[{"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-453":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},1846406,2449,"Chapter 455: Retreat","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-453",453,"\u003Cp>Stone\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I landed on the roof of the house, which is in front of the gates of the city, on which Rynra is standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't move any further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just stood there, watching her, despite every part of me wanting me to sleep. The compulsion is so heavy, that I would fall a speed standing if I kept my eyes open for more than a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her horde is around me, but so are my people. If they move toward me, my people will stop them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only person who could stop me and that Rynra Throne. Also, Wayne, but currently, he did truly seem to break off with the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hope she didn't attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My injuries may look healed, and they are in common sense, but I am not capable of fighting her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her conditions aren't that good either. She is completely drained of her reserves, and she has used that spell to the limit, absorbing mana from the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This means now, unless she drinks a mana potion of emotion essence, she will not be able to fill her reserve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She likely won't do that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The potion of emotion essence is rare even for her and powerhouses drink it only when their life is in danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a thing that could help them cheat death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, her life isn't in danger, but if she uses that potion, she might have time to get her hands on things that produce key ingredients for that potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, it is hard to predict what she will do, and her expressions didn't make it easy to see that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I also kept my expressions unreadable and looked directly at her with the halberd in my hand while my army fought against the horde.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The armies are now concentrated on the southern side, both horde and my army moved the battle here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had a good plan. Cutting communication, hiding the undead in houses and sewers. I don't want to say it, but if not for Wayne, we wouldn't have been able to do so well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We might have lost the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the information provided by Wayne, that had helped us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, it didn't seem to be enough to make her retreat. She is still fighting with us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's why it's important to tell her, that she won't win this battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what she does.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minutes passed, and sides were fighting, with people being killed every minute. A lot of people died already, not just soldiers, but also officers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the powerhouses of Lv. 30+ aren't spared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile appeared on my face suddenly, while her expression turned bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A level 30+ died, and it had been killed by none other than Orok. The young man is really good, despite his state and difference in level, he is killing them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is heavily injured, but the priest is helping him as he kills the enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a wise decision to give his team a healer. I was not sure about the decision, seeing the few priests we have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We had an advantage in the battle, and the death of every enemy powerhouse increased that advantage further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have divided powerhouses as such, that, it is harder to kill them. Setting them to fight against the enemies, that they could kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn't have been possible before, but we now have the numerical advantage in powerhouses, with many of them dead or surrendered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had just thought that when another enemy powerhouse surrendered, making her expressionless face twitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The very next second, I sensed another thing that made the small smile on my face turn into a grin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rynra Throne\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I quit the undead kingdom,' he declared before cutting the spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it had become so clear. It's all because of that bastard Wayne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He betrayed the undead kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I really want to curse those bastards at Port. If they had told me, he was a traitor, I would have dealt with him myself before the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, they only summoned him and asked to keep an eye on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The summons might have been for any kind of thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From being a spy at worst to being the one able to provide information about someone or something or something else less serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they had been forthright about the information. I wouldn't have been looking at the defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bastard had been playing battle. I didn't suspect him, till I asked him to come to me to attack the elder blood together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, he made excuses. When I forced him, he replied directly with defection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying I am angry right now would be a great understatement of the emotions, I am feeling, but I controlled those emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a battle, and they have no place in it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the elder blood, looking at me with a grin. I want to knock those out of his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seemed healed. There is not a single injury on his face, everything is healed. The only thing sign of injury is the paleness of his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He must have drunk an essence healing potion, and seeing how quickly he began to move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's very likely a Grade IV.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even I don't have a Grade IV potion. All three of my essence potions are Grade III.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I want to drink them and attack him, but that is risky. I am pretty sure, that he had not recovered fully, despite drinking the potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might have healed him, but recovering his strength wouldn't be easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strength of elder blood couldn't be recovered from drinking potions. It needs time or those particular things, which are very hard to get.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One needs to have specific connections to get to those people who could produce them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thing is, he might have recovered his energy, but he might have his physical strength. He had defended against it with his physical body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have potions, but not enough to be sure, that I will be able to kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the traitor in the fray and the enemies coming at me, it will be hard for me to survive. Since I won't have much mana to deal with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even now, my mana is very slowly recovering. Trickle by trickle, which isn't enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bastard!\" a curse couldn't help but appear in my mouth as I sensed the thing, the traitor did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The traitor had not only detected. He is now attacking the people that used to be on his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had just killed a Lv. 30 warrior. Something, I had not thought he would not dare to do. By doing it, he had crossed all the lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The undead kingdom would not leave him alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Retreat!\" I commanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no other choice than to do this. The traitorous bastard joining the enemy, immediately made things dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only for the horde but also for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is the only person aside from elder-blood, that could survive against me. Unlike elder blood, who will fight and survive. This bastard will run and survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though if he joined elder-blood. Things could turn tricky for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The horde began to come toward me and the elder-blood did the smart thing I had expected. He made his army stop attacking, giving the horde a clear road to retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shame filled my heart for calling a retreat, but I had no choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though I have good reason to blame someone, and I am going to do it. The moment I got out, of this communication, a blockade covered the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is not strong, I could break it, but I rather not waste mana on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will need it. Since I planned to return very soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stone\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will be returning very soon, elder-blood,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her declaration rang through the city before she humped from the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her horde had already got out of the city, and she was the last one and that threat was very real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could return to the city in a few hours with the new horde coming and I will have to make sure, to them see that it will be a futile attempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Till then, I am not allowed to sleep. I hope I will be able to hold it back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The compulsion from the elder blood is getting stronger by the minute, but I will resist it. I have to resist it for the Lord, the city, my men, and especially for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I asked them to come and also this is the latest intelligence,\" said Jon as he appeared beside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had sent him out of the city toward the mages we kept outside of the communication blockade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something, I don't want to remove, for at least an hour more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first is to call our people. The healers, priests, administrators along with other people. We had brought them, but they were behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They couldn't fight and bringing them wasn't wise. We had kept back, but now we defeated the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We need them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially healers. There are a lot of injured people; some are in serious condition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are stabilizing their conditions with healers and potions we have, but we need them as, unlike the healers in the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are not tired and would be able to save a lot of lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned to intelligence and except for one thing, everything else was within the expectation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read 20 Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",1586,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.600Z",1,"novelbin.me","105e9a9698fbfbb048ae63de77ca3a1fe04d9013569f88c99285c736dea27cb9","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-454","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-452",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]