Chapter 201 - 107. Lomania -2 (Part Two) (1/2)
“Well then. Taste them to your heart’s content. After all, we have over two hundred thousand livestocks here!”
The Vampires shuddered from sheer excitement at Raiden’s words.
“Light up the flames, and howl out!”
Soon, ‘it’ would reverberate everywhere.
“Let them know what true fear is!”
…’It’ being the screams of the livestocks, the sounds of their ardent wish to be liberated from the torturous pain through death!
“Drink their warm blood, and enjoy biting into their fresh meat!”
And also, the roar of the noble and great army of Vampires too!
“Kkiiiiiiaaaaaak-!”
The Vampires gathered demonic energy and summoned the undead.
The ground beneath broke open as zombies, ghouls, giant zombies, dullahans, and even Death Knights rose up into the open air.
They pushed themselves out from the dirt below and raised their heads high.
More zombies responded to the gathering demonic energy and began crawling out from the distant forest, while the lycans rushed out of the darkness of the night to follow the Vampires.
Their numbers continued to increase.
At first, one thousand.
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Then, three thousand.
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Eventually, five thousand.
They howled and screeched out loudly while rushing forward.
All so that they could devour the tasty prey, and eliminate the members of the Imperial Family that had ruthlessly suppressed them and hunted them until now!
“Go forth-!”
They all rushed towards Lomania.
**
The capital of the Lome Kingdom had been plunged into chaos.
An order came from the royal palace, and it said to ‘prepare for the invasion of Vampires’.
And so, a city-wide evacuation order had been issued to all civilians.
But not too long after the order had been delivered, a whole bunch of existences with burning crimson eyes began showing up from the distant darkness outside the city.
Their numbers alone seemed to breach the five-thousand mark.
This horde split apart into five groups, each with one thousand individuals, and were marching towards the city from seemingly all directions.
Charlotte watched this spectacle unfold while standing on top of the city’s outer wall.
She muttered grimly to herself, “Even if it’s his highness, he won’t be able to stop them all.”
Back when the Vampire Count showed up in Ronia, it had been commanding over twenty thousand undead, but that army was mostly made up of the lowest-tier zombies while their rush was concentrated on one spot.
Defeating them was all possible thanks to the presences of various other Priests as well as the convicts who were already heavily-drilled in the art of defensive battles.
However, the story was different this time.
The undead horde this time ranged from low-tier zombies to even mid- to high-tier creatures. Lomania was also mostly filled with regular soldiers who had never encountered, let alone fight, a Vampire before.
Finally, the Seventh Imperial Prince would have no way of defending against the undead army if they split into five groups with one thousand individuals each which attacked from different directions.
Soon, the capital city of the Lome Kingdom would turn into the city of death.
Charlotte issued her new order, “All members of the Heavenly Army, retreat. We shall head back to the royal palace. Do not forget to evacuate the civilians along the way.”
When the Paladins began making their moves, the Lome soldiers watching on hurriedly lodged their complaints.
“Hold on! What do you expect us to do if the Theocratic Empire’s forces withdraw from here?!”
A captain leading one of Lome’s knight orders shouted out, but Charlotte replied in a calm but cold voice, instead. “Even if we’re the Heavenly Army, our strength will not be enough to stop them here. However, the story will change if we’re back in the royal palace.”
It would be different in the royal palace?
The knight order captain became puzzled by that statement and asked her. “What do you mean by that, ma’am?”
“If you wish to save your citizens, then…” Charlotte replied, “Stop the undead with everything you have, survive, and then make your way back to the royal palace.”
“…?”
“If you do, his highness will resolve everything.”
“What kind of a nonsensical…”
The knight order captain stopped his sentence mid-way after he stared into Charlotte’s eyes.
Despite the march of the undead army numbering in the thousands, there was not a single hint of fear in her eyes.
No, the light in her eyes was actually filled with an unshakeable determination, and that in turn prompted the captain to shut his mouth altogether.
That was absolute faith on display.