Chapter 68 - Volume 2
TL: Alright, here is the last chapter of the marathon run. Thank you very much for your support. The next regular update will be this weekend, unless there’s another sponsored chapter.
Chapter 12 – Holy Saint’s remains
————– Princess POV —————
“Land of the Holy Saint’s remains?”
Legend stated that the natives in the mountainous valley built a sanctuary during the Era of the Holy Saints. A statue of the king was placed at the entrance of the valley, and all manners of dark creatures that tried to enter would be struck by lightning, and all forms of dark energy would be suppressed to the limits.
In the Era of Darkness, humans, elves and dwarves went out of this protected land, and the gathered knights formed under one banner and defeated the [Dragon of Twilight], ‘Calamity’, bringing about the new era: ‘Year of Chaos’. (TL: Coughs out blood. Hopefully I don’t TL things wrongly…)
“It’s the blessed land that is protected by the king, my lady.” Oberbeck answered.
“He actually found that fabled land?” Her tea had been replaced, but the princess did not even noticed that. She merely played with the silver spoon as she listened to Oberbeck’s tale.
“Please call me Taron, my lord.”
“Then Ser Taron, there’s no need to worry, their armies are bound to have openings we can exploit.”
“What openings are you talking about?”
Brendel did not want to reveal the gargoyle’s secret to them.
“We’re going to go to the rear of Medes’s army, and they will pass through here in half an hour.”
Everyone was silenced at that moment, and even the ones who were starting to believe in him started questioning his sanity for following Medes’s army.
But Leto suddenly said: “That is a good idea, if we are able to grasp the right timing.”
Brendel looked at him in astonishment.
[This plan is just a random fib… To even make it work, we have to get the right timing to cut across their weakest link of segmented troops, while suppressing their runners so they can’t alert the other patrolling units. This requires a great command of the situation during a battle… I have only done this once in the game and simply used this as an excuse to shut this Taron up—]
Brendel did not expect Leto to guess what he had done before, and even dared to go along with what he said. Everyone was stunned, but Mano was the next to recover and understand Leto’s intentions. “Alright, I’ll bet on it as well—”
The rest of them gradually understood what his intentions were. But even after understanding what he had in mind, everyone wondered if the three of them were crazy. Brendel looked at the gargoyle which was a speck of black in the sky.
[But the odds are much better than the last time since I have the gargoyle to survey the surroundings…]
————————— Madara POV —————————–
The [Undead Maggot] Medes knew there was a group of refugees that escaped into the direction of the Silver Sparrow Mountain. The group had even defeated his squadron of undead skeletons.
But he did not place too much importance on chasing after that batch of refugees, as his attention was on working together with Kabias to deal with the White-Mane army.
[The humans are weak.]
It was just as easy as he had predicted. Aouine’s formal army was completely defeated by them. They had chased them all the way from morning and delivered a final blow by ambushing them. When the sun had set, the battle had ended. Even though their vanguard forces were heavily damaged, they were mostly cannon holder. The ghouls and Kabias’s skeleton cavalry did not suffer much losses.
In comparison, the forty odd skeleton riders hurt his scouting forces greatly. To regain this forces required a long time.
It was at this point that Medes turned his attention on this group of refugees. Lord Tarkus had given an order to seal the pathway to the River of Sharp rocks with their lives, and everyone who participated in this war did not dare be careless.
[Something is amissed…]
The leader who led the group of refugees appeared to be skilled at avoiding the bone eagles that were spying on them. Ever since morning, they had only caught glimpses of the refugees five times, and at the end of the night, they lost their presence entirely.
[This is a bad omen.]
Under the weak soul fire, Medes opened the goatskin map. He drew several circles on the Silver Sparrow Mountain.