58 [1-58] Horseback ● Horseback King (1/2)

Idiot!　Don't call her a princess!　She's a monster born of a pig traitor who impregnated a b*tc*!

”I'm sorry, too!

...... What's going on?

The skeletons are carrying a palanquin and are slowly making their way down South Avenue towards the city gates!　The liches and ghouls have set up a perimeter!

”The Rose Princess of Grudge Prison” ...... The air in the operation control room became tense at once upon hearing that name.

It's the enemy general, the source of this situation, and the enemy's greatest asset.

It's not just a matter of time before she comes in with a full head of steam.

It was a sign of the final, catastrophic attack, but also an opportunity to seize the victory of nine lives by taking her down.

The Red Rose's flag was flying.

The flag of the Red Rose fluttered in the air, and the dead soldiers walked with the sound of their shoes.

An army of undead was advancing along the main street leading from the South Street Gate. In the center of the street was Rene's palanquin.

The number of soldiers participating in this march is small, as their main focus is on suppressing the city walls, but the visual impact is still immense. A group of non-humans are marching down the main street of the capital in broad daylight, holding up their own military banners.

It was a demonstration, or rather a provocation.

It looks like the Second Commander has been captured. To be honest, I wasn't expecting this much.

Rene calls out to Alastor, who is riding a zombie horse beside the palanquin.

He's got a bunch of callers with him. We're going to redeploy to the city.

”Yes, sir. It will make things much easier for us in the future.

Alastor nodded in response.

René had observed the capture of Bertil with his emotional sensor. Lawrence might still think that it was not the Revenant who attacked the south gate, but a member of the Second Order who betrayed him.

If he hadn't been exposed as the Revenant, the result could have been like this, but it was just a matter of 'lucky if it worked out that well.

You don't have to be afraid anymore, do you?

”Yes. Let's get the troops to the residential area.

Make sure there are no more casualties.

Of course, it's not out of humanitarian considerations that I don't want any extra deaths.

It is a foreshadowing to give us an advantage when we try to sway them in the future. It is also to leave a psychological margin for Rene in case he has no choice but to slaughter civilians. When the atrocity gauge is maxed out, the blade dulls.

The escape route to the west is still unblocked. The more nimble citizens have begun to evacuate, but mercenaries and adventurers have also begun to flee.

Rene only had knights of the First Order, Hilbert, and those who would be needed in the future sneak out to monitor them, and left the rest to flee.

Now, it seems that the information that the south gate has been breached has not yet reached the city, but the citizens will probably not listen to the knights' restraint or guidance and try to escape through the west gate first. The information that they can escape from the west gate has been spread by adventurers who have been turned into revenants.

This was mainly to create confusion in the city and to take advantage of the urban warfare. However, this was a bit of a waste as the knights retreated to the city walls at once.

Well, the adventurers and mercenaries hired by the knights seemed to have been defeated, so that was good.

The battle was about to come to a close.

It would have been easy for Rene to just destroy the capital, but he couldn't kill Lawrence in such a sketchy fight, and Hilbert would probably escape.

That's why René drove Lawrence into a corner, strangling him with cotton as if he were tearing off his limbs.

The only thing left to do was to make sure Lawrence was killed and Hilbert was finished off. To do so, he still needed a plan.

I was hoping that the Second Order would be able to compete with the First Order, but it looks like that's not going to happen. I'm just glad we were able to pull away.

”Huh. I think we should just let the second knight order destroy itself and neutralize it.

Right. Can we do it now? It's a good idea to have a good idea of what you're going to be doing and how you're going to do it.

The knights of the Second Order are not the ones that Rene wants to kill so aggressively.

In the event that you've got a good knight, you'll be able to use it to make an excellent undead soldier to bolster your forces, and also to destroy the possibility of an enemy under Lawrence's command.

Rene gave orders to the undead with his thoughts. Instead of signaling, he snapped his fingers.

There's no such thing as a Revenant. Everyone's overreacting.

”What's with the ...... line?

I just felt like I had to say it.

Right, sir?

The Revenant that Rene created in the Second Order was not the only one that caused the attack on the gate tower.

I'm not sure.

Knights are running through the city.

Fleeing the avalanche of undead. Away from fear.

A small squad of ten. They all belong to the Second Order.

I heard undead soldiers don't mess with the Second Order.

That was true, but they wouldn't be safe forever. No freak wanted to test his mettle in the middle of an avalanche of undead.

I've lost contact with Commander Bertil. Instead, the First Knight Commander ordered us to retreat, and he also ordered us to go to the Great Temple for an examination.