The First Magic World War - Chapter 362 - Chapter 362: 344, the southern part of the continent, Beastman tribe

Chapter 362: 344, the southern part of the continent, Beastman tribe

“`

Even with Anne in a key position, Charles Meklen still had to go to the front lines again.

However, this time, he was not able to return to the Behemoth Duchy, nor the South Serif warzone, and of course, he would not be sent to the meat grinder that was Ferlanden. Instead, he was dispatched to open up an entirely new battlefield.

This offensive was named the Southern Offensive!

The Empire deployed a total of five Knighthoods, including three Sacred Order members!

Well, this does not include Golden Ram Herolf of the Westwind Knights and Tumisen, the Leopard God, because neither of them was on the Empire’s combat roster.

The Old Continent was divided into two parts by an extraordinarily long strait, known as the Red Dragon Sea. It stretched over five thousand kilometers, with the broadest section spanning hundreds of kilometers and the narrowest measuring merely twenty to thirty kilometers across. It was extremely deep; the northern shore was lined with high mountains, while the southern shore was mainly plains, creating a unique geographical feature not found on Earth.

All Five Great Empires were on the Northern Continent. The ancient Beastman dynasties were also located there, but after the fall of the Beastman Empire, the Sherlock Dynasty drove them out of the Northern Continent. They were forced to enter the Southern Continent and formed countless tribes, large and small.

Due to geographical reasons, after the old citizens of the Beastman Empire entered the Southern Continent, even though they proliferated, they no longer had the strength to launch a counter-attack.

Last time, the Beastman tribal alliance used Supernatural Power to infiltrate near Strasbourg. However, they were defeated in one fell swoop, their elites annihilated. A small part managed to escape back to the vicinity of the Red Dragon Strait. Fars was preoccupied with battles elsewhere and temporarily could not attend to this group of Beastmen. Led by several Beastman Sacred Orders, they occupied a bridgehead in the Northern Continent.

Over the past half a year, the Beastmen gradually expanded their occupied territory, continuously recruiting Beastmen from the Southern Continent. Now they have formed a camp of several hundred thousand Beastmen.

The Fars Empire naturally did not have the capability to attack the Southern Continent. Although this offensive was called the Southern Offensive, its purpose was to drive the Beastmen back across the Red Dragon Strait.

—- On the Southern Continent, the Beastman tribes!

They are a perpetual headache for the Fars Empire.

Among the Five Great Empires, Fars is located in the far south; only Fars has to face the Beastman tribes of the Southern Continent.

Charles had no choice but to say goodbye to Anne and leave Strasbourg, calling together the scattered members of the Westwind Knights. However, he did not recall all members of the Knighthood, but still left Taoles in charge of Machu Picchu. Belisa was originally Taoles’s deputy and would also stay in Machu Picchu, but since Charles had too few talents at his disposal, he had to send Belisa to take charge of the Behemoth Duchy. Dobin and Yellow Bear were sent by him to guard the South Serif warzone.

Charles took only Anatasiya, all of the Labyrinth Guards, and more than five thousand troops, along with Golden Ram Herolf and Tumisen, the Leopard God, and set out for the southernmost part of the Fars Empire.

During their march, which took more than ten days, they hardly came across any bustling cities.

After passing a small city called Positano, every village and town they encountered on the road was devoid of living people. Where the Beastmen had passed, nothing remained; the people were entirely devoured.

Although Charles also had a few Beastman friends and knew that there were some Beastmen who did not eat humans, he was still emotionally stirred and wished to slay more Beastmen.

After more than a month of marching, the Westwind Knights finally arrived at the Red Dragon Strait. Originally, there were more than a dozen cities along the northern coast of the Red Dragon Strait, strictly guarded against the Beastmen. Now these cities were deserted; most of the residents had fled, and even the military had retreated. Those who did not escape had all become the Beastmen’s food.

Upon arriving at the Red Dragon Strait, Charles discovered…

Only the Westwind Knights had come!

With the Beastman tribal alliance in disarray and at least five Sacred Order members among them, now having recruited several hundred thousand Beastmen, how could the Westwind Knights possibly emerge victorious in battle?

“`

At that moment, he thought about retreating temporarily.

He wouldn’t come back until the rest of the Knighthood arrived, and the allies were in position.

As Charles was organizing his troops, a messenger from Strasbourg hurriedly arrived, bringing not only new orders but also the latest intelligence.

This time, Strasbourg had dispatched five Westwind Knights, led by three of the Sacred Order, but Ferlanden’s frontline had suddenly become urgent, necessitating the recall of four troops, leaving only Charles and his Knighthood with orders to wait in place for reinforcements and to repel the Beastmen if attacked.

Upon receiving the battle report, Charles’s face turned ashen; how could he not know that someone had schemed against him?

Moreover, the person who had devised this tactic was exceedingly cunning and vicious, avoiding all potential interference. Count Galanode had always been in Ferlanden, unlikely to pay attention to the new battlefield to the south; Menilman’s fleet on the high seas, where intelligence was usually delayed, and even if Earl Brittany wanted to intervene, he probably wouldn’t make it in time, as he too had been called to support Ferlanden.

After delivering the orders and intelligence, the messenger from Strasbourg planned to leave.

Without the slightest hesitation, Charles grabbed a Knight’s Spear and threw it with all his might, pinning the imperial messenger to the ground.

Killing the messenger allowed him to claim that he never received the Empire’s orders, thus giving him more room to maneuver.

Even though the messenger might have been innocent, Charles could not concern himself with that; sparing the messenger’s life would be irresponsible to the lives of all the soldiers of the Westwind Knights.

After killing the messenger, Charles gave the order, “Attack Dubrovnik!”

The Beastman-occupied camp lay in the middle of the Red Dragon Strait, while Dubrovnik was at the easternmost point on the strait, a harbor. Departing from here, it would only take a few hundred kilometers of sailing to reach the city of Chaermat on Song Spirit Island.

Charles had no intention of returning the conventional way and planned to “maze-ify” Dubrovnik. Then, he would use the labyrinth routes to go back to Machu Picchu.

Once he had withdrawn the Westwind Knights, he intended to find out who had framed him, displaying the remarkable situation where out of five dispatched Knighthoods, only one arrived and the rest were recalled!

Once he discovered who was responsible, Charles was determined to stop at nothing to kill that person.

The Old Goat remained silent, maintaining his aloof persona, while Tumishen couldn’t help but say, “Sending just you alone, isn’t that sending you to your death?”

Charles replied indifferently, “It won’t be that easy to kill me!”

In his heart, he added a phrase he did not voice aloud, “If push comes to shove, I’ll summon the Evil God! Start a big game!”

Read latest Chapters at WebNovel Only

Tumishen sighed and said, “Do you want me to go and be a mediator for you? Although I’m not very close with a few of those old fellows, I still have some acquaintance with them.”

Charles shook his head and said, “This is war, this is the battlefield, personal relationships are of no use here.”

“Even your connections could be exploited by others, turning them into a trap set against us.”

Charles was not a qualified commander nor a competent armchair general, but he had indeed seen countless armchair generals and knew that now was decisively not the time to contact the enemy.

Vote