Chapter 190
Chapter 190 Scheming in the Night
The banquet was still going on.
Attractive noble ladies dressed in beautiful clothes, girls as shy as fawns, as well as seductive and alluring beauties……
These beautiful women, that were usually out-of-reach and cold to most suitors, were all flocking around Jefferson. Either giggling while covering their lips with their silk fans, or blushing while pressing themselves onto him, or sending seductive gazes from afar. Though the beauties here were far less distinguished than those in the royal court, there were many of them, each with their own appeal, like flowers waiting to be plucked at his whim.
After much effort, Jefferson managed to free himself from the ladies and met with the dozen radiant knights that had been patiently waiting in a secret room behind the city hall.
“Vieri, tell me! How has the preparation been going?” The moment he entered the room, the faint smile on Jefferson’s face had vanished, replaced with a dense killing intent.
After greeting Jefferson and bowing to him, the radiant knights took their seats. Vieri, who was in charge of the operation this time, stood up to explain their progress in rallying the knights.
“……7 knights from Gotland City, 11 knights from the City of Cobar, 8 knights from Schaeffer City. As of now, the witcher-knights that have rallied in Herdurand City number 1513 men. The knights’ camp is being expanded; the supplies and equipment are arriving in a timely fashion. The reorganization and training of the troops is being overseen by Knight Gutt…..the vanguard knights are led by Ninther and have arrived in Blue Hillock City. No information have been sent back thus far……”
“This idea is ingenious! You lot stay here and look, I’ll go and inform our respected blood ancestor……”
The vampire spawn flew about the dark night skies, closely monitoring every action of the green dragons, while exchanging passionate words. Soon, a bloodsucking bat turned around while beating its wings as it took to higher skies, flying towards the direction of Blue Hillock City.
Yet at this moment, the Great Duke Lington was also having a secret meeting with his subordinates in another secret room within the castellan’s quarters.
“Have we still not figured out their goal?” It was the Great Duke Lington who spoke, a huge frown on his face.
“No clear goal.” A veteran general wearing golden armor, his face worn with age, shook his head and spoke, “Perhaps even they themselves aren’t sure what their goal and target is?”
“But I’ve personally gone outside the city to see their base, which is constantly expanding. The expanded base could fit 3000 witcher-knights at the very minimum.” A young general solemnly commented.
“3000? So many of them……”
“God! That’s 3000 witcher-knights! Even during the last war against the heretics there weren’t so many witcher-knights rallied together!”
“We can’t let them go on like this. Even with the current numbers of witcher-knights, they already pose a serious threat to our Herdurand City.”
“How many more troops can we draw from the surrounding cities?” Great Duke Lington calmly asked.
“There are currently twenty-thousand city guards stationed in Herdurand City. If we include your ten-thousand personal guards, we can maintain a numerical advantage of approximately 25 to 1 against the witcher-knights. But if their numbers keep increasing, we would have a hard time maintaining the balance in combat strength. Sir, as you should know, making city guards go against witcher-knights with a numerical advantage of less than 20 to 1 would be no different than sending them to their deaths!”
The veteran general’s words drew everyone’s agreement, and they could only lower their heads in frustration.
They had to have an absolute numerical advantage. Using mere strategy to pit a mundane army made of normal humans against the supernaturally-powered witcher-knights would be a hopeless endeavour!
When faced with the overwhelming number of witcher-knights, as well as the numerous spellbreaker knights, radiant knights, and the two dragon knights that were so powerful that they struck despair into their enemies, no one could come up with any courage or will to fight..
Right now, everyone could only pray as hard as they could that the blade of the witcher-knight army wasn’t pointed towards themselves!