467 Torn City Part 1 (1/2)

The eunuchs in Cloudflow did not have much rank. This eunuch looked arrogant, if Bifano wanted to kill him directly, he could. Bifano waved his hand as a bodyguard rushed forward and brought the eunuch on the horse in front of Bifano.

One of them took out a short sword and placed it at the eunuch's neck.

”I ask, you answer. If you don't, I will kill you. If you answer too slow, I will kill you. If you answer wrong, I will kill you. If you lie, I will kill you. If I think you are lying, I will kill you. Do you understand?”

The eunuch struggled a little, but there was no fear. He laughed coldly and said, ”Do you think people like me are afraid of death?”

”What happened to my father?” Bifano did not care what the eunuch had to say as he started questioning.

”He escaped. The emperor was mad and had sent people into Titan Duchy. Do not think you are much, I am no different from you now, we will both die soon.”

Bifano knew that this eunuch was stubborn but he did not want to die, so he continued asking, ”How many people have come to Cloudflow?”

”When I left, the emperor had already sent two vanguard forces.”

”Vanguard forces? They actually used the royal swordsmen?!” Bifano was shocked. There were soldiers stationed at Titan Duchy. To take down the Agares family, one could just use these soldiers. The royal swordsmen were one of the few strong infantry troops in Cloudflow, the other elites were at sea.

Once the vanguard forces were deployed, there would be at least thirty-thousand people going after. There were less than ten-thousand elites in the capital. Sending out half of them at once, were they not afraid that the local warlord would do something wicked?

There were twelve camps worth of soldiers in Cloudflow Empire and there were one-hundred and twenty-thousand people in the main forces. Among them, twenty-thousand took turns to station outside. Each rotation was three years and it maintained their combat powers. There were less back up troops in Cloudflow and the capital counted on the royal swordsmen's camp soldiers to protect them. Even though there were twenty-four other camps worth of soldiers, they were stationed in other counties near the capital. If something were to really happen, they would take half a month to all assemble.

There were certain risks as to what the Emperor of the Cloudflow Empire had done.

”Bifano, the Gauss family has been toppled by the emperor. He has prepped and assembled an army of two-hundred-thousand people. Do you think you can still hold on to Titan Duchy?”

”The Gauss family has fallen?!” Only now did Bifano's face turn pale. The Gauss family was the strongest force in the empire and even the capital could not do much to them. After the new emperor had ascended the throne, over the decades, he had been trying to fix down policies. The Gauss family had conquered two large counties near the sea and were said to even have a secret island in the sea to nurture slain warriors.

Whether it was wealth, power, or the connections with the wealthy from other places; they were not necessarily any weaker than the royal palace.

Since Emperor Jupiter had ascended the throne, he had always given off an incompetent look. Who knew it was all a show? To be able to topple the Gauss family, Emperor Jupiter might have started planning even before he ascended the throne.

Bifano looked at the stone statue castle from afar, it was so tall that it went high up into the clouds. Its peak was right within a cloud of mist and could not be seen.

The emperor knew his tracks and even the Pink Army knew where he was too! Bifano started suspecting himself in the moment, would he still have a chance to make it? Were the bodyguard around him spies of Emperor Jupiter too?

Impossible! The bodyguards from the Agares family were chosen from the most loyal people. They had been following the Agares family for many generations. No matter how special Emperor Jupiter was, he could not make these bodyguards betray him.

”Kill him.” As Bifano gave his command, the short sword of one of the bodyguards had entered the eunuch's neck. With a squeeze, fresh blood spurted onto the ground.

There was another forty man team behind the eunuch. They were the defenders of the stone statue castle. Seeing Bifano killing the follower of the emperor, they were sent into a flutter as they started escaping towards the stone statue palace.

It was over a mile away from the stone statue palace and Bifano made a sign. Immediately, another small team of his bodyguards started chasing them on the horses. Releasing arrows, they shot down the soldiers one by one from their horses.

Bifano rode his horse beside Lex's chariot and said softly, ”Viscountess.”

Lex was in the chariot and she saw everything clearly. It was impossible to hoodwink their way into the stone statue palace now. Bifano had come to ask for help,

”Saleen, what do you think?”

”If you are confident then let's take action, if not we will go around it.”

Lex considered carefully before saying to Bifano outside, ”Let's retreat a few miles first and let me calculate.”