Chapter 139 - First Battle

|3rd POV|

Phineas Frederick, the Grandmarshall of Vulux Kingdom, looks at a map in front of him and thinks about attacking the north. He knows that the north is surrounded by natural fortresses, from the mountain to the forest.

The neck is filled with thick forest covering the northern army from view, making it a perfect place to ambush their enemy.

There is also the Bloody Gate. A perfect place to defend against the aggressor. The only place they can use to attack the north is from the east using a ship. However, even using a ship would be a hard fight because the north has increased their naval power, but there is also a problem with the weather.

It is a well-known fact that the northern sea is chaotic. The northern wind is something that many southern sailors fear because of how unpredictable that wind is. However, Phineas knows that the sea is the only way to get into the north.

"How many ships do we have?"

"We have around one hundred and fifty-seven ships. Sadly, only thirty ships are ready to be used right away. The other ship is in the other port and too far away from our current location."

Phineas and Seventy thousand army of the Vulux Kingdom is in Faitun County, ten days away from the northern territory. Right now, they are camping in Faitun County while waiting for the rest of the army to gather at one point.

However, it will take a long time before all the army gathers at one point. The reason? Their food supply. It always gets harassed by an unknown attacker. Some of them get burned, some of them get stolen, and many of them mysteriously disappear.

Because of this, the army has a hard time moving away from their territory and rally to where Phineas is located.

"Please tell me the other ship can move out."

"Sadly no. They have the same problem as the army. Their food supply mysteriously disappears or is destroyed by an unknown culprit. There is also an accident of the ship being burned down. Lucky for us, it did not successfully burn the ship down."

"Meaning that the army is used to guard their food and ship."

"That is right."

"Tch"

Phineas releases a frustrated breath and scratches his head. He knows that it was the northern agent that caused the chaos. He knows that the culprit behind all this chaos is the Left Hand of the Lionheart family. The spymaster of the lionheart family is a thorn in his side that he cannot defeat.

He thought that by making an all-out war, Phineas could get away from the northern spymaster. Sadly for him, even with all-out war is not enough for Richard to stop hindering the south from getting what they want.

Divide and Conquer.

That is the plan Isaac asks Richard to do. Prevent the Vulux Kingdom from rallying at one place. That is the divide. When their number is low, attack them with all you got before they could gather their force. That is the Conquer.

And that is what Isaac wants to do.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

In the middle of the night, Isaac and twenty thousand troops consisting of the elite Northern Army came down from the mountain, charging toward the camp of the Frederick army. After sending Yuka to scout out the movement of the southern army, He created a massive teleportation magic circle and teleported Isaac and his army to the southern camp.

It was a gamble. Isaac knows that the Frederick family is already hiring a group of magicians from the Tower of Magic. He needs to attack Phineas and his army before the magician comes to their aid.

He needs all the advantages he can get in this war.

Before the magician comes and creates a barrier around their camp, Isaac needs to make a surprise attack, and he is doing it now. With the location of the enemy camp inside his mind, Isaac created a massive magic circle and teleported all of his armies to the place where the enemy could not see them.

That is why Isaac teleported his army into the mountain near the camp. However, before he teleported his army, Isaac created a massive fog around the mountain to cover his army arrival.

"Enemy?!? Now?!? How?!?"

Phineas panicked at the surprise attack and quickly ran toward his weapon and armor. His right-hand man already runs outside to command the army, leaving Phineas busy wearing his armor. It takes him a minute to put on his armor and run out of his tent.

When Phineas gets outside of his tent, the only thing he sees is chaos. Fire burns up the tent, and people run around either to run away from the enemy or the enemy slaughtering his army.

"My lord!"

Phineas looks to the right and sees his right-hand man running toward him.

"Wilhelm! Tell me the situation!"

"Bad, my lord. The enemy surrounded us from all sides. They are coming from all directions, and our army did not have enough time to react."

"Then what are you waiting for?!? It is time to rally. Blow the war horn! Rally the army to me!"

"Yes"

Hearing the war horn, a few captains of the army shouted.

"Rally! Rally to the lord!"

Ten thousand men consisting of Knight, Spearmen, and Archers rally to the lord and create a formation to defend against the attacker in a few minutes.

Isaac, seeing the battlefield has been shifted, shouted.

"Rally! Rally!"

Isaac is already in enemy territory, and he needs to rally his army and do another charge. With that order being shouted out, Isaac begins galloping away from the battlefield. True to his sight Phineas already created a formation and already killed some of Isaac's army.

After gathering at one place, Isaac looked at the formation in front of him before saying.

"Archer! Fire! Magician! Accelerates!"

The cavalry takes out the bow from their back and begins to fire their arrow toward the surrounded enemy in front of them. While the archer is firing their arrow, the magician behind them casts their spell and accelerates the arrow making it fly faster and increase its penetration.

"Twinkling Star!"

Isaac did not stay idle. He activates his rune and fires a laser of doom toward Phineas and his army.

On the other side of the battlefield is Phineas taking cover behind a shield wall that tries to protect them from the bombardment. However, he knew that it was useless as he could hear the screaming of his army.

Phineas grit his teeth as he knows that he and his army cannot survive if they do not do anything. He looks at his right-hand man and says.

"We need to retreat! We cannot stay here any longer."

"Yes, my lord. I will hold them off. You should get away from this, my lord."

"Thank you, Wilhelm. It is an honor to fight alongside you."

"It is my honor, my lord."

Wilhelm nods his head and orders his men to create a shield wall to block the arrow and let Phineas run away. When they open up the shield to let Phineas run away, they see something out of a nightmare.

They see a massive centaur-like creature wearing massive armor and holding a massive lance charging down the mountain. Their number is one thousand, and they are the creature Isaac summoned using his Pale Gate Rune. They only last for a few hours, but it was enough to slaughter the army in front of them.

While Phineas runs toward the forest, Isaac follows him like a grim reaper ready to harvest his soul. When Isaac reaches Phineas, Isaac stabs him right through his ċhėst. Phineas looks up and sees the dreaded silver hair.

"You… Monster…."

"Me? A monster? Then what about you? You decide to attack us and declare us as a traitor. If I'm a monster, then what about you?"

Without letting Phineas say more things, Isaac pulls out his spear and swings his spear. A second later, Phineas's head falls to the ground.

Seeing the head fall down, Daniel Byron shouted.

"The Grandmarshall is dead! The Grandmarshall is dead!"

With that declaration, the battle is over. The rest of Frederick's army put down their weapons and surrendered. This is the first win for the Lionheart Duchy, and it was the heavy blow the Vulux Kingdom took as they just lost their Grandmarshall in the first battle.

What matters worse for the Vulux kingdom is that they did not know the full strength of the Lionheart Duchy because all the witnesses that see Isaac summon have been captured or killed, and they have been taken to the dungeon in the Sea Dragon City.