Chapter 00186: Pocket Encounter (5)
# Pocket Encounter (5)
Chapter 186
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 186: Pocket Encounter (5)
August 19, 2024 Author: Banshang Bupo
Demon Lord Calendar, Year 648.
Late June, in the morning.
Hoofbeats like thunder mixed with battle cries echoed through the valley.
The inspired soldiers followed the leading red figure.
She forged ahead bravely, as if carving a path for everyone at the very front.
For a moment, even Count Fran's cavalry, who had been besieged for two days and two nights, felt their spirits lift.
At this moment, Isaac's First Cavalry Squad was turning as previously ordered, exposing their vulnerable flank and rear.
A volley of arrows fired from horseback swept over them.
Immediately, men were shot off their horses, only to be trampled to death by their own comrades on the spot.
Of course, the First Cavalry Squad was also returning fire with bows and arrows.
However, because they were being attacked from the flank and rear, they had to twist their waists on horseback to shoot back.
In such a posture, it was difficult to draw their heavy military bows, making their counterattack relatively weak.
The Subia Demon Kingdom Army was a regular army as well, and the troops assigned to Isaac were all elites.
They endured the covering fire of the arrow rain to complete their turn.
By now, Viola, charging at the very front, had already led her knights into the fray.
This was equivalent to taking the enemy's blades with their backsides.
A horse's acceleration could not be compared to a car's.
Viola's army, already at full charge, was practically hammering the First Cavalry Squad.
Although they suffered a great loss at the first encounter, it was still within an acceptable range.
After all, the original objective of the First Cavalry Squad was to lure the enemy out so that the Fourth Cavalry Squad could launch a surprise attack from the flank and rear, directly splitting the enemy forces.
But the Fourth Cavalry Squad could no longer make it in time.
In their place was Isaac's personal guard, led by himself.
They launched a charge directly from the slope of a hill.
Isaac, also charging at the forefront, spotted the blood-like, eye-catching red hair in the crowd at a glance.
As long as he could capture Princess Viola, any sacrifice, even ten or a hundred times greater, would be worth it.
The Avarus Demon Kingdom would become history.
"For the King!"
Isaac and his personal guard roared as they charged down the hillside.
Of course, Viola noticed such a huge commotion.
Without a shred of hesitation, she immediately blew her horn to signal, leading her cavalry to begin turning as well.
Seeing this, Isaac cursed inwardly at her slyness.
Viola hadn't fallen for the bait at all.
Seeing that the enemy's numbers were far less than her own, if she had greedily continued to press the attack on the First Cavalry Squad, she would have suffered a great loss.
Isaac's personal guard was composed entirely of valiant warriors from the army, each capable of fighting ten men.
They were better equipped, and many even had enchanted armor and weapons.
A force of less than two hundred men was enough to scatter an enemy several times their number.
Continuing to chase the First Cavalry Squad meant exposing her own flank.
Now that Viola had turned, the two sides were face to face, a direct confrontation.
And Isaac, who seemed reckless, was in fact meticulous in his thoughts.
He did not choose a head-on clash, but instead pulled the reins, attempting to avoid the spearhead of the cavalry led by Viola.
After all, the enemy outnumbered him several times over.
Unless the First Cavalry Squad turned back again, the vast numerical disparity would also inflict heavy casualties on his personal guard.
When Viola saw Isaac's intention to evade, she too pulled her reins, leading her cavalry to stick close to his flank.
Both sides, by coincidence, chose a conservative tactic.
In the end, they were both afraid of losing too many soldiers and being unable to make it back.
Thus, the two forces shifted from a head-on, tip-to-tip confrontation to advancing in parallel.
Especially when both sides took out their bows and shot at each other, it was just like a broadside engagement in a naval battle.
In terms of arrow volleys, the side with more numbers naturally had the advantage.
No matter how skilled Isaac's personal guard was with their bows and horses, for every arrow they shot, the enemy could return ten.
This was a significant disadvantage.
So, after shooting an arrow at Viola, Isaac immediately led his cavalry squad to close the distance.
Viewed from the sky, the two forces collided and scraped against each other like two twisting great serpents.
In this state of mobile warfare, they would take any opportunity to swing their weapons at the opponent's face.
Isaac, of course, led the charge, chasing after the leader, Viola.
He held a spear-axe, aiming for the white horse she rode.
As the saying goes, to shoot the man, first shoot his horse; to capture the bandit, first capture the king.
As long as he took down Viola, the rest would be easy.
Even if her soldiers didn't rout, their morale would plummet.
But Isaac had not expected that this princess, Viola, would be such a capable fighter.
The longsword in her hand, 'Crimson Fang,' ignited with blazing flames.
With one sweep, it deflected Isaac's heavy spear-axe.
The force was so great that even Isaac felt the web of his hand go numb.
However, as a fierce man who had followed his grandfather onto the battlefield since the age of thirteen, Isaac had no intention of giving up.
With a roar, he brought his spear-axe down with the force of a thunderbolt.
Swords were never the king of the battlefield; on the battlefield, long weapons reigned supreme.
The spear-axe was both heavy and long.
It could thrust like a spear and chop like an axe.
Even if the enchanted longsword in Viola's hand would not be so easily severed, her strength would still find it difficult to resist the heavy force.
But then, Isaac saw a layer of golden light burst from Viola's entire body.
It converged on her chest into a special, palm-shaped emblem, which then faded into her armor.
Isaac was greatly surprised.
According to the intelligence he had, Viola wasn't supposed to be able to use magic.
However, the spear-axe was already descending, and it was impossible to pull back.
With a loud clang, a shockwave visible to the naked eye erupted from between the two of them.
The white horse beneath Viola let out a mournful cry.
But Viola had indeed blocked Isaac's full-force blow.
She even had the strength left to follow the momentum and slice the spear-axe in half with her sword, sending the sharp front end spinning into the ground.
Although the spear-axe Isaac used wasn't an enchanted weapon, it was the finest of the fine.
Even in a clash against an enchanted weapon, it shouldn't have been so easily cut in two with a single strike.
But there was no time to ponder the reason now.
Seeing Viola urge her horse closer, Isaac quickly drew his backup sword, and the two began to fight on horseback with a series of clangs.
Isaac's martial arts were purely suited for battlefield slaughter.
They couldn't be called clever at all, distinguished only by their overwhelming power and weight.
Isaac himself knew this.
And he knew even better that Viola had learned Royal Knight Swordsmanship, a style that was upright and honorable.
Against him, she was actually at a disadvantage, especially in a head-on clash.
At first, Isaac was surprised by Viola's strength, but that surprise soon turned into astonishment.
It was normal that she could exchange a few blows initially.
After all, Viola was a princess on horseback, not some young lady engrossed in balls and salons.
But there is an objective physical difference in ability between men and women.
Even when both were trained, the gap was still apparent.
Yet Isaac saw that Viola, with her slender arms and legs, could actually clash with him head-on without being at a disadvantage at all.
Even when Isaac began to feel the strain, Viola still seemed to handle it with ease.
There was something wrong with that spell just now!
Isaac realized this immediately.
(End of this chapter)