The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 410 The people all miss the Thyssen family

Left with no other choice, King Ryder and King Idi had to continue their desperate escape.

Half a day later.

Having finally shaken off Lang Essette's pursuers, King Ryder and King Edie were left with only a dozen or so riders.

"how so……"

Exhausted and with his inner thighs chafed and scarred, King Idi, with the help of his attendants, dismounted and sat dejectedly on the ground.

On the other side, King Ryder's expression was equally unpleasant.

He had a premonition that what happened to the Thyssen family decades ago was likely to be repeated in his own life.

This caused King Ryder, who was usually unflappable, to erupt in a rare fit of rage: "No! That's not right! I haven't lost yet, there's still a chance to turn things around!"

King Idi, standing to the side, said in despair, "Accept your fate. We've already lost. If we surrender to Istrad now, perhaps we can still..."

King Ryder exerted a great deal of effort to finally restrain himself from striking with his sword.

"You useless piece of trash! Fool! Idiot! Even if Istrad moves faster, at least we can retreat back to Povis, back to Lakverein!"

Lakverein was originally just an ordinary city, but after the split of Povis, it became the capital of Povis.

King Ryder had stationed his confidants near Lakverein. Before this expedition, due to a bad premonition, he did not summon those confidants, and instead hired a mercenary group called the Mischievous Cats.

"Lakverein must still be alive, if we could get to that place..."

At this point, King Ryder mounted his horse: "Get up, get up quickly! We must act immediately! We must go to the nearest port town and take a ship back to Povis!"

King Edie, recalling the sudden fall of Ron Essette, shook his head vigorously.

"Take a boat? No, I'd rather take the back road. What if the garrison in the port town also betrays us? Wouldn't we be walking into a trap?"

"That's up to you."

Under normal circumstances, King Ryder might have patiently explained things to King Idi.

But now, he no longer has that thought.

'Let this idiot die on his own; he brought it on himself anyway.'

King Ryder thought so.

Then he led his men and quickly left towards the nearest port town.

They actually stopped paying attention to King Idi.

Two of King Edi's attendants also followed silently.

There was only a moment's hesitation before the other side had already run far away.

Left with no other option, the remaining attendants had to bite the bullet and ask, "Your Majesty, what should we do?"

King Idi gritted his teeth as he glared at King Ryder and his entourage, who had actually abandoned him. He cursed them fiercely before struggling to his feet.

"let's go."

Before becoming the ruler of Kovir, King Idi was also a nobleman of Kovir, and fortunately, this area happened to be his territory.

So he happened to know that there was a mountain path that could bypass cities and fortresses and lead directly to Povis.

'Cowell can't stay any longer. Those hounds who yearn for the Thyssen family's rule will probably rebel too. We'll have to go to Povis, then find a boat and figure out a way to get to Toussaint.'

'Go to Lakverein? I'm not that stupid. Since the nobles of Kovir have already rebelled, it's only a matter of time before the nobles of Bovis rebel as well. What's the point of going to Lakverein? To wait to die?'

"However, it wouldn't be a bad thing if that idiot Ryder held firm in Lakverein; at least he could lure Istrad's hounds away."

……

One day later.

King Edi, accompanied by his few attendants, raced along the mountain trails.

'Once you cross this path, you'll enter the territory of Povis.'

Hopefully, the nobles of Bovis won't rebel so soon.

'Since Istrad wants Kowell and Bovis so much, let's just give them back to him.'

King Idi was lost in thought, completely unaware of the gazes cast upon him from those lying in ambush on both sides of the road.

"Do you think those people might be King Idi and his entourage, who were defeated at the front?"

"How could such a coincidence happen?"

"Whether it's a coincidence or not, the emblems on their robes mean they are knights serving King Edie, right? Anyway, King Edie has fallen from power, and now Cowell is back under the rule of the Thyssen family, so killing a few of King Edie's men isn't a big deal, is it?"

"Look at those warhorses and those armors, they're sure to fetch a good price."

"Then what are we waiting for? Why aren't we making a move?"

A scream brought King Idi back to reality.

A slender tree suddenly fell down ahead of the road. Because it happened so suddenly, the attendant at the front of the group was unable to dodge in time and was hit on the head by the falling tree. Then, he and his horse were crushed under the tree.

The falling tree not only killed one of the attendants on the spot, but also blocked the road.

"Enemy attack!"

"Protect the King!"

The attendants, however, were dissatisfied and quickly formed a drafty circle to protect King Edi in the center.

Then, when they saw hundreds of farmers charging towards them from both sides of the road, wielding pitchforks and hoes, their faces turned grim.

Then, King Idi died.

……

On the other side, Istrad's army, having defeated the armies of King Leide and King Idi, faced no further obstacles.

The entire territory of Koville rebelled, and wherever the royal army went, the people welcomed it with food and drink.

Since they had encountered no resistance along the way, the army did not stop. Upon hearing that only King Ryder's direct territory remained in Bovis and that Lakverein was still resisting, the army headed directly towards Lakverein.

As Istrad's army marched toward Lakverein, King Rider was fortunate enough to return to Lakverein.

Disguised as merchants, they successfully rented a boat and returned to Lakverein.

However, King Ryder remained unsatisfied.

According to reports from his subordinates, Bovis, along with Lakverrein, had also surrendered to Istrad.

His trusted men led their troops from their own territories into Lakverein, and together with the five thousand unruly cats they had hired, their forces reached ten thousand.

The grain stockpiled in the city could allow them to hold out for a year.

'As long as you persevere, there will always be a way.'

With this in mind, Lakverein finally welcomed Istrad's army. Due to the defection of the original noble alliance of Kovir and Bovis, Istrad's army swelled to a terrifying 60,000 men.

While half of them were composed of conscripted peasant soldiers, the other half were all professional troops.

After completely surrounding Lakverein, a bloody siege began.

The defenders of Lakverein were also tenacious.

Arrows rained down from the city walls like a storm.

The longbowmen in the Restoration Army were not to be outdone and retaliated with their own arrows.

However, the defenders had a height advantage, and their ability to fire from above was significantly greater.

As the battering ram approached the city gate, the defenders poured scalding hot oil from the city wall onto the ram's canopy, which was used to protect it from arrows.

Then torches were thrown down one by one.

In an instant, the battering ram and the soldiers operating it were ignited.

The bloody war continued from daylight until dusk, and the same thing happened the next day, the third day, and the fourth day...

The week-long, high-intensity offensive and defensive battle left both sides with heavy casualties and exhausted.

Even King Ryder himself barely slept a wink; in just a few days, he looked much older.

Fortunately, as the sun set and night fell, the besieging army outside the city finally retreated like the tide.

King Ryder entrusted the defense to a nobleman and then went to rest.

If he didn't rest soon, he feared that before Istrad's army could breach the city, he would be the one to leave this world.

The soldiers guarding the city finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then they all sat down on the ground, exhausted, ignoring the dirt and filth on it.

After eating the food delivered by the logistics department, many people fell into a deep sleep.

A few hours later, it was late at night.

Under the cover of night, a dozen or so figures quietly approached the foot of the city wall.

There were guards standing watch and patrolling on the city wall, but even if they stared wide-eyed, it was to no avail; they couldn't see anyone below the wall at all.

Although Lakverreline was the capital of Bovis, it was established later, and because it was far from the border, the city walls of Lakverreline were not raised or thickened even after King Leide came to power.

Climbing a ten-meter-high city wall is virtually impossible for ordinary people without ladders or siege towers, but it is not difficult for demon hunters.

Having undergone two mutations, the demon hunters can now easily jump several meters high, and with the help of grappling hooks, climbing the ten-meter-high city wall is not difficult at all.

The Viper School and the Cat School, who are most skilled in infiltration operations, will lead the charge.

The Wolf School, the Griffin School, and the Bear School (the only one wearing heavy armor) stayed at the city gate because their armor would make noise when they moved, and waited for the gate to open before charging in.

The infiltration went very smoothly.

The week-long fierce siege had greatly depleted the physical and mental strength of the defending troops.

Furthermore, because the attacking forces had always retreated after sunset for the previous few days and only attacked again the next day, the defenders gradually lowered their guard.

After all, people in this era are basically blind at night.

The defending side is fine; as long as they hold onto the land they stand on and prevent the enemy from climbing up the ladder, they're good to go.

The attacking side is in a bad position.

The illumination range of a torch is not as large as one might imagine. If you were to hold a torch in one hand and use the other hand to hold onto a ladder while climbing up, you can imagine how difficult it would be.

If we don't bring torches, this...

Therefore, night battles are extremely rare in world history.

But these guards probably never imagined that there were witchers in this world who could move around at night just like during the day, without any impact on their actions.

The small number of guards on patrol and on duty were all silently wiped out, while the remaining soldiers lying on the city wall, lost in their dreams, were left unattended.

The Viper School and the Cat School swiftly descended from the city wall to the city gate.

The inner side of the city gate was also filled with people lying haphazardly, but due to their habitual thinking, they did not think that there would be any danger, so there were not even any guards standing watch.

And so, the Viper School and the Cat School easily opened the city gates and let in the witchers from the other schools who had been left outside.

Lynn made a throat-slitting gesture, and the others began to methodically clear out the sleeping enemy soldiers near the city gate.

He then took out a light crossbow, loaded a signal arrow, and fired it into the sky.

call out--

The signal arrow exploded into a dazzling firework in the dark night sky.

Many people were awakened by the sound of the signal arrow, and coupled with the sounds of battle at the city gate, they quickly realized what was happening.

But it was too late.

The well-prepared Restoration Army stormed into the city through the opened gates.

Even though the defending troops tried desperately to stop it, their lack of preparation and unified command ultimately prevented them from halting the advance of the tide.

The city, which had been under heavy attack for a week without falling, was now being continuously flooded in by the Restoration Army. The nobles were orderly leading their respective armies, either clearing out the enemy on the spot, heading to other city walls, or entering the city to occupy key points.

When King Ryder heard that the Restoration Army had stormed in, he even changed into women's clothes, intending to blend into the crowd of women and escape from the city. Unfortunately, before he could leave the palace, he was caught red-handed by Lynn and his demon hunters, who were known for their strategy of capturing the king first.

Thus, contrary to King Ride's expectation that he could hold out for a year until Istrad withdrew, Lakverein fell after only a week.

After this battle, came a long period of trial and reward.

The families of King Idi and King Leide were completely wiped out by Istrad, their bloodlines severed.

Their close associates were either killed or exiled.

The rolling heads on the guillotine demonstrate that Istrad was not merely a monarch who could win people's hearts.

Then came the treatment of the nobles who feigned surrender to King Ryder and King Edie after the Thyssen family was driven out, and the nobles who remained loyal to the end.

Considering that even the nobles who surrendered did so in order to ensure the future return of the Thyssen family, Istrad did his best to make a fair and impartial decision.

This process took a lot of time.

Finally, it was the turn of the nobles and soldiers who answered Istrad's call to form the Restoration Army.

Istrad ensured that each of them received a decent portion of cake, and even the soldiers who fought bravely received satisfactory compensation.

Kowell and Povis are commercially vibrant and economically developed. Now that the war is over, they will soon be able to return to normalcy, so Istrad's promises will be fulfilled.

And finally, the demon hunters receive their rewards.

(End of this chapter)