Chapter 83 - War
2 armies stood in front of each other, the numbers were fairly mismatched.
One had 30,000 thousand men while the other only had half of that amount, 15,000 men, however, the determination, excitement and rage in the eyes of those 15,000 men told that they weren’t scared.
These 30,000 men in front of them were nothing, they could even take on 60,000 men let alone 30,000.
Hmph! Humans were weak after all.
These were the thoughts of those 15,000 Beastmen as they glanced at the humans with disdainful eyes.
“Heh. As expected, those humans brought 30,000 men for a small-scale war like this.” Levina, the Fox Kin scoffed.
“Breeding and population is the only thing they are good at, after all.” Helie, the Rabbit Kin smirked as well.
“As expected of humans.” Kamdem, the Elephant Kin laughed.
“…”
Cyneric, the Lion Kin, didn’t say anything.
He just looked at the humans with a solemn look on his face.
Seeing the look on their friend’s face, the other three couldn’t control themselves and chuckled.
“He’s really angry huh…” Levina muttered.
“Those humans are dead meat…” Helie muttered and Kamdem nodded.
Cyneric, who is usually very energetic and open-minded stopped talking altogether after their meeting ended.
The only thing he did know was to train and sleep and train again.
That’s it.
He has been waiting for this day for a long time now.
Today, he would slaughter these human bastards.
On the other side of the battlefield, the humans looked pretty chill.
They had 30,000 men, which was double the men Beasts had, it would be a rather easy victory for them. Those Beasts don’t stand a chance at all.
“Heh, General Warlock, sending you is an overkill, don’t you think?” A sub-general walked toward the General of the human army and laughed.
“Don’t take it too lightly, those Beastmen have sent all four generals for this war,” Warlok answered.
“Haah? So what? Aren’t they still just Master Stage Cultivators, whereas you are a Grand Master Stage Cultivator, there is no way we would lose.” The sub-general laughed in a carefree way.
He wasn’t bothered at all.
Warlok didn’t like his attitude at all, one should be serious when it comes to war, no matter how easy to win it is.
This war will be simple, Warlok knows that.
However, they should still try to reduce as many deaths as possible.
The thoughts of the two armies were completely different, one side was ready to kill and devour, and the other was sure of their victory and was trying to reduce their causalities.
However, there was one thing that they both had in common.
And that was having 1000 slave vampires in front of them.
These slave vampires were a suicide army, an army that would test out enemy weapons and strength.
Yes, in other words, they were sacrificial pawns, no, they weren’t even pawns, they were cannon fodder that would be killed as soon as the war started.
*Dong* *Dong* *Dong*
The huge bell was then rung and soon,
“Attack!”
Cyneric and Warlok ordered at the same time, however, the Beastmen and the Humans didn’t move.
The only ones who moved were the 2000 vampires.
There was no war cry, no energy, nothing, they just moved and were ready to be killed.
They knew their role as well.
The vampires then dashed toward each other and the clash started, at the same time, the humans and Beastmen started firing their arrows and skills toward the vampires.
Beastmen, however, were bad with Mana, therefore, only a few of them were using Skills, and most of them were using arrows.
Humans were a more balanced race, there were equal amounts of Skill users and Arrow users.
As for the vampires…
Well, they just fought without any technique. They were just cannon fodders, after all, they don’t need to learn any technique.
That was how the Humans and Beastmen thought, therefore, they didn’t even bother to train these vampires.
However, suddenly, something weird happened, while fighting, around 400 vampires, who were clashing with each other moved towards the right, of course, since they were still fighting with each other, no one felt it was wrong.
However, this didn’t stay the same for long, those 400 vampires kept moving away from the battlefield.
The Humans and Beastmen leaders noticed that something was wrong and at the same time, the vampires stopped fighting with each other and ran into the jungle.
“They are trying to escape! Kill them!”
The Humans and Beastmen were now sure.
Then, they stopped aiming at the vampires in the middle of the battlefield and started shooting the vampires who were trying to run away, humans were a step further as the human leader send around 1000 men behind them.
“Kill those bastards! How dare they betray us!?” The human leader roared in rage.
“Yeaahhhh!! Kill those traitors!!”
The human soldiers roared and rushed toward the vampires.
However, just as they were about to reach there, an arrow pierced through a human soldier’s head.
“What? Where did that come from?” A soldier couldn’t help but question and he started looking around.
“Aaghhh!” Another soldier cried in pain as the arrow pierced his armour and he fell down.
“What’s happening!?” The human soldiers were in panic.
“L-Look up!” Suddenly, a human shouted in panic and fear.
The human soldiers look up and their eyes widened in horror when they saw countless arrows that were coming toward them.
They finally realized who attacked them.
The Beastmen.
They then looked around and noticed that no Beastmen soldiers are chasing after the Vampires.
“S-Shields up! Prepare for the arrows!” A human soldier ordered as his shield appeared in his hand.
“Those Bastards! They dare to attack us like this!
Rest of the Army, Charge forward!
ATTACK!!” a sub-general roared in rage.
“YEEAAHHHHH!!” the humans then finally started moving as they roared in excitement.
The Humans and the Beastmen’s motives were different.
The Humans were fighting to save their face, however, the Beastmen were fighting solely for the sake of revenge.
They wanted revenge.
As for those stupid slaves? They didn’t care.
They can do whatever they want.
Killing humans were much more important right now.
“My fellow Beastmen, let’s avenge our Kin!
Attack!” Cyneric pointed his sword towards the human army and roared.
“YEAAAAAHHHHH!!”
The Beastmen Army moved as well.
…
On the other hand, the vampires who ran away started panicking.
“Did we do the right thing?” A vampire questioned.
“What the hell are you talking about? We would have already died if we had not done anything. This is more like another chance that is given to us, we will either die or we will live.”
“True, at least we tried to do something,”
“Indeed, how long has it been since a vampire has defied another race? Heh, we might even be the first of our kind.”
“Hahahaha~ True. To be honest, I think we vampires should man up a little, aren’t we stronger than normal humans?”
“Heh. Don’t eat more than you can chew. We might be stronger than normal humans, but what about those cultivator bastards.”
“Don’t forget about the sun as well, if we fight under it, there is no way we can defeat a normal human either.” Another vampire muttered as he glanced up in the sky.
“Yeah, we are abandoned by the heavens.”
The vampires started nodding with gloomy looks on their faces.
“It’s good that you slaves know that.”
Suddenly, the vampires heard a voice and their eyes widened in fright.
They turned around and saw around 100 human soldiers who were running after them with smiles on their faces.
“Hehe~ You slaves, it’s good that you know your place, however, to be daring enough to defy us? Heh. Your end won’t be good.”
A man, who looked like the leader of these humans laughed manically.
These 100 humans were the ones who had rushed towards the vampires before the Beastmen attacked.
“We are dead…” A vampire muttered.
If they were normal humans, they might have the chance to fight back since they had the numerical advantage, however, all these 50 humans were cultivators with the highest being a Beginner Stage Cultivator while the others were Apprentice Stage Cultivators.
They stood no chance against them.
“We are dead indeed…” Another vampire nodded, his eyes were filled with despair and helplessness.
‘At least we tried…’
“Hahaha! I like that look on your fa-” The human leader wanted to laugh, however, before he could notice, his head was severed. Yes, the strongest human was killed in one single slash.
The vampires’ eyes widened in surprise when they glanced at the man standing in front of the human’s headless body with a sword in his hand.
The man didn’t stay there, he moved his sword and beheaded another soldier.
As if on cue, a few more figures appeared around the area and started attacking the humans. The humans tried to defend themselves, however, they stood no chance.
They were being slaughtered without any mercy whatsoever.
“W-Who are you people!?”