Volume 5, Chapter 53 – Armies At The Gates

As a Legendary within the Neutral Faction, Yivrea might be unwilling to show her face and want to hide her tracks, but she still had to remain within the territory of the factionless force.

Right now, although Yivrea was staying in a room where the lighting was relatively dim, the place she was in was still inside the main city chosen by the Neutral Faction.

It was precisely because Yivrea resided in the main city that Julius could come looking for her over and over, hoping she would make a move and help them.

However, not even a few seconds after Julius pushed open the door and left the room, Yivrea, who had still been elegantly drinking her black tea, heard Julius’s furious roar.

“What did you say!! Say that again!!!”

Yivrea actually understood Julius quite well. Although on the surface he looked like a rough, burly middle aged man, in truth Julius was someone rough on the outside but meticulous on the inside, with a very careful mind.

Because she knew Julius well enough, Yivrea was extremely curious about the enraged shout coming from outside the door.

“Did something happen?”

Murmuring to herself, Yivrea set down the teacup she was holding, then walked to the door and pushed it open.

Only after opening the door did Yivrea see Julius, standing not far from the room, facing a man dressed like a soldier who was kneeling on one knee on the ground, head lowered, not daring to make a sound.

“Julius? What is it?”

When she pushed the door open, Julius’s back was to Yivrea, so at first glance Yivrea could only tentatively judge his current state as anger.

It was only when she walked up in front of Julius that Yivrea discovered his face had gone dark as iron.

“Yivrea.”

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Her approaching made Julius glance at her, and when he saw Yivrea come over, his expression eased a little.

“Alright, alright, you can go back first… I’ll be there right away.”

Right after that, Julius waved his hand at the soldier in front of him and spoke in a tone full of impatience.

“Yes!”

Hearing this, the soldier dressed man acted as if he had received a royal pardon, immediately rose to his feet and left.

“What is it? Did something happen?”

Watching the soldier walk away, Yivrea fixed her gaze back on Julius’s face.

After the soldier left, Julius’s rough featured face had his thick lips pressed together, and his dense brows were tightly knitted.

“Something troublesome really has happened… just now, this messenger told me that the front line was accidentally torn open by the outsiders in one place, and those outsiders used that rent as a breakthrough point to begin splitting up and encircling our army… right now the front line has been forced apart, each part fighting on its own… and some of the outsiders have already started rushing toward the main city.”

“In other words, our main city is about to face an attack from the outsider army…”

After he finished saying this, Julius let out a deep sigh.

“This… I didn’t expect the front line to collapse this fast.”

Hearing this news, Yivrea was deeply shocked.

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Although she had already anticipated that the front line would eventually collapse under the outsiders’ endless assaults, Yivrea had never imagined that the speed of the front’s defeat would be this fast.

By rights, they should at least have been able to hold out for ten days or half a month.

“Right now the main city is hollow, and the troops left to garrison it are fewer than ten thousand… against that outsider army, we definitely won’t be able to hold… Yivrea, what should we do next?”

“This… it shouldn’t be that we can’t hold at all, right? Julius, you yourself are a Legendary. Even though the outsiders also have a Legendary, the intelligence we received at the time said they only had one Legendary, right? Besides, didn’t we also have a Legendary on the front line?”

Yivrea did not understand very much about military matters.

Even though she had the divination ability to foresee what was to come, that did not stop her from being unfamiliar with some of the details in the reports.

“Hah… before, it was one Legendary.”

Julius slowly let out a breath.

“But just yesterday… the outsiders’ reinforcements entered the battle, and among those reinforcements, there were three Legendaries.”

“Right now, our Legendary on the front line is being pinned down by the original outsider Legendary. If I’m not mistaken, that outsider army heading this way should also have three Legendaries…”

“Three of them…”

Yivrea could not help falling silent as well.

In this world, if neither side had a Throne, then Legendaries were the key that decided the outcome of a war.

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When one side had an overwhelming advantage in the number of Legendaries, then no matter how stubbornly the other side resisted, defeat was only a matter of time.

Now that she had learned the news that the outsider army had suddenly gained three more Legendaries, Yivrea for a moment did not know what to say.

“Ah… maybe us factionless people forming a force of our own was a complete mistake from the very start…”

Even though he was troubled, Julius did not show any cowardice just because the outsiders had far more Legendaries than they did.

On the contrary, after telling Yivrea about this, the anger he felt over their front line falling into disadvantage slowly calmed.

“Hah… Yivrea, while there is still time, you should leave this place first. You may be a Legendary too, but I know that as an Astrologer your combat strength is practically nonexistent… I can’t let you stay here and die.”

Hearing this, Yivrea opened her mouth, wanting to say something.

But when she met Julius’s firm and earnest gaze, Yivrea could only let out a quiet sigh in the end.

“I understand… I’ll leave right away, I won’t drag you down…”

“Mm. Take care.”

Julius nodded in relief, then turned and left without looking back.

Left standing alone where she was, Yivrea silently bit her lip.

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An hour later.

On the main city’s walls, Julius stood with the greatsword on his back, gazing far into the distant horizon.

Behind Julius, soldiers clad in armor stood one after another, some gripping bows, some gripping swords, their faces tense as they stared out into the distance.

It was late autumn, with cold winds howling and banners snapping.

Very soon, at the far edge of the horizon, a massive army that made one’s scalp prickle just to look at appeared there.

The earth underfoot trembled faintly, and as that army drew closer step by step, the expressions on the faces of the soldiers on the walls grew ever more grave.

Of course, if one looked closely into their eyes, one would notice the panic shining there.

All except Julius, whose face remained expressionless.

As time passed, the outsider army in the distance came closer and closer.

The atmosphere on the battlefield grew more and more grim.

And then.

The expressionless Julius suddenly raised his right hand.