章 146: Harrasment

"I really need to reward Ophis for her great job."

"I think a few hundred cookies should do, dear husband."

"You are right."

I just got the news from Richard that The most powerful pirate group attacked sea Dragon City from the eastern sea. Lucky for my family and me, Ophis came to the rescue and changed into her dragon form and destroyed the fleet with ease.

However, while I'm glad for her to help my family and me, could she not cause that much attraction? All the magical scholars in my territory already give me at least a dozen letters asking me how I can make a contract with a mighty dragon like Ophis.

I can't just say that I bribed her using my cooking, could I?

I already can feel the headache coming in. I can already hear the feet of a magical scholar and magician in the tower of magic running to my territory. Events like this will usually spread faster than the speed of a bullet.

"There. There. I don't think Ophis knows about what she did. You can't blame her, you know?"

"I am not to blame here. I just prepared myself for meeting rather troublesome people in the future."

"Fufufufu. Then I will be there for you."

"Since when do you use that kind of laugh?"

"Since Lady Yasaka taught it to me. She said it makes me sound sexier. Do you hate it?"

"I don't mind hearing it from now and then, but I prefer your laugh. It was more beautiful."

"I see."

I chuckle a little when I see a little blush on her face and give her cheek a little kiss, and it looks like it does the trick. I can see her face getting red from my gesture.

"Anyway! What should we do now?"

"Hmmm. We should wait. We need to wait until the Vulux Army approaches us. We cannot push deeper as we did not have enough time to do it. Not only that, no city can be used as a fort that can halt the movement of the Vulux Army."

"I guess so. However, what about our ally in the south? Will you help the Vesper family?"

"I already do that. Right now, some of my summonses are already helping the Vesper family. I also already sent Yuka to send a letter saying that both my creatures are there to help them."

"Do you think it was enough?"

"For now. Once we beat the army coming at us, we will quickly punch through the southern city as fast as possible. We cannot let them rally at one point once again when that is happening. Our target next is the capital city. We need to drop the morale of our enemy even more. By capturing the capital city, we will do that."

"Speaking of the Vulux Army, they should arrive in a week, right?"

"No. I already send some of my summonses to cause as many distractions as they can to either kill their soldiers or hinder them long enough for us to finish all the siege engine."

"Really?"

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|3rd POV|

"Shot that god-forsaken bird!"

Garun Maruli shouted at his archer to shoot down the goddammit bird that kept harassing them every single day.

Isaac orders Yuka the Nine-Tailed Fox to follow the army and spy on them for him. He then summoned his creature using his Pale Gate Rune then teleported them to the location of the Vulux Army.

Right now, it was the Silver Talon, a Wind-type summons, Golden Crow, a lightning-type summon, and White Serpent, an Ice-type summons.

While both Silver Talon and Golden Crow can stay in this world indefinitely, the White Serpent can only last for three hours. However, the White Serpent is a powerful creature. Right now, two kilometers around the Vulux Army experience a severe blizzard and combine it with Silver Talon and Golden Crow mastery over wind and lightning. It becomes a storm blizzard.

"Cast your spell, you goddamned mage!"

"We are maintaining the barrier, you ungrateful old bastard!"

One of the mages coming with Garun and his army shouted at the Grand Marshall as he kept feeding the barrier with his mana.

They already face Isaac's summoned creature for seven days straight, and they already lose too many men and resources in their march. Three thousand men have already lost their lives trying to fight the monster that keeps changing every day.

At least one thousand men are deserting from the army when they witness how they get bombarded by weird creatures that come and disappear as they pleased.

Garun gritted his teeth as he fired another energy blast once again at the damned bird flying above him. At first, he can jump high enough to mount the damned bird, but after they successfully throw him off their back, the bird now knows how high he can jump, and they stay far in the sky that Garun cannot reach.

The only thing that he can reach is the weird-looking worm that controls the ice. However, he cannot stay long on the worm's back as he cannot handle the cold. Garun also cannot penetrate its scale fast enough before he freezes to death.

There is only one thing that Garun knows about their attack pattern. They only last for three to five hours before they disappear to nowhere.

"Tch! Then we only need to defend long enough for them to disappear. Shieldbearer! With me!"

Following Garun's order, the shield-bearer walks forward and begins to raise his shield and release a golden aura that creates a dome that protects all the massive army of the Vulux kingdom.

"Pump your Physical Energy into your shield! Don't let those bastards breakthrough your shield!"

Garun stands among the shield bearers with his shield raised as well, and his Physical Energy keeps being pumped into his shield. However, even with that much physical energy in the air, Garun can still feel his reserve quickly drained when the damned bird attacks the barrier, and he needs to replace the crack.

"Eastern side has been breached!"

"Damn it all! Second unit! March!"

The reserve unit walked forward and replaced the barrier that had been breached to make sure the casualties did not reach thousands in number.

"Unit three, prepare! You will switch places with the people in the west in five minutes! Unit four prepares! You will switch to the southern unit! Go! Go! Go!"

Garun then looked at the magician behind him and shouted.

"You! How can you be more useless! Your barrier is worth shit! If you cannot block their attack, attack those damned birds!"

"We are not a Runic Mage, you old bastard! Your king hired us to attack, not to defend!"

"Shut up! If you can only attack, then attack! Why do you just stand there like a stupid monkey! Attack them! Don't be useless!"

The group of mages grumble but obey what Garun says and begin to start their chant.

The fight lasts for three hours before all the creatures Isaac summon disappear, leaving Garun and his army exhausted and in disarray. Not only that, but the road they take also gets blocked by a tree that falls to the road.

"Dammit!"

On the other side of the land is Isaac sitting on the sofa with Lucina around his hand, enjoying each other's warmth. However, their time gets interrupted when a portal appears on the table in front of them. A second later, Yuka appears from the portal.

"Ah! Yuka. Do you have some news for me?"

"Yes, master!"

"Really? Then, let's hear it."

With that, Yuka begins to tell Isaac and Lucina about the fight between his summon and the Vulux Army. After a minute of talking, Yuka finished her explanation.

"I see. Then I need to increase the intensity of the attack."

With that being said, Isaac just doomed the people that were marching toward his city. They should arrive in Garuvarding city in a week, but they will arrive in fifteen days, and their number will be decreasing by much.