Chapter 1303

"Bear with it, we may not actually die! This is all part of the grand plan!"

"Bullshit grand plan, bullshit holy war—you just want to seize the chance to invade the Tianwu Empire, don't you? Pfft, hypocrites."

Those hypocrites of the Holy Kingdom—how could he still not know them?

The East possessed far more natural resources, along with all manner of ancient secret treasures that alchemists dreamed of. Being close to the magical beast regions, every year it could produce all kinds of rare resources the Western kingdoms could never imagine. By contrast, although the Western kingdoms had also developed many resources, once divided among the various kingdoms, they inevitably became very little.

As the leading nation of the alliance, the Holy Kingdom claimed the largest share, yet these things could never satisfy their endless greed.

Thus, these hypocrites, borrowing the name of faith, launched the so-called holy war.

"Our kingdom will also get a share—why should we worry?"

"If only it really were that smooth—you simply don't understand the Tianwu Empire!"

17

General Lei Dun's persuasion could not dispel the terror deep within General Taji's heart.

This was inevitable, because General Taji had personally witnessed the horror of the Tianwu Empire.

"A prosperous dynasty that has stood in the East for several thousand years—if it were really that easy for us to topple… it wouldn't have stood here for so long. You must know, they were the very first to emerge from the ancient dark ages and establish a dynasty for the human race!"

"The times are different now, look on the bright side. Living too comfortably, and you'll lose your fighting spirit!"

Take their Western kingdoms—weren't they constantly fighting each other openly and in secret? Battle made their bodies and wills stronger, and greed taught them to know what to choose and what to discard!

General Lei Dun knew he could not persuade General Taji, but he still had to try.

Otherwise, internal problems were very likely to arise within the allied forces before they could link up with the Holy Kingdom's reinforcements.

One day later, the Holy Kingdom's Wyvern Legion smoothly arrived at the allied camp. Although there were only five thousand of them, they brought enough provisions to sustain the army for a day, and morale improved. The air force was also an important standard for measuring a kingdom's military strength.

Among the Western kingdoms, only the fabulously wealthy Holy Kingdom dared to maintain a Wyvern Legion.

With the Wyvern Legion's addition, the allied forces took Silwen Nancheng in less than half a day. Grand Duke Simon of the Chirperi Kingdom was forced to flee in disgrace with his remaining troops. In his haste, he didn't even have time to transfer the large quantities of grain inside Silwen Nancheng, and could only burn it all. Fortunately, the allied forces arrived in time, extinguished the blaze, and saved most of the grain—enough to keep the army going for over a week!

On the other side, late that very night, a white pillar of light suddenly shot into the sky from the jungle outside Colin Fortress, faintly accompanied by a soft chanting of sacred hymns.

Faced with such an anomaly, Yan Liu immediately had the spatial mages remotely contact the spatial mages beside Lord Xuan Wuji, sending out a brief report on the unusual situation outside the city. He was worried the enemy might adopt the same siege strategy as their own side.

Therefore, Yan Liu did not dispatch scouts to investigate the situation. However, sensing violent spatial fluctuations and the white pillar of light shooting skyward, he suspected that an army had arrived directly outside Colin Fortress via ultra-long-distance spatial teleportation.

The same scene as when they themselves had teleported to the area outside Panshi Fortress within the Empire.

Upon receiving the news, Lord Xuan Wuji could only order Yan Liu to strengthen patrols and defend to the death. His expression grew extremely ugly within just a few seconds. After some thought, he added one more instruction: if an irresistible, catastrophic crisis arose, they could abandon the defense of Colin Fortress.

After sending the letter, Lord Xuan Wuji finally sighed, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said inwardly: "The thing I feared most has ultimately still happened."

The Third Imperial Prince Li Chun beside him also fell silent. Being right there, he had seen the contents of the letter, as well as the reply Lord Xuan Wuji had sent.

"What do we do now?"

The Third Imperial Prince Li Chun, whose face had always been relaxed, now inevitably showed a measure of gravity. His hands, which had been hanging loosely at his sides, now clenched weakly. Only by feeling the power within his body did he have some sense of reality.

He had thought he was merely coming to pick up easy gains and earn merit, because the matter of the Chirperi Kingdom had been something he had deliberately allowed to happen. But now, he suddenly realized that behind all this there seemed to be an opponent he knew nothing about, pushing the situation of the entire battlefield forward.

He was nothing more than a fish initially drawn in by the bait, a mere piece in the chess game. He had wanted to use the matter of the Chirperi Kingdom to achieve his own aims, unaware that he himself had also been plotted into the enemy's scheme.

But things had already come to this point, and it seemed he had no way back.

"The allied forces of the Taji Kingdom and Lei Dun Kingdom will surely halt at Silwen Nancheng to await reinforcements. We must also hurry to rendezvous with Lei Yi, and then report this matter to Your Majesty."

"After that, either we adapt to circumstances as they arise, or we sit and wait for reinforcements!"

However, there was one thing Lord Xuan Wuji did not say: since the enemy had allowed them to occupy Colin Fortress, they must certainly have means to overturn its defenses in an instant.