Book 9: Chapter 509: The Resolution of the Contradiction Between the Black and White Creation God Sisters and the Raging Bulwell Line of Defense
The Rebel Forces of Kalimans was located in the lower reaches of Claudine River at Gabriels City (Sword Capital) of the Gabriel Empire. While the rest of the Gabriel Empire’s major forces were still arguing about the allocations of resources, the Southern Alliance Army led by Bella had already arrived at Bulwell’s first line of defense and were all ready for battle.
Located only a few kilometers away from the imperial capital, Bulwell’s line of defense was the nearest to the battlefield. It was once the base camp to the troops that were led by not only Prince Daniel but also by Prince Glenard as well as Prince Burdis, who had all been defeated here. The Southern Alliance Army under Bella immediately transformed the abandoned military camp left by the three princes to be used as the Southern Alliance Army base camp.
Kriss and Dragon Knight General Olya went to tidy up the commander’s camp while Bella took two of the Creation Gods of Dimensions, who were only visible to her, to the temporary rest area to talk. This was the first time that the Creation God of the White Dimension Mary Lola had met with Mary Rose, the Creation God of the Darkness Dimension. Technically, they could be considered as sisters even though their attributes were of polar opposite.
The difference between them was like the bright and dark side, the epitome of the good and the evil. The pure Creation God of the White Dimension Mary Lola’s main ability was to create the things in nature while the Creation God of the Darkness Dimension Mary Rose could conjure up demons. Mary Rose herself was the product of a man-made experiment meant to imitate the power of a Demon God. Thousands of horrible experiments were done to create a synthesis that resembled the World Destructors and the Demon God.
Luckily, the experiment had ceased to continue due to the disappearance of a previous God of Creation. If it were to carry on, Mary Rose would be the first-ever Demon God created by a man, although this man-made Demon God was incomparable to an original Demon God.
Any regular God of Creation would not be able to create such a terrifying existence like Mary Rose. Only the previous Creation God of the Dimension would dare to carry out such taboo experiments. Mary Rose herself had no inkling to the purpose of the experiments to create an evil God of Creation. In fact, these experiments that the previous God of Creation had secretly made had no mention about the Creation God of the White Dimension Mary Lola.
It was thought that the experiment’s record had been destroyed as none of it could be found. Previously, Bella could only manage to find a file of the experiment with the title, “Evil Begins with Creation,” but its content was missing. However, this was enough to indicate the interest of the previous God of Creation’s passion in experimenting and exploring. Bella had a bold assumption that the God of Creation might be trying to explore the mysterious origin of the World Destructors.
Basically, the World Destructors were also a failed product of the God of Creation when he was creating the dimension. Ever since it was first created till the third generation of the World Destructor era, they were locked up in either the World Creator’s Camp or the Savior’s Camp. That particular period was called the era of the Old World Destructor. At that time, the Demon Gods were nearly beaten to extinction.
From then till the fourth generation of the World Destructor, which was the era of Samantha, Bella’s Sacred Demon God; the battle finally reversed due to the appearance of the Demon God Emperor of Demise. During that period, the newly formed Demon God and Evil Gods were referred to as the New World Destructor. Compared to the Old World Destructors, the New World Destructor had evolved to be almost immortal.
There had yet to be any clear information regarding the origin of the New World Destructor. It seemed that the former generation of God of Creation of Bella’s current dimension was trying to uncover the truth behind the birth of the New World Destructor, which had been kept a secret for a long time. Unfortunately, the report containing the result of his finding was lost.
“Mary Lola, as the elder sister, you have to gently guide and educate her if she is wrong. As for the release of the experimental entity, I will take responsibility for it.”
“Mistress Bella, it is not your responsibility. I don’t blame her anymore since it is your request.”
“Don’t worry about it. Mistress Bella and Sister Mary Lola, I will take on the responsibility to recover the experimental entity.”
Under Bella’s guidance, Mary Rose and Mary Lola managed to settle their differences and get along almost effortlessly. Besides, they did both agree on one thing, and that was the fact that the Creator was always right. Even Bella herself was lost when they suddenly recognized her as the new generation of Creators. Bella intended to someday enquire the reasons from the mother of all Dimensional Creators, Vianne, the Creator of Light.
As the strongest Dimensional Creator, Creator of Light, Vianne should know why she was the third-dimension Creator. Furthermore, the second-dimension Creator was still unknown as Vianne would know some of the secrets in the World Creator’s Camp.
For the first time, Bella glanced at the eyes of the Creation God of the White Dimension, Mary Lola. Her pupils were more beautiful than that of her sister Mary Rose whose eyes were like those of a destructor.
Mary Rose’s eyes had different colored pupils that were akin to an Evil God whose colors stay the same. However, Mary Lola’s pupils looked like the color of a rainbow, and at times and the colors seemed to reflect differently.
Mary Lola’s eyes color changed according to her mood. It wasn’t long before that her pupil was red because of her anger towards her sister, but once she had subsided due to Bella’s explanation, it changed into a calming blue hue.
Made by the previous generation of God of Creation, the Creation God of the White Dimension Mary Lola only had two different points that set her apart from them. The first being the fact that she did not have the enlightenment of the God of Creation, and the second was that she could not change her battle form of the God of Creation. Besides these two differences, all her other aspects were similar to that of a Dimension Creator.
The Creation God of the White Dimension Mary Lola was also unable to fight and mainly played an observer’s role. As for the time Bella intervened in the dimension, she was not restricted because both Mary Lola and Mary Rose had identified her as a Dimension Creator. It was an exclusive privilege of the Creator who created the dimension.
Bella calculated that both the sisters would be of use during her battle at the capital, so she arranged a temporary dwelling. No one else could see the God of Creation. Not even Kriss, a Renegade, could detect the guise of the God of Creation. As such, Bella did not have to be worried that other people would be shocked by the sudden appearance of the two beautiful girls.
After leaving the two sisters, Bella did not go straight to Kriss. Instead, she took a turn and went towards the hut that was temporarily used for the general. After Prince Daniel got defeated and retreated, the Southern Alliance Army took over the place and transformed it into a temporary residence.
The place was considerably small and adequately equipped, but it still would not reach the comfort level of a small hotel. Yet, it was definitely usable. By the time Bella stepped in, someone else was already waiting in the room.
Wendy, the beautiful Fire Mage with long red hair, was lying on the bed in the hut. Previously, Bella had brought her along to serve her in bed. Instead, as a maid that served her mistress’s urges, Wendy lied on the bed without so much as a string on her, ready for her master’s warm embrace. All her dignity as a Fire Mage was gone, reduced to atoms.
Aside from Wendy, who was on the bed, another beautiful loli girl was also in the room with them. Even at first glance, one could tell that she was not a human. With a gloriously long lavender mane tied into two ponytails and a pair of magically amber pupils, Hailey Layman was the lost Demon King and one of the Ancient Twelve Demon King. Bella was caught speechless as she saw her sitting on the table while gorging on the cake like a miserably starving refugee.
The lost Demon King Hailey Layman was the second strongest among the six female Demon Kings of the Ancient Twelve Demon Kings. There should be no reason why she would be reduced to such a miserable state. Even after noticing Bella’s presence, the loli simply looked up before continuing to stuff her mouth as if she were afraid that someone would take her cake away at any second.
“You should eat slowly. Didn’t you say that you were infected? A sick person shouldn’t eat as much.”
“Who was infected? I don’t remember. Seeing how we are both demons, return the cake to me!”
Bella stepped forward and tried to grab onto the plate in an attempt to tease the loli Demon King. Seeing her do so, the loli Demon King panicked and quickly protected the cake with her hands. Ever since her energy had been sucked by the Lava Giant, she had yet to recover her strength and could only retain the appearance of a little girl. Thus, she had to change her previous hostile attitude towards Bella.
Hailey Layman was indeed not infected because previously, test subject No. 1 had actually infected a male Demon King. Hailey Layman was wrongly implicated when she went to seek out the male Demon King who had acted without authorization. The Moon Demon King Gonias, who was later rescued by Bella, was supposed to rendezvous with the loli Demon King.
Hailey Layman was able to withstand the infection because she had attained a special defense spell capable of sealing her mind off from being controlled by others. Since subject No. 1 wasn’t able to control her, she was kept locked up in an iron cage above the Lava Giant and was used as his energy supply core.
At the same time, two of the beautiful Sword God twins, Cahlia and Calman were also imprisoned in the iron cage with her. Luckily for them, they were within the defense range of her spiritual barrier; hence, they could also avoid the infection. Bella had brought her along to the frontline in hopes that her spell that could repeal the pollution of energy might be of use later in the battle.
“I can return the cake to you, with the condition that if I ever need your help in the future, you won’t refuse me. Otherwise, the cake will be gone!”
“Fine, I promise. But Bella, isn’t your fetish a little strange? I have never met a Demon King who likes harassing human girls. Even the male Demon King had no interest in them!”
“It’s simply because you have very little experience. The female Demon King that is standing in front of you is indeed a very unique one.”
Putting down the cake, Bella walked over to the bed and picked up Wendy as she caressed her. Wendy’s face was flushed red, while her body had already adapted to Bella’s touch. Even if her heart was unwilling, her body had learned to instinctively respond to Bella’s caresses. It didn’t take long before Wendy started to breathe heavily as her body reacted to the bullying.
Bella’s hands massaged the heavy peaks of Wendy’s bosom, kneading it in various angles while Wendy’s hands were bound behind her back with a red rope. Since she had no other means to stop Bella’s attack on her chest, she had no other choice but to let Bella play with her at will.
“Bella, don’t do this. I don’t want to…”
“Wendy, your body is already longing for it. How could you still deny me?”
The Lost Demon King Hailey Layman couldn’t bring herself to watch as Bella continued to bully Wendy, so she kept her head lowered and concentrated on eating the cakes before her. She was indeed afraid that Bella would target her once she was done bullying the beautiful red-haired girl. Fortunately, Bella was only interested in Wendy and did not attack the Loli Demon for the time being.
After she was bullied several times, Wendy started to become weak when they were suddenly intruded on by the sound of siren, notifying them of the attack by the enemies at the barracks. As the commander of the Army, Bella quickly got up to inspect the battlefront. As long as Wendy stayed here, Bella would be able to enjoy her at any time.
Bulwell’s line of defense had strengthened under the command of the Southern Alliance Army. On the outskirts of the army’s barracks, they had dug up nine trenches around the camp that acted as a barrier, and soldiers equipped with firearms were stationed in each trench.
The firearms used by them were Matchlocks and Muskets. These guns should suffice against an army without magicians, but if they were to go against a unit with magicians, their capability would be compromised. Since these firearms were rather convenient and easy to use, the soldiers didn’t have to train long to master them. Many other countries had been importing the arquebus and musket guns from the Sarnia Dutchy to protect their own country.
The other countries couldn’t imitate the production of these firearms. Furthermore, even if they managed to imitate the production, the development process of gunpowder was a secret kept by the Sarnia Dutchy. Bella was not afraid that the country’s firearms would affect her because she was the sole provider of ammunition. As such, even when the gunpowder was specially produced by the Sarnia Dutchy, Bella controlled the ammunition to the other countries. Hence, none could rebel against her.
Moreover, the Sarnia Dutchy did not sell the more powerful artillery and various airships to the other countries. All the other countries could only manage to get the basic firearms.
When Bella reached the front line of the defense zone, she looked to the gate of Gabriels City (Sword Capital), which was located not far from there. The city gate was already wide opened, and a group of infected people staggered out of the gate, walking like corpses. Swarming out of the gate like a wave of zombies out of a doomsday movie, they managed to approach the trenches on the outermost edge of the Bulwell’s line of defense.
Aside from the blood-red colored pupils of the eyes of the infected, there also seemed to be a looming red magic shadow that was operating behind them. Besides that, they looked almost the same as an average person with no signs of turning into a zombie.
Facing the influx of the infected people, the soldiers in the trenches started to fire at them. The intense sound from the muskets resonated throughout the trench as the three outer trenches were filled with gunpowder smoke. The smoke from the firearms was very thick, not much different from the trenches of modern warfare.
The progress of the infected people had indeed been greatly delayed, but the physical strength of these infected people was beyond imagination. When they were hit by the firearms, they would only pause for a while as their bodies were being penetrated. In fact, many of the infected people were already filled with arrows that were used by the army of the several princes who had fought and been defeated by the infected people.
“Grand Duchess Bellina, the infected people aren’t retreating. Do you want to use heavy artillery and airships?”
Several generals from the Allied Southern Alliance Army gathered around them and asked for Bella’s permission to use the heavy artillery. Based on the current situation, if they did not use the heavy artillery, the infected people would soon penetrate the area where the trenches were located. Once they were at a close distance, the combat power of the armies would dwindle. Now, the final permission for the use of the heavy artillery lay in the hands of Bella.
Like Olya, Kriss was also alarmed by the bell and headed over to the trench. Olya had a curious expression as she looked at interest at the firearms used by the Southern Alliance Army. Previously, she had heard that the Sarnia Dutchy has been exporting firearms to the rest of the countries in the south on a large scale and had been taking in a huge profit from the trade.
On the other hand, Kriss looked a bit hesitant. She was unsure whether she should fire the cannons at the infected people because they were once the citizens of her own empire, after all. Once they opened fire, the force of the canon would shatter them, leaving no limbs intact. Bella looked over to Kriss with questioning eyes as if she was asking for her opinion.
Bella deliberately tested Kriss’ will and determination by handing her such a difficult decision. If it were up to her, she wouldn’t hesitate to command the use of the canon on the infected.
“Kriss, it’s up to you. No matter your choice, I will support you.”
“Bella, it is hard for me to decide. They were once the citizens of the empire, but now we have to… open fire. On the other hand, we cannot afford to lose our line of defense.”
Still, Kriss didn’t hesitate for long. After making up her mind, with sheer determination, she chose to use the canon. With Bella’s permission, the Southern Alliance army quickly set up the back trenches with canons and fired mercilessly at the swarm of infected people.
Of course, the firepower of the heavy artillery was far superior to that of an ordinary musket. The area outside of the city was blown up by the artillery, as they could finally suppress the infected people that were previously rushing forward. Even the outermost trenches that were about to be breached by the infected people could temporarily hold on with the artillery’s support.
The infected people who were attacking them were regular residents with no fighting skills before they were infected. It would be harder to tackle them even with the use of heavy artillery if they were previously equipped with fighting skills. If they were to be going against the Sword Gods of the Hilikas Family, the Sword Gods would have easily broken through the defense and, just as easily, could penetrate the nine trenches at the first line of defense of Bulwell.
After the smoke from the artilleries had slightly dissipated, they had a clearer view of the situation outside the city gate. The artillery had managed to push back the infected people. When the land was rained by the firepower of the cannon, no broken limbs were found lying around, unlike what Bella had expected. While the artillery did manage to hold off the infected people, it did not manage to kill any of them. As no blood was found at the scene, they weren’t even sure if the firepower had managed to injure the infected people.
“It’s troublesome that they were not blown up. Keep your guard up and shoot when the mob starts to come out of the gate. Don’t be afraid to waste the ammunition.”
After Bella ordered the soldiers in the trenches to strengthen their guard, she went back to discuss the countermeasures with Kriss. If the artillery were useless against the infected people, they would have to change their attacking method.
Apparently, the Southern Alliance Army that was stationed at Bulwell wasn’t the only one that was attacked. The infected people had also quietly been sent to the other three directions where the three princes’ troops were situated. However, they weren’t as lucky as Bella’s army.
Book 9: Chapter 509: The Resolution of the Contradiction Between the Black and White Creation God Sisters and the Raging Bulwell Line of Defense
The Rebel Forces of Kalimans was located in the lower reaches of Claudine River at Gabriels City (Sword Capital) of the Gabriel Empire. While the rest of the Gabriel Empire’s major forces were still arguing about the allocations of resources, the Southern Alliance Army led by Bella had already arrived at Bulwell’s first line of defense and were all ready for battle.
Located only a few kilometers away from the imperial capital, Bulwell’s line of defense was the nearest to the battlefield. It was once the base camp to the troops that were led by not only Prince Daniel but also by Prince Glenard as well as Prince Burdis, who had all been defeated here. The Southern Alliance Army under Bella immediately transformed the abandoned military camp left by the three princes to be used as the Southern Alliance Army base camp.
Kriss and Dragon Knight General Olya went to tidy up the commander’s camp while Bella took two of the Creation Gods of Dimensions, who were only visible to her, to the temporary rest area to talk. This was the first time that the Creation God of the White Dimension Mary Lola had met with Mary Rose, the Creation God of the Darkness Dimension. Technically, they could be considered as sisters even though their attributes were of polar opposite.
The difference between them was like the bright and dark side, the epitome of the good and the evil. The pure Creation God of the White Dimension Mary Lola’s main ability was to create the things in nature while the Creation God of the Darkness Dimension Mary Rose could conjure up demons. Mary Rose herself was the product of a man-made experiment meant to imitate the power of a Demon God. Thousands of horrible experiments were done to create a synthesis that resembled the World Destructors and the Demon God.
Luckily, the experiment had ceased to continue due to the disappearance of a previous God of Creation. If it were to carry on, Mary Rose would be the first-ever Demon God created by a man, although this man-made Demon God was incomparable to an original Demon God.
Any regular God of Creation would not be able to create such a terrifying existence like Mary Rose. Only the previous Creation God of the Dimension would dare to carry out such taboo experiments. Mary Rose herself had no inkling to the purpose of the experiments to create an evil God of Creation. In fact, these experiments that the previous God of Creation had secretly made had no mention about the Creation God of the White Dimension Mary Lola.
It was thought that the experiment’s record had been destroyed as none of it could be found. Previously, Bella could only manage to find a file of the experiment with the title, “Evil Begins with Creation,” but its content was missing. However, this was enough to indicate the interest of the previous God of Creation’s passion in experimenting and exploring. Bella had a bold assumption that the God of Creation might be trying to explore the mysterious origin of the World Destructors.
Basically, the World Destructors were also a failed product of the God of Creation when he was creating the dimension. Ever since it was first created till the third generation of the World Destructor era, they were locked up in either the World Creator’s Camp or the Savior’s Camp. That particular period was called the era of the Old World Destructor. At that time, the Demon Gods were nearly beaten to extinction.
From then till the fourth generation of the World Destructor, which was the era of Samantha, Bella’s Sacred Demon God; the battle finally reversed due to the appearance of the Demon God Emperor of Demise. During that period, the newly formed Demon God and Evil Gods were referred to as the New World Destructor. Compared to the Old World Destructors, the New World Destructor had evolved to be almost immortal.
There had yet to be any clear information regarding the origin of the New World Destructor. It seemed that the former generation of God of Creation of Bella’s current dimension was trying to uncover the truth behind the birth of the New World Destructor, which had been kept a secret for a long time. Unfortunately, the report containing the result of his finding was lost.
“Mary Lola, as the elder sister, you have to gently guide and educate her if she is wrong. As for the release of the experimental entity, I will take responsibility for it.”
“Mistress Bella, it is not your responsibility. I don’t blame her anymore since it is your request.”
“Don’t worry about it. Mistress Bella and Sister Mary Lola, I will take on the responsibility to recover the experimental entity.”
Under Bella’s guidance, Mary Rose and Mary Lola managed to settle their differences and get along almost effortlessly. Besides, they did both agree on one thing, and that was the fact that the Creator was always right. Even Bella herself was lost when they suddenly recognized her as the new generation of Creators. Bella intended to someday enquire the reasons from the mother of all Dimensional Creators, Vianne, the Creator of Light.
As the strongest Dimensional Creator, Creator of Light, Vianne should know why she was the third-dimension Creator. Furthermore, the second-dimension Creator was still unknown as Vianne would know some of the secrets in the World Creator’s Camp.
For the first time, Bella glanced at the eyes of the Creation God of the White Dimension, Mary Lola. Her pupils were more beautiful than that of her sister Mary Rose whose eyes were like those of a destructor.
Mary Rose’s eyes had different colored pupils that were akin to an Evil God whose colors stay the same. However, Mary Lola’s pupils looked like the color of a rainbow, and at times and the colors seemed to reflect differently.
Mary Lola’s eyes color changed according to her mood. It wasn’t long before that her pupil was red because of her anger towards her sister, but once she had subsided due to Bella’s explanation, it changed into a calming blue hue.
Made by the previous generation of God of Creation, the Creation God of the White Dimension Mary Lola only had two different points that set her apart from them. The first being the fact that she did not have the enlightenment of the God of Creation, and the second was that she could not change her battle form of the God of Creation. Besides these two differences, all her other aspects were similar to that of a Dimension Creator.
The Creation God of the White Dimension Mary Lola was also unable to fight and mainly played an observer’s role. As for the time Bella intervened in the dimension, she was not restricted because both Mary Lola and Mary Rose had identified her as a Dimension Creator. It was an exclusive privilege of the Creator who created the dimension.
Bella calculated that both the sisters would be of use during her battle at the capital, so she arranged a temporary dwelling. No one else could see the God of Creation. Not even Kriss, a Renegade, could detect the guise of the God of Creation. As such, Bella did not have to be worried that other people would be shocked by the sudden appearance of the two beautiful girls.
After leaving the two sisters, Bella did not go straight to Kriss. Instead, she took a turn and went towards the hut that was temporarily used for the general. After Prince Daniel got defeated and retreated, the Southern Alliance Army took over the place and transformed it into a temporary residence.
The place was considerably small and adequately equipped, but it still would not reach the comfort level of a small hotel. Yet, it was definitely usable. By the time Bella stepped in, someone else was already waiting in the room.
Wendy, the beautiful Fire Mage with long red hair, was lying on the bed in the hut. Previously, Bella had brought her along to serve her in bed. Instead, as a maid that served her mistress’s urges, Wendy lied on the bed without so much as a string on her, ready for her master’s warm embrace. All her dignity as a Fire Mage was gone, reduced to atoms.
Aside from Wendy, who was on the bed, another beautiful loli girl was also in the room with them. Even at first glance, one could tell that she was not a human. With a gloriously long lavender mane tied into two ponytails and a pair of magically amber pupils, Hailey Layman was the lost Demon King and one of the Ancient Twelve Demon King. Bella was caught speechless as she saw her sitting on the table while gorging on the cake like a miserably starving refugee.
The lost Demon King Hailey Layman was the second strongest among the six female Demon Kings of the Ancient Twelve Demon Kings. There should be no reason why she would be reduced to such a miserable state. Even after noticing Bella’s presence, the loli simply looked up before continuing to stuff her mouth as if she were afraid that someone would take her cake away at any second.
“You should eat slowly. Didn’t you say that you were infected? A sick person shouldn’t eat as much.”
“Who was infected? I don’t remember. Seeing how we are both demons, return the cake to me!”
Bella stepped forward and tried to grab onto the plate in an attempt to tease the loli Demon King. Seeing her do so, the loli Demon King panicked and quickly protected the cake with her hands. Ever since her energy had been sucked by the Lava Giant, she had yet to recover her strength and could only retain the appearance of a little girl. Thus, she had to change her previous hostile attitude towards Bella.
Hailey Layman was indeed not infected because previously, test subject No. 1 had actually infected a male Demon King. Hailey Layman was wrongly implicated when she went to seek out the male Demon King who had acted without authorization. The Moon Demon King Gonias, who was later rescued by Bella, was supposed to rendezvous with the loli Demon King.
Hailey Layman was able to withstand the infection because she had attained a special defense spell capable of sealing her mind off from being controlled by others. Since subject No. 1 wasn’t able to control her, she was kept locked up in an iron cage above the Lava Giant and was used as his energy supply core.
At the same time, two of the beautiful Sword God twins, Cahlia and Calman were also imprisoned in the iron cage with her. Luckily for them, they were within the defense range of her spiritual barrier; hence, they could also avoid the infection. Bella had brought her along to the frontline in hopes that her spell that could repeal the pollution of energy might be of use later in the battle.
“I can return the cake to you, with the condition that if I ever need your help in the future, you won’t refuse me. Otherwise, the cake will be gone!”
“Fine, I promise. But Bella, isn’t your fetish a little strange? I have never met a Demon King who likes harassing human girls. Even the male Demon King had no interest in them!”
“It’s simply because you have very little experience. The female Demon King that is standing in front of you is indeed a very unique one.”
Putting down the cake, Bella walked over to the bed and picked up Wendy as she caressed her. Wendy’s face was flushed red, while her body had already adapted to Bella’s touch. Even if her heart was unwilling, her body had learned to instinctively respond to Bella’s caresses. It didn’t take long before Wendy started to breathe heavily as her body reacted to the bullying.
Bella’s hands massaged the heavy peaks of Wendy’s bosom, kneading it in various angles while Wendy’s hands were bound behind her back with a red rope. Since she had no other means to stop Bella’s attack on her chest, she had no other choice but to let Bella play with her at will.
“Bella, don’t do this. I don’t want to…”
“Wendy, your body is already longing for it. How could you still deny me?”
The Lost Demon King Hailey Layman couldn’t bring herself to watch as Bella continued to bully Wendy, so she kept her head lowered and concentrated on eating the cakes before her. She was indeed afraid that Bella would target her once she was done bullying the beautiful red-haired girl. Fortunately, Bella was only interested in Wendy and did not attack the Loli Demon for the time being.
After she was bullied several times, Wendy started to become weak when they were suddenly intruded on by the sound of siren, notifying them of the attack by the enemies at the barracks. As the commander of the Army, Bella quickly got up to inspect the battlefront. As long as Wendy stayed here, Bella would be able to enjoy her at any time.
Bulwell’s line of defense had strengthened under the command of the Southern Alliance Army. On the outskirts of the army’s barracks, they had dug up nine trenches around the camp that acted as a barrier, and soldiers equipped with firearms were stationed in each trench.
The firearms used by them were Matchlocks and Muskets. These guns should suffice against an army without magicians, but if they were to go against a unit with magicians, their capability would be compromised. Since these firearms were rather convenient and easy to use, the soldiers didn’t have to train long to master them. Many other countries had been importing the arquebus and musket guns from the Sarnia Dutchy to protect their own country.
The other countries couldn’t imitate the production of these firearms. Furthermore, even if they managed to imitate the production, the development process of gunpowder was a secret kept by the Sarnia Dutchy. Bella was not afraid that the country’s firearms would affect her because she was the sole provider of ammunition. As such, even when the gunpowder was specially produced by the Sarnia Dutchy, Bella controlled the ammunition to the other countries. Hence, none could rebel against her.
Moreover, the Sarnia Dutchy did not sell the more powerful artillery and various airships to the other countries. All the other countries could only manage to get the basic firearms.
When Bella reached the front line of the defense zone, she looked to the gate of Gabriels City (Sword Capital), which was located not far from there. The city gate was already wide opened, and a group of infected people staggered out of the gate, walking like corpses. Swarming out of the gate like a wave of zombies out of a doomsday movie, they managed to approach the trenches on the outermost edge of the Bulwell’s line of defense.
Aside from the blood-red colored pupils of the eyes of the infected, there also seemed to be a looming red magic shadow that was operating behind them. Besides that, they looked almost the same as an average person with no signs of turning into a zombie.
Facing the influx of the infected people, the soldiers in the trenches started to fire at them. The intense sound from the muskets resonated throughout the trench as the three outer trenches were filled with gunpowder smoke. The smoke from the firearms was very thick, not much different from the trenches of modern warfare.
The progress of the infected people had indeed been greatly delayed, but the physical strength of these infected people was beyond imagination. When they were hit by the firearms, they would only pause for a while as their bodies were being penetrated. In fact, many of the infected people were already filled with arrows that were used by the army of the several princes who had fought and been defeated by the infected people.
“Grand Duchess Bellina, the infected people aren’t retreating. Do you want to use heavy artillery and airships?”
Several generals from the Allied Southern Alliance Army gathered around them and asked for Bella’s permission to use the heavy artillery. Based on the current situation, if they did not use the heavy artillery, the infected people would soon penetrate the area where the trenches were located. Once they were at a close distance, the combat power of the armies would dwindle. Now, the final permission for the use of the heavy artillery lay in the hands of Bella.
Like Olya, Kriss was also alarmed by the bell and headed over to the trench. Olya had a curious expression as she looked at interest at the firearms used by the Southern Alliance Army. Previously, she had heard that the Sarnia Dutchy has been exporting firearms to the rest of the countries in the south on a large scale and had been taking in a huge profit from the trade.
On the other hand, Kriss looked a bit hesitant. She was unsure whether she should fire the cannons at the infected people because they were once the citizens of her own empire, after all. Once they opened fire, the force of the canon would shatter them, leaving no limbs intact. Bella looked over to Kriss with questioning eyes as if she was asking for her opinion.
Bella deliberately tested Kriss’ will and determination by handing her such a difficult decision. If it were up to her, she wouldn’t hesitate to command the use of the canon on the infected.
“Kriss, it’s up to you. No matter your choice, I will support you.”
“Bella, it is hard for me to decide. They were once the citizens of the empire, but now we have to… open fire. On the other hand, we cannot afford to lose our line of defense.”
Still, Kriss didn’t hesitate for long. After making up her mind, with sheer determination, she chose to use the canon. With Bella’s permission, the Southern Alliance army quickly set up the back trenches with canons and fired mercilessly at the swarm of infected people.
Of course, the firepower of the heavy artillery was far superior to that of an ordinary musket. The area outside of the city was blown up by the artillery, as they could finally suppress the infected people that were previously rushing forward. Even the outermost trenches that were about to be breached by the infected people could temporarily hold on with the artillery’s support.
The infected people who were attacking them were regular residents with no fighting skills before they were infected. It would be harder to tackle them even with the use of heavy artillery if they were previously equipped with fighting skills. If they were to be going against the Sword Gods of the Hilikas Family, the Sword Gods would have easily broken through the defense and, just as easily, could penetrate the nine trenches at the first line of defense of Bulwell.
After the smoke from the artilleries had slightly dissipated, they had a clearer view of the situation outside the city gate. The artillery had managed to push back the infected people. When the land was rained by the firepower of the cannon, no broken limbs were found lying around, unlike what Bella had expected. While the artillery did manage to hold off the infected people, it did not manage to kill any of them. As no blood was found at the scene, they weren’t even sure if the firepower had managed to injure the infected people.
“It’s troublesome that they were not blown up. Keep your guard up and shoot when the mob starts to come out of the gate. Don’t be afraid to waste the ammunition.”
After Bella ordered the soldiers in the trenches to strengthen their guard, she went back to discuss the countermeasures with Kriss. If the artillery were useless against the infected people, they would have to change their attacking method.
Apparently, the Southern Alliance Army that was stationed at Bulwell wasn’t the only one that was attacked. The infected people had also quietly been sent to the other three directions where the three princes’ troops were situated. However, they weren’t as lucky as Bella’s army.