The First Magic World War - Chapter 363 - Chapter 363: 345, King of Burst Soldiers

Chapter 363: 345, King of Burst Soldiers

Tumisen, as an assassin, roamed the world unmatched and unopposed, even slaying members of the Sacred Order.

But as a military commander and leader, he produced only blunders and could never understand why what he did was always wrong and what the right approach was.

This was why Menilman sent him to assist Charles, who needed members of the Sacred Order, and commanders were even more crucial in sea battles–especially at that time when Menilman only had a single Magical Alchemy Warship.

The Beastmen had occupied all the cities in the Red Dragon Sea, but most Beastmen had retreated to a camp in the middle of the Red Dragon Sea, with few remaining in Dubrovnik.

Charles personally led the Labyrinth Guardians in an assault on Dubrovnik, where the few thousand Beastmen there only managed to resist for half an hour before completely collapsing. After hundreds were killed, the rest chose to surrender.

Charles did not waste time and immediately began the maze-ification of Dubrovnik, to his surprise, the condition for transforming Dubrovnik into a Labyrinth was to acquire eighteen naval ships, the same condition as for the maze-ification of Cappadocia.

As a port city, Dubrovnik originally had numerous ships. After the city was seized by the Beastmen, these vehicles were not destroyed. Since the Beastmen were inept sailors, they had not converted these vessels into warships; instead, they were used to transport Beastmen across the Red Dragon Strait.

Now that Dubrovnik’s ships were on the opposite side of the strait, Charles could only wait for their return.

However, Charles did not simply wait passively; he also sent messengers to Cappadocia to request a batch of warships from Senior Sister Menilman.

Dubrovnik was a very beautiful city–it was not like the small cities in Cappadocia with very few inhabitants. Prior to the Beastmen’s arrival, Dubrovnik had a population of over fifty thousand, thriving in trade and fishing. Its scenery could even rival that of the Empire’s famous seaside holiday cities like Sineas. The only issue was the South Continent across from Dubrovnik, where the Beastmen frequently threatened the residents, deterring people from visiting for holidays or vacations.

After all, the greatest advantage of a tourist area must be safety, not scenic beauty.

More than a thousand Labyrinth Guardians and five thousand Westwind Knights took over the city, but they could not fill the beautiful seaside city.

Charles only wanted to retreat to Strasbourg as quickly as possible and had no interest in managing the city.

It hadn’t been two days since the Westwind Knights took over Dubrovnik when a Beastman militia arrived from the camp.

Charles had the Golden Ram Herolf and Tumisen, the Leopard God, fly over to cut off the retreat of this Beastman militia, who, surrounded by a formidable enemy, obediently chose to surrender.

Only after questioning them did Charles learn that the Beastman camp had been divided and struggling for power for quite some time.

That’s why he had hardly encountered any Beastman scouts along the way.

The Beastmen were short on food, especially since they had taken over a territory north of the strait with scarce production, needing to support several hundred thousand Beastmen. Their food had to be transported from the South Continent, but the Beastmen there were also facing a food shortage, creating an irresolvable dilemma.

Furthermore, this group of Beastmen had already depleted all the nearby edible resources.

Even if they wanted to plunder, they couldn’t.

It was precisely because the Beastman camp was falling apart, with several Sacred Orders leading different factions and continuously fighting one another internally, that they failed to notice that a human army had taken over Dubrovnik.

The orc militia had come to seek food supplies, as Dubrovnik, being close to the Whale Sea, could fish, making food slightly more plentiful.

Charles captured these orc militia and waited less than a day before another group of orc militia arrived.

After surrounding and forcing the second group of orc militiamen to surrender, Charles started to feel a bit troubled. Now, he had more orc prisoners in his hands than soldiers from the Westwind Knights.

These orc soldiers were non-cannibalistic, and he couldn’t send them to Cappadocia City for Menilman; there was no need to capture cannibalistic orcs.

Charles didn’t have enough food to sustain the orc prisoners; originally, he had planned to convert them into Labyrinth Guardians after the maze-ification of Dubrovnik to bolster his fighting forces. However, the return of Dubrovnik’s ship fleet was delayed, and the number of orcs coming for food was increasing, which was becoming a problem.

Charles hesitated over whether to kill some of the prisoners as he couldn’t possibly let them go. If that provoked a large orc army, it would be an apocalypse.

At that moment, the ship fleet from Dubrovnik returned.

Charles was overjoyed. He selected orcs from the Labyrinth Guardians to board the docks, and the incoming fleet turned out to consist of more than fifty ships, including those of other orc tribes, transporting a total of over ten thousand orcs.

Seeing that their kind were coming and going at the port, the orcs let down their guard. Most of the orcs boarded the port, and then, at Charles’s command, the Westwind Knights launched their attack.

With two Sacred Order individuals and more than twenty Transcendent Level Labyrinth Guardians backing him, Charles quickly gained control of the situation. The orcs surrendered swiftly, and not only did Charles capture over ten thousand orcs, but he also seized more than fifty ships.

Without any surprises, Dubrovnik swiftly completed three cycles of maze-ification and opened the passages to other labyrinths.

Charles didn’t rush to retreat but instead made a selection among the over ten thousand captured orcs, ultimately choosing fewer than five hundred non-cannibalistic believers. He sent these orcs, who adhered to the non-cannibalistic belief, to Cappadocia and converted the remaining nearly twenty thousand orcs into Labyrinth Guardians.

With that, Charles’s Labyrinth Guardians now numbered well over twenty thousand.

Tumishen witnessed everything Charles had done and could only sigh in the end. He knew that humans could never accept orcs that had eaten humans, even someone like Charles, who was unbiased and harbored no ill feelings towards orcs and even had orc friends, could not accept cannibalistic orcs. Nevertheless, seeing nearly twenty thousand orcs converted into Labyrinth Guardians, the Old Leopard Man’s mood was still not great.

However, the Old Leopard Man was rather open-minded, believing that although Labyrinth Guardians were evil spirits, they were not truly dead.

After all, vampires, the largest group of evil spirits on the Old Continent, lived quite lush lives.

So Tumishen grudgingly accepted the outcome.

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Charles, now with twenty thousand Labyrinth Guardians, had a way of retreat and was in no hurry to leave.

Dubrovnik’s geopolitical significance was quite important. If he could take control of this city by the Red Dragon Sea, it would allow his trade caravans to access even more places.

Charles alone, of course, was no match for the orc camp with more than five individuals of the Sacred Order, but he could find reinforcements.

Charles quickly wrote another letter, dispatching someone to request aid from Menilman, hoping his elder schoolmate would lend him a hand.

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