Chapter 42 (1/2)

Chapter 42

Chi~ Chi~

A strange sound echoed out. It was as if metal was slicing through metal. The infantrymen felt extremely uncomfortable listening to the sound. However, everything happened too fast and they couldn’t grasp what was happening.

But, the infantrymen stopped moving forward as soon as the sound stopped. The eyes of the infantrymen on the front row had extreme fright expressed in them. It was as if they had seen ghosts in the daylight. Their eyeballs almost protruded out of their sockets.

Their intuition told that their bodies were totally different now. It was as if they had lost something but couldn’t understand what they had lost.

Afterward, they felt their bodies turn light and fall to the front. Moreover, they felt as if their waists stayed in the same place. It was just their upper body that fell down.

Ah~ Ah~

Screams echoed through the gates as if the infantrymen saw the devil. The front row, which was made up of 10 infantrymen, was cut into two. Only two infantrymen were spared and the reason was that the blades weren’t wide enough to cover the whole 10 men formation.

However, the formation lost its role because of the loss. The soldiers that were on the ground began to howl in a tragic manner. The infantrymen lost their morale to fight as they saw the scene in front of them.

Most of the soldiers that go into the battlefield only think about taking enemy’s life and achieve glory. Rarely will a soldier imagine that they might be killed on the battlefield. However, the nerves of the soldiers collapsed the moment they see the tragic death in front of them.

Slicing a person into two from the waist up was a brutal punishment in the ancient times. Most of the important organs for a human to survive are in the upper body. That’s why when the person is sliced into two that person stays alive and conscious for a good time before death.

The infantrymen on the back rows saw what had happened to their companions. The image was left in their minds. Some of them went through a mental breakdown as they knew that the next to be cut were them.

The battlefield is always bloody but you would rarely see such a massacre. At most, the head of the soldier would be chopped off and the person would die on the spot.

In addition, the heavy infantrymen would never think that they would be cut through their waist because of their heavy armors and shields. Even a powerful warrior who cultivated battle energy would face difficulties had he wanted to cut off a heavy infantryman.

But the Glaive Throwers could accomplish it very easily.

The armors and shields of the heavy infantry were very thick but it was relative to the armor of the light infantry. If the armor and shields were made of full of iron then few would be able to move on the battlefield.

Their shields were very strong but were not made of iron. If it had been made of iron then it would weight around 300 to 400 kilograms. You need to have herculean strength to move with them, let alone fighting against an enemy.

The shields of the heavy infantry were in fact made out of wood. The surface of the shields was inlaid with metal and copper nails that conventional weapons couldn’t break through— but Glaive Throwers weren’t conventional weapons.

The blades were able to slice through the first row and pierce the waists of the infantrymen on the second row. The blades couldn’t cut through the waists of the second row of the infantrymen but the painful howls of those men were much worse than the ones that were completely cut.

They didn’t have time to recover as grunts rapidly put the second blades onto the Glaive Throwers.

Chi~ Chi~

The same sounds echoed again as two more rows of heavy infantrymen were cut off from their waists.