I, who was eager to retire, became an Imperial General.

Chapter 120 Broken City
Located at the junction of Morningstar Territory and Golden Lion Territory, Horseshoe City is built on a hillside backed by a cliff. Because there is a huge river valley hundreds of meters deep below the north side of the city, when viewed from Camel Peak in the distance, the entire city looks like a huge hoofprint, hence the name Horseshoe City.

With its advantageous terrain and towering walls, Horseshoe City, which only required guarding the city gates, was an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack city in any era.

Although the development of the times and the emergence of firearms have had a certain impact on the warfare of the past era of cold weapons.

However, thanks to the numerous spells passed down from the Morning Star clan and the Allied Freed armor, this massive city filled with centaurs has not been rendered obsolete by the times, despite its impenetrable defenses.

In addition, the centaur soldiers responsible for guarding the area were mostly highly skilled archers, each capable of hitting a target from a hundred paces away.

Under that precise and deadly rain of arrows.

It's hard to imagine just how powerful an existence would have to be to break through this impenetrable wall.

However, at this seemingly ordinary 3 p.m., a group of centaur soldiers who had just completed their daily patrol and were handing over their duties to the soldiers on duty on the city wall, were about to finish their own guard duty when...

The next second, a series of dark shadows suddenly appeared behind the 50 centaur soldiers. Before they could react, a flash of cold light streaked through the air, followed by the synchronized movements of the 50 Imperial soldiers.

They stared wide-eyed in disbelief, clutching their bleeding necks, before staggering and collapsing onto the city wall, twitching a few times before becoming corpses.

However, compared to the swift and decisive assassinations of the other assassination squad members, Leia, dressed in a black imperial uniform, cleaved her target in two with a single stroke, instantly turning the once clean and tidy city wall into a hellish sight.

"Leah Binot has completed her mission!"

However, Leia paid no attention to her assassination masterpiece or the silent gazes of her teammates from beginning to end.

As for why it wasn't as clean and tidy as the other team members...

No, why are you so concerned about this kind of form? It will alienate people's achievements, don't you understand?
In any case, all the targets have been eliminated, and there are no survivors.

Then let me ask you, how can this not be considered an assassination?
With this mindset in mind, Leia ignored the complicated looks from everyone and expressionlessly opened the communication device to report the mission.

He then turned to look at the jungle several hundred meters away from the city wall, and sensed that the magic in the air was gathering and condensing in that direction, and becoming stronger and stronger.

As if remembering something, a hint of disappointment flashed in Leia's eyes.

Despite his own superior strength, which made him more suitable for breaching the city, Major John still assigned the task to the newcomer named Siegfried.

Does this mean that Major John was not satisfied with his performance last time?
In addition, ever since he was injured from overusing his magic, Major John would often come to talk to him in his spare time and ask about his physical condition.

Although he acted somewhat strangely, and his speech sounded odd, as if he had phlegm stuck in his throat.

But ultimately, it's also a form of self-care.

So, Major John didn't assign the mission of breaching the city to himself because he couldn't perfectly control his own abilities like John, and even got injured in battle. Instead, he arranged for the newly joined mage to complete it.
This serves as a reminder to myself that only those who truly wield power deserve to be called strong.

"That must be it, otherwise, why would Major John entrust such an important task to someone else?"

It's amazing that he could think of such a subtle way to remind his subordinates to take their power more seriously.

Sure enough, he truly lives up to his reputation as the amazing Major John.

Leia, you really need to learn a lot from Major John!

Leia, who had been constantly telling herself this, immediately understood, and the disappointment in her eyes was gradually replaced by determination.

Meanwhile, just as Leia was realizing the true use of her power, outside Horseshoe City, in the distant woods, John, who had heard Leia's report, slowly lowered the communication device in his hand. He then turned to Siegfried, who was standing in the middle of the forest, holding a maroon bow, his eyes closed as he focused on gathering magic, and said in a deep voice:
"Let's begin, Siegfried."

"Roger that!"

Upon hearing John's order, Siegfried immediately opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in his pupils. Without hesitation, he drew a specially made giant iron arrow from behind his back and slowly nocked it onto the great bow.

Pull the string, and magic will be gathered.

"Wow!"

With the gathering of magic, a deep green light began to condense from his fingertips, then quickly enveloped the bow and arrows, finally forming wisps of ethereal energy that surged and billowed outwards, like a bird dancing in the wind.

Under the influence of this airflow, Siegfried's hair began to float upwards involuntarily, and his pupils, due to the stimulation of magic, turned into a bright green like grass.

Compared to the strange changes in his eyes, his arms now appeared unusually ferocious, with veins resembling centipedes bulging and coiling on his muscles, twisting and twitching constantly due to the immense force they were bearing.

But Siegfried did not immediately release the bowstring. Instead, he carefully sensed the wind flowing through the air until he felt the wind stop and until all the green light in his eyes had somehow converged into a single point.

He then abruptly released the bowstring.

"collapse!"

The sound of the bowstring snapping, accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, echoed throughout the jungle.

At the same time, the instant Siegfried released the bowstring, a huge arrow carrying a green storm streaked across the sky like lightning.

It exploded in the air, creating six white gas explosion clouds, which grew larger and more deadly as it flew.

Finally, to the astonishment of the two centaur guards at the gate of Horseshoe City, the enormous arrow struck the massive iron gate, which was a full ten meters high.

And at the instant of impact, the magic spell covering it was activated, bringing about an unprecedented explosion!

"Boom!"

The ear-piercing explosion instantly startled all the orcs in the city, who instinctively looked towards the city gate of Horseshoe City.

But what came into their view was the image of the massive city gate, which had remained unchanged throughout thousands of years of war, now broken and collapsed.

Before they could recover from this unbelievable scene, as the smoke over the city gate dissipated, they were horrified to discover what had happened.

Soldiers dressed in dark green imperial uniforms surged toward them like a terrifying swarm of bees through the broken city gate.

He then swiftly and decisively shot down the centaur soldiers who were attempting to retaliate!

"Oh!"

"In the name of the Empire, Horseshoe City has been officially occupied by the Imperial Army. Everyone must surrender immediately, or face execution!"

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(End of this chapter)