章節 85: War Against the Dumont Dukedom (1)

"Die!! Glory to the Duke!!"

"You dare invade our lands?! Die!!"

"Eat my sword!"

Various profanities and curses can be heard across the battlefield as swords clash against swords.

Ballista bolts continued decimating the enemy forces while the archers steadily reduced the enemy's numbers.

"Kuahhkk…"

Enemy soldiers who clashed against the shields of Blanc's elite heavy infantry were stabbed by spears all over their bodies.

"Shit! These guys won't even budge!"

A squadron captain cursed. Breaking through the defenses of the elite heavy infantry is proving to be very difficult for the enemy soldiers.

Although they were inflicting small cuts here and there, it seems that the elite heavy infantry wasn't even affected.

Unfortunately for the enemies, this heavy infantry unit has the regenerative abilities of a forest troll so no matter how many small cuts they inflict, they would not be able to break through.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, the veteran soldiers were slaying enemies left and right.

The quality of the enemy's soldiers was inferior to Blanc's so their formations were quickly broken apart by the veteran soldiers.

Seeing that his army was on the losing side, the general was malding.

"How the fuck is this hillbilly army so strong?! Elite units! Reinforce the left wing! You! Order the troops on the right side and keep trying to break through! These guys are only human, sooner or later they will succumb to their injuries!"

Although this enemy general is lacking in terms of composure, he has a lot of experience on the battlefield.

This is evident due to how fast he reacted when they were on the losing side.

Unfortunately for him, experience alone wasn't enough to quickly break through the ranks of Blanc's military.

Although their elites did stabilize the battlefield, it was still too hard for them to break through quickly.

Still, the battle was 10,000 vs 2,000. Eventually, Blanc's soldiers started to get tired. A few gaps appeared here and there.

Although there were no casualties yet, there were a few who sustained irreversible injuries and they would probably be maimed for life.

"Infantry! Fall back! Execute phase number two!"

Blanc quickly noticed the changes and ordered his men to fall back.

After hearing the orders of their city lord, the infantry retreated in an orderly manner. The last unit to retreat was the elite heavy infantry unit with troll regeneration abilities.

They didn't close the city gates but the elite heavy infantry unit themselves became the "gate".

Because the area that they needed to defend became narrower, it became easier for the elite heavy infantry unit to defend.

As for the enemy elites, they weren't able to break through at all.

"Fuck! Our numbers are slowly decreasing! We have to finish this soon! Elites! Where are the other elites?! Quickly! Send them and quickly break through!"

At the back, a person was slowly getting annoyed.

He's not happy seeing the pathetic state of their military.

This is all the fault of this incompetent general!

The person slowly stood up and slapped the general.

*PAH*

"Gar! Why did you do that?! How dare you do that to me?!"

"What are you going to do about it? Stop being stupid! Your elites cannot break through their defenses."

The general couldn't refute Gar Grayleaf, he knew that he was right but his pride as a general of the Dumont Dukedom doesn't allow him to retreat.

"Order your men to retreat temporarily. Let me handle this."

Dumont Dukedom's general reluctantly complied with Gar Grayleaf's arrangements.

The Dumont Dukedom's army retreated just far enough to be out of the Resonance Ballista and the archers' range.

Blanc was surprised after seeing the enemy temporarily retreat. He thought that the stupid general would just continue to attack until he ran out of soldiers.

Unfortunately, it seems that things weren't gonna be that easy for Blanc.

As he was wondering who was responsible for the enemy's retreat, the answer appeared right in front of him.

"Hillbilly warriors of this city! Do you dare to come out and fight us like a man?!"

"I'm not demanding anything outrageous. How about this? Six of your strongest warriors against six of ours?!

"Of course, if you are too scared then there's nothing we can do."

The man who spoke loudly was Gar Grayleaf. He had short gray hair with bangs that resembled a willow leaf, tan-colored skin, a toned body, and facial features that could be described as ugly.

In addition to this, the man was short standing at only five foot two inches. Lastly, he had a fat and fleshy nose that resembled a small pumpkin.

Blanc wrinkled his brows upon seeing the man's face. All of his theories and knowledge came up short in trying to explain how a man could be so ugly.

"He must've done many wrong things in his past life" Blanc muttered to himself.

Still, Blanc planned to accept the challenge. He was confident in the strength of his battalion commanders and this was a chance to kill the top warriors of the Dumont Dukedom.

"We accept! However, do you dare fight against us to the death? A fight shall only end when someone dies."

Gar Grayleaf was surprised upon hearing the request of this "hillbilly city lord".

"Audacious! Do you think the likes of you can strike fear in me? How delusional! We agree to your conditions!"

The enemy general smiled widely upon hearing Blanc's and Gar Grayleaf's negotiation.

"This hillbilly city lord is so stupid! Truly a frog at the bottom of the well! He probably hasn't even seen a Swordmaster like Gar yet and that's why he's so confident! How naive!"

The general playfully muttered to himself.

Blanc also smiled upon hearing Gar Grayleaf agree.

"But how can we make sure that your soldiers will not intervene? Make them retreat four hundred meters and then we will send out our warriors!"

Gar Grayleaf almost laughed upon hearing the request of the "hillbilly city lord". He couldn't wait to start the deathmatches so he immediately complied.

After a few minutes, the enemy army started retreating and only six warriors were left on Gar Grayleaf's side including him.

Blanc almost laughed after seeing this stupid arrogant guy simply comply with all of his requests. From this, it can be seen that they're being severely underestimated.

"Helena, Alexander, Eden, Sabre, Zander, come with me, let's slaughter these stupid bastards!"