Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 439 - 180: Facing the Deceitful Wings—Aeliria

Thinking of these, Su Li couldn’t help but smile wryly. Perhaps he was being too optimistic, dreaming of advancing into the forest when he hadn’t even secured the city yet?

The outcome of tonight’s decisive battle was still unknown!

If the battle lines failed, while his castle might remain unharmed, Hesse Town would truly face devastation.

Fortunately, the anxious wait didn’t last long, as the Monster Legion advanced swiftly and fiercely.

Just as the Witch Moon rose, massive flying monsters emerged from the distant skies. Beneath them, the Monster Legion spread out densely across the hills and fields!

This was the first time the main force of the monsters gathered under Heisen City.

A piercing horn sounded heart-wrenchingly, and chaos erupted on and off the city walls. Large numbers of resting guards quickly returned to the front lines, many still bandaged or with untreated wounds. Except for those gravely injured and unable to fight, everyone else returned to the battle line.

As the brutal warfare continued to this day, the medical system in the territory had long been overwhelmed.

The mere dozens of Medical Knights and over a hundred medical staff in Hesse Territory simply couldn’t treat the hundreds or thousands of casualties each day.

The territory’s medicine had long been depleted, and now medical staff could only hastily bandage soldiers’ wounds with straw, but even bandages were nearly used up.

Many times, facing hundreds of retreating wounded, medical staff could only move them to the city’s square, painfully watching them left to their own fate. Their destiny depended on how much Divine Grace Shalya, the Healing and Compassion Goddess, bestowed upon them through the Divine Statue, determining how many injured under the gaze of Shalya’s Holy Image could survive.

This was truly a case of leaving it up to fate!

But as the decisive battle erupted, those soldiers left to fate had to struggle to rise with their Broken Swords.

They had to fight with all their might, not just for honor, but for their homeland, parents, wives, and daughters.

Because everyone understood that if the war went poorly, the nobility could retreat to their castles and wait for the Green Dragon to plunder and then return to the forest, but their kin remaining in Hesse Town would surely face death!

Of course, in every crisis lies an opportunity; the bigger the storm, the higher the price of fish.

Many wealthy merchants and landowners paid Su Li exorbitant bribes to escape into the castle for survival, from which Su Li made over 4700 Golden Crowns.

The panorama of the territory’s commoners rendered the atmosphere of the decisive battle extraordinarily tragic and solemn.

Everyone awaited the swift conclusion of the war, an ending.

Amid this tension and anticipation, the monsters soon advanced menacingly like dark clouds over the city.

For the first time, Su Li saw, since entering the Border Prince’s Territory, the most terrifying, dangerous enemy, and the greatest source of nightmare and pressure—Green Dragon, Deceitful Wings, Aeliria. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

And it lived up to the importance and titles Su Li had afforded it, its name itself embodying endless terror and mystery. When it appeared in the defenders’ sight, the oppressive feeling was akin to a towering mountain, suffocatingly heavy.

Its body was incredibly massive, over forty meters long, like a moving hill. Scales covered its entire body, each as hard as steel, flickering with an eerie green light, as if they were the armor of a demon from the Abyss. These scales were not only hard but emitted a strange chill, making one’s hair stand on end.

The Green Dragon’s head was huge and ferocious, its eyes like two burning golden gemstones, shining with cunning and cruelty. Its mouth was wide and sharp, full of teeth akin to a python’s fangs, each capable of tearing through the toughest armor.

As a Green Dragon, its body wasn’t as robust and fierce as a Red Dragon, but the jagged bones on its wings were particularly sharp, like blades. Its agile tail was also equipped with bony spikes, perfectly embodying the insidious, deceitful nature of a Green Dragon, able to wound with the slightest carelessness by its limbs, wings, and tail spikes.

The Green Dragon immediately spotted Su Li standing on the castle, gazing into the distance, surrounded by knights.

Aeliria chose to attack the castle herself to unleash her fury upon this vile thief!

As it approached, it angrily roared: "You vile insect, filthy thief, today you will pay for your shameless theft! Every human shall pay for your actions!"

The Green Dragon’s roar thundered through the sky, echoing over the silent city. Its majestic voice caused some to go weak at the knees, but it also stirred a commotion in the city.

"What? The Green Dragon’s invasion was caused by the Lord?"

"Damn it! Such a vile act of theft, no wonder it provoked a dragon invasion. So many of us died, and is it all because of the nobles’ despicable acts?"

"The nobles truly are expert at masquerading as vampires! They appear upright and righteous, yet behind the scenes, they are no better than thieves and harlots."

"What do we do? My faith is crumbling, could it be that a noble Lord with such virtues is also a filthy, hideous monster at heart?"

... A cacophony arose from all over the city, visibly shaking the defensive line. The once-high-spirited army was also becoming unsettled.