Chapter 594 - Do you think of yourself as a god?
GDK 594: Do you think of yourself as a god?
South Border City. Its border wall was ravaged and riddled with holes.
Smoke rose over a segment of the wall where a haggardly Firenze, military genius of the Empire, was directing the army-civilians to work. Sometimes he would even participate in the work directly, helping to move the massive rocks to repair the section of damaged wall.
Firenze, busying himself in the crowd, was no longer as neat and tidy as he looked back in those years. His hair was messy. His armor covered in a layer of grayish sand and lacking the usual gloss. If it wasn’t for Han Shuo’s extraordinary memory, it would have been very difficult to recognize him from the crowd and he be taken as some commoner who had passed his prime.
The hard battle had brought on greater and greater pressure on the populace of the Southern Border. As the protector of the Southern Border, Firenze had endured far greater pressure than the rest!
“Father! How come you have turned to this?!” a cry filled with sadness came from Fanny. She flew to Firenze’s side in the blink of an eye. Tears started to accumulate in the rims of her eyes. It was as though they would overflow at any moment.
“Fanny, what are you doing at southern border?’ Firenze was shocked in the best way possible to see his daughter. He shouted loudly in a smile and spread his arms to give Fanny a hug.
However, Firenze suddenly froze rigid in his tracks as if he remembered something, wiped away the surprised smile on his face, and said gravely, “What are you doing here? Didn’t I send you letters telling you not to come? It’s very dangerous here at the southern border. I don’t want you to take unnecessary risks!”
“You are barely holding up, what do you worry about me for?” Fanny angrily shouted in her small voice. The tears flooding the rims of her eyes could finally no longer be contained. Two long trails of tears streamed down her fair, delicate face as she said, “I know that you are concerned about me, but didn’t you know that your daughter is just as worried for her father?”
A trace of happiness and comfort flashed across Firenze’s eyes, but he had concealed the feelings well. He pointed at Fanny and raised his voice, “As the head of the Southern Border army, I must perform my duty even if I were to die fighting in this place. But you are different. You are one of the most outstanding magi of the empire and also the Dean of Necromancy at the Babylon Academy of Magic and Force, with the responsibility of teaching a lot of students. How could you come here to take unnecessary risks?”
“The South Border is redeemed! The situation at the Southern Border will surely take a turn for the better. Lord Bryan is the City Lord of Brettel City. If he is here, the Brettel City’s Ironblood Legion must also be here!”
“Yea, that’s right! The Ironblood is currently the strongest legion after the Howling Legion! Moreover, the legion hasn’t been losing their fighters to wars. His emergence here will surely bring new hope to South Border City. Ha, we don’t have to leave our hometown. Fantastic! This is fantastic!”
Enthusiastic voices of discussion reverberated all around the city wall. Everyone who heard of Han Shuo’s arrival was brimming excitement and joy and, for the first time in years, relief.
“This brat who is arrogant beyond cure actually makes all these people feel safe. Heh, let’s see what they think when they see him being torn to pieces by the orcs. This wretch really doesn’t know the limit to his abilities. He really thinks that he can save the situation just by himself? Resolving the crisis that we couldn’t defuse for two years?” in a low voice, Firenze said to his daughter with his teeth gnashed.
“Perhaps? Nothing is absolute in this world!” Fanny laughed with one hand covering her mouth. Soon after, as she rocked Firenze’s shoulder, she lovably pleaded, “Father, Bryan had been held up until now because he fell the Church of Light’s scheme. Can you forgive him, please?”
“Of course not!” Firenze, in a straight face, glared at Fanny furiously and chided her in a low voice, “Did that wretch go mad as well? Why didn’t you stop him from his reckless act? You little girl, how could you be so insensible?”
Fanny groaned when she received that line of criticism from Firenze out of nowhere. Knowing that no words would convince him, Fanny decided not to explain any further but gazed at Han Shuo with glimmering eyes, waiting for Han Shuo to strike.
“Lord Bryan, Lord Bryan is actually charging at the Empire of Orcs!” Oh my god! Is Lord Bryan insane? That’s an army of over hundreds of thousands of orcs!”
“What’s going on with him? How could Lord Bryan be so senseless? Oh god, what should we do?”
When the army-civilians on the city wall finally discovered the objective of Han Shuo’s actions, they began to squirm. The clamor on the city wall became ever louder and more chaotic.
Just as everyone was being concerned for Han Shuo either secretly or overtly, a streak of bright light suddenly flashed across the sky. An enormous bone dragon tore through the sky at the next moment. Riding on the bone dragon was an overlord of death with a demeanor of superiority over the entire world.
Little Skeleton, wielding a long and narrow bone spur, quietly recited summoning chants. The little lowgod cultivating in the elemental energy of death had shown enormous improvement in necromancy magic.
In the attentive gazes of the crowd, thousands upon thousands of undead creatures appeared from the bright flashes in the sky. They arranged themselves into neat and tidy lines before marching towards to Empire of Orcs in an organized fashion.
Bright flashes continued to light up the sky. The element of death was intense. Summoned by Little Skeleton, hordes of undead creatures gushed from the Netherworld and they completely occupied several expansive fields in just a short moment!