Legendary King.

Chapter 9: Brutal Strength (1/?)?

Today was the fourth day.

"This little castle has a complex terrain that could frustrate any invaders. If it wasn't for this dangerous moat and that firm defense wall, I would've already conquered this castle for father, and the queen and the princesses would've been my toys already…"

On the bank of the Zulia moat, a knight wearing a full suit of black armor with a silver mask grumbled.

The silver mask had a ferocious demon carving on it and only covered the top half of his face. He was on top of a pitch-black warhorse, which was itself tall and sturdy, emanating the image of a majestic beast. The horse also wore a ferocious suit of armour, with only its legs and eyes exposed. An enigmatic force surrounded him, like a magnetic field.

Behind him, nineteen other knights stood in silence.

They were all black armoured and on black horses too. They also wore the same devil-styled mask as well but in black rather than silver. With the spiked armour on the horses, they looked like a platoon of devil knights from hell.

"This was actually unexpected! This kingdom is the smallest kingdom in the whole continent, yet it has a moat with a fast current and a firm defence wall. It even has a three-moon Night Warrior!" A black knight behind the silver masked knight said. He then dryly chuckled and reassured the silver masked knight .

"Don't worry master! The defenders are at their breaking point and surely can only hold twenty more minutes. After that, this castle will fall for sure!"

"Eh... After we conquer this castle, let the soldiers loose; they can do anything they want. Except for the royal family women, there is no need for any others to survive." This cruel command was given so indifferently by this silver masked knight, as if he was just mentioning the weather. "Remember! Setting fire is prohibited! We need this castle."

"No one touches the princess before me? am I making myself clear?"

"Yes! Master!" All nineteen black knights said in unison. They had already done these hundreds of times and it was no surprise to them.

The black knight who just spoke said: " Master, their king … "

"Just execute him! For the next three days, make all the females in the castle service the soldiers and kill them afterwards."

"We follow your commands!" All the knights were excited, they loved these kinds of orders.

"Brook is almost finished, you men should get ready …" The silver masked knight waved at his subordinates: "When we gain control of and open the gate, all of you will rush in and finish off the enemies as soon as you can! I want to sit on the throne of their king in the shortest time possible…"

"Boom!"

He didn't even finish his sentence before a huge noise came from the battlefield.

It was as loud as thunder.

All the knights were moon-ranked night warriors and, given their enhanced abilities, they saw clearly what had just happened on the defensive wall of Uwineian.

The black knights behind the silver masked knight almost all lost it: "Oh god! This is … was Brook just chopped in half by an enemy?! Fuck! Did they have a war god?"

These black knights stared at each other, the shock showing in their eyes.

They were all moon-ranked night warriors that were skilled at fighting so they could see that the heavily armoured man that chopped Brook in half was only using brute force. There was no traces of energy in his attack. That was a scary thought for these knights because Brook was already a one-moon night warrior!

"Master, allow me to chop the head off that bastard; to avenge My brother!"

Some of the black knight was getting really nervous and impatient.

Although brook wasn`t his real brother, for the past four or five years, they had been under the command of the silver masked knight together. They ate together and slept together, they were closer than any blood related brothers. However, no one expected that Brook would die in this horrible way, especially in this seemingly easy siege.

This had stimulated their anger for revenge.

"Is he just born with inhuman strength?"

The silver masked knight smiled mysteriously. He waved back at the black knights and said: "Interesting, This man has intrigued me… pass on my order to stop the siege. Tell the soldiers to back off for now!"

"Master, this … "

"Are there any problems?" The silver masked man responded coldly.

"We follow your commands, master!"

"Haha, change of commands! Just surround the castle for now, send someone to ask for the surrender of the castle. If they do, the king, ministers, the royal family and that heavily armoured man can survive, others still will be executed!"

The silver masked knight said, his smile betrayed the cunning thoughts he was entertaining.

"Yes, my master!"

The black knights turned around right away and had started executing the orders.

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I stood in the battlefield with my axe that was like the scythe of the grim reaper.

All the enemy soldiers on the defensive walls near the broken ladders, were dying by my axe, it harvested all their lives.

None of them could handle even one strike of my axe.

After wiping out all the enemies around Felena, I turned and yelled.

"Come, some of you take those brave soldiers to the medical ward. Quickly" I said with an urging tone.

A couple soldiers hurried forward and carried the fainted Felena of the castle walls.

Felena is really a brave warrior. I thought in mind deeply moved by her actions.

I saw the heroic scene, where she risked her own life to destroy the ladders so that the defenders would have a chance driving the invaders off, and avenging her brothers. Fortunately, at the last second, I was able to save this heroine`s life, coming up with the "unorthodox" tactic of throwing a living person as a weapon.

I`m a genius right? Hehe..

The great me doesn`t need your lowly praise…

Wielding my double-handed giant axe, with a great amount of force.

Wherever I went, I crushed the enemies left and right, with just swinging my axe.

"Great job! Sir Warrior. I'm the second commander of the king's guards Herald... Who are you? I've never seen you before…", The black haired two meters tall commander Herald yelled in surprise as he saw that Felena had been saved. He was not in a good situation as well, still struggling with the fight with the skilled enemy from earlier.

The unexpected savior had broken the subtle balance on the battlefield. The hope of the Uwineian soldiers had finally come.

"Hm? Commander Herald, don`t worry, when he right time come, you will find out…"

I spoke with a mysterious tone, I still didn`t wan the soldiers to find out who was I yet.

I had gotten used to the killing, screaming, violence, and blood in the Abyss world.

I didn`t feel any difference between the two, even though in Abyss, I was only chopping and slaying monsters. While here I was killing humans.

As I got in the battlefield I adapted at the situation.

I didn`t feel like throwing up after my first human kill.

I didn`t see the enemy like humans, I only saw them like pigs waiting for the butcher to cut their fucking head.

Moreover, I got so excited, the scenes in front of me made my blood boil even faster. It felt like I was about to go on fire.

There was no need for any adaptation.

I once had a dream of becoming a superhero and go around to save the people in need, protecting the citizens of my country.

Right now, I was living my childhood dream, although I didn`t shoot fire from my hands, or laser beams from my eyes, my axe was harvesting he lives of many people and saving many people.

Right now, I had no remorse.

Killing the others, is also means for saving my own, I don`t want to sound like hypocrite, but is was as simple as that in the battlefield.

Kill or to be killed.

Blood covered my whole heavy armour, and my axe shined more beautifully with blood and the sun rays.

The whole battlefield was covered in blood, it was a sea of blood.

I backed off to protect the soldiers who were carrying Felena from the defense wall, and then returned to the front line of the battlefield to make it more bloody.

The ordinary enemies were no match to the brutal strength and the sophisticated axe skills of a level 6 'Barbarian'.

The enemies screamed and cried as I approached the last siege ladder.

My axe whizzed through the air, bloody light glistening off of the blade of the axe.

The last couple enemies who were protecting the ladder screamed as they were knocked off of the defence wall and smashed into the ground by a horizontal strike from my swing...

That strike was so powerful that it didn't even stop there.

"Slam!"

As I followed through the strike, my axe bashed into the battlement of the defence wall.

Dusts and sparks flew everywhere.

The one foot (30 cm) thick battlement broke off and smashed into the enemies outside of the castle and bellowed up dust.

The siege ladder that was secured onto this battlement was dragged along side it. The ladder flipped three hundred and sixty degrees in mid-air with enemies still clenching onto it and crashed into the Zulia moat hundreds of yards (meters) away.

"Such strength!"