Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 397

Chapter 397: Slander

"Master Anfey, you should take responsibility for falling into the necromancers’ trap," a Knight of Light said, emphasizing each word before dropping into a seat . He looked around for people to support him . Unfortunately, no one seemed to pay attention to what he said except for a few Knights of Light and priests who were qualified to attend this meeting . The rest of them were either chatting quietly in groups or resting with their eyes closed .

After the battle, Blavi and his mage group did a thorough check around the battlefield with Eyes of Sky . They found senior level death spirits among the death spirits . They found about 500 death knights and over 300 specters so far . However, there were so many death spirits, it was difficult to estimate a number .

These death spirits were particular irritating . Their attack and defensive ability was not as good as death knights, but they could fly and release a magic that could affect human’s functioning . They attacked people who had little willpower or telepathy in a way that would cause them to have constant illusions or go crazy .

Specters were rare species among death spirits since they were made very similar to puppets . Once necromancers could force the undispersed spirits to merge with dark series magic crystal powders, a specter was born . Specters had strong defense and almost abnormal recovery ability, since they were just magic crystal powders in the air . Swords and axes could barely hurt them . Low-level magic had no effect on them .

Theoretically, if there were enough dark series magic crystals, necromancers could make as many specters as they wanted . But it was just a theory . Dark series magic crystals were rare and they ranged widely in quality, so no necromancer would make all of their specters with magic crystals .

A Priest of Light tried to mediate . "In fact we cannot blame everything on Master Anfey for the situation we are in . " However, he did not really want to help Anfey . By "cannot blame everything on Anfey," he meant Anfey needed to take most of the responsibility . "In addition, it would not help if we are just blaming each other right now . We’d better save it to think about what we should do next . If we stay here, we will die . To break their blockade…"

"Blaming each other?" Ye suddenly laughed . "Who blamed whom? It seems that only you guys are blaming Master Anfey, doesn’t it?"

"You…" That Priest of Light had no comeback .

"Breaking out the blockade? I’d better go to sleep instead of wasting my time with you here," Ozzic said, sounding irritated .

The Knights of Light and priests looked at each other . They were encircled in the Zagreen City and their morale was at the lowest, which was the best time to ruin Anfey’s reputation among mercenaries . If they could not do anything to Anfey at that moment, they would not have any chance in the future .

"Master Thompson, what do you think?" a Knight of Light suddenly asked as everyone was quiet . Thompson just joined Anfey’s League with his mercenary group . Knights of Light and priests thought Thompson had a fragile bond with Anfey . They wanted Thompson to be on their side, otherwise they would totally lose this battle with Anfey .

Thompson did not seem to hear that he was called out . He was still saying something quietly to Orsie and smiling . The Knights of Light and priests could not understand how he could laugh at this moment .

"Master Thompson, what do you think?" the Knight of Light said again, raising his voice .

Thompson was still talking and laughing with Orsie .

In fact, it didn’t take much intelligence to see that Thompson was doing this on purpose . It was impossible that Thompson could not hear it at this volume . The Knight of Light was forced to continue in order to get a response from Thompson . He would even be in a more awkward situation if he backed off now . "Master Thompson!" He sounded very pissed .

"Huh? What?" Thompson "finally" heard him .

"What do you think about our current situation?" the Knight of Light said with his teeth grinded . He realized he had picked the wrong person, but he had to continue anyway . He needed to excuse himself at some point so he would not feel too awkward .

"I do not have any suggestions . I will follow master no matter where he goes," Thompson said calmly . He looked like he realized something and tried to explain, "I should clarify: When I said ‘master’, I did not mean you . "

Everyone burst into laughter . That Knight of Light blushed and felt like he would explode in anger,, but he did not since he really had no reason to do so . The Knight of Light just did not want to let it go .

Anfey had been playing with the little unicorn . He did not think those few Knights of Light and priests could ruin his reputation . Mercenaries respected powerful people . If it were possible, they would like to follow powerful people . Millions of bad words about Anfey would not be as influential as Suzanna making moves .

"Master Anfey?" That Priest of Light was worried and angry when he saw Anfey distracted .

"What do you want me to do?" Anfey replied with a smile .

"When you ordered us to attack, it made us miss the best time to retreat . Don’t you think you should say something?" the Priest of Light said .

"Retreat? Sir!" Shinbella did not even want to call his name . "What do you think those death knights and specters were for? If I remember correctly, they had not shown up in the battle yet . "

"If those death knights and specters joined the battle, we could have been swarmed over by the death spirits around us . We did not have any barriers between us . Those death spirits could easily crush the formation we had . " Thompson’s ears seemed to work again . "If we listened to you, we already would be death spirits now . "

"We cannot do nothing . Are we just waiting to die here?" That Priest of Light had to argue from a different perspective .

"Why cannot we wait?" Anfey said calmly . "Archknight Fernando has been looking for opportunities to fight with death spirits . Now it is the time . Isn’t it a good thing?"

"But Archknight Fernando does not know our situation," the Priest of Light yelled .

He sounded like such a layman . The other three Knights of Light who were qualified to sit in the meeting all smiled bitterly .

"We divided each day into six time periods . Each time period we sent out a group of elite knights to contact Archknight Fernando . If the Archknight did not receive any information from us, he could speculate on our location and our enemies’ fighting ability with the time gap," Anfey patiently explained like a teacher . "So you do not have to worry . They will come to help as fast as they can . "

"This is a joke . Since we were encircled, we have not sent anyone to contact Archknight Fernando . How could Archknight Fernando know where we are and the number of necromancers we have to deal with?" the Priest of Light said .

The few Knights of Light awkwardly lowered their heads . They could not disagree with their peer, so they had to pretend they did not hear what he said .

"Let’s put it this way . We sent out our knight to Archknight Fernando this noon . At noon, we were 30 miles away from Zagreen and would be reaching Stormenburg in three days . Archknight Fernando would be alerted if the next round of knights does not get to him in time . If the next round of knights is missing, he would know there would be something wrong . It is easy to locate us . We should be only half a day travelling distance away from the last round of knights who reached to Stormenburg . In terms of the number of death spirits, we have about 4,000 mercenaries and about 1,000 Knights of Light and priests . If we were in any trouble, he would know we had encountered the main force of the death spirits . " Anfey looked calm and nice, but his words were not . "Am I explaining it clearly? Not everyone is as stupid as you . Archknight Fernando is a good general . You cannot evaluate Archknight Fernando’s intelligence and judgment ability with your own intelligence . "

It could be that priest had dedicated his life to God, so it took him a while to realize what Anfey meant . Anfey did not scold him directly . Or perhaps he understood what Anfey meant but could not take it . He was trembling in anger .

"If you are still worried and think Archknight Fernando is as stupid as you, you can ask for help yourself," Anfey said .

"Ask for help? It would be no different than committing suicide," a Knight of Light said, smiling bitterly . "It will take at least 8 days for Archknight Fernando to get here . Can we hold on for 8 days?" Besides the time the knights needed to deliver messages, it would take a day or two to reorganize his troops and few days to arrive . The Knight of Light was not wrong .

Anfey said in a low voice, "If death spirits attack Zagreen City, how long do you think we could hold out?"

"I do not know how long we can hold out, but I do know we will die soon once the priest group exhausts their magic," the Knight of Light responded . He did not mean to ignore the fighting ability of the mage group, but he had to admit priests were a lot stronger in terms of fighting death spirits .

"Did they gather countless death spirits, death knights and specters to wipe us out? We only have a few people," Anfey said with a smile .

"Well…" the priest said .

"Don’t you think they overdid it?" Anfey asked .

"Are you saying…" the priest said .

"I did not say anything . Just stay here . " No matter what others thought, Anfey had kept calm since he had Warner and the Book of Life . He had seen the power of the Book of Life in Moramatch . Of course, if others got to know about the Book of Life, conflict with the church would break out . He was not ready yet . He would not use Warner unless it was absolutely necessary .