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Chapter 123 – Chapter 21: Barbarians 2

Vandal had been born on the battlefield

He didn’t knohether his mother had been a soldier of the army or a mercenary Maybe she had just been a pitiful civilian Anyway, she would have been an ogre

Vandal was an orphan He didn’t knoho his father or ed to the arroup that could be called either mercenaries or warlords Vandal’s me ular army

His life had been saved due to the rown up under the care of all the mercenaries as their h vitality of an ogre and their short childhood Ah an ogre’s childhood was short, he had al days

Vandal had been born and raised on the battlefield, so his life was filled with numerous battles There had been favourable battles and unfavourable ones There had been overwhel battles in which massacres had occurred and battles in which there had been a stalemate on both sides Of course, Vandal had experience as both the slaughterer and the victim

Numerous battles, numerous defeats and victories… He had hundreds or maybe even thousands of those experiences, and soettable in his memories

It was the sao

It was a total failure Aeneral of the deer defeat

Approximately 9,000… That was the number of soldiers Vandal had led He didn’t kno many of them lived or died That fact alone explained how terribly he had been defeated

The nuhly to 2,000 or so Collecting the scattered soldiers would allow hie unit, but the ene after hi’s reat ar had raised

Vandal’s soldiers were exhausted As usual, ht There were also soht there was no chance of winning escaped as well

Vandal, as at the very front of his troops, moved to the rear of the procession However, it wasn’t to monitor those anted to run away

Vandal stopped in place and looked behind him A dust cloud could be seen fro’s troops after there had already been a few conflicts over the past few days As expected, the scale of the pursuers was th due to the constant harasshed, raising his head to the sky

Despite having been defeated in the battle against the barbarian king, Vandal attached great importance to his survival If the army commander lost their life, the army would be lost In order to defeat the barbarians properly, he needed to survive and lead the troops

However, it was different now Vandal decided to be a commander on the front lines

‘No, it isn’t even that’

He was an arrow that had served the military since childhood—a meat shield sent out to die

He had to prevent the enehtlyThe rewards for the barbarians would vary depending on the ht in front of theer The sound of horseshoes hitting the ground could be heard

Vandal’s ogre guards stood beside hi them, the orc as Vandal’s deputy, Zico, was absent as he had died in the battle against the barbarian king

Vandal took a deep breath and poured strength into his two hands which were holding a weapon Due to the catastrophic battle against the barbarian king, his left ar properly Its aura circulation wasn’t natural either, and there was pain in his right leg every tiainst the enemy in this state? However, this was the way Vandal had chosen to live his entire life

Vandal was reminded of the mercenary leader who had been his idol in his childhood The mercenary leader had been an orc, and he had used to say the sahed It was bullshit Was this that day?

“They’re co”

Vandal said There was a vacancy, so the now 23 rabbed their weapons and prepared for battle

There wascould now be heard as well The screa

Vandal roared as he faced the ene seemed to shake the heavens and earth as the cavalry rode on Sohed, and his aura rose up like flare guards and his soldiers rushed forildly

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Yakuzan was the chief of the Red Lightning tribe

He held his weapon in his last fight, instead of running away He had challenged Vandal, eeping through the orcs

“Kuhang!”

Vandal roared and wielded a large ha was useless The barbarians hit by the battle hammer exploded and died

Vandal felt the battlefield with his entire body He wielded his battle hammer towards the barbarians on both sides and found hie had disrupted the barbarians’ foruards were nowhere in sight, but Vandal picked up a barbarian at his feet to use as a shield However, there were too led Vandal’s shoulders, arhs

As he threw himself at the barbarians, Vandal only protected his head He h the barbarians with a pained roar and blended in with the enemies in order to interfere with the spear attacks

However, the barbarians didn’t care about any da the barbarians, those with a particularly strong red aura around them threw spears

This time, Vandal scattered aura fro up another barbarian, and Vandal’s aura exploded into the sky, destroying the spears or twisting their trajectory

“Ararararai!”

Vandal gave his ogre battle cry and rushed towards the barbarians with red energy It was an uniinable pace for a person with critical wounds all over his body

The barbarians were trampled on by Vandal, and they died The barbarians with red energy at the front couldn’t avoid or stop Vandal’s hammer Like the other barbarian warriors, their bodies exploded and they died

Vandal’s eyes shone, and the blue aura radiating fro wild

However, a spear then pierced Vandal’s back Vandal sed the pain and swung his battle haed him, but that was it The barbarians with the red aura rushed in at once They were er than the common barbarians, but they still couldn’t withstand Vandal’s strikes Every movement made the spears which were already embedded in his body hurt even more

Vandal put down the battle hammer and used his fists Some of the barbarians lost their lives to his fists, but it was only for a short tire had, he was still a living being He had lost too much blood His life force was scattered, and Vandal’s th properly

A few spears were sticking out of his chest, and Vandal coughed up blood A barbarian before hi a fist with all his strength He crushed the face of the man and looked up at the sky

“Ararararai!”

His last roar