Chapter 618 Chimera Ants (14)

Chapter 618 Chimera Ants (14)

The ones that were behind me revealed anxious looks and Cecilia even wanted to come in front of me.

Shaka would have done the same if he had been able to move, but he was just too exhausted from the fight in the cave.

However, I just raised my hand for Cecilia to stop.

She looked at me with a confused look, but I shook my head with a confident smile and said, "It'll be fine."

Though there was still a trace of doubt in her eyes, she trusted me in the end and moved back.

As General Risen led his troops, he personally cut down all of the ants that were in his way. With each Chimera Ant that he cut down, the morale of his troops surged as they followed him forward.

With how fast they were going, it didn't seem like there was anything that would be able to slow them down.

It seemed like a matter of time before they would reach us and cut us down.

After all, there were more people in General Risen's group than there were in my group.

We were only a small group of around a hundred that had baited them. General Risen had brought an entire army and even after the slaughter with the Chimera Ants, he still had up to two thousand troops with him.

As long as they could reach us, it would surely be a one sided slaughter.

So naturally my move was to stop them from reaching us.

Though it seemed like that was unlikely to happen.

That was until I suddenly raised my hand and the ants started to move.

No one noticed this at first since the ants only reacted slightly. There wasn't much movement from the ants that would attract much attention from anyone.

But then all of a sudden, the ants suddenly started charging at General Risen's group. This was much more than just a few ants charging at them, it was a complete frenzy as all of the ants charged at them at once.

Even if the fight had been going on for a while, there were still over five thousand ants that were here.

With these numbers, General Risen's group had no choice but to slow down in the end. Even if they wanted to keep pushing, they were stopped by the waves of ants that came at them.

However, I could see from his eyes that his real goal was...to save his own life.

No matter how great a general was, it was impossible for him not to care about his own life.

But it was too bad that I wasn't planning on taking prisoners in the first place.

First, it was because my army wasn't equipped to take prisoners in the first place. We could take them, but we would have to eventually drop them off in a garrison to be held.

The closest garrison was Vayne City.

That was the second reason why I didn't want to take prisoners.

There was no knowing what Duke Yuletide would do with these prisoners once he received them.

He was still a duke of the kingdom regardless of what he had done previously. So if he wanted to do something with these prisoners, he had his full rights to do so as the duke and commander of this city.

It was only when a royal decree came that he would be forced to hand over the prisoners to the capital.

But before the decree came, there were many things that the duke could do.

So if the prisoners of war were to suddenly die...no one would be able to prove anything if they suddenly went missing.

As long as Duke Yuletide was in charge of Vayne City, then there was no way that I could allow this to happen.

It really was true that sometimes bad allies were more terrifying than powerful enemies.

So I just shook my head and said, "Unfortunately, we don't have the capacity to take prisoners right now."

As I said this, there was a bit of a hostile tone in my voice.

That was related to the third reason.

They were invaders of our kingdom, of our home.

I didn't want to let them off easy in the first place.