Bab 143: Victory
|3rd POV|
"My lord! We are surrounded! The enemy has breached the wall behind us!"
"Damned to hell! Send the Second Unit to help our flank."
"Yes, sir!"
Barrius looked at the marching enemy in front of him with a frown. Not only does the north have the number, but they also get help from the creature Isaac summoned earlier. Barrius already knows that he has been defeated, but he will not give up without a fight.
"Shield front! Use all your Physical Energy to hold the charges!"
Barrius and his unit are currently holding the northern army in the narrow path to the castle. He cannot let the northern army take over the castle as it is where his family lived and the symbol of ownership of the city.
"Prepare for impact!"
A few seconds after Barrius said that, The Gate Guardian summoned by Isaac impacted the shield wall with their lance and body. However, surprisingly the shield wall is still intact and holds the movement of the Gate Guardian.
"Archer! Shoot them down!"
A few hundreds of archers appear on the roof of the building and begin firing up their arrows. While a normal arrow cannot penetrate the thick skin of the Gate Guardian, their arrow has already been enchanted by the archer's physical energy.
Not only its penetration power, but the speed of the arrow also increased by twenty times its original.
The Gate Guardian, even when their body gets impaled by the arrow, continues to push the shield wall in front of them.
Barrius pushes the lance away and stabs the massive creature in front of him before he goes back to raise his shield. Barrius knows that he and his unit cannot hold them much longer.
"Sword!"
When he shouted that, a group of swordsmen appeared from the little alley behind the Gate Guardian. When they appear from their hiding place, the swordsman begins to charge toward the Gate Guardian. Some attack the massive creature from underneath them, and some attack by mounting the gigantic creature and stabbing them.
"Now! Push!"
Barrius grips his shield tightly, begins to pump his physical energy into his legs, and walks forward, pushing the Gate Guardian back. Archer on the roof continues to fire their arrow, but this time they need to carefully aim at the gate guardian and not hit their ally.
It takes them thirty minutes to completely beat twenty Gate Guardians.
"Fucking hell. Those monsters are at least a B+rank each."
Barrius thinks about how dangerous Isaac's Silver Lion' Lionheart is. Not only for his destructive magic, but his summons is also really powerful. He did not know if he and his unit could survive another wave of monsters.
"Give me a report!"
"We lost forty men, my lord! I did not know about the archers, but we lost forty men. Twenty-five of our shielders and fifteen of our swordsmen."
"I see…"
Barrius knew it was not too bad, but if his men keep decreasing, they are doomed. They are his elite soldiers that he trained himself. They are the hand and leg of Garuvardin city. They are the sword and spear of Garuvardin city, and Barrius is proud of his soldier.
"We will honor their sacrifice later. Right now, we need to stop the enemy from reaching the castle."
"Yes, sir!"
Barrius nods his head and looks in the direction where the monster is coming. However, when he sees where the monster is coming, his expression becomes sour as he sees that coming toward him is the main unit of the northern army.
Isaac Lionheart is leading the unit.
What makes matters worse, there are at least thirty Gate Guardians following Isaac like a guard. Not only that, but there are also other creatures following Isaac as well. Yuuka the Nine-Tailed Fox, a Silver Talon, Earth Golem, and Golden Crow.
"Lord Barrius Turian, please surrender! I will spare you and your family! As we are talking, my army has already surrounded your castle and captured your son. If you surrender now, we will spare you and your family!"
Barrius widens his eyes when he hears that word before looking at the castle before cursing. He can see an army already surrounding his castle before he knows it.
While Barrius and his unit are busy fighting the Gate Guardian, Isaac orders them to focus on defeating Barrius' son and his unit. There are two ways to get to the castle of Garuvardin, and both of them are connected with a stone bridge that connects the island where the castle stands to the island where the city stands.
Isaac knows that Barrius will command the most experienced soldier he has. Because of this, Isaac decides to attack the least experienced unit in the right bridge, with Lanir leading the unit.
Barrius grits his teeth with so much force that it would shatter their teeth if they were a normal person. He looked to his men, who stood proudly beside him and ready to fight if their lord ordered them to.
"We will follow you, my lord. Whatever your command, we will follow you."
Hearing what his captain said, Barrius began to have a hard time choosing. His warrior side screams at him to die in battle, but his other side screams at him to rescue the love of his life.
Unlike most southern noblemen who married for a political reason, Barrius married because of love. He loves his wife, and his wife loves him back. They have a perfect marriage life.
After thinking about it for a minute, Barrius stabbed his sword to the ground and put his shield on his back before raising his hand, indicating that he surrendered to the northern army. Seeing their lord's gesture, the rest of the army begin to follow what their lord does.
Seeing Barrius' gesture, Isaac releases a small relief breath. Barrius did not know this, but the Gate Guardian will disappear in a few seconds, and true to Isaac's thinking, the Gate Guardian begins to disappear from his side.
The soldier of Garuvardin city is an elite soldier. They can hold against one thousand Gate Guardians for a few hours. They held them back and even killed the Gate Guardian with their enchanted sword.
This is what a master of Physical energy can do. If a magic-user can cast a spell that destroys all, a physical energy user can endure all. Garuvardin soldiers endure all the attacks coming at them and even do their own counterattack.
Isaac takes a horn from his belt and begins to blow it. They use this horn to inform the army that they are besieging the castle not to attack the castle. This is a code saying that the fight is over and they are winning this battle.
After blowing the horn, Isaac takes another deep breath and begins to shout.
"WUOHHHHHHH!"
Another victory for the north.
Status Power Mingguan
-- Peringkat
Power 
-- Power
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