Chapter 113: Thirteenth Episode: Chapter 4 (1/2)
Chapter 113: Thirteenth Episode: Chapter 4
Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Engerbury Roulexberg lived in a majestic palace that was full of collections and precious items. To be specific, he lived under an absolute and protective rights. These rights have always been in the possession of his family and dynasty for the last three centuries. He has power and dignity that must not be intruded upon. He was the King of Deiss and also the child of His Grand Eminence the Pope Radriere VI.
Oscar looked at the young man or.... The middle-aged man sitting on the King’s throne. To be more specific, it was a person who felt extremely tortured by some terrifying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). But, Oscar knew just from the sudden attack that was full of uncertainties that Engerbury (that is the Deiss’ Ninth Roulexberg King) was the kind of king who nonchalantly treated life as a plaything.
Behind the Titan Prince, Marquis Harriens Van Rousted was already impatient. He felt that this foreign Prince should be more respectful in front of his King. Thus..... His scabbard hit the bending part of O’Neil Andrew Morisette from a position that was hard to be noticed. He knew that part of the body was extremely weak.
As expected, the effect of that his was satisfactory. Titan’s Prince kneeled on one knee on the ground. The huge sound even attracted the attention of the Paladin outside of the palace.
Oscar’s anger flashed in his eyes. His whole body was shivering, not due to embarrassment, but because of the unbearable pain. In these two months, he was only barely able to move. The sudden movement caused the injuries all over his body to tear at his nerve crazily.
However, talking about embarrassment. Oscar pursed his lips tightly! Being forced to bow and kneel to the King of the rival country could make a hero go mad. But in actuality, even though O’Neil Andrew Morisette had the actions of a hero, his mentality was far from the height of a hero. So, he bore the pain and reached out his hands to the officer behind him.
”Do you mind helping me up? I know this is rude, but I truly cannot stand up by myself.”
The Deiss King took all of these under his glances. He had a very interested look.
Harriens received the approval of the King. He took the Prince’s hands and wanted to help this hateful curly-haired dog up, but the sudden great pain in his hands made this Highest Commanding Officer of DeKTer frown.
Oscar stood up. There was sweat on his forehead. The intense battle of strength earlier almost made him pass out. Even though the Prince of Titan hated his old man-like figure, but he was satisfied with the injury he casted upon Harriens. This hateful guy stood there, not knowing what to do. He looked at his little finger that was deformed by great force and then at the heartless enemy. Even though the fire of anger burned intensely in his chest, but Harriens could only shiver slightly like the girl who was molested by others but unable to explain under the gaze of the King.
”Wonderful!” His Majesty the Ninth clapped his hands lightly. ”Now, I finally believe what ability you possess to defeat my royal army.”
”Your Majesty!” Oscar bowed a little. ”If you are complimenting, I shall say that you overestimated me because...… it was only a coincidence.”
”Coincidence?” Engerbury’s facial expression was a little stiff. The more proud the enemy was, the more embarrassed the Kingdom was! This King scanned the expression of more than ten generals of the Kingdom present in the palace. As expected, it was as if they were molested by someone, yet they were unable to say anything in return.
His Majesty the Ninth shifted his body. The itchiness of SLE hit him again!
”O’Neil Andrew Morisette the Prince, I am glad to see you recovered in health. Hopefully, the time that you spent in my country will be a fun experience for you.”
”Yes Your Majesty! I am very happy! During the time I was in bed, I read many philosophy masterpieces of your country. It should be said that is the treasure box of intelligence of the whole human race! They helped me learn of the deeper understanding of life and the world.”
”Oh?” Engerbury raised his eyebrows. As a citizen of Deiss, the Deiss King, of course, was passionate about the ideology that made the Kingdom proud.
”Then.... Can you tell me? Prince, among all the philosophers in my country, which one do you like the most?”
”Fredsine!” Oscar flashed a smile.
”That lunatics?” Engerbury once again knitted his already relaxed eyebrows.
”No! Your Majesty! There are many philosophers in the history of your country, but only Count Fredsine can be taken as the most logical one.”
The Deiss King’s expression became very dangerous!
”What you mean is.... In the history of my country, every philosopher except Fredsine are lunatics?”
”No! No! Your Majesty, your understanding is too extreme. This is also a common misguided point in the philosophers of your country, but only Fredsine was going into the right path by embarking on a journey to search for eternity, spirit and will. While the others go into a great deviation during the process of continuous and endless march and finally everything falls apart.”
Was he embarrassing our country? Deiss Ninth King looked at the Titan Prince who was chatting! An endless feeling of hatred rushed into the King’s chest.
Fredsine was a philosopher who spent his life in the Church’s asylum. His ideology was full of pessimistic fantasy and non-governmental advocate. His ”Will of Power” was the number one banned book in Deiss kingdom because the rules of power and creation of will written in this book were the opposite of the attitude of the Deiss Royal Family. Don’t even start on his skepticism and intense criticism against religion!
”In the world of Deiss, Fredsine’s tragedy is losing his listeners, audiences and witnesses at his greatest moment!” Oscar looked at the Deiss King who was twitching straight into the eyes. ”he generalized the ethnic will of the Deiss and Yaran as ignorant people without sympathy and self-centered Hangman. In the mind of this great thinker, Deiss is a God’s realm that has been demonized. He is confused by the will of the King, yet chose to succumb unconditionally under the pressure of his ethnicity.”
”The meeting.... Is finished! Thank you, Prince. I appear to have some thoughts about it.” Engerbury’s voice was trembling. As the ruler of Deiss, he realized that he had no evidence to oppose the Prince. In fact, Fredsine was openly known as Deiss’ Father of Philosophy in the whole land. However, only the Deiss Royal Family did not look highly on him.
When Harriens, who gritted his teeth, brought Titan Prince towards the palace gate, O’Neil Andrew Morisette suddenly turned around.
”Your Highness, please allow me to ask a question.”
Deiss King reached out his trembling hand.... And made a ‘please do’ gesture.
”I noticed that the soldiers and high officers in the palace wore the brightest medals in the world. They have countless medals and pride. Then why do they only have one expression? Could it be that... They were actually a wax figure collection in your palace? Or is there anything else?”
”Haha..... Hahaha!” Facing the continuous embarrassment, His Majesty the Ninth suddenly laughed happily. ”Prince O’Neil Andrew Morisette, even though your understanding is a little off with the reality, but if they were wax figures.... I will definitely make one for you!”
Oscar shrugged. As the victorious one from war, he walked out of Boren National Palace in prideful steps.
Messy yet orderly maps were put around the huge sand table. Crackling sound of army boots could be heard when they stepped on the pinewood floor that shone a reddish black. The wide oval-shaped space echoed countless anxious yet confident voices. If you listened closely, every sound represented a unit, a place and a journey! Then..... Gathering the voices together meant having a war.
As the highest military commanding unit of Titan Empire, the military’s Combat Department has not been as busy as today for many years.
Marshal Alan sat alone at the huge armchair. He had his back on the busy war strategists. He simply looked at the military maps that covered the whole wall. He carefully scanned every arrow and every building that blocked the forward direction of the arrows.
”Doom! Doom! Doom!” Every sound in the Combat Department stopped. Marshal Alan knocked on the door! Even though it was the first time for some war strategist to join the war, but they had all heard about it. Marshal Alan hitting the desk meant the time was here.
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Church Calendar Year 797 6th of the 6th month. Everything was as usual at the Blackwood area of the Northwest border of Titan Empire. It was quiet. Not even a sound of human could be heard. This area at the border belonged to the Twelfth Military District of the Guards.
Sometimes, the hunters in the forest would see the patrol unit of the Guards at Border patrolling the area. But, such scenes were already two months ago.
Green plants covered the whole forest. The aroma of grass and flowers were in the air. The birds were singing, but they were soon interrupted by something. After a while, the same singing rang again at another part of the forest.
The sunlight dived into the forest from every hole it was able to find. The Blackwood showcased its rare shyness in the summer. The sunlight made this primitive forest that was known by its dark and deep characteristics seemed so unrealistic. The forest lightly trembled under the light. Actually that was the wind! The light warm wind cared about the branches, grass and the anxious hearts of the warriors.
Looking at the faraway horizons at the border of the forest, a huge fortress of the Rielese stood in pride at the side of the mountain. Riel was a long and narrow object on the map of the Westland. It was a country surrounded by many mountains. It came about from the Alps of the south then became warm at the west of Titan. Then, it ended at the intersection of mountains and the canyon when it connected to the north of Deiss. Looking at the map, the people would realize that Riel was just like a rattlesnake that wriggled its way around. It could easily pass through the space and easily showed its fangs. When you were not noticing, it would bite you with its poisonous fangs.
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”Is it time?”
”Yes! It is time!” Duke Rigulya Steinberger nodded his head lightly at the Commander of the Twelfth Region who asked the question.
”Messenger!” General Bencil Donnis excitedly shouted! As the Chief Commander of the Twelfth Region, it could be said that the only goal in managing the army here was to deal with the sneaky yet ignorant Rielese.
”Yes General!”
”It is time. Announce the code!”
We knew that according to the military law of Titan Empire, the local region must have two things before launching an attack. The first thing was the Golden Lion stamp that the Emperor of Titan used to order an army unit. The second thing was the action code given by the Army Division. Both of these things were necessary to launch an attack.
The messenger opened the hardwood box. He quickly scanned the secret order given by the Army Division.
”Report, General. The code for this action is Renaissance!”
”Attention!” General Bencil turned his horse around. ”Renaissance!”
Almost immediately, along with the screams of the commander, numerous exclamations of agreement of the messengers broke out in the woods.
Standing on the Norchelle Fortress of the Riel kingdom, you would notice that the Blackwood opposite of you was advancing forward. At first, it was only a wood, then it was everything that your eyes could take in!
Titan Guards must have their reasons to name the rare advance of army in a hundred years as Renaissance. The ruler of the Western Kingdom had slowly forgotten the image of Titan warriors in the peaceful days. All this time, they were applying immense political pressure on the giant. They used chains made of unity to bind the giant’s shoulder. They were afraid of the giant’s iron fists. Most of all, they were afraid of the size of the giant. But, today, the giant finally could no longer take this in and he exploded!
Ten Infantry Corps and four Cavalry Corps were the sum of all elite forces that the Titan West Borderline’s three biggest regions were able to gather. Now, these soldiers who fought for the pride and dignity of the Empire stepped into the land of Riel. They knew that the Rielese gathered a strong defense force at the Norchelle Fortress not far away, but the Guards who were in densely knitted formation did not care about those things.
The military officers held the army flag high at the front of the unit. The commander of the unit shouted loudly from the left and right of the formation as he rode on his war horse. One hundred and thirty thousand Titan warriors breathed the sound that was thicker than the wind in the plains out of the Blackwood. According to the previously arranged formation, they were divided into Divisions. They walked towards the direction of the fortress one after another. Please note that they were not invaders. They were simply a bunch of avengers who wanted to return the blood debt for the warriors of the Empire.
The commander of Norchelle Fortress led the Kingdom Army to guard at the city gate. He was hopeless. He was helpless! When this General gave way to the Deiss, he already imagined the situation today, but he never thought that his only Corp would face the unstoppable attack of the Titan.
”The Titan avoided us!” A voice sounded from the north side of the city wall of the fortress suddenly! The commander ran towards the north side in question.
That was right! The Guards avoided the fortress. They did not even care about the fortress and the enemy in it. The launcher knights ran into the valley of the north of Norchelle Fortress. They were advancing with pride under the eyelid of the enemy.
”Release the arrow! Get the rocks! And rolling woods!” The fortress commander ordered the soldier on the north wall loudly. He knew the Titan down there must heard his voice, but these guys who kept their silence all this time did not mind him. This made the General felt embarrassed.
Just when the knights were quickly passing through the valley, they walked towards the horizons far away and left behind dust fog all over the sky. Following that, it was the infantry. The Division unit slowly advanced in their formation below the fortress. The Titan warriors carried heavy weapons. Obviously they planned for a long journey. A rain of arrows fell down from the fortress. After a series of orders, the Titan warriors who passed by the fortress raised their shield. The shield connected together closely and provided a good cover for the warriors under them. The rocks and rolling woods followed the arrows. The Titan warriors formed a defense formation at the outermost area of the fortress. They used their shield to defend against the impact of the rolling wood and the force of the rocks. It seemed that..... Nothing could stop this unit from advancing.
”General! The forest...…. The forest is really moving!” The shout of the soldier once again made the fortress commander rush towards the border direction.
That was correct! The forest was truly moving. From afar, it seemed as if a giant was hiding in it. Along with the slow movement of the giant, the tall tree crown of the forest fell towards both sides. Finally, six war carriages that were even taller than the city wall crashed out of the dark forest. Numerous strong bulls were advancing under the shout of the warriors as they pulled the war carriages forward.
Red paint was used to paint the totem at the top level of every war carriage that represented courage. It was two intersected long swords. In between the long swords was a beautifully curved bow!
The fortress commander cursed under his breath. No wonder the Titan guards decided to go around them. It was because his fortress was the prey of the ”Timberwolves” Steinberger!
”Prepare the rock thrower! Take an aim at the war carriages!” The General ordered in a loud voice.
”You..... When do you plan to finish the battle?” General Bencil Donnis looked as he asked the Duke beside him.
General Rigulya Steinberger waved his hands to call his messenger.
”Notify the battle units. I want my family’s flag on Norchelle Fortress’s main building in an hour.”
Looking at the messenger that ran towards the battlefield quickly, General Bencil was more or less unsatisfied with the attitude of Duke Steinberger. Using an hour to successfully attack a strong fortress that was guarded by ten thousands of people. He had only heard of such things, but he had never seen it in action before.
”Don’t be surprised!” Duke Steinberger wiped his red hair that got sticky under the sun. ”The warriors of my family are not used to wasting time on useless attacks. Do you know how much of the forest is needed to be cut down in order to build a fortress like the Norchelle Fortress?”
General Bencil shook his head.
Rigulya Steinberger smiled slightly. ”Me neither! I only know that the time has come for them to return everything to the forest!”
”Prepare the rock thrower! Release!” Along with the order, the rock throwers that were set up in the fortress square made a string trembling sound. Huge rocks were thrown into the air due to gravity. The shadows of the rocks passed over the ground. It did not hit anything. It simply made an area of ploughed soil that was enough to plant peanuts at the area five hundred meters in front of the fortress.
”Arrange! Arrange!” The fortress commander shouted crazily at the technicians, but he knew that in another fifteen minutes, the countless people of Titan in the war carriages would rush into his fortress.
Finally, the huge rocks hit the middle part of a war carriages. Along with a huge rumbling sound and devastated screams, the warriors of the Steinberger family flew into the air. The war carriages slowly slanted. The warriors ran out of the war carriages for their lives. They fell to the ground and gathered together. Soon, the war carriages fell on the ground heavily. The dust and smoke that rose high drowned the hopelessness and brought numerous souls into the sunny sky.
Without even having the time to cheer, the Riel soldiers at a side of the wall took a few steps backward, frightened. The totem of bow and double sword slowly got close to them. They could even hear the forceful moo of the bull that pulled the war carriages!
”Prepare the arrows! Aim at the treadle! Aim at the treadle!” The fortress commander shouted as he rushed in front of the war carriage that was about to hit them. He pulled the bow wide first!
Everything seemed to quiet down. Only the screeching rumbling sound of the hardwood treadle of the war carriage could be heard! Finally, the treadle hit on the wall hardly. Before noting the inner situation of the war carriage, the fortress commander already sent the arrow flying into it.
There was no launch or fight as they had imagined. Rielese faced a black mouth of cannon in panic! This was the only survivor of the cannon unit in Saijo Mountain! To be specific, it was the only survivor that was saved from the Chief Technician who was heavily injured to the point he was crippled now! Now, this sole surviving hero was pulled up to the wall of the enemy’s fortress by the brave people of Steinberger!
The line was making a sizzling sound. Soon, a weak fire disappeared into the powder filling mouth! The cannon warriors that had long hid at a floor below the war carriage felt a strong tremor! Along with a magnificent rumbling, the fortress cannon turned countless Riel soldiers who were in panic into pieces of flesh and blood. Then the enormous gas flow blew the broken debris into the air.
The warriors of Steinberger family raised their double sword and jumped onto the top floor of the war carriage after the cannon firing.
”Go!” Angry shouts turned into a rapid flow of sweat and blood! The Titan warriors successfully went on the fortress. They rushed towards the overly shocked Rielese.
A colonel arranged the soldiers in panic. Just now, their highest commanding officer disappeared into the beautiful fire spark. He clearly understood that he became a pillar of the fortress. But he was afraid. He was shaking! He saw the Titan soldier turning that fire spewing weapon towards the city gate. He even saw his soldiers shook violently as they faced the few war carriages that kept closing in on them! What should he do?
The scared Colonel took a glance of the battlefield in front of the fortress. This...…. This was probably the last image he had seen.
”Attention.... Stone throwers...…”
A huge rock fell from the sky. It took the Colonel’s shout and body away. It also took away a broken building.
”Focus the attack on that wall!” The battle commander of the Steinberger family gave a determined order.
Six huge stone throwers slowly moved. The most left war carriages avoided this wall that was about to be hit. They placed the treadles at several different places. The fear of fire weapons made Riel soldiers avoid the war carriages. They did not know that there was only one machine that was taking lives at the wall!
Countless warriors screamed as they rushed out of the carriages. They collided with the enemy and fought in a cluster. They fought at every empty space and position.