It's not the protagonist, what does it matter if you are trapped in the Shura field

Chapter 606 The Second Prince's Mighty Army
Three days later, the sky over the Valley of Lamentation was cloudless.

All passages to the valley have been sealed off, scouts are sending back messages in waves, and the Skywing has taken off into the sky.

Lovely received the battle report from the front early in the morning. After preparing and arranging his knights, he and Arttana climbed the city wall and looked towards the plains.

The reason they did this is self-evident—

"Are you coming?"

Thirty minutes later, as the cold October wind swept across the grassland, a black line gradually appeared between the mountain passes at the horizon, casting a solemn hue over the sky and earth.

Luo Fuli looked solemnly in that direction, draped the brocade robe she was wearing to keep warm, and watched as the shadow gradually began to spread in her field of vision.

Everyone knows what this means.

On the city wall, orc warriors clad in leather armor and wielding weapons stood resolutely in place, peering intently in that direction every ten meters.

Gradually, everyone began to hear a roar—the sound of warhorses pounding the earth. The green grass on the plains was covered by black at a visible speed, like a tide rolling towards the valley, connecting the black ocean into one.

"Is this your army, Lucas?"

A month later, the second prince's army arrived, though late; they knew this day would come eventually.

Faced with the sight of the tide surging towards them, Vimir showed a slight look of surprise.

"Hmm... so an army of 50,000 is that many?"

“This is just the advance force,” Lovely said, leaning on her high-backed chair and looking at her. “It’s estimated to be less than seven thousand.”

"Eh...Eh?"

Standing next to her, Rowe shook his head. Although he was at the God War Ruins when Marcus attacked Uncrowned City and was fast asleep when Red Needle led the Crimson Lion Army into the capital, he had still experienced the beast tide and Randall's regular army. It was too fast for him to forget.

However, unlike the previous times, this time they were the defenders of the city.

“When there are thousands of soldiers, there is no end; when there are tens of thousands, there is no border.” Ayi Ning said in a deep voice.

Loewe naturally knew that the numbers shouldn't be taken too seriously. In reality, a force of a thousand men could be considered to cover the entire mountainside, let alone the fifty thousand Lucas had brought.

Lovely showed no expression at this.

However, at this moment, something different happened on the plain. The dark tide began to converge in different directions, gradually forming several regional groups.

"what are they doing?"

"Set up battle formations," Felicia answered Mena's question knowingly.

As if in response to her words, the large square groups that had just gathered quickly dispersed to different locations, and soon reformed into more than thirty neat square groups, and marched towards the valley in this manner.

If each formation averages 200 people, then it is indeed close to 7,000 people.

"Wow, that's amazing!" Lu Yi exclaimed excitedly, waving her hands around. "It's like magic!"

Which side are you on...?

Lovely and Lowe were not surprised by Lucas's intentions. This was just a show to demonstrate military might and to appear to have great military talent in the face of battle. You could smell the trick from afar.

Within the military formation, the group noticed several military commanders riding white horses at the front of the left and right flanks. Besides Scarlett and several lords of major Western families, there was also a military commander from the temple.

And the person in charge was none other than Lucas, the second prince of the Kingdom of Lion Garden.

At this moment, he was riding a white horse draped in gold, wearing a golden lion prince crown, and his face was full of high spirits.

"It really is a face that makes people feel unpleasant just by looking at it."

As the army passed through the open space in front of the valley without any hindrance, Lucas raised his whip, and the entire square formation immediately stopped in place in perfect unison.

With the help of Scarlett and another temple angel, he spurred his horse forward, and when he was about 300 meters away, he rode forward alone, pulled the reins across his horse, and looked up at the top of the city wall.

"I'm only giving you half a day to surrender—"

"Before dusk, I will only reduce you to slavery, except for the main perpetrators. After dusk, I will raze the entire valley and leave no heretic alive."

Lovely placed a higher chair on the city wall to expose her figure.

“You’re still so stupid, Lucas,” she said.

“I have nothing to say to you, that you are beyond redemption,” the Fifth Princess’s voice came through the magical facility clearly, “but nobles of the West, do you really not care what’s happening in Melendale, and turn a blind eye to the plea for help from the capital? If you send your trusted confidants to the capital to see for yourselves, you will understand how pathetic it is to follow this fool to fight in the South.”

Lucas's army remained silent, with several generals simply standing still and watching.

"See that?" Lucas turned around and laughed. "My ridiculous sister who colluded with the alien race. You went to great lengths to deceive me into withdrawing my troops in order to protect the alien race. You really went to great lengths to make up such a huge joke."

Not only Lucas, but also the generals from the West and the officers in the formation burst into laughter.

it's useless.

Lovi leaned against the city wall and looked down. Not to mention that Randall had already taken away the core regular army, leaving only the local army of the western border that had no connection with the royal city's forces, even if some of them went to investigate, Lucas, who had been planning for so long, would not retreat because of such a thing. Once the army set out, it would not be easy to end the war.

Moreover, he probably truly believed that Randall would not betray him, and his stubborn belief of more than a decade would not change because of what others said, even if the evidence was right in front of him.

Should we make him admit his mistake and withdraw his troops on the spot?
The moment he tied the entire western region to the warship, he knew he couldn't afford to lose.

“I’m only giving you half a day—” Lucas looked up at Lovely, “I will drag you out of there, but to prevent you from making similar foolish mistakes again, I will definitely have someone discipline you strictly.”

"Then we'll see."

Lovely was furious, but she wasn't going to waste her breath arguing with him.

Lucas then turned his horse around, then glanced back at the city. "Don't even mention barricades, you won't even dig a moat," he scoffed, looking away. "Just wait to collect the corpses of your foreign brethren."

After saying that, he headed towards Scarlett and the temple angels, while the soldiers in the front row took off the bags they were carrying and dumped the orc corpses inside out.

Arttana, who witnessed this scene from the city wall, trembled slightly.

Luo Wei's eyes also turned cold.

After Scarlett waited until the second prince joined them, she stopped and glanced at the city wall, but did not immediately follow.

"What are you looking for?" asked the temple angel beside him.

"nothing……"

The first meeting between the two sides ended in a very unpleasant conversation.

……

Back in his tent, Lovely was so angry that he wanted nothing more than to burn Lucas's army to the ground with his fury.

Rowe glanced at Arttana, who simply raised her gaze resolutely and shook her head.

“This is no longer the era of the past. If we waver here, we will shed even more blood than we have now.”

"That's outrageous...!"

Having witnessed what had just happened, Vimir retracted her words of cowardice and resolved to hold nothing back!

“This is a clear act of provocation,” Felicia said, looking at the people in the tent. “Going into battle is obviously disadvantageous for us, while passive defense will embolden the enemy, giving them the impression that we dare not make a move, and making them even more self-righteous as the army of justice.”

As a guest, she was able to analyze this information more neutrally, but what Philica didn't quite understand was why Rowe didn't intend to ask for reinforcements.

Even when Vanessa was there a couple of days ago, Crownless City had expressed their interest, but he didn't accept their offer.

War is no joke.

“Let’s count again, how many of us are there?” Lovely forced herself to calm down and said.

“At most, it’s less than five hundred,” Ayining already knew these numbers by heart. “It includes the garrison of White Harbor Town, and… all the adult orc males went to the battlefield.”

“There’s no need to be afraid of him,” Lovely said. “We’ve won before when we were outnumbered!”

Urs gave a wry smile.

If creation counts, then he did indeed lose quite badly back then.

Examples of defeating the many with the few are not uncommon, but the attacking side often has major problems, such as when Marcus attacked Uncrowned City. However, Philica couldn't see any fatal flaws in the second prince of Lion's Garden. Judging from his performance today, he was advancing entirely on his own will.

She looked at Lo Wei.

The only possibility is that he has some unexpected trump card up his sleeve.

The others also looked over, and it wasn't until Lovely stared at him for a while that Rowe waved his hand and spoke.

“Calm down,” he said, looking at Lovely. “The battlefield you’re supposed to command isn’t actually here.”

"Huh?" Lovely was a little confused by what he said. "Lucas's army is practically taunting us. If we don't fight here, where else am I supposed to go?"

"Baigang Town".

Lo Wei gave a very clear answer.

In fact, most of the knights were assigned to wait on the Skywing and White Harbor, and the valley was actually only inhabited by Attana's orcs.

“I have no intention of handing the city over to Lucas,” he explained. “The front here can be left to Attana, but you’re the only one who can go over there.”

"You're only telling me now?"

And I've never heard of anything like this before!

“There’s a reason for that,” he said in a deep voice. “I guess Lucas has already sent a small force over there. You’ll see when you get there.”

"Is...is that so?" Lovely hesitated for a moment, noticing his serious tone. "Then...will you come with me?"

Rowe pointed at Vimir, "I've already had this guy open the portal beforehand. I'll go over if needed."

Vimiel: ()
Hmm... I can't be only useful for this, can I?

Seeing that Saya hadn't been assigned any tasks and was reluctantly heading towards the city wall all by herself, she felt a little better...

Cloth, cloth! Why do I have this kind of sisterly feeling for someone in such a predicament?!
Vimiel sluggishly chased after her, leaving Lovely alone in the tent, lost in thought.

"Pfft... Ayining, how long have you been here? You still seem to be having trouble adjusting to the new environment. Didn't you sleep well last night?"

"No, no, it's just my constitution."

Ignoring Lu Yi and the others' conversation at the door, she felt more and more that something was wrong, and there was a strange sense of unease about it.

Looking back on the whole incident, Lovely seemed to gradually realize where something was wrong.

"..."

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Why would I, the commander-in-chief of an army, be suddenly transferred away from the battlefield?!

(End of this chapter)