Chapter 392 - 133: A Great Victory! Lynch’s Great Harvest

Chapter 392: Chapter 133: A Great Victory! Lynch’s Great Harvest

"Better than some people," Amadis said, gently stroking the bone staff in her hand, a cold sneer playing on her purple lips. "Hiding in the back with musketeers and taking potshots. A great Holy Light Knight, and that’s all the courage you have? I thought I’d see you charging into battle, sword in hand."

"What did you say?!" Catherine’s brows shot up in fury as she placed her hand on the hilt of her sword.

"What, you want to fight?" A harsh glint flashed in Amadis’s purple eyes, and the Skeleton Soldiers behind her took a step forward in unison. "Perfect. Let’s see if your Holy Light can purify my Undead."

"Bring it on! Who’s afraid of who!"

"FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!~~~"

Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers, far from trying to stop them, started laughing and jeering, egging them on.

The soldiers from Lakefront Town shouted, "Lady Catherine will win!" while the soldiers from the Sixth Battle Battalion yelled, "Lord Hayes is invincible!" The atmosphere was tense, yet it had a ridiculously festive air.

"Hee hee, they’re gonna fight, they’re gonna fight!~~"

The little Vampire, Esther, sat on Xuan Yi’s shoulders, dangling her little legs and clapping excitedly as she giggled and watched the show.

Meanwhile, Lynch, watching this unfold through Xuan Yi’s eyes, didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

’Senior Catherine and Senior Amadis... those two really are natural-born rivals.’

However, it was clear that neither Catherine nor Amadis actually wanted to fight in front of such a large crowd and become a public spectacle.

After shooting each other a few vicious glares, they both made some parting threats, declaring that the next chance they got, they would compete on the battlefield to see who could earn more glory.

Then, surrounded by their respective Personal Guards, the two of them turned and stalked away.

This, of course, was a great disappointment to a certain crowd of onlookers who loved a good spectacle, like the little Vampire, Esther.

「Meanwhile.」

「In front of the main command tent.」

The goblin Ginko Wrench was puffing out his chest, engaged in a "friendly" handover with Leonard, the commander of the Iron Wall Battle Group.

Leonard was a burly, sturdy man with an honest face. Right now, his expression was full of gratitude as he vigorously shook Jinke’s hand. "Brother Jinke, I have you and Lord Lynch to thank for this. If you hadn’t arrived like saviors from the heavens, I’m afraid the Iron Wall Battle Group would have been completely wiped out. I, Leonard, owe Lord Lynch my life, and I owe him a massive debt of gratitude."

"It was nothing, nothing at all~" Jinke grinned. "We’re all friends here, it’s only right that we help each other out. By the way, Lord Leonard, about the spoils of war..."

"Oh, right, right!" Leonard said quickly. "This great victory was all thanks to Lord Lynch’s masterful strategy. As for all the spoils, Lord Jinke, you can have the final say. The Iron Wall Battle Group will not have a single objection!"

Jinke’s eyes lit up. "Haha, Lord Leonard, you’re a straightforward man indeed!"

As a goblin, he certainly didn’t stand on ceremony. With a grand wave of his hand, he immediately began directing his subordinates to scour the battlefield.

"Those corpses, yes, those ones! The ones of average strength, have Lord Bone Mage convert them directly into Skeleton Servants. Let them walk back on their own."

「A moment later.」

In Lynch’s army, the sole Skeleton Undead Mage, Bone Mage, began to wave his bone staff continuously, chanting spells and converting batches of corpses into new Undead Servants. He then transferred command over them to the Skeleton "officers" who possessed Soul Fire.

"The especially valuable corpses, load all of them onto the airship. The ones of secondary value, have the troops drag them back later."

"These tents, take them away directly, frames and all."

"Weapons and Armor? Take it all! Even the rusty stuff can be melted down. We have a smelting workshop in Lakefront Town~"

"Provisions? Empty it all out, don’t leave a single grain of rice! Lakefront Town has almost ten thousand people now, and the number of Kobolds is growing way too fast!"

Jinke zipped around the battlefield like a busy bee, directing his subordinates to pick the spoils clean. In the end, they didn’t even spare the tents left by the Blue Scarf Alliance Army, packing up and taking everything.

Leonard stood to the side, watching as the Alliance Army’s supplies were carted away, truckload by truckload, until not a single scrap was left. The corner of his mouth twitched, and he sucked in a sharp breath, his heart aching at the sight.

"Sir... are we really not keeping anything?" an aide asked in a low voice. "Our brothers suffered heavy casualties too, this..."

"Shut up," Leonard reprimanded in a low voice, then sighed. "If it weren’t for Lord Lynch, our Iron Wall Battle Group would have been annihilated. We wouldn’t even be standing here talking. Mere spoils of war... It hurts, I know, but what’s owed must be paid!"

He too was filled with regret, wishing he could slap himself for running his mouth.

’How could I let a goblin have free rein over the spoils of war right in front of me?’

’You have to understand, in a goblin’s eyes, time is money. Things like ’face’ aren’t worth a damn!’

But he had already given his word, and there was no taking it back.

He could only grit his teeth and wave his hand. "Go! Help Lord Jinke load and transport everything! Move it!"

"Yes, sir..."

After that, Leonard could only resign himself to his fate and lead his soldiers to help the goblin move the supplies, weeping silent tears in his heart with every load.

’I, Leonard, am just too poor, and life is too hard...’

Haha~

Lynch, watching this scene through Xuan Yi’s vision, couldn’t help but chuckle.

’This commander of the Iron Wall Battle Group seems like a good man. He’s worth befriending later. But for now, he’s really just suffering to save face.’

’Mmm~ he looks so pitiful. I should send him some supplies later.’

******

「Some days later.」

When the victorious army returned to Lakefront Town, laden with massive amounts of supplies and corpses.