Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 578 - 578 273 Reinforcements Arrive

578: Chapter 273: Reinforcements Arrive 578: Chapter 273: Reinforcements Arrive Fenlidun City.

This once bustling town of Baldim County, which accommodated thirty thousand citizens and governed nearly a hundred thousand people in its vicinity, after being turned into a dead city occupied by Corpse Ghosts, is now once again seeing the dawn of revival.

As the central headquarters of the Baldim County Alliance, warriors from Orland, Dinexion, Kantadar, and even Seryan are stationed here under the command of the leaders.

The midday sun rays fell upon the crumbling city walls, dispelling the eerie chill of last night.

Thousands of soldiers and civilians moved along the desolate streets after the disaster, figures clad in armor glistening with a metallic sheen under the sunlight.

In the blacksmith shop, the forge blazed brightly, and the accompanying blacksmiths swung their hammers to beat metal, repairing those weapons and armors damaged during the battles.

At the city gates, carts carrying supplies constantly rolled in, the civilian drivers urging the horses, fully loaded with grain and materials, busying back and forth between camps.

Only when smoke curled up and the aroma of food permeated the barracks did this city, now turned into a massive military camp, lessen its pervasive deadly atmosphere.

In the former city hall of Fenlidun, Azeryan glanced at the detailed numbers of supplies in his hand and reported to Leon on the military needs from various places:

“…Including the portion recently reported by Count Langstone from the south, we now have a total of…

51,740 rations of grain on hand…

In terms of consumption, adding the recent arrivals from Count Sanger from Mamor County, and other Kantadar North nobles, totaling over two thousand people, the Alliance now needs to supply grain consumption for about fourteen thousand six hundred people.

According to my calculations, the grain can sustain the entire army for a little more than a month or so…”

He sighed involuntarily: “The food crisis is temporarily alleviated, but I reckon those Kantadar lords certainly have a large portion that has been concealed.

With such a vast county, and so many Kantadar people who died tragically, if they can now gather and concentrate all the grain supplies of the victims, even if this food amount were half as much again, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Especially that Count Langstone.

He was previously fixated on having you lead the army southward, to help him reclaim Langstone Territory.

I guess the grain found in the Palodico region far exceeds the amount he declared now.”

Azeryan understood that although this land has been subjected to a series of wars and disaster raids since last year, Baldim County was once a large county with nearly seven to eight hundred thousand people.

As the once core prosperous land controlled by the King of Kantadar, even after enduring such hardships, it can still be considered a camel that is bigger than a horse for the now remaining sparse population, which is about one-sixth of the original.

He remembered his father’s teachings, that a brutal reality on this continent is….

the famines that erupted in history all “naturally ended” after the population died down to a certain extent.

And in Azeryan’s memory, apart from the legendary calamities in ancient myths, he never knew of any war and famine recorded in the history of the Seryan Kingdom that could, more efficiently than the current undead calamity they face, wipe out hundreds of thousands of people on the land in such a massive scale.

“Let them be; I can’t afford to turn against them by sending quartermasters to check Lord Langstone’s stockpiles, as long as his troops can still follow orders and participate in our eastward advance plan, that’s fine.”

Leon, looking at the stationing situation of the allied forces on the map, gestured to his chief steward.

The Alliance itself is a motley crew pieced together, with the Eastern Lords having their own agendas, and it’s already a challenge to have them follow his command now.

It’s only human nature that they conceal their findings to keep enough grain for their subordinate units’ advance and retreat.

I am merely a leader, who was proved capable of defeating the undead, put forward as their head, not a monarch sincerely loyal to the Kantadar lords, so how could I demand them to be truthful to me in everything?

After all, I am also borrowing these Kantadar lords’ forces to achieve the goal of gradually approaching Rolannar City….

If one day, the calamity can be settled, I’ll leave it all behind.

How these Kantadar Eastern Lords scheme in Baldim County is a problem for Count Lunaf to worry about in the future.

Of course, the premise is, there’s still a future to speak of for me and the Kantadar people here.

Leon’s gaze slowly moved to the river pathways depicted on the map.

Not long ago, after repeatedly taking the risk to secretly lead his elite troops past the difficult-to-conquer large towns and fortresses, he captured small strongholds by gradually dividing them, and then, utilizing Lola’s reverse magic, he took down large strongholds one by one.

During his military operations, after crossing the river diversion exits twice, within the Cloud Domain, he headed downstream to reach the Kantadar border.

At that time, gazing across the river at the lifeless Seryan Kingdom lands under the dark sky, Leon could only lament by the river.

Looking at the map, once crossing the river downstream at the border into Seryan’s “Lumansor Territory,” then marching a little over a hundred kilometers, he could return to the homeland of the original master, the resting place of Lola.

It has to be said, with such a close journey, he considered whether he might as well lead his two thousand elite troops on a solo mission, gambling on whether they could directly charge into Rolannar.

But even without Lola’s inner dissuasion, Leon immediately dismissed this crazy idea.