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Chapter 787 - 787 30 I Announce That I Have the Bloodline of the Mountain People!

787: Chapter 30: I Announce That I Have the Bloodline of the Mountain People!

787: Chapter 30: I Announce That I Have the Bloodline of the Mountain People!

“Ian, Ian…”

As Captain Naimo Narik of the South Ridge Special Combat Team in Fiery Flame Land repeated the name, he flung the report in his hand onto the ground.

He pulled an alchemical handgun from his waist and aimed it at the Mountain People emissary reporting to him, then pressed the trigger.

Bang!

The bullet flew past the emissary, who had his eyes tightly closed, shaving off half of his ear, but the emissary dared not move a muscle and just stood there, letting the blood flow freely, and even feeling fortunate in his heart.

— Thank goodness it was just the ear; I thought it would be the forehead.

“Waste of space!”

Naimo roared, “You and the tribe behind you, those idiot chieftains—they’re all just excrement from filthy beetles—”

“Three full suits of armor!

Fourteen hundred men!

A full set of regular army equipment!

A total of thirty pieces of various artillery!

Supplies of Elemental Crystals to last half a month of combat—all gone?!

Just in one afternoon?!”

“Are you a supply convoy delivering freaking supplies to Leyan City or are you the rebel army about to attack Leyan City?!”

“If I didn’t know you lot didn’t have the guts to double-cross, I’d definitely suspect you colluded with The Empire to cheat us out of our equipment!”

The angrier he spoke, the more enraged Naimo became; he drew a longsword from his waist and chopped off a corner of the desk in front of him: “You bunch of wastes, if only you had breached Leyan City and caused some panic, I would consider that you had made an effort…

But you didn’t even touch the walls of Leyan City!”

— In fact, Leyan City had no walls.

The Mountain People emissary thought so in his heart, but he didn’t want to be shot dead by a bullet or beheaded by the enraged head of Fiery Flame Land, so he didn’t speak out.

At the end of the day, it’s indeed their fault…

After all, just two days ago, the elite forces of the Tiechen, Zhenzhou, and Sheyan Tribes, along with their chieftains, had all been defeated right outside the gates of Leyan City, losing nearly all their weapons and supplies—it has to be said, this sounds indeed like a joke, even the intelligence forces of Fiery Flame Land took two days to confirm whether this event was actually true.

In short, when Fiery Flame Land learned that the three Mountain Tribes had been truly wiped out, and they had delivered almost all the supplies they had previously requested to Leyan City,

Fiery Flame Land fell silent.

Truthfully, Fiery Flame Land had no expectations for the Mountain People from the start; they had always used the Mountain People as a front, deploying their own Ironwing Dragons as the main combat force—all primarily to seize the moral high ground, and if that failed, to make the tribes who were originally friendly to The Empire support independence, thus creating chaos on The Empire’s borders.

Besides that, they had never thought that the Mountain People could cause any trouble for The Empire’s regular army…

Now is not two hundred years ago, when the Mountain People’s giant bull knights could pose a significant threat to the Empire’s army, which hadn’t fully developed the first generation of Armor Suits.

Now, just three Sky Armor Suits are enough to suppress the entire Mountain Tribe.

So they only asked Fiery Flame Land to clear the path for their future offensives—so long as the Mountain People could control the entrance and exit of the Bison Mountain Range to the Agate Stone Plains, then the Constructed Knights of Fiery Flame Land could charge in unstoppably and break the commercial route from Nauman City to Sanhe City to Harrison Port, splitting South Ridge into two.

But all of that became a joke.

A sixteen-year-old, acting Knight Lord, leading a bunch of mercenaries and family private armies, had completely routed the Mountain People’s elite forces that they had armed.

Of course, this Knight Lord was indeed quite capable, Naimo knew his name…

Ian, the Alchemist who exposed Fiery Flame Land’s biological warfare plans, who en route to the Imperial Capital, also solved their kidnapping case and disrupted their plans; this guy even emerged in the Avak Domain, was impacted by the aftermath of the Heavenly Flood King, yet serendipitously advanced to the Second Energy Level.

Perhaps due to being involved in a major incident, this young genius became somewhat anxious and returned to South Ridge.

And the first thing he did was to trounce the Mountain People supported by Fiery Flame Land in the mud.

— What’s this guy’s deal?

Targeting us, huh?

This was Naimo’s first thought, but as he read on, his rage increased—not because of Ian’s actions, but because of the Mountain People’s underestimation.

From the information gathered among the routed forces, Naimo was certain that even at the end, the Mountain People had held an absolute advantage.

Ian had used a technique for artificial rainfall, paired with an electrical current weapon, to ambush the Mountain Tribe during the rain, disrupting their supplies and formation.

Pretending to be defeated, he withdrew, then used some method to ambush the two Mountain Tribe leaders who were pursuing him—perhaps a large amount of Alchemical Potions, a sign of a rather wealthy Alchemy Genius.

He quickly dealt with the naive chieftains pursuing him, then turned around to strike the rear of the Mountain Tribe once again, coordinating a pincer attack with Leyan City to completely crush the Mountain Tribe.

Reasonable tactics, reasonable wisdom, but it wasn’t that Ian was very strong, it was just that the Mountain People were too stupid.

If only those two had not pursued and instead had pushed all their forces into Leyan City, no matter how strong Ian was, he could only watch helplessly as his hometown was flattened.

A man can run away, but his home cannot!

“Strategic objectives are greater than tactical ones!

These fools, they really need to be taught the art of war!”

Naimo felt helpless deep within.

Beyond that, the only question remaining was…

“Who’s going to explain to me how such mature beam weapons and electric weapons had no prior intelligence?”