Chapter 628: The Messenger who Delivered the Decree
Bunduk thought for a moment and replied, “With the number of Jackalans and Lizardmen close to a million, it seems that their troop strength is far stronger than Drondheim, who only has a troop strength of over 200,000. The death knight is obviously the ruler of the Jackalans and Lizardmen. They spent so much effort to excavate the Lost City, so they must have a motive. I think they don’t want to be intercepted when they are about to harvest. Therefore, I think that this death knight’s purpose is to warn Drondheim not to act rashly.”
Kant, the generals, and the high-ranking commanders listened to Bunduk’s a.n.a.lysis and nodded in agreement. The Jackalans and Lizardmen had come from afar, and the excavation alone had lasted for three weeks and they had paid a huge amount of manpower and material resources. As their rulers, the death knights naturally did not wish for anything to happen at the last moment. There was only one city in the vicinity of Drondheim, and Drondheim had countless soldiers and armors. It was indeed a huge threat.
Moreover, Drondheim’s soldiers and horses had already gathered. They were only waiting for Kant’s order to attack the north and give the Jackalans and Lizardmen a vicious blow, s.n.a.t.c.hing the Lost City that they had painstakingly dug out.
“Does anyone have any other opinions?” Although Bunduk’s words were reasonable, this was still a guess. They couldn’t really use this as a fact to deal with it. Otherwise, if they made a mistake, they would be in a very pa.s.sive position.
At this time, Baheshtur spoke, “Lord, I thought that the Jackalans and Lizardmen troops had completed the excavation of the Lost City at this time. Perhaps they would cast their eyes on our Drondheim. This death knight might be here to spy on Drondheim’s strength. As long as we let him in, although this death knight might not be able to spy on us much, we still need to take precautions. The best way is to go to the city gate and communicate with the death knight, to see what he wants to do in Drondheim.”
Baheshtur paid great attention to the collection of information. Hence, his starting point was to a.n.a.lyze the purpose of the death knight from the aspect of information. His words were not without reason. The Jackalans and Lizardmen armies were directly exposed in the desert. They did not take any measures to prevent others from spying on them. Their information was completely probed by Kant.
However, the city of Drondheim was deep and vast, and most of the soldiers stayed within the fortress. From the outside, it was impossible to tell just how many soldiers there were within this huge fortress.
Kant listened to Baheshtur’s orders, he smiled and said, “When we summon the death knight later, we will cover his eyes and prevent him from secretly spying on us in Drondheim. As for us going to the city gate, he’s not that important for us to do that.”
Hearing Kant’s words, Baheshtur’s face flashed with a trace of shame. He only a.n.a.lyzed it from a military point of view, but forgot that if Kant went to the city gate to meet the death knight, it would be the same as personally going out to meet him, with Kant’s status as the king, it was obvious that the death knight’s ident.i.ty was not worthy for Kant to do that.
“Alright, Baheshtur, you don’t have to worry about him. As a general, there’s nothing wrong with thinking from your point of view.” Kant saw Baheshtur’s expression and comforted him.
“I wonder if the others have any opinions?” Kant looked around. Many generals and high-ranking commanders began to think hard, but they could not think of anything at the moment. However, they were very puzzled. It was just a death knight, did their lord need to be so cautious?
Kant smiled and shook his head slightly. He clapped his hands and said, “Alright, that’s it. Mande, bring a few of Swadian Royal Guards to convey my summons and cover his eyes!”
Mande immediately followed the order and left. Kant looked around at his generals and commanders and sighed slightly in his heart. There were always two sides to everything, good and bad. The generals and high-ranking commanders who came from the system were 100% loyal to him and would never betray him. But because of this, Kant’s position in their hearts was too high.
Just now, Kant could feel that the question he asked was something that many generals and high-ranking commanders did not think much of. Even Kant himself did not think much of it.
Kant was ready to send out his troops. These Jackalans and Lizardmen did not keep their military information confidential. Kant could be considered to know himself and his enemy. It was natural for him to a.n.a.lyze the strength of the enemy and his allies before sending out his troops. Kant and the generals and high-ranking commanders had discussed the strength of the entire Jackalan and Lizardman armies. In the end, they concluded that as long as the strategy was appropriate, it was completely possible to crush these Jackalan and Lizardman armies.
However, even so, when Kant solemnly proposed to the death knight who had come to visit him alone and used a cautious tone to ask the generals and high commanders to a.n.a.lyze and decide on different countermeasures, all the generals and high commanders actually thought hard and acted according to Kant’s wishes. Not a single one of them stood out to refute Kant.
For example, they could actually say that Drondheim was not even afraid of all the Jackalan and Lizardmen armies. Why would they need to treat a death knight so carefully? No matter what he came for, they could just summon him or chase him away. Anyway, unless the other party directly offered the Lost City, no matter what the death knight said, they would not change their intention to attack the Jackalan and Lizardmen armies.
Unfortunately, a general and a senior commander did not raise such an opinion. They almost completely cooperated with Kant’s “nonsense”. However, this was not all a bad thing. At least it could firmly guarantee Kant’s authority. In fact, he did not need to worry that he would influence the thoughts of the soldiers too much. As long as Kant did not pester them and insist on interfering in their decisions, these generals and senior commanders were very stable.
At this time, Mande led a few Swadian royal knights outside of Drondheim City.
A death knight was riding a skeleton horse wrapped in a vest alone, standing outside the gate of Drondheim fortress. Above his head, there was a small patch of dense black cloud, which directly blocked the scorching sun. It made him and the skeleton horse under him completely immersed in the dark clouds filled with yin energy, and they were not exposed to the scorching sun at all.
Mande directly threw the hood onto the death knight’s body, and said with a slightly disgusted tone, “Put the hood on yourself. Next, I’ll bring you to pay respects to Lord Kant.”
The death knight flew into a rage, pulling out a bone sword and directly splitting the hood into pieces, using an insulted tone, he scolded, “Darn servant, how dare you neglect and insult me? Do you know my ident.i.ty? I am a n.o.ble descendant of the Sun G.o.d. I am here to deliver an order to your lowly Lord to give me the sun disc to open the Lost City. This is the honor of your Lord! How dare your Lord disobey me. He did not come to meet me on his knees personally to give me the sun disc and even dared to send slaves like you to humiliate me. I will not let this go and I will make you pay the price!”
The death knight’s tone was extremely furious and arrogant. In the end, he even directly threatened them.
A fierce glint flashed in the eyes of Mande and a few of the Swadian Royal Guards. All of them drew their longsword. Mande drew his knight’s sword while the Swadian Royal Guards drew their infantry swords. Their eyes were filled with fury.
“You detestable skeleton. How dare you insult the Honorable Lord Kant. You are courting death! Everyone, let’s kill this skeleton who dares to speak rudely!”