Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 446: Chapter 182: A Bloody Victory and Humanity’s Revenge!

As cheers echoed over the hills and the triumphant military music resonated above the city, Su Li still found it hard to believe. Clutching his Warhammer tightly, he wearily plopped down on the castle’s terrace.

This battle had far exceeded even his wildest expectations. He had slain six to seven Harpies himself and, together with the Dwarves, took down a powerful Two-legged Flying Dragon.

Especially when the artillery platform was in critical condition, he truly faced the hail of arrows and stones, personally leading his guard to charge the platform and holding it at all costs. Truthfully, as for his guard, not a single human was left; accompanying him in the end were only his two battle pets: Death’s Claw and Jin Ya, the Lion Mastiff Beast.

It was precisely the full-force bombardment of the two artillery platforms that prevented the western battlefield from completely collapsing. The monsters made several attempts to form War Gangs, howling down the streets, only to be blasted apart by the cannons.

The powerful firepower of the Dwarven warfare machines was not at all inferior to the fearsome flame breath of a Chimera. The monsters’ fierce onslaughts were utterly shattered by the cannon fire, retreating in dense masses.

The Green Dragon, of course, could not tolerate such savage bombardment, deploying all its aerial assault forces. Swarming Harpies cast shadows over the sky, charging in, while the enormous figures of Two-legged Flying Dragons crowded around the artillery platform.

Even with humans and Dwarves desperately protecting Su Li, he was once caught by a Two-legged Flying Dragon, nearly being flown off into the sky.

It was Su Li’s battle pet, the Golden Lion Mastiff Beast, that desperately scrambled onto the back of the Two-legged Flying Dragon, tearing into its wings without regard for its own life, preventing the dragon from taking flight. Then, with seemingly divinely inspired courage, Su Li struck the monster in the abdomen with his hammer, causing it to release its razor-sharp claws in agony.

Until the very end, Su Li wasn’t sure if his strike then was the ultimate reaction of a human in dire circumstances or the intervention of the Sun Goddess.

Yet, he paid no attention to this matter. For in this world, the Divine Spirits truly do descend in person, granting followers unparalleled power to defeat formidable foes in desperate situations.

Compared to such legendary experiences, Su Li felt he completely lacked the treatment a Chosen One should receive, never having felt that the Sun Goddess blessed him with significant martial arts skills in battle.

If he were a follower of Redema and Yurik, Su Li feared he would be able to rival a Divine Chosen Knight in this battle, tearing apart Two-legged Flying Dragons by hand, slaughtering countless monsters, and easily smashing through hundreds of enemies.

But of course, this might also be related to the Sun Goddess’s greater emphasis on strategy. In the Sun Goddess Church’s religious texts, there are hardly any widely recognized accounts of explicit divine intervention by her.

She focuses more on inspiring followers to use wiser tactics to achieve victory. At least in this battle, Hilude’s scorched earth tactics impacted and held a value no less than that of a powerful Divine Chosen Knight!

Su Li stared blankly at the burning city in the distance, murmuring, ”Is this hellish scene truly our victory?”

A rapid footstep echoed from the stone steps of the city wall, and moments later, an anxious figure threw herself onto Su Li. The mix of smoke and intense blood scent on her overwhelmed Su Li’s already chaotic mind.

Yet she was completely oblivious, anxiously patting Su Li all over, asking in a choked voice, ”Young master, young master, are you alright? I saw your armor dripping with blood.”

Su Li turned in astonishment, looking at the slender figure darker than a Dwarven blacksmith who spends years by the forge, eyes full of disbelief!

”You are... Avril? How did you become like this?”

Avril was Su Li’s most delicate maid, her usually adorable cheeks as tender as an apple, now in stark contrast with her face covered in black soot, only her lips retaining a hint of red.

Avril was also full of melancholy, thinking it was merely a straightforward mission to deliver a message along familiar streets to find Hilude; if all went well, she would return to her most cherished young master in half an hour.

But the hazards and thrills of this journey surpassed all her previous life experiences combined.

She waged bloody battles along the way, traversing layer upon layer of perilous obstacles, even issued false orders, forcefully compelling the Rong’en Priest to set a fire, making a champion-level knight yield before her.

Then she personally held the banner aloft, standing atop a high building surrounded by fierce flames, overseeing hundreds to thousands of human knights and soldiers as they fought valiantly. Any soldier taking even a half-step back was executed on the spot in the name of the Lord.

One could say that the stabilization of the western front owed at least half of its strength to her courage and determination.

She had never imagined that as a fragile maid, she could become so resilient and decisive for the sake of the young master’s cause and success.

Even though her legs trembled with fear, she bravely held the Bauhinia family’s banner, standing firmly on the tower, supervising nearly a thousand human soldiers in their determined fight to the death.

Nevertheless, all this was already past; now she only cared about whether she could continue living peacefully with the young master.