Chapter 1233 - Battle of Fort West (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The connection was lost before Hao Ren realized it. Shaking his head in frustration, Hao Ren mumbled to himself, “Damn it, the wifi service is freaking unreliable. I wonder if Vivian heard me.”

The female knight, Lavinia stood still in front of him, feeling baffled. “Your Venerable Guardian, what happened to you?”

Hao Ren quickly looked up and pasted a smile on his face. “Ahh, nothing. I was thinking about the past. Probably my mind is still a little laggy after ‘waking up.’ What did we leave off?”

“The part about you finding your friend…” said Lavinia, who was still not convinced of Hao Ren’s reply. “Do you have any idea how to go about finding your friend? My family has little influence in the kingdom, but my brother has an extensive network of contacts and likes to befriend the hermits and scholars. Maybe he could help you.”

Hao Ren was stupefied. He was looking for a husky who was just flung over here a few days ago, asking a bunch of old scholars to help did not help. He might as well find some masters of making bone soup, cooking a few pots of pork-rib soup at the city gate, Lily would be able to sniff her way back even if she was hundreds of miles away. Hao Ren did not say as such aloud but only in his mind. And he gave a polite reply. “Oh thank you so much for your kindness. I appreciate that. I would owe you a favor.”

After a moment of polite formulas, Lavinia left for his colleagues, leaving Hao Ren scratching his jaw in deep thought.

The sound of stiff boots walking up to him jolted Hao Ren out of his thoughts. Hao Ren looked up and saw the heroic looking Veronica standing in front of him. The princess nodded at him lightly. “Your Venerable Guardian, it’s time. We should go.”

After a short break, the Knights not only mentally renewed but they had also regained their strength. When they set off, the soldiers were all energetic. Now there was more worry that could stop them. They followed the princess and headed straight at full speed back to Fort West.

However, Fort West was farther than it seemed. It took the professional soldiers, each as strong as a superhuman, half a day to reach the hill halfway between the Shadowy Forest and Fort West. But Hao Ren, having resumed contact with the outside world, was lighthearted. He deemed the long journey a sightseeing trip. Though the surroundings were still the distorted and dark realm of Chaos, the fortress shrouded in glorious light in the distance was still a stunning sight as he walked side by side with Veronica and Morian. While listening to them telling about the history of the fortress since the founding of the Kingdom of Toras 22 years ago, the mountains in the distance gradually drew closer.

But just as they were about to arrive at the foot of the fortress, Hao Ren had sensed something amiss. He stopped in his tracks and gazed in the direction of the fortress. At this distance, the white giant rock wall of the Fort West was in view. The ancient runic reinforcement and eagle reliefs on the wall were visible. At the top of the thirty-three magic towers on the front of the fortress, the Taros Eagle flags in gold outlines and blue background were flying in the wind.

Veronica who stopped behind Hao Ren had sensed what Hao Ren sensed. The royal-blood princess’s brows knit together as she felt the energy of the Chaos was nearby. This evil force in conflict with the Order ailed her blood. Her heart instantly missed a beat.

The princess raised her hand and signaled the knights behind, who immediately crouched. Under cover of nearby rocks, the team climbed to the top of a hill. Hao Ren was beside Veronica, looking out and down.

He saw a wilderness of gray and white gravels extending out under the hill all the way to the foot of the white stonewall of Fort West. A sea of gray-black mud was flowing in the direction of the city wall.

But that was not mud but monsters born in the Chaos.

It is a monster siege!

On this side of the Shadowy Forest, the Chaos no longer appeared in the form of fog but used the gray-white gravels that covered the earth as carriers. As black smoke spurted out from the barren land, it quickly spun and solidified into terrible monsters in seconds. Thousands of them rushed towards Fort West in a frenzy, as if tsunami rolling toward the shores. Their numbers were numerous, and they were close to each other, so when looking from a distance, they looked filthy mud on the ground. The scene reminded Hao Ren about the Black Tide coming out from the cage of Hercules not long ago. But this tide of monsters looked even more terrible than the Black Tide back then.

Without someone like Hercules to restrain this tide of monsters that were born out of the Chaos, they were even more ferocious, ruthless, and seemingly coming in an endless number.