[{"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-441":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},1846294,2449,"Chapter 443: Difficult Enemy","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-441",441,"\u003Cp>Margaux\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It will be fine,\" I said, seeing my friend looking south, toward Panar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am worried,\" she said after a few seconds of silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We have received a message not long ago. Lord Silver had entered Panar to root out the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Me too, but there is nothing we could do. Here, we might do something, if the walls are breached,\" I said and looked toward Deerpond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In less than five hours, they will be in the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn't say anything to that, nor did I speak anymore. Instead, I turned to the beautiful city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The view from the tower is amazing; one could get an idea of how the city is growing. I have been coming here every week and always see something new.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Master Silver had waited for a few months. He would have been better prepared, with the bigger army, but wouldn't have had such a chance, Stena had said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you think about his words?\" I asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her expressions become serious, understanding what I am talking\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he left, he said something and asked for our opinions on it. It will shock, the entire city, the entire region, and even the continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He needs to conquer the city first,\" she replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't say anything more and turned back to the city, with the hope, that it would survive, what was coming for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It needs to, till its lord returns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stone\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang Clang Clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our weapons clashed hard as they met each other at the blurring speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is fast, and she is a mage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is why, I dodged her sword at the cost of the injury and defended against the Bone Lances, before moving to defend against her sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the most difficult enemy; I had ever faced. Also, the most powerful, but that is not important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had killed those more powerful than me, but those difficult had nearly killed me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are the dangerous kind, and she is the most dangerous, I had ever fought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are good. better, than the elder-blood, I had killed,\" she said and came at me with another attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, two more attacks came from spectral hands, holding the bone swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I dodged her attack and the bone sword but was cut by another bone sword. Which she controlled, finely enough, that it had cut the small, unprotected part of my arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hadn't been even fifteen minutes since we had started fighting and she had already injured me all over my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a good thing, that my elder-blood is good at dealing with magical injuries or it would have been troublesome to deal with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard, you had some methods. Why aren't you using them?\" she asked as she came at me with another attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will, it is not just the time,\" I replied and defended against the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using this method would be a bad idea. Especially this early in the battle. I have to conserve my strength and use it as sparingly as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike her, I can't just take the energy from the undead around me. If I am drained, I am drained. There is nothing that will help me recover other than time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is time, my dear, elder-blood. If you don't use the methods now, you will not get a chance to use them again,\" she said, attacking me again with a barrage of Dark Bolts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had experienced them well, in the last battle and manipulated my energy to create a later to defend against them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ting Puch Ting!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were able to reduce more than half of their power before they hit me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I ground my teeth in pain and hoped my internal defenses would deal with them quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had just dealt with that when I found arcs of black lightning in front of me. I swiftly move my halberd and distort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I did, my whole body shuddered with a feeling of danger and I leaped back, but still got a bloody cut in my chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is Mage Knight, her class is made of two powerful classes of their category. It gives her the might of the Knight and the versatility of the Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is proficient in using both, unlike Bartram, who was a Knight, despite knowing spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The intelligence said, her level is in her mid-thirties. It is powerful and with her class, she is more powerful at that level. Warriors or even mages of the same level are no match for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she kept saying, she had killed an elder-blood before, which isn't easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given our abilities, which make us stronger, move faster, and heal swifter. We are a nightmare, to our enemies, but someone like her counters us well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is as strong as us, fast as us, and has more abilities than us in the form of spells and skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We dread the enemies like her, who could counter our every advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I had the option, I rather not face someone like her, even with a broken artifact in my hand. I am at a disadvantage, but I have to keep fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I had lost; the entire battle would collapse, and it is already under strain, and it is increasing every minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could sense it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She may have silenced all the communication, but many other skills are working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My Battle Awareness is working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could see my army. Most of them have already started engaging with the enemy, which is coming at them on all sides. From houses to alleys to roads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is so much, I want to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could direct the army, to deal with the enemy more efficiently, but now because of communication blockade, I couldn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A lot more people are going to die due to it and the sole reason for that would be the woman in front of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My heart rages when I look at her; I want to burst out with all my strength and attack, but that would be the most idiot thing, I could do right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Giving into my emotions is giving her what she wants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, I am fighting. I am getting injured, but fighting. That is my strategy for the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am confident, that I will get the advantage in the battle. If I burst out with full strength, it wouldn't be enough to kill her. If it had been, I would have already done it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Killing the enemy fast is the best way to end the battle quickly and save a lot of lives, but I do not have confidence in killing her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The best course of action is to keep fighting as I am right now and survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It won't win me the battle, but that is what the army is for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have trained them myself and chosen each officer for this battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I know they are capable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enemy might be suppressing them now, but it won't be forever. Not again this enemy, which barely has any chance to prepare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the enemy, like her, had even a day to prepare. It would have been terrible. I wouldn't have attacked the city, even in my dreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By attacking, in the twelve hours of fighting battle; at the time, they have least expected had provided us with an opportunity, that we might not have got ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, many things have lined up for this attack; that I couldn't just say no when Lord Silver asked, despite the innumerable risks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including leaving Greltheaven with less force, than we had brought here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which made the people, who should be our allies, attack us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I clearly thought and focused on the enemy and needles she had attacked me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These needles aren't normal. They are covered by the fire, her sword coming at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The energy came out and covered me, while I moved my halberd to deal with her attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ting Puch Ting!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The armor and energy saved me, but some still pierced into my body. I quickly pushed them out with the energy, but they had already done the damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I proactively moved the energy into my body to deal with the damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is hard to control the elder energy, but I have an excellent teacher. It is because of her; that I have become so good at controlling the energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is the reason I was able to get more than one method in less than a year of awakening and was also proficient in using them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have fought many giant-bloods; even spar against an old one, but you are the most impressive one,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seemed like, they are right, what they say about the bronze giants,\" she said and cast another group of needles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't say anything to that. I had heard a few things, but not enough to comment concretely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have just awakened and barely started receiving things. The elder blood provides a lot of things, but one needs to be worthy of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than half of the elder blood didn't progress much, but some were able to reach, heights beyond imagination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is just like the class and levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How high, one could go depends on her individuals' efforts and luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, a shudder rang through my body, and I saw her sword coming at me, but I brought my halberd down, toward my legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cut the translucent binding moving to surround me and retreated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She used the chance to give me the biggest injury. A long cut across my chest, that runs bone deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is serious and painful, but better than the fate, I would have suffered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I hadn't acted on time and given that translucent binding opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would have slowed me down enough to give her the opportunity to push that sword into my chest and it would have been game over for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's the attack, I had used to kill the elder-blood; it didn't work on you,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It would have, if I had reacted even a fraction late,\" I replied, looking at my bloodied chest, which is throbbing painfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn't say anything to that, but came at me with a powerful attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read20Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",1726,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.599Z",1,"novelbin.me","064402e63127d23714a48cf76bb73161fe6eef75ffb96e8fbce1d31af3a32a87","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-442","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-440",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]