Chapter 189: A Fight to Forcefully Cross Aldington River (Part 3)

Chapter 189: A Fight to Forcefully Cross Aldington River (Part 3)

Translator: The Light

Editor: Entelechy

At nightfall, Steinbeck Fief’s army launched an attack at Olm Fortress on the other side of the river. The soldiers tread over the frozen Aldington River. With a knight regiment as the vanguard, they aimed at the fortress’s main entrance.

An ear-piercing bell resounded throughout the entire fortress. After detecting the enemy’s surprise attack, the soldiers of Olm Fortress immediately rushed to defend themselves. Relying on their cannons and battle magic towers, they attacked the enemy troops on the frozen surface of Aldington River. However, it was useless. The attacks shot by those magic-guided cannons and battle magic towers hit a transparent defensive barrier and exploded without causing any real damage.

“Isn’t that the sacred magic defensive barrier Her Highness Earl Winissa used before? How can the other side use it?”

“Isn’t the other side’s knight regiment too crazy? They don’t even care about their lives.”

The defenders fell into chaos due to the other side’s sacred magic defensive barrier. They had no way to fight back. In the frontlines of Steinbeck Fief’ troops was the knight regiment led by Paladin Princess Alicia, but several hundred knights charging at the front were actually Undead disguised as human knights. These knights didn’t slow down at all. They carried explosives by horseback. Their war horses were also resurrected horses. This suicide squad had advanced before the genuine human knights like Princess Alicia because they wanted to avoid the awkward scene of killing friendly forces with an explosion.

The vanguard knights directly rammed into Olm Fortress’s main entrance. Even the barbed stakes couldn’t stop their advance. When the war-horses arrived, as if a domino had been pushed over, a chain reaction triggered. In the midst of a series of explosions, Olm Fortress’s main entrance collapsed, and Steinbeck Fief’s troops and the knight regiment quickly carved out a way, massacring the defenders. Because of Yani’s defense map, Clyde’s army had an upper hand. After forcibly entering Olm Fortress, they destroyed many arsenals and also bypassed many defense fortifications before the defenders could react, gaining the initiative.

Earl Winissa was disturbed by the sounds of explosions. She walked to the window and saw that the main entrance was on fire. Regardless of her menstrual period and physical discomfort, she wore her armor with Zhenni’s help. She quickly left her bedroom and opened her study’s door, wanting to use the “Sacred Heart” to activate the sacred magic defense barrier. Then, she discovered that the sacred item was a fake.

“What’s going on? Who came here before, Zhenni?”

“Winissa, your Junior Schoolmate Yani was here. That little girl has such a pure appearance... Don’t tell me that she... Impossible! She’s a knight, not an assassin. Moreover, she didn’t have your study’s key.”

Winissa realized the severity of this matter. She needed to hurry to the walls of Olm Fortress and take command. There was no time to think. She asked Zhenni to transform into her original unicorn form, mounted her with difficulty, and flew towards the battle. However, Earl Winissa was intercepted. The one blocking her was also a Sky Knight mounted on a giant eagle, Yani’s flying mount. A female knight wearing a black armor stood on its mount.

“Yani, why did? No, you... You aren’t Yani!”

“Of course not. It’s temporarily inconvenient for me to summon my mount, so I had to borrow hers.”

This female knight had a cold voice. Her entire body was covered in black armor, and her face was covered with a golden mask. As a result, Earl Winissa was unable to see her appearance. However, the giant eagle seemed to greatly fear that female knight. If that female knight was truly Yani, it wouldn’t have had such an abnormal reaction.

“Earl Winissa, surrender! On the command of my master, I want to discuss a peaceful settlement.”

“No, I refuse! Olm Fortress will never surrender.”

“Then, I can only offend you.”

Winissa couldn’t see through this knight’s strength, but she couldn’t delay. The situation was urgent. Therefore, even without knowing the other party’s strength, Winissa tried to knock away the female knight blocking her path or force her to give way. Like that, Earl Winissa would immediately reach the walls of Olm Fortress and command the battle from the frontlines. At this moment, she had no time to tangle with this knight.

Facing her paladin-level assault, that female knight didn’t dodge, as if Earl Winissa’s move was within her calculations. Initiating a similar charge, she countered head on. At that moment, Winissa’s mount, the unicorn Zhenni, noticed that that female knight was a dragon knight, but it was already too late. The two sides collided; there was no time to change paths.

“Winissa, be careful! She’s a dragon...”

Before Winissa lost consciousness, those were the last words she heard. She was knocked flying and fell along with her mount. At that moment, many black “tentacle” hands quickly bound Winissa and her mount, preventing their miserable deaths.

Clyde rode a special flying tool at an even higher altitude that was based on a hot air balloon. The lower part was a basket, but the upper part was actually a flying monster. Clyde used this special flying device as his sky command post. Under the cover of night, this special flying item was very difficult to discover. Clyde, who had been watching the battle, used his ability to retrieve Winissa and her mount in time.

The female knight who had blocked Earl Winissa in the sky was naturally Sacred Moon Dragon Knight Princess Verly. Her combat power far outclassed a paladin’s. A dragon knight could easily defeat a fully armed paladin even without summoning a mount.

As for the “Sacred Heart,” Princess Verly was borrowing it. As long as that sacred item was in the hands of a paladin or some other stronger human, it could be used. As a Dragon Knight, Princess Verly could use it even more freely. She had activated it to protect Steinbeck Fief’s troops.

Clyde retracted those black energy “tentacle” hands and examined Earl Winissa and her unicorn mount. Earl Winissa was less than 20 years old. Talking about her age, she was still a young woman. She had not long inherited the Earl’s peerage, but her commanding ability was a lot stronger than Viscount Aaron’s, the former commander of the Joyce Fortress. If it were not for her menstrual period, this exceptional situation, with Clyde’s disadvantageous position, it would have taken a long time to capture Olm Fortress, and they would have suffered heavy casualties.

Earl Winissa was a beauty with silver hair and pink pupils. She gradually woke, and her pink pupils were filled with confusion. Originally, Winissa remembered falling to the ground, but she didn’t know how she had landed in this strange place. There was a black-robed man standing not far away, examining another lady.

A moment ago, Earl Winissa’s mount had borne most of the impact to help her master. Now, she was still unconscious. That collision had caused her heavy damage, and she had reverted to her human form. She hadn’t even had the energy to create clothes. Now, she was a bare silver-haired beauty. She lacked the power to resist. Such a terrible posture could easily tempt other people to do indescribably bad things.

Clyde could tell that this silver-haired beauty was a transformed beast, but he didn’t hesitate to stretch his claws towards her soft and elastic bosom. He wanted to know whether t a sacred beast human would feel any different from a human beauty. Seeing her mount partner was about to be bullied, Earl Winissa endured the throbbing pain and reached for her sword, but a person quickly removed her sword from her waist. Moreover, she skillfully felt about her belt and confiscated all her well-concealed reserved daggers and other weapons.

“Stop, don’t bully Zhenni! Then ask me instead! Wait, Yani, you... you actually!”

“Senior Schoolmate Winissa, your methods for concealing weapons are still the same as before! It is unwise to take out weapons in front of Master; you should just surrender!”

“Earl Winissa, I want to talk about a deal. If you are unwilling, I will take this little cutie.”

“Wait, don’t hurt her! I... I will talk with you.”

Earl Winissa hesitated but finally succumbed to Clyde’s shameless means. The other party’s claw was close to Zhenni. If she didn’t agree, she didn’t know what kind of wicked things this mysterious man would do next. After seizing the enemy’s chief commander, Clyde’s army quickly occupied the outermost fortification of Olm Fortress and blocked the retreating defending troops but didn’t pursue them further. The defending troops lost multiple defensive positions. Although most of the main force lived, their chief commander Earl Winissa had already fallen in the opponent’s hands. Therefore, the defending troops were a host of dragons without a head and fell into a passive state.