles in Seria Castle, completely falling into the abyss of despair.
Although they had "occupied" half of the land of South County, these lands were almost in ruins, unable to provide them with any follow-up support.
This was because the population had already been completely massacred or swept away by them.
After being rejected by Grand Duke Cameron and the four top-tier noble families of the South County, Korod had once tried to lead the rebellion army to cross the other half of the South County, crossed the Resniston River, and returned to the land of the Silver Platter Kingdom.
In Korod's opinion, the silver platter kingdom, which had already fallen into chaos, might have a place for him to stand.
However, his actions were treated as another round of invasion by the high-level nobles of the South County. The strength of the high-level nobles was far surpassed that of the middle-level noble represented by Viscount Kemil.
Moreover, their private soldiers were not like Viscount Kemil's. Most of them had been drawn out to form an alliance of noble forces that wanted to conquer the North County.
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Chapter 547: Clean Up
Therefore, Korod's rebellion army had undoubtedly suffered an extremely painful blow.
The elite heavy cavalries gathered by several high-level noble families in the South County were simply not something they could easily deal with.
They had only managed to escape after leaving behind 5,000 corpses. In reality, the main reason was that the other party did not intend to chase after them.
The nobles were afraid of Baron Kant's power, so they kept these rebel scum as a barrier to stop Baron Kant from going south.
The commander-in-chief of the southern County rebellion army, Korod, was completely drunk tonight.
After hearing the rumor that Kant had defected to the devil, he personally broke the alliance agreement that Kant had promised him a generous reward. However, he was at a loss at this moment, not knowing what the future of his rebellion army was.
Even though he was drunk, the regret was still haunting Korod.
The night was getting darker.
The wind started to blow.
Suddenly, the camp of the rebellion army that was housed in the abandoned farm suddenly lit up.
In the camp of the rebellion army, cries filled the air.
This fire naturally would not be lit up for no reason.
Not far away from the camp of the rebellion army, Rolf led over 1,600 desert bandits and crazily fired rockets into the camp.
After all the rockets were fired, Rolf ordered all the desert bandits to retreat.
The next day, the rebellion army soldiers of South County were burned to death by a huge fire.
The originally 30,000-man strong rebellion army only had 25,000 people left.
Luckily, the fire last night started from the other end of the grain they had placed. This gave the rebellion army a chance to save their grain.
If not, this bunch of useless soldiers without grain might immediately mutiny.
These 25,000 plus people were exhausted. Many of them had escaped, but they had lost their weapons and defensive equipment.
Panic spread amongst them.
Although Korod was rescued by his subordinates last night, he felt terrified and uneasy facing this horrible situation.
He had a premonition that Rolf had already set his eyes on the rebellion army.
In the eyes of Korod, Rolf was a man who was as terrifying as a demon.
Rolf had once planned a night raid for them, allowing the rebellion army to wipe out almost 5,000 elite heavy cavalry soldiers of South County noble alliance army.
In the eyes of Korod, this was a glorious achievement.
After experiencing the Silver Platter Kingdom's invasion on the Dukedom of Leo 11 years ago, he knew very well how terrifying the 5,000 heavy cavalry soldiers of the Dukedom of Leo were on the plains of the South County.
Reality proved that it was true.
Yesterday, they had been swept and ravaged by the nearly 5,000 heavy cavalries of the high-ranking nobles in the South County. Their 35,000-man rebellion army had decreased to 30,000 men.
The more terrifying the heavy cavalry was, the more terrifying Rolf was.
The fire last night seemed to be Rolf's handiwork.
Just as Korod was panicking, the earth shook violently.
"Look, the heavy cavalries of the South County's noble family is chasing us!"
"Oh my god, we're finished!"
"Sob, sob, sob, I don't want to die, I'm only 16 years old this year!"
In the distant horizon, a black mass of cavalries rapidly charged towards the rebellion army.
The rebellion army soldiers who were crushed by the South County's heavy cavalries yesterday had a deep fear of them.
"Look, that's not the heavy cavalries of the Southern County! Their flag is a red-bottomed golden lion!"
"Red-bottomed golden lion?"
"Oh my god, that's Baron Kant's flag!"
"Baron Kant's soldiers are even more terrifying than the heavy cavalry of the noble of South County!"
The rebellion army was extremely flustered and did not have a precise formation.
"Run! They're charging at us!"
"Retreat, retreat!"
"Run, run, just like yesterday!"
Many of the rebellion army soldiers and even their commanders started to run. Yesterday, they had successfully escaped the massacre of the heavy cavalries of the noble families. Now that they had experience, they all escaped without a doubt.
However, their speed was very slow. After all, they did not have a good rest last night and were very tired.
Korod looked at the chaos of the rebellion army soldiers who were all focused on running for their lives.
He closed his eyes in despair.
He was once a noble of the Silver Platter Kingdom, and he had participated in the invasion of the Silver Platter Kingdom against the Dukedom of Leo eleven years ago. He had fought with the heavy cavalries of the Dukedom of Leo many times.
Korod deeply understood that the heavy cavalry army was not invincible.
As long as the infantrymen army contracted closely enough and formed a dense square formation, they would be able to contend against the heavy cavalry army. Even if they were eventually crushed, they would definitely be able to cause great losses to the heavy cavalry army.
However, escaping like this would give the heavy cavalry army a chance to reap their lives.
The heavy cavalry army always like the running enemies.
Korod did not escape with the soldiers of the rebellion army. He pulled out the sword at his waist.
He placed it directly on his neck.
"If I can make a new choice, even if Baron Kant really defected to the devil, I, Korod, will never betray him!"
As Korod said this, his eyes were filled with regret and tears of attachment to life.
The opportunity he once had was buried by his own hands.
Looking at the cavalry troop that was getting closer and closer, the tremors on the ground became even more intense. Korod slashed fiercely, and a small part of his neck was directly cut off by the sharp blade. Fresh blood gushed out like spring water.
"Hmph! It's too easy for you!"
"Bah!"
Rolf rode on his warhorse and stood side by side with the 50 Swadian Royal Knights in the front row. Seeing Korod committed suicide with his own eyes, he snorted coldly on the horse.
Forming an alliance with the rebellion army was Rolf's idea. Although he was initially prepared to trap the rebellion army, in the end, His Highness Lord Kant allowed him to truly form an alliance with these b*stards. Although this was different from Rolf's original intention, this was also his highness Kant's recognition of him.
After all, the idea of forming an alliance was the first idea that Rolf came up with and carried it out.
In Rolf's opinion, his highness Kant was too generous and merciful to these b*stards. Rolf was also a noble, so he naturally understood the tragic ending and outcome of such rebellion army.
However, this d*mn Korod actually betrayed the alliance and His Highness Lord Kant. From the extermination order that His Highness Kant gave to these bastards, Rolf Knew How Furious His Highness Kant was about this matter.
Looking at the scattered rebellion army b*stards who were running for their lives, a bloodthirsty glint flashed in Rolf's eyes. He raised the scimitar in his hand and shouted fiercely, "Kill these b*stards! For His Highness Lord Kant's honor!"
Many cavalries, including 50 Swadian Royal Knights, 2,000 Swadian Light Cavalries, 3,000 Swadian Heavy Cavalries, and 1,600 desert bandits, all had their killing intent boiling as they shouted fiercely,
"Kill! For the honor of His Highness Lord Kant!"
"Kill! For the honor of His Highness Lord Kant!"
"Kill! For the honor of His Highness Lord Kant!"
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Chapter 548: Obtained Fertile Land
[ Ding… your subordinates destroyed 30,000 enemy troops with 43 soldiers, obtained a fertile land. ]
[ Evaluation acquired: Epic Victory. ]
[ Reputation obtained x 1,000 points. ]
[ Reputation obtained x 2 points. ]
In the barracks at the south city gate of Lionheart City, Kant suddenly received such a system prompt.
"Looks like Rolf has wiped out the rebellion army that had betrayed the alliance."
Firentis had already reported to him via the crystal ball that he had conquered Seria Castle. He had not received any comment from the system on that battle — unless it was a battle that was required by the system quest, only battles that had reached epic victory or above then would the system give a comment.
"My lord, General Firentis has sent a message. He proposes to have General Rolf inspect the South County, while he returns to the North County to clean up the North County's noble families. He wants to ensure that the North County is completely under your control."
A mage walked over and reported to Kant.
"Yes!"
"Also, Tell Firentis that Baron Dylan can be eliminated!"
Kant thought for a while and agreed to Firentis's suggestion.
The mage continued, "Lord, according to the report from the spies, the original target of knight orders from various sects was the Sargoth Fortress in the East County. But they have changed their route and set their target at Lionheart City."
Kant looked at the heavy rain that was gradually subsiding and nodded, "As expected! I didn't deliberately hide myself in Lionheart City. With the strength of those sects, it's not difficult to get this news."
"Is there any other news?"
The mage shook his head and replied, "Lord, no more!"
Kant looked at the weather that was gradually clearing up and said, "Then you may leave!"
After the mage who was in charge of exchanging information through various channels had left, Kant said to a Swadian Royal Knight who was standing beside him,
"Go and inform Baheshtur to meet see me to discuss the matter of attacking the War Temple."
The War Temple was located in the Western District of Lionheart City, south of the west city gate.
As the sect that the entire Dukedom of Leo believed in — the number one temple of the God of War sect in the Dukedom of Leo — the War Temple of Lionheart City was built like a small city. It occupied a large piece of land in the Western District.
Overall, War Temple had its back against the western city wall of Lionheart City, and the door was facing east.
Within the tall courtyard wall, there were seven temples arranged in a strict manner.
The one in the center was the main hall of the War Temple. It was facing east and worshipped the God of War's statue. It was also the representative of the God of War on the earth — the residence of the war priests.
On the north and south sides of the main hall of the War Temple, there were two side halls. There were four side halls in total, and they were all named War Knight Halls.
These four side halls were prepared for the strongest armed force of the war shrine — the war knight order. The four side halls could accommodate war knight order, which was 8,000 people.
However, there were only five war knight orders in the War Temple. Four of them had been wiped out by Kant yesterday, leaving only one war knight order.
Behind the main hall of the War Temple, on the west side, a hall was built against the west city wall of Lionheart City. This hall was the most mysterious building in the War Temple. It was said that only the most devout believers of the God of War were qualified to enter.
To the east of the main hall of the War Temple, there was a hall that was smaller than the War Knight Hall. Like the main hall, it was facing east.
This great hall was the gate of the War Temple. It was called the guard hall of War Temple. There were 1,000 powerful infantrymen, the guards of the war shrine stationed there. The north and south sides of this great hall were directly connected to the high walls of the courtyard. If people wanted to enter the War Temple to worship, they had to pass through the corridor on the first floor of the guard hall of War Temple.
At this moment, in the main hall of the War Temple, 300 war priests gathered here. They prayed devoutly and offered the purest faith. They used the power of faith to forge a bridge of communication, allowing the high priest to communicate with the god.
After a long time, the high priest finished communicating with the god.
The high priest said solemnly, "Oracle: Baron Kant is about to attack. We will fight to the death!"
Even though the priests were standing in front of the statue of the God of War, their faces were pale.
Just like the oracle yesterday, they did not understand it. They did not understand the oracle today either.
Why did the War Temple insist on fighting Baron Kant to the death?
Baron Kant was so powerful that the 200 priests who participated in the battle yesterday could not help but feel terrified when they thought of the one-sided massacre in the heavy rain yesterday.
However, as the priests of the God of War who had a firm belief, they would never question the god they believed in.
They firmly believed that everything in the oracle was reasonable. If they did not understand, then it must be because of their own problems.
The god would not make a mistake!
At this moment, there were very few soldiers available in the War Temple.
There were only 1,000 war knights, 1,000 guards of War Temple, 300 war priests, and 200 reserve war priests. Such strength is inferior to that of the four knight orders of yesterday.
Whoo…
In the main hall of War Temple, the high priest blew the bugle of war.
All the soldiers and priests gathered, waiting for the attack of Baron Kant.
The guard hall of War Temple was the door of the War Temple, but also its defensive barriers.
The War Temple did not have archers, but the long-range destructive divine spell of the war priests was not to be underestimated.
Not long after the War Temple took the initiative to prepare for battle, Kant led his army and arrived.
In front of the War Temple was a wide square, but there were no believers gathered here.
Kant's army was arranged in formation on this square.
There were 850 Rhodok Sergeants held broad shields and stood at the front, followed closely by Rhodok Sharpshooters, mages, mage apprentices, Vaegir Marksmen, and Ravenstern Rangers.
The cavalries were spread out on the two wings. If the knights of War Temple dared to rush out, these cavalries would ruthlessly kill them again.
"Lord, it seems that the War Temple is prepared!"
Baheshtur rode on his warhorse and followed Kant. He looked at the situation of the War Temple and said to Kant.
"It's okay, it's just a dying struggle!"
"Their army is too small!" Kant looked at the closed gate of the War Temple and 1,000 war guards and replied.
The 1,000 war guardians were placed directly outside the War Temple as the first barrier.
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Chapter 549: Priest's Divine Spell of War
At the same time, Kant also saw the War Temple's priest behind a small window on the second floor of the guard hall of War Temple.
At this time, in the main hall of the War Temple, the statue of the God of War was covered with a thick layer of blood-red light. This blood-red light carried a holy aura and spread out from the statue towards the outside of the main hall of the War Temple.
It enveloped the entire guard hall of War Temple, as well as the 1,000 soldiers in front of the guard hall of War Temple.
The moment they were enveloped by this red light, the soldiers roared out in pain.
Their auras were also increasing rapidly.
At the start, Kant estimated that these soldiers of War Temple were only at the level 4 level 5 troop class. However, after being enveloped by the red light, their auras were already at the level 5 troop class, they were not far from Kant's Rhodok Sergeants.
"Divine spell of war: Golden Spear Iron Horse!"
Suddenly, a uniform voice rang out from the hundreds of small windows on the 2nd floor of the War Temple.
These were the divine spell of war used by the war priests.
A number of gold-armored knights appeared out of thin air in front of the guards of War Temple. Beneath them was silver-gray warhorses, which looked like it was made of iron.
These knights emitted an aura similar to that of a level 5 troop class.
However, there were nearly a thousand of them.
Each War Temple priest cast a divine spell of war and summoned three golden-armored knights.
These knights were silent as they charged toward Kant's army. They looked like they were charging, but their speed was only equivalent to an ordinary person's jogging speed.
However, their silent aura was very intimidating.
Kant did not send his knights to deal with these golden weapons and iron horses. Instead, he gave an order, "Mages, use Nature Summon!"
Five hundred mages immediately accepted the order. In just a moment, 2,500 golems appeared in front of Rhodok Segeants.
Summoning versus summoning, they were evenly matched.
They all looked tough, strong, and slow.
Kant looked at the war priests hiding on the second floor of the guard hall of War Temple and continued to give orders, "Rhodok Sharpshooters, target the war priests on the second floor of the guard hall of War Temple. Fire!"
The range of the war priest was only 150 meters. They could not cast a divine spell on Kant's army, which was more than two hundred meters away. However, Rhodok Sharpshooters, who had a range of three hundred meters, could kill them.
Pu, Pu, Pu!
Rhodok Sharpshooters were all excellent crossbow masters. Their accuracy exceptionally good.
At this moment, the war priests were watching the battle from a small window. They did not expect that Kant's army would have many terrifying crossbow masters with attack range of more than 200 meters. They did not put up any defense at all.
In just one round of shooting, the war priests suffered heavy casualties.
Out of 300 war priests, more than 200 were killed.
No matter how strong the war priests were, the dead war priests were not worth mentioning.
The Golden Spear Iron Horses that the war priests summoned was much stronger than the golems.
This was because they were enveloped by the red light, which greatly increased their combat power. The Golden Spear Iron Horses that they summoned was even stronger.
However, in terms of numbers, the number of Golden Spear Iron Horses was much less than that of the golems.
A Golden Spear Iron Horse could split two or three golems apart, and its body would also be smashed into pieces by the other golems.
These summoned creatures would disappear as soon as they 'died'.
As a result, the number of Golden Spear Iron Horses and golems became fewer and fewer, but there were no corpses of them on the ground.
When only the summoned creatures were decreased to a single digit number in the middle of the square, Kant gave another order, "All troops advance, Ravenstern Rangers, pay attention to the war priests on the opposite side. If anyone shows up, immediately shoot them!"
Kant's army slowly advanced. The guards of the War Temple on the opposite side did not wait for the support of their own priests' spells. They all roared in unison, "Kill, for the honor of God of War, Edmund!"
Following that, they advanced in unison towards Kant's army.
Kant waited until the distance between the two armies was 50 meters before he gave another order:
"Rhodok Sharpshooters, the target is the guards of War Temple on the opposite side!"
"Vaegir Marksmen, fire in unison, the target is the guards as well!"
Rhodok Sharpshooters who used siege crossbow were too terrifying compared to the infantrymen of this world.
Even a siege crossbow could penetrate a tower shield within 50 meters, let alone the round shield of the guards of War Temple? Rhodok Sharpshooters shot down more than 200 guards of War Temple in one round.
The round shield was not a tower shield. It could not completely cover the bodies of the War Temple's guards. Hence, when being attacked by the arrows from Vaegir Marksmen, they suffered heavy casualties. More than 100 of them died.
The reason for this was naturally because the Vaegir Marksmen shot out very dense arrows.
After a round of rain of arrows, one-third of the guards of War Temple died. However, their morale did not decrease at all. When they saw that the archers of their opponents were terrifying, they took advantage of the time when the archers were reloading to speed up their advance. Kant also had a hint of admiration for such an army.
Admiration was one thing, but since they were enemies, then let them be the best enemies — dead enemies!
When the two armies were ten meters away from each other, another wave of arrow rain took away more than 400 guards of War Temple.
Even though there were only around 200 soldiers left, they still fearlessly advanced towards Kant's army.
"Ravenstern Rangers, send these respectable opponents to the afterlife!"
The 350 Ravenstern Rangers fired a round of shots, killing all the guards of War Temple.
After more than 40 were killed by the Ravenstern Rangers, the remaining 60 war priests didn't take the opportunity to show themselves.
Hiding behind the wall, they didn't understand the ever-changing situation on the battlefield.
"Very good!"
"Ravenstern Rangers, continue to keep an eye on those war priests! 300 Rhodok Sergeants, step out!"
"Every 150 Rhodok Sergeants will be responsible for one siege log. You guys use two siege logs and blast open the gate of War Temple!"
Kant ordered methodically.
Other than Nature Summon, he did not use the strength of the mages.
He did not forget that his system quest required him to capture the God of War.
The God of War had become a god 7,000 years ago. He did not know how powerful it was.
It was better to reserve some power.
The power of the mages was not like that of the warriors. Their spells were limited to a certain number of times per day.
Boom!
Boom!
An earth-shattering explosion reverberated throughout the War Temple.
After the remaining 60 war priests showed up without fear of death, 30 of them were killed by the Ravenstern Rangers. The rest refused to show up no matter what.
Behind the guard hall of War Temple, 1,000 knights were already ready to attack.
As soon as Kant and the others broke through the city gate and entered the guard hall of the War Temple, they immediately launched an attack. At this time, they had shortened the distance to launch an attack because of the red light.
This time, they would launch an intensive, or suicidal attack. As much as possible, they would exhaust Kant's army in the passage on the first floor of the guard hall of the War Temple, which was only 10 meters wide.
For the god they believed in, they were not afraid to die.
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Chapter 550: Break Through the War Temple
Boom!
Boom!
Rhodok Sergeants carried two siege logs with a diameter of three meters and a length of more than ten meters, they bombarded the gate of the War Temple fiercely.
No matter how strong the gate was, it could not withstand the continuous impact of the two siege logs.
The gate of the War Temple collapsed after being bombarded for ten minutes by 300 Rhodok Sergeants carrying siege logs.
Behind the collapsed gate was a long corridor. Through the corridor, one could see the knights who were ready to leave.
"Hmm, there are knights hidden in the War Temple?"
Kant thought that besides the priests on the second floor of War Temple, had all the fighting forces in War Temple been emptied by him?
"Lord, these knights are arranged in the square of War Temple. They are definitely not here for us to watch."
Baheshtur looked at the knights and thought for a while. Suddenly, he said to Kant with a serious expression.
Seeing that Kant had turned his attention to him, Baheshtur continued, "In my opinion, these knights will definitely launch a fierce charge when we enter the tunnel of the guard hall. After learning a lesson from the battle with our knights yesterday, they will definitely not charge like yesterday."
Kant frowned slightly, "I can see that the people of War Temple seem to have the determination to die. I'm afraid that they want to wait until we enter the tunnel before they launch an attack, turning themselves into a torrent of steel to deal a fatal blow to us."
Baheshtur nodded, "Lord, you are wise!"
Kant looked at the knights on the opposite side of the tunnel and felt a slight headache.
The other party was obviously scheming. If they wanted to enter War Temple, they had to pass through the tunnel on the first floor of the guard hall of War Temple.
"I can let the mages use Nature Summon and let the golems be cannon fodders. However, these spells are reserved for the True God, the God of War. It would be a waste to use them here."
For a moment, Kant, who was unwilling to let his army suffer too many losses, could not think of any effective methods.
"Baheshtur, do you have any good suggestions that can prevent our army from suffering too much loss and successfully pass through this tunnel?"
Baheshtur frowned and pondered for a moment. He said with some hesitation, "Can we send the Rhodok Sharpshooters into the tunnel and wait until the distance is right before directly firing the siege crossbow?"
Kant shook his head and said, "This tunnel is only 15 meters wide. The enemy's 15 knights can occupy the entire tunnel. Look at the knights in the front row. They are all wrapped in iron armor and have extremely strong defense. The Rhodok Sharpshooters can only kill them within 50 meters. Moreover, I am sure that the 15 knights in the front row are all grand knights. In this way, at a distance of 50 meters, they are very likely to be able to block the arrows of the Rhodok Sharpshooters."
"This method of yours won't work. This is sending Rhodok Sharpshooters to death."
Every Rhodok Sharpshooter held a siege crossbow, and their attacks were extremely powerful. Kant would never allow them to be buried together with the war knight order of War Temple so easily.
For a moment, both of them fell silent.
"With only two of us, we are short-sighted. With a group of people, we might be able to think of a way. Baheshtur, spread this problem to the entire army. See if anyone can think of another method?"
"If they have a good idea, get that soldier to come over and explain it to me directly!"
"Yes, Lord Kant!"
Baheshtur received the order and left.
Soon, the entire army knew of the difficulties they were facing. Kant and his army were just outside the War Temple's main hall, trying to think of a way to break the situation.
Soon, a mage walked over and said respectfully to Kant, "My lord, I have a way!"
"Speak!"
"As long as we, the mages, cast the Nature Summon and let the golems walk in front of the army, we don't have to be afraid of the enemy's desperate charge!"
Kant smiled and shook his head, saying, "Although this method is feasible, I need you to keep this last Nature Summon and not use it lightly."
The mage was disappointed and respectfully took his leave.
After a while, a Ravenstern Ranger came over and respectfully said to Kant, "Respected Lord Kant, I have an idea!"
"Oh, tell me about it!"
"We Ravenstern Rangers can ride on warhorses and retreat into the tunnel. When the war knight order charge to 100 meters, we can turn around and shoot them with extreme precision. At the same time, we can urge the horses to run so that the enemy can't catch up to us. When they charge out of the tunnel, that will be the end of them."
Kant thought this was a good idea and gave it a try.
However, it was not feasible.
The tunnel was only 15 meters wide. The horses had to go backwards, which needed more space, so it could only fit 10 horses side by side. Moreover, only the last row of Raventern Rangers could shoot arrows. The rest of the Raventern Rangers needed to make space for the horses to accelerate, so they were further apart from each other.
The horses slowly retreated into the tunnel. It didn't take long for the Raventern Rangers to notice this problem.
They left dejectedly.
After a while, a Swadian Royal Knight came to Kant's side.
"My lord, I have thought of an idea. I wonder if it will work?"
"Tell me first!"
"This War Temple is so big. Can we push it to a section of the wall and open a gap to enter from there?"
Kant shook his head after hearing this, "The walls of the War Temple are ten meters tall and five meters thick. There are hard rocks inside. With our siege weapons, it will be difficult to push it in."
The Swadian Royal Knight returned to the army in disappointment.
After that, no soldier had thought of a way.
Kant thought to himself, "Should we use the mages' Natural Summon?"
But Kant was a little unwilling.
If he used the mages' natural summon, what else he could use as cannon fodder and shield when facing the God of War? Could he use the level 5 troop class, Rhodok Sergeants?
Kant, who was in a dilemma, looked up and immediately saw the two pieces of siege logs that Rhodok Sergeants had unloaded.
Instantly, his eyes lit up!
Got It!
Got the method!
The siege log was three meters in diameter and ten meters in length. It was extremely thick and heavy.
It required 150 Rhodok Sergeants to lift it easily. Rhodok Sergeant was a level 5 troop class soldier, and their strength was as great as an ox.
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