Chapter 164 - I Yield To No Man

The patriarch looked at the man who spoke with disgust, "Be very careful in your words about Robin! haven't you broken through to sainthood yourself a year ago because of this *child*? 

Where were we ten years ago, and where are we now after his contributions to the family? Years ago he *implicated* us in a war against another kingdom, most of you said at the time that he was delusional and that I made a mistake in listening to him, and some of you almost refused my direct orders to take part in the war and threatened to take my seat if things went down the hell, and what happened in the end? 

He brought us half a duchy and the title of Marquess... He might be hot-headed and have no experience in Politics, but I trust his vision, Let us hand him the reins once more and see what happens... I believe the fortune of the Burton family has just started!"

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Two hours later, dozens of miles from Jura...

*Klopp Klopp Klopp*

2500 strangely shaped horses go about their way as if they were kings of the roads, bigger than normal horses, and its faces looked fierce, with its necks and bellies were covered with natural armor... These were the war horses.

Almost half of the horses had two individuals on their backs, and yet they ran without fatigue as if they were carrying two feathers.

"Billy, give me the rings." Robin, who was riding at the front of the troops, at last, spoke, and that was the first sentence he had said since leaving the urgent meeting.

Billy threw him a sound-type talisman Ring and another a soul-type Energy new one. 

With one look Robin knew which one could communicate with the person he wanted, so he passed his natural energy inside the sound-ring and spoke loudly, "General, can you hear me?"

After a few seconds, a voice answered, "Is this the voice of Noble Robin? are there any new arrangements?"

"I want you to slow down the movement of your army and to reach the border after three days instead of two, and when you arrive and the battle begins, take a defensive position and do not use talismans except in the case of deterrence, try to procrastinate as much as possible, I am coming with support and I will meet you in the battlefield after three days."

After a few more seconds, "There is no need for support, Noble Robin. with the number of categorized weapons and talismans I have, I have confidence that I can wipe them all, all I need is your order."

" I know you can, but what about our losses? And how do you intend to deal with the Saints? Doesn't the information say that the Duke is personally waiting for you here? Do you have a plan that you can win with minimum losses? let's say you win, how do you plan to still march in their lands until you get to the Duchy of Alton, you think they won't try to attack again and again along the way?"

"..." Edward didn't reply, there was no way to stop them...

The best thing he could do was to quickly destroy the Evren's army by raining down on them with talismans while appointing the hundreds of new knights on his side to defend against the Saints of the Evren family,

These new knights were the offspring of the new noble families who had just broken through to knighthood, currently, there are about 800 of them... which is already comparable to the knight forces of a Duke family!!

but they are all at level 11 or 12, facing high leveled saints would cause a massacre between their ranks even if they succeeded in stopping them for an hour or two... 

and this plan also ignores the knights on the Evren's side, and also ignores what will happen after the battle! 

if this plan was implemented it would surely have resulted in extremely heavy losses...

It's not like the general has lost it, but this is the only way that has a small margin of success, only by keeping on pushing and taking it one step at a time can he cut through the duchy of Evren and arrive at his destination.

He knows that even with success, he will lose more than half of his army and his knights, But this is better than standing in his place or going back,

for he knows that the Burton family lacks saints and knights, and they will not help him with anything big even if Robin comes to him in vain.

"...That's what I thought," said Robin when Edward didn't answer again, "Do as I told you and keep my army safe... see you in three days!"

Then he put the double seal in his pocket and passed his energy into the new ring and sent in his spirit, "Hello... Sage Albert, I need a favor from you ."

"...Is this Robin? What do you want?" Robin felt words that appear within his soul, it was the Sage

"You should know already the situation at the borders between our new lands and Evren's, right?"

"Sigh~ yeah I know... both you and Donald have stubborn rock heads! and this is not only about you, but this will also affect the Alton and Bradley war and might stop it before it begins... tell you what, stop your army and  I will talk more with Donald about it, maybe we can come to a solution that satisfies both of you." the sage spoke heavily

"satisfies us both? how can this happen, make him take only 5% of my possessions? this isn't going to happen, no one will take even one soul card against MY will!

I will not stop my army, and if that Donald tried to stop them then the battle will begin as soon as Edward reaches the frontier, and I have brought the main Army from Jura and we are heading there right now."

"R- Robin!! What are you up to?! ARE YOU CRAZY? don't you know how strong the Evren's army is? you will destroy each other!" Finally, the sage lost his calm and started shouting

But Robin did not pay attention to his reaction and continued, " This is a matter of dignity and respect, and I have confidence that I will destroy them first! I will eat through that duchy with my two armies and raise every single city to the ground.. do not blame me, it's you who have given that guy too much confidence, you should stopped him earlier instead of watching by the side and waiting for me to yield.. I yield to no man! 

Your Highness, if you don't want to start a war that burns everything to the ground at your beloved Duchy of Evren, please listen carefully to what I have to say, and do it..."

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one day later

"Father, we are approaching the border between the Duchy of Alton and the Duchy of Evren, there are about 200 soldiers guarding this point and among them are a few knights, what do we do?" Caesar approached Robin and told him the report

"Ignore them, we will continue at the same pace."

"They will definitely try to stop us..." Caesar narrowed his eyes

"If they did, then kill them all." Simply speak Robin

"Hahaha, that's what I wanted to hear," Caesar laughed loudly and then looked behind him, "The Ninth and Tenth Divisions, advance ahead of us and storm the checkpoint directly, if one of them tells you to stop, kill them all, this is your first test, do not lower the fire legion heads in front of his excellency!"

"Yes, commander!"

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Half an hour later - inside a large tent on the border area between Burton's new lands and Evren

a man hurriedly entered and bowed, "Your highness, there is urgent news that just arrived."

"Hm?" A relaxed-looking man covered with lots of jewels calmly replied, "Speak."

"There is a small band of the Burton family of about 3,000 ~ 4000 individuals coming from the north on war horses. They have completely destroyed the border post with the Duchy of Alton and killed hundreds of our soldiers, according to reports they are coming straight here."

"Huh? Hahaha, well done Brain, instead of coming personally and kneeling  to come to terms with me, he sent a suicide squad?" The Duke continued to laugh hysterically until the wine spilled from his hand and then continued, "Let the garrisons of the cities along their way come out along the way for them to kill them, 

and if they escape from them, send an order to Saint Gerar's legion to tear them to pieces at Yaffa plains. I don't want to hear anything else about them anymore, or anything happening inside the Duchy actually, you take the orders and settle the matter between yourselves."

The messenger bowed and retreated, just mentioning the Legion of Saint Gerard ended the matter, it is one of the protection legions deployed to participate in rapid wars and put down any rebellion, an integrated elite legion of 20 thousand elite soldiers, 3 saints, and more than 50 knights!