Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 1021 - 257 Kung Fu Pays Off for Those Who Work Hard

Chapter 1021: Chapter 257 Kung Fu Pays Off for Those Who Work Hard

On one side Liu was lost in thought, while on the other, at the Autumn Sword Feast, amidst the clinking of glasses, both the King and the Pope wore smiles of satisfied achievement. Seeing so many young talents springing up like bamboo shoots after rain, both leaders felt that the days to revive Beamon’s glory might not be too far off.

When he came to his senses, Liu realized he had been ostracized.

At the Autumn Sword Feast, every Beamon noble and priest deliberately kept a distance from the Piegel people, except for the two Pier priests, everyone from Beamon stayed far away from the Piegel’s entourage, as if approaching them would transmit some plague. At this point, no noble brought up the demand to prove that Qian Qian’s "Jane’s Love War Song" was not a "common war song," nor did any prestigious family come forward to woo Helen and Moer anymore.

Even someone as oblivious as Liu knew that he had been easily and simply excluded from the upper echelons of society and political circles.

Such is the cruelty of the world! Damn it! Like all heroes facing twilight, Liu uttered a lament about life.

However, he had clearly forgotten how many Beamon high-ranking figures he had offended. Today’s outcome was really no surprise to Liu. Even as a Scepter Shaman, without being part of their game, you are just a shaman with a tail between your legs, a shaman without a voice, no different from an ordinary shaman.

The Imperial City Temple and Pope Heigar, perhaps hearing the heart’s desire of the Shaman of Divine Songs, as the Autumn Sword Feast drew to a close, Pope Heigar solemnly announced: The position of the chief Shaman of the Expeditionary Shaman Group would be held by the Shaman of Divine Songs Richard!

Shortly after, Pope Heigar also conducted a rather grand mini authorization ceremony, presenting Liu with a brand new flag of the shaman group, which depicted Mount Hyjal, surrounded by clouds with its edges embroidered in gold thread, and in the middle decorated with the icons of the God of War and three beloved pets; the top corner bore an ancient Beamon script that read - War is the best college for a shaman.

Liu initially thought that this position would be scrapped due to conflicts with the red-robed High Priest, but Pope Brut Heigar had played such a move, firmly pressing this hot potato into Liu’s hands, making him somewhat cry with laughter - he knew that the Pope did this because he was set on pushing all the blame on him, the chief of the shaman group, in the upcoming contest for war spoils with the military department. Liu did not think there was anything wrong with the Pope’s action; he just found it ironic—after all these incidents, did Pope Brut Heigar still naively think he was a soft persimmon that could be squished at will?

This time, the Kingdom’s move was indeed massive. The Expeditionary Shaman Group formed from the start was a unique system; since the existing Altar Shamans were not high-ranking and had weak magical beasts, the composition of the shaman group was divided into two parts. The total setup was set for a hundred people, half of whom were selected from young shamans who participated in the Olympic Sacrificial Ceremonies, aimed to let young shamans experience smoke and fire. After the war, they would form the core of the first batch at Cambridge Sacrificial College; the other half was drafted from the Main Temples, primarily consisting of Scepter Shamans who had experienced the Southern Star campaign. The Main Temple sent three golden-robed high priests and the Shaman of Divine Songs Richard to lead the team. If you count the War Shamans serving in the army, the Beamon Temple really went all out this time, elites all deployed.

As Liu, the jinx, would say - If these shamans were all to fall in battle, the Kingdom’s and the Temple’s top echelons would have to jump off a balcony! Indeed, that was the case. If all the Scepter Shamans, half of the War Shamans, and the young talents genuinely all perished, the Beamon Kingdom really could not bear such a heavy setback.

As for the composition of the expeditionary troops, the military’s staff had already finalized the list before the sacrificial ceremony and had reported it to His Majesty and the Senate. All the troops participating in battle were already deployed to the border line, and tons of military supplies had already been transferred from the state treasury to the border city of Cambridge Oasis, just waiting for the arrival of the Expeditionary Shaman Group before the army would advance into the desert.

This time, the Beamon Kingdom’s army attacking the Desert People did not over-draft troops from other provincial garrisons, relying mainly on the Imperial Guards. The Imperial City’s "God of War’s Whip Corps" alone provided ten brigades, along with five brigades of Wolf Cavalry from the Southeast Province, composing the main force of the attack. For the Imperial Guard, a corps that was not fully at its official capacity of twenty thousand, this investment was already as large as it could get.

The "Turun Corps" from the Northeast Province, which had lost two brigades in the desert last year and had two more brigades crippled, must have pushed Governor Rosenborg to the edge. This time, he actually sent out two elite brigades to participate in the battle - the "Turun Corps" also known as the "Trident Corps." This nickname stemmed from the corps’ three elite brigades, each composed entirely of Piegel warriors: the Warted Pig Infantry Brigade, the Porcupine Spear Throwers Brigade, and the Wild Boar Cavalry Brigade. Many Orephin warriors were assigned as officers. This time, aside from the less mobile Wild Boar Cavalry Brigade which did not participate in the battle, the Warted Pig Infantry Brigade and the Porcupine Spear Throwers Brigade were all fully equipped for battle, showing that Governor Rosenborg was also determined to redeem his previous disgrace.