Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 128 Counterattack on the Orc Empire

An overwhelming aura of death enveloped Gul'dan in an instant, and the green flames on his body seemed to ignite instantly, burning fiercely. The towering flames blasted the entire castle away.

Twenty seconds later, amidst the ruins of the castle razed to the ground, Agreed stood before Gul'dan, who was kneeling on the ground, and scrutinized him, saying, "As expected, my current strength is insufficient to unleash the full power of this magic, which is why you survived."

At this moment, Gul'dan finally collapsed, barely able to hold on. He lay on the ground, weakly crying out, "What kind of power is this? Impossible... My sorcery, the wisdom of my people accumulated over thousands of years, the legacy of the Mad God, how could this be..."

Agreed placed his hand on his head and said, "How could it not be? Gods are just beings who have risen from the ascension of us. Although this path is difficult, there are always those who have created even greater power systems along this path."

As he spoke, the Soul Search was activated. Gul'dan no longer had the strength to refuse the Soul Search or even scream. After obtaining everything from him, Argrede casually crushed Gul'dan's head with a single kick.

As Argreed emerged from the ruins, he looked toward the swamp. The war had long since ended. As Gul'dan left the ranks and arrived at the castle, tens of thousands of vampires joined the battle. Instantly, the situation turned into a one-sided massacre. Even before the battle between Argreed and Gul'dan had reached its climax, this side of the battlefield had already completely ended.

The 30,000 dead orc soldiers rose up as undead and knelt at Agreed's feet along with the other undead. Agreed looked at them and said, "Lester, Brecel, I have a new task for you."

Lester and Brecel immediately stepped forward. They had absorbed a lot of blood from the battlefield, which had allowed them to recover from their previous injuries. Now full of energy, they knelt down and said, "Please give your orders, sir."

Agreed then ordered, "I want you to lead all the undead and vampires of the Western Swamp on an expedition to the Orcish Empire, and at all costs, make the Orcs submit to me! Remember, capture the Orc Emperor alive; I have some questions for him. Take this teleportation scroll with you. If you encounter an enemy you cannot defeat, or once you have captured the Orc Emperor, tear it open and I will instantly arrive there." With that, Agreed tossed the teleportation scroll to Lester.

Lester immediately took the scroll, and then he and Brecel respectfully said, "Yes, sir."

The two then stood up and urged the undead towards the Orc Empire. The vast army of millions of undead surged out of the Western Swamp like locusts. After everyone left, Agreed suddenly collapsed weakly to the ground. The instant-death magic he had just used had greatly depleted his soul power. Sure enough, before entering the Divine Bone Realm, it was impossible to easily attempt Tutankhamun's world-destroying forbidden spells. The damage Agreed had suffered would take at least seven days to fully recover.

However, he could still afford this loss. Afterwards, Agreed quickly went to the dungeon to recuperate. Now he needed to recover as soon as possible because you never know whether tomorrow or an accident will come first.

In the capital city of the Orc Empire, the Orc Emperor was already overwhelmed by intelligence reports from the front lines about the undead army pressing in.

Seeing this, the close advisor beside him, the current orc swordsman 'Samai', reassured him: "Your Majesty, you don't need to panic so much. The undead are naturally slow-moving. We have plenty of time to set up defenses. Most of the undead are not intelligent and cannot have any engineering machinery or anything like that. We can withdraw all our troops and defend using the walls of the capital and the open view of the orc plains."

Although Lord Gul'dan is dead, his enemy, the Undead Grand Duke, must be in dire straits. He might even be critically wounded and on the verge of death. He'll likely be unable to participate in this campaign, so we still have a chance to win.

The orc emperor's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly, "You're right! I'll order all the troops to retreat right now, and we'll fight this battle right here in the capital!" With that, the orc emperor immediately walked out of the palace and began to issue orders.

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On the other side, Lester and Brecel were riding on two captured giant dire wolves, followed by tens of thousands of undead cavalry riding dire wolves. As the battle in the orcish empire progressed, the combat power of the undead army was also steadily increasing, and those tattered skeletons were gradually replaced by resurrected orc warriors.

Lester and Brecel understood that the undead army was slow, so they first led their highly mobile cavalry to conduct a large-scale sweep of the surrounding areas. However, Lester and Brecel gave the undead a strict order not to kill children or defenseless orc civilians.

Because Agreed wanted to take over this land, and this land needed people, the orcs, as the native inhabitants, were the best choice. Therefore, Lester and Brecel's policy toward the orc empire was not to exterminate them, but to 'remove the threat and armament' to facilitate better rule.

Although the speed of the suddenly appearing undead cavalry was unexpected by the Orc Empire, the Orc Empire still managed to gather a considerable force in a short period of time, and quickly set up a tight defensive fortification around the imperial city with resources and food gathered from all over the country.

The days of war were extremely difficult, as if every second was a cycle, and time passed by second by second as if there was no end in sight.

Sixteen days later, Lester and Brecel had swept through most of the orcish empire except for the capital city. The remaining outskirts were probably devoid of armed forces. However, Lester and Brecel did not attack the capital city for a simple reason: cavalry simply did not have the capability to besiege cities. Therefore, they were actually using the mobility of cavalry to cut off the connections and resource gathering between various towns.

However, there is some very good news: due to the plains terrain and other factors, the Orc Empire has not built any large-scale defensive fortifications like city walls in its cities other than the capital. Therefore, Lester and Brecel have now basically controlled all the strategic locations of the Orc Empire and have completely surrounded the Orc capital.

However, they still could not launch an attack on the imperial city because the main force had not arrived, and the undead in the rear were too slow. This gave the orcish empire a long breathing space, which allowed the imperial city to build many defensive fortifications during this time, making the two of them very anxious.

However, they were not idle. Just last night, they tried to enter and cause trouble, but unfortunately, their actions were seen through by the orc swordsman. In the end, the two had no choice but to retreat temporarily because they did not want to be surrounded by the guards.

There was also bad news: before they completely surrounded the imperial city, they had already mobilized and stockpiled enough food to feed all the orcs in the city for more than two months.