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Chapter 208 The Prince's Expedition Leaves Nothing Slaughtered

The current temporary camp of the Knights of the Round Table is located approximately 30 kilometers away from the Silver Fortress in a straight line, and a large number of sentry posts have been set up along the way, with a four-shift rotation system in place.

This distance, coupled with sufficient countermeasures, is enough to prevent the Silver Prince from launching a second night raid, or from abandoning the night raid altogether and launching a direct cavalry assault.

In fact, given the overwhelming victory during the day, pressing the attack might have been a better option. However, there were too many militiamen in the army. These untrained lower-class people might be able to use this momentum to charge to a very close position to the Silver Fortress, but once they got there, their momentum would probably dissipate, and the enemy could easily drive them back by relying on the fortress's defensive capabilities.

This was a serious blow to morale, so Arthur preferred to keep the soldiers in this morale and let them rest for one night, allowing as many people as possible to rest and eat.

Even though this choice might mean facing continuous enemy night raids or cavalry charges, he still made the decision.

Eating is actually more important than you might imagine. Soldiers going into battle hungry will be significantly less effective.

With so many dead warhorses around, there's no reason not to give them an extra meal.

Arthur even meticulously arranged the food for Cheng Tian's mount and summoned creatures. Although he initially didn't know how to deploy troops or arrange camps, he found ways to solve problems as he encountered them, allowing Arthur to absorb experience at an astonishing speed and transform it into his own.

This is exactly what Merlin hoped to see.

So, although Cheng Tian's momentary triumph over the Twin Swordsman may seem insignificant, it won't actually affect Arthur's true dominance. Within the Knights of the Round Table, the difference between Cheng Tian and Arthur is simply the difference between a capable general and a leader.

Special thanks are due to the Silver Legion's cavalry, whose contribution of horse meat and offal was so plentiful that each militiaman could receive a fist-sized amount of meat.

However, just as he finished assigning tasks and was about to slur his words under Lancelot's hesitant gaze, he used the hilt of the Sword in the Stone as a hammer to smash his incredibly hard black bread and threw it all into the horse meat, tomato, and chickpea soup that his servants had repeatedly heated up, ready to slurp it down, a player arrived.

By the way, since armor from the 14th and 15th centuries can travel here and magic still exists, there's no need to worry about whether tomatoes should exist or not.

Arthur glanced at the arriving players and immediately realized that there were no foreign mercenaries associated with the Orange Knight here.

Arthur was well aware that the foreign mercenaries had split into two smaller groups. After his brief but complex experience as a legion leader, Arthur knew that it was absolutely impossible to make them a united front, and it was even better not to let them become a united front at all.

The most advantageous situation for a leader is to have multiple small groups under his command that can check and balance each other, but they must follow his lead in the overall direction.

Therefore, he was already aware of and had tacitly accepted the situation where the foreign mercenaries had split into two smaller groups.

When Arthur heard the leader of the players say that they were going to launch a night raid on the Silver Fortress in return for their previous attack, he first exchanged a glance with Lancelot beside him (Percival was elsewhere), and then agreed without much hesitation. He even issued a corresponding side quest and lent out the warhorses for the number of players.

The five players' faces immediately lit up with joy, which was the main reason they chose to report instead of acting on their own. With the faction's approval, their actions could be transformed into legitimate side quests, just like the opposing faction's night raid yesterday.

However, the side quest Arthur issued, titled "Burning the Silver Fortress," was quickly relayed to Cheng Tian and his group via messengers. This was because the quest was intended for "foreign mercenaries," not just the five individuals in question. Arthur also wanted to gauge Cheng Tian's reaction. Cheng Tian's response was simply to refuse, deeming it unnecessary.

In Cheng Tian's view, the most valuable thing in the fortress should be the treasures collected by Prince Allen, but if he wanted to get his hands on those treasures, he would have to confront Allen himself.

The death of the Twin Swords Knight can be described as "unexpected," coupled with his "weakness" as a carbon-based life form, making his death somewhat sudden. But the Silver Prince Allen is different; that thing is almost equivalent to a medieval version of Astartes!

Although he didn't know if the background setting would be changed to pure physical strength or magical strength, facing such a huge iron lump that was unpredictable in its superhuman abilities, Cheng Tian not only couldn't think of a reliable strategy for dealing with it, but also had absolutely no confidence in killing it before other soldiers arrived to provide support.

Therefore, Cheng Tian currently believes that the most reliable strategy is to join the Knights of the Round Table in a frontal assault, eliminate all the grunts in the fortress, and finally gang up on Allen.

Of course, Cheng Tian didn't know what abilities these players who accepted the mission had. Perhaps they really did have a skill combination that allowed them to burn down the fortress while also killing Allen.

Meanwhile, the elf and dwarf duo, who had also received a side quest, hesitated for a moment before accepting the quest, but ended up lagging far behind the players in front of them.

After the day's battles, the two of them felt a bit like their heroes were not being used, and they also wanted to try to increase their final score.

30 kilometers is neither a long nor a short distance. It would take some time for infantry or on a raid, but it would be very fast with the aid of warhorses. This is the main reason why camps are set up so far away.

Perhaps due to the defeat, the players did not find any outposts or guards of the opposing faction along the way. It is possible that they were swept back to the fortress when the army was defeated and directly joined the fortress's defense system.

So the road was open all the way to the outside of the fortress.

But when they got close to the outer edge of the Silver Fortress, something was clearly wrong.

The layout here is not what players imagined—a heavily fortified position, ready to rely on the fortress's own defenses to wage a war of attrition against the Knights of the Round Table. Instead, a large number of soldiers have begun to gather at the city gate, looking ready to set off at any moment.

Just as the players reached the optimal observation distance, the fortress gates opened again, and Prince Allen, dressed in heavy silver-white armor and riding a large black warhorse that had clearly undergone magical enhancements, came into the players' view.

But at that moment, Prince Allen, who had just stepped out of the fortress gate a dozen meters away, suddenly sensed something. The silver meteor hammer in his hand, which was almost the same size as that of an ordinary adult, pointed to one side and shouted.

"who!?"

With the prince's shout, a beam of light, like a stage light, suddenly appeared at the location of the night raid players, who were about a kilometer away. It illuminated and enveloped them, and then this beam of light descended from the sky quickly transformed into a mysterious purple—

It is the exact same color as the purifying beam of light from the sun god Kukulkan!

(End of this chapter)