Hail the King

Chapter 32: The Early Christmas Presents

Although the power of 【Howl】 was significantly reduced by the time it reached the bottom of the defensive wall, it was enough to affect the average horses. The horses started to neigh in terror, and they lost their strength and fell to the ground, defecating everywhere.

This took the three black knights by surprise, and they quickly jumped off of their horses.

”You fucking……”

No matter how hard they whipped the horses, these well-trained battle horses seemed as if they were possessed; they wailed about but couldn’t get up.

”Ohohohoho, look! They pissed themselves, haha!”

”Fuck off, Bastards! Bring your weapons next time!”

”You want us to surrender? You must be dreaming! Taste my axe!”

”Chambord will not be conquered by you low lives! We will teach you a memorable life lesson……”

”Hahaha, you scared? Go cry to your mom!”

”……”

After seeing that, the soldiers of Chambord burst into laughter. Some soldiers started mocking them, and some even took out their dongs and started peeing on the knights under the defensive wall……

”Tink, tink, tink – ”

Some soldiers started tapping their weapons. The mighty and powerful metal sounds in addition to what Lampard and Fei did got rid of all the fear in everyone’s mind. Even the most timid soldiers were excited for battle and wanted to kill a few enemies.

……

Far away, on the other side of the Zuli river.

Seeing what had happened from far, even the silver masked knight who appeared calm and relaxed became extremely angry.

He was trying to use this negotiation to tear apart the unity within Chambord and create conflict within to dismantle their morale. Even if Chambord didn’t surrender, Chambord’s defensive ability would fall to an all-time low and it would be way easier for him to conquer the kingdom.

However……

He didn’t expect things to turn out like this.

The rage and stupid behaviour of [One] had broken the unwritten rules of negotiation on the battlefield and gave Chambord a proper reason to attack [One]. [One] didn’t just lose his life, but also gave Chambord a chance to stimulate their own morale and stomp on the enemy’s morale.

”Shit……”

The silver masked knight couldn’t help but swear. He didn’t know why, but he felt the operation of sieging Chambord Castle wasn’t going to be as easy as he thought.

”Master, please allow me to kill that arrogant three star warrior!”

Landes felt it was a great opportunity for him to redeem himself. He stepped up and requested. Some of the other black knights were getting impatient too.

As witnessing their own being killed one by one by the Chambord soldiers, they felt their pride as the silver masked knight’s henchmen being challenged. They expressed their wish of sieging right away and executing everyone in Chambord.

But –

The silver masked knight held his horsewhip tightly in his hands. The joints on his fingers were turning white because he was applying a lot of force; he was trying to endure the rage in his mind.

After thinking for a moment, he waved at his subordinates and surprisingly stopped them. He said with a deep voice, ”Follow my command. Stop the siege right now. We will start attacking after lunch!”

Landes and the black knights were surprised; they didn’t expect such a command.

”Those low lives are at the peak of their morale; if we siege right now, we will fall into that retarded king’s trick……” The silver masked knight pointed at Chambord with his horsewhip, and said calmly, ”After lunch when their morale dies down, it will be our best opportunity to siege. Put all the siege ladders and machines into battle when it begins. I want this sinful castle to be conquered within half an hour! We will execute them for three days following it to seek the revenge for my warriors!”

His calm voice turned into a roar when he was finished. He turned his horse around and headed back to the base.

……

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On the defensive wall.

After three minutes, Fei and Brook looked at each other.

Everyone on the defensive wall thought that after Lampard had killed the black knight, the enemies would be angered and would start attacking aggressively right away. All of the soldiers were ready for that……

Who knew that three minutes had passed by and the aggressive attacks hadn’t come? The enemies’ formation were still the same, occupying the whole bridge. They didn’t move at all and just stayed out of the archers’ range.

”Damn, what’s going on?”