City of Desire [Kingdom Building]

Chapter 380: Last Gambit

Clang Rip Bang!

My rapier clashed against the enemy while the powerful explosion rang around me.

The enemy is powerful, and his sword is so fast, that he is giving me cut after cut. There isn't a single part, where I haven’t been cut.

The enemy was strong and fast; the only thing, I could do against his attacks was to defend.

The man in front of me is a half-elf with short green hair and green eyes. He is handsome and tall, with his left ear being cut in half. He gets angry when I look at it.

The battle is hard. Hardest, I had fought in the battle, and I am not saying it just because I am having a hard time.

Every enemy, I had fought in here was powerful and I had to fight them with my life on the line, but this one was the strongest of them all.

“You should surrender. It will make things much easier for you,” he said, coming at me with another attack, using a different skill.

“Not interested,” I replied, as his attack gave me another cut.

I won't surrender. It is not an option for me, because surrender will kill over half of the people in my city, and I won't have that. It is for this purpose; that I am fighting the undead alongside the brave souls.

If I wanted the safety, I could have easily got it.

I am the host of Legacy. They won’t kill me even now. If I had surrendered before, I would have had the privileges that would have made my life a lot more comfortable, but I didn’t want that.

I chose the hard path despite the cost of it because it is the right path.

Things are going well, and there is a chance that we will survive out of it. We had killed a lot of their powerhouses and killed more. If we kept at such, especially with the necromancers, we would survive.

Which is the aim of the battle.

Seconds passed, and the battle intensified further. He begins to use more and more skills, and it becomes difficult to fight against him.

Still, I gave my all; it was the only thing, I could do.

I am not the only one doing that, others too are doing the same. They are in worse condition than me, suffering explosion after explosion, and mages and shield warriors are barely able to protect them.

I am glad, there is a Shaun, who is not only fighting against the enemy mage but also defending the people with his shields.

It is hard for him, considering he had only leveled up a month ago. He barely learned one Grade 4 spell and got one from the system.

Thankfully, both of them are defensive-type spells. They are what kept everyone else in the company alive from the explosions.

Puch!

I was fighting when one of the bone shards from the explosion hit my leg.

The shard itself isn't dangerous, but nearly allowed the enemy to kill me. I was barely able to save myself from getting killed.

It is the danger of the blasts. Even if the blasts couldn’t kill you; the things it sent might, and we don’t have enough mages to protect every angle from which such things would come.

Ting!

His sword clashed against my chest in place, knocking the air out of my lungs before coming at me with another attack.

I was able to dodge it, barely by a centimeter, but it came at me again.

It was the hardest battle, I had fought, and I don’t think I could survive him, if we continued to fight. I am aware of my limitations and this enemy is much stronger than me.

It is already a miracle that I am fighting against him, but I won’t be able to continue for long.

I am getting tired and seeing I am already using every ounce of my strength. There is nothing hidden in the emergencies and that is bad because all of it would need one chance to finish me off.

“Retreat!”

He was attacking when suddenly his expression changed drastically. A moment later, a loud retreat rang out along with a horn.

‘Do not pursue the enemy, but don’t let your guard down against them,’ said Stone telepathically.

“You are very lucky. If we had fought for a few minutes more; I would have killed you,” he said, looking at me with disappointment and regret.

“That, I have no doubt,” I replied. There is no harm in telling the truth, especially under the Privacy Sphere.

A surprise appeared on his face, but a moment later, there was a smile. He saluted me with his sword, and I did the same as I watched him retreat toward the undead.

I took a deep relaxing breath and moved to take out the potion. I am really injured and would like to heal those injuries.

I took out the battle about to drink it when I felt all the hair on my body rise up.

The next moment, I saw the bone walls rising around me, alarming me and also those around me.

I moved immediately to get away, but I felt an invisible wave pushing me back.

Shaun tried coming toward me, but the mage, against whom he had just stopped fighting, attacked him and others. The other enemies that had been disengaged had engaged again, and a few more came out through the undead.

This is clearly planned. They don’t want to retreat before one last try. If they have me; there is no need to retreat; the battle is good as won.

It is a great gamble that might force them to lose more powerhouses, but if they succeeded, they would win the battle. Failing, will make them retreat, a thing they were already planning to do.

Soon, the bone dome enveloped me, and the woman materialized.

She is a homely woman, who looked to be in her early forties. She has a slight plump figure with blond hair and kind blue eyes, but she is no kind woman.

She is the most dangerous one among the necromancers and is also cruel. I had read things about her, that had made me shudder.

She is Necromancer Jenna Arza.

“My lord, I would appreciate it if you surrendered without any resistance,” she said, looking at me with a kindly smile.

“You think it is enough to make me surrender? Do you think, we haven’t prepared for this?” I asked, collecting my emotions.

She smiled back and her smile was bigger.

“Are you talking about the little rogue hiding in your shadow, my lord?” She asked and the black bone pearl shone; a moment later, hazy Jon appeared, who made himself completely visible a moment later.

My expression stiffened seeing it.

“Please surrender, my lord, or I will kill your little rogue and make things very uncomfortable for you,” she said kindly and to be honest, I want to accept her offer.

I know, what this woman is capable of. She will kill Jon and do terrible things with me. She cannot kill me, but there are many things she could do to me.

Some are worse than death.

“Jon, kill her,” I said, and he moved, while the kindly smile vanished from her face and her real expression of twisted anger appeared.

“Come little rogue, I will give you death!” she said, and her staff lit up, not a one bit afraid of Jon. Rogue are only warrior-type mages like her fear, but there is no fear in her eyes.

She had killed many rogues. Her information had said, she had killed a Lv. 30 rogues, before she had even reached Lv. 30.

So, her confidence isn't surprising, but I am not sending Jon to his death. He will kill her and of that, I am very confident.

“Vranalis,” I muttered, and the charm in my pocket activated.

Immediately, surprise appeared in her eyes, before it turned to horror. The bone pearl which had lit up and about the release of the spell turned off.

The charm didn’t break her spell. She has just lost mana. The charm had just made all mana accessible to her, inside and outside of her.

The charm is powerful, but it could last only a second against someone as powerful as her. There are also many conditions for it to work and the most stringent is that it only affects people and things within a four-and-a-half-meter radius.

If she had been even a step out of the range; she would have been completely unaffected.

Pachak!

“I surr” She took a step back and opened her mouth when Jon reached her. A moment later, her head flew up.

Seeing her head falling, I couldn’t help but feel relieved. It may not look like it, but I was terrified. If it had failed, she had not only killed Jon but also taken me, hostage.

They have would killed my army and my citizens, while I would have watched in captivity.

Hun!

I was thinking of the horror when the charm in my pocket heated up. It becomes a scalding hot.

“Fuck!” I cursed.

This is not a thing, I wanted to happen, but it did. It will make things dangerous, especially after the incident with the lich, but there is no choice.

I cannot let, people know, I have a witch. It might make me find out other things about my legacy, that I couldn’t afford.

I know very well. What would happen if the truth about my legacy came out.

I took out a charm and looked at it. It is a beautiful charm, with precious gems, roots, and flowers. Though, the one thing that made it beautiful, is the translucent light around it.

This is a prison charm, and it contains the soul of Necromancer Jenna.

Unlike normal mages or necromancers. Her soul wasn’t going to the divine but to the undead kingdom. She had a backup plan to turn into a lich, in case of her death.

If that had happened. She would have told them about me having a witch, that I wouldn’t want to happen. Though, with her failing, it would attract the attention of the undead kingdom, especially after the incident with Lich.

Let’s hope, they considered it a normal failure. Seeing, there is less than a 50% chance of the soul returning to become a lich.

“Jon, take this and go to the city. You have less than a minute to reach the walls of the city,” I said as I handed him the charm.

“What about you?” he asked. “It is more important,” I replied, and he looked into my eyes, before taking the charm.

The charm needs to be within the city’s gates as soon as possible. Once it does, Caena will sense it and collect the soul before dealing with it.

Rip!

The next moment, a ripping sound rang as Jon cleaved the dome in two with his dagger and moved out, but nobody saw it; he had turned himself invisible right after.

People looked at me and the decapitated body of the Necromancer Jenna. They are shocked, especially the enemies.

They looked for a second before they retreated into the undead, while my company moved toward me, surrounding me from all sides.

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