Conquest Chapter 67

Shaar fell to the ground, with a Caribou hoof following suit. Barely missing his body, Shaar couldn’t help but think that if it had hit him, his first cavalry charge would’ve been his last!!

Rolling to the side with all his strength, Shaar brandished his sword, and with a crack, chopped the hoof in half, sending it flying. Seeing his reindeer’s leg getting cut off, the Odin cavalryman sitting on its back let out a roar, quickly leaping on Shaar. During their entanglement, Shaar somehow managed to free his hand, punched the soldier’s face, crushing the nose in the process. The man screamed bloody murder as the excruciating pain almost caused him to black out, raising his fist to retaliate. Suddenly, another Odin’s Caribou Cavalryman rushed in from behind, stamping on and immediately killing his comrade! There was a deafening *crunch* as most of his bones were trampled.

Shaar didn’t have any time to turn around in response to the sound of the wind whistling behind him. Looking behind him, he saw another Odin’s Caribou cavalryman wielding his axe and rushing towards him. Radiating a ruthless aura, the axe chopped down towards Shaar’s shoulder. But in that moment, Shaar lifted his halberd to block the incoming axe. Clang! The Odin Soldier felt a numbing jolt as his axe was split in two. Using this opportunity, Shaar kicked both of his feet against the ground, and threw himself at the soldier, which knocked him off from the Caribou with a tackle. Attempting to take control of the Caribou that was still bucking about, Shaar yanked its head so strongly, that its neck almost snapped. With a small amount of strength, Shaar started to slowly strangle the life out of the Caribou. After a short amount of time, the Caribou collapsed to the ground, its eyes glassy, and devoid of any life.

As Shaar threw himself onto the ground, he caught a glimpse of the cavalry soldier beside him being pulled down from his horse by an Odin soldier; half his head had been chopped off with an axe, blood splashing everywhere. Suddenly, Shaar’s eyes turned red. He recognized the dead man as one of the Praetorian Guards who, just a few days prior, had accompanied him for his missions. Swiftly, Shaar grasped the halberd with both hands, and maliciously stabbed it into the belly of the Odin soldier. He then lifted his halberd and swung it, sending the corpse flying. With a twist, he leapt onto the cavalry soldier’s horse and vigorously kicked its belly as he speedily rode to catch up with the rest.

Presently, the cavalry team had already broken through the formation of Odin soldiers; there were only a hundred of them, after all. Compared to Kevin’s and the others’, they were much less. As Shaar was at the very end of the group, the Odins turned around and started to chase him, seeing this, Shaar pulled out a long sword from the saddle and shot it towards the closest Caribou knight like a dart. ‘Pu!’ The sword impaled his chest and forced him off his steed.

Despite their desperate pursuit, the distance between them and Shaar gradually widened; caribous were slower than warhorses, after all. However, from the highlands nearby, a team of archers suddenly appeared from within the woods! Although their numbers weren’t big, a dozen archers drew their bows; their arrows taking aim on the cavalry unit below that was rushing by.

“Raise the shields!!!” Kevin roared angrily. Following his orders, a heavy rain of arrows poured down!!

When the first wave of arrows rained down from the sky, the knights were caught totally unprepared. In the blink of an eye, more than ten soldiers were shot and seven immediately died while falling off their horses.

The archers uphill drew their bows again. Although the knights had their shields raised, they were all light cavalry, so their horses lacked any form of armor or protection. Additionally, the distance between the highlands and the cavalry was about a hundred steps; the difference in height between the two was about five to six meters. This made it extremely difficult for the cavalry to directly attack the archers, as they would have to make a detour. On the other hand, for the archers it was the opposite, since they could shoot five or six volleys of arrows at them within the given time……

It was at this critical moment when Shaar’s mind became crystal clear; all of the distracting thoughts were kicked out of his mind. Only one thought remained in his head: I must let my brothers break through!!

The previous tragic scene of the Praetorian Guard getting his head cut off by an Odin soldier was still lingering vividly in his mind. Suddenly, Shaar felt a burning passion bursting out from his chest. With a mighty shout, he turned his horse around and separated himself from the cavalry, fervently charging towards the highlands!

His horse continued to gallop until they were just below the hillside. With an elevation of about five or six meters from the ground, there was no way for a horse to jump to the top. Ignoring this fact, Shaar gave the horse’s belly a heavy kick, making the horse sprint wildly forward. Using the force of inertia, the boost allowed the horse to traverse three to four steps up the steep hillside before exhausting all of its strength. Yet, Shaar who had already loosened the reigns, proceeded to spring himself up even further with all his might; firmly kicking off from the back of his steed.

With a loud neigh, the horse was immediately pressed down towards the ground; Shaar used it as a foothold to leap forward! He jumped up an incredible three to four meters in height! In the air, he pulled out his fire pitchfork and stabbed it on the slope for an extra push before flipping himself over the edge of the hillside!

With halberd in his left hand and fire pitchfork in the other, he roared like a beast and rushed towards the archers who were stationed near the forest.

Just when these archers completed their second volley, they saw a guy in Byzantine armor rush towards them from the slope like a berserker! Running at them with his monstrous speed; just one leap of his legs could already be compared to the distance a normal person took with seven to eight steps. Within several of such movements, like a whirlwind, he had already crashed into the crowd before they even had the chance to move!

Where Shaar’s halberd swung, blood splattered; three to four archers had already been chopped up! The rest of the archers were thrown into chaos as they tried to put aside their bows and quivers one after another, and draw out their swords to fight. Roaring like a madman, Shaar fiercely swung his halberd and chopped another archer in two; his head and upper torso split directly in half! The fresh blood spurted onto Shaar and, within seconds, his upper body was completely dyed in red. Shaar’s face was covered fully in flesh and blood as he turned around desperately pushing one archer away with his shoulder, while bitterly resisting several enemies’ sword attacks with his back, before fiercely crashing into the crowd again. Because his body was reinforced with the dragon’s blood, other than feeling immense pain, normal attacks could not hurt him.

With his enormous strength, he sprinted towards the crowd and smashed into the two archers who stood directly in front of him, sending them flying as blood spat out from their mouths. In the next moment, Shaar repeatedly thrust his fire pitchfork, simultaneously piercing the heads of three different soldiers. He then brandished his halberd and with a powerful swing, broke the sword of another soldier; without pausing for even a moment, the sword continued its trajectory and severed the soldier’s arm. Blood poured from his exposed shoulder as he fell to the ground!

Meanwhile, Shaar also suffered a few ruthless attacks that were most likely a military officer of this archer unit. A long sword that was covered with an opalescent glowing battle ki clashed maliciously onto Shaar’s shoulder and forced Shaar’s body to bend down a bit. The mighty force of the battle ki continuously pressed on to Shaar, making him unable to stand up while slowly pressuring him to kneel down as the blade directly broke off the armor on his shoulder! His body which was reinforced by the dragon blood could no longer block the battle ki and blood immediately burst out of the wound on his shoulder!

However, that military officer looked shocked as he had accumulated his blow with enough battle ki to chop a person into two pieces! Nevertheless, this attack only cut off Shaar’s armor, and it didn’t even break a single bone as the edge of blade was stuck in Shaar’s shoulder blades!

Shaar was growling in pain while struggling to turn around. Under the immense pain, his strength erupted again and he finally managed to throw that military officer off. However, that military officer roared and once again injected the blade with his battle ki and with an explosion it caused a blood fountain on Shaar’s shoulder! It exploded into a rain of flesh and blood!

Shaar screamed pitifully while staring at that officer with mad eyes. His eyes were turning into crimson and used his backhand to stab the fire pitchfork into the head of that military officer, directly piercing his head!! Right at this moment his back was stabbed by another two swords!

Although Shaar’s body had been strengthened by the dragon blood, the reinforcement from the dragon blood was limited after all. Once he was injured the protection would be broken, and he would bleed. This would cause the momentum to drop drastically and as a result, the effect of the dragon blood would also start to weaken.

The two swords behind him also cut through Shaar’s skin and flesh. Although the stab did not pierce through him, it pushed him forwards and he fell on his face.

At the same time Kevin was leading the horse team round under the hill when he saw that Shaar crashed into the enemy’s archer team on the top of the hill, wildly slashing their way through. The enemy’s archers were suddenly in disarray and had no more time to shoot any arrows. When they saw Shaar kneeling down after getting cut on the shoulder, the archers at the back rushed forward as they drew out their swords uniformly……

Kevin watched this scene with a great resentment, before letting out a loud cry of pain while he was thinking whether to turn around or rush ahead.

All of a sudden, he saw that among the crowds Shaar jumping up and maliciously hitting several archers away while howling towards his brothers at the bottom of the hill:

Shit! Get the fuck out of there!!”

Shaar’s hoarse voice could be heard from afar. Hearing his voice, Kevin’s eyes lit up as he stared audaciously towards the mountain top before finally yelling, “I will avenge you!!!”

Afterwards, he leaned on his horse’s back and gave its belly a powerful kick, before leading the cavalry group up north.

Shaar felt his blood flowing out of his body, and as he felt himself losing his strength, tides of exhaustion slowly swept over him.

A sword was embedded deeply in his shoulder and after his halberd was continuously slashed by the enemy’s archers; its handle had broken in two. After jump kicking the person in front of him, Shaar ferociously stabbed another with the broken hilt, piercing his armor. The blood splattered all over his face, giving him a warm and metallic taste, with a hint of salty sweat in his mouth……

By this time, several archers were already killed by him. However, there was a huge difference between them and the archers from Odin’s legends. Each of them was equipped with sophisticated light armor, made out of high quality materials. The shoulder pads, especially, didn’t interfere with the sensitivity of an archer whilst they were shooting. It only covered the vital spots, and along with their bows, each archer was equipped with a short sword for close combat. It was obviously not something that the barbaric Odin’s soldiers could produce.

However, Shaar was still injured after all, and as such his defence level had dropped to the lowest level. He had obviously suffered from that slash a moment ago, and even though it was only an ordinary attack, it had actually almost cut through his fibula.

(Dragonblood ……can really only defend against ordinary attacks. However, once that defence is broken, its effectiveness will quickly decrease.)

He continued the one-sided slaughter whilst displaying his technique, the ‘Thousand Men Army Slaughter’, which turned his fire pitch fork into a blur. Just as he stabbed another three archers, Shaar noticed that he was tightly surrounded. The enemies were all around him, and after the caribou cavalrymen at the base of the mountain noticed that they couldn’t catch up to Kevin anymore, they circled around to the only ramp leading up to the hillside.

Despair crept into Shaar’s heart as he fell into a hopeless situation. His foolhardiness had gradually calmed down after he’d received a serious injury.

(Fuck, in a moment of hotheadedness, the urge to show off my ability rushed to my head and now this uncle is dead for sure. Damnit……This uncle is still a virgin!)

The caribou cavalrymen were already climbing up the hill whilst making loud roars. Hearing the hoofbeats, the archers quickly made way for them. A caribou cavalryman who looked like the leader quickly rushed over. Wearing a set of excellent armor that had a thick fur lined robe, his face was covered with blood, making Shaar unable to clearly determine the original look and age of him. A pair of eyes full of murderous killing intent stared firmly at Shaar, and an angry flame could be seen in them. Suddenly rushing over, his axe chopped at Shaar’s neck……

Ding!!

Just when the axe’s blade was but three fingers away from Shaar’s neck, the Odin soldier suddenly felt his axe was blocked! It seemed as if his axe was stubbornly pulled back by something, and it was unable to go any further.

From Shaar’s neck, under the middle of his throat, a small red light suddenly erupted! The light was coming out of Shaar’s shirt, and in an instant that red light filled the surroundings with a dazzling, incomparable brightness!

The shirt under Shaar’s neck was instantaneously torn apart, and a red crystal was exposed in the air! Suddenly, the red light crept out and surrounded Shaar. Everything within the range of ten steps around him was completely enveloped by that red light!!

Both of Shaar’s eyes turned completely red and he felt that this red light washed over his body while instantaneously making all the pain of his body vanish.

An inviolable strange consciousness streamed in his mind, which instantly filled his consciousness by force!

Stab! Chop! Hack! Target!

At that moment, the complete set of the Thousand Men Army Slaughter clearly and quickly flashed through his brain. Intention, as well as the motion of every single movement, became clear and natural! Things that he originally wasn’t able to comprehend suddenly became transparent, as if a dense fog had been ripped apart!!

The millions of thoughts in his brain finally and surely turned into one thought,

Kill!!!

He suddenly roared and leaped!

For a moment, Shaar could clearly see the faces of every single enemy around him! The ferocious expressions, their eyes full of murderous intent, their distorting facial muscles……

Additionally he started to see the movements of the opposite party; their every twist, and every movement, became clear and slow. All the shouting and roaring, it all became distorted and stretched……

However, his own consciousness was still as clear as water!!

Kill! Kill them all!

Completely slaughter them!!

In the place which was now enveloped by a crimson light, everything became slow and clear!

Shaar began to move.

The fire pitchfork slashed horizontally inside the field of crimson light.

The crimson light suddenly turned into a thin blade made of light, and flew out towards to the chest of that Odin caribou cavalryman……

Then it was like everything slowed down ten times; Shaar could clearly see that guy’s leather chest armor splitting in two, and then the muscles, the bones and internal organs ……he watched the separation bit by bit, the cavalryman’s entire chest area was cut horizontally into two!!

In was not only the fellow in front of him, but five steps behind him two caribou cavalrymen also bizarrely dropped to the ground! Their upper parts completely cut in two!

Afterwards, the one behind him……

In Shaar’s surrounding, when the fire pitchfork finished making a circular arc, dozens of archers that were gathered together, on both sides, had their leather armor split open, bowstrings ruptured, skulls cracked, bones shattered, blood spilled……

As if everything within this crimson light became a light blade that could separate and cut anything apart!!

Within ten steps, everything turned crimson!!

Crimson Rage Ki!!

This thought emerged in Shaar mind!

During the previous outbreak of Crimson Rage Ki, it could be said that Shaar was unconsciousness. However this time he could clearly feel the Crimson Rage Ki’s eruption clearly!!

The entire area was covered with the crimson light, which looked like it was from an indescribable magic! Slashing his fire pitchfork, whether it was a sturdy armor, or a firm sword, it was like everything became like air, and he could easily cut it without any barriers!!

Crimson followed him wherever he went, and all of the defences were…… useless!!!

Dozens of archers in the surrounding instantaneously instantly slit in half and everyone was easily dismembered. Even when the corpse fell down, the remnant half of the corpse stood still there as fountains of blood sprayed out!

All around Shaar everything within ten steps, there was not a living person left!!

Such a shocking scene made the enemies behind him fall into an immediate deadly silence. For a dull moment it was like everyone’s mind went completely blank. Which seemed like in a blink of an eye, how did so many people died?!

Making a growl Shaar leapt forward as his steps left behind several cracks on the ground and even the stones were broken under his foot! His body soared a few meters while jumping and finally bashed on a caribou’s back while pushing the corpse off that mount. Using his fire pitchfork, he maliciously stabbed into the caribou’s buttocks which that pitiful animal screamed in pain before lifting up its head smashing towards the crowd.

(TL, Shaar’s famous butt stab acceleration technique!)(EN(Ama), Damn that reminded me The Thousand Years of Pain from Naruto)

Before the archers had time to recover from their shock, Shaar rushed over. Under the enormous pain, caribou’s majestic stature immediately sent several archers flying before jumping down the hill.

Landing five meters below the hill when the caribou fell to the ground, its four hooves were already broken by the powerful impact. Making a pitiful cry, it bashed on the ground as Shaar tumbled of the caribou’s back. After hitting the ground, he rolled several times and suddenly took some big steps and sprinted away with full of panic.

At the same time, the Odins on the hill finally recovered and several of the caribou cavalrymen at the back of the formation looked towards their dead companions. Especially their leader who was in the front and who wanted to chop Shaar with his axe was suddenly got sliced in two parts……

The Odin soldiers simultaneously roared like crazy……

“That guy killed Little Highness!!”

“Little Highness is dead!!”

A collective madness burst out of the remaining caribou soldiers as everyone went berserk and turned their caribous toward hillside to chase down the guy who killed Little Highness.

Shaar ran furiously and with his tough physique, his feet maliciously push forward. One of his jumps could be compared to a dozen steps from an ordinary person. As his ears suddenly heard sounds coming from hoofs of caribou’s catching up behind him as well as the wild shouts while holding their weapons and swirling them around. While running, Shaar’s hand desperately touched around his bosom before finally fishing out a small ring.

(Fuck, I rely on you!! Don’t disappoint this uncle!!)

This wind magic ring was initially pulled from a dead senior magician’s finger during the dragon hunt. Shaar once asked Tatara about it and he told him that this kind of magic equipment wasn’t limit to just magicians. As long as you were a human, after putting it on you could use it. However, the magic on this ring was limited since there was no magician who could continuously injected magic into it.   Therefore, it became a consumable item, once the magic was exhausted; it wasn’t distinguishable from an ordinary ring.

Once Shaar put this ring on his finger, he immediately felt a strange power fluctuating throughout his whole body. This fluctuation was gentle and slow, it was as if the surrounding wir became diffused and light……

Shaar continued to take some crazy steps forward. The first few steps didn’t have any difference but later he started to faster and faster as if he could walk on air. It was like the air turned into the thick entity and when his footsteps landed on it, he could run at full speed!

At the same time, because of the ring Shaar felt that his own body weight became a lot lighter, which in turn also dramatically accelerated his speed.

As for what those Odins who were shouting and roaring loudly behind him Shaar didn’t understand a single word. However, after looking at their faces with full of murderous intent and madness those guys, he could guess that it was definitely not something good…….

The Odins behind him were all out trying to chase him suddenly saw they saw the fellow ran a few steps more steps before his steps turned to gliding in the air. It transformed as if he was flying, his body went up and down and all of the sudden his threw himself far away……

Chapter end