Chapter 119 - Fallen Kingdom 5 (1/2)
Because of their instinctive habits, they were following the orders of their direct supervisor.
After getting the monster army in hand, Woohyuk headed towards the capital, Tenas.
There weren't many who blocked him on his way.
Rather, the lords who didn’t cooperate with Prince Ramirez let them pass without even thinking about confronting them from the beginning.
They even gave him supplies, begging him to chase the demons out of this kingdom.
Thanks to this, Woohyuk's army was able to reach the destination without any loss of troops.
“Lord, I can see the wall in the distance.”
Leifina, who was riding alongside Woohyuk, raised her finger towards the horizon.
Capital Tenas.
It was no different from any other capital city in other small kingdoms.
A high wall protected the city, and a castle, the White Keep, was at the heart of the city.
The peculiar aspect of this city was the magically engineered weapons for defense that were placed on the wall.
‘We can see Jake’s handiwork here and there.’
Jake, the genius magic engineer.
He had a deep history with the Dane Kingdom.
It was because King Gerard II, who was king at the time, was very interested in introducing magic engineering technology.
The weapons on the walls were also invented by him.
'But it doesn't matter much to me.'
By using Jake's pocket watch, which was obtained from the Bronze Rock Mountain, the movement of surrounding objects created using magic engineering could be stopped for 20 seconds.
Originally, it was 10 seconds, but as the item’s grade rose to B, the performance improved, and the range increased from 15m to 30m.
Of course, it was a short time, but it was enough to neutralize any magic engineered weapon.
Currently, there was no means to stop the undead Charybdis in the Dane Kingdom.
“Silvator, go out and grab the attention of the enemies.”
[Yes, I shall follow your order.]
Silvator led the monster troops towards the southern gate.
Then, the soldiers on the wall were surprised to see them and fired arrows.
“It's a giant!”
“A monster attack!”
Although it was a kingdom under Dantalion's rule, monsters had never flocked to the front of the capital in this manner.
It was because he was involved in state affairs through Heinrich III, he acted only behind the scenes.
When the soldiers were panicking, Woohyuk led the main team to the forest and headed for the northern gate.
A pincer attack.
When a large army attacked one of the gates, numerous soldiers had to be deployed there. So they could use this to confuse the enemies, and attack the city from another gate.
There was no need to fight head on and receive many casualties.
There was a much easier way than that.
When he arrived at the Northern Gate, Woohyuk summoned the undead Charybdis and climbed on top of it.
“Wooooooooooooooooooooo!”
The surroundings were covered in darkness as the powerful cry of a whale resounded.
It had covered the sun with its gargantuan body.
Naturally, the soldiers were trembling in fear.
“Wha, what the hell is that?!”
“It looks like a whale…”
“What kind of whale can fly in the sky?”
It had been thousands of years since the War of Gods and Demons had ended, and the legendary monster from that era had reappeared on the Eeth continent.
The commander was also panicking, sweating, and he finally ordered an attack.
“No matter what, we mustn’t let that get in the capital!”
Boom!
Boom!
A pure white laser spewed out of the magic engineering weapons installed on the wall and struck Charybdis’ body.
But that's not enough to defeat it.
Charybdis was a monster that had endured an exceedingly long amount of time against the Spiritual Society.
'It seems about enough.'
Woohyuk, staring down from Charybdis’ back, injected magic into Jake's Pocket Watch.
Then, for an instant, a blue flash brightened the sky and the magic weapons stopped working.
“Vice-Captain! The machine is broken!”
“Fuck, get the engineer quickly!”
“Everyone was dragged to the south gate, so there is no one here.”
And even if there were an engineer, all the influential engineers who had the proper magic engineering knowledge had passed on ages ago.
After the Holy Apheriam Empire began oppressing the magic engineers, no one tried to learn magic engineering.
As the commander stood, unable to speak, the cry of Charybdus was heard from high up in the air again.
“Wooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
This time it summoned a group of sharks under its command.
They spread in all directions and randomly bit the soldiers on the wall.
“Aaaargh!”
“Sa, save me!”
Screams filled with pain and agony echoed from all over.
It was a literal hell.
The chaos ensued and the command system was quickly paralyzed.
Without missing his timing, Woohyuk landed over the city gate in a shark.
He subsequently summoned his undead troops, and the City’s Defense Force, which had been approaching from a distance to support the guards, stopped their advance temporarily.
“Wha, what is it this time?”
“Where did they come from?”
They couldn’t understand the situation at all.
Woohyuk entrusted the command of each unit to the elite undeads and then walked towards the gate.
“Do, don’t approach me! I, I'll kill...”
Stab!
The body of the soldier who was guarding the city gate was cleaved in half by Verserios before he could finish his sentence.
“Don’t get in my way, unless you want to face an end like this one.”
Woohyuk stared at the City Defense Force with his murderous eyes.
As he approached with fiery demonic energy, the men ran away from terror.
“Fuck this! I don’t care anymore!”
“I’m out of here!”
In the first place, there was no reason to devote their lives to fight for this fallen kingdom.
They were merely worried about their wives and children in their houses, and had to obey the orders of the demons.
But now that they didn't stand a chance, they no longer have to pretend to be obedient.
'It looks like the rumors have already spread.'
Woohyuk thought to himself as he looked at the back of the escaping soldiers, asking for help and running for their lives.
In fact, the king had left with the entire army and did not return. The prince ended up taking his place and firmly locked the gates.
If they were going to be conquered anyway and ruled over by the demons, they would prefer to be conquered by The Rhine King instead of the demons.
Clang!
Creaaaak!
After a while, the gate opened, and Woohyuk's army, that was waiting outside, rushed in at once.
“Sasageyo!”
“Aim for the White Keep!”
There was no army in the capital that could face them, because the Dane Kingdom’s army was already serving Woohyuk.
Eventually, the City Defense Forces lost their will and surrendered.
“We, we just fought to protect our families.”
“Please spare our lives.”