[{"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-427":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},1846280,2449,"Chapter 429: Alchfire","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-427",427,"\u003Cp>Valentina\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'They are in the place,' I informed, Remus and Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an immense struggle, but I managed to do it. I had brought them to the place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The places weren't decided. It was up to me; I had to do it based on the position of the horde.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, all I need is the command to blast those things. Creating such destruction, that no mage or weapon on this battlefield is capable of creating or stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Ten seconds.' came the voice a moment later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stone\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Form sealed circle formation!' I commanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, the change appeared in the army. The soldiers and powerhouses begin to move from the circle thorn formation to the sealed circle formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you doing?\" asked Methum immediately, noticing the change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He isn't the only one who has the question. Even Carr, Garzong, and others have them, seeing the sudden change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the entire city, only five people are aware of it. Lord Silver, Madam Caena, Miss Valentina, Cardin, and me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We had intentionally, kept the information to limited people. If it had been leaked to the enemy, it would have all gone down to waste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You will know soon enough,\" I replied to Necromancer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at me for a moment, before his staff lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could see him casting spell after spell; I could also feel the investigative and danger-sensing skills activating throughout the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I used this moment to move toward him, but the bastard reacted fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Attacking me with Bone Lances and Zorrin's Lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike my forces, I am not retreating. It is just a precaution; those things aren't stable. One can't be completely sure, they will work as it had been intended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five seconds passed, when I noticed the change in the undead. They moved to swarm us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Necromancer is smart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He isn't trusting only his skills and spells but also seems to trust his instinct as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, he took the wrong decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sealed circle formation is good at holding the swarm. They would be easily able to hold it for more than a minute, rather than the five seconds we need.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It will work in our favor, given the position those things are in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, he had just made his undead denser. They were sparse before, but now they are jammed-packed to swarm toward us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Necromancer looked at my expressions, and a hesitant frown appeared on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whatever you had planned would not work, Elder-Blood.\" He said, and I said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have half a million undead, without any powerhouse. I will be able to defeat your army and conquer the city,\" he added a moment later, but once again, I said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no need for me to say anything. He will know about it soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pachak Khat Pachak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A huge tight circle formed. I am one of the people in the first line, fighting against the assault of a massive number of undead, which are trying to swarm us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the best outcome we hope to have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tighter undead will cause greater destruction while providing us with protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'One second,'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I heard in my mind and prepared myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am scared. It is wise to be scared, seeing how those things go wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wouldn't have used them. If I wasn't desperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The condition of the city had improved massively since the last battle, but not enough to make the undead hesitate to attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I didn't do something drastic, then even if we had defeated them, they would come again and again with bigger forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, they will defeat us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What I am planning won't stop them, but it will make them question. It will make them hesitate, and most importantly, it will send a message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only to the undead but also to others, bring the name of the city to the lips of others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This will only first part of a two-part plan. If it works, then I will execute the second one, which will have an even greater risk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pushed those thoughts away and focused on the undead in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will think about the second part, after dealing with the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Till then, I have to focus on the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Blast!' said Stone, and I expected blasted to occur, but it didn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second passed, and there was nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My heart skipped the beat. It wouldn't be the first time they wouldn't be working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes, they don't produce a reaction as one is expecting and simply turn to water or get vaporized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM BOOM BOOM\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was about to ask Valentina for clarification when I heard a sound like heaven breaking, and everything turned green.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Methum\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I heard the massive explosions and saw the green fire covering us from all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt the undead vaporizing under the might of alchemical fire and also my powerhouses, that I had been hiding, behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few were able to summon the shields on time and even fewer were able to bear the might of the alchemical fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had covered the horde behind me. Hundreds of thousands of them, burning them into the ashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had expected many things, but not this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We should have sensed it. There were tens of people with investigative skills, Dangersense, and my own scrying spells, but I had got nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was black, without even the smallest hint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had been in two battles, where these things had been used, and I felt my Dangersense blaring madly as these things entered my range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, there was nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was looking at the fire burning everything in its path, when I felt my Dangersense blaring, with all the hair on my body standing up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked ahead and saw the elder blood covered densely in bronze energy, coming at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bronze energy covering is much denser than, I had seen in the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is not for the show, the blaring of Dangersense is enough for me to understand, that this elder blood could really kill me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would kill me if I didn't kill him first. I will kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My heart was raging madly at what they had done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, there will be no mercy, only death. I will not stop, till I have killed every person belonging to the enemy and I will start with this elder blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cardin\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Emperor, save me!\" cursed Hewett, seeing the green fire, covering the horde from all sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Burning the horde, turning them into the ashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Valentina did an amazing job; she had blasted it, near the middle of the horde from all four directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This way, the fire burned the undead from both left and right. Along with the hiding powerhouses, which were in the middle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have sensed many of them dying. Burning to death, very few were able to survive, mostly mages, and even they were in terrible shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Isss this?\" asked Major, stutteringly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alchfire Orbs,\" answered High Mage Ravill, looking at destructions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I had seen them only once when I was young and use of them was so flawed, that we had suffered in it as much as the enemy did,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here, the execution is textbook perfect,\" added the old man in a barely audible voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is perfect,\" I replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had never seen them work. They were rarely used in the empire. They are expensive and unstable; empire rarely use such things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who use it are the private armies of the rich nobles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few seconds passed, and the fire began to disappear rapidly. It didn't even last for ten seconds. It had lasted for six seconds, half a second, more than what the alchemist had told us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My god!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gasped the soldiers around me as they looked at the destruction, it had brought. It is massive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at it before activating Casualty Estimator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, the numbers appeared in front of me. They started from the thousand and began to climb rapidly, reaching ten thousand a second later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundred thousand a few seconds after that and soon reached two hundred thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our most optimistic estimation was two hundred thousand, but we wanted to kill at least one hundred and fifty thousand people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The numbers have reached two hundred thousand, and they are still climbing up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only after reaching two hundred, and thirty thousand, did it slowed down a little, but still kept climbing till finally slowing down at two hundred, thirty-four thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is still climbing, but by tens, not by hundreds or thousands, like before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I immediately informed Commander Stone of the numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Begin,' replied Commander Stone, and I turned to Hewitt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Major, begin,\" I said, and the man recovered his shocked expression and grinned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been waiting for this since the battle began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only cannons, Major,\" I added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As you command, Colonel,\" he replied, and the commands began to come out of his mouth as well as the skills began to get activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ammunition Accuracy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I added my skill; the others did the same as the real powerful cannonballs began to enter the cannon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom Boom Boom\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shoot!\" He commanded, and the cannons spewed out the fire, before releasing the cannonballs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tens of cannonballs shoot toward the energy, reaching them within a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shields appeared above the undead, but their numbers were less than earlier. Many mages had died; the alchfire had burned them to ashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang Bang Bang\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They begin to land on the shields and the undead, before exploding in a powerful blast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the destruction, a relief appeared on my face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seemed like, the Lord hadn't spared any money in the city's defense,\" said High Mage Ravill as he too started to release the spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He really didn't spare any expenses. Buying the weapons and ammunition without caring for the cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We haven't even paid 20% of the cost of these things we are using.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shoot!\" commanded Major Hewitt, and another volley of cannonballs flew toward the undead, who had begun to swarm our forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though unlike before, I feel no fear for our forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The alchfire had wiped out half of their numbers, along with many of their powerhouses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it is up to the army and us to wipe the other half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the enemy had any brain, they should have sounded the retreat. It is good for us, because now we can wipe them out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We will wipe them out. We need to wipe them out to send the message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read20Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",1771,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.599Z",1,"novelbin.me","dd2f597a8589a6d6da796e9c6b390cb465825284d3102569e3d1fc797b6e7053","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-428","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-426",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]