Chapter 79: Miltons Strength (1) (2/2)
‘What’s this?’
Milton was overwheles He immediately opened his stats panel, and was met with…
[Count Milton Forrest]
Monarch LV3
Strength – 81 Coence – 80 Politics – 61
Loyalty – 100
Special Traits – Dignity, Clout, Strategy
Monarch’s Dignity LV1: Your presence alone instils faith in allies and strikes fear into eneh apt reward and punishment
Clout LV4: Able to raise public senti orations
Strategy LV2: Excellent ability to discern the overall floar
Milton was astonished after finishi+ng reading his specs
‘When did everything increase by so much? It almost looks like I’th, Coence – these three stats all surpassed 80 They had developed continuously as he had constantly been involved in war, in which these stats were used
Along the saain trait
Ultimately, the Special Traits were a h there were abilities that would last a lifetime once acquired, it was only human that most would fade aithout use In recent tiain with others Princess Leila took care of the complicated political affairs while Milton concentrated on warfare
But , what really astonished Milton was that two Special Traits had co from the description alone, it was plain that this co formed an excellent ability
He could unite allies and sow fear a present Presuained for appropriately rewarding or punishi+ng subordinate behavior had also been increased
In essence, what this trait signified was that people around Milton were gradually beginning to perceive hi th and proficiency in warfare was only growing
‘I feel like I’’
That was an apt likeness if he coures in Earth’s history He was the spitting ie of an autocrat who dominated over his allies and used war to force his eneh that really wasn’t his style…
‘At least it sly smiled
Milton’s landslide victory was a phenomenal result The enemy had been completely routed and their co, the loss of friendly troops ondrously low Thanks to Milton’s creation of an overwheleous situation, the losses of the Southern arht as well have been non-existent
Unlike Milton’s outcoht for the ar down the Eastern road
Derek Brans and his 50,000 fried before them, one of the objectives of their expedition It was only to be expected with the ga would show himself
Only, this adversary was ht
The force of Duke Brans nufried’s force of 20,000
The difference in headcount was more than double If the Master that was Duke Brans was included, it was safe to say that the difference in strength was closer to triple
However when the battle started, the side that was floundering about was Duke Bran’s
First, Siegfried dispersed his army into numerous detach on the Hildess Republic’s strengths by hiding in thetheir ene their cells would not be discovered
When the Strabus troops overly pursued these skir planned sorties However, they were too large a concern to siard and march forward
Eventually, Duke Brans and the 50,000 strong Strabus ar slowly tied doithout so fried’s ar the locked-down ene Their tactics were so exquisite and their strikes swift that they began to disorient their victidom army played a part as well They were splayed over an enormous amount of terrain due to their number of troops; and while this evinced their size to the Hildess Republic, it also meant that there were many more places the Republicans could strike
“We incurred losses yesterday as well We suffered 500 casualties as a result of the ene our rear”
“A trivial loss When the knights went out to reinforce the rear at news of the ruckus, those Black Skull bastards caht at the hip; at the center of our procession”
“Those dae was colossal Our troop losses already amounted to more than 1,000 men – but in addition, those bastards lit our supplies on fire We could not properly track theuished”
“Those Skull dogs…”
The Strabus commanders were beyond frustrated The Hildess Republic’s hly notorious, but there appeared an enemy in this battle who took it one step further
These soldiers wore a black skull-shaped helmet, and were likewise covered head to toe in black leather arnation of this unit was unknown, so the Strabus co them the Black Skulls
These Black Skulls see the Hildess Republic’s elite ed froe suffered at the hands of these sreat
They had but a single opportunity to surround them, but they much too easily forced their way out of the surround and escaped Not only that, but the knight detachment who composed part of the surround for included as many as ten Experts
Consequently, the coade had at least 30 to 50 Experts ah neither their nu waswas certain: the special unit that were nicknamed the Black Skulls were an unbelievable pain in the neck
“Weabout them The losses suffered from these scoundrels is about to reach 3000”
“The losses are oneto spread aer numbers”
“As always, superior numbers do not decide the outcome of a war In fact, there is word that Count Forrest on the other frontier overpowered an ene 30,000 with his Southern army of only 20,000”
“With all due respect, whose side are you on my fellow man?”
“Side? Let us not deviate froan a fiery debate, perhaps because of theirstress and pressure
One deep voice boomed over them
“Settle down, the lot of you”
Duke Brans reconsolidated the flustered commanders He continued with all eyes now on hi a frontal battle because their strength is that lacking In that event, we only need to focus on conversely forcing a head-to-head fight”
“Whatever shall we do, Duke?”
“We will throw them some bait – a bait that those weasels simply cannot decline”
With that, Duke Brans ordered his coy
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1 (T/N: Xiang Yu (232 – 202 BC) was a prominent noble and warlord of the Chu state in China, whose na been located across the Yellow Sea)