Chapter 451

Chapter 451: Battle

“Lord Sword King! We are not a match for this monster. The most important thing right now is to retreat! The town has already been destroyed by the monsters, and the army is not suited to fight here. Please, let us withdraw for now and regroup with the remaining cavalry outside the town before we decide what to do next!”

After observing the fight between Hugue and the meat mountain from a distance, the Knight Commander shouted loudly.

However, Hugue only wore a fierce expression as he fought fiercely against the tentacles and humanoid monsters on the mountain of flesh. His body was covered in the monsters’ blood and bits of flesh, and he was starting to show wounds.

From the young man’s crazed behavior, it seemed he hadn’t heard the Knight Commander’s voice at all.

“He has gone mad and can’t understand what the grown-ups say. This so-called Sword King is just like that; he has lost his mind for a woman.”

The officer next to him shook his head.

The Knight Commander did not answer the officer’s words; instead, he stared silently at the man on the mountain of flesh for a moment.

“Before coming here, I only heard that this Sword King was an arrogant man who looked down on others, but I did not expect he was actually a passionate man.”

“Sir… are you planning to lead the troops up to save him?”

“If he does not plan to retreat, taking you all up there will not only fail to bring him back but could also cost you your lives.”

The brawny Knight Commander shook his head.

Since even an S-class adventurer was not a match for this meat mountain, the more than three hundred of them would just be offering themselves as food.

“I will try to persuade him again.”

Then, the Knight Commander shouted a few more words at the young man, but it was all in vain.

As Hugue’s furious spirit did not fade but the strength in his hands weakened, the Knight Commander finally sighed deeply.

“Retreat! First, we will meet up with the cavalry outside the city.”

“Yes!”

The Knight Commander turned his horse around, and just as he and the cavalry had not gone far, the sound of weapons clashing on the meat mountain suddenly stopped.

Everyone looked back and saw that the young man Hugue had lost his strength, his sword was knocked away, and in the next moment, he was torn into pieces by a group of tentacles and humanoid monsters.

“Quick, retreat!!”

Before he could express his surprise, the Knight Commander felt a chill in his heart and quickly shouted orders for everyone to evacuate.

Although he saw those tentacles and humanoid monsters still busy devouring Sword King Hugue, he understood very well that once Hugue was dead, the next target of the meat mountain would be them.

…

“He’s dead.”

“Yeah, I didn’t expect this meat mountain could evolve and become stronger.”

Stealth Seventeen and Stealth Eighteen felt less interested when they saw the Class S low-level adventurer Hugue also being killed by the meat mountain.

Although they could rescue the bodies of the young Hugue and Ellena, Stealth Seventeen and Stealth Eighteen chose not to do so.

First, because of the presence of that team of imperial guards, they didn’t want to draw attention.

Second, because the young Hugue and Ellena had no connection to them, they weren’t very eager to help.

Since even an S-class adventurer had fallen to that monstrous creature, it meant that they would face some risk too. As for saving Lloyd and his two companions earlier… it was because the monster wasn’t strong enough to threaten them at that time. Even if they couldn’t win, they could easily escape. However, now they no longer had the ability to escape safely without getting caught by those tentacles and humanoid monsters.

“Let’s go back and report the information about the monster to Mom and the others.”

“Okay, I will do as you say.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the two girls became shadows, darting between the houses and ruins, quickly leaving the town and heading towards the nearest space gate located in the ant hole.

…

Just at the moment when the two Stealth Ants had just left, the Knight Commander, who intended to retreat quickly with his men, suddenly paused.

Wait… if that monstrous creature’s next target was us, wouldn’t that be just perfect? he thought suddenly.

Earlier, His Majesty had sent people to seek help from the southern countries and the western Rollo Kingdom, and had also offered a high reward to all the large Adventurer’s Guilds on the continent to hunt down monsters.

If they failed to defeat the monster, they would use the thousand knights as bait to lure the moving disaster, the Meat Mountain, towards the Rollo Kingdom—this was the command given to him by His Majesty himself.

Although this command may very well lead to the death of more than a thousand cavalry soldiers at the mouth of the Meat Mountain, it was our duty as His Majesty’s soldiers. If we could successfully divert the threat westward, many people within the Empire would be saved from harm.

The Knight Commander ordered the cavalry to slow their retreat while watching the movements of the Meat Mountain.

When he saw the Meat Mountain begin to move, and its direction was right towards them, the Knight Commander finally sighed in relief.

But just as he began to relax, he took in a sharp breath again.

“How, how is this possible!”

The Knight Commander’s mouth fell open in shock.

Suddenly, the already enormous Meat Mountain “stood” up, and from beneath its massive body appeared dozens of thick, giant legs that had formed without anyone noticing.

These thick legs, also made of flesh and blood, supported the gigantic body of the Meat Mountain, causing its original height of about twenty meters to suddenly increase to nearly thirty meters!

After they “stood” up, their thick legs began to support the heavy body and move. The legs looked clumsy, but their speed was surprisingly fast.

Under the weight of the huge body, each step of the thick legs not only made a loud rumble and kicked up a cloud of dust, but also made the cavalry, who were hundreds of meters away, feel a tremor.

“Retreat at full speed!! Quickly!!!”

Seeing the distance between the giant body and themselves shrink by nearly a third in that moment, the Knight Commander felt a chill rise from his feet to the top of his head, and his scalp tingled.

After hearing the order, his men also began to ride their horses frantically as if they were fighting for their lives.

However, even so, the distance between the giant body and them continued to close.

“My lord, you go first, I will hold them back with a team!”

Realizing that this situation couldn’t continue, just as the Knight Commander was about to speak, the captain of the first guard squad shouted out.

Without waiting for the Knight Commander to respond, he took half of the first squad—around fifty knights—and left the main group, slowing down their pace while moving in another direction.

Regarding the “bait” plan of the old king, the Knight Commander did not hide this from his subordinates, so even knowing that the outcome could only be complete destruction, even into tiny pieces, these subordinates did not hesitate at all.

Seeing that the prey split into two paths to escape, one group had over two hundred people and ran quickly, while the other group with more than fifty people ran slower. After a moment, the Meat Mountain rushed after the group of over fifty knights.

It was greedy and did not want to let any of them escape.