Chapter 209 - Victory isn't cheap.

The screams kept getting louder and louder by the passing second, Eric already noticed what the source of it is, but King Zar didn't. So after asking a house closest to the wall to take King Michael in and let him rest, he himself dashed towards the walls and took a peek at the situation to figure out what's going on.

For King Michael, the Kingdom's hospitality is quite heart warming. He was practically carried by an ill.u.s.tratio (King Zar) and left in a family full of ill.u.s.tratios who accepted him in there without causing any form of disagreement. The first reason for their acceptance is that King Zar asked them for such a favour, the second reason is that this family has put racial differences behind this past month at least, they are more open minded and it sure opened them more doors in light. King Michael felt honoured even though he is partially asleep. Progress is amazing even though if it comes late.

Getting back to the battlefield... When King Zar took a peek at the situation, he only saw black shades dashing against this ill.u.s.tratian Army as if Angels fell from the sky and aided Pameres Kingdom's beliefs. He wasn't sure what's happening even after taking a few seconds to figure out what's going on, because this scene is happening nearly 100 meters away. So he shook Eric's shoulder, and asked with knots tied in his stomach due to all of this overwhelming nervousness. "What's happening down there? I heard the screams of fear all the way from inside a house nearby!" Eric even stopped shooting Fireballs and was watching the scene, which didn't help King Zar feel any better about this whole new situation.

Turning around with a wide relieved smile on his face, Eric explained in a low tone but not low enough for his words to escape unheard. "My Platoon arrived!" Afterwards he removed his hands from the wall he was settling them on, took a few steps back and blew Fire out of his feet, rising towards the sky and joining the battlefield!

Nervous enough, King Zar didn't understand that answer. It didn't make it better how Eric flew in battle and left him tremendously confused either. Taking another look at the battlefield, he was able to see a large man jump from the looks of it, around 10 meters high in the sky! "What the hell was that!" Yelled King Zar in confusion and took a peek at another Archer here on the walls, asking for an explanation.

"Sire. I think that's the rest of King Michael's Platoon!" Well this made it a hell lot more confusing, because King Michael mentioned no second Platoon! 

"King Michael doesn't have a second Platoon, all of the Guards are or at least were already in battle!" Wanted King Zar to yell but instead he whispered to himself trying to fight all of this pressure. The last time he felt this nervous, was when he first arrived here in Pameres Kingdom 10 years ago. So one piece of advise scrolled through his mind thanks to that day, he remembers his personal assistant Seer saying. "If you feel uncontrollably nervous, just start breathing deep in and let it out slowly." Often it helped!

Thankfully, throughout this madness King Zar could find the nerves to start breathing, he isn't at the battle field after all. Able to think a bit more clearly now, he took another look at the sudden shift in the battle. He saw around 10 more men jumping high in the sky almost all at the same time, their jump height varied from around 7 to 11 meters and the Weapons they were carrying reflected the sun beams, one of which reached King Zar's eye and flashed him to the point of knowing for sure what's going on in a matter of seconds.

He gave it another thought, before Eric flew off he explained shortly. "My Platoon arrived." And the Guard here on the walls, told. "The rest of King Michael's Platoon arrived." The Guard might have explained it that way because he saw these tall people as a part of King Michael's Platoon even though there used to be only 3 of them, so he automatically assumed that King Michael managed to recruit a lot more of these people for this battle exclusively. He has no clue that the underground town of Lan Zhe exists, Eric urged for King Zar to not be so revealing about such information.

The second reason that now made sense once merged with the other, was the fact that Eric called this. "My Platoon." King Zar remembered that Eric is a King as well even though he doesn't quite mention it too often, maybe because he was taught to be humble? The fact was made clear, the Calidum Lutum Platoon arrived.

But they weren't covered in heavy Armor so their speed and agility made it appear as if black shades flew across the sky and slaughtered those who dared to challenge Pameres Kingdom.

Quite frankly, the battle took a big turn. These people although without Armour, they managed to slice through their enemies with little effort. King Zar figured that they aren't wearing armour because it is heavy enough to slow down their travelling speed. I mean, they are already late enough. A lot of the Platoons are dead! So that fact wasn't hard to figure out after giving it some thought.

Throughout some slicing and slashing, the tides of battle were turned to Pameres Kingdom's favour. The 200 remaining enemy Soldiers on the battlefield, were forced to a result of only 50 of them remaining. As for these tall powerful men, they show no sign of stopping and little sign of weakness.

Even though clearly armourless, after slaying 150 ill.u.s.tratian Soldiers, 40 newly arrived Calidum Lutum men remained on the battlefield! However, 12 lost their lives! They will be remembered as heroes and their sacrifice is well respected. Their contribute against the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance is tremendous, now King Xakro ill.u.s.tratio lll is weaker than he ever was, Soldier count-wise.

To make it even more encouraging, the 50 remaining Soldiers were making a run for it once they took a glance at the circ.u.mstances around them. It was quite hard to run away though since there are only a couple of Horses to their disposal, most Cavalry Knights were killed and their Horses had no intent of staying in the battle field, they made a run for it across the Clear Lands.

The Soldiers who managed to run away the furthest, had a better chance of escape of course but there is still the chance of death! Who can actually outrun a Calidum Lutum? As for those who were last in line to escape, they were quick to lose their heads. 

With now 30 more Soldiers slayed, and 20 running far enough to escape the Calidum Lutum Guard's sight. The battle is quite over and the winners are clear to see, Pameres Kingdom is victorious thanks to this sudden shift of battle. Otherwise, they would be sure to lose!

Being able to notice that a lot of men ran away, Woldemir who seems to be quite alive, a Survivor. Yelled at Eric, pointing him towards the way the Soldiers ran away. To be more precise, towards Bale Towns direction or roadway. 

Eric flew right after and although Woldemir has no idea how to speak the Calidum Lutum Language, he used every hand and foot gesture humanly possible to make the Guards chase after Eric. With a man in the sky and a lot more on the ground, these escaping Soldiers won't make it far. Dealing with 40 Calidum Lutum isn't an easy task, lets not forget the two other men who share the same race, those who are officially from the Platoon of Gaster Kingdom. Isabel was the quickest to pick up this sign and shouted for everyone to follow her.

The moment when all of these Guards left, Woldemir walked closeby to one of the dead Calidum Lutum Guards and witnessed the horrible scene. He doesn't seem to be missing any body parts in particular but for sure received a lot of hits due to the lack of Armour, there is only so much one man can take.

As Woldemir approached the Guard to close his eyes as a form of respecting the man's sacrifice, he noticed something he didn't expect as an aftermath of this battle. He took a glance at the man's chest and noticed that his heart is torn out. What maniac would bother to cut a heart out in between a battle of such severity? If it is an action of any of the Soldiers that are fleeing, it won't matter if they took the heart. They will die soon anyway.

Eric followed the Soldiers and managed to pick up on their trail since they couldn't have made it too far with heavy Armour on, a tiresome battle they went through, furthermore they are on foot. To his small surprise, he found out that the fleeing Soldiers have met with the Platoon of 125 Guards coming from BaleTown.

This battle was quick, the Platoon was able to grab a hold of them until Eric struck from behind and torched a good portion of them. Throughout the chaos and panic, the Calidum Lutum Guards arrived and finished off the rest of their enemies.

Luckily, the Platoon of Bale Town along with the others of this triangle of Kingdoms are wearing different Armours, otherwise it would be really bad. Isabel gave them a few pointers of who to kill and who not too and luckily they faced this slaughter with no losses but minor injuries instead. The Platoon of BaleTown arrived with 125 Guards and still has all of them.