Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 2005 - 639: The Subtle Uses of the Battle Hymn (Part 3)

Exchanging only a few brief pleasantries, Elder Andulan did not intend to keep Rommel.

However, despite Rommel giving several meaningful glances, Queen Jiabao remained frozen in place, her eyes fixed unwaveringly on Joan of Arc and Cui Beixi, who had just walked into the lord’s hall.

The two pregnant women were each holding a set of snow silk baby clothing, pushing their bodies forward to accommodate their protruding bellies, as they leaned against their chairs, meticulously embroidering beautiful patterns. From time to time, they exchanged a few words and smiled, as the faint sunlight bathed their radiant and contented faces, filling the entire hall with a silent whisper of happiness.

"This is snow silk made from Richard’s spider web, water-resistant." Daisy’s eyes were peculiarly fixed on this Moore warrior.

"The wealth of Ventéclair is truly enviable; we’ll be taking our leave now." Rommel gently nudged Jia Bao’s arm with his finger, giving her another meaningful glance.

The appearance of Ventéclair was like a basin of snow water poured over, completely extinguishing Queen Jiabao’s brewing anger on the spot. This leader among Aegean’s four great menaces, exuding power and coldness, brought back over a hundred Ents with towering, tree-like stature and trailing beards. Among them were at least three Shepherd-tree People, with tree rings on their trunks overlapping like water ripples, emitting elemental fluctuations as solid as a mountain. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"You’re back?" Elder Andulan and the proprietresses all flocked around, chatting away in excitement and concern around the Tenth Prince. After the battle in the Southern Cross Star Forest, Ventéclair had continued on his journey back to the fourth level of the Underground Continent. His return not only meant 123 subterranean Ents joining the Ventéclair family but also the arrival of a substantial amount of Springs of Elements and Life Springs.

"Let’s go!" Rommel extended his hand to Queen Jiabao, thinking to himself, can you give up now?

"I will go to Witherspoon with you!" Without turning her head, the Queen of Lich left the hall filled with her heartache and anger, leaving a chilling statement that made Rommel’s bones feel cold.

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Liu Zhenhan had no idea that Elder Andulan had spread plague using corpse decay on the Sanggan River, nor did he know that His Majesty Sal used a Landmine Transport Array at the royal capital Sabak to take down several heads of the Northwestern Hai Mu allied forces. Even more, he was unaware that the Lich King Jiabao was planning to come to Witherspoon with Rommel. He was currently busy commanding operations, while the skies above Witherspoon had turned red with battle. For a full three hours, the Hai Mu allied forces, almost as if frenzied on medication, launched relentless attacks on the city, pausing for not even a moment.

The vast military formation of the Hai Mu allied forces stretched out ten miles outside the city, with octopus warriors, renowned for their climbing abilities, serving as the main assault, while the other units stood by coldly. A total of 100,000 octopus warriors were divided into five waves, consuming themselves on the southern city wall of Witherspoon, only to be replenished by another wave as soon as one was depleted.

This was a typical attrition attack, also known as a cannon fodder tactic!

Scouring the history of the Aegean Continent, even if the most powerful Empire of Yestere were reborn, it might not muster even 100,000 cannon fodders to slowly wear down the enemy’s living force!

This unavoidably highlights the advantage of the Sea Clan’s military strength and the brutal and cunning nature of the commandership—drag down the stamina and morale of the defenders with cannon fodder, and then finish decisively with elite troops, a tactical feature of Sea Clan sieges.

Prince Similian didn’t initially wish to waste time like this because he had braggingly claimed to his "good brother-in-law" that he could breach the city with 210 whale veins; however, the mighty wave of magical beast spellcasting erupted by Witherspoon during the first wave’s probing of enemy firepower promptly stunned him into modifying his original plan, increasing the number of cannon fodder from 10,000 to 50,000, turning the probe into pure attritional tug-of-war!

"Can anyone tell me how many Beamon shamans there are?" Prince Similian asked his chief of staff at the time: "And how many Scepter Shamans?"

"There absolutely wouldn’t be more than 2,000 Beamon shamans who can take the battlefield, and the Scepter Shamans at most only number around 150!", the chief of staff confidently replied to the prince’s inquiry, "That’s their population base!"

"Damn!" Prince Similian cursed as he pointed at the advanced magical beasts and magic plants on the city wall, "There are more than a hundred Scepter Shamans on this southern gate wall, and look at those beasts’ levels! Damn it! There are actually magic plants too! Where the hell did this come from? Worse, they have four city walls in total, not just the southern gate tower!"

"Similian, don’t be hasty right now, order each branch to send out an octopus regiment of ten thousand to probe the firepower on the other three city walls!" Coral Prince Rhine Kel, standing by, was significantly calmer than Prince Similian. As the mermaid marshal guarding the northern seas of Seia, he was seasoned in warfare. No matter how far the situation surpassed his own expectations, maintaining a composed demeanor during battle was his fundamental etiquette.

The results were quickly gathered in the hands of the two members of the mermaid royal family. Although the number of shamans on the other three walls wasn’t as densely packed as the southern wall, it was still intimidatingly concentrated and there were even a few magic plants as well! Even more curiously, this city had a large number of Houser Clan archers, with all four walls teeming in numbers!

These Centaur archers possessed extraordinary archery skills, and the octopus units that were probing the city took heavy casualties!

It’s commonly known that the Bimon Kingdom’s Southern Province, guarded by the Beamon Houser Clan, has been scratching by in the Southern Cross Star Forest.