Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 411

Chapter 411

Seeing their general defeated, the knights of Shansa Empire were in chaos . They were scared by Anfey’s cruel way of killing, even though they did not see a lot of blood . They did not want to continue fighting . They all started to flee .

Anfey not only wanted to keep his own losses to a minimum, but also wipe out his opponents . Otherwise he would not have put so much effort into this battle . Suzanna and he did not chase the knights . They simply followed behind at a distance . Mages in Elizabeth’s unit were divided into two groups and channeled the knights from Shansa Empire . They herded the knights like shepherds .

The knights from Shansa Empire ran for a while and caught up to their cavalry . Because of the differences in stamina, the cavalry in armors walked in a long formation . The formation stretched about nine miles long . The stronger soldiers marched in the front of the group, but they were all out of breath . The knights from Shansa Empire were so terrified that they ran through the cavalry formation in panic . The cavalry were jostled around and yelled at the knights . Some of them were knocked into the air, while others were trampled under the horses .

The surviving members of the cavalry started to curse . When they saw Suzanna covered under the golden lights and the strong and incomparable combat power, they wondered if Suzanna was a master swordswoman . They looked around for their flag but could not find it . They immediately realized why their peers acted in such a way . They stopped cursing . Their almost-exhausted energy was rejuvenated and they started to run after the cavalry .

Thompson led more than a hundred mercenaries behind Anfey . Thompson’s job was to clean up the battlefield, which meant every opponent should be killed . They all dressed neatly when they walked out . Oddly, they all started to take their shirts off and showed their fair and tanned chest . In the aftermath of Anfey’s Fire Sword, it was so hot that they had to partially undress . Every being on the whole battlefield was down on the ground xcept for one horse . There was a person riding on that horse who struggled hard but could not rein in the horse .

A mercenary strode over and smiled . "This should be the only person alive, as Master requested . " He grabbed a sword that Suzanna had embedded in a rock, trying hard to pull it out . However, after trying for a while, the sword did not seem to move one bit . He said out of surprise, "Master Suzanna is so powerful!"

"Of course!" Thompson walked over . "Let me try . " Thompson performed combat power as he held the sword shaft in his right hand . He did not look like he could handle it either, and grunted many times as he pulled . However, it was undeniable that the sword in the stone started to jiggle a bit . With a huge noise, Thompson pulled the sword out and gave a yell .

"God-like strength, Master!" the mercenary said playfully .

"Go away!" Thompson scolded, also playfully . The mercenary seemed to be making fun of him rather than giving him a compliment . "God-like strength" should be left to Master Suzanna . No one else could be referred to in that way .

"Why are you trying so hard to pull it out? You could just cut off the rein," another mercenary murmured .

"Why do you talk so much?" Thompson stared at the mercenary, but his face was red . "Hurry up! Do you work!" He pulled the sword out himself because he wanted to see the difference in strength between him and Suzanna . He got what he wanted, but he silently swore he would not do anything like that again .

The soldiers from Shansa Empire had no idea how long they had been running . Every knight had become a criminal recently . They were either sentenced to involuntary manslaughter or intentional homicide . The hooves of most of the horses on the battlefield were red . They seemed to have come to the end . Thousands of mercenaries stood in a neat formation and blocked their path .

Even though mercenaries barely kept their formation after the battle started, at that moment they were in perfect formation . What terrified the knights from Shansa Empire the most was the woman, quietly standing in front of the formation .

Sinbella was tall and slender . The sword in her hand was longer than others . She looked different than Suzanna . Suzanna always looked feminine, quiet, and sweet, while Shinbela looked more like a female leopard, ready to fight at any time . She looked especially sharp and wild when she was ready to fight .

The knights from Shansa Empire had been terrified by Anfey and Suzanna . Now when they saw Shinbella stand out in front of her unit and look like she could fight all the knights on her own, they unconsciously thought she was a top level power as well . She did not perform her combat power, but it was understood that she did not care and looked upon them with disdain .

The knights wondered what had they done to make three top level powers chase them down and try to kill them . They could not help sighing . They instinctively turned their horses around and tried to run in the opposite direction .

An orange fire appeared in the air and fell straight down . It was a Fire Sword . Half of the blade stuck into the ground . The other half above the ground had flames which seemed to be able to keep going for ever and kept going upwards . The soldiers from Shansa Empire suddenly remembered a rarely used term after seeing the sword: turn elements into real object . The next second, they saw Anfey and Suzanna walking shoulder to shoulder toward them .

The soldiers had two totally opposite reactions . Knights yelled and directed their horses toward Shinbella and the mercenaries . The top level powers had left an indelible horrifying impression on them, so they chose to ignore thousands of mercenaries . With two top level powers on one end and only one top level power on the other end, they definitely would choose the latter .

The cavalry from Shansa Empire chose to run towards Shinbella from the other side . They did not think they could beat a top level power . At the moment, it was all about luck . They thought they might have a chance to escape the top level powers since they could not kill everyone . If they ran together, the luckier ones definitely would have a chance to escape . Luck was indeed very important . Thousands of soldiers were running to get around the Fire Sword . Some did pass it . In fact, they had no other options . They were surrounded by people and forced to run forward . They had never seen Anfey killing anybody, so they had no idea how powerful the elements would be when turned into real objects .

Suddenly, the soldiers running in front screamed in pain . But they were not willing to give it up . They stumbled forward a little bit more and got closer to the Fire Sword . As a result, they were set on fire . If they could keep running forward, they would get killed by fire elements, which actually could reduce their pain before they died . Unfortunately, they fell to the ground one after another . They rolled on the ground as they screamed in pain . They were suffered in burning pain but could not die fast enough .

More soldiers ran around the Fire Sword, fire elements could not cause any burning damage to them . They yelled as they approached Anfey and Suzanna .

Anfey had locked his telepathy on the Fire Sword . He suddenly pointed his finger and the Fire Sword started to shake . The heat waves spread out from the Fire Sword . In the blink of an eye, they had spread about a hundred yards in radius . The people and horses caught in the waves of fire were burned in cloud of flames . Even the weapons and armor on the ground lost their shape immediately .

The color of the Fire Sword had changed from light orange into light red . The flames on the sword blade seemed to get even wilder and jumped dozens of yards into the air, like a gigantic torch .

"I see . " Anfey raised an eyebrow . "Practice is the only way test the truth . " The Fire Sword seemed to be more powerful now, but Anfey knew he had released almost all the elements he had accumulated for a long time .

The cavalry suddenly stopped and focused on Anfey with terrified looks . They now knew why those knights chose to go in the opposite direction . The spreading heat waves Anfey created was like a fire hell . Regular soldiers could tell Anfey must be an archmagi, since he could instantly perform senior-level magic .

The cavalry turned around and started to run the opposite direction . As a result, they crashed into the knights who were retreating again . The knights were not in a better situation than the cavalry, which was under attack of about a hundred of mages led by Blavi and Riska . A mage group actually could decide the fate of a battle on the battlefield . A Silver Knight was no match for a group of mages, but a magister could beat a group of knights . Mages had too many ways to play and kill knights, for example with wall magic, fire wall magic, marsh magic, and storm magic . Knights had to fight hand-to-hand . The power of a hundred mages simply was not equivalent to the power of all the knights added together .

The strategies the mage group used were getting better . Without Shinbella’s help, a few mages could use wall magic to block the knights’ advance . A few other mages together could divide knights into two groups with fire wall magic . After the fire walls were created, the main force of the mage group released big fire balls to start the blanket attacks . A couple of mages released marsh magic between the fire walls and walls, which swallowed about a hundred knights immediately . Many knights were killed by big fire balls as well . The mage group had shown those knights in fierce magic that there was no way they could pass .

Thousands of soldiers from Shansa Empire were in chaos . Some believed it was safer ahead of them and tried to push forward, while others believed the opposite direction was safer and tried to move backwards . Some soldiers were about to go crazy . They just simply swung their weapons at other knights when they were knocked by horses . The knights counterattacked the soldiers, but their moves threatened some cavalry, and they were attacked by other groups . Other knights joined the fight to help their peers . Soon, individual fights turned into group fights . They forgot their real enemies and became even more chaotic .

"Honey, no, my sweet wife, my love, please . " Anfey bowed with a smile to signal Suzanna to start her fight . His Fire Sword had almost lost all its fire elements . His fighting ability had been reduced and it was Suzanna’s show time .

Suzanna sighed and smiled at Anfey . Her sigh was because she did not want to kill so many people . She could face her opponents ruthlessly, but these soldiers from Shansa Empire were not her opponents anymore . They were just a herd of sheep, waiting to be slaughtered . By smiling at Anfey, she indicated she would follow Anfey’s order .

This was the difference between Anfey and Suzanna . Anfey was cold . The principles Anfey followed were simple: he would kill others if others wanted to attack him first . Anfey would not show any mercy after he saw them trying to surround and attack him . If Suzanna and Anfey had been caught by the soldiers from Shansa Empire, Anfey did not think they would show him any mercy .