Chapter 6 (1/2)
Ch-6 The Clan
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As Li Cha was looking at the distant Asian mountains, he learned that his father is truly a great person.
Asian mountain range is located inside the distant peninsular region, having a population exceeding over hundred thousand. Cities had been constructed as per the shape of peninsula. Northwest region is the tallest, while the southward region is imitating an arc stretching upto the Apennine sea, comprising groups of islands scattered like stars in the sky. Long and narrow band shaped cities were as if resting inside a large beast, quietly creeping between water and sky. Houses, streets and roads had been constructed in an orderly fas.h.i.+on. Twenty meter high city wall surrounds the city in a circular manner, protecting the citizens inside. Outside the city, there is vast agricultural territory. Wide Lain river pa.s.ses through the city and empties into the Apennine sea, providing a never ending water source to the endless agricultural lands.
Asian Mountain city has a small mountain inside it, the world famous Blackrose castle is constructed precisely on top of this small mountain. It is a magnificent and gigantic structure which can easily accommodate upto more than three thousand soldiers. On every corner, above the roof of high standing towers, large and everlasting stone throwers are looking down upon the city. However, from the time of establishment of Blackrose castle, these stone throwers had never been put into use. Although, in the past, the city below had been attacked by the enemies, but they were able to advance at most up to the city walls only, thereafter forced to disperse.
Black rose castle’s defense is very advanced, however if we talk about the construction design, it is already at the very peak. Overall it is constructed according to ‘fort within fort forming complex nucleus stronghold’ type construction. At any time, it is possible to extend a shooting platform from watch towers or city walls up to the city gate, pa.s.sing through like a tunnel. No less than five hard and unique sluice gates are established inside, attaining a depth of ten meters. Furthermore, lots and lots of eyes have been deployed which cannot be seen directly.
When black rose castle had just been constructed, it had a reputation of requiring only a thousand qualified soldiers to defend. Under sufficient reinforcements, breaching it was absolutely impossible.
Many travelers with all sorts of ident.i.ties had come to this city in the past, all of them bearing the same cause. After seeing this odd monster controlling the city from above, they had no choice but to acknowledge the architect of Black Rose castle as well as crazily praise him. Once, a n.o.ble general who was unwilling to disclose his name and surname was invited to the castle to bypa.s.s the defense mechanisms in front of him for a drill. The conclusion was, even if a batch of fifty thousand soldiers along with heavy besieging equipment are dispatched, taking down the castle would still require to pay a disastrous cost.
However she had never truly endured the flames of war before, because there had never been a castle lord who prefer defence. If soldiers are in absolute disadvantage, they are even more willing to pick unbounded plains or deep mountains as the field of action and moreover they would be always victorious.
Even if entire Divine Alliance is taken into account, insanity of Archimonde clan is known to everyone without any exception.
No one is willing to fight with a madman. What’s more is, within this crazy family, several geniuses will always appear from time to time. Once, the biggest enemy of Archimonde clan, Duke Joseph of Lei Nong peninsula regretfully said “When a madman and a genius combine together, the ability to bring forth destruction is not added together, instead is multiplied.”
When Duke Joseph spoke these words, his main force of twenty thousand was just beaten by ten thousand elites of Archimonde clan in a very long and cruel battle. The force escaped did not even amount to two thousand. Moreover, forces under the command of ‘son of iron’ Joseph is anything but ordinary, being ranked among the top grade forces of entire continent.
Going through a development of several hundred years, members of Archimonde clan include two marquis and seven counts, not to say, viscounts and barons are as many as dogs and the difference between them is also not much. Territory owned adding up to be over hundred thousand square kilometer. If entire divine alliance is considered, Archimonde clan’s history is not considered that long, however their strength is definitely not weak. It is one of the factions that hold the balance of power. Only thing odd is that, if it was any other family with this much n.o.bility present, a Duke would have already appeared or possibly even an Archduke. However the highest grade of n.o.bility present in Archimonde clan is merely Marquis. It must be known that what Archimonde clan doesn’t lack the most is precisely the military power and strong people. They have formidable magicians, high grade soldiers and even many professionals of all kinds of bizarre categories such as dragon-veined magicians, infernal knights, shadow priests and whatnot. Nuo Lan De continent is not at peaceful all, even saying that ‘flames of war is burning all over’ is pretty normal. Fraction of the territory of continent occupied by Human race is not even half, being always engaged in war with numerous other races, fighting for the existing s.p.a.ce.
The degree of ‘eagerness to fight’ of humans is perhaps not less than that of fiends. They not only fight with different races, but also fight endlessly within themselves. The flames of war are not only burning in just Nuo Lan De continent, but have also propagated up to the deepest parts of oceans as well as many different planes.