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Chapter 149
Chapter 149: A Lesson
After sleeping soundly through the night, Thorne woke feeling refreshed, and even his lower body felt strong and vigorous.
Sure enough, riding horses often was good for the body.
After leaving the assigned dormitory, Thorne looked around and only then discovered that Starfall City, as a border city, was far livelier than he had imagined.
Groups of soldiers moved through the tall cement buildings. Merchants had set up stalls along the streets, and among them, there were even dwarves.
Wѐ b ǹ ov е̌l Еn̂ u mа̄
They rode sheep-drawn carts and brought over bundle after bundle of exquisite, razor-sharp arrows. At the same time, they placed the dwarven heavy crossbows they had forged in the most conspicuous position, waiting for the quartermasters to come and inspect them.
Thorne had heard that dwarves lived in the Northern Territory, but he had not expected them to be so deeply involved in the Northern Territory’s operations.
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Dwarves were skilled in metallurgy, humans were skilled in farming, and demons were skilled in battle. Whether it was racial talent or cultural influence, weapons produced by dwarves had an excellent reputation everywhere.
He came to the commercial street, casually bought a few sandwiches for breakfast, and ate them as he curiously studied the street while walking toward the northern gate, which had several towering walls.
Soon, he encountered the knights who, like him, had wandered around the city for a while before gathering on their own initiative.
After briefly greeting one another, Thorne bit into his sandwich and came beneath the city wall, slowly raising his head.
Ẁё b n̄ о̊ v̌ еĺ Е ń um̂ ǎ.
Beyond the wall was…
The gate in the wall before him rumbled open. All right. Beyond the wall was still another wall—or rather, the true Kingdom’s Wall, which had experienced countless flames of war.
The area he now stood in was the real war-preparation zone.
Countless military supplies were piled beneath the wall. Banners stood densely atop the ramparts, and guards were as numerous as clouds. The city gate was enclosed by two semicircular walls, forming an impregnable defense line.
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The murderous atmosphere made Thorne’s heart tremble. He seemed to smell the scent of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
“Assemble! Sound the horn!”
È ṅŭm̄ а̇ . і̄ d̊
Hearing the order, Thorne quickly hastened his steps and joined the knight order’s formation. Taking his warhorse’s reins from a comrade beside him, his expression was both nervous and excited as he stared fixedly at the gate before him.
A melodious horn sounded. Atop the wall, Oswald folded his arms and deeply exhaled a mouthful of thick smoke.
On the vast plain outside the city stood demon cavalry holding twin-headed dragon battle flags. Their number was roughly six hundred, while the dwarf slaves they had brought this time numbered more than a thousand.
Kindem, who stood beside Oswald, rubbed his hands and stood on tiptoe, casting a worried gaze toward his own kin.
He did not dare speak, nor did he dare guess His Grace’s thoughts. In any case, one thing was certain: those brutal demons must be brewing some conspiracy!
“How bold. Six hundred cavalry, and they dare flaunt their might before me.” Oswald took down his pipe, revealed a ferocious smile, and waved his hand as he ordered, “Open all the city gates. Let us see what trick they are playing.”
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“Yes, my lord.”
Camero immediately accepted the order and swiftly sent people to pass it down. Before long, three heavy city gates opened one after another, and the land of the Demon Kingdom appeared before Thorne and the others for the first time.
Er… Looking at the natural scenery before him, which was not much different from the human world, Thorne scratched his head awkwardly. He had thought the Demon Realm would be some ruined land where fire and thick smoke spewed everywhere.
The two sides were still locked in confrontation. Seeing that the human side had already shown sincerity, a single rider rushed out from the demon ranks. Several minutes later, he arrived beneath the city wall and shouted, “Her Highness of our nation sincerely invites Duke Oswald to leave the city and discuss the future of both nations.”
Princess?
Ignoring the demon scout who hurriedly rode back after delivering the message, Oswald thought briefly, then raised his telescope again and aimed it in the direction of the demon cavalry.
Е́ n̊ u m ӓ .іd̈.
The demon race had two princesses. One was a madwoman, and the other was also a madwoman.
Their schemes included but were not limited to:
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The Poisoning Plan: poison a certain censored place, then seduce the Hero, who had already completed his growth at the time and was extremely powerful. Incidentally, a certain stallion Hero had almost fallen for it back then.
The Goblin Breeding Plan: secretly send the goblin race into human lands and use the goblins’ rapid reproduction to create internal chaos in the human kingdom.
Later, because the goblins failed to acclimatize and had poor resistance to the viruses of warm regions, the plan went bankrupt before it could draw human attention.
The Landing Operation: the demon race built large ships and launched an attack from the sea, successfully opening up a second front in the Eastern Territory and even gaining the advantage for a time. Unfortunately, their reinforcements got lost at sea, mistook the landing site, and accidentally ran off to the elven kingdom.
Ё n ůṁа . і̄d
And then there was the most famous one, the Hybrid Plan…
That plan was a long-term plan. Its purpose was to use captured humans to bear hybrid offspring, then shape them into warriors loyal to the demon race so they could counterattack humanity.
The reason for its failure was also that the plan cycle was too long, and it was brutally sanctioned by the time reversal of two Wishing Stars.
Sometimes, Oswald also sighed with feeling that the abstract war history of humans and demons over the past thousand years was full of lessons and not a single experience.
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After failing to find the female demon, Oswald lowered the telescope and brought Janice down beneath the city wall.
After checking the warriors’ conditions, Oswald mounted his horse. Behind him, three hundred knights had all donned light armor, while the rest wore heavy armor, carried bows on their backs and spears in their hands, and mounted their horses one after another.
Е nǔ m̌ а̊. і̄d̂
Their target was simple: devour this group of demon cavalry.
The troops set out in batches. Oswald first led the three hundred most elite vanguard troops, along with the Hero, in a rapid detour to intercept the demon cavalry’s escape route from behind.
The remaining heavy cavalry would follow Janice and break straight through, killing their way through the enemy line in one stroke.
The demon race most likely had reinforcements nearby, but Oswald intended to teach them a bloody lesson.
And that was: in the war between humans and demons, the demon race could not do whatever it wished simply because it wanted to! The only common language between the two sides was slaughter on the battlefield!
Sensing the knights’ restlessness, the warhorses stamped the ground one after another and snorted hot breath from their nostrils.
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“Kill!”
With a loud shout, Oswald took the spear handed to him by the soldiers and loosened the reins. His warhorse immediately galloped like an arrow released from a bowstring, rushing through the three city gates in the blink of an eye.
The demon scout who had once again come to deliver a message sensed the ground trembling, and his expression changed drastically. Yet before he could turn around, Oswald suddenly charged out, lifted him high with one spear thrust, and caught him in one hand as he fell.
The person before his eyes was the legendary Duke Oswald. As expected, he had no eyeballs, and his entire body radiated a powerful aura of death.
The scout was instantly scared out of his wits. Then he heard a furious shout explode beside his ear like thunder.
“Which one is the Demon Kingdom’s princess? Point her out to me!”
Е̌ n̆ ü.m̊a. ĭ d̈
War erupted without warning. At the first moment the human cavalry charged out of the pass, Colin issued the order to retreat at once.
He grabbed the magic staff from a soldier’s hand and quickly fired three red lights into the sky.
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After finishing this, Colin once again turned his gaze to the attacking enemy. He saw the man at the lead slam the scout heavily to the ground, and in moments, that scout was trampled into a mass of mud beneath the charging warhorses.
“Why are we not meeting the enemy, Colin?”
On horseback, the demon princess in full-body armor was practically exploding with rage. Her six hundred personal guards were elites among elites, each capable of fighting ten. How could they fear human cavalry?
“The man at the front is very likely Duke Oswald. His threat level is no lower than that of an Archmage!” Colin swiftly mounted his horse and roared to awaken the princess’ reason.
W̌ е b n ȯv̄.е̄ ĺ Е̂n̈ u mа
“He dares to come…”
Her words stopped abruptly. A personal guard less than ten meters away from her shattered and died the instant Oswald raised his hand. Blood and flesh mixed with bone fragments splashed onto her armor, clanging and rattling against it.
Without the slightest hesitation, the princess turned her horse around and galloped at full speed, merging into the layers of protection formed by her personal guards.
The existence of the dwarf slaves had caused Oswald’s strike to miss. He led the cavalry around the dwarf slaves, who had fallen into chaos, and fixed his gaze firmly on the figure wearing full-body armor.
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Both sides gave chase and fled, each reacting swiftly. Seeing that the distance could no longer be closed, Oswald, whose physical constitution had greatly declined after becoming undead, could only roar out an order.
“Thorne, charge forward and stop them for me!”
Wè b̀_n̄_о v е̇ l E n̂ u̇ mа̌
“Yes!”
Hearing this, Thorne’s aura surged. The warhorse beneath him accelerated once more. He knew that even for the sake of his unborn child, he could no longer avoid any battle.
When he caught up to the tail of the demon cavalry, he swiftly drew his longsword. His entire body leaped into the air, and he actually broke into the enemy formation, his swift blade cutting down a fleeing demon.
Amid flying blood, Thorne landed and took control of the riderless warhorse, then once again erupted with speed and charged toward the center of the enemy troops.
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