Blood Sacrifice for a Famous Blade!

At some point, the commotion inside the castle subsided.

Both sides seemed to have restrained their destructive power, allowing the island's only building to remain intact, at least overall.

However.

The main hall inside the castle was in a mess, with frozen icicles, ice spikes and broken ice everywhere. Three of the stone pillars were completely broken and replaced by an ice pillar.

"How could you possibly beat me, you idiot?"

Esdeath's lips curled into a smug smile as she looked triumphantly at the 'Insect Queen' Melard, whose neck and below were frozen solid. Facing her childhood friend, she inadvertently revealed her girlish nature.

"You idiot, there's a limit to how fanatical you are about war, isn't there?"

"What's the point of fighting a war that you're certain to lose, and that you might even die in?"

"If you follow my plan, you'll have the perfect opportunity to join the World Government under a different identity and participate in their wars to conquer other worlds. Wouldn't that be even more appealing to you?"

Melard calmed down, stopped struggling, and looked into Esdeath's icy blue eyes as she made her final effort, speaking one sentence at a time.

"A war that was destined to be lost?"

Esdeath raised her equally sky-blue eyebrows, placed her right hand on her slender waist, and chuckled, "Now that you mention it, I'm even more interested. I've never tasted defeat before~"

But when Melard uttered his last words, Esdeath's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Wars to conquer other worlds"

Esdeath's eyes were instantly filled with longing and greed. To be honest, she was truly tempted at this moment, and even considered surrendering to the World Government.

However, she ultimately suppressed her anger, because she simply could not bring herself to desert her post.

Certainly.

If I ultimately lose despite giving it my all, and they allow me to continue living, then I might consider joining them.

Thinking of this, Esdeath waved her right hand, turning the ice on Melard's body into ice crystals and dissipating. Then, stepping on her white high heels, she swayed her beautiful waist and walked towards the castle gate.

Just then, Melard's angry shouts came from behind.

"If you die, don't expect me to avenge you. I will never provoke the World Government for your sake. On the contrary, I will laugh at your overestimation of your abilities at your grave!"

"Hehe, then spend more time talking to me then~"

Esdeath chuckled softly without turning her head.

Finally, it disappeared from Melard's resentful gaze.

Bang.

Melard slumped wearily onto the frozen ground, biting his lip and sighing softly.

"Then there's only one way left: I'll join the World Government."

Doing so is very risky; she could very well be subjected to inhuman interrogation and abuse.

But this is also the fastest way to infiltrate the World Government.

"Since the World Government can accept talents from the previous three worlds, there's no reason why Esdeath and I should be rejected!"

Thinking of this, Melard forced his weary body to stand up.

She was determined to ensure that both she and Esdeath survived!

At the same time.

On the Imperial side, the force consisted of 50,000 troops, commanded by Army Lieutenant General Nahashu and with Army Lieutenant General Izo as his deputy.

They arrived at the northern border a few days ago and then camped in a fortress town not far from Barudas Town.

This fortress was originally built by the empire a century ago to conquer the Randel people in the north, and has been abandoned ever since.

However, because it was built with large blocks of stone, it still retains its overall functionality.

All that's needed now is for someone to remove the weeds and do some cleaning.

Nahashu used this fortress as his command center, deploying his entire army of 50,000 to confront the main battle division led by Vice Admiral Onigumo and his 10,000 Auxiliary Corps.

The two sides have recently begun small-scale, probing skirmishes.

"Didn't they say that the enemy soldiers all fight with swords?"

Nahashu stood atop the city wall, using a simple monocular telescope to observe the distant battlefield, and asked in bewilderment.

At this time.

Both sides' troops were using their makeshift trenches to fire at each other with their automatic rifles or machine guns, while the air was filled with whistling artillery shells, creating Huoguang of explosions on both sides' positions.

Besides.

A small number of black, heavily armored tanks also began to enter the fray, but they were quickly intercepted by a group of enormous, crab-like Danger Beasts.

They are a species called 'Rosikansa', a Class I Danger Beasts originating from the East Blue.

Because its carapace is as strong as steel, its two claws can cut through metal and crush stone, and it can also spit out strong acid bubbles, it is valued by the Imperial Army and is often used to carry out assault missions.

For hundreds of years.

On the western battlefield against the Alchemi Kingdom, they slaughtered countless enemy heavy cavalry legions and shielded their own soldiers from countless attacks by Alchemists.

Now.

They once again engaged in a fierce battle with these 'steel monsters' from Otherworld worlds on this northern land.

[Boom! Boom! Boom!]

The tank's cannons continuously spewed out scorching flames and glowing red-hot shells.

Some were hit squarely by a 'Giant Crab' and blasted into a bloody mess, while others were nimbly dodged by the opponent, only to be corroded by the strong acid bubbles as the opponent approached.

Or they could be forcibly separated and dismantled by the 'crab claws,' and the auxiliary soldiers from the 'Demon Slayer World' inside would naturally also be slaughtered.

Behind these 'Rosikansa' were some 'Flame Rabbit'.

Their fur comes in various colors—white, black, gray, Eight Gates —but they all share three common characteristics.

Its enormous size, agile movements, and burning rabbit ears and tail.

They cleverly used the 'Giant Crab' as 'shields', occasionally spitting out fireballs a meter in diameter at the trenches of heavy tanks or the Auxiliary Corps further behind.

These fireballs obviously have a longer range than the 'acid bubbles', but they are not very effective against heavy tanks; at least they cannot destroy them with a single shot.

However, its blast radius was much larger, and it burned many auxiliary soldiers to death.

"Vice Admiral, according to the latest intelligence from our Imperial Intelligence Corps, these troops wearing green uniforms and carrying firearms recently came to our world from that 'Star Gate,' and are presumably their second-line troops!"

An Army Colonel behind Nahashu quickly replied.

"Second-line troops?"

Nahashu turned and glanced at him speechlessly.

Their second-line troops are locked in a fierce battle with our own first-line troops. What's going on here?

"Heh, the second-line troops are equipped with a full set of firearms, but the front-line troops only fight with a knife? That's interesting. It's similar to my hometown. I really want to have a go with them soon."

Just then, Vice Admiral Izo, who was standing to the side, sneered, eager to try his luck.

This was a middle-aged swordsman who was about 1.8 meters tall, dressed like a Samurai, with black hair and black eyes, and had a twig of malt in his mouth that he had found from who-knows-where.

The most striking thing about him was the white-handled, white-sheathed Samurai hanging at his waist.

"And while we're at it, let's use the lives of these Otherworld beings to perform a blood sacrifice for this famous Famous Sword, 'Jiangxue'."

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