Chapter 187
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John asked Arlen after he ca back with his n scouting the nearby area, "So what is the current situation? did you find anything?"
Arlen nodded and gave the report, "Lord, there is a small company of Goldrush rcenaries 8km away on the western side . They are basically divided into groups of 50 people with at least 20 groups near the north-frontier city . They are mostly targeting small caravans coming in and out of the city . However, there are other rcenaries as well . However, there is one particular thing we noticed while we were scouting out for them . "
John furrowed his brows as he didn’t want to make changes in his plans, "What is it?"
Arlen nodded his head and spoke with a serious tone, "We weren’t able to locate the biggest rcenary group today near North-frontier town . And this was quite puzzling to us as not a single one of us was able to locate them . "
John thought as he read about so rcenaries from Taylor, he asked and confird, "The Hell’s playground rcenaries?"
Arlen nodded to give his confirmation, "Yes . "
Arlen continued, "And there is one more peculiar report I just got from our spies that there are Royal units heading to Dolores with a lot of Ballistas . However we still yet don’t know about their real intentions . "
John smiled as he understood what was happening, "From the looks of it, the Hell’s playground rcenaries have withdrawn after looking at the previous incident . It seems they are quite cautious compared to others . No wonder they are the number 1 rcenary group in the whole kingdom . As for the Royal units, It seems the king has finally decided to move against . Ok, we won’t use the cannons in this first battle but only after he makes a public stance . I would like to see their faces when they see these weapons after defying . "
John called Jay and asked, "Jay, are the n ready?"
Jay answered, "Yes, we are prepared . 1500 of our magic knights are ready to move out at a mont’s notice . "
John nodded and roared to all the soldiers, "Okay, We are moving out n . I hope everyone has sharpened their weapons, right? . "
All the soldiers answered in unison, "Yes, Commander Anak . We are ready for the operation . " This ti there was respect in their tones after watching the previous battle when Anak owned Amber quite easily with even breaking a sweat .
John nodded and ordered Jay, "Marsh and Amber, you guys will follow behind at the frontlines . Jay, You will be protecting the borders when I am gone . are you clear?"
Marsh Amber and Jay agreed and spoke, "Yes . "
John looked at the 1500 n and ordered, "Follow , n, first We will be targeting the Goldrush rcenaries . Bring the ballistas on the horse carriages in case of any ergency .
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At the sa ti in the imperial capital, King Lionheart was in front of a big crowd .
Right now he had just announced the major policies of the Aelius family while the crowd was cheering for their majesty’s because of the improved economic conditions for the current year . However there was an uproar as well since there were sanctions targeted at North-frontier city . The news spread like wildfire .
"Lets see, how long can that Count resist after I have deployed the magic ballista canons along with Irwin . With Irwin, I am sure that Count’s n will certainly offend Irwin which will only improve our chances of invading them . If I get my hands on all the available technologies over there then I can certainly achieve my goals of making a big Empire . The export themselves have already appreciated the value of our gold coins because of all the items produced by North-Frontier Town . This small city is certainly proving out to be a big headache . Just the fact that people there are living better lives than the ones living at the Imperial city is a big sha . Adding to that, it is a border city . "
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Currently, There were nurous rcenary groups ambushing the rchants near the borders, among these, a combined group of 5 groups of 50 n from Goldrush rcenaries were waiting to ambush rchants going out from North-frontier city . John and his n took the exact route as inford by the Arlen and his n .
One of the commanders of 5 companies spoke, "This ti we are going to ambush Joseph Morgan’s trade caravan, Currently they are trading in non-important material into the kingdom with higher taxes . He is close to Count John and this would be a big blow to Count John . Lets see how he handles so many rcenaries, day in day out . "
One of the mates asked, "Yes, however, sothing is puzzling . "
"What . "
He cautiously asked, "It’s the Hell’s Playground rcenaries . They have suddenly gone quiet . It’s eerily ominous . "
The commander nodded and agreed as he spoke with frustration, "Yeah, even I am surprised but you should know that Liam is quite an eccentric guy . Well, it’s their loss anyway . He has lost a lot of opportunities in the past because of his cautiousness . Though he is sotis bold but this ti is a no brainer for him being cautious . This ti we have made quite an amount of loot from rchants . The rchants too are complaining there every day . I guess the situation will slowly but surely worsen in that city and so too the big trade . Anyway, you guys should enjoy the bonus and that Guy Antonio has anyway given us rcenaries a free hand so he isn’t like Baron ndez who cares about our activities on peasants . Which is good for us . "
One of the guys spoke, "Hahaha, this is such a good news Commander, I was having my eye on a certain girl for quite a few days in the village we were staying . Now this will be fun . "
One of the guys was eyeing the armors for a long ti and spoke, "Hey look, one of the patrols of 50 people are coming . Why don’t we ambush those n and take their armors? We already have 250 n for this raid . This raid would be worth more than raiding the rchants . This can simultaneously reduce the morale of their border troops . "
The commanders looked at the armor and thought, He agreed and spoke, "Hmm . . . Yes, these n have been arrogant for quite so ti . It would be good to teach them a lesson while those armors are anyway worth a lot of money . Even I had to pay a lot to get one from the black market . "
John had already spotted them through the telescope, he smiled as he looked at the movents of the leaves in the woods and heard the cries, "It seems they have taken the bait . Co, Charge with in the western direction, kill them without any restraint, shoot arrows in 3 seconds for 15 seconds in the western direction, they are about 1 . 5 miles away from us . Give the signal to others that they have taken the bait . "
Soon, one smoke signal was lit in the sky where red color could be seen as the group of 50 magic knights charged on their horses without any worries .
Amber roared as he finally felt his chains getting off, "Finally so action . Charge with n . Show these guys what it ans to kill our comrades . No rcy to any of these scums . "
All of them chanted as they charged forward with their horses, "No rcy to these scums . "
The loud voice of Horses footsteps could be heard everywhere in the surroundings as there was cry for war .
John and Arlen were leading all the best n as they imdiately used their mini-ballistas .
Arlen remarked, "These saddle and stirrups are quite useful when it cos to using ranged weapons on the horses . "
Marsh asked as he only learned horseriding straight with saddles horseshoes and stirrups in the army, "Wasn’t it natural?"
Arlen shook his head and spoke, "Nah, you will see the difference in this battle where our enemies don’t have these accessories while we have them . This is also one of the reasons why we aren’t watching these tools in the public domain . Anyway, start shooting arrows to the right with an 11 o’ clock angle . "
Marsh nodded and started shooting arrows in the right direction, "Aah, yes . "
A lot of arrows laden with magic runes rained on the Goldrush rcenaries who were preparing to ambush them .
The commander heard the ringing roars of war cry as he thought, ’Ahh it might be our n . ’
The commander looked at the arrows raining on his n as he saw John’s n just 1 mile away from them, "Hey, hey how co they are able to detect our ambush . Charge n Charge . Don’t wait or we will be routed,"
The exchange ended with 100 Goldrush rcenaries dying in the first clash of arrows .
During the first charge, Amber didn’t wait as he understood that during a battle you can’t hold back and imdiately used Fire magic along with his sword against his enemies . A lot of people followed the sa example .
As both sides clashed with each other, Anak’s n erged superior with their first charge . Goldrush rcenaries weren’t even able to penetrate armors of John’s n in their first charge .
The guy who was eyeing for one of the people at the village scread in as he was stabbed in his chest by Marsh, "How the fuck is their armor so sturdy? I can only scratch their armor with my fire sword . Damn, how do you expect to resist . "
Amber killed one of the commanders of 5 companies with a Fla slash .
Their army was in chaos as they lost 2 commanders in the first charge . One of the commanders looked angrily at Amber who killed his mate, "This boy can’t live . Such a young man and already such a talent to kill n . "
In the first encounter, The Goldrush rcenaries lost 80 n, at the sa ti a major chunk of them also got injured . while the Head of the rcenaries lost his sword which was purposely broken by John . John smiled as he picked up a sword part nonchalantly and showed it to the rcenaries on the other side as he threw it aside . All the guys on both sides imdiately understood the aning of John’s action .
He astonishingly looked at John who was wearing a masquerade mask .
The commander imdiately looked at John who was playing in a battlefield, ’This guy is dangerous . ’
He asked the masked man, "Who are you?"
John smiled as he pointed his sword to the enemy army, "Just a soldier of Count John . As for my na? You can call Everburning, Anak . CHARGE! NO NEED TO LEAVE ANYONE OF THEM ALIVE . THIS WILL BE THE PUNISHNT FOR ALL THE RCENARIES BUGGING AT OUR BORDERS AND WIPING OUT GREENWOODS VILLAGE . NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM SHOULD BE LEFT ALIVE . "
The commander had a shocked face as he looked at John . John didn’t beat around the bush and charged imdiately .
Without waiting, everyone from John’s army charged behind John, John kept his eyes on the commander like a predator and charged with his horse . This ti, the Commander of the rcenaries lost one of his ears and spoke .
The commander looked at John with extre horror and anger as he saw that John was simply toying with them and hoarsely spoke, "You guys will pay for targeting Goldrush rcenaries . Do you think you guys are safe? you don’t know what is coming for your lord . Hahaha, You guys will just die a dog’s death like those guys at Greendwoods village . "
John smiled and spoke as he understood the commander’s threat, "Are you talking about the royal army? We already know about them, No one in our army gives a shit about them . We will kill anyone who becos our enemy, We see n, we kill n, We see devils, we kill devils . We see god, we kill god . We only believe in ourselves . You got it? Right n?"
Everyone roared and answered in Unison which shivered their enemies to their bones, "Yes, General Anak . "
John smiled and pointed his sword in the direction of his army, "See . Every single one of believes in Lord John . "
The commander was stunned after hearing such a proclamation from Anak and was about to speak .
But Without waiting for a second, John stabbed him in his heart and killed him .
John murmured as he threw his body, "You talk too much . "
In the Second Charge, all of the n from Goldrush rcenaries died with so escaping the carnage .
In this battle, Amber was able to kill 2 commanders of the enemies while was injured only a little bit on his right hand .
There were no casualties with so only getting injured in the previous charge .
At this ti the remaining n who escaped were killed by the reserve n who were in hiding . However, there were still 3 n who were able to escape the carnage .
John smiled as he looked at the 250 dead n from Goldrush rcenaries, "It seems so rats were able to escape, no problems, almost a perfect battle, Just the way I like . Co, we will start targeting other companies as well . Take care of the injured n . Bring out Light magician knights and heal their wounds We are just starting and this was just an appetizer, the real operation will be done in the coming days . I don’t want anyone slacking off . "
John healed Amber with light magic as he readied for his next battle . Amber was quite surprised as he already witnessed John using wind magic in his last battle .
Amber thought, ’General sure is quite a talented man . I wonder why he underestimates his magic?’
John remarked as he saw Amber simply looking blankly at him, "What are you looking at, kid? I am a straight guy, ok? Go and get ready with your mates . "
Amber ca out of his thinking and spoke, "Sorry General, it was nothing like that . I just think you are good at magic as well and thought about your previous remark of being weak at magic . "
John sighed and waved him off .
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