A week later, Azaroth and his retainers reached Yhord City. However, instead of entering the city, they began to move around its perimeter. He wasn't actually planning to enter Yhord City.
As he passed Yhord City, Azaroth sensed many soldiers in the distance. They were less than 10 miles from the border.
"In the last few months, the soldiers have relaxed their defenses so we are going to use their laziness to pass the borders," Azaroth informed his retainers.
"Both kingdoms have constructed fortifications on their sides and the field between these fortifications can be considered a battlefield. Anyone seen in this field would be attacked fiercely by the other side." There was a hint of a smile on Azaroth's face.
"Typically, it's the Glerian Kingdom who sends soldiers to attack the fortifications on the Sinyalian Kingdom's side. But recently, they have ceased their attacks. It's probably a lack of manpower or resources on their end," Azaroth finished speaking while carefully analyzing his retainers' faces.
"What is our task, Master?" Sargan asked, speaking aloud the questions in everyone's minds.
Azaroth smiled and spoke, "I will show you soon enough." After a few minutes, Azaroth suddenly halted in the air.
His retainers stopped flying behind him as well.
They were surprised why Azaroth had stopped. Among them, only Noah and Sargan sensed it. They sensed a terrifying power ahead of them.
Azaroth had naturally stopped since he didn't want to enter that range. Especially not while he was flying and taking his retainers along with him.
It would alert that expert and allow him to get ready to fight against Azaroth. Fighting in a one-on-one against this warrior wouldn't be favorable for Azaroth.
Not because he was afraid of him in a fight. According to his senses, the warrior lying in wait was probably a 5 Star Warrior just like himself.
Azaroth was also quite confident that he could defeat this guy. But… The issue was that it would waste too much of his time. Moreover, this is that man's territory. He could request reinforcements and another bunch of Warriors including 5 Star Warriors would arrive and help him.
Azaroth would be pretty much doomed at that moment. He and his retainers wouldn't be able to go past the borders even from the Sinyalian Kingdom's side let alone pass the Glerian Kingdom's borders as well.
"Noah, Sargan, Tiana, Ralph, Laura, and Yrellea. Wear the clothes I gave you. Using them, it will be impossible for anyone here to see through your identities by your appearance. There are more than 40 checkpoints where the Sinyalian Kingdom's army is spread out. Each checkpoint has more than 1000 or so soldiers. Each one of you will attack a checkpoint in the middle. There are six of you so you will target six checkpoints." Azaroth assigned them this task.
Except for Sargan and Noah, each one of them had a pale face. They never thought they would have to fight alone against so many soldiers.
Azaroth further added, "Show me the results of your training."
Soon enough, he pointed at different checkpoints and assigned them to each one of them.
After Azaroth finished assigning the checkpoints, Sargan asked seriously, "Boss, are we declaring war against the Sinyalian Kingdom? Once they find out about our attack, they will gang up and attack us. It will be difficult to survive their attack."
Azaroth shook his head, "Perhaps. But you forget that this will be a surprise attack for all their checkpoints. Tell me, did any of them think that their checkpoints would be attacked so suddenly? Are they prepared for an attack, especially from this side? Moreover, you will run retreat as soon as I give the order."
Sargan remained silent. He understood what Azaroth meant.
The Sinyalian Kingdom's army in this area had relaxed its defenses even against their enemies. It would be weird to expect them to prepare for an attack from their own side."
Azaroth then lowered his altitude and stepped on the ground. His retainers soon followed him and stepped on the ground as well.
Each one of them had a serious expression as they understood the task they had been assigned. Any mistake and they could die.
"Charge, my warriors!"
Azaroth gave out this command and all his retainers immediately took off!
It had to be known that each one of them had harshly trained under ten times the gravity. They knew Azaroth's Phantom Step skill and could use it consequently without any backlash or a huge expenditure of Ardor.
Naturally, it was because Azaroth had slightly changed his skill which had decreased the speed of this technique but also greatly reduced its consumption and backlash.
They were charging so quickly that even though the sensors in the respective checkpoints felt their aura, they couldn't inform the captain of their checkpoint quickly enough.
Out of the six, only in 2 checkpoints were the captains informed before Azaroth's retainers reached the checkpoint.
The first one to reach his destination was surprisingly Noah.
He actually defeated Ralph in a contest of speed!
They both had chosen central checkpoints and their path was like a single line. The distance was almost the same yet, Noah still managed to defeat Ralph in a battle of pure speed.
This spoke volumes of how hard Noah had trained.
Naturally, this didn't mean Ralph hadn't trained hard enough. Ralph had to utilize most of his time to increase his elemental proficiency and work on his techniques. He couldn't spend more of his time while working on his physique.
Currently, Azaroth asked him not to work on increase his physical capabilities but to work on techniques. He just had to train his physique so that it would still develop gradually. Albeit at a slower pace.
This concept appealed to Ralph as well. He understood it wouldn't be a smart idea to become a one-trick pony. He also wanted to hold a couple of trump cards in his hands.
Meanwhile, Noah had continued to train his physique even further. Particularly his legs and his arm muscles.
He didn't want endurance. He just wanted his arms and legs to react quickly enough!
Most of the soldiers were chilling in their checkpoints. Including the guards that were supposed to keep an eye on their surroundings.
The ones who saw Azaroth's retainers were those guards in the watchtowers. They immediately sounded the alarm.
And along with the alarm, four of the six checkpoints were attacked at the same time.
"Hundred Sword Qi Slash!"
Even though hundred was in the name, Noah barely managed to launch 30 or so Sword Qi to attack the soldiers on the checkpoint.
All these sword qi slashes killed a warrior. However, all these warriors were 1 Star Rank Warrior.
As those soldiers fell on the ground, it immediately alerted the other soldiers in the checkpoint. They got up and proceeded to grab their weapons in preparation to face their foe.
"Blazing Cloud Fist!"
Ralph launched threw out a couple of fists towards the checkpoint. From his fists, massive clouds of flames were formed that charged towards the encampment on that checkpoint.
The gates of that encampment were hit by those gigantic clouds of flames. They immediately began to burn while the soldiers in the area let out screams of agony. The other soldiers were completely startled to see a fire in their camp.
The captain of the army of that checkpoint immediately called out for his Water Elemental Corps to extinguish the flames.
However, while the water elemental corps had stepped forward to extinguish the flames that had set their walls and gates ablaze, Ralph suddenly appeared and punched one of them.
"Wooden Hammer!"
Laura was still some distance away from the checkpoint but she controlled the wood ardor while she was moving. She attacked the gate of the encampment with a gigantic wooden hammer.
The wooden hammer struck that gate and produced a massive shockwave across the entire checkpoint.
There was another strike by the Wooden Hammer, but this time, it targeted the watchtowers.
The guard in that watchtowers was instantly killed by that wooden hammer.
Meanwhile, the other soldiers in the area noticed a few vines growing out of the ground. This was the true reason for Laura to use the hammer to shake everyone off for a second. She also wanted them to focus on the gate and ignore the vines growing near their feet.
Soon, it was too late for them as these vines immediately wrapped around their bodies. These vines continued to get tighter very slowly. The soldiers tried their best to struggle out of these vines but it was impossible.
"Lightning Streams!"
Sargan didn't focus on destroying the gate. Instead, he was using his Evil Eyes to find the location of the guards and kill them from a distance.
His Lightning Stream was a concentrated beam of lightning that possessed great penetrating power. Sargan targeted those soldiers from a distance.
There was no problem in piercing that wooden door. The first person Sargan killed was the guard in the watchtower.