Chapter 294 (1/2)

Chapter 294

Xiao Yu had lots of people who had surrendered and prisoners too. In addition, there were treasures and wealth that he was taking back with him to the Lion territory. That’s why the movement of the caravan was much slower than usual. Nevertheless, Xiao Yu didn’t let anyone rest until they reached the Lion city. He sent Hippogryph Riders to investigate the surroundings before they reached the city. Additionally, he sent two Hippogryph Riders to check if there was anything wrong within the Lion city. Finally, they reached the Lion city. At the same time new information was received about the location of Kennedy family’s army. They were just 100 miles away from the Lion city.

“Fortunately, I caught up on time.” Xiao Yu cleaned the sweat off his forehead. Everyone entered the city and Xiao Yu ordered them to begin to make preparations for the city defense.

Xiao Yu wasn’t planning to order the civilians from the nearby villages and farms to enter the Lion city like the last time when Subaru had attacked. He didn’t want to implicate them in this war. The last time, Subaru could kill them if they were outside but Kennedy family’s army wouldn’t kill civilians. The whole continent would go against them if they did such atrocities. The rivals of the Kennedy family wouldn’t let go of such a chance either. Nicholas of the Ernst family would be the first to move in such an occasion.

Xiao Yu was sure that Nicholas was hiding somewhere close to the Lion city and waiting for the perfect opportunity too. He asked about the recent situation near the Lion city from Mu Lee.

Mu Lee replied: “There isn’t much going on.. It’s just there have been few villages that have been harassed by undeads.. They have wounded a lot of people.. I took soldiers and went to fight them but couldn’t catch them.”

Xiao Yu pretended to be surprised as he lsitened to Mu Lee’s speech: “Is that so? Are there undeads in my terrtiory? Damned creatures of the night! We have paladins and priests in here and these undeads dare to attack my territory?! It’s alright thou… I brought back amulets of light from the Western Cloud Empire. They can fend off the evil spirits, ghosts and undeads… Affix one amulet per village and those undeads would no longer dare to harass them.”

“Is there such amulets and talismans? Awesome..I’ll make sure that all the villages have them.” Mu Lee turned happy the moment he heard Xiao Yu’s response.

He didn’t know that these were the smoke bombs given by Xiao Yu. Actually, Xiao Yu was planning to use undead troops but he had disguise them somehow. Xiao Yu would be the first suspect if the undeads assaulted his enemies but not his own territory. It may lead to some people come for detailed investigation. As a result, Xiao Yu made sure that the undeads attacked his territory first before any large-scale movement. Xiao Yu could suppress the argument of others if he said that the undeads stopped harassing his villages after the amulets. In short, we have amulets and undeads stay away from us… You don’t have amulets and the undeads kill you.

Xiao Yu was aware of the strength of undead troops from the game. They were very powerful when they were properly used. The undeads were much more powerful at the times of night. The terrifying atmoshpere created by the undeads at the nights was perfect for assaulting large armies. Xiao Yu ordered Leah to give Mu Lee the amulets. In fact, even Leah didn’t know what those amulets were.

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“What about the mechanical puppets?” Xiao Yu asked.

“We haven’t opened them yet.. We don’t want to use force as we are afraid that we will break them.” Mu Lee was extremely shocked about the mechanical puppets too. What would happen if this kind of things appeared on the battlefield? He knew that if Xiao Yu didn’t capture those puppets by accident then the Lion city was going to face huge losses. Xiao Yu nodded and called Foror to research them. It was a bit late for research at the moment as the Kennedy family troops were at the “doors” of the Lion city.

Xiao Yu was focused on arranging and deploying the fortifications for the defense of the city when one of the guards ran over and reported: “Lord, there is someone outside who has come to visit you.”

“Who?” Xiao Yu was surprised as no sane person would come to visit him at this time.

“He is called Higgins.. He says that he is friend of Master Alma.” The guard replied.

“Higgins? Master Alchemist Higgins?” Xiao Yu almost jumped up because of excitement. Master Alma had promised to refer his good friend to come to Lion city. Actually, Xiao Yu was planning to make a visit to the alchemist but it turned out that the alchemist had come faster than himself. Xiao Yu had lots of good materials that he had collected in the Undercity but he didn’t have any alchemist by his side. As a result, he had kept all of them in the warehouses.

The tide of the war would turn to Xiao Yu’s advantage if the alchemist could help him refine the Necromancer’s Essence into Magical Explosive Arrows.