Chapter 1299 – The Plum Blossom Swordsman Reincarnated Into The Baek Family
I walked towards the place where the slave soldiers had revolted with Scarlett.
For me, slave revolts were a common occurrence. When a large number of slaves come in at once, they tend to band together and revolt within a few days. They believe in their numbers.
They think that if they have enough people, they won’t be treated carelessly.
The response was simple.
Crush them with force.
There was no negotiation. If you give in once, they’ll become arrogant and demand more.
Normally, I would have gathered them all up and burned them to death without a word, but now it was wartime. I needed slave soldiers. In war, numbers are a factor that cannot be ignored.
I saw the slave soldiers who had revolted. They were holding the weapons I had given them and were huddled together. I saw the corpses of soldiers. It seemed that about 50 soldiers had been killed by the slave soldiers.
The soldiers surrounded the rebels. The soldiers’ eyes, glaring at the slave soldiers, were murderous. The moment I gave the order, they would massacre the slave soldiers without hesitation.
The shouts that had been echoing here and there quieted down as I appeared. The slave soldiers tensed up when they saw me, and even the rough soldiers who were crazy for plunder watched my every move.
“Count Prucus…!”
One of the slave soldiers muttered my name as if spitting it out. It was filled with hatred and murderous intent. I drew my sword from my waist.
Lightning Flash of the Thunder Sky Style.
The sword aura, wrapped in lightning, flew towards the slave soldiers and cut them down. The sword aura didn’t stop after cutting down one person; it continued to extend. It disappeared into the air after killing more than 30 slave soldiers.
“Count Prucus!!”
“Aaaaaaaah!”
“Die!!”
The slave soldiers rushed towards me. Courage for freedom? Absolutely not. Anger and fear were pushing them forward.
‘Things are going to be easy.’
I indifferently swung my sword, killing all the slave soldiers who charged at me. Even if they didn’t charge, I killed them if they were nearby.
After killing about 300 of them, everything suddenly became quiet. The slave soldiers were watching my every move. They didn’t want to charge in vain and die like dogs.
‘It was settled faster than I thought.’
The atmosphere had shifted in my favor. The next step was to find the instigator. It wasn’t difficult. You just had to find the center. And the instigator of a revolt would have a different aura than ordinary people.
‘That’s the one.’
There was a white-haired man holding a greatsword. He was thin, but his whole body was muscular. He looked to be in his 30s and had a white mustache.
‘He’s not ordinary. Judging by his aura, is he a mercenary?’
I walked towards the center where he was. The slave soldiers tried to block me, but when I swung my sword and killed dozens of them, they were terrified and backed away. The crowd parted like the Red Sea.
Finally, I closed the distance to where I could hear the instigator’s voice. The slave soldiers surrounded me and Scarlett, but I wasn’t afraid at all.
The instigator sighed.
“I was wrong… Count Prucus. You have no compassion. You’re a human who can massacre us without a second thought. Now I understand why the existing slave soldiers were absolutely obedient to you. I should have listened to them…”
“What made you think you could do this annoying thing?”
“Annoying thing… I expected it, but was our desperate revolt only that much to you?”
He looked around. The slave soldiers had already lost their will to fight. They were terrified. The slave soldiers were surrounding me, but they were also surrounded by my knights and soldiers.
They couldn’t even negotiate with my life. No matter how much the slave soldiers attacked, they couldn’t do anything to me, an aura master.
“Count Prucus. We don’t want much. We acknowledge our position as slaves.”
“Then why revolt?”
“At least. We wanted at least minimal treatment. At least, we didn’t want our families to be raped by the soldiers or killed for their amusement.”
“You want a lot for slaves.”
“I see, you’re not going to listen. Are you going to kill us all?”
“If necessary, I will. But this time, I’ve decided to entrust you to the goddess Serion.”
“What?”
The instigator didn’t understand my words and asked again. There was no reason to kindly explain my thoughts to him. I took out a die from my pocket and threw it to him. His brow furrowed even more when he received the die.
“A die? Are you trying to play a game?”
“It’s a die that determines your fate. Throw it on the ground. If it’s an odd number, you’ll burn to death.”
“…If it’s an even number?”
“I’ll show mercy and pretend the revolt never happened. Be grateful to the goddess Serion.”
“You crazy bastard…”
The instigator looked back and forth between the die and his greatsword. He was debating whether to fight me to the end. After much deliberation, he dropped the die on the ground. The die rolled and stopped. The number that came up was 4.
I smirked at the instigator.
“The goddess Serion is smiling upon you. Be grateful to the goddess. And be grateful for my faithfulness.”
“I don’t need it…! I’d rather fight and die than live like livestock!”
The instigator gripped his greatsword tightly. I raised the corners of my mouth and sneered at him.
“Do you think you can die comfortably after defying me? Drop your greatsword while I’m being nice. It’s not too late now.”
“Uwaaaaaaah! Count Prucus!!”
He didn’t listen to my advice and charged at me. A faint blue aura was glowing on his greatsword. He was at the early stage of an aura expert.
I easily dodged his attacks. I didn’t even need to use the Lightning Flash of the Thunder Sky Style. His movements were completely visible to me.
For five minutes, I only dodged his attacks without retaliating. He was panting heavily and getting more and more exhausted. The faint blue aura that had been on his sword disappeared, and his whole body was soaked in sweat. His pitifully desperate appearance continued to lower the morale of the slave soldiers.
‘Well, I don’t think their morale can go any lower.’
I decided to end this annoying business. I lightly swung my sword. He couldn’t even block it, let alone dodge it. His limbs were severed, and only his torso remained on the ground.
Having lost his limbs, he immediately tried to kill himself. He bit his tongue. I immediately pressed a pressure point to stop his suicide attempt.
“Scarlett. Manage this one specially. He’ll be an example, so don’t let him die. Does he have a family?”
“I’ll have to look into it.”
“If he has a family… make them the same way. Take his severed arms and legs and feed them to him at every meal. He’ll eat well since they’re his own limbs.”
“Understood. As for the rest… I’ll handle them as you said earlier, by throwing the die.”
I nodded and stepped back. Scarlett would take care of it.
And that day, out of the 5,000 slave soldiers who had revolted, 3,000 died, and 2,000 survived. Even though an even number came up on the die, the soldiers killed the slave soldiers for fun. It wasn’t a lot, so I decided to let it slide.
***
I narrowed my eyes and looked straight ahead. Using the Heavenly Eye, I looked at the plains beyond the mountains.
A large army, at least 100,000 strong, was blocking our path. I checked the flags they were carrying. The golden shield, which signified the Deikerd family, was engraved on them. The problem was that there was also a flag with a red dragon and sword on it.
‘That’s the flag of the Cobalt Kingdom. I see what happened. The Cobalt Kingdom supported Marquis Deikerd with soldiers. …No, are they slave soldiers?’
The Cobalt Kingdom had conquered many countries. It wasn’t strange that they could mobilize tens of thousands of slave soldiers.
“That’s strange,” Scarlett said, after checking the enemy army with a telescope.
“What is?”
“It’s strange that the Cobalt Kingdom’s army is there. It would take a considerable amount of time for an army of that size to advance from the Cobalt Kingdom to here.”
They could have used teleportation or a warp gate. The Cobalt Kingdom had dragons. It was entirely possible. But if they had, they would have sent elite soldiers and knights, not slave soldiers.
“It’s not bad to find out after we win. What they want is… to fight us on the plains.”
“The fact that they’ve given up on defending the fortress means they’re confident in the war. It’s highly likely that they’ve prepared a trump card that we don’t know about.”
“That’s probably true.”
“We don’t have enough information. It would be better to avoid this battle. Fortunately, we’re quite far away, so we can just retreat our army.”
Normally, I would have listened to Scarlett.
But I had seen her. Leona Deikerd, the marquis known as the Sun of Solfmed.
She was beautiful and dignified. She was sitting on a pure white horse, wearing armor like a knight. Her golden hair fluttered in the wind. Her skin was as white as milk. What was particularly captivating were her golden eyes.
Leona Deikerd was wearing armor, but it wasn’t hard to imagine her figure. The chest part of her armor protruded. This showed that her breasts were large. Her hips were also large, and she was tall.
In addition, Leona Deikerd was surrounded by female knights. Marquis Deikerd was a great noble who owned one of the few female knight orders on the continent.
My dick throbbed at the thought of capturing Marquis Deikerd.
“Scarlett. Give the order to advance. We will win.”
“I will follow my lord’s orders.”
Scarlett gave the order to a nearby officer. The officer hurriedly ran off somewhere. Soon, the sound of a large horn echoed from behind.
Pooooooo!
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The soldiers marched forward, keeping pace with the drumbeat. The ground shook.
Soon, we crossed the mountains and reached the plains. Marquis Deikerd’s army was visible to the naked eye.
“Scarlett. There will be no duels. Advance with the slave soldiers in the front.”
“Without any special strategy? Tens of thousands of people will die today.”
“Are you not happy with my orders?”
“No. I also like a good all-out war. All-out war is the true war.”
Scarlett smiled coldly. She ordered the charge. The slave soldiers ran desperately towards the enemy.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ground exploded, and the bodies of the charging slave soldiers flew into the air.
“Is that landmine magic?”
“Yes. I should have swept the ground with magic once before ordering the charge.”
“Well, it doesn’t matter. Keep charging. We’ve captured enough slave soldiers on the way here.”
“Huhu… About 2,000 people have been annihilated since the start of the war. This is… the enemies must think I’m a terrible commander.”
“You seem happy for someone who’s considered a terrible commander.”
“If they think I’m a terrible commander, they’ll be that much more careless. It’s better to be underestimated than overestimated. What’s important to me isn’t honor, but only victory.”
“That’s a very good mindset.”
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Even as we were talking, our slave soldiers were being blown up.
