90 Tanggulasi Assassin Part 1 (1/2)

”Viscountess, why are there people preventing us from advancing?” Hu An asked, confused. On Qin Empire land, who would dare make life hard for the emperor’s daughter?

”Across the Lancang River is Hadisai City, the territory of Earl Mokolari. This fencesitter has finally sided with the lower house. Sadly, someone like him doesn’t have any guts. If he had really wanted to butter up my uncle, he should have sent cavalry to lockdown this bridge. I would have been forced to take a different, longer route. Do you understand now, Hu An?”

Hu An shook his head in shame. His family was not any great worldly family and he had no chance of gaining the rank of a noble. These inner workings of the wealthy were something that he had only read in books. Since leaving his home, he had been studying in Bitter Water Prefecture, focusing solely on the research of magic. He might have been able to fight, but was unable to understand whatever Viscountess Lex had just said.

”To put it into simple terms, someone is trying to make me lose face. If even an earl could obstruct me and force me to take a longer route, it would take me an extra half a month to reach Holy Rock City and in addition, the upper house would be disappointed in me. I think Mokolari is not ready to shed blood.” As Viscountess Lex said this calmly, Saleen had already understood.

This was not a conflict between the old and new wealthy people of the empire. The emperor dominated the upper house and held control over the hereditary members of the wealthy. The prince dominated the lower house, controlling the new members of the wealthy. What was tragic to Saleen was that this had obviously been a move from the royal family to weaken the wealthy, and yet the old and new wealthy had never cooperated before and had not been able to resolve their conflicts.

The four empires had been built around the same time, but only the Qin Empire had gone for seven hundred years without the amount of the wealthy increasing to a dangerous number. The other three empires possessed serious problems. Sikeqinya faced corruption, Tanggulasi was being controlled by the Holy See, and the Cloudflow Empire had forgotten the glory of the Fourth Dynasty and now took part in the buying and selling of titles.

As for the Qin Empire, the two houses had been involved in a struggle, but the royal rights were still unbelievably firm.

The battle at the bridge was becoming incredibly bloody. Tenesee was at the forefront of a hundred cavalry who were charging forward in a wedge-shaped formation. Tenesee’s cavalry sword was four feet long, but near the sword’s handle was not a standard open blade. Instead, it was shaped like a rectangle. A golden magic array had been etched into it, and both sides had magic nuclei inlaid.

A few meters away, Tenesee single-handedly swung his sword, charging forward.

The enormous cavalry sword shot out a burst of dark purple flame. It was over ten meters long and landed right between the more than thirty soldiers at the foot of the bridge. Five soldiers were cut directly by this burst of flame, their entire bodies producing a burning smell as green smoke emerged from their armor. All five of them landed on the floor with a thud.

”It’s a magic sword, run!”

Swoosh…

Another burst of light emerged from the sword as the people screaming had their heads chopped off. Blood spurted towards the sky from their necks, which gave off a sizzling sound.

The cavalry of the Bitter Water Army had successfully split the formation of the enemy, and without looking back, they started charging onto the metal bridge. By the time their war horses crossed over, they had left over thirty bodies in the dust.

With the sound of a swoosh, a crossbow arrow came flying towards them. The light cavalry from the opposite side had been too anxious and had released a crossbow arrow too early. This arrow was shot from over two hundred meters away, and without even blinking, Tenesee increased the speed of his charge. At the front of his horse was a wind shield and since the crossbow arrow had been shot from too great of a distance and had insufficient energy to it, a light gust from the wind shield had sent it flying towards the river.

”Hmm, what a bunch of losers.” Tenesee did not even bother to pull down his metal mask. Looking at the over two hundred light cavalry soldiers across the other bank, he swung his cavalry sword, ready for a second attack.

The army general on the foot of the bridge was shocked. Although Hadisai City’s soldiers had undergone tough training, in the seven hundred years since the empire had been formed, they had never seen such horrifying killings so far inland. Even before the hundred cavalry soldiers could charge towards them, an aura of death had already enveloped the two hundred light cavalry soldiers to the east of the bridge.

The hooves of the horses stepped onto the metal bridge, giving off a hurried thudding sound. The army general did not even stop to consider it before he took off and fled. Even though the opponents were not truly heavy cavalry, all of their armor seemed to be magic armor, especially the sword which seemed like a fire dragon. His confidence had been utterly destroyed.

The earl had only planned on humiliating them. Who would have expected such an outcome?

Without their commander, all two hundred light cavalry soldiers instantly scattered in all directions, as if they were an ant nest that had been disturbed.

Tenesee had lost his cool. He had possessed no intentions of slaughtering the enemy. The enemy to the west of the bridge had been disrespectful to the viscountess. Hence, he had killed them. However, the people on the eastern side had not even tried to defend their territory. They were the shame of all soldiers.

It did not cross his mind that these soldiers had trained in sheltered environments. How could they be compared to the Bitter Water Army? The swordsmen of the Bitter Water Army had undergone their training outside, some even as far out as the Tanggulasi Empire. They had blood on their hands. Killing bandits did not even need to be mentioned, and some had even killed high-grade magic beasts and possessed an unbelievable wealth of experiences in combat.

Even for the late Loki, the team that he had led had managed to kill a green dragon. Even though they were the weakest of the dragon clan, dragons could fly and there was a certain difficult when it came to killing them. Many mercenary groups with mages had also had trouble defeating the crafty green dragon.

Tenesee gently kicked the belly of his horse, and the horse cocked its head and started charging towards the escaping soldiers. Tenesee gave his cavalry sword another swing and another column of flame ten meters long spewed out again. This kind of attack was very effective against a direct defense formation. However, it was relatively ineffective against escaping soldiers. Having expanded the magic of his cavalry sword, Tenesee gave a loud cry and the cavalry behind him spread out, moving towards the sides.

Against enemies that had already given up, strategy did not really need to be discussed. So long as they had a chance of living, these light cavalry soldiers would never have the guts to stop and fight back. The over hundred cavalry soldiers sheathed their cavalry swords, taking out their short spears and throwing them instead.

Only after chasing for a few miles and killing over fifty men did Tenesee stop. Even though he despised the enemy, Tenesee did not dare chase them too far. In any case, Hadisai City was too close by and the enemy was a Grade 1 earl. He still had the ability to command thousands of swordsmen.