The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom: Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 6] by Fudeorca

Author:Fudeorca
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2 — The Battle for Sibiak

I

“Your Excellency, I implore you not to go! The danger is too great!” Dimitri Daz, a lord-of-estates, cried out as he ran over to me to make this demand.

“I’m going,” I told him. “I’ll be fine. We know their soldiers aren’t positioned over there.”

“The first order can’t be trusted! Nor can the royal swords!”

I climbed onto White Sunset and rapidly secured my harness.

“If the situation looks risky, I’ll get on my eagle and fly back. All you have to do is keep the second order here until you see the flag go up, just like we planned. If they show signs of retreating before my return, charge in with your plainrunners and sow some confusion.”

“Very well. Please stay safe!” Dimitri took a step back to give my eagle’s wings enough space to expand, then saluted.

White Sunset began to beat his wings when I pulled lightly on the reins to instruct him to take off. I could feel the uplift.

“All right, here I go!”

I couldn’t wave goodbye because I was holding the reins with my right hand and a spear with my left.

Once in the air where I could view the world below, I saw the Ho family army deployed on the grazing land to the royal capital’s south. There were sixteen thousand soldiers in densely packed formations with plainrunner cavalry at left and right flanks.

Up ahead, on the southern edge of the capital, the second order was positioned and ready to meet them. Their rearmost soldiers were near the spot where we’d broken through a barricade ten days ago.

Similarly to the Ho army, the enemy was densely arranged into square units, but the shapes were smaller and less well-defined than ours.

There was no sign of the first order whatsoever. If its soldiers were mixed in with the others, then there would’ve been almost twenty thousand of them in total, which would’ve made their army larger than ours overall. Since that wasn’t the case, the intel stating that the first order had been left to guard Royal Castle Island appeared accurate.

Other eagles began to take flight after they saw me ascend. I traced small ellipses through the air while I waited for them to catch up. More and more of them took to the sky until the spectacle above the Ho army was like nothing I’d seen before.

Five hundred massive birds now filled the sky like crows circling over a slaughterhouse. Many of the second order’s sky knights, meanwhile, abandoned their reconnaissance efforts and returned to the ground when they realized they were hopelessly outnumbered.

I put an unusually large whistle to my mouth and blew hard. A shrill sound reverberated through the air—piiiiiiiiii!

Whistles like this were inaudible over long distances, but as long as the riders closest to me heard it, it would be enough to trigger a chain reaction. They all understood the plan already.

I turned White Sunset’s beak toward the royal castle.

In just a few moments, White Sunset and I passed over the troops on the ground and neared the castle.

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