Chapter 468

Now, the number of defenders in Romulus City is less than 30,000, but the enemy they face is at least 80,000.

It seems that Giovanni's defeat is only a matter of time.

But in fact, it is far from that.

In the coalition army tent outside Romulus City.

Ten thousand soldiers from the Duke of Orleans also arrived here three days ago. After two days of rest, they were involved in the tragic siege yesterday, leaving nearly a thousand bodies.

"Everyone, although our losses are slightly greater than the enemy, according to intelligence, the number of enemy soldiers is less than 30,000. Romulus City has a large area. Tomorrow, we will cooperate with the soldiers on the east wall to control the east, so that the number of soldiers we can put into the battlefield can be doubled."

At the combat meeting, Scaloni told the commanders of each legion his ideas.

The reason why the attack in the northern city yesterday could only capture a few streets was largely because the battlefield was limited. Even if more troops were invested, the number of soldiers actually engaged in battle with the enemy would not change.

After taking the east city wall, the area of ​​engagement will be further expanded, so the enemy will need to pay more defensive power and the casualties caused by the enemy will be greater.

The coalition forces are not afraid of death now. The first priority is to take Romulus City as soon as possible and send the sinner Giovanni to the court.

At this time, the messenger ran in from outside the military tent and said:

"It's bad! It's bad! The enemy has sent out a very strange army. Our position in the northern city was taken back by the enemy not long after we took it!"

Hearing this news, Scaloni was stunned for a moment, and then asked in disbelief: "How is it possible? We have more people than the opposite side. The northern city has invested 10,000 people. With so many people, you tell me that the position is lost?!"

"Yes, it's true!" The messenger said anxiously.

"It is said that the people in that small group are very strange. They are not afraid of death at all. Even if they are cut by swords, they will not make any sound. They are extremely fierce. Our brothers think they are weird. Under their leadership, our position was quickly beaten back by the enemy!"

Chapter 116: I will find a good cemetery for you

"Not afraid of death, they don't make any sound even if they are cut by swords, and they are extremely fierce? Are you sure you are describing humans?" Scaloni looked at the messenger below and asked in surprise.

As one of the major local forces in the empire, it is reasonable for the Dukedom of Naples to have some elite armed forces, just like the Dukedom of Antica, which has a black army that follows Lucius and has played a key role in the previous battle against the orcs.

However, because the Dukedom of Naples is not on the front line against foreign enemies, there has been no large-scale war in the territory for many years. Therefore, other parts of the empire know less about the elite troops of the Dukedom of Naples, and many people even think that the Dukedom of Naples does not have the so-called elite troops at all.

But this time, according to the description of the frontline soldiers, the Duke of Naples obviously still has elite troops.

The messenger was also stunned by Scaloni's question.

"This... According to you, General, these people may not really be human... But..."

He himself could not give a definite answer to this question at the moment.

"Forget it, you go down first, we will respond later." Scaloni sighed and said so.

This strange situation must be reported to the central government of the empire.

...

On the other side, in Romulus City, the Naples army stationed.

This strange army appeared on the battlefield, not only attracting the attention of the coalition forces, but also the attention of the friendly forces.

"Hey, have you heard? Yesterday, the Duke sent a very powerful army to directly recapture all the positions that the enemy had captured, and even drove the enemy to the city wall!"

"Yes, it's true. That army is really powerful. I heard that they are all fearless. We will move our positions forward today and take over the positions they occupied."

"By the way, have you seen the true faces of those soldiers? I heard that they all wear full body plate armor. The armor is so heavy that they don't take it off even when they are fighting in the heat. Their physical fitness is too terrifying."

"It's no wonder that they are so well equipped. Most people can't wear that heavy armor, let alone wear it to fight."

"I was ready to say hello to them when I saw them setting off yesterday, but I didn't expect them to ignore me. In the whole queue, there was no other sound except the sound of walking on the road."

"It proves that their military discipline is very good. It seems that we really have hope to rely on this legion to repel the enemy."

"Yes!"

The discussion about the sudden appearance of the elite legion gave the remaining Naples soldiers confidence in victory.

Although the elite army only had a few thousand men, it defeated 10,000 men in a direct confrontation yesterday.

In the Duke's Palace, Giovanni looked at the north wall with a slight smile on his face.

"Sure enough, as long as my army takes action, no matter how elite the troops are, they will be easily captured in the end."

"Of course, as long as you are willing to pay enough chips, we can provide you with more such troops."

Behind Giovanni, a man with a cane said with a smile.

The skin on his hands was wrinkled, but his face was very young, looking only in his twenties.

"I don't lack people, let alone dead people." Giovanni shook his head.

"As long as I can take over the city of Saint Laurent, even if the entire Duchy of Naples is buried with me, I don't care."

"Haha, that's not the case." The man behind Giovanni shook his head.

"If everyone dies, who will rule for us? Besides, these people won't let us do this, right?"

Hearing what the man said, Giovanni didn't say much, just shook his head silently.

"Andrew, according to this transformation method, how many more people can you transform?"

"Don't worry, all this takes time."

"I order you to build an army of more than ten thousand people for me in the shortest possible time. I only give you ten days."

"Duke Giovanni, isn't ten days a bit..."

"You can use the resources of the entire city of Romulus."

"Ah... That will be much easier. Thank you, Duke Giovanni." Andrew said this and nodded with a smile.

"By the way, you should know the consequences of playing tricks, right?" Giovanni said, and a cold light shone in the shadows of the room.

"Of course I know this. Duke Giovanni gave me this old life. I will naturally fulfill my mission."

"In that case, I'm waiting for your good news." Giovanni said, turned around and left the room.

Andrew stood there and waited until the disgusting smell in the room dissipated before snorting coldly.

"Just be patient for a while."

Then, he also walked out of the room and went straight to a warehouse in the Duke's Manor.

…

After Giovanni and Andrew said goodbye, they went directly to the basement of the Duke's Palace.

When I opened the basement door, an unpleasant smell came out.

At this moment, Downey was chained to a wooden stake in the basement. He saw Giovanni walking into the room with hopeful eyes in his eyes.

"Father! Let me go quickly. I feel so uncomfortable now. We must have misunderstood something before..."

"I'm sorry, Donnie, my son. In order for you to be able to inherit such a huge future, you have to bear these pains." Giovanni said this and came to Donnie.

"...Father, you mean that I have to be here again..."

"Well, believe me, Donnie, as long as you get through this period of time, you will be reborn and regain your life." Giovanni said this, looked at the button connected next to the wooden stake, walked over, and then pressed the button Down.

Downey on the wooden stake could no longer speak after Giovanni pressed the button. The burning pain from the four chains had made him unable to utter anything except screams.

"The potion I gave you will make your body stronger than ever before, but currently you can't suppress the side effects of the potion. You can only suppress it with the help of external forces. When the side effects dissipate, you can control the side effects at will. A powerful force.”

"Believe me, Donnie, when you really come into contact with that power, you will thank me." Giovanni said this, ignoring Donnie's screams, turned his back, and left the basement directly .

"Keep an eye on Donnie for me. He will be suppressed three more times today." He ordered coldly.

"As ordered." The black shadow that emerged around him bowed respectfully and accepted the order.

"Come on, Lucius." Giovanni returned to the ground and walked out of the Duke's Palace. He raised his head and took a breath of fresh air.

"This time, I will find a good cemetery for you."

Chapter 117: Let me go with you

"Attention, our mission this time is to test out the details of the enemy's strange unit." As night fell, while most of the soldiers were resting and preparing for the next day's battle, a small group of troops quietly came under the control of the coalition forces. The north gate entered the city of Romulus.

The leader was Lite, her adjutant was Virgil and Martin, who had previously defected to Lite in Florence. The three of them led a carefully selected 500 elite soldiers to attack the city of Romulus at night.

Just as Leeteuk, Virgil, and Martin had just ordered, this army was not directly raiding the city for a beheading operation, but was preparing to find out about the enemy's secret army.

In the position that was recaptured during the day, ordinary Napoli soldiers were already stationed here. Li Te saw those people from a long distance. Seeing that they were ordinary soldiers, she quickly asked her soldiers to stop and led her With a few agile soldiers, he sneaked over from the side and eliminated the enemy's garrisoned soldiers. Then the large army went directly along this street and penetrated into the enemy camp.

Finally, deep in the camp, Lee Teuk saw the same army that the messenger had described during the day.

What surprised her was that even at night, they still clung to their bodies, as if they were afraid of being seen inside.

The more Leeteuk looked, the more he felt something was wrong. He ordered Martin to lead his troops to observe the surrounding situation, while he and Virgil secretly stepped forward.

In an alleyway, Virgil and Lite separated. The latter stayed where he was, while the former rushed out of the alleyway and onto the street.

This move naturally attracted the enemy's attention.

However, what surprised Vergil was that the enemy's perception seemed to be really poor. Vergil ran across the street in front of them without attracting the opponent's attention.

In desperation, Virgil could only pick up a stone and throw it in front of a plate armor soldier.

This did attract the other party's attention. The other party first looked up and confirmed that there was nothing unusual around, then walked forward and looked at the things on the ground.

Seeing this, Virgil threw another stone on the ground in front of him. This time he deliberately exposed a flaw, so that the other party noticed the shadow in the alley. The other party immediately trotted forward and chased Virgil in the alley.

Not long after the other party turned into the alley, Lit followed closely and knocked him to the ground directly.

"Put down resistance and tell me who you are!" Lit threatened the other party like this, but who knew that the other party didn't listen to Lit at all, didn't say anything, and tried to struggle to stand up.

Lit pressed the other party's shoulders tightly, but the other party would rather give up an arm to stand up.

And there was still no sound in the process, except for the metal sound of moving scrapes together.

Lit was shocked by the opponent's bravery. At this time, Virgil drew out his sword and stabbed it into the connection between the opponent's helmet and breastplate, and lifted up the helmet.

Then, the face of the opponent was exposed, which stunned both of them.

With skinny cheeks, fierce eyes and distorted facial features, the opponent did not look like a human at all, but rather like a living dead.

After the helmet was taken off, the expression on the face of the "living dead" became more painful. He even roared, but what came out of his throat was only the hoarse exhalation sound after the vocal cords were broken. If it were not for the helmet, the two would not have noticed that he could not speak at all.

It seems that they did not say a word at all, but that even if they were injured and wanted to scream, they could not scream at all.

What's more, at present, it seems that after one of the opponent's arms was removed, he seemed to have no pain at all, which would not affect his next actions.

Virgil was the first to react. He directly protected Lit and then kicked the mysterious soldier to the ground.

The strength shown by the opponent when struggling just now should be at the level of level 5 to 6, but Virgil's current strength has reached level 7, so it is no problem to deal with such a thing.

However, thinking of the opponent's description, the enemy's army of the living dead seems to have thousands of people.

Thousands of soldiers of level 5 to 6, and each of them is fearless, this kind of combat power is more powerful than any elite force of the empire.

Even if the Royal Knights or the Holy Knights of the Church come, the ordinary soldiers of these two armies will not get any advantage in front of this army.

Virgil was about to end the opponent's life with a sword, but was stopped by Litt.

She shook her head and then said: "We have to take him back, whether it is as evidence to add a level to Giovanni's crime, or to study ways to fight against this monster."

"That's right, I was abrupt." Virgil heard the words, retracted the sword, and then put the helmet back on the man, and then escorted the other party, ready to take him back by force.

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“Legion of the Living Dead?!” Saint Laurent City, military meeting.

“Well, so General Scaloni is currently requesting assistance. If the reinforcements don’t arrive, the other side can use this legion to counterattack, and it may even cause greater harm.” The general who returned from the front line said so.

“Send the Royal Knights over, Arthas, you can transfer some more people from the army, and Elsa, and transfer as many magicians as possible.”

After Odysseus gave each of his children an order, he looked at Pope Levi who was sitting next to him.

“Your Excellency the Pope, at this time, the Holy Knights of the Church should also attack, right?”

“Well, dealing with this kind of evil is the obligation of the Church.” Levi nodded, then looked at Odysseus.

"But, Your Majesty, have you decided who will lead the troops this time?"

"..." Upon hearing this, Odysseus thought for a while, and then asked: "Are General Scaloni and Duke Lucius not capable enough?"

"Of course I am not questioning their abilities. They are all famous generals of the empire. However, in this situation, a more capable person is needed to replace them in order to solve the problems on the front line more safely, isn't it?" The Pope said this, glancing at Elsa with an imperceptible look.

Seeing this, Elsa also knew what Levi meant.

"Father, I do have a candidate to recommend. If he is the one who takes action, he can definitely ensure that the front line is worry-free."