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Henrietta stated that her mother is the true queen of Triestin, and that Triestin can live without a princess, but it cannot live without a queen.

Therefore, Henrietta, in her capacity as the "master of the familiar," first ordered Wood to protect Her Majesty the Queen and get her away immediately if any danger was encountered.

Wood and his men did not choose to deliberately reveal their whereabouts, because even without doing so, Albion's scouts would be able to find them.

After all, the route had been chosen beforehand, and the commotion caused by nearly a thousand cavalrymen was considerable. Unless Albion's men were too foolish, they would naturally be able to spot them.

Although Albion is currently leading the army under the command of the former Kingdom's Marshal, the real mastermind behind the scenes is the God-like mind, Sheffield.

The Crown Prince of Wales sat blankly in the main seat, while behind him, Sheffield's finger wore the 'Water Sprite Ring', which emitted a faint blue light.

Marshal Albion was puzzled as to why the Crown Prince of Wales would suddenly attack Torristine, with whom they had always maintained good relations.

But with the situation looking very good, Marshal Albion believed that letting Queen Tristine and Princess Henrietta go would not harm the overall situation.

Especially since Princess Henrietta is engaged to the Crown Prince of Wales, excessive cruelty would only leave her with a bad reputation, even if she conquered Tristene, which would be detrimental to her future rule.

Unfortunately, despite Marshal Albion's heartfelt words, he failed to persuade the Crown Prince of Wales, who stubbornly issued the order to pursue the Tristine royal family.

The marshal couldn't understand why the once gentle and refined crown prince had become like this, and in the end, he could only leave in anger.

Chapter 119 Desperate Situation! One Thousand Against Forty Thousand!

Admittedly, if the Crown Prince of Wales were still the same person, he would not have issued such an order.

Unfortunately, the current Crown Prince is no longer the original Welshman, but a puppet whose life has been given a false one by the "Ring of the Water Spirit".

Marshal Albion's advice was indeed more effective in securing Albion's rule over Triestin, but what did that have to do with Sherfeld?

The task she received from her master, Joseph, was to bring down Albion and Tristine. As for what would happen to Albion and Tristine afterward, who cared?

Let Henrietta and the others go? That's obviously impossible!

Sheffield is more concerned with her status as a nominal heir than with Henrietta's royal status.

Wood is the heart of God, Reeves Lasher, and Henrietta, as its master, is naturally regarded as one of the successors of "Nothingness".

No one knows the power of "nothingness" better than Sheffield. Just look at Sheffield herself, who used the power of the divine mind Misnitren to manipulate the entire kingdom of Albion.

To prevent other Void Heirs from threatening Lord Joseph, Wood and Henrietta are both on Sheffield's kill list!

As for Tristine's other pair of Void and Legendary Familiars, Viscount Wald, whom she arranged, should have already made his move.

In the pitch-black night, Albion had 40,000 troops pursuing a cavalry unit, and the commander of this army was Sheffield himself.

In terms of mobility, although Albion had more men, they were far inferior to Wood and his men who escaped on horseback.

However, having more people also has its advantages. After a night of pursuit and interception, Wood and his men were eventually forced into a forest.

Shelfid also ordered Albion's soldiers to form an encircling formation, surrounding the entire forest and continuously compressing Wood and his men's area of ​​activity.

"Lord Wood, before the enemy completely surrounds us, you should take Henrietta and leave."

Wood and his men had been on a long march all night, and their horses had all died of exhaustion on the road. Because they had nowhere else to go and were worried about Albion's air force, they finally decided to venture into the forest.

With the dense jungle as a barrier, Albion's airships and dragon knights were unable to fight effectively in this environment.

However, entering the forest also means entering a dead end. Now, there is no other way but to engage the enemy in close combat.

With 30,000 against 70,000, Tristino's chances of winning were already slim. Now, with 1,000 against 40,000, even if the soldiers here are Tristino's elite, there is absolutely no chance of victory.

The current situation is one of no escape, so Queen Tristan has brought up the old issue again, saying that she can be used as bait to attract the enemy's attention.

Then, before the enemy could completely surround them, Wood took Henrietta and left alone.

“Your Majesty, this order puts me in a difficult position. Princess Henrietta wants me to save you, but you also want me to protect Henrietta as she leaves.”

Moreover, whether it's saving you or Her Highness the Princess, treating the other soldiers as expendable pawns is simply too unfair.

Wood sat on the ground with his eyes closed, seemingly not facing a desperate situation at all. His words moved the soldiers around him.

The hierarchy in this world is so deeply ingrained that even though Queen Tristine just said that she didn't care about the lives of the other soldiers, these people didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Commoners obeyed and pledged allegiance to nobles, while nobles, for the sake of their own honor, could choose to die protecting the royal family, as if everything were just a matter of course.

"If you could survive, who would want to die? But the current situation is that if you don't plan to leave either, then no one can survive here."

I know, of course, that the soldiers who remain here are true heroes, but that is precisely why you should protect Henrietta and help her leave.

Otherwise, even if they all die here, who will protect the honor and rewards they defend?

The Queen's meaning was simple: only if either she or Henrietta returned alive would those who died here be true heroes.

Otherwise, even if Tristene wins the war, who in the newly enthroned royal family will remember these meritorious individuals?

"Your Majesty, as I have said before, I will not choose to abandon anyone, because the weight of a person's life is equal, regardless of whether they are a commoner, a nobleman, or even the so-called royal family."

Whether I rescue Henrietta or you today, the other person will surely regret it for the rest of their life.

If that's the case, why not try again? Besides, given the current situation, we might not necessarily be facing certain death.

With a troop disparity of one thousand to forty thousand, if the battle were fought on flat terrain, the one thousand soldiers would likely be swallowed up by the enemy army in an instant.

However, they were now in a forest. Although the enemy outnumbered them, the terrain limited their ability to swarm them even when they were surrounded.

So, following Wood's command, the remaining thousand soldiers quickly formed a double-ring formation under his instructions.

The outer ring of the formation was defended by strong, heavily armored commoners, while the inner ring was defended by nobles who possessed magic. As for the very center, it was where Henrietta and Queen Tristine were protected.

The reason for choosing this formation was not because of the hierarchy between commoners and nobles, but because trained commoner soldiers were indeed more suitable for the outer defense than physically weak mages.

This is a team battle rule based on tanks protecting mages, except that those who can use magic happen to be nobles.

As for Wood, he will not join the defensive formation; he will remain an uninvolved member and play freely.

Judging from the terrain, this area could only allow the enemy to launch an attack with a force of at most a few thousand men at a time.

Considering that the soldiers on Tristine's side were all elite, but they couldn't withstand the enemy's repeated attacks, Wood's task was to reduce the number of Albion soldiers charging up as much as possible.

As the encirclement of Albion continued to shrink, some noisy footsteps began to appear around them, and the soldiers of Tristine, who were arranged in a circular formation, began to sweat with tension.

Wood, who was sitting in front of the soldiers, had been resting with his eyes closed, but the moment the first Albion soldier appeared, he opened his eyes in an instant.

"The battle begins!"

Chapter 120 Invincible, a true match for ten thousand men!

Wood, who had been resting with his eyes closed, disappeared from everyone's sight in an instant. The first Albion soldier to emerge was decapitated before he could even react, his head severed from his body in a flash of cold light.

However, this was only the beginning. As the first Albion soldier emerged, the main enemy force soon discovered the location of the Tristine deserters.

After chasing the fleeing troops of Tristine all night, Albion's troops originally thought that since they were the fleeing troops protecting the Queen and the Princess, their numbers should be quite large.

However, when the nobles in Albion's army saw that Wood and his men numbered only a little over a thousand, they almost burst out laughing.

I initially thought it would be a bit tricky, but now it seems like this is practically a free military investment.

Not only in Tristine, but the Kingdom of Albion also had a strong aristocratic system. Queen Tristine and Princess Henrietta were undoubtedly important figures in Tristine. It goes without saying how great the merit would be to take their heads.

Therefore, the nobles in Albion's army immediately ordered their troops to launch an attack on the people of Tristine.

It's a very simple logic: the enemy only has a thousand men at most, which is not even a fraction of their Albion army.

First come, first served; the greatest honor of killing or capturing an enemy general is limited to one person. For the sake of so-called honor, the nobles of Albion could not contain themselves.

Wearing a black tuxedo with a thigh-high slit and long purple hair, Sheffield stood on a tree branch, watching the situation from afar.

He neither moved forward nor stopped the actions of the nobles in Albion.

As astute as Sheffield was, upon seeing that Torristin's army numbered less than a thousand men, he immediately guessed Torristin's intentions.

However, Sheffield didn't care at all; she didn't care who won between Albion and Torristine.

The Crown Prince of Wales still has 30,000 troops left. Even if Tristin manages to win by sheer luck, they will probably be crippled.

The focus now is on Reeves Rachel, the Heart of God, and his master, the Void User, who must die here today!

Faced with the onslaught of Albion's army, the Tristine soldiers, who were maintaining their defensive formation, were inevitably somewhat panicked at first, given the disparity in numbers.

However, after a brief moment of panic, they remembered what Wood had said earlier.

They have no way out now; if they retreat, they will face an abyss!

With such a death wish, the soldiers of Tristín quickly regained their composure and raised their shields, once again repelling the charging soldiers of Albion.

The forest terrain limited space, and Albion's soldiers could only surge up in a few thousand at a time. For the entrenched Tristín, such a number of men would obviously not be an easy task to break through.

If the opponent uses arrows or magic, the Tristine nobles located in the inner ring area will use water, wind, earth, or other types of magic to defend themselves.

Thanks to the terrain and the fact that Tristín's nearly 1,000 soldiers were already elite, Albion lost many men, but still couldn't break through Tristín's defenses.

In contrast to the increasingly agitated Albion soldiers, the soldiers on Tristín's side were in high spirits.

They initially thought they would die in this battle, but after successfully repelling several waves of Albion's soldiers, they suddenly realized that their opponents were nothing special.

Of course, besides the fact that their current formation is indeed effective, what gives them most confidence is another person on the field at this moment.

The figure, clad in gleaming silver armor, moved with ghostly speed, appearing in every corner of the battlefield.

And every time he appears, his twin swords reap the lives of many enemy soldiers.

Albion's infantry can use shields to block enemy swords and arrows, and can also defend against magic and arrows with the magic of the noble lords behind them.

However, don't forget that Albion's forces include quite a few monsters summoned using magical artifacts.