Chapter 490 - 230: The Tiger Race’s Reaction
Chapter 490: Chapter 230: The Tiger Race’s Reaction
Early in the morning, Robson’s camp was already bustling with activity.
By now, the matter of awakening was no longer something Robson handled alone; he had a complete system in place for it.
It was worth noting that this time, the very first Silver Strong Bowman had even been created!
"Silver.1 Frank’s Honorable Strong Bowman (0/100,000)"
This Silver Shooter was one of the first two to become Extraordinary: Lambo.
Back then, Lambo and John were the first two by Robson’s side to advance. Robson had even specifically asked where John was, only to find out that John had already died in battle.
Learning this news made Robson fall silent for a moment.
A single general’s success is built on ten thousand sacrifices. It couldn’t be helped.
Afterward, Robson tested this Silver-tier Frank’s Honorable Strong Bowman.
This time, the soldier’s strength was finally no longer pre-Extraordinary, but genuinely Extraordinary!
His Fighting Qi reserves were roughly at the level of the Bronze Third Tier.
This number was already terrifying. After all, apart from the King’s Guards of the major nations and the two great Knight Orders of the Holy See, the Bronze Third Tier was the level of the main force for most great noble cavalry corps!
And these had to be powerful great nobles, like the Fengman Clan.
Of course, it wasn’t without its drawbacks. When Lambo was promoted to Silver, the amount of Magical Beast Meat he consumed was enough to feed ten Tier Seven Soldiers until they were full.
Watching Robson run the tests from the side, Valentino was so astonished his jaw dropped.
You have to understand, Robson already had around eight hundred of those weaker Extraordinary soldiers—basically a thousand, which was almost on par with what the Fengman Clan had accumulated over a century.
And that was a number Robson had produced in just one year. Now, Robson was telling him that not only could he mass-produce pseudo-Extraordinary soldiers, but he could also cultivate true Extraordinary ones!
This ability was absolutely unprecedented.
The two discussed the matter a little more and confirmed that it absolutely could not be leaked. At least, not before they had sufficient strength, no word of it could get out.
That part was simple. The Extraordinary soldiers under Robson had all been promoted from the ranks of regular Soldiers. To a Soldier, an order outweighs one’s own life.
After Robson ordered them not to discuss related matters, all talk about Extraordinary Fighting Qi was immediately forbidden.
Robson organized his eight hundred Extraordinary soldiers, formed an Extraordinary Personal Guard of about a hundred men, and then integrated the rest back into the army.
Robson didn’t deliberately keep them all in one place. For him, commanding his troops was as easy as moving his own limbs; he could call upon them whenever he needed.
After he finished all this, news also arrived from Bo Yang. The main army of the Human Race was gradually entering the territory of the Tiger Race Royal Court, and they could begin preparing for the next step.
Having arranged matters with the Extraordinary Corps, Robson sent out a portion of his Gnolls. His intention, of course, was to absorb the lesser races in the Tiger Race Royal Court’s territory.
Since he had decided to take the "lesser races" route on the Beastman Grassland, Robson naturally had to see it through to the end.
Of course, Robson didn’t send them all out. He dispatched one-third of his Tier Five Soldiers, and also sent out Claude’s Cavalry to assist them.
It wasn’t that Robson was underestimating the enemy; the last battle had already proven that the Tiger Race People were only so-so.
....
Meanwhile, the humans were hurrying toward the Tiger Race Royal Court with great urgency.
At this moment, in the Tiger Race Royal City.
Prince Tallo of the Tiger Race, wearing the crown that symbolized his status as Regent King, gazed out from the city, his face etched with worry.
Originally, the throne of the Tiger Race would never have fallen to Tallo.
Unfortunately, on the central front, the Tiger Race People’s luck had not been good.
Marshal Grantham had keenly perceived the brilliance of Robson’s Magic Crystal Cannon cluster tactics and had immediately begun implementing them.
The Tiger Race People had been the backbone of the Beastmen forces in that battle.
The Tiger Race King and his heir were all killed in that battle. The Tiger Race Royal Court’s strength was severely damaged, and as a result, the Tiger Race People were forced to withdraw from the battlefield.
In retrospect, it was a blessing in disguise. After all, when the Tiger Race was defeated, the Beastmen still held the upper hand overall, so Marshal Grantham didn’t dare to pursue the Tiger Race People too deeply.
When the human reinforcements arrived later, the situation changed dramatically.
At the very least, the Tiger Race previously had the strength to support the Centaur Royal Family. Now, the main forces of some Royal Families were completely buried on the central front.
After the Tiger Race King and Prince died, the direct line of the Tiger Race Royal Family was left with only an infant in swaddling clothes. Thus, Tallo was pushed forward to serve as regent for the Tiger Race’s royal clan.
However, this effortless political victory didn’t bring Tallo much joy.
The Tiger Race King’s death had been too sudden, and the distribution of power was incomplete. Tallo now had the title but no real authority. Otherwise, he should have directly inherited the throne instead of becoming regent.
Moreover, it seemed as if even the Beast God did not favor Tallo.
He had just become regent when an order came from the Beastman Emperor, commanding him to go and support the Centaur Royal Court.
Tallo wanted to use this opportunity to expand his prestige within the army, so he dispatched his younger brother, hoping to seize power over the military in the process.
But to everyone’s surprise, the elite Tiger Race Warriors were utterly defeated.
Tallo’s attempt to seize power also aroused the dissatisfaction of some elders in the city’s Senate, who proceeded to launch a torrent of verbal and written attacks against him.
Tallo was now filled with misery. The Human Race’s army was bearing down on them, and he couldn’t even consolidate his own power...
"Your Highness! Your Highness!"
Just as Tallo was lost in his worries, a voice called out.
Tallo heard the voice and turned around.
It was an elderly Tiger Race man, a retainer left to Prince Tallo by his mother, General Hunter.
"Uncle Hunter..."
"Did those people agree to let the army outside into the city?" Tallo asked.
Hunter simply shook his head.
After Tallo received the news of his brother’s defeat, he had taken advantage of the information gap to immediately issue an executive order, commanding the scattered Tiger Race soldiers across the land to quickly gather at the Royal City. Although these men were a disorganized rabble, they numbered twenty thousand strong! That was twice the size of the regular army inside the city.
Unfortunately, once the news reached the Royal Capital, the Senate adamantly refused to allow the Tiger Race army outside to enter the city.
It was a joke! It was one thing for that army to be outside the Royal City, but if they entered, would they still listen to the Senate’s orders?
That army contained many political enemies of the Senate’s powerful figures.
As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The army outside the city was gathering under Tallo’s command. Tallo’s faction had just suffered a major blow, and the Senate had finally, with great difficulty, gained the upper hand. If Tallo used this opportunity to restore his military authority in the Royal City, that would be a disaster for them.
"Those bastards! To still be thinking about such things at a critical time like this!"
Tallo gritted his teeth in fury.
Although when he had first ordered those men to the Royal City, his own motive had been to consolidate his position.
But that was just at the beginning. Now, Tallo was genuinely anxious.
Those human Soldiers and Gnolls had annihilated the Centaur Royal Court, and the defenses of the Centaur King City were several times stronger than the Tiger Race’s dilapidated walls.
"Hmph! I suppose they’re still pinning their hopes on that Royal Guard..."
"How can a mere ten thousand men possibly stand against the blades of the humans?" General Hunter couldn’t help but add with a grumble.
The Royal Guard numbered just over ten thousand men and was the armed force controlled by the Senate.
The Royal City was currently under the control of the Royal Guard, which was why Tallo couldn’t just let the army outside enter.
He didn’t have control of the city gates. Even Tallo’s brother, Prince Trilman, had not been allowed to enter the city.
The Senate believed that the humans were only able to breach the Centaur King City because the Centaur Royal Family’s elite forces were not in the city at the time.
They believed the Tiger Race Royal City, with its Royal Guard, could not possibly be steamrolled by the humans. After all, though the Royal Guard only had ten thousand men, around six hundred of them were Extraordinary, and they all wore the best equipment.
"Your Highness, I didn’t come here about that matter," General Hunter said.
"Oh? What is it then?" Prince Tallo asked with a frown.
Upon hearing this, General Hunter took out a letter from behind his back and handed it to Prince Tallo.
The Prince took it and glanced at it.
It bore the markings of the Imperial Court. It had likely been delivered by a Thunderhawk.
As for why they didn’t use a Magic Tower? The answer was simple: the Tiger Race didn’t have one.
In fact, on the Beastman Grassland, very few Royal Courts would bother to install such a contraption.
Magic Crystals were a rarity on the great grasslands. Besides, the only ones who built Magic Towers there were the Gray Dwarves, and while their craftsmanship was nothing to brag about, their prices were astronomical.
Only a Royal Family like the Centaur Clan, which hadn’t moved its home base in several hundred years, would have the inclination to build such a thing.
The sender of the letter was the Chancellor of the Imperial Court.
The gist of it was an inquiry: how were things on the human front, and could the Tiger Race still hold out?
Prince Tallo understood. The humans had pushed too deep, and His Majesty was losing his nerve and wanted to run.
Instantly, alarm bells went off in Prince Tallo’s mind.
’What a stupid question. Could he possibly write back that they couldn’t hold on?’
Unlike the Centaurs, the Tiger Race was part of the Royalist Faction purely because its territory was close to the central front.
If Kemal were to withdraw his army from Bronze Pass and let the Human Race through, it would be all over!
This so-called Robson could, at most, defeat the Tiger Race People and drive them elsewhere. But if that main Human Race army from the central front were to enter, they could truly leave the Beastman Grassland barren.
This was no exaggeration. In years past, Royal Families had been exterminated before.
Even if they weren’t exterminated, their strength would surely be drastically reduced, and they would fall from their position as a Royal Family.
"Your Highness, how should we reply to this matter?" General Hunter asked.
"How should we reply?" Prince Tallo frowned.
’How should we reply? Did he even need to ask?’
’We definitely can’t write that we can’t hold on.’
"Go and give this letter to Fernie’s people."
"They’ll know how to reply," Prince Tallo said, shaking his head.
’Can we hold on?’
To be honest, Prince Tallo didn’t know either.
If the Senate would let the Tiger Race Warriors outside the city in, Prince Tallo would dare to guarantee it. But they refused to let them in.
In the Beastman Empire, deceiving the Emperor was a grave crime, especially within the Royalist Faction.
Therefore, Prince Tallo felt it was best to leave the matter of replying to this letter to the Senate.