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Chapter 616 - 48 Everything is Ready

Chapter 616: Chapter 48 Everything is Ready

Due to the pressing time, the Lady didn’t expect to train the people at her disposal to be highly coordinated. As long as they could understand commands, maintain a basic formation, and not lag too far behind during actions, she would consider it a success.

After all, war is an affair between two sides, and you only need to perform better than the other to achieve ultimate victory.

Before they knew it, another half a month had slipped by, and the tribes in the mountains had been basically plundered by the Lady.

And those that hadn’t been plundered had been persuaded by emissaries sent by Miss Rabbit, who surrendered all their stored grains.

With that, the layout for the wild people’s side was essentially complete, which also meant that the time for the decisive battle was ripe.

Ireya didn’t plan to delay any longer because the Dwarves who wanted to invade the Western Territories would definitely not just send this one army.

If their reinforcements also arrived, then the Lady and the people under her command would truly be caught in the middle by the enemy.

Miss Rabbit and her generals confirmed the wartime deployments once again in the military tent.

Her gaze swept over everyone present and she spoke, "Gentlemen, life and death, success and failure hinge on this single battle. Do you still remember the oath we made?"

"Of course!" Kamzi was the first to speak.

After some time to recuperate, his body had mostly recovered. It was just the acorn rye bread that he had grown quite tired of.

When they were utterly starving, it had been bearable. But once there was no longer a concern for food, Kamzi began to miss the white bread, game meats, and wines on the dining table.

He wanted to quickly return to his luxurious and sturdy fortress.

The other Nobles shared his sentiments and thus also echoed, "To avenge the Marquis, find those traitors, kill all those Dwarves!"

"It’s time to show those guys what we’re made of!!!"

"I, too, must avenge my deceased son." Ying Song, his hair white with age, wiped his treasured sword on his knee, his placid face filled with the intent to kill.

Seeing everyone’s high morale, Ireya didn’t say anything further to encourage them, but simply extended her left hand.

Her thumb and Little Thumb pointed to the sky, the other three fingers closed together, pointing to the ground, she solemnly said, "Saturday be with us!"

The other Nobles in the tent hesitated for a moment but quickly raised their left arms in the same manner as the Lady.

"Saturday be with us!"

They were all followers of Pisya, yet at that moment they prayed to Saturday alongside the young girl.

It wasn’t that they were fickle, forgetting the promises they had once made.

It was just that when they found themselves in dire straits, their worshipped God remained hidden in the distant Divine Country, ignoring their prayers and cries for help.

In contrast, Saturday had sent his Prophet Merlin to extend a helping hand to them.

The Nobles had certainly taken notice of Li Yu’s actions during this period.

Without the miracles performed by the Prophet of the Double Rest Sect, without Yilei, Saturday’s number one devotee, leading them to overcome adversity,

they might have been killed by the Dwarves by now, turned into nothing but bones in these vast mountains.

The reason they could still stand here was indeed because of Saturday’s protection.

Actually, these days some nobles have already approached Li Yu requesting to join the Double Rest Sect and convert to Saturday worship.

And of course, Li Yu wouldn’t refuse them and held conversion ceremonies on the spot.

He had invested a lot this time, and it would be a huge loss not to recruit more followers and "recoup some blood."

While the imperial generals united, leading a vast army towards the mountain entrance, the commander of the dwarf army, "the Giant" Jerome, was frowning in concern.

The troops he had left in Gravel Valley to monitor the remaining imperial forces in the valley had suffered heavy losses—a force of one thousand five hundred, with less than two hundred escaping back.

And those who returned spouted nothing but nonsense, resulting in unrest amongst the troops, which forced Jerome to behead a few to suppress those strange rumors.

Jerome, though somewhat worried at the time, was generally calm.

Because despite some loss of manpower, the situation had not escaped his control.

The Empire’s newly crowned champion and the reinforcements she brought had, as he had previously planned, lost all their supplies, and the food they carried would only last another four or five days.

After that, they would starve in the mountains just like the previous imperial troops did.

Later, Jacob had agreed to scout out the imperial reinforcements for him, but the Wing Tribe member never returned.

Jerome wondered if he had encountered some danger, but he also felt that with Jacob’s flight ability, he should have been able to escape easily if that were the case.

As a result, Jerome was left even more in the dark as to why he had not returned.

However, what troubled him the most was the imperial reinforcements—who had been quiet for a long time.

Jerome even wondered if they had starved to death, until recently, when some wild tribes fled to him for refuge.

Only from their accounts did Jerome learn that the imperial reinforcements had been raiding those wild tribes in the mountains during this time, seizing much food from them, which helped the imperial people overcome the current food crisis.

That’s when Jerome felt the situation was a bit tricky—his opponents this time didn’t seem so simple.

But Jerome wasn’t too anxious; after all, he still held an absolute advantage in terms of the number of troops, and with the help of the wild tribes, he could hardly lose in a direct confrontation.

The Lady called Ireya surely understood this, which was why she hadn’t led her army against him yet.

But always being at a stalemate wasn’t a solution, as the military provisions Jerome brought were also limited.

Although if they really ran out of food, he could have Morse from Solid Stone Castle send some over, those imperial people weren’t fools; if they overdid it, Morse would also come under suspicion.

This chess piece still had uses later on; Jerome didn’t want it to be exposed so soon.

It seems he would have to come up with another method to force the imperial army to show itself.

Jerome contemplated whether to retreat a distance first and let Morse release some false information to deceive that champion, claiming the Mountain Pass had been recaptured, to lure her and her troops over.

As he was lost in thought, he saw his subordinate bringing two wild men into his tent.

"Aragon, what are you doing bringing these foul-smelling fellows before me?"

Jerome, who had previously defended the eastern territories for the Kingdom, had fought plenty with these wild men and had no fondness for them. If it weren’t for the fact that they were allies for the time being, he would’ve ordered these troublemakers to be disposed of.

"Giant," Aragon saluted Jerome and pointed to the two wild men, "These fellows want to desert."