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Chapter 207 Ghouls
As night fell, the battle slowly stopped
Surprisingly, those terrifying voodoo beasts that never tired nor feared death retreated under the orders of the adepts They hid in the distant woods and for adown froreen or blood red eyes of the voodoo beasts all over the dark forest
The white-haired Knight Charles leaned on his runic longsword, standing on a corner of the tall hill, gazing at the woods in the distance It left like a one-ton boulder was pressing upon his heart Even breathing was difficult
In all seriousness, the witcher-knights on this hill were entrenched in this battle because they responded to his rallying call Now, everyone was trapped on this hill They could not move and could only wait for the next attacks fro in the darkness plotting? Would they be able to successfully repel the attacks of the eneth?
Countless stray thoughts whirled about his mind and for one moment, he blanked out
The sound of footsteps sounded fro to look, Charles was able to tell who it was from their familiar footsteps
As expected, the loud and steady voice of Knight Meusel rang out, "The enehts have also been treated"
Charles’ deterrave voice, "How are the losses on our side? How hts are left that can ride a horse to battle?"
"……" After a moment's silence, Meusel's voice had also becoht on a horse is 386 The rest… "
They had lost nearly a hundred men in the first battle within the woods, under the ahts had died on the arduous journey here After the long and bloody battle earlier, only 386 hts' main force That meant that the battle earlier had caused a casualty of another three hundred h most of the casualties were from combat ability loss due to infection by the bio-toxins on the voodoo beasts' claas the difference between death and having no fighting strength when they were under siege by the eneht have been easier for these severely injured knights to have just died under the claws of the voodoo beasts
After all, the witcher-knight army was known for its fast and ferocious attacks, as well as its quick speed across the battlefield Hoere they supposed to break through the enee with three hundred casualties on their backs?
The other radiant knights quickly gathered around Charles, fir for his orders
The htly
How easy it was to just give an order! Yet, behind each order was pile after bloody pile of witcher-knight corpses
As the knights' leader, he knew clearly what order he needed to give out to save the lives of the rehts However… once the words were about to leave his mouth, his snohite beard shook uncontrollably He couldn't say it
Abandoning their co up on their allies!
Since when did the sacred and inviolable hts turn into numbers that could be added and subtracted on a paper?
Theon his leader's face and caler possible to have everyone break through! Even if we left the sick and injured behind, we cannot get everyone else out So Charles, please, bring the rest with you and break through! I'll stay behind with the other radiant knights and defend this hill You bring sohts back to base and… ask for help Windsor and the others won't hang us out to dry!"
Meusel stopped when he spat out the words ‘ask for help’
As a proud radiant knight himself, it was undoubtedly another extremely difficult task to have Charles lower his head before that stubborn and conservative Windsor However, the current situation left him no other choice
The muscles on Charles' face shook even hts made his decision He spoke, deter shouldn't be reatest responsibility for this reckless march into the forest So, I'll stay behind to reinforce the morale of the troops You, Collier, Aneos, José– the four of you lead two hundred men back to request for reinforce to help, I will… I will be willing to hand over all of my authority… "
All of a sudden, death-like silence filled the scene
Pain and struggle surfaced on the faces of all the knights of the radical faction
The ave this order, it meant that the this faction would always be inferior to the knights of the conservative faction This was soant knights