My Villains Episode 333
58. Reunion (2)
Lightning strikes and burns everywhere, dragon knights and swarms of locusts roam the night sky, and soldiers’ screams and shouts hit the eardrum.
Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
With the sharp cries of the wyverns added to it, the already chaotic campsite was a mess.
“Gather!”
In a situation where it was difficult for anyone to stay calm, the young baron Ruyan of Delhi Road shouted in a clear voice.
The fire rain was still pouring down, but the boy strode as usual with his back straight. It was a confident attitude, as if he was sure that this disaster would escape him.
“How long are you going to keep your head down! Wake up and gather-!” He ran wild with his sword gripped, but the confusion seldom subsided. The soldiers who wielded blankets or capes to put out the fire were better off, and there were also those who trembled in fear or ran away.
“You cowards!”
While gritting his teeth, Ruyan spotted a soldier hiding in a half-collapsed tent, strode through the raging flames and snatched him by the scruff of the neck.
“Walen!”
“Hee-ik-lord!”
“Take a crossbow and jump out!”
“Oh no! I-”
“Shut up and wake up! Before I shove a knife through your ass!”
As Luyan thrust the sharp blade, a young soldier named Wallen trembled and picked up a crossbow and quiver.
The boy lord looked out of the tent and picked up a nearby water jug and splashed it on the soldier.
“Ughhhhhh!”
A soldier who had been baptized with cold water in the middle of winter shuddered and sprayed steam. However, Ru Yan didn’t care and kicked him in the butt, and the soldier managed to keep his balance and threw himself through the flames.
That’s how Ruyan went looking for his soldiers one by one, punching and kicking them.
how much for that Soldiers brought from Cheddar Castle and mercenaries hired from Lianwell, as well as stragglers who had lost their superiors during the uproar, flocked to him.
“It’s dangerous, Baron!”
A middle-aged knight who was taking care of his subordinates nearby shouted in fright when he saw the soldiers gathering around Luyan.
“Spread the soldiers! If something like a jar of oil falls again, we will be massacred!”
“Don’t be stupid, look up sir.”
The boy lord pointed his sword at the sky. The locusts summoned by Marquis Eavon’s battle wizard Raff were slowly dispersing, and the dragon knights were roaming the sky and not coming down to the ground.
“See? Their mission is now complete. The real attack will come soon.”
“What-”
“The troopers are coming!”
Ruyan continued to shout as he climbed a lone elm tree in the field.
“If you spread out in a daze, you will become prey for the cavalry! So, join the soldiers under your command!”
Leaving the knight with a worried expression behind, the boy climbed up to the middle of the tree and looked around. Thanks to the flooding light, the campground spread out around the road between the hills was as bright as daylight.
“Orrendae!”
On the left, Utequai, the ‘red bear’, was roaring as he stared into the night sky.
Perhaps he had run out of wood or rocks to throw, and he was wielding a chain whip engulfed in flames. However, the length seemed far too short to reach the Wyverns.
Next to the angry savage stood a man covered in dark red scales.
‘Is that… a woman?’
The scaled armored monster, who was clearly female by looking at the clearly fluctuating curves, was watching the dragon knights with only a translucent bladed dagger drawn.
The exact reason could not be explained, but the appearance of the monster gave off a somewhat eerie atmosphere.
While Lu Yan swallowed dry saliva, Phoenix’s men were busy moving and preparing for battle.
Although they were small in number, they were among the most elite in the camp. This was because most of the members, including Confier, who was serving as a commander there, were skilled mercenaries.
‘The left side should be fine.’
The young lord quickly shook his head and looked away.
The camp was full of soldiers wandering around. Most of them were conscripts who used to eat the ground, so they couldn’t easily get out of the chaos of the night raid.
However, in the middle of the camp, the area where Count Osu and the Ariaga family soldiers were stationed was in a state of calm.
Well, starting with the soldiers, they are elites that cannot be compared with other armies.
In addition, due to the magicians’ activities, they were less damaged by the air raids of the dragon knights, and the golden age knights and generals such as Macneil were keeping their positions as the aides of Earl Os. No wonder the confusion quickly subsided.
“…also.”
Ariaga’s privates took off the wheels from the supply cart and set up a giant spear made of wooden stakes. It was clearly prepared for a cavalry attack, and messengers were running here and there to see if it was to be delivered.
Ruyan screamed again with his half-drowned throat.
“Gather here! Bloodmane mercenaries are coming! Gather!”
When he repeated the command three or four times, the soldiers gathered around him also shouted in unison.
“Gather! The Bloodmane mercenaries are coming!”
The soldiers wandering around the camp began to gather at the sound. Subsequently, the soldiers, led by Lu Yan’s men, packed up their spears and prepared crossbows.
Ruyan, who was observing the situation, raised his head and looked around.
‘Knights. Where are the knights?’
Immediately after entering the plateau, Lu Yan recalled that General McNeil had taken an unusual action.
‘Except for those in charge of command or escort, we gathered all the knights together and put them to sleep every night. I must have prepared for this situation.’ Young Joo, who was looking all over the place, noticed cavalrymen protruding from the hillside to the west.
“excuse me! Enemy on the hill!”
As if to affirm the words of a certain soldier, a red flag rose among the cavalrymen crowding the ridge of the hill. It was a colorful flag embroidered with gold thread on a horse with a fluttering mane.
“Sort-!”
A rider gave a loud command in Gellan, and the horsemen lined up in a long line, matching their horses’ heads.
“That’s the Bloodmane Mercenary Corps…
Ruyan was silent without even realizing it.
The majority of the enemy were light cavalry wearing iron helmets and breastplates and carrying spears. But the rest were wearing full body armor, either scales or plates, and some were even equipped with barding.
‘It seems that it was not an empty rumor that he swept a great deal of wealth from the southern colonies.’
The bloody mane mercenaries started attacking before the young lord could even get down the tree.
“from now on-!”
At the sound of another loud command, the troopers covered the hill and began to run. As the number of horses and horses that appeared in the swaying light increased, the agitation of the soldiers became more extreme.
“That’s a lot. How many people are there?”
“X-arm, this is nonsense. Even if they had fought during the day, they wouldn’t have been able to compete…
The number of enemies exceeded a thousand ki, and the soldiers began to crumble before they could even face each other.
“Shut up you idiots! If you come to your senses, those bastards are no big deal!”
Ruyan was desperate, but the only ones who listened to the little baron’s voice were the soldiers who had been with him since Delhi Road.
“See those bastards armed? If you catch one, you can fix your arms! A single shot of spears will change your life!”
Even the empty shouts could not hold back the morale that was collapsing in front of thousands of cavalry.
Finally, some soldiers threw down their spears and were about to turn around.
Du-du-du-du-
With the heavy sound of horses hooves, dozens of men and horses flew out beside the loose spears of the soldiers.
“…they are knights.”
“Uh-”
The number was less than one hundred, but the riders were all knights wearing plate armor and long spears.
“Stay where you are!”
The shouts that came from the lead of the knights struck those who were about to flee.
The one who shouted was the cavalry officer General McNeil had attached to the knights, but what caught his attention was the bicorn running in front of him.
Kreureung!
The huge bicorn with two spiraling horns growled and snorted like a beast.
It was driven by Phoenix, a knight with a lifelike glint in his dark blue helmet.
While the soldiers hesitated at the majesty, the knights with Phoenix as the lead increased their speed. The points of their spears were aimed at the center of the bloody mane mercenaries spread out in a row.
“…No matter how many knights they are, they can’t do it.”
Before a crossbowman’s sigh was over, ice spears surged between the allied knights.
“Thulam!”
The ice spear shot in a straight line by a battle mage’s spell was kang right before it reached the mercenaries! It exploded with a sharp sound. Ice shards flew in all directions.
Hee hee hee –
“Kkoaaaaagh!”
“Sir—”
Starting with dozens of horsemen being swept away by
debris and falling down, battle mages hiding among the knights of the army began pouring spells all at once.
“Wizard wizard-!”
At the mercenaries’ cries, defense magic was spread here and there, but it was close to impossible for the mercenary wizards to handle the skilled battle wizards of the Arya family.
Fireballs, lightning webs, spears of power, and all sorts of spells swept through the ranks of the cavalry.
“Full speed ahead! Charge at each other-”
Even before the enemy commander’s shout was over, the bicorn, which was running at the head of the friendly knights, accelerated like an arrow.
And Phoenix, riding on it, fixed a spear that was well over 3 meters long and threw it like a javelin.
Fu-wook/
“Kkeok.”
The shouting commander and the rider who followed him were skewered and fell off their horses.
Chakang.
clear rustling sound. The empty-handed Phoenix pulled out the ‘black ice’. As his eyes focused on the cold blade, the rider of the bicorn raised his left hand with even colder eyes.
Magical power warmed the blood knight’s heart.
The boiling blood flowed.
Kwagagak-
The blood that broke out among the mercenaries made the man and horse with the remaining spirit fall down again as rags.
The next moment, Phoenix’s black ice was drawn. In the blink of an eye, the heads of the three mercenaries soared.
“Kill Mr. X!”
“Aaaaaaa!”
The knights who followed the mercenaries who struggled and cheered up silently attacked.
Like that, Phoenix and the knights tore the center of the long line of the bloody mane mercenaries like a piece of paper.
