[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-city-of-desire-kingdom-building":3,"chapter-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-421":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","City of Desire [Kingdom Building]",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1846274,2449,"Chapter 423: Encircled II","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-421",421,"\u003Cp>Cardin\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should we begin, Colonel?\" asked the Hewett. Seeing undead moving to attack the encircled army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Orders Major, we haven't received them yet,\" I replied to the man beside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We could only begin after receiving an order from Commander Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Till then, we will continue with this normal barrage of cannons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are too many undead in there, Colonel. The army would be swallowed by them in a minute,\" said the blond man with a clear fear in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They won't be, Major,\" I replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man had never fought the undead before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is a veteran of many battles and a brave man. He was my junior, and we had fought in many battles together; he was there where I got afflicted with that skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had come four months ago. An excellent officer with amazing skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are going to help a lot when we begin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orok Uram\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The undead came toward us in the tide. There was nothing but the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had fought with them twice. Despite that, my heart couldn't help, but shake seeing them coming toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Rhythm Of Wild begins to sing through my body as the earth shakes with the feet of the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't sing as loudly as it used to be in the forest, but I will take any advantage I have when fighting against the enemy, that could bury us with sheer numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom Boom Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gripped my ax tightly and readied myself to face them when I felt as if the sky were ripped apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cannons mounted on the skeleton beasts breathed fire and fist-sized balls came out of them, shooting toward us at blurring speed, holding incredible power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I know very well what it could do to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had trained us for it. Showed us, the damage it could do to us if we were caught in its blasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have a very good defensive skill, but it didn't help in elevating the fear of the cannons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the danger, I only glanced at them. I am keeping my eye on them, but not focused on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My focus is locked on the undead and the powerhouses hidden deep in them. As for the cannonballs, it's not my responsibility, unless it comes really close to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The undead were less than five meters away from us when the mages acted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang Bang Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their shields appeared in front of the cannonballs. Stopping them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made me feel relieved, but I quickly focused on the undead in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are a lot of them, half a million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We could not kill them all and it's not a plan either. The undead had surrounded us as such, that we couldn't use the targeted strategy, we had used last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we tried. They will swallow us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They have enough numbers and a powerhouse this time. They could stop any group, no matter how big it is.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We wouldn't be able to move much deeper into the undead before they swallowed it. Fighting from here isn't much better either; they will tire us out, before swallowing us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I really hope, Commander Stone has a plan. I came to love the city; I don't want to lose, the life, I had built here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first time, in my life. I have a friend. People talk to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am breathing,\" said the woman beside me and a moment later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plum of fire released from her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It went straight at the undead, before spreading. Covering over twenty undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire burned brightly as it had covered the undead. It is burning them as if the undead are dried parjis leaves that burn brightly by even a touch of spark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She shouldn't have done that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now those fire-covered undead are coming at us. They will cause more damage to us, than we have caused to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned to her to admonish. I had been told she was important, but she was under my command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She shouldn't have done that. It puts others' lives in danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had just opened my mouth when the zombies and skeletons covered in fire fell on the ground one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire had also quickly disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The fire has the light element,\" she replied to the question, I had in my mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I only nodded and turned to the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had arrived, and they were everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rippp!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I exhaled and moved forward with my men and swung my ax. Cutting through six undead in a single swing, before swinging it again and killing the other five, which had taken their place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My men did the same. They cut through the undead, including the woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though she had released another breath of fire, through the gaps among the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Burning the undead, that were behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have been ordered to look after her. Protect, if she is in danger. I didn't like it, like how I didn't like the command, that had been given to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am used to fighting alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have been promoted to the captain and with it given the command of the company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had never fought together with people. Never got a chance because of the curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Condition as they are calling it here. The healers here compared it to the limp that some are born with, not a curse that I heard all my life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My family had been banished the day, I was born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mother, left me, that same week. It was my father who raised me. I wish he had brought me here to the cities, but the man didn't know anything about the cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never left the forest. He was born there and died there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would have to suffer the same fate. If not for getting caught as the bandit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was no bandit, but I decided to follow behind them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was in need of a weapon. The one, I had been broken with my fight with the Blacktooth Tiger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I followed behind him, to catch any runaway and snatch their weapon. I had been doing that for years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once I was lucky and able to get an enchanted weapon. I had used it till its enchantments wore off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That battle had been bad. I saw the bandits getting ambushed by the humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They came at me too, and I had fought them off and nearly escaped before a woman appeared in front of me like a chilly wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her sword broke through my defensive skill and froze me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought I was dead, but when I opened my eyes. I found myself in a cell with orcs around me trying to maintain as much distance from me as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rip Rip Rip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tore through another group of undead and then another. I didn't use any skills, nor do I need to. These undead aren't worth it, not even the skills of the soldier class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I killed the undead while keeping my eyes on my company. It is doing well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been three months since I had got the command of them. All of them are humans. Not a single orc wants to work under the cursed like me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I heard shamans were against my promotions. The Commander and the Lord had gone through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not all people in my company were mine. Twenty-one new people were added yesterday, including the woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, they didn't have a problem working under the orc. A few had, the two lieutenants especially, both of them mid-level twenties, like me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their problem wasn't about my race or the curse, but about being on the same level as me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had defeated them in a minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We sparred hundreds of times since then and they had never lasted over five minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cleared my thoughts as Rhythm of Wild spiked. I looked and saw the group of undead, different from what I had fought before\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are a group of skeletons and zombies. They are bigger and feel more powerful, than the common undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Careful,\" I said to my men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They gave me the space, and I stepped forward, clearing the common undead, till there were only uncommon ones around me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are about fifty of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raaaa!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I let them move toward me, before leaping toward them. They sensed me as they let out the strange noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't care, I moved as Rhythm of Wild sang in me, and swung my ax, flashing with the power of the enchantment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am not using my skills, but I am using the enchantment on my ax. I could have done without them, but the enchantment would make it easier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Help me conserve my strength for the powerful enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt their attack through the Rhythm of Wild and saw there was no place for me to dodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, I made the space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kicked the dead undead I had decapitated and stepped into their place before swinging my ax toward those who attacked me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same thing happened, and I moved into the place of the dead undead and killed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's quite easy, compared to foes I had fought before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Freyis wolf pack is the most dangerous. They aren't the most powerful of the monsters, I had fought, but they are the most difficult to deal with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In nearly every fight with them, I had come out worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are fast and have an impeccable teamwork. Their claws, sharp as these enchanted blades, could tear through the flesh like soft clay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The uncommon undead, on the other hand. May attack with the same physical power, but they are slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had moves and some finesse in them, but I had found monsters used them with more intelligence than them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rippp Rippp Rippp!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, I crushed through the last of the undead and moved back to my company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not even a single injury; you are really a monster captain,\" said the blue mustache man. \"Focus, captain, we are in the battle,\" I replied as I killed another group of undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are everywhere, endless. Supported by the mages and the cannons, that are ringing non-stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our mages are defending, but they couldn't defend against all. I saw the damage, that cannonball did; it killed a group of humans and orcs along with undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They do not care about the undead; all they care about killing us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A minute passed and another. We kept killing the undead when the Rhythm Of Wild changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, I saw the powerhouses emerging from the undead. Lv. 30+, pre-Lv. 30 and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warriors, mages, necromancers with special undead around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck!\" cursed Captain Donil, seeing them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The large number of the undead aren't as scary as these powerhouses. There are a lot of them and the most dangerous of them all is the old man with the grey crystal staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He moved toward the Commander Stone, followed by two men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One, I had recognized. He was the commander of the last horde.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he is following behind the old man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commander Stone moved toward him. He too, had two people behind him. One is a Paladin Carr, and the other is Garzong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I quickly looked away, when the song spiked again and saw five people coming toward me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I opened my mouth to give the orders when I had received the message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Fuck!' I cursed and turned to the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All pre-level thirty, from what I could guess, with two mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lieutenant Donal, you will handle the black armored man.\" Lieutenant Azika, you will deal with the old man,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lieutenant Hasid. You will fight the mage with the fiery crystal,\" I gave the commands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could see the relief in Mage's eyes at command. He only needs to fight one mage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Commander, what about the Necromancer and Warrior?\" Hasid asked, already guessing what I was planning to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leave them to me,\" I said and moved toward the enemy. I have no choice, but to engage with necromancer and the warrior beside it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The message states, I won't be getting extra mage to deal with the necromancer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will have to deal with them with forces, I have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read20Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",2046,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.599Z",1,"novelbin.me","4fadda1976db96d2f34c61c98d885aa68e5e4233b7c61e202d24e488bf4b729a","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-422","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-420",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]