Chapter 226: Barbarian Warriors Show Their Might!

If this had happened before, Gervas would have worried about being unable to defeat the merfolk.

But now, with his subordinates each well-equipped and with fifty barbarian warriors at his side, he had no fear of these merfolk who wielded bone weapons like primitives.

Of course, Gervas's confidence was hard for outsiders to understand; for instance, the entire Bua clan on the city wall, who had just shown joy, instantly changed expressions, revealing worry.

"Waga, make these humans retreat immediately! Retreat to the edge at Kara Mountain!" Toka shouted at once.

The number of merfolk charging toward Gervas and his group was simply too great; in Toka and others' view, even a hundred humans would surely be unable to hold them.

And Kara Mountain was a seabed hill on the Bua clan's edge, with a drop of over a hundred meters, accessible by only one path up and down.

Only if these humans could escape there to counter the merfolk led by Lada would they have the greatest chance of victory.

"It's all our fault; we couldn't hold out before. If we had held on for another seven or eight minutes, we surely would have waited for reinforcements!"

"At that time, the walls hadn't been breached yet, so the odds of winning would have been even higher. I've heard humans are best at fighting on walls!"

Towen couldn't help but blame himself.

Of course, because the battlefield was noisy, Gervas and others couldn't hear his shouts at all.

It made him so anxious he wished he could fly over to deliver his warning to them.

Unfortunately, everything was too late.

Only then did they see Gervas in the distance already issuing battle orders!

"Iron Bear, you go first; the crossbowmen will cover you!"

"Yes, my lord; leave it to us, the Black Bear warriors!" Iron Bear paid no mind to the enemies ahead, who outnumbered them by nearly twenty times.

"Warriors of the Black Bear clan, kill!"

In the next moment, Iron Bear led fifty barbarian warriors in a charge against the merfolk.

And after the battle in the castle's rear garden with the western savages, Gervas had grown even more attentive to the equipment of Iron Bear and others.

Thus, now all fifty barbarians were fully armored; indeed, many barbarian warriors wore leather armor that gleamed with silver light.

This showed that Gervas not only pieced together captured, worn leather armor but even dismantled brand-new, intact armor to stitch and equip the barbarians.

With heavy leather armor added to their burly physiques, the combat power Iron Bear's group of barbarians could unleash was terrifyingly immense.

The fifty lined up in a row, charging like tanks, and crashed directly into the merfolk army.

Each short merfolk before the towering barbarian warriors looked as if an unweaned puppy faced a wild wolf.

That thick wooden-handled mace swung casually, and instantly four or five merfolk, caught off guard, were struck; unable even to scream, they turned to meat paste and flew outward.

And the merfolk's attacks on the barbarians and others, even if they occasionally pierced, only hit the limbs and then got stuck in the superficial muscle.

And the pain of that injury only enraged the barbarians further, meeting with even fiercer barbarian attacks.

As for the more agile-minded merfolk wanting to strike the barbarians' torsos, facing that hard leather armor, the merfolk's weapons couldn't even leave a white mark on it.

This was simply not a symmetrical battle.

"This... is it really this powerful?"

Seeing Iron Bear's group fight, Toka and other Bua clan warriors on the city wall, who had already fallen into deep despair, stood stunned.

"Cl... Clan Leader, my lord, these humans are so powerful! No wonder Young Master Waga said that as long as we could find humans, we would be saved!"

"Powerful, indeed powerful! I never expected Gervas to have such powerful large monsters! Our Bua clan is saved!"

Waga's expression at this moment was much like his father's, face full of excitement: "Gervas, your... your subordinates are so powerful!"

"Haha, Waga, these are barbarian warriors specially recruited by my lord, and moreover, barbarian warriors equipped with leather armor; one piece of their leather armor is worth five pieces for ordinary soldiers, costing five gold coins each!"

"So they are definitely very powerful! According to our estimation, even cavalry, the barbarians can fight against." Before Gervas could answer, Knight Mi Gen immediately spoke up proudly for his lord.

This lord, Gervas, had to show enough calmness: "It's acceptable; after all, they have a huge physique advantage. Alright, Mi Gen, you stop standing there; go help with Knight Lei Meng! Finish off these merfolk sooner!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Some families rejoiced while others grieved; the barbarians advanced like a force breaking through bamboo, and Lada and other merfolk leaders on the wall naturally watched with eyes wide and bloodshot.

"Damn it, how can they be this powerful?" Lada murmured, somewhat incredulous.

"Clan Leader Lada, what should we do now? Our merfolk warriors are suffering heavy losses; if we keep fighting, we'll be finished!"

"Yes, Lada, when you came, you didn't say there were humans! Now such powerful humans have appeared; this is simply not our plan!"

Immediately, merfolk leaders one by one looked at Lada and questioned him aloud.

Lada nearly vomited blood from anger.

Before, when they thought there were benefits, why didn't they show any objection?

Now that the enemy had strong reinforcements and they were about to lose, they suddenly started questioning him.

Lada had just wanted to say something when he heard a leader suddenly exclaim: "Look quickly, more humans have joined the battle, and that human has terrifying battle qi!"

"Damn it, it really is terrifying battle qi; our people simply can't hold out!"

"Everyone, run quickly! This time we surely can't win! If we keep fighting, our merfolk warriors will all die!"

"That's right, everyone, run!"

Seeing the brilliant battle qi light shining on Lei Meng, the merfolk leaders immediately felt the urge to retreat.

For them, these weak races who had not mastered supernatural powers, there was an innate fear of supernatural powers.

"Damn it, don't go! You all participated in the invasion of the Bua clan this time; do you think the Bua clan will let you off then?" Lada trembled with rage.

These fellows actually dared to flee in cowardice.

Didn't they know that even if they could escape now, afterward, could their tribal camps be moved?

Unfortunately, these merfolk leaders simply ignored Lada's words.

In their view, if they could escape now, that was what mattered.

Especially those two merfolk groups farther away, who had been persuaded by Lada to come; they believed they were far enough from the Bua clan and should not face retaliation.

Woo-woo!

Thus, the sound of conch shells rose on the battlefield.

The fishmen who had been fighting froze for a moment, then fled in all directions like a receding tide.

As for speed, this was the only weakness the barbarians displayed, so it was unrealistic to send them chasing after the fleeing fishmen.

"Waga, which fishman is Chief Nadar?"

"Gervas, the cursed Nadar is over there!" Waga immediately pointed at a fishman chief who was also fleeing.