Hail the King

Chapter 147: Evaluation

Fei didn"t bother with the kings that were already caught. His vision was like thunder, immediately locking onto the Chishui King that was running in the distance.

Due to the Roaring Flame Beast being fast like the wind, whose speed far exceeded any normal horse, and the few loyal guards beside him protecting him with their lives, the Chishui King was the only king that got away.

Waving his hand, big black D barked and jumped over like thunder, and Fei jumped onto the Black Whirlwind and chased right away.

"Stop him…" Chishui"s King noticed the approaching Fei as he looked back, and that the full-speed dog was actually a little faster than the Roaring Flame Beast. The gap was pulling closer bit by bit, and that made the Chishui king almost p.i.s.s his pants. He turned around and saw the [Fire G.o.d"s Iron Fleet] in the distance that was on standby. As if he saw his savior, he began crazily shouting, "Charge! Charge! Hurry and protect me!"

At this moment, he no longer cared about preserving those 100 [Fire G.o.d"s Iron Fleet]. As long as he could get away, he was willing to sacrifice everything.

Toot toot toot toot!!

The horn sounded, the already prepared heavy cavalry regiment loyally executed the king"s command. With a fierce kick to the belly of the Roaring Flame Beast, they began charging. With the lance firmly locked within their armpits and pointed towards the front, the knights were like large moving killing machines. The rumbling of the Roaring Flame Beast"s steps trembled the earth, like an unstoppable steel torrent flooding towards Fei"s direction.

The knights demonstrated their amazing tacit understanding.

When they were about to encounter Chishui King, the formation suddenly split into two from the center and left out a 2-meter-wide gap, smoothly letting the king and his guards to pa.s.s through, and then it immediately closed again, reforming into its invincible steel torrent form. The knights" lances dazzled cold light as the beasts made the earth tremble, and they charged towards Han.

On the battlefield, it was almost an unparalleled force.

At this moment, everyone that were watching this scene thought that the dog and the man would immediately dodge to the side.

After all, no matter how strong is one"s individual strength, he still shouldn"t be strong enough to go against the power of this many knights combined. In the face of these charging knights, even castle walls could collapse.

But-

Bark bark bark*!

The big black dog let out a trembling roar as if entering a mad state. Its b.l.o.o.d.y mouth revealed sharp white fangs, and the strong muscles above its limbs began getting bigger. Its size almost doubled in the next second. Then it suddenly released its explosive energy, and its speed was accelerated to an incredible degree. Like a light that just flashed past, squeezing into the tiny gaps within the enemy formation from unbelievable angles.

Two flashing lights, one green and one purple, shined like the bright meteors, and the heavily-armored knights had no way to fight back. With the lances being so heavy in their hands, the knights didn"t even have time to pull out their sword and remained completely vulnerable to the oncoming green and purple flashes. They began falling down their beasts like dumplings going into a pot!

Almost everyone"s wound was surprisingly consistent - all on the throat where the helmet and chest plate converges. This location was also the most vulnerable place of a fully-armed knight, there"s only a small iron guard in place, and it"s completely not enough to stop any elite warrior"s attack!

The knights that fell onto the ground didn"t even get a chance to scream and were trampled into paste.

Under the duo green and purple swords, no one could muster any resistance. The big black dog"s figure was very erratic, it can easily pa.s.s through the slightest gap, as if a fish freely travelling in water, very slippery. The knights" vision was already having difficulty catching the shadow of the dog and man, not to mention attacking back.

Both sides almost instantly finished the exchange of attacks.

The famous [Fire G.o.d"s Iron Fleet] lost a third of the power in this encounter, and the casualties were all caused by a slice at the throat and then falling to be trampled into paste by the beasts. But the dog-man army didn"t suffer the slightest injuries, as if they just finished a tour. They easily pa.s.sed through the heavy-cavalry regiment"s a.s.sault, their speed didn"t slow down by the slightest as they quickly bridged the distance with Chishui"s king.

The [Fire G.o.d"s Iron Fleet]"s charging speed was too quick, they couldn"t turn back in time. They were like an unstoppable flood rushing towards Chambord city"s army formation in the distance.

"s.h.i.t!" Romain the knight captain shouted. At this moment, there was almost no one defending the Chambord city grounds.

"Keep watching." The Elder Princess said calmly.

Fei very quickly caught up to Chishui"s King and his guards. The guards didn"t slow down [Black Whirlwind]"s speed by the slightest, and they all fell off the horses under the duo swords. Fei reached out his hand and directly picked up Chishui"s king off of the Roaring Flame Beast"s back like picking up a chick and then threw him onto the ground. Then, very quickly there were bylaw enforcement officers that came over and tied him up.

Fei patted [Black Whirlwind] on the head and the big black dog roared, immediately turned around, and stopped the soldiers that were about to flee. How did these people dare to go against Fei again. Seeing him block their path, they immediately screamed and changed directions, fleeing from the left and right sides.

Pew pew pew pew!

Dozens of sharp arrows landed on their feet. From the bushes on two sides, the originally "escaped" G.o.dly archers and the terrifying female magic archers suddenly appeared. The long bows in their hands were pulled to the full-moon state, and the sharp arrow tips already aimed at the panicking soldiers. Their cold eyes made everyone instantly stop their movements and not dare to move even one step forward.

They were surrounded.

400 people were surrounded by less than 100 people.

"Kneel down, surrender. Otherwise you will be shown no mercy!" Fei shouted.

All the remaining soldiers looked at each other. The moment one person became the first one to throw away the weapon in his hand, other people immediately followed, all kneeling on the ground obediently as they have long lost resistance in their hearts.

At this moment, [Fire G.o.d"s Iron Fleet] was also almost annihilated.

No one would have thought, those 22 people that originally showed up on Chambord city"s side in heavy armor that seemed like they were about to collapse any moment due to the heavy weight on them, would act as if they were possessed by G.o.ds and started running within those heavy steal armor when the red command flag in the distant hill flashed again. From jogging to sprinting, their speed was incredible, which made it very hard to believe that they were in heavy armor that was over a hundred pounds in weight.

It"s those 22 guys that got into a horizontal line fearlessly and engaged the remaining [Fire G.o.d"s Iron Fleet]. Their iron armor was extremely tough, providing their bodies with the most primitive protection, but what was even more terrifying was the terrifying power that came out explosively from their weak little bodies. From after the first heavily-armed Roaring Flame Beast plus the heavily-armored cavalry unit on top were smashed away, the knight captain Romain"s opened mouth just couldn"t close. He just watched the 22 people like terrifying giant beasts smashing away Roaring Flame Beasts one after another. The significant gap between body size and power shocked everyone"s visual senses, even the Elder Princess"s eyes were filled with surprise.

Chambord City used the same method and shocked this Zenit Empire"s [Female Strategy G.o.ddess].

The 22 iron giants" vanguard once again took down more than two-thirds of the [Fire G.o.d"s Iron Fleet].

The remaining 30 or so knights didn"t even have time to turn their head around and crashed into the already-prepared iron tower wall at the front, and they instantly lost all combat strength.

No one would"ve expected, one a.s.sault, three encounters, and the famous [Fire G.o.d"s Iron Fleet] among the Zenit Empire"s subsidiary kingdoms would be defeated like a straw in a hurricane. What"s more unbelievable was that, from beginning to end, they didn"t kill a single enemy. The damage to the Chambord City side was just a few people"s armor getting deformed from the collision, and some people also became dizzy from the collision. But their tough body after being refined by [Hulk Potion] made them already completely immune to such kind of collision damage.

At this moment, a period was drawn onto this sudden attack from the Nine-Kingdom Alliance army.

"Romain, do you understand Chambord City"s fighting strategies yet?" The battle had already ended. The Elder Princess turned around and asked in a low voice.

"Savage, rude, straightforward, and… and cunning, insidious!" Romain"s always-smiling baby face was now covered with unprecedented seriousness. He said a few adjectives right away, but he still felt that he didn"t fully describe Chambord City and their king"s fighting style.

"You are right…" The Elder Princess suddenly turned around, "But these are all not enough to accurately describe the guy. If I want to describe him, I would use another word…" Then, the Elder Princess spit out two words from her lips in seriousness -

"Variable." (TL: well its two words in Chinese)

Chapter 148: Complete Victory

                Variable?

Romain slightly hesitated, and then he was immediately enlightened.

Yes, it was a "variable".

Aside from this word, Romain couldn"t find any other words to describe everything he observed from that fight. From the beginning when Chambord King Alexander brought the women and children to the battlefield, he didn"t think that those girly women would be magic archers, acting like the representations of death. He also didn"t think that Chambord City would have 50 or so G.o.dly archers, nor did he think that the giant black dog had such a terrifying strength. He never could"ve imagined that those 22 heavily-armored warriors and the giant-axe-warrior-formation would be this destructive. Lastly, he didn"t expect that the famous [Fire G.o.d"s Iron Fleet] would be completely annihilated without killing a single enemy, or that King Alexander"s combat strength could have reached a new high…

He didn"t expect any of this at all.

Those were the variables.

Chambord King Alexander turned all these things that people didn"t expect into reality.

Such variables were the most terrifying, because even if one was a wise commander, when faced with such an enemy, they would be defeated by these layers of unexpected variables that kept arising. It was impossible to know what would happen the next second, nor which card the opponent would play. When these were revealed, it would have already resulted in defeat!

Too terrifying!

"Romain, carefully remember what you saw today. Someday in the future, you may possibly face it as well…" The eldest Princess"s words came a bit out of the blue for Romain, but he still replied with a nod.

Among the countless royal generals under Elder Prince Arshavin, Romain wasn"t the strongest one. However, he had a calm heart and was eager to learn; he was one of the rare generals known for his wisdom. He had the talent to become a great general, so the [Wisdom G.o.ddess] Eldest Princess broke her rule and always kept this knight beside her, exposing him to things that a normal general would never experience. The meaning of doing this was self-explanatory, an Romain also knew this clearly, so he always studied in silence. This small-scale battle today gave him a lot of shock, and he needed to slowly digest it.

"Your Majesty, how should we handle them?"

The Capricorn Saint Paul-Pierce asked. He had already led the Bylaw Enforcement Officers to capture all the 9 Kingdoms" Kings and threw them in front of the [Black Whirlwind]. A wave of barking from the big black dog deeply scared these kings who were used to being respected and served, and some of them with weak resolves had already kneeled down, desperately begging for mercy.

"Clean up the battlefield, take all the people, weapons and armor into the city and catalog them into the city"s inventory. Heavily lock all the prisoners into the [Little Black House] and let Oleg strictly look after them. Execute those that are heavily wounded, and move all the corpses into the small open lot in the back mountain…" Fei rode on the big black dog and scanned past the battlefield filled with evaporating blood. "Take all the horses and Roaring Flame Beasts, regardless of how injured they are, into the Royal Stable, and send experienced people to take good care of them. These are all our future baby treasures of Chambord City, muahaha!"

"You can"t do this; these are the property of the Chishui Kingdom! You have no right to claim them as yours." Chishui"s king saw his Roaring Flame Beasts being carried away one by one as he shouted.

Papa~

Pierce laughed and slapped Chishui"s King across his face. The terrifying power made it feel like iron hammers landed on his face. This king"s teeth flew all over the place, and his face was instantly covered in bruises. He couldn"t talk clearly anymore. His eyes were squinted due to his swollen face, and his nose was broken.

"Shut up! Prisoners should have the resolve of a prisoner. These items are all King Alexander"s spoils of war, including you!" Pierce didn"t give the high-status prisoners any respect, and some of the kings had already fainted after seeing the barbaric scene. For those that were conscious, no one dared to fight back anymore and silently watched as the Bylaw Enforcement Officers cleaned up the battlefield, taking away their properties one by one.

The sunset was like blood.

Vultures hovered in the sky; these black giant birds with sharp beaks had smelled the scent of death and rotten bodies, so they flocked over in groups from the distant mountains at the back of the Chambord City. Their noisy caws created oppressing feelings of darkness.

"Let them sign the doc.u.ment, double the war reparations from last time, and give them only one month to deliver it to Chambord City. If they can"t gather enough in this with this short amount fo time, they can compensate with minerals and other materials. Hehe, the princes" words didn"t hold any weight, but now that their Kings are here, the Kingdoms should probably be able to keep their word now, right? Relay my message word by word: if any country dares to decline, when the deadline comes, I will bring their king"s head and visit them to ask for compensation myself!" After a great victory, Fei"s att.i.tude hardened up.

In fact, he had already expected that holding the princes hostage would lead to a rebounding effect. After all, princes were not kings, so their words didn"t matter much. That"s why he had already expected that it would take some effort to obtain the war reparations. However, he didn"t expect that the alliance would form and visit him this quickly; Fei smelled something fishy.

"Let warden Oleg take good care of these kings. Make them confess how they planned and executed this trip. I need to know every single detail regarding why these nine kingdoms came together!" Fei then patted the big black dog and began to walk towards Chambord City.

This battle was won easily.

In fact, with Chambord City"s current strength, there was originally no need to take so many twists and turns to win the battle. They simply needed to have an army charge out of Chambord City to easily take care of the problem, but Fei wanted to take this simple battle to train the soldiers of Chambord. He wanted to help them get used to the various aspects of war, from planning, cooperation, positioning the vanguard, following commands, and so on. In addition, Fei also wanted them to come in close contact with melee combat, death, and blood. He knew that a powerful army would not only need extraordinary strength, but also resolve and determination. Han could use [Hulk Potions] and other items from the Diablo World to enhance his soldiers" strength, but he couldn"t make them get used to the b.l.o.o.d.y and merciless side of war. These things could only be felt and learned on a real battlefield. Chambord City was a small subsidiary kingdom on the rural border, so it had not encountered a real war in many years. The battle with the Black Armor Army counted as one, but that was a case where they were forced to fight, and it was different than this time, where they took the initiative in the fight.

This was why Fei dragged out this war, which could be finished within ten minutes, and took whole 2 hours to finish the battle.

Fei slowly walked towards the gates, and his eyes swept past the solders" faces.

Facts proved that Fei"s painstaking efforts today were not in vain, because in the eyes of these soldiers, in addition to a little panic, Fei saw firmer and braver spirits… They had begun to adapt to such battles.

Blood and fire were the easiest ways to let someone grow.

This battle was a complete victory!