Volume 9 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Translated by Tianic, edited by Grammarly
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In the place far behind the AUFs forue, two slave legions were instructed to sit and wait for further orders The soldiers rested in groups according to their ranks A few officers and athe rows
Due to the slaves' li was almost inevitable once they went onto the battlefield The cleaning job was not easy once the war ended Thus a portion of the cheap slave poas arranged here at the far end They were to offer their labor
The crowd consisted of a full slave legion and a few other slave ar the battle a few days earlier Thus the arement and supervision convenience
As for the ones that died, they were either buried or exposed No one cared about the light injured, and those ere heavily wounded were treated the same as the dead
Thein the frontline came by the wind in the form of noise which meant a constant tickle to the officers and soldiers who stayed idle in the behind Within AUFs, there was a custom which stated the war trophies fro to the soldiers who captured the morale purpose, apparently
And exa enemies' weapons, properties demanded by officers of all ranks And surely, all females in the ene as someone was capable
Since AUFs’ current eneion size atthe clay city for a dozen days, as left of the enemies were by far around 30, 000~40, 000 On the other hand, the attacking party still had enough strong soldiers and sturdy horses as well as countless catapults as dense as a rainforest At the thought of the benefits they'll get, all the anxious soldiers were itchy for a fight
Not long after the proactive strike, the officers who stayed for further orders began to for; sa at slave soldiers was not a pleasant job, whichwar expendables, they had no real guts toonly to survive on the battlefield
Yet the slaves re with their ain o
The slaves had been living here in this land since the beginning of this war until recently; they grew up here Thus each one of them, no matter which tribe they came from, were extra familiar with the beats
Indeed, the sounds were froh the rhythed into their flesh and bones since the day they were born, even their blood would boil with the drumbeats
They knehat the beats were telling When the sound of Sorrow started, thousands of slaves lowered their heads at the saliet them slashed in no time
They also knehat happened: no mattered who died, the ones who lost their lives were the unluckiest who came stand at the fronte scale, which meant the death toll was at least thousands
Nevertheless, the dead merely left an early step The rest were on the path of death They had no other choice but to fight their own people once they were deployed on the battlefield despite they cae They could just resent that they were born on this Protoss/Asmodian Line, they could only hate that they were slaves, or even born as humans to be less!
The slaves sed tears, fingers thrust into the soil All of them were in desperate oppression
A tall and robust slave soldier sobbed as he retracted his hand from the soil He sided his head and found the companion who stayed beside was a slave he did not know of
”You, what unit are you?” The tall slave lowered his voice as deep as he can, ”They'll kill you for wandering around!”
Since the big slave legion was joined by reions and due to the lack of ader uy was indeed odd
”Aha, sorry I can't findhis pearl-white teeth
It looked like he was a new slave who did not know the rules The tall slave sighed then quickly gliain, ”If you're inquired later on, you say you're with me I'm Chappie”
”Yes, Brother Chappie” The little slave nodded in appreciation, ”I'm Maru I will follow you”
A slave's life was nothing worthfor the AUFs An officer usually had hundreds of slave soldiers to administrate, and the adnizingto note the slaves' faces In fact, many officers considered all slaves looked exactly the sa
Under such a circues, divided into secret groups according to their villages of origin These groups had leaders They were abided by the traditions of the tribe, providing the customs were reachable
It was not odd Such a pheno as the slaves can obey orders, the officers won't give a shi+t about these things Actually, they were unable to because you cannot lis on the slaves’ minds The existence of such cliques will not solve practical probleically, the slaves needed it They needed people they recognized to look up to Such a sense of belongingin constant fear
Chappie was one of the leaders of the cliques In the group, he had thirtyish people who ca for newbie slaves his duty What he didn't knoas that this shy-looking youngtiion's elite investigation corp
The young ht Maru was his real name There were around a hundred who came with hiet enemy units
Maru also grew up on the P/A Line He knew everything about the slaves including language, habits and custohts or even evil practices because hiee before he fled to Dark City
While the officers were not paying attention, Chappie and Maru whispered Both of the Tribe, so they found their relationshi+p real quickly: Chappie was Maru's uncle's second sister's husband's uncle’s younger son's brother-in-law’s cousin's fellow villager…
As the two's chat ordy, the war situation on the frontline was getting tense On second thought, the war situation was getting hotter unilaterally because the PUF army didn't show at all
The AUFs' 27th Legion has arrived down the clay city wall Unlike the slaves, the 27th Legion was an ordered, well-provided, handpicked army The catapults seized to attack after the as half-destroyed Then other siege vehicles approached to finish the job Thus the wall started to collapse on achannels The slaves who survived the earlier battle were driven into the city They triggered more traps on their way in
After the slaves went in, AUF officers coe vehicles into the traps The stones that fell from the collapsed ere utilized to fill the traps in order to make ways for the followup armies to march
The priion started to ain, arive the 27th more time to reconstruct their formation
All the buildings near the wall had already been wiped down by the PUFs, the nearest clay city inner structure was 2 miles apart from the city’s perimeter, which left about 2 miles blank area in between Everybody knew this area was a death zone
After the slaughtering on the wall, the slaves have endured the ut Many of thee of a breakdown For these battlefield newbies, witnessing tens of thousands of friends getting killed by their own army was an ulti crying were constant reminders that death was dreadful
Needless to say, the wait before dying was even insufferable And these poorfor quite a while
The slaves starteddespite the desperate tears
Cohen Kheda's vision went through the battlefield He oversaw everything that happened
”Chance!” He said so suddenly and loudly that all ere in the co center dazed for a moment
”Move yourselves onto the wall behind…” Before he could finish, Cohen has run out Thus the staff officer did as they were told: grabbed thecenter showed at Cohen's designated place: a place right beside Gardena's master drum
”Next chapter!” Cohen dashed to Gardena while pointing his hand at the enemy troops, ”They're also your clansmen! Use your drum and tell them, they don't have to die!”
Gardena's hands showed a sudden tremble, his pair of drumsticks nearly went loose
”Do it!” Cohen cried, ”They're !”
The instruiant dru the current chapter and start a new one? Thus he cursed Cohen Kheda quietly then raised both his ar roar
A hundred druh blushed, cursed Cohen again in his heart
He broke the custo was only a ritual used to grant the next tribe leader Once he roared, heto be the next at such a moment?
However, the situation did not allow Gardena to reconsider Blushed as he was, he struck the drunized as the chapter 'Enquire'
Gardena was indeed a fossil, but he was never a stupid by becoees The tiht Cohen's idea precisely Enquire was indeed the perfect chapter