Chapter 552 - Reinforcements (1/2)
Chapter 552: Reinforcements
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
No matter orld it was, the police, anizations permitted to use violence would always arrive late This wasn’t only because the story needed thenificant a the report to understand the situation and suanization, elite training, and advanced equip the response time, but those wouldn’t be able to completely eliminate the response time It could be said that the response tianization’s overall strength
As for Starwood City’s residents, the Sala Dukedoood thing for them At least, this represented that the city was now safe However, even those with the best of tempers were still filled with fury when they saw the reinforce
This was because by this point in time, the battle had been over for teeks already, so the reinforcements were rather late Not only that, the reinforceht in a battle on the way, and lost over 50 of its forces So, the reinforceue, with more stretchers and injured soldiers than actual assistance Rather than calling theees ere seeking assistance themselves This made it difficult for the Starwood City residents to accept
“Get out of here! Are you here to reinforce us or to fight against us?”
“…Even Marquis Stanley was much better than you all! It was his ally ‘Blood Spear’ Salima who protected us What did your domain lord do!? He allied with the undead and assassinated Prince Link! This brought danger to everyone here!”
Starwood City’s unfriendly welcome infuriated Earl Debalon, the leader of Sala Dukedom’s royal reinforcements He even considered whether or not he should secretly kill soantly to him
“These dirty lowborn commoners We wouldn’t have been ambushed by those traitorous Marquis Stanley loyalists if it wasn’t for our coantly to us?”
Since the issue of the Sala Dukedo with it ould likely e trouble down the road Earl Debalon considered if he could use hunting down the prince’s killer as an excuse to vent and kill some of the people here, since based on typical customs, whenever a member of the royalty met with harm, there would always be many people killed as a punishment
But unfortunately for Earl Debalon, he was unable to do that this time…
Human defenders weren’t the only ones on the walls of Starwood City Short wood spirits were patrolling everywhere as they had now taken charge of the city Gigantic rew all around the city’s outskirts The wood spirits were now the new rulers here
It would have been still fine if it was only the wood spirits, but the aerial fleet in the skies also gave Earl Debalon an invisible sense of pressure Not only that, the gigantic ancient tree in the center of Starwood City was the best explanation of what had happened here
“The Sky Tree from the Forest of Dreams? What do they intend to do here…”
The Sky Tree was the ave birth to the entire wood spirit species Only when constructing a wood spirit city would such a precious tree be planted here The wood spirits were capable of receiving the Forest of Drea the many other miraculous uses that outsiders didn’t know about
And as the wood spirits became ht treer viewed as only a powerful weapon Anywhere that their Sky Tree was present was directly treated as the wood spirits’ territory
As the wood spirits’ main territory, the Forest of Dreams, wasn’t that far away from the Sala Dukedo tree represented
Starwood City was no longer a shoddy or even a mid-rate city It was unmistakably a well-defended fortress city now, and it now belonged to a different country and different species entirely
“Isn’t this an invasion? This is an outright military invasion!”
If Earl Debalon had been a purely militaristic person, he would have unsheathed his sword and attacked the wood spirits to defend his country already But as soh to be entrusted by the royalty with dealing with such a major incident like an Undead Calamity, rather than a military personnel, Earl Debalon was more of a politician
“Why did they do this? Could it be that rumors of that treasure were actually real?”
But no uesses or analyses he made, Earl Debalon was unable to act by hi Archduke But, as for the Archduke’s royal family who supported Earl Debalon… it was likely that they would also be unable to do anything about the wood spirits
This was the sad fate of small countries like the Sala Dukedom, made even more pitiful by the fact that the Sala Dukedom was embroiled in a civil war Since all semblance of order was shattered by the fires of war, the law of the jungle where the strong preyed on the weak became even more evident and cruel
If the wood spirits really wanted to take some territory for themselves here, what could the Sala Dukedo a little? It wasn’t like the Archduke could afford to use his royal troops to fight against the wood spirits that were powerful enough to face an Undead E with the traitorous Marquis Stanley
“…You’re worrying tooWe have absolutely zero interest in such a rundown city We are a species that loves peace, so ould never start an invasion There’s actually a reason that we’re establishi+ng a scouting cahts Although the words were , he wasn’t reassured at all Instead, he was frightened because his very thoughts had been seen through
A short wood spirit with black hair had appeared before hiure was quite si elf would appear Debalon had seen such young elf slaves before at the major nobles’ parties he’d attended before in the Sala Dukedo elf slave could sell for an astronomical price more than sufficient to buy an entire city like the formerly shoddy Starwood City
The wood spirit before Debalon appeared incredibly weak, as if he could casually restrain her with one hand However, Debalon didn’t dare to secretly do any nefarious deeds, since he knew that the average coth of an individual wood spirit was far above that of average huirl would be equal to or surpass any Silver-ranked human warrior
Meanwhile, the black-haired wood spirit’s gentle s intent, and rage swept across her face simultaneously
“Are you another one of those lowlife slavers? Or, are you intending on doing sohtened as he had no idea how the wood spirit before hihts as he hurriedly denied everything