[{"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-432":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},1846285,2449,"Chapter 434: To Panar I","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-432",432,"\u003Cp>Click!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guards opened the door, and I walked inside and saw people sitting behind the huge conference table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is Stone, Cardin, Azalea. Along with four Lt. Colonels, Commissioner Julian, and Bishop Alanis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Port master Black, Valentina, Robin, Hugo, Captain Justine, and Shaman Trik.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is the only person from Orcs, who is invited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to keep the people to a minimum. There will be another meeting, at twelve, where all important would be invited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It will be held by Robin after I leave with the army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord Silver,\" they greeted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take a seat, everyone,\" I said. They hesitated before sitting down while I remained standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am sure, many of you have a question about the sudden summon?\" I asked, looking at each one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The questions are apparent in their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are going to attack, Panar. The army will leave for it in two hours,\" I announced, without wasting time circumventing the subject with flowery words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, the environment of the whole room had changed. They might have expected many things, but not this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's what I am talking about!\" said Captain Vandal. Smiling like a mad, while many others had much somber reactions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Isn't it too dangerous, my lord?\" asked Shaman Trik.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is, shaman, but we have no choice. If we don't do it, the undead will keep attacking.\" I replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if you succeeded, the undead won't stop,\" said the man, and I smiled. \"They won't, but it will send them a message,\" I replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his mouth to say something, but closed it a moment later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If we go by the current numbers, the undead have in Panar.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Capturing it wouldn't be a problem, but the undead won't fight with such numbers. They will send more before you reach the city,\" said Valentina.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is aware of the intelligence and smart enough to guess what would happen if we attacked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We know, we wouldn't be that lucky. There will be more undead waiting for us in Panar than it is right now,\" I replied, with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, I understood the reality and planned according to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Panar had sent a lot of undead and powerhouses with the horde. If we were to fight, what is present in Panar; conquering it wouldn't be a problem, but that wouldn't happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The undead have spies and they will know the moment the army leaves the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They will be sent the reinforcement. The question would be how much?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it is beyond what we could handle. We wouldn't hesitate to retreat. We want to conquer the city, not get wiped out by the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think, it is risky. We should wait, before attacking them,\" advised Hugo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is the one who hates the undead the most, but he isn't letting his hate cloud his judgment and he isn't wrong in his advice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wish we could, but this is a rare opportunity. We might not get another one,\" I replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opportunity is better than I had thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In my plans, they weren't using the forces of Panar to reinforce themselves, but thanks to battle in the sea, a lot of their ships had sunk, leaving them with no choice but to do that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes passed, and I answered, the questions others had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, the last thing,\" I said, and Ina placed a box in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By my authority as the Lord of Greltheaven, I promote Thaddeus Stone to the General,\" I said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is my honor, my lord,\" replied Stone as he saluted me. \"You earned it, General Stone,\" I said and pinned the stars and badge to his uniform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The commander is in the position of leader of the army of a single city, but now we are going to attack another city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are expanding and thus require him to have a different rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nicolle Azalea and Leonas Cardin, I promote you to Major Generals,\" I said and pinned the stars and badges on their uniforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their new ranks will show the forces they will lead and the new responsibilities, they will have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After them, it was Lieutenant Colonels. All of them got promoted to the Colonels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone, please keep the news to yourself for the night. The enemies might become aware of it, the moment, we leave the city, but I like to believe in luck,\" I advised, making everyone in the room smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Osward\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is it true?\" I asked as I took my position beside Asit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifteen minutes ago, I received an order to gather the central barracks. I was in the northern barracks as I was ordered to stay there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everybody could tell for hours that something strange was going on, but nobody knew what.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everywhere had been ordered to stay in barracks. Even those released from the hospital had been sent to barracks directly instead of their homes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, it seemed to be true,\" he said, looking around, at the army that was gathering around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over twenty thousand are already gathered, and more are gathered every second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn't expect it,\" I said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I still have a hard time believing it and wouldn't believe, it until I get the official confirmation, but I wish, with every fiber of my being, that it is true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I still remember that day clearly, when we were forced to run away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The undead chased us at every turn. I had lost many people in front of my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Friends, colleagues, lovers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't think, I would ever get a chance to take my revenge on the undead, that occupied the city, I had spent years in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am worried. I felt like, lord is hurrying it,\" said Asit in privacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He might, but it is the only chance that we might get to take our revenge against the undead, that took our loved ones from us,\" I replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are not a lot of us and many left after the first battle, but we had stayed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was in the hope of revenge for what we had lost, but soon, came to love it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had come to Panar with the Lord Gower. I hated it, but had to stay because of the contract. I wanted to serve the period and get the hell away from wasteland to the greener opportunities in the empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything had changed after the attack of the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, I would have left and come to take my revenge at the right opportunity, but this city and its lord had stopped me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are paying me, what I would be paid in the empire. I have given spells, that I would get in any big force and, most importantly, potions with emotion essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for us High-Mages, we have to do something really incredible or be really talented to get one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, every powerhouse of Lv. 30 and above has one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is also the monthly access to the legacy. This is not something high mages get to enjoy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, around thirty-thousand men had gathered, and more were still gathering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many are they taking?\" I asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought, thirty thousand would be the most. We had an army of fifty-thousands and among its five thousand are not in condition to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some had died, some couldn't fight, and some were injured enough, that they would need more than twelve hours to recover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commander Stone isn't idiot enough to take the whole army. He would need to keep some in the city to defend against the threats, that might come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes passed, and the people slowed down, to around thirty-three thousand. Thought people kept coming for a few minutes more before finally stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thirty-five thousand,\" said Asit, and I nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is big enough, but I would have liked it. If it had been bigger; the undead wouldn't let their city get conquered without the resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'At your positions,'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A command rang out in my mind, and I moved toward the position, that was projected in my mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am Major and like most mages; I didn't have a direct command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a warrior's job.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could get the command if I wanted, but like most mages, I am satisfied with the rank and higher salary. Mages have higher salaries than other people of the same rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most mages dislike commanding. We will fight, but won't waste our time with other intricacies of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We would rather focus on spells and research. We need to advance in our class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We can't simply fight the battle and advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I reached my spot and stopped beside Major Garzong. I have been paired with the man since the first battle and I have to say, we worked well together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It did not feel strange to be in the company of the orcs anymore, before coming here in the Greltheaven, I had only seen orcs in cages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded at the man and turned to Lord Silver, who had finally made the entry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is wearing light armor and has a rapier at his waist. It seemed like, he planned to come to Panar with the army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned to Commander Stone behind him and was surprised immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The stars,' I thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It should be General Stone, now and he isn't the only one, who seemed to be promoted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Colonel Azalea had been promoted to Major General, if what I was seeing was right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, were the Lt. Colonels behind her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't see Colonel Cardin and Lt. Colonel Hiren, but it seemed like they were not coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wonder whether they are promoted like these people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They stopped in front of us, and everybody became quiet. My heart started to beat wildly, and I hoped, the whispers I was hearing were true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My people, you all have fought bravely today. Wiped, the enemy, that has over ten times more numbers than us,\" said Lord Silver, with his eyes moving around the army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wish this would be enough to stop the enemy,\" he paused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unfortunately, it is not. The enemy will come and keep on coming, till we teach them a lesson, send them a message.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If they attack us, we will not just defend. We will attack as well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tonight, we will march toward Panar and conquer it. To make the enemy, understand, that there is a cost of attacking us!\" he thundered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His speech filled everyone with purpose, even I felt all the hair on my body rise up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, who is with me?\" he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud Thud Thud\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The group began to shake as our legs hit the ground hard. The response is stronger than even earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His speech had fired up everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not just the speech; it was also the belief in the young man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had earned respect. That if he asked the army to jump into the fire. It will do so without hesitation, as they know, he will be there with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read20Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",1842,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.599Z",1,"novelbin.me","0831506a21007d8ce6bb923bd7f1a2a6d9f97226534a8b25668ea4ae1b1daf15","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-433","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-431",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]