Chapter 119 - Chapter 20: Blitz #2 (1/2)

Chapter 119 – Chapter 20: Blitz #2

The next morning, In-gong gathered the group together and talked about their future schedule.

The simple plan was to join with the reinforcements, move to Evian and join General Vandal in fighting against the barbarian king.

They had guessed this roughly last night, so only two people reacted to it. One was Nayatra, who hadn’t been in In-gong’s party until yesterday, and the other was Amita.

“Eeeeeh! First, the Demon King’s Palace, and now you want to drag me to a battlefield!”

“Yes.”

Amita paused at In-gong’s cool reply, then they started to hit the ground with their tail.

“Ohh! Ohh! Ohh!”

If they were a person, they probably would have grabbed In-gong’s collar. Daphne hugged Amita from behind.

“Amita, if we go to the battlefield, we need your power. Moreover, you’d be willing to send me to a terrible battlefield alone?”

“Oh…”

Amita’s tail and shoulders slumped at the same time. Daphne continued talking as Amita’s ears drooped.

“Before leaving today, I will buy more of Amita’s favourite sweets. When we return, I will buy you more. Then won’t you have enough sweets for a while?”

Amita was happy at the thought of more sweets.

They eventually let out a long sigh. Amita jumped out of Daphne’s arms and said,

“It can’t be helped. I will go for Daphne’s sake.”

“Thank you, Amita.”

Daphne smiled at Amita, then she winked slightly at In-gong. In-gong nodded as he watched Amita’s tail.

‘It is good that I left it to Daphne.’

They were heading to the battlefield, so Amita’s skills were needed more than usual. The distribution of equipment was important, but the maintenance was also important.

Amita waved their tail in resistance whenever asked to do anything, but they always gave in at the end.

‘Master, the talking raccoon has become happy again.’

‘Yes.’

In-gong responded to Green Wind’s whisper, then he looked at Nayatra. She looked somewhat anxious about being dragged to the battlefield.

“Nayatra, are you okay?”

Nayatra flinched at In-gong’s question, then she responded with a firm expression.

“I am one of Prince’s subordinates. I’m okay.”

In fact, she stated that she was okay when asked, but her reaction was completely different.

Although Below the King’s Flag and Conquest Coat of arms had the effect of increasing loyalty to In-gong, it didn’t completely remodel her mind. It was sort of like boosting the effect?

Despite Conquest Coat of Arms, Nayatra still felt some skepticism towards In-gong.

‘And she has started calling me Prince instead of Your Highness.’

This was the first time that Nayatra had called him Prince. Maybe it was a type of goodwill toward In-gong.

After smiling at Nayatra, In-gong looked in Felicia’s direction. Felicia clapped lightly and got everyone’s attention.

“Okay, now that it has been decided, shall we move? We will move out of Takar with the supplies purchased yesterday and will join the reinforcements at the meeting place. We will head to Evian this afternoon.”

While In-gong was searching for Nayatra in the slave stores, Felicia had bought supplies. In this regard, Felicia was indeed reliable.

After having breakfast at the hotel, they heading to the stores. A few stores had closed after last night, but most of them were operating normally.

“They need to show that they are still steady.” The gate inspection will be stricter than usual, but otherwise, it should go smoothly.”

It was like Felicia said. Even though they were scrutinized more closely than possible in case barbarians were hiding in the food wagons, passing through the gates itself was no problem.

They moved to the transportation formation near Takar. Originally, the reinforcements had planned to join them at Takar, but they didn’t want to trouble Takar, while they were still sensitive to the barbarians’ attacks.

The transportation formation was spread like a spider web around various places in the Demon World. Therefore, not all the formations were connected together. Of course, technically, it wasn’t impossible to connect all the formations, but the Demon King’s Palace didn’t want that. There were security, political and cost issues.

The issue of security was about a possible attack towards the Demon King’s Palace through the transport formations, while the political issue was about the reluctance of certain species. It wasn’t pleasant to have the forces of the Demon King’s Palace capable of entering through the transport formations at any time, even if they didn’t intend to rebel.Therefore, the formations directly linked to the Demon King’s Palace were only placed in palaces or cities with a strong loyalty to the demon king.

‘Basically, all the species that have queens.’

During the Lycanthrope subjugation, the first thing Chris had done was destroy all the transportation formations linked to the Demon King’s Palace.

‘The transportation network was severely damaged before and after the Day of Massacre.’

The queens of various species destroyed all their transportation formations.

In-gong was reminded of things he had experienced in Knight Saga. It was a future that In-gong would surely stop. This was a no-brainer.

They arrived at the transportation formation and waited for a while until the dark elves arrived. There were 200 people riding dracos, with a mix of warriors, magicians and priests.

“It is great to see 6th Princess.”

The one who led the dark elves was Alita Doomblade, the youngest of Felicia’s aunts. She had a mix of silver and purple hair and was an excellent hunter.

“It is great to see you, Aunt Alita.”

Felicia welcomed Alita with a hug and introduced In-gong and the others. Like Felicia, Alita was dressed in revealing clothes and laughed playfully.

“You are the 9th Prince of the rumours. It is an honour.”

What was this 9th Prince of rumours?

In-gong greeted Alita with a smile. Alita seemed like a rougher, more mature version of Felicia.

‘Knight Saga… She was the last escort protecting Felicia.’

Then the expression on Alita’s face changed. She saw the cute-looking Amita waving their tail and went over to pat them.

In-gong looked at the troops and materials Alita had brought. There had to be enough supplies to eat and drink for 200 people, so the amount was quite considerable.

At noon, the reinforcements from the lycanthropes arrived. There were 200 of them, exactly like the dark elves, and they were wearing partial armour made of leather.

“It is great to see 8th Princess.”

The lycanthrope reinforcements were led by Kaparang, who was considered a rising star in the Blood Companions. Although the royal blood that flowed through him was a bit distant, Caitlin still regarded him as a cousin.

“I’ve heard a lot of rumours about you. It is a tremendous honour to be able to fight with such a great person.”

“That’s right, Shutra is amazing.”

Caitlin laughed while In-gong shook Kaparang’s hand. Kaparang was much bigger and more muscular than Chris, but his smile was just like Caitlin’s.

‘I wonder what the rumours are.’

In-gong recalled everything he knew about Kaparang as they shook hands. He couldn’t remember every member of the Blood Companions. Unlike the dark elves, who could be both peaceful and fierce in combat, it was natural that almost all lycanthropes were warriors.

Therefore, the lycanthrope reinforcements were all warriors. It wasn’t that they couldn’t just magic or divine power, but they needed to be capable of bare-handed combat to be classified as lycanthrope warriors.

The lycanthropes had separate supplies that were three times larger than the dark elves’. It was basically the difference between the dark elves and the lycanthropes who were born with a big appetite.

The number of reinforcements equalled to 400. They were elites, so their battle power surpassed 1,000 ordinary soldiers from the Demon King’s Palace.

While In-gong and Caitlin were talking with Alita and Kaparang, Felicia gathered the supplies and set up a plan for moving. Once out of the influence of Takar, they would have to deal with the problem of transporting supplies in the lawless Evian area.