641 Collapse Part 2 (1/2)

The second battalion took a day's time to retreat back to Metatrin City. When they returned a special army departed from the city. This army only consisted of two-thousand soldiers and they were all riding on skeletal warhorses.

Saleen requested for the twelve Earls and four Dukes to send one-hundred and two-hundred soldiers each respectively so there were two-thousand elite soldiers in total. Along with these two-thousand soldiers were ten mages and the Three Kings. Their location of ambush would be in a hilly region that was more than ten miles away from western town.

Regardless if the ambush was successful or not, this army must lure the enemy to bypass western town. The ten story magic tower was on the east side of western town. When the Holy See's army saw this magic tower, they would surely go mad.

In other words, this army would only need to flee for twenty miles or so.

Besides, Lex had left behind another battalion in western town which was made up of over thirty-thousand soldiers contributed by the noble families of Metatrin City. The defense of this city had been built up for more than a year and would be more than capable of stopping the Holy See's army.

Lex's battalion would not be as weak as Saleen's army. In such a battle where they were the defending side, they would be able to display might multiple times of their fighting capabilities.

Saleen had no idea that the Holy See's army was attacking so frantically because they did not have much food left. If they did not take down Broken Blade Pass quickly, they would all have to starve. They would have to wait for the Holy See to send aid or even be forced to retreat and attack Phoenix instead.

There was no food in Broken Blade Pass as Saleen had only left behind five days' worth of grain for the second battalion and mercenary groups. They did not manage to bring the grain along when they retreated, but a day's worth of food for twenty-thousand soldiers would not be enough for the Holy See's army that still consisted of more than ninety-thousand soldiers.

The Holy See's army was also at wit's end. Taking down Broken Blade Pass was an enormous task and they expected the enemy to defend to death. Although the resistance was fierce, the enemy ultimately retreated. This could only mean that there would be more resistance to be overcome ahead. The Holy See did not pay any attention to Metatrin City and did not receive any information.

There was news from the oracles and the supreme court, but it had been concealed.

The supreme court activated five-thousand jailors, twelve black high priests, and three terrifying and anonymous men. They had not involved themselves in any of the battles before, not even when the enemy was burning the logistic army's grain.

The supreme court behaved abnormally and claimed to only join in the fight at Metatrin City. This infuriated the commander of this battle; Grand Bishop Nicholas.

Grand Bishop Nicholas and the general of Tanggulasi Empire's ninth corp could not command the men of the supreme court so they could only keep pushing the expedition to sacrifice their lives in exchange for Broken Blade Pass. They strived to reach Metatrin City early so that the three bastards of the supreme court would have no excuse not to join in the fight.

”Too bad that oracle Fycro is not around, otherwise he would have been able to flatten this city.” Grand Bishop Nicholas was thinking to himself gloomily. Although he was the bodyguard of the Pope, he was still very respectful towards Fycro. Fycro was so powerful that if the Pope did not have the three godly items, he might not be able to handle Fycro either.

The expedition temporarily camped at Broken Blade Pass. The holy priests needed to heal many of the injured soldiers. Many of the soldiers were heavily injured, but they could not be ignored. Even if they were to die, they wanted to die in Metatrin City.

The disciples only knew that the holy priests could heal all wounds and very soon they would be able to fight again. Of course, the holy priests would never reveal their secret, it was how they made a living after all. If people knew that divine spells caused harm to their bodies, no one would be willing to spend money to seek help from them.

Outside of Broken Blade Pass, a fire was raging. This was the only task that the men of the supreme court were carrying out; the burning of the corpses.

Just as Grand Bishop Nicholas was becoming depressed, the men of the supreme court sent over a batch of food. It was dried meat strips that were commonly found in the northern part of Tanggulasi Empire. Nicholas was overjoyed. With these meat strips, they would be able to survive for another six to seven days and the expedition would finally have the chance to rest and reorganize.

Nicholas had no idea that back in the supreme court's camp, the three murderous-looking fellows were laughing maniacally.

”Big brother, if they realized that they are eating human meat, do you think they will vomit it out?”

”Vomit it out? Third brother, maybe they will ask for more, hahaha…”

”Big brother, these men have already eaten human flesh. They must repent. It will be much easier to force them into the supreme court in future. This idea of yours is really amazing.”

”Humph, if not for the fact that this was an order from the Head Inquisitor, do you think I would do something as stupid as this? Theisio raised this army so hastily and did not care about the battle against Luolan. This is strange. The three of us are still alive only because of the Head Inquisitor, so we don't have to do our best for Theisio. By giving them human flesh, they will now have the energy to fight. Who can predict the future? I don't think we can take the city with them.”

”Big brother, what do you mean?”