Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 2156 - 665: The Uncertainty of Fate (Part 4)

We must not doubt the courage and confidence of the Bemons in joining the war. The human army is currently pinning down the main forces of the Sea Clan invaders. Their victory or defeat is directly linked to the safety of the Aegean Continent! Given the strategic importance of Forgotten Valley in the overall human strategy, the Bemons wouldn’t even hesitate to exhaust their stockpile of aerial bombs to help humans reclaim Forgotten Valley, even if it costs them all of their snow mountain pumpkin oil and turtle bead alcohol stored in Viridite.

In fact, Liu Zhenhuan doesn’t naturally have a fondness for Aegean Humans, especially after that time during the "South Cross Star Divine Realm War," where he narrowly escaped a human Magic Tutor’s ambush, planting the seeds of resentment that have long since taken root in his heart.

But as a senior leader of the Bimon Kingdom and a key figure in the Aegean alliance, he still possesses the necessary awareness and spirit of assistance at crucial moments, though, ultimately, it’s driven by the pressure for survival.

Regardless of whether it’s from the perspective of self-preservation or the morality of an ally, it’s an undeniable fact that Liu Zhenhuan, along with the Summer Palace Guard, provided significant assistance to the humans this time. Although it’s said that great deeds require no thanks, the humans couldn’t help but express their gratitude, offering the highest honor they could muster on the battlefield to celebrate the achievements of Richard, the Shaman of Divine Songs, and Lord Saint Xiao, with a grand banquet.

The Sea Clan indeed showed respect. After Forgotten Valley was reclaimed, they surprisingly chose to remain silent, neither launching a massive counteroffensive nor waging a wrathful war against Sabak, allowing Old Liu to comfortably accept the human’s invitation and enjoy the flowers and applause.

Although he’s not a gentleman with high moral character, Old Liu wouldn’t dare claim others’ achievements either. For the humans’ generous praise, he proudly introduced Rommel, the unsung hero behind the scenes, to all the human generals and commanders. Previously not well-known in the Aegean, Rommel emerged from the Forgotten Valley battle, rising to prominence among the Pan Continent’s military experts—he’s called a military expert rather than a brilliant general because this gentleman doesn’t have a distinguished army to support his reputation. In the critical eyes of humans, an expert who can only rely on the Summer Palace Guard naturally lacks a bit of credibility.

Rommel is indeed an intriguing character. When the undefeated human war god, Marshal Sidov, sincerely consulted him about the current Aegean situation, Rommel unabashedly shared his idea of letting the Sea Clan army enter Kalimdo Plain to engage in long-range mobile warfare with the cavalry against the slow-moving Sea Clan army—akin to delivering a resounding slap to the face of the human war god!

Marshal Sidov, a lifelong military man, certainly couldn’t overlook the glaring weakness of the Sea Clan army’s extreme reliance on water formations and their slow mobility. However, abandoning Forgotten Valley, allowing the Sea Clan army to step into Kalimdo Plain, and then engaging them with cavalry mobile warfare would demand excessively high levels of command ability and tactical competence among ordinary cavalry, and any slight mistake would spell doom for Aegean!

The venerable war god marshal, after all, tends to favor meticulous and foolproof tactics, yet Rommel’s confidence and youthful vigor, at once shaming and angering him, also made him secretly admire the other’s spirit and fearlessness.

"Marshal Sidov would indeed be a very challenging opponent on the battlefield." After their exchange ended on a somewhat uneasy note, Rommel quietly commented to Old Liu about the undefeated human war god: "But that’s all there is to it—just challenging."

"What ’undefeated war god’? Just a dried-up old bone in a tomb! In a fair fight with equal forces, he couldn’t withstand even a single charge from me," Liu Zhenhuan boasted, pointing to the country with great ambition, "Among all the heroes in the world, only you, my brother-in-law, could match me in battle."

"That’s quite a flattering evaluation," Rommel chuckled, "I’d love to toss my fork and knife on the ground, if only there was thunder in the sky."

The two mischievous fellows’ antics didn’t attract the attention of the host. After all, this banquet inherently had a private social nature, and there were plenty of attendees having quiet chats and laughter off to the side.

Perhaps in an attempt to mend relations with Old Liu, Master Stefano, the closest thing to a deity among mages, specifically brought a few young mages down from the frontlines for a formal introduction to Liu Zhenhuan—let’s be honest, Old Liu is now technically the highest-ranking leader of the human mage corps, so it’s within his duties to meet the elite among his subordinates.

With the continuation of the war and the passing of the old generation of famous mages, new elite mages have, indeed, been emerging like mushrooms after the rain.

Master Stefano introduced Old Liu to three young mages, who were previously unheard of in Aegean, but after the intense battles at the Wall of Sighs, Nocturne, and Forgotten Valley, they each made their mark and showed promising futures.

Among these three young mages, only a female mage named Raneily had a notable background. She was the direct disciple of the late Saint Chiao Von Basten, and at just over thirty years old, her guild title was already Magic Teacher—a remarkable achievement for someone in the magic world at her age.

Perhaps every magic master conducts some eccentric research while taking apprentices. Just as Master Stefano only allowed his apprentice Beckham to practice the "Blade of Flames," the late Saint Chiao Von Basten’s female disciple Raneily was also an oddity. This white-haired female mage, a Magic Teacher of the Holy Light system, only learned the first two-thirds of her spells and hadn’t even studied the remaining third!