The Golden Throne

Chapter 188: The army faces demons

“But how many soldiers and demons can we expect, Your Highness?”, Geroge asked Liu Feng.

“Judging by the amount of corrupted mana that I can sense, there is a demon captain here and a few demon soldiers. You will need to take care of the few demon spawn with the guns. The rest will be left to me. They will focus on me anyways. Archers will focus on the guards and make sure that civilians are not harmed.”, Liu Feng said.

George nodded and he turned back to give the same instructions to his subordinates and to the archers. One among the archers came forward.

“You are the crown prince of Aegon?”, he asked Liu Feng.

“Yes. And you are?”, Liu Feng asked the elf.

“I am a mere captain from the Elvan army. We have a problem with the orders that you have given this General. Among the archers, at least ten of us have contracts. We will have no problem dealing with the demons.”, the archer said haughtily.

“What order mage are you?”, Liu Feng asked indifferently.

“Order? From whence has this prince come from? The world has forgone the order categorization of mages, and has used the circle metric for years. And I am a sixth circle mage!.”, the archer said.

“And what of the rest?”, Liu Feng asked.

“They are of the fifth and the fourth circles. One other is in the sixth circle.”, the archer said.

“Fine then. The ten of you will help me deal with the demon soldiers. Be careful not to attract their aggro. Or else, you will all lose your lives.”, Liu Feng warned them.

“We have been informed of how powerful the demons are, and how strong the soldiers are. We have been in touch with our spirits of late.”, the archer nodded.

“Good, that is good.”, Liu Feng nodded.

The soldiers started shuffling and formed a new formation. Liu Feng nodded towards George, and the soldiers in front of them started moving down the stairs. The descent was not as dark as before, with more magic stones lit up along the whole line. 

Liu Feng closed his eyes and put his mana sense very close to where they were, just barely making sure that no one was near them.

After another while of walking down the stairs, the soldiers stopped once more.

“General, there seems to be a door here that only unlocks from the inside. We have to charge in, but we do not have a lot of space to try the attack. We are stuck here. We have to break the doors to go inside.”, a soldier told the general.

“Move aside and let me do it.”, Liu Feng pulled up his sleeves as he walked forward.

The soldier snickered as he raised his eye brow.

“Your Highness, this is not a normal door. It is at least a foot thick! It will not be easy breaking through such a door.”, the soldier warned Liu Feng.

“Don’t worry. I said that I will take care of it, so I will.”, Liu Feng said. He extended his right arm, and a heavy sword appeared within his hands. It was huge, and all the soldiers were shocked.

They were shocked by the fact that the sword appeared from seemingly nowhere, and also that it looked extremely heavy; none of them were confident that they could lift a sword of that magnitude.

“Move aside.”, Liu Feng said coldly. The soldiers in front of the door scurried. Liu Feng could see the door properly now.

There were engravings all over the door. Dragons and phoenixes were the common occurrence in everything noble, and this was no exception. There was also the insigna of what Liu Feng assumed was the Glade royal family, and their army. Liu Feng shook his head, and he raised his sword.

The sword suddenly started glowing, and flame started covering the sword itself. He gripped the sword tight and swing it down heavily.

Crack.

The door cracked the moment the sword struck the door. Liu Feng was very, very strong because of the mana that supplemented his body ever since he was a child. Now, the fruits were showing. 

The soldiers looked amazed as the door broke in one swing of a sword. Liu Feng looked at everyone behind him.

“I am going in. You can join if you want to.”, he said.

George quickly fell out of a daze and shouted, “Soldiers, ready! Charge!”

The soldiers shouted and they charged through the hole that Liu Feng put in the door.

Inside, it did not look like they were underground at all. There was light everywhere. It seemed that the city lord here did not want to skimp on lighting at all. Magic stones that supplied light were positioned all over a great hall. Liu Feng could see children and people everywhere, just sitting there like they lost their lives.

He could also see that guards were patrolling around the civilians, and there were demons as well. The moment that Liu Feng had struck the door down, he garnered the attention of the demons and the guards who were patrolling.

All of them rushed to meet him.

Liu Feng’s eyes drifted across all the people, and fell upon one of the demons who were present.

“You must be the one in charge.”, he said with a cold voice.

“And you must be the only one here with the ability to protect himself. Looks like this will be a good fight.”, the demon licked his lips.

“I did not expect the demon army to send over a captain so soon. It seems that they really don’t care about your life that much.”, Liu Feng chuckled as he held his great sword and raised it.

“And it seems that your army does not care about the lives of its subordinates, for you to send them to the devil’s nest.”, the demon cackled as he rushed towards Liu Feng.

“Let us take this fight elsewhere.”, Liu Feng said as he swing the sword towards the demon’s side. The demon was midair, and had no choice except to defend with his arms. The sword connected, and the demon was sent flying towards the side, where no one, no civilians and no soldiers, was present.

“You should take care of the demon spawn now.”, Liu Feng reminded the general, who entered the hall right then.

The general nodded, and he took out a gun from his coat. The soldiers behind him also had guns as they entered. Arrows whizzed past the soldiers and struck the guards immediately as the archers arrived.

Liu Feng looked seriously at the demon captain who was at the other end of the hall now. The captain recovered and got out of the rubble. Liu Feng jumped over to that end of the hall, to make sure that the demon would not come to the soldiers.

The sword started bursting into flames once more, and the metal glinted with a red tint. He took a heavy step forward and executed a simple cut towards the demon. The demon sharply raced back, and he barely evaded the attack. But Liu Feng was not giving him any time to rest. 

Wind rushed through his feet as he quickly appeared behind the demon. He swung the sword horizontally towards the demon’s torso.

The demon had no time to evade this attack, and could not even defend it because he was attacked behind his back. 

The demon gave a sharp cry, and the torso split from the legs, giving a gruesome scene. 

The demons on the other side were also carefully monitoring the fight here, and the moment that their captain was defeated, they also gave cries of surprise.

Liu Feng did not take even a moment of rest. He knew that the demons present over there, the few soldiers who were now in charge of the battlefield, could decimate everyone except himself in a matter of minutes.

Also, the corrupted mana around him was starting to hamper his mana recovery, and Liu Feng needed to finish the fight.

He took his sword and rushed back to the main battlefield. Before any of the demon soldiers could even make a move, he intercepted them.

“Archers, you can start shooting arrows against the demon soldiers. I will be making sure that they won’t move from where they are.”, Liu Feng shouted.

He started defending the attacks from the soldiers that slowly circled him. Arrows were striking the soldiers, but they also had their priorities, and they focused all their attacks on Liu Feng, because he was the only one who had the ability to kill them.

Liu Feng’s swings were powerful, and the demon soldiers were not able to block them like the captain was able to. Since he was now in the peak of the sixth order, he found that demon soldiers were much weaker than what he remembered them to be.

Slowly, he started killing off the few demon soldiers that were there.

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