Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 340 - 73: Is Beauty Really a Calamity_3

Chapter 340: Chapter 73: Is Beauty Really a Calamity_3

As the Prime Minister of the Duchy, Marquis Capello formally invited Master Fran to join the Slave Hunter Team at a high price on the spot. Master Fran himself was full of curiosity about the Beamon Sacrificial Ceremony and, upon being promised that after the task was accomplished, the beautiful Snake Priestess would become his spoil for research, immediately and unhesitatingly joined the expedition.

"I hope to exchange my beauties with everyone from time to time while doing research," said Master Fran solemnly.

This statement immediately resonated with many, who promptly began discussing the allocation of the beauties they would capture in the future.

Mages on the Aegean Continent are quite rare, even in a Kingdom, the number of mages would not exceed fifteen. Master Fran, being a scarce space magician also proficient in fire magic, was extremely powerful.

Once the five beautiful women were captured, Earl Totti of the Shalba family would undoubtedly be the future regent. Mages are supported by the court, temporarily borrowed by the future master, and receive high rewards. This was not something unacceptable to Master Fran.

The Dorott Duchy has only four court mages in total, and Master Fran’s agreement to join provided a significant boost to the slave hunting team’s power.

The success of the Shalba family over the years is not without reason, although very excited, they still made well-organized, detailed plans for the follow-up actions.

To ensure this operation’s success, Shalba family hired the "Metal Rose" mercenary group, which had a 1,500-man force, and also hired two heavily armed Giant Scythe-wielders from the "Tornado" mercenary group of the Danze family. Even though the two families have been at odds for a long time, they viewed business as business.

Because the Jostele Festival was coming up, the Shalba family had to pay twice the usual price to hire mercenaries, especially for hiring the two teams of heavily armed Giant Scythe-wielders. The costs were equivalent to burning money.

The Shalba family’s own slave-hunting team and their reared knight attendants already numbered close to three thousand. Including Court Grand Mage Fran and the renowned Pompei Giant Scythe-wielders, they were set to attack the Beamon Territory, which didn’t possess a castle and only had an estimated three hundred warriors for defense. Regardless of any factors, it absolutely seemed like a guaranteed victory.

Because of this, there were many grumbles from within the Shalba family, believing that the assembled force was too huge, amounting to a waste.

However, these cautious voices were eventually suppressed by the Patriarch Capello. This battle would largely determine the fate of the entire family. Even with a combat ratio of ten to one, Capello was slightly unsettled.

Capello thought he might be feeling too much pressure.

The Grand Consort Earl Totti, who was leading the campaign, was once trained in orthodox warfare in Knight School. He was skilled in martial arts and strategies. He claimed that he had the confidence to end the battle within five hours after the attack began, as battling Beamon soldiers without any powerful race was meaningless.

The Grand Consort even said a rather humorous saying: "Perhaps our human kitchen knife would be considered a knight’s weapon in the Beamon Kingdom."

Of course, the Shalba family also tried to paralyze their political opponents, the Danze family, claiming that they were only seeking revenge over the musketeer slaves taken from them by the Green and Salt Demons.

The Beamon Kingdom had a series of Wolf Cavalry checkpoints stationed at the entrance of the Donau Wasteland. To prevent a large-scale army from being noticed, the Shalba family simply uprooted the checkpoints.

The Wasteland was too vast, and Wolf’s stationed troops were too far from the checkpoints, with provisions being delivered only once every two months. If they moved swiftly, by the time the Beamon Kingdom noticed, the so-called Feroncium ruins would already be covered in grass.

Count Casano, who had received rigorous martial arts training since childhood, always participated in the slave hunting activities after becoming an adult. Unlike his brother, who was always present in social occasions. In this attack on the checkpoint, he and the fourteen best warriors of the slave hunter team were appointed as scouts, equipped with the best steeds, and each was given a valuable Crossbow Cylinder. Posing as diplomats, they successfully raided seven Beamon checkpoints without any losses, achieving remarkable results.

Though such an attack would surely be severely condemned by orthodox knights, the Shalba bloodline was not noble, and such attack methods were what their slave hunting team excelled at.

After releasing the messenger pigeons, Count Casano guessed that his team should already be at the edge of the wasteland, and his exploration mission was about to end.

On their way there, apart from encounters with a few bandits, he had not used his Crossbow Cylinder again. This made the brave Count feel somewhat regretful about the lack of exciting battles.

If he had three hundred warriors under his command, just three hundred, he would definitely attack the unprotected Feroncium territory without hesitation. How could skilled human warriors not conquer a place without a castle?