It took us 2 days to the destination. It was a difficult journey across countless cliffs and mountains, but everyone jumped with full of energy when they came to the top of the cliff overlooking the Polkin gate.
There is a possibility of victory.
If they take this place, this war will provide a new turning point, and they will make a great contribution to their country. The days when he was disappointed because he was not the successor, and the years when he was ignored as a bastard, were over. Each of them will be remembered as the greatest heroes in the history of the Shikar people because they proudly became high-ranking soldiers and took over Fort Polkin.
“Now, wait until night in silence. Attack time is exactly midnight. So that everyone doesn’t have a hitch in their operations, rest well rest until then.”
Having rested soldiers, I took off my mask as soon as the sun fell, sneaked down the cliff path, and penetrated into the Polkin Gate. This is because there was a man to solve before the unit operation. It was Earl Malthus.
Earl Malthus is an intermediate master swordsman and commander-in-chief of the Polkin Gate. Without interest, the probability of success in the operation will increase significantly.
In addition, they had to figure out the environmental variables in the gate. There could be an unexpected history of the enemy, and there could be something unusual about troop movements. Well, it would have been okay if the Kasim unit had come, but otherwise, they had to be more careful with the operation.
The entertainment district of the Polkin Gate was bustling. Every bar was full of residents and soldiers, and the streets were noisy with drunken pedestrians.
I stopped by a nearby bar and bought a drink. After that, I pretended to be drunk and sobbed around the street with a bottle in my hand. It was camouflage.
I passed by the barracks first. The guard was tight, but as expected, most of the troops, except for the security forces, were staying inside. It seemed that most of the enemy soldiers would be able to be taken down in bed if we entered quickly.
“Hey, who are you?”
I heard a voice calling me from behind. They were guards at the Polkin Gate. I glanced back.
“Me? Mercenary.”
“I’ve never seen him around here before. Give me your identification card.”
It seemed to be a checkpoint. As expected, the Polkin gates were heavily guarded. I took out a mercenary plaque from my arms and held it out.
“Here.”
“But what brings you to the Polkin Gate?”
“I stopped by to go to Braam.”
A security guard glanced at me.
“Why?”
“It’s a war, right? I’m trying to make some money on this opportunity.”
The guard flicked the mercenary back.
“Be careful. The mercenaries were recently slaughtered. Rumor has it that thousands are dead.”
I slipped a bottle of liquor.
“Hoo, mercenaries, they’re all like that. Let’s live for a day, this is our mercenaries’ view of life and their motto.”
“No wonder.”
As the guards cleared their guard and left, I headed for the next course. This time, it was near the gateway wall. I don’t know because it’s high, but given the number of torches moving, it looked like about 100 people.
But there was something special. Numerous barracks are drooping in front of the gate. The carts were lined up, and there were hundreds of soldiers as well as a large number of porters, making it seem like a transportation unit.
Damn it. 500 more men.
The number of enemy troops increased to 3,500. The elite level may not be high as it is a supply unit, but it seemed to be an unexpected variable.
But fortunately, this was the end. The level of security is similar to normal, and the deployment of troops is the same as usual. Since it is far from the front line, it did not seem to have raised the level of security.
After a rough reconnaissance, I entered the main mission. Catching Earl Malthus.
‘It’s easy to get the Earl.’
Earl Malthus’s strengths and weaknesses are that he lives a very regular life that is close to obsessive compulsion. It’s been a long time since the sun went down, so he must be asleep by now.
* * *
I was jumping over the wall of a secluded luxury residential area. The mana in my body was now completely hidden, and I was very careful at the foot of the floor.
This was a dense street of drivers working at the Polkin gate. And the knights train Mana, whether they are swordsman or ordinary knights, at a certain level. Because They have a very sensitive sense, I could reveal my existence the moment I made a mistake.
‘There you go.’
I saw a large mansion in the middle of the residential area. In front of the door, there was a driver standing guard and five troops, and four guards moving in pairs along the road around the mansion.
I hid inside the wall of the luxury residential area right next to me and timed it.
And soon I quickly jumped over the house wall. For now, outside security didn’t see me.
Sitting gently in the flower garden, I looked around.
No one was nearby, and all the lights on the house had been extinguished. I went behind the mansion, put a thin bar in a closed window, untied the hook, and broke inside.
The inside was also calm. There are some spirits of servants serving the count, but they are stuck in the room and do not think about coming out at all.
Malthus hates when someone walks around at night. Therefore, even if the bathroom is urgent at night, the servants only solve it in their room and do not leave the room. When he wakes up, he’ll die.
So I went up to the second floor of the mansion very comfortably.
‘There you go.’
In the middle of the second floor, a strong mana’s energy flowed out from the gap in the room. This is definitely Earl Malthus. I took a bunch of herbs out of my arms, lit them, and put them on a plate brought from the first floor.
It was “Loran’s Poisonous Fog.”
After holding my breath, I opened the earl’s door very carefully and pushed a plate of strong smoke inside.
‘Will he die? I’d like to use it to capture him alive, but don’t die.’
Loran’s poisonous fog paralyzes the body of the person in charge and, if severe, causes death. Since the whole chestnut-sized thing is being burned in the back room, ordinary people would definitely die, but if they were the master swordsman, he could survive.
After a long time, I went into the room, opened the window a little, and carefully discharged the smoke out. And as all the smoke escaped, he approached Malthus, who was lying in bed.
Blonde, he showed no movement like a dead body. I hit him several times, but he doesn’t budge. It seemed to be in a state of paralysis.
I looked at his breathing and heartbeat and smiled fishily. It’s weak but alive. I tied his whole body up with the rope I brought and locked him in an oak barrel in the basement.
* * *
I climbed back up to the cliff where the troops were located and announced a simple operation change. It was the relocation of personnel to the supply unit in front of the gate. Thus, I divided 200 men into the western wall, 1,500 soldiers to send to the barracks, 1,300 knights in the area of residence, and 700 men at the eastern gate, and deployed the remaining 300 as reserve troops under me.
At midnight, all of his men came down to take over the Polkin Gate.
As soon as they enter the outskirts of the city, their men are scattered to their respective mission areas.
I led the reserve forces toward the high-end residential area. It was because it was the most dangerous, and because it was in the middle area, it was able to quickly provide support anywhere.
“Who the hell are these guys?”
“Looks like the Shikar people, are they the Shikar Alliance?”
Residents of the gateway who saw us passing through the entertainment street looked at us without knowing what happened. They did not seem to recognize the enemy’s movement yet. But soon after I saw myself cutting down the guards wandering the streets relentlessly, I screamed and scattered.
But the scream was just an empty echo. We were scattering faster than screaming into our respective operational areas.
Ring, ring.
The emergency bell rang once or twice on the far side of the barracks, but it stopped. Bayan seemed to subdue the barracks smoothly. Next, a torch was seen swinging wildly on the western wall. It was also a part where we could see that there was a battle going on over there.
Soon after arriving in a high-end residential area, I continued inside, cutting relentlessly through the patrols.
It was not long before the sound of forced entry into the house was heard. The men, who broke through the windows and smashed the doors, soon dragged almost naked knights and their families outside, threatening them with knives.
I soon turned the corner and headed for the Earl’s residence. Because there were armed forces to be removed.
The knight who was guarding the mansion made a bewildered look at us rushing through the darkness, and as I approached the corner, he stretched out his hand and shouted.
“Stop! What kind of unit are you?”
In the end, the knight was overpowered by me without even drawing a sword. There were armed soldiers around, but when we saw us threatening with an overwhelming troop difference, we gently put down the spear and raised both hands high.
I heard a voice from all sides crying out for help in fear. Robrose’s knights gave up their resistance as they were threatened with their family’s lives without even getting dressed properly and were brutally surrounded.
“This is too easy to control. It’s a mess on the outside, and it’s a complete mess on the inside.’
I’ve never experienced such a peaceful battle before. It was so smooth and quiet that I could feel some unknown anxiety. Of course, sometimes there is a sound of shouting and soldiers bumping into each other, but soon it died down and soon added a crisp stillness.
I immediately turned the reserve and headed toward the eastern gate wall.
Apparently, this was the end.
Among the articles caught, some people slap themselves in the face, whether the current situation is a dream or real life. All the enemy knights were dragged out with half-asleep eyes and blank faces, but there was no will to resist at all.
“Enemies! Enemies have come in!”
”
Some of the liaison soldiers, who seemed to come from the gateway side, shouted and came toward me. They were surrounded by our soldiers who followed them and disarmed them, trying to report that they were allies only by my appearance.
I ordered some soldiers to lead them away and hurried toward the gate. The contact could have meant that the gate side was not released properly.
“Stop it!”
“Occupy the Wall!”
As expected, there was a fierce battle in front of the gate. The supply forces in front of the gate were safely overpowered, but they were in trouble to attack the gate walls.
The only way up to the gate wall was a straight ramp on the left, and when the obstacles were installed and blocked from the top, the entry forces were unable to move in and were only adding to the damage.
I headed toward Nazir looking over the gate wall with a nervous face.
“What happened to Nazir?”
“Hey, it’s. I think some soldiers on the wall saw us infiltrate. By the time we got there, we were already standing by, building a simple barrier on the ramp.”
The gateway wall is very high. As it could be seen so far away, it was very likely that the gate would be attacked. In addition, there was a large open space between the residential area and the gate here. Because of this, the timing of entry would have been a bit late.
I patted on the anxious back of Nazir.
“It can’t be helped. If the enemy knew it first, it wouldn’t be sharp.”
“But ····.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll take care of it.”
I headed toward the ramp. The enemy’s arrow will fall soon, so it will be sorted out, but didn’t have to sacrifice for no reason.
I rushed over the wall with the entry troops at the front.
the arrow rained on me, but I didn’t care. Because everything was thrown out of leather armor.
When I almost reached the top of the wall, I threw myself hard and cut down the knight in command. Then, swung a large swipe and swept away all nearby defense forces along with a simple barrier.
“The Master has opened the way! Come on!”
When the road opened, everything was released in a flash. The Robros soldiers, who were resisting with their bow, threw their weapons on their own because they were tired of the hundreds of troops pushing in, and some of the enemy soldiers who were resisting with knives and spears were quickly overwhelmed by our siege.
Soon after, the battle over the gateway wall ended with a declaration of surrender by a Robros soldier who lowered his sword.
‘Is it working?’
Soon Kara’s flag rose throughout the Polkin Gate. The victory, almost bloodless, cheered our troops, and the enemy and citizens were either dragged to us with a devastating face or watched it through the window.
However, the operation was not over yet. Although the battle was over, there was still work we had to do. I calmed down my men’s excitement with a sharp voice and began to deal with it before and after.
“Bayan, gather the prisoners in one place to watch, strengthen the wall defense.”
“Yes.”
“And I want to set up a patrol team to establish security in the gates and identify resources and military supplies in the city.”
“Yes.”
I, tasked with Nazir and Bayan, took Malthus out, politely locked him in a nearby warehouse, and stopped by the magic station to tell all the leaders in the Great Desert the results of today’s battle.
In a word, it means that the war is over now, so you have to crawl on your own, and it was part of the work to relax the Great Desert forces and Robros forces.
Currently, Robros, led by the Duke of Bastian, had all the supply routes from its home country blocked, but local supply ships for the large-scale forces remained.
Of course, we could only support the minimum because they had to survive, but we had to cut it off thoroughly to minimize Robros’ movements.