Chapter 682 - End of Monster Legion 2 (1/2)

“Those Symphonia men ran away!”

“It looks like they couldn’t stand against our Chimeras!”

The warlocks, who watched the Symphonia Kingdom’s forces retreat, shouted in joy.

It seemed like the stress accumulated by the warlocks because of the Symphonia troops had been eased a little.

“Kuek, I had to use my trump cards, but it would be hard to stop those iron toys without them.”

Lenuk shrugged with an elated face.

A Hero class Gigant had intervened in the middle, causing an unexpected number of damage, but he was under the impression that just one or two Sword Masters wouldn’t be able to stop the entire Chimera unit.

And his judgment was indeed right.

“What is the situation in other places?”

Lenuk asked, curious about the turn of events in the other places.

Fierce battles were taking place in other places besides that one.

As he was stuck in one place, Lenuk looked at the man and found other paths through the mountain range.

He then sent the monster legion to those places, and in those places, they were battling with the Symphonia troops as well.

Each of them was sent with a dozen Chimeras, so he thought that if the Symphonia troops over there didn’t have any Sword Master, then they would be able to breakthrough.

“Unlike this one here, there doesn’t seem to be a Sword Master. Thanks to that, they were able to kill more Symphonia men than here.”

“Really? If so, then I think that we can just go to Verange Castle at our current pace.”

With a smile of getting the task completed, Lenuk gave out orders to the other warlocks with the magical communication device.

“We are late! Each legion needs to march in haste and take over Verange Castle!”

“Yes, Elder!”

Verange was the first castle that would come across one’s path when going down Pamire Mountains.

It was the largest and the most populated region of the northwest.

As Lenuk struggled to cross the mountain, he thought that if he took over the castle, then his monsters would have bloody dinner.

Kikkkki!

Keeeeeek!

The monsters, who passed through the street, began to run toward Verange Castle at once.

The warlocks, who barely passed through the narrow path, feared whether enemies had created any hidden traps or would ambush them.

Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any such thing, but they were attacked by the Symphonia troops, who suddenly appeared from the rear.

“Kill them all! You shouldn’t let them go to Verange Castle!”

Kuekkk!

At the same time, the cavalry invaded, and the archers came, riding on large goats instead of horses and attacked the monster legion.

It wasn’t long before the battle started, but the damage was considerable as the monster legion was advancing without keeping a watch behind.

“What? 3,000 monsters died in the blink of an eye?”

“The size of the enemy troops was considerable. It seemed like they had quite a few thousand on their side.”

The warlocks, who were hiding between the dead monster legion, managed to save their lives and were in extreme distress.

According to him, the units that had just appeared outnumbered them and attacked from behind.

“Thousands… Is there any place where the enemy is hiding?”

At Lenuk’s words, the warlocks went ahead.

“Fly with Fly magic and check from the sky, and there are three or four basins in the mountain ranges from where the army could be stationed.”

“Uhm, that means…”

“The enemy might have deliberately withdrawn from this narrow path. Maybe they are trying to trap us in the middle and attack us from the back.”

At the subordinate’s words, Lenuk looked at the map in front of his eyes.

There was a fan-shaped forest at the end of the mountain range.

It was a point where the three road path crossing the Pamire Mountains would join, and after passing through the plains, they would reach Verange castle.

“If we get seized back and forth before getting passed the woods, we will end up taking a lot of damage.”

“So what are we supposed to do?”

“We must split up some troops while we search for and annihilate the enemy behind us. Elder Lenuk should continue on his advance to Verange Castle, leading Chimera as the main unit.”

“But we will divide into three, do you still want us to divide?”

“Won’t the troops end up joining back after crossing the forest? Our troops won’t decrease any further. Most of all, if you wait here, Arsene will not be happy with us.”

“Uhm…”

Once the name of Arsene came out, Lenuk began to sweat.

Even they didn’t have a hand in it, the march was running behind on their given time.

“Fine, let’s do that. Instead, if you destroy the enemy, join into the main unit right away.”

“Don’t worry about that.”

Eventually, Lenuk accepted the plan created by his subordinate.

Thus, 20,000 monsters were divided and headed to the basins where the Symphonia Kingdom would be hiding.

The Symphonia’s scouts were watching all of this unfold, but the warlocks, who were dead set on making up for the delayed time, couldn’t even bother to look for them.