Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 2185 - 672: Two Against One (Part 2)
We must admit that the main time expenditure of this century retreat was on property identification and transport, the rare metals, Magical Beast furs, pearls, gems, and Charcoal Sprite that the Fallen Elves had accumulated for so many years in the Underground World and undersea. The last migration did not go through Lucian, but this time there was no escaping it. So many good things were seen by the greedy and stingy Chief Financial Officer Fawkes, who naturally had to meddle, leading to a lot of quarreling and bickering.
The significance of the Lusen City retreat is profound. Besides sparing Richard from being labeled as a "century butcher" post-war, it firmly drove a nail beside the Bonaparte Medusa Kingdom. Due to the sly move by Richard later on, the Bonaparte Medusas had no choice but to return to the Bimon Kingdom after the war.
More importantly, due to this century retreat, the Bimon Kingdom suddenly had over a thousand additional Elf and Snake-man mages at its disposal, which had a significant impact on the overall war situation. Even though they dyed their hair and skin with Thousand-leaf Nymphaea juice, and despite Lusen City being indeed burned to the ground, the true identities of these Fallen Mages were not concealed from humanity for long. The humans who suffered losses kept silent and did not intend to reveal the truth.
On October 21st, after the Bimon Air Force used the humans’ free Charcoal Sprite Bombs to harshly ravage the Hai Mu coalition forces, both the Sea Clan and Demon Clan were shocked. Humans originally couldn’t understand how the Bimon suddenly became so wealthy, but after thinking it over, everything became clear.
In the face of Bimon’s cost-heavy, comprehensive carpet bombing, the highest commander of the Hai Mu coalition, Duchess Maria of the Tall Tree, could no longer hold out. Unsure of how many more aerial bombs Bimon had in stock, she could only choose to retreat in defeat.
It was a helpless and embarrassing choice. Regardless of the anger and unwillingness to accept failure from the Sea Clan’s high command, the Bimon Air Force had already become an invincible force that the ocean armies could not counter for the time being. Especially after the Bimon Air Corps invented "horizontal targeting bombing" using laser stones as vertical line beacons, even the Sea Clan sorcerers lost their previous anti-aircraft capabilities.
The cautious and battle-hardened Duchess Maria of the Tall Tree, unable to tolerate the humiliation of being hit without being able to strike back, chose to commit suicide in atonement after leading the severely damaged Sea Clan remnant forces back to the northern ocean. Perhaps feeling shameless to face her countrymen, she covered her face with a silk veil plundered from the Aegean Continent before beheading herself.
Pity the roughly 300,000 Mulan infantry who, without the protection of the Sea Clan armies and lacking sustenance, had no choice but to flee hastily towards the Taklamago Desert in the northwest of Sabak, confronted with the unbreakable Sabak and the brave and fierce Beamon warriors.
The Bimon Army didn’t even bother to pursue and attack, looking at the dreadful desert. How many of the hungry and thirsty Mulan soldiers could traverse thousands of miles to return to their home laden with dates?
No one anticipated that in the "Battle of the Five Races’ Destiny," the first to suffer misfortune would be the Mulanese rather than the Fallen Elves.
The Bimon high ranks were extremely pleased with this result. Everyone knows that the Shaman of Divine Songs has always relied on muscle rather than brains to fight, so such a perfect result was all the more novel and exciting.
This stroke resolved the only invading army on the Donau Wasteland by using borrowed strength. Normally, humans would never have supported the Bimon Kingdom with such a large sum of Charcoal Sprite.
This stroke removed the fence-sitting Fallen Elves, saving the potential Sovereignty wars over Donau that might have broken out in the future.
This stroke avenged the grievances suffered by the Shaman of Divine Songs during the "South Cross Star Divine Realm War" against humans.
This stroke also created some trouble for Medusas; this trouble seems minor now, but if Medusas continue to seek independence in the future, it would be like a knife stuck in their heart.
This stroke also intimidated all overt and covert invaders, whether Sea Clan or Demon Clan, for this battle raised significant doubts about the Bimon’s stock of aerial bombs.
This stroke brought thousands of mages to Bimon; although Fallen Magic isn’t as genuine as official magic, any celebrated herb that can cure infection is good. Having an extra thousand mages is more pleasing than being alone – with the Shaman of Divine Songs’ superhuman bravery, even in the Battle of Firentse Defense, where the most enemy forces were killed, it was only about 400 enemies perished, a number that advanced area bombing magic could accomplish in two or three quick shots.
Most importantly, achieving so many strategic effects, Bimon did not spend a single penny, it was entirely an act of getting something for nothing.
"Richard, how did you think of doing this? This stroke was played beautifully!" King Sal, who prides himself as Bimon’s top strategist, also had to admit that this chain strategy of the Shaman of Divine Songs, which combined borrowing a knife to kill, covering the sky and changing the day, secretly crossing Chencang, and buying people’s hearts, was unprecedentedly classic in Bimon history.
"My idea was simple—I just didn’t want to be Rommel’s pawn! If it weren’t for Rommel causing this, I would have readily burned Lusen City to ashes without hesitation!" Richard’s explanation was devoid of wise brilliance or tactical planning: "Since I don’t plan to execute the destruction of Lusen, I had to come up with a way that neither left the Fallen Elves nor allowed them to perish—this is how the Lusen retreat came into being. I wasn’t intentionally trying to play the saint, nor would I let the brilliance of humanitarian thought deliberately blunt my sword!"
This candid talk was only spoken with the king. Richard’s wording towards the Fallen Elves would transform into: "I am, after all, a Night Watcher, a terrestrial emissary of the Goddess Luo Si. Even if we had feuds before, how could I face the favor of the Spider Queen by exterminating you without leaving a chicken or dog alive?"
When saying this, Richard himself felt somewhat amazed by fate’s wonders. He was the terrestrial emissary of the War God and simultaneously the Spider Queen’s terrestrial emissary. Unexpectedly, these statuses really allowed him to save two races at a crucial moment, intentional or not. From this perspective, Kampas and Luo Si do indeed have discerning eyes. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
"We used to have doubts; now it seems that the Spider Queen Luo Si indeed has wise eyes as bright as torches." The Night Elves sighed repeatedly.
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