Volume 3, Chapter 193: Razuel Defensive Battle (3/3)
The army of Elrain Kingdom gradually retreated.
As black smoke spread everywhere, the goblin army looking to hunt the retreating army appeared.
“They want to run,” Gi Za Zakuend turned to the king beside him as he laid low in the meadow.
“Follow Gi Ji Arsil and crush them. Don’t put the efforts of Gi Jii’s squad to waste.”
Gi Ji and Gi Za silently nodded.
The goblins advanced as if stitching tall grasses. Before them was none other than the retreating human army that had gathered their wounded. Unfortunately for them, because the goblins took a large detour to the right, they failed to notice the looming threat.
“GURUUuuuAAaaA!”
The goblin king’s great howl shook the heavens and the earth, and in that instant, for just a moment, the humans stopped. It was at that very moment that spells came raining down from Gi Za and his druids, while Gi Ji Arsil led his assassins to charge straight into the enemy forces.
The humans hit by the druids’ spells were nothing short of miserable. Without even the opportunity to eek out a cry, winds of blade tore them apart, while bullets of water broke their legs. Only a few spells were casted when they stopped, but Gi Ji Arsil’s surprise attack came right after.
To make things worse, the clever goblins tried to confuse the humans even more, as Gi Ji’s squad ran in between the humans that stopped. Gi Ji and his squad of assassins never stopped moving. As a result, even the wounded of the humans had to take a good look at their surroundings to figure out what was going on, and when they tried to attack the goblins, they were utterly destroyed by the goblins under the direct control of the king.
The goblins under the direct control of the king were the wounded goblins from the last battle, who were all under the lead of Gi Go Amatsuki and Rashka, the chief of the Gaidga, though the latter acted by himself.
Although they were only goblins, having two individuals possessing strength just below the king’s left the crowded and immobile humans with no choice but to be crushed.
In the blink of an eye, Gi Go Amatsuki’s curved blade cut down three humans, while Rashka’s powerful blow crushed the humans along with their helm, and every swing of the Goblin King’s blade clad in the black flames of the underworld sent human limbs flying into the air.
“Onwards! Don’t stop until we tear them through!”
As the goblin king led the charge, the crippled goblins followed, blood flowing down their hastily made prosthetics, and there were even those missing an arm or two among them. Yet the goblins cried and bellowed as the Goblin King led, bringing their morale up a level. They reached out their spears and buried them into the backs of the retreating humans, while they used their swords to slit the necks of those who dared stand their ground.
An armless goblin jumped at a man and tore apart his neck with his jaws. A goblin with a spear lodged into his chest took his own spear
and penetrated a man before passing. The goblins who fought with no regard for their lives struck fear into the heart of the humans, causing them to fall further into panic.
Desperate to return to the capital, the humans abandoned all of their possessions as they ran back to the capital of the kingdom.
The retreating Army of the Elrain Kingdom with 5000 wounded soldiers took on a one-sided beating due to the Goblin King’s surprise attack.
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On the other hand, Saldin who had assumed the position of the rearguard and sought to retreat from the encampment while trying to avoid any surprise attack from the goblins under the blanket of the thick black smoke, was unaware that the goblins had already attacked.
Saldin continued to encourage his soldiers as they gradually retreated.
“If it was going to be like this, then it would have been better to leave together!”
Saldin lopped off the arm of the normal goblin that jumped out from the smoke and immediately slit its throat. A second one and a third one came after, but he easily killed them too.
Saldin divided the soldiers into small groups and had them retreat one by one. Saldin has always had a sketchy personality, so Brandika had some high-ranked officials from Elrain Kingdom accompany him, but with half of those having gone back ahead due to infighting, his original personality was starting to show.
That bandit-like character of Saldin where he would mercilessly kill anyone who fled was back.
“Kill anyone who runs!”
Saldin said as he cut down the soldier before him who tried to retreat.
“Kill anyone who runs!”
Saldin said as he mercilessly cut down the retreating soldier before him without hesistation.
Like that fear gripped the heart of the soldiers and kept them from moving.
Saldin chose the wildest among the adventurers and made them into platoon commanders, then they fought back the incoming goblins as the retreated.
“Don’t get scared, alright!? In the battlefield, there’s only one end for cowards! Death!”
It was an irrational thought, but the way Saldin said it made it seem so amazing, causing the soldiers to agree with him.
“Don’t get scared! Thrust your spears!”
The spears lined up and struck out for 3 goblins that came out of that smoke, mercilessly skewering them.
“Saldin!”
As Saldin retreated in order, the platoon that retreated in advance came back with news. When Saldin found out that the platoons at the back have been wiped out, he clicked his tongue, but he didn’t seem to have cared much.
“Well, that’s war for you! Focus on what you’re doing and secure a path of retreat!!”
“A big one came out!”
When Saldin heard that, he stopped the retreat and stepped out with his soldiers again, forming a line of spears.
Saldin watched the black smokes in front carefully. When he thought he’d heard a faint sound, Saldin gave the orders and the soldiers struck out with their spears.
As their spears cut through the black smoke, the figure of a goblin appeared.
When he saw that the goblin had been skewered, his cheeks twisted and he smiled. But just as he was about to order a retreat, the words that came out of that goblin’s mouth stopped him.
“Not just once, but twice!”
“Is this that goblin from before!?”
Gi Ba Hagar swung his axe with all of his strength, but Saldin was able to rely on his instincts to parry the attack with his sword. Because of Gi Ba’s foolhardiness, his posture broke, leaving an opening for Saldin to use.
Gi Ba’s eyes opened wide as he watched the blade descend. With his posture broken, he wouldn’t be able to change anything even if he were to try react. For a moment, Gi Ba saw death. On his eyes reflected Saldin’s sneer, though it seemed to be twitching, and very quickly, Gi Ba realized that that expression wasn’t pointed at him but toward someone else.
In the next instant, sparks erupted.
Before the blade could reach Gi Ba, someone had jumped in between him and Saldin.
“Bastard! Aren’t you human!?” Saldin asked in confusion as he failed to wrap his head around why a human would fight alongside a goblin.
Unfortunately, he would receive no answer, for the human that had jumped in only quietly attacked him wish his spear that had had curved blades.
It was like a giant scythe was trying to reap Saldin’s life. The range difference between Saldin’s long sword and Zaurosh’s spear scythe was simply too big.
Saldin had a long history as a warrior, so he did have a way to fight against people with this big of a range. Unfortunately, his surroundings weren’t about to let him do as he pleased. The normal goblins that followed Gi Ba started popping out one after another from the smoke. There were even some humans.
Shocked, Saldin had no choice but to retreat.
He was calm enough to figure out that if they were to be captured, with how little morale they had left, they would be at a severe disadvantagee.
Saldin resolutely decided to retreat.
Neither Zaurosh nor Gi Ba pursued them because the king had instructed them to minimize casualties. With the Elrain Kingdom’s army retreating, the goblin army had successfully defended the brooder land. But they also had to prepare for the unknown movements of the Kushain Believers’ Army’s.
“…Sorry. Thanks,” Gi Ba said.
Zaurosh remained alert and continued to look toward Saldin’s direction.
“We’re comrades in arms, aren’t we?” Zaurosh said with a stern face.
Gi Ba nodded.
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Like this the defensive battle of Southern Razuel came to an end. The goblins suffered 300 casualties, while Elrain Kingdom suffered 3,500 casualties and retreated. Of those 3,500 some were killed by the goblins, some preyed upon by the monster beasts, and some killed by their own allies while retreating.
The Goblin King was able to hold onto the border lands, as they came under the control of the Leon Heart Clan. The Goblin King gradually increased his influence. At the same time, due to all the battles, the goblin king’s subordinates also grew in power.
As for the Kushain Believers, in the end, they aided no one, only pressuring all the military camps, and then packing up to leave when the various conflicts were starting to gather together. This was a decision Vilan Do Zul made after considering that he did not want to lose his men. The Kushain Believers were achieved their goal.
As a result, Elrain Kingdom’s breath was completely silenced. They failed to invade the Kushain Believers. They failed to grasp victory during the Defensive Battle of Razuel. And they even lost many officers pivotal to the kingdom. But at the same time, this allowed the Red King to completely take control of the army. Right now, without the Red King, Elrain Kingdom was so weak that they couldn’t even function politically.
The clan leader thus came to be known as Brandika Rual Fatina or Archduke Brandika, and Elrain Kingdom came to be fully under their rule.
King Yuguno was forced to leave the political scene, while the Red King filled the positions with their own people. With the army fully under Brandika’s rule, no one could say no to his wishes.
At the same time, Brandika also extended his hand toward the Merchant Nation of Pena, and Archduke Brandika married Raksha El Pena. Originally, Pena wasn’t keen on the idea, but after losing over half of the Blue Knights, which were their last ray of hope, and seeing the prosperity of Red King, they changed their tune.
Half the reason the Red King was able to achieve these amazing results, however, was because the Red King pulled strings to influence the surviving crafty nobles.
After acquiring both kingdoms, the Red King came to be the strongest force in the south.
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Protagonist level up.
96 → 100
Gi Do Buruga level up.
34 → 64
Gi Za Zakuend level up. 93 → 5 (Class Promotion) Gi Ji Arsil level up.
65 → 2 (Class Promotion)
Gi Zu Ruo level up.
90 → 6 (Class Promotion) Gi Ba Hagar level up.
3 → 47
Gi Jii Yubu level up.
45 ? 62
Gi Ga Rax level up.
29 ? 45
Gi Gi Orudo level up.
65 ? 86
Gi Gu Verbena level up. 59 ? 87
Gi Go Amatsuki level up. 43 ? 64
Gi Bi level up.
23 ? 46 Haru level up. 40 ? 65 Cynthia level up. 49 ? 52 Shumea level up.
90 ? 96
Yoshu level up.
74 ? 76
Hasu level up.
1 ? 56
Bui level up.
95 ? 96
Rashka level up.
1 ? 17
Ra Gilmi Fishiga level up.
31 ? 52
Felbi level up.
75 ? 94
Pale level up.
89 ? 97
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