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One of Bolt's trusted men instinctively exclaimed in surprise. Bolt's order to attack this time was clearly unexpected. They had just captured the third fortress and hadn't even settled in yet, and now they were going to attack a new fortress?!

"The reinforcements from the fourth and fifth fortresses that came to support the third fortress were ambushed and annihilated by us. Now the fourth and fifth fortresses are almost devoid of regular troops. Before they can rebuild their defenses, now is the perfect time to launch a surprise attack!"

Bolt never concealed his war intentions. He told everyone his reasons for starting the war, and they immediately understood, followed by admiration. How could they not have thought of such a wise decision!

"So, should we attack the fourth fortress first, or the fifth fortress first?"

The mercenary who had spoken earlier couldn't help but ask Bolt another question, which also reflected the sentiments of many mercenaries.

"Attack simultaneously! Swiftly and decisively! Capture both fortresses before the enemy can react!"

Bolt flashed a confident smile, demonstrating his determination.

The mercenaries were already used to obeying Bolt's orders. Over the years, the Black Beast Mercenary Group had never made a mistake under Bolt's leadership. This was evident from the fact that they had grown from a third-rate mercenary group to the largest mercenary group on the entire continent, with Bolt even becoming the King of Mercenaries.

Immediately, the mercenaries began packing their bags to organize and command the lazy ogres. Before cooperating with the mercenaries, the ogres only possessed brute strength but could not effectively utilize their abilities. However, with the mercenaries mixed in with the ogre formations, directing and coordinating their battles, the terrifying nature of the ogres was fully revealed. This is one of the reasons why Bolt's ogre coalition army was able to sweep through three fortresses in one fell swoop. It's not that tanks can fire cannons, it's that tanks can fire cannons that can change direction!

“Go and investigate Lin Qi’s background. Find out when he joined, where he lives, and who brought him in.”

While everyone was making preparations for the battle, Bolt summoned his trusted confidants.

Although Lynch had performed very well, both his acting and disguise were spot on, Bolt still had a slight suspicion of him. Kaguya's disappearance and Akizuki Kozo's death were both related to Lynch. Although Lynch had a perfect alibi and even provided clues, he was a novice mercenary who wasn't even a professional. His flawless performance was itself a flaw.

So, just in case, he still had someone investigate Lynch's background. Bolt was the kind of person who was meticulous and cared a lot about his subordinates. Even new mercenaries would have some impression of him or know something about him. However, before Kaguya, Bolt had almost no impression of Lynch. He only vaguely remembered that he was an inconspicuous little brother of Hicks. This was an important reason why Bolt became suspicious of Lynch!

As soon as dawn broke, the combined army of ogre mercenaries set off, splitting into two groups heading towards the fourth and fifth fortresses respectively, preparing to take both fortresses in one fell swoop.

　Since both of Lynch's captains died one after another, and everyone else in the team perished in the Kaguya incident, Lynch was assigned to a new team. The captain of this team was also Bolt's confidant, and he was overly enthusiastic towards Lynch, constantly showing concern for him, asking him all sorts of questions, and treating him like family. He even gave him some small gifts, which made the other members of the team start to have complaints.

"Sigh, it seems I won't be staying with the Black Beast Mercenary Group for long. I didn't expect my superb acting skills to still be suspected. I need to find the last four players as soon as possible, collect all the newbie badges, and there are still five slots left in the contract space. I need to collect as many useful girls as possible, because there may not be such a good opportunity in the future."

Lin Qi was not happy about this situation at all. Although the captain was obviously an experienced veteran who could ask Lin Qi questions about his past whenever Lin Qi was most relaxed, Lin Qi was still quick to notice the problem. He knew that Bolt was suspicious of him, which made Lin Qi feel a sense of urgency.

Now that he had discovered that Bolt was suspicious of him, Lynch naturally began to plan his escape route, intending to make one last big profit before running away.

"Fortress Commander! Something terrible has happened! Bolt's Black Beast Mercenary Group and the Ogre Alliance have appeared twenty miles outside the city!"

Meanwhile, scouts at the Fifth Fortress had also discovered the combined army of ogres and mercenaries, and the entire fortress was gripped by fear! Bolt's offensive was simply too fierce! And it gave people the illusion that no one could defeat him!

Chapter 54, pages 54-10

The fortress commander of the fifth fortress is also the leader of the dwarf race, Lulu, a half-dwarf. Perhaps because she is of mixed human and dwarf blood, Lulu not only inherited the dwarf's strength but also the human's appearance and clothing habits. She has orange curly hair, a green pillow hat, a green cloak, white pantyhose, and big leather boots. She looks like a little loli. However, if you underestimate Lulu, you're probably in for a lot of trouble.

Lulu is recognized as one of the strongest warriors in the Seven Shields. The giant battle axe she uses is more than twice the size of herself. Even the strongest dwarves would find it difficult to wield such an axe, but Lulu can use it with ease!

"Hmph! My axe is itching to drink blood! Slaughter all the enemies! Let those fools know how powerful we are!"

When news of Bolt's army's invasion arrived, Lulu was in the core base of the fortress, polishing her giant battle axe. Upon hearing that Bolt and the orcs had arrived, she slammed the giant battle axe hard into the ground, revealing a fierce expression on her loli face. However, no matter how you looked at her, she didn't exude any majesty; instead, she resembled a little girl sulking because her candy had been stolen.

"Yes!"

Even so, Lulu's courage and fighting spirit inspired the soldiers of the fortress, who then relayed Lulu's orders with great enthusiasm.

Once the hall was empty, an elderly dwarven elder spoke softly to Lulu with a worried expression, "Chieftain, our tribe's warriors... are few in number. None of those who went to provide support have returned..."

Just before, when they were supporting the Third Fortress, the Fifth Fortress sent its most elite warriors to provide support, but unexpectedly, they were ambushed by ogres! In the end, not a single dwarf warrior escaped. This was a heavy blow to the already small dwarf race, and it will take the dwarfs at least twenty years to recover.

"The dwarves are fearless! Everyone, cheer up! Avenge our fallen comrades!"

However, for young Lulu, her sense of responsibility to her race was not so strong. Lulu first became the fortress chief by winning the battle with her strength as an ordinary half-dwarf. Then, when the chief of the dwarf race passed away, the competitive Lulu once again crushed everyone with her powerful strength and took the position of chief of the dwarf race.

"Yes."

The dwarf elder sighed deeply, nodded, and withdrew. In any case, this battle still had to be fought. He just hoped that Lulu would not lead the dwarf elite warriors to the front lines of battle as she had done in the past. Otherwise, even after fifty years, the dwarf race might not be able to recover its former glory.

"Axe, oh axe, we should win, right? Why do I feel so scared? No! I am the fortress commander of the Fifth Fortress and the chieftain of the dwarves! I must be strong! Yes, that's right! I must be strong!"

Everyone left, and Lulu wore a strange expression. While wiping the battle axe that was even bigger than her, she muttered to herself. After learning that the dwarven reinforcements had been wiped out, Lulu was actually afraid. She had insisted on sending the dwarven elites to provide support and show everyone the strength of the dwarves, but she hadn't expected this outcome. Many of the dwarven elders looked at her with extreme hostility. Although Lulu remained strong on the surface, she felt as fearful and uneasy as a child who had done something wrong.

"Kill! After that fortress, half the continent will be in our hands! For freedom! For our dreams!"

Twenty miles is a fleeting moment for the allied forces of mercenaries and ogres, and they soon clashed with the well-prepared defenders of the Fifth Fortress!

In this battle, Bolt did not use any tricks or schemes, but instead used a simple head-on tactic. As in his usual battles, he led several of his trusted men to fight on the front line. His squad was like a sharp knife, piercing straight into the Fifth Fortress's defenses and using it as a breakthrough point to continuously expand their gains, causing the entire defense line to fall into chaos.

Bolt's leadership was surprisingly effective. All the mercenaries and ogres were shouting for freedom and dreams, launching a desperate attack. The entire defense line of the Fifth Fortress was collapsing rapidly!

"Fortress Master! Something terrible has happened! Bolt has led a group of elites and tore through the defenses! Our men are no match for Bolt's attack! Fortress Master and the dwarf warriors, please intervene!"

It must be said that Lulu is not a qualified commander. She is more suited to be a warrior charging into battle. After the battle started, she charged into a certain defensive line and left the task of commanding the battle entirely to her deputy. However, her deputy could not command her at all. A human soldier shouted loudly at Lulu from a distance.

In past battles, this kind of thing has happened before. Lulu and the dwarf warriors behind her are the firefighters of the entire defensive line. They rush to wherever the danger is the greatest!

"In that case, I guess I'll have to kill him! It's decided! If this idiot touches my axe, he'll be dead instantly, right?!"

Lulu, who was having a great time charging into battle, immediately prepared to fight after hearing about Bolt. Although she was not confident of defeating Bolt, she did not back down at all!

"Chief! You cannot attack. If anything goes wrong, we will surely lose this battle..."

Just as Lulu was about to rush out, the dwarf elder who had spoken up earlier loudly stopped her. If it were any other enemy, it wouldn't matter, but this enemy was different. The mercenary king, who hadn't been defeated for decades, was not someone a young person like Lulu could defeat.

"Aaaaaah! Bastard! That damn bastard! He actually provoked me! I'm going to kill him! I'm going to kill him!"

But before the dwarf elder could finish speaking, Lulu roared and charged out!

Bolt, who was in the distance, had obviously spotted Lulu and gave her the middle finger!

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Chapter 1, page 55 (Fifth Update)

Strictly speaking, Bolt and Lulu have the same fighting style. They both lead from the front, charging ahead with a small group of elites to break through the enemy's defenses. The biggest difference between them is their combat experience.

Bolt debuted at the age of ten and is now over thirty. He has swept across the mercenary battlefield for more than twenty years without ever being defeated. Lulu, on the other hand, is just a little girl under twenty years old and has only been in the position of fortress commander for a short three years. The difference between them is obvious. Bolt was the first to spot Lulu's location. He stood on a high place and shouted at Lulu. He sneered at her from afar and raised his middle finger!

Lulu, young and impetuous, immediately ignored the advice of those around her and charged straight at them like a tank!

"The dwarf's brain is really not working properly. She's taken the bait. Capture her alive. If we capture her, we've won half the battle."

Bolt immediately sneered. To catch a thief, you must first catch the leader. If Lulu hadn't come to attack him, it would have been difficult for Bolt to capture her. But now that she had come on her own, there was no way she could leave. Each of his brothers behind him had more than three years of experience working together with him, and they were adept at dealing with tough opponents like Lulu! After Bolt gave the order, they all showed a knowing smile.

"Die! Earth Slash!"

Ignoring everything else, Lulu began to gather power in her giant battle axe from afar. When she was still dozens of meters away from Bolt, she suddenly leaped up and slashed the battle axe fiercely at Bolt with a whistling wind!

"Oh!"

"Little friend, no matter how strong you are, it's useless if you can't hit anyone. Let me teach you how to use your strength."

Lulu's attack power is undoubtedly terrifying! With a loud bang! A crack extending more than ten meters appeared in the ground that Lulu had struck! However, Bolt, who was originally Lulu's target, stood unharmed not far from the battle axe, staring at Lulu with a mocking smile, his two-handed greatsword attacking Lulu's vitals like a nimble snake!

"Damn it! Lock on! Berserker Axe!"

In close combat, Lulu realized that the difference in strength between her and Bolt was indeed significant! Her attacks consistently missed Bolt, while Bolt's attacks were incredibly accurate, hitting her several times. If she hadn't been attacking with a life-or-death attitude each time, she probably would have been killed by Bolt!

Enraged, Lulu immediately unleashed her ultimate technique. The giant battle axe emitted a burst of light, and countless magical chains bound Bolt. The battle axe also revealed a bloody light as it fiercely slashed towards Bolt's head!

"I'm a berserker, you think your strength is enough to stop me?! Let me show you what a real berserker is! Roar! Berserk! Triple Wave Strike!"

However, Bolt sneered. He had been waiting for Lulu to appear and create a weakness that would determine the outcome of the battle. Now that Lulu had used her trump card, Bolt naturally had no need to continue probing. He released a fiery battle aura and instantly broke the magic chains that bound him. He swung his two-handed greatsword upwards to meet Lulu's battle axe!

"Ta-da!"

Three consecutive, rapid clangs of metal clashing rang out as Bolt's greatsword unleashed three slashes in an instant, all striking the same spot on the battle axe. Lulu's hands went numb, and the giant battle axe flew from her grasp!

"Aaaaaah! How terrifying! How can he be so strong! I... I can't win... Waaah!"

Lulu was sent flying by the immense force and crashed to the ground. Although she was unharmed, to everyone's surprise, she sat on the ground in a daze, staring at the battle axe that had been sent flying, a look of fear on her face, and then burst into tears!

Ultimately, Lulu is just a child who has relied on her talent to have a smooth and successful life, never experiencing failure. Now that Bolt has defeated her most confident ability head-on, her carefully constructed "mask of strength" has crumbled, revealing her true nature. It's like a bespectacled model student who always gets straight A's in class; no matter how successful she is at school, she'll still cry her eyes out after being beaten up by the worst student in the entire school. Stripped of that halo, the model student is ultimately just a child who has never experienced failure.

"Everyone, drop your weapons, put your hands behind your heads, and kneel down to surrender! Otherwise, I'll kill her!"

Bolt showed no mercy whatsoever. With his greatsword pressed against Lulu's neck, he roared at everyone!

The entire battlefield fell silent, save for Lulu's heart-wrenching sobs. Clearly, no one had expected such a scene, and for a moment, no one knew what to do!

In the end, it was the dwarf elder who had originally advised Lulu who took the lead, throwing his warhammer far away, crouching down with his hands on the back of his head, and surrendering. There were very few dwarf warriors left, and in his eyes, the Fifth Fortress was destined to fail in this battle. Resistance was meaningless, and the most important thing was to preserve the dwarf race.

The dwarf chieftain was defeated, and the elders surrendered. Immediately, all the remaining dwarf warriors followed the elders' example and squatted on the ground. Only a few dwarf warriors continued to fight.

"We swear we will never surrender! Kill!"

On the other hand, apart from a few who surrendered, most of the human defenders continued to fight.

"Kill! Anyone who resists will be killed without exception! Those who surrender will not be killed!"

Bolt seemed to have anticipated this situation, and with a roar, he charged back into the horde of people who refused to surrender. Once a top-tier fourth-tier berserker went berserk, no one could stop him. Wherever Bolt went, blood and gore followed. The mercenaries and ogres followed behind Bolt, quickly expanding their gains, and also protecting him after his berserk state ended.

Although Bolt's berserk state looks incredibly fierce, it only lasts for five minutes, after which he will be in a weakened state for the next half hour.

Chapter 2 56

After losing their elite dwarven warriors, the battle for the Fifth Fortress turned into a one-sided massacre. After an hour of fierce resistance, the defenders of the Fifth Fortress finally realized that defeat was inevitable, and more and more people began to surrender. The battle gradually stabilized, and Bolt's allied army eventually captured the Fifth Fortress.

After confiscating the weapons of all the surrendered men and imprisoning them in the dungeon, Bolt did not rush to deal with them. Instead, he was summarizing the results of the battle in the city lord's mansion.

"Boss, even with the ogres leading the charge, we still lost three squads and five captains..."

However, the result was still hard for Bolt to accept. The number of mercenaries who followed him was decreasing. Those who could serve as captains were at least second-tier professionals. Now, the number of second and third-tier mercenaries in the entire Black Beast Mercenary Corps was getting smaller and smaller.

"Sigh, this is war... How is the Fourth Fortress? The fortress commander of the Fourth Fortress is just an ordinary person. After losing the main knight order, he should be completely powerless to fight back."

Bolt sighed and then changed the subject to another battle. The reason Bolt chose to hold the position at the Fifth Fortress instead of the Fourth Fortress was that after the main force of the Fourth Fortress was ambushed and wiped out, it simply did not have any stronger fighting force on the surface. Moreover, the commander of the Fourth Fortress had risen to his position through business, or to put it bluntly, by buying his way in. Therefore, taking the Fourth Fortress would actually be a very easy thing.

"Um... we've run into a bit of trouble. Although at first our men and the ogres were unstoppable, breaking through the defenses and storming into the city lord's mansion, but... once they entered, they found no one there. By the time everyone realized something was wrong, it was too late. A large number of enemies appeared behind us, our men were trapped in the city, suffering heavy casualties, and some are still trapped inside the city lord's mansion and can't get out..."

However, although Bolt had a good plan, things were not actually like that. According to a message sent by the eagle not long ago, although the situation at the Fourth Fortress was initially as Bolt had imagined, it was ultimately completely reversed, and even the initial unstoppable momentum was a conspiracy! Now, a considerable number of mercenaries are trapped in the Fourth Fortress, waiting for rescue.

"Damn it! The fortress commander of the Fourth Element is a money-grubbing idiot! How could he possibly use any schemes!"

Upon learning of the current state of the Fourth Fortress, Bolt immediately began to curse. This was completely different from what he had expected. Clearly, there had been an unexpected incident that he was unaware of, and it was precisely because of this unexpected incident that the mercenaries who went to attack the Fourth Fortress were trapped inside!

　"It was...it was Sister Maya who led the people to do it..."

The mercenary who made the report hesitated and said a name with an embarrassed expression.

"Maya?! That bastard! Not only did she not help me, but she also helped the Seven Shields Alliance against me! Very well! Leave some to take care of the wounded and assist the ogres in controlling the Fifth Fortress. The rest of you, come with me! Maya left those people in the city to lure me into a trap. We won't kill them for now; we'll rescue as many as we can!"

Upon hearing Maya's name, Bolt immediately showed a look of anger!

And immediately issued orders to stay behind and provide support. After learning what was going on, Bolt naturally understood the other side's conspiracy! The mercenaries trapped in the Fourth Fortress were simply bait to lure Bolt to their aid. However, even knowing the truth, Bolt still chose to provide support without hesitation!