Conquering OtherWorld Starts With a Game Chapter 173: Undead Army Arrives

The vanguard that arrived first at the designated battlefield comprised 121 Sokri mercenaries, Captain Kenn, Inspector Lowell, Lieutenant Wagner Pitt, and a full contingent of 40 undead.

To the scouting party, these numbers seemed… insufficient. When this information was relayed back, Captain Roy, acting as the interim commander, greeted it with suspicion. "Could this be a ruse? Has Rex intentionally hidden his true forces?"

It wasn't really surprising that this Radiant Sun Church officer harbored such doubts given the illustrious track record of Rex and Yang's undead army—swiftly taking Weisshem in a single night, capturing a whole cavalry unit of Indahl's city defense force, unraveling Commander Walton's reconnaissance mission, and ensnaring the elite scouts along with the spies sent by the city defense force.

A mere handful of undead and a group of clearly foreign mercenaries couldn't possibly achieve such feats.

Concurring with Captain Roy, the scout leader diligently led his men out once more, skirting the enemy encampment to stealthily search every conceivable hideout within a ten-mile radius that could shelter a "large army."

By noon, as makeshift viewing stands erected by local nobility began to dot the hills surrounding the unnamed wasteland, the weary scout party had yet to uncover anything of note…

That Bartalis family was among the first to arrive at the outskirts of the wasteland for observation.

Their estate was in close proximity to the designated battlefield, and their cattle and horses would occasionally graze here, making them well-acquainted with the terrain. Early in the morning, a dozen robust servants had come by carriage, selecting and clearing a platform on an unnamed hill to erect a viewing pavilion.

Mr. Gould, the loyal steward, along with the cavalry squadron he led from the estate, didn't set out until after lunch and arrived at the viewing platform just after midday.

After exchanging pleasantries with the steward of the Darcy Viscountcy, who had arrived a tad earlier and was ov

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