Vol 9 Chapter 108 (2/2)

— I will fulfill your unspoken wis.h.!.+

In the moment when we both roared, our blades flashed past each other, making several heavy clanging sounds. When our attacks were over, there was no more noise above the din of the pandemonium around us.

I blinked as I slowly exhaled and stared at the spear that stopped just millimeters in front of me, and Lu Xiang, who was also standing still in front of me, and had a look of disbelief on as she returned my gaze.

“… Impossible. In a place that is filled with tree trunks, how could you possibly have landed an attack from that far?”

“Why not?” I smiled, “I just need to cut down all the tree trunks in the way, that’s all.”

The duel has been decided.

“Uwa…” Lu Xiang moaned as a long wound appeared across her chest from which blood spewed out of. The tree trunks all around her that I had sliced through also began to fall over as gravity finally worked its powers, making dull thuds as Lu Xiang crumpled to the ground.

Though there were tree trunks falling all around us, the sounds of slaughter continued unabated. I looked over at Lu Xiang and saw that she did not get crushed by any tree trunk.

It’s a good thing that the trees around us are not century old trees but trees that are probably less than 3 decades old judging from the tree rings. As a result, the trunks were not too dense or thick for my blade to slice through them.

If I had failed to do so, the one on the ground would have been me.

As I thought so, I raised my blade and took a good look. The blade had already begun to break, with small tears on the side. If it were not for Su Shuang and Zhang s.h.i.+ Ping who managed to get a good blacksmith to craft this blade for me, I would not have been able to slice through the trees.

“Hu…” I sighed as I thought so. There were many uncertain factors throughout the entire duel but at the end, it all came down to martial bravery and luck.

A small fry huh…

I might appear to be important in many situations but I have really only fought a few battles. At the end of the day, the troubled times have not gone away and I am still me. The only difference between me and the average person is that I have a little more martial bravery and luck.

“Yaa! — Wu!!”

I calmly cut down any oncoming enemy troops as I continued my thoughts.

I am not a G.o.d of course, and defeat will eventually come. Like this battle, for instance.

“Lord Lu Xiang!!” “My lord!” “Commanding officer! Are you alright!”

All of a sudden, several people who seemed to be wearing the garb of senior officers realised what was happening here and sprinted over.

“You b.a.s.t.a.r.d!” What seemed like a thousand-man general angrily charged over and attacked me. I did not take him too seriously and merely blocked his attack and other subsequent attacks that were rather monotonous to be honest.

“Kuh…” He looked at me with eyes that were filled with hatred but his hand that held his longsword had already begun to tremble. Though his martial prowess is far below mine, his martial bravery is not too far off.

While all this was going on, the other generals worked together and carried away Lu Xiang before running off. All of them had tears in their eyes as they looked over from time to time.

“Yaa!!” I looked at the man before me who seemed like he had made the resolve to die as he continued to charge recklessly at me.

This made me think back to the cavalry who helped them break the surround in the last battle. Half of them belonged to Lu Xiang and they were truly heroic as they charged into our ranks and held our attention long enough to enable a small band of troops to break out of the surround.

… Hai, Lu Xiang. Though you are just a small fry in this era, do you know how important you are to your subordinates?

I will just take it that she got lucky this time.

“Hei!”

“Uwa!” The enemy general yelped as I placed my blade against his neck after I knocked him away.

“You, consider yourself lucky today. I won’t be killing you.” I said as I withdrew my blade from his throat, “Our battle is at a stalemate now and neither side has a clear advantage. Why don’t you retreat and prepare for your lord’s funeral?”

When I finished, the general seemed dazed. Only when I stated at him did he understand what was going on and hurriedly got up as he made his way back to his troops. Even if I did not say all that, given the state their commanding officer is in, they clearly cannot continue fighting.

I looked about and saw that there were many wounded and dying soldiers around in just a short span of time. After the 2 volleys of arrows, and the ambush, it would be impossible for us to prevail. The sooner they pull back, the less our losses will be.

*Dang* *Dang* *Dang* *Dang*…

Just then, several gong sounds came from within the forest. The beat was light but very fast. When the enemy troops heard the gong beats, they seemed stunned but quickly began to retreat.

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