[{"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-457":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},1846410,2449,"Chapter 459: Enemy Retreats","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-457",457,"\u003Cp>Ronda\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Board!\" I ordered with General's Orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, the orders followed, as the soldiers and powerhouses moved into the siege towers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle had got a bad start and a few surprises, but it won't stop us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will conquer the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We still have the numerical advantage, and we just need to show them, that we will win this battle absolutely and their biggest surprises will be useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mercenaries, especially foreign ones, will run like rats, they are. If we showed them; there is no chance that they will win.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mercenaries were a surprise. Merchant States had told us that their mercenaries and adventurers wouldn't take part in the conflict of the region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it is against the undead or people. They wouldn't send their mercenaries in here, aside from a few exceptions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, they must be from somewhere else, not that I am much interested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing I am interested in is a victory. After I attain it, I will execute that bastard Cardin and all mercenaries remain in the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I want to imprint the facts on their mind. That nobody should stand against Deepond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who do will turned to earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soldiers reached the wall with eleven siege towers and began to fight the enemy on the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cardin is there, but the cripple bastard isn't finding himself. I wonder what Silver thought by giving the command to a cripple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn't be able to motivate the army properly, which is a good new for us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pushed those thoughts away and focused on the siege towers. I didn't go up in there, nor did I let my son go in it. He wanted to, but it was too dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will not risk my son's life or mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am the commander, and my job is to command, not fight the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's the job of soldiers and powerhouses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, I might have gone there. If Silver had been there; it would have been worth the risk, but since he is not there. I rather would not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, I felt my Dengersense ringing up faintly, and a moment later; I saw a whole wall burning in a green fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Its Alchefire Run!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People shouted, and I could feel the panic spreading among the soldiers, with the morale depreciating fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's bad, considering their morale had already dipped slightly because of our slow response to their huge barrage and explosion of the siege tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It scared them so much, that many soldiers and powerhouses had jumped from the siege towers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most didn't know what alchefire was till yesterday. When it had wiped away nearly half of the horde of two hundred and fifty thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing it even, I took a step back, before my eyes widened in realization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's not Alchefire!\" I informed through Army Telepathy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG BANG BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had just done, and they started to react to the information. When suddenly my Dangersense buzzed, and I saw three siege towers exploding one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laris cast a shield and saved me from splinters while I watched in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I quickly got control over my emotions, seeing the state of my army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's not Alchfire!\" I informed them again, but this time, it worked less as the enemy had intensified their attacks. Not just the spells, but also cannons and arrows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I swatted away the arrow, that pierced through Laris's shield. Only to see another siege tower exploding into pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ram, the door open,\" I commanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's not a strategy I would use. It's expensive in spells and cannonballs, but the bastards have destroyed five of my siege towers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seven alone wouldn't be enough. So, I am targeting the door parallelly. Once it has broken, I will push my army through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It will cause a lot more losses, but I have enough numbers to absorb it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though I had already decided that once, I got to the city. I will kill a lot of people. They could have made things easy for themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would have been a bloodless occupation, and that crippled would have got the great wealth and rank, but he chose the difficult path, and he will pay the price for that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes passed and a massive battering ram out of the army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enemy attacked with spells and cannons and even threw the burning oil from above, but my mages reacted and defended against them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>General's Armament\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I activated the skill on the battering ram. It will give a boost to the ram's effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BAM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battering ram had rammed into the door, but it barely shook. The bastards are using the skills and spells on the door; I am even sensing a different type of magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I am not wrong, then the filthy orcs have also used their magic on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These bastards will be the first people, I will expel from the city. I can't stand them and their filthy faces; the emperor was right in removing them from the empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BAM BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ram crashed again, and at the same time, I saw another siege tower had exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A powerful cannonball had avoided the shields and blasted it apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'How is this happening?' I asked myself. If it had been one time, I would have accepted it, but it had happened four times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Shamanic magic?' I couldn't help but ask myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had no experience with it. I had never fought the orcs; I had a few chances early in my career, but I declined those.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe I shouldn't have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Father!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was thinking about how to save half of the siege towers that had remained when I heard the painful voice of my son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I focused on him and saw an arrowed pierced his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked up at the wall and saw the same bitch who had sniped at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She has targeted my son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rage built in my heart, and I wanted to use every mage under my command to target that bitch, but I had controlled myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing the injury won't kill him. I turned back to the battle, focusing more and more on the door as capturing the wall began to seem like a distant possibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we had the siege towers intact. We would have sent our army and powerhouses on the wall, which we did in the first few minutes before they had started blowing them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now the door is the only option. Once we are inside, our powerhouses will fight their powerhouses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is there we will show the bastards our mettle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hartis, I want the door broken,' I said to Colonel leading the charge at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I directed the army and defended against spells and cannons. Which they seemed to have in unlimited numbers, seeing their pace had not slowed down since the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minutes passed and the battering ram continued to ram at the door and, aside from small progress, they were able to move far, even with spell join.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was thinking about diverting my army when I heard the last two back-to-back explosions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two more siege towers have burst into flames. Leaving only the four.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was looking at the flames when I heard the explosion close to me. I was so powerful that, it had broken through two of Laris's shields, even cracked the third one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked toward the gate and saw the battering ram burning. With the burned, broken, and bloodied bodies of my soldiers everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many are dead, while others screaming in pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the severed hand, that had struck against the third shield before falling down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was processing it, when I heard yet another powerful explosion and, without turning, I knew that another siege tower had been destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The morale is down with many of the powerhouse injured and with few dead, while the enemy looks energetic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked like, they could fight for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They barely suffered any casualties while we were reeling in them. Our numbers are not that good, that we could absorb it without suffering any consequences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Retreat!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I ordered and immediately the army retreated, but the enemies didn't stop attacking us. Instead, they have intensified their attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are retreating. Stop attacking us!\" I shouted at the bastard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no reply from Cardin, other than that irritating chuckle and\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cardin\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the retreating army, and the burning siege towers before turning to Mage Zela.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cannons that blasted the siege towers were under her control. They were the only things that I had no control over, and they blew eight siege towers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cannons couldn't do that with really powerful cannonballs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were powerful enough to destroy the siege towers, but they needed to reach there first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enemy had capable mages and there were tens of shields, but those cannonballs broke through all and destroyed those towers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling my gaze, she looked at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I inform the lord about the situation, Commander?\" she asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn't have to ask me about it, but it felt good she asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes,\" I replied and turned to the enemy. They are retreating, but whether it is a temporary retreat or a full retreat, I don't know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We will not be attacking with our soldiers. Given our numbers, it's risky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might look like they had suffered big damage seeing the destruction, but most of the enemy's army is intact and they didn't lose many powerhouses either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could attack us again, but we were ready to face them and this time, their losses wouldn't be small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on theto read 20 Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",1619,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.600Z",1,"novelbin.me","e73d54f304832e03d0f2a131cf737e1464bd776f73bf236898e3d62f6460f67a","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-458","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-456",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]