"There must be others elsewhere, but we may not be able to find them." Richard mused, lamenting that whereas fifty thousand Medusas directed five hundred divine servants, the descendants of the eight thousand weak and disabled Orcs, Musketeers, and Brut knew to return aid to their homeland. The difference between the two is too great!
"Medusas should not be bothered with! Without them, Xiang Pa will rise and fall just the same!" King Sal gritted his teeth and said, "By abandoning us, they will not learn any particularly good war songs either; it’s a drink and a peck! Richard, I want to entrust you with another important task."
"Even if you went, you couldn’t rescue them; they’ve been surrounded, and the room for maneuver is slowly being eroded away." King Sal stared into Richard’s eyes: "Your own task is also daunting. Caiyu City, Firenzo, and Razor Mountain form a triangular support; neither the Demon Clan nor the Sea Clan will be content until they challenge here! This place will be the most brutal meat grinder! I have no idea what Jose plans for Caiyu City, the hope for Razor Mountain is slim, so you are where I place my trust! I want to give you all of the Rhine Tribe’s secret weapons!"
"Secret weapons? Beast Tamers?" Richard quickly waved his hand: "I don’t need that stuff; it would only add to my burdens."
"You underestimate the royals way too much!" King Sal said displeased: "Even a sinking ship has three pounds of nails; does our royal family have no secret weapons unknown to outsiders? Do you know about our vassal tribe, the Garfield Cat People?"
"Rhine’s catfolk vassals and Taige’s rabbitfolk vassals are known as the second-generation royal family. Though I might be ignorant, I do know this nickname."
"Rhine and Taige, as royals, have been alternately occupying the Orc King’s throne, and choosing vassals is not done without thought! Why did we not choose Orephin? Why did we not choose Haus? Is it really as the outside world claims, due to suppression by the Senate and the Temple?" King Sal pursed his lips.
"Garfield and Puleboya don’t seem to have anything to do with fighting power, do they? A human warrior could easily take care of five cat-people and rabbitfolk!"
"I’m not talking about their physical combat prowess! Let me remind you, you seem to have forgotten their racial abilities!"
"Do rabbitfolk and cat-people have racial abilities? I thought they, like the Piegel race, didn’t possess racial abilities."
"They do! But we have suppressed the dissemination of this information. In fact, their chances for developing racial abilities are indeed smaller, not as frequent as the main combat races."
"I don’t know, I’ve never heard of it." Richard indeed did not know: "I’ve never heard anyone mention it; it doesn’t make sense. After all, I am a priest of wisdom inheritance."
"Don’t underestimate the influence and tactics of royals." King Sal smiled mysteriously: "Do you know why Garfield has the nickname Nine Lives?"
"You’re joking! Could it be that cat-people truly have nine lives as their racial ability? Haha!" Richard laughed heartily: "Even with nine lives, who could they match? I could flatten a whole lot of cat-people with a single slap! Nine lives would just mean nine slaps!"
"It is indeed nine lives! But Garfield’s racial ability is not the nine lives you imagine. It means that after abnormal death, they can sequentially transform into mummy warriors, skeleton warriors, and six elemental giants—air, ice, earth, wood, water, fire. Each time they’re destroyed, they evolve to the next form." King Sal said with some regret: "Unfortunately, right now I only have thirteen Garfield possessing racial abilities, they are my greatest treasures! You should know the fighting power of elemental giants!"
"It resembles soul mimicry like a necromancer’s!" Richard immediately understood: "This isn’t nine lives, in our mage theory, it’s typical ’soul mimicry’, where the main body dies but can conduct eight more ’soul mimicries’. Damn! Truly impressive, cat-people are way more formidable than necromancers!"
"I’ll give all thirteen cat-people to you, let them accompany you to the frontline and make a difference!" King Sal affectionately patted Richard’s hand.
"To be honest, it’s quite cruel to do so. If letting the cat-people sacrifice their own lives to transform into another life form means they can never return to their original lives, it’s no different from death! I’d rather keep them with your Majesty, ensuring it protects you is their greatest duty! I don’t need the help of these cat-people!" Richard couldn’t help but feel a bit curious: "However... since Garfield is Nine Lives, what is Puleboya’s racial ability then?"
"Taige chooses rabbitfolk as vassals because Puleboya possesses the ’Three Burrows’ ability, which can fracture three large caverns on the ground." King Sal chuckled: "In terms of magic theory, it roughly aligns with Earth Element magic’s ’Earth Fissure’ right?"
"Earth Element magic doesn’t seem to have a specific ’Earth Fissure’ that cracks out three big caverns at once; this could be a deadly blow for charging cavalry." Richard clicked his tongue in surprise; didn’t expect! Really didn’t expect those rabbit-headed folks known for tap dancing had such hidden brutality!
"Don’t think about it, Brut hates you almost to death, and though he owns several rabbitlords with activated racial abilities, I’m not sure how many exactly, but probably not over twenty, and less likely to give them to you."
"No boast, even if Brut gave me those rabbit-headed folks for free, I wouldn’t want them!" Though the novelty is there, Richard didn’t care much for such trivial power.
"Regardless of what you boast, as long as you can hold the southern bank of the Sanggan River, it signifies you’ve made the most critical contribution for the kingdom." King Sal shook his head, taking a long pause before voicing a familiar saying: "I have a premonition, after this World War, maybe only Firenzo will be able to continue standing on the Aegean Continent."
"Let’s see what I can bring back from the Silk Continent this time!" Hearing King Sal’s words made Richard feel somewhat melancholic inside.
"The Caesar’s Jade Vessel" I will retrieve it personally, I promise! This is the second time he has sworn with determination.
A commoner angered, fights to the death; an emperor angered, blood flows for miles.
The third World War with flesh and blood flying across the Aegean Continent henceforth officially begins.
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