Blue Phoenix Chapter 86 - It is Time

Retreating from the battlefield, Hui Yue heard complaints from the beasts atop the wall. They wished to jump down. They wanted to overrun the city, and they wanted to finish this war once and for all. Hui Yue, on the other hand, was not as eager to rush the city as the rest of the beasts. He had seen how the opponent easily withdrew. The crusaders had only appeared once yet they had not done anything spectacular. Thinking about the crusaders, Hui Yue was cautious. He had met them before, and he knew that they were in no way simple. Seeing that they had not done much so far, Hui Yue knew that they, and maybe even some extra Saints, were lying in wait for them to become overconfident. Instead, Hui Yue spoke in a voice no one would dare go against with one simple but forceful order, “Retreat!”

At first, the eager beasts were not certain that they wanted to follow orders, but with one glance at their Grand Marshall, they all started moving back. Seeing an expert who had just killed a Saint while he, himself, was a mere King was simply so awe-inspiring that they dared not go against him. If he could manage one Saint, who was to say that they would come away unscathed from an argument with him.

“That damn bastard!” the Grand Marshall of the Siban Royal Army cursed as he saw how the beasts slowly retreated from the city wall. “Since when are beasts this cautious? If it weren't for that half-breed, they would have lost time and time again,” he continued as he observed what was happening on the wall beneath him. No matter what he had done, everything ended in a devastating loss one time after another as the beasts did not fall for his traps. Instead, they battled the way an experienced army would. They had not managed to lower the beasts’ numbers enough to be worth the heavy losses the Royal Army had sustained. The Saints had fought well, but now his strongest Saint was injured and his second in command had fallen at the hands of the enemy’s Grand Marshall. If even the second in command was defeated, how would they stand up

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