Chapter 43 (1/2)
Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9
As midnight silently came, their forces finished assembling.
No one knew for sure how many people would lose sleep over this, as tonight’s battle would completely change Reystromia no matter who was the victor. Either the master of Reya, Negary, would clean up all other forces within the town and take complete control over it, or the joined forces of the two countries would defeat Negary and the dominant power in Reya would change.
Most people would think that the two countries were more likely to win, as they were representatives of their nations with their corresponding backings, while Negary had only risen to power for a bit over 10 years and didn’t have a large history behind him like the two countries.
But those who had known of Negary’s greatness would only smirk and refuse to join the discussions. Indeed, in both a technical and practical standpoint, the joined forces of two countries would be more likely to win, but these people felt nothing but true fear in their hearts whenever they recalled that figure.
The extreme ominous feeling he gave off that made them feel like humans were nothing but walking food to him. Their natural sense of danger was madly warning each and every person who saw him the same thing: [Danger, danger, danger. Lie down and play dead or run away as far as you can. Keep praying, do not draw his attention, because ‘he’ is something beyond human]
The only way for them to feel at ease was to surrender themselves to him and offer their foreheads. You would then no longer feel any fear, you would no longer sense any unease because you already belong to him. Would a man who lived through Hell be afraid of it?
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Chris looked up through the window at the sky above. Thick black clouds had completely blocked out the moonlight, giving off a faint ominous feeling. But an arrow that had been pulled must be released, and if they didn’t act tonight, Negary might have already recovered beyond their means the next time they meet.
As he turned around, he saw the force that they had assembled. For the Church of Divine Grace, there was Cardinal Augustin, two priests, and three Knights of Divine Grace, a total of 6 men. Other than that, the merchant Grosk also brought three of his closest personal guards.
And then, on the side that was hired for this job: Jason Todd who came to take revenge for his family, as well as four others who all wore different gear and clothing. They claimed to have stayed in Reya and wanted to fight against Negary for a long time but didn’t have the courage or power to stand out before. Of course, there was also a chance that there were spies among them.
And then there was Chris himself. As the merchant Grosk and Isabella’s mother-daughter pair weren’t going to participate, there were a total of 15 people who were going to raid the forbidden zone and face Negary.
The Royas Kingdom’s side should have been able to assemble quite a few people as well. Realistically speaking, even if the wyvern that Chris killed were to be resurrected, this line up would be able to kill it through sheer force.
“Now there is one last problem, the crows” Chris spoke with a heavy tone: “The most common kind of bird in Reya. All of them can be controlled by Negary, and when a flock of over a hundred or thousand of them attacked at once, even an army of 100 men would be instantly defeated”
“If we cannot deal with the crows, our operation this time would be doomed to fail from the very start”
“Do not worry, Mr Chris” Grosk replied: “Before we came here, we had ordered people to buy a large amount of Smoker Grass, it should already be burning as we speak”
Smoker Grass was a type of unique dry-growing weed that most farmers purposefully grew, the main use of which was to be burnt during a harvest. When Smoker Grass burns, they release a large amount of smoke that lingers for a long time in the air. Humans can live just fine as long as they don’t breathe in too much of this smoke, but birds were unable to survive if they breathed in even just a little bit. Farmers would usually burn this grass during a harvest to prevent pests from disturbing their crops, but now, they were being used as a measure against Negary’s flock of crows.