714 Elegy of Phoenix Part 2 (1/2)

Of the two-hundred or so Phoenician men that had surrendered, there were fifty or so noble families. There were also more than ten Barons that had been tied up and left behind in the camp.

The Phoenicians walked to the city gate. The soldiers dismounted, removed their armor and set them on the ground while the noble families removed the badges on their chests. All of them opened their mouths simultaneously and began to sing a song that was low in tone and full of sorrow.

Phoenix, the undying phoenix,

Our honor,

Lights up even the darkest nights,

The mountains and valleys meander,

And the rivers linger,

The flag of Phoenix,

Will always fly high and proud,

Phoenix, my homeland,

Where blood has cast,

A city of immortality,

Phoenix…

Phoenix…

The surrendering noble families and soldiers sang even as they walked through the city gates. Many of the soldiers had already broken down in tears.

The ritual for accepting the surrender was a simple one. The noble families would hand over their badges, fill out the necessary documents, allow their soldiers to be separated from those of the other noble families, disarm, and accept reorganization.

Some mages managed to capture the images of the Phoenicians' surrender and sent them back to Metatrin City overnight. The entire north was in shock when the news broke.

An army of sixty-thousand men had surrendered! Even if Phoenicians were not considered to be as resilient as the Qin people, this was still hard to accept. Huoxing City was not in the middle of Phoenix, but rather more towards the north. The lands north of Huoxing City were not even one-third of the entire Phoenix. The city in the north was not even one-fourth of the entirety of Phoenix.

It was Saleen's intention for the news to spread across the north. Then, Saleen copied these magic images and distributed them to the second battalion so that they might use them to persuade the other cities and towns in the north to surrender.

Just like that, the song of the rebel army had also spread across the entire north of Phoenix.

This was the elegy of Phoenix and its effect was huge. Except for some noble families that chose to commit suicide, most noble families chose to surrender. Everyone understood the meaning of that elegy. The bloodline of Phoenix had come to an end and all that they had been defending all their lives had been completely destroyed.

It was an undeniable fact that Holy Rock City had already occupied the south of Phoenix. Surrendering to the Metatrin Kingdom was the last thing the noble families could do.

Phoenix was doomed and at the same time, Metatrin Kingdom of the north has risen.

In the middle of September, before winter arrived in Metatrin, Saleen met with the Phoenician noble families that had surrendered. These noble families not only consisted of those from the north of Huoxing City, but also those from the south.

The army of Guderian City took two months to take down Solar City. Both sides suffered heavy losses. The Phoenicians in Solar City laid down their lives, but were still unable to escape defeat.

Many noble families had already predicted this outcome and had already escaped to the north in advance and pledged their allegiances to Metatrin Kingdom. As expected, the Guderian City army did not cross over Huoxing City. They insteasd built a huge city two-hundred miles away from Huoxing City.

This implied that Holy Rock City had acknowledged that Huoxing City had been conquered by Metatrin, along with the rest of the north.

Holy Rock City did not have any other choice. Lex had launched a powerful attack in the southeast of Luolan, chasing away a few of the Holy See's main armies, thereby occupying three major cities. The Luolan land occupied by Lex was already one-fourth of that occupied by Holy Rock City.

With such immense power, Holy Rock City had no choice but to bear with all that in Phoenix.

Cloudflow had never given any reliable replies. Even though half of Titan Duchy had already been occupied, the Emperor of Cloudflow had still not chosen to form an alliance with Qin. Holy Rock City had to be prepared to face attacks from any and every country so they must not have any internal conflicts.

Metatrin had already built a huge city in the southeast of Laiyin. Using Laiyin Duchy as the base to attack either Phoenix or northwest of Qin remained as only a possibility. If Phoenix fought with the Metatrin army, the army in the city would no longer continue to defend Qin. Instead, they might even try to help in defending against the attack from Laiyin Duchy.

It was not that Holy Rock City did not have the abilities to defend, but the noble families in the south seemed to be involved in many under the table dealings. According to the House of Commons, there were rumors in the south that there were noble families that were attempting to collaborate with people from Cloudflow. The reason was that Prince Safilos was trying to push Lex out of the picture.