Berserk: The Prophet

Perhaps it had been a long time since he had slept so peacefully, for when Fethus awoke it was already noon. Because preparations for the expedition had been made early, the army had eaten lunch very early, and by this time they had begun to leave Pence's castle, with the vanguard already reaching the town.

Oh no! He hadn't even had a proper goodbye to Ryan; he'd overslept. Fertnas couldn't help but complain to himself. He hurriedly tried to get dressed, only to realize he was still in Ryan's room. Looking outside the castle, he saw they had already set off!

Fertenas didn't even have time to put on her shoes properly; she ran out in her pajamas like a gust of wind.

"Huh? Young Master Fetnas!!"

The maid in the castle gasped. She had never seen the young master run like this before, without even wearing shoes. He would never run out like this in such an unseemly manner.

.........

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

The feeling of walking barefoot on the crisp grass and sharp stones was something he had never experienced before. It was too late, but he still wanted to see him one more time. Going to fight those guys from the Serpent Cult was too dangerous, wasn't it? Fetnas ran up the city wall at the edge of the castle. The soldiers guarding the wall almost didn't recognize that the child was their young master.

"...Uh, young master?"

Fetnas bypassed them and ran up the stone steps to the city wall. A white blur emerged from the bushes beside him, following closely behind Fetnas's slender steps as he ran up the city wall.

"Eh!? Young Master Fetnas, be careful not to catch a cold." The guard followed after him with great concern, after all, every citizen of Pence knew that Fetnas was in poor health.

"Ha ha"

When Fetnas climbed the nearly forty-meter-high city wall, the vanguard of the army had already left the city. Even the most dazzling Trunks was just a tiny dot. The citizens of the town were watching their hero go. Fetnas's eyes were fixed on the vanguard. If his brother was there, Ryan would surely come back safely.

"Meow~"

La Vegas leaped onto the edge of the city wall, glanced at the departing troops, and called out softly, silently keeping Fetnas company as he stared blankly at the army for a long time.

"Phew, Ryan will definitely come back safely, right? La Vegas, you must be hoping so too, right?"

La Vegas's meow gently brought Fetnas back to his senses. The midday sun, accompanied by a light breeze, was still a bit chilly. Fetnas chuckled and ruffled La Vegas's fluffy little head, then hugged the cat and rubbed against it, as if talking to himself. But having the cat in his heart brought him some comfort as he watched the army depart.

Seeing Fettnas's gaze, La Vegas's heterochromatic pupils flashed with a strange light as he looked towards the distant team, then nestled comfortably in Fettnas's arms and began to snore.

.........

The totem on his chest seemed to warm slightly, and Green felt a strange emotion, but it vanished in an instant. Was it longing? How could he have such an emotion? He must be imagining things.

Green touched his chest, which was now covered in heavy full plate armor, and looked back at the towering city of Pence, where the statue of the Dragon of Justice still stood prominently atop the castle.

"What's wrong, boss? Did you forget something?"

It was Akasha who said this. Ever since Sanna's accident, Ali had become silent, only knowing how to practice swordsmanship day and night. The system panel had already shown that Ali had been upgraded to the highest Pendor infantry attribute - Pendor Vanguard Swordsman.

Ali's current attributes make him perfectly capable of leading a team of ten without any pressure. Several missions he received from the town mayor were completed by Ali and himself.

"It's nothing, I just haven't been to other places in a long time."

Green withdrew his gaze from the castle and looked ahead, leading his squad to keep up with Trunks.

.........

[Entered march mode and will follow Trunks' marching speed on the world map to avoid enemy attacks. Expected automatic marching time: half a month...]

[Linked to the Berserk world, mental strength 150/390, please take a break.]

He opened his sleepy eyes again, and the sounds of battle cries from outside the city were incessant. The Judas hadn't had a moment's peace this spring. Seeing that the inside help was no longer effective, they launched a direct assault. This was the first time Green had witnessed countless noisy dawns.

"Move the logs, heat the oil! Quickly!!"

"Damn those Qiu Daren, they've started attacking the city again."

Midland's soldiers were scrambling to move equipment to resist the attack. More than a dozen catapults on the arrow towers had already been destroyed and repaired the night before. The rumbling sounds outside the walls meant that the Judas' catapults and siege towers used to transport soldiers had slowly started up. After witnessing the power of the asphalt and boiling oil at the city gate, the Judas had given up on making battering rams and were now focusing their attack on the city walls.

"Bang!" "Bang!"

The massive outer city wall trembled slightly from the hurled stones, and the ground shook as well. The sound indicated that siege ladders had been placed atop the outer city wall.

The city walls on all three sides were surrounded by the Judas. The knights were on standby inside the city. Some of the knights from the Tumel and Aklo knight orders had already gone to the city walls to provide support. The heavily armored foot swordsmen were taking turns slaughtering on the city walls, and the heavy plate armor was really testing their physical strength.

Green mounted his horse and followed behind the White Dragon Knights, observing the situation. He was glad he hadn't fought on the city wall, as the huge falling rocks could have knocked people off the wall at any time.

Because all three city gates were surrounded by Juda's soldiers, it was unlikely that they could break out at this time. However, the Erda Fortress was backed by the Leizer River, so even if it was completely surrounded, there was no need to worry about supplies.

The moat outside the city was filled in yesterday by Midland refugees that Juda had captured from the surrounding area. According to reports from scouts of Laban and Lord Shet, Juda has deployed at least 100,000 troops this time, and the Midland reinforcements are also departing from the royal capital, Windam, led by His Majesty the King himself, with the White Tiger Knights responsible for protecting the King's safety.

"Bang!!" "Rumble!"

As the catapult repeatedly hurled boulders dozens of times, the solid wall, now riddled with craters, finally began to tremble violently.

"The wall is going to collapse!! Run!"

"Whoa, run!!!"

The soldiers standing on the city wall, disregarding their own fighting, could only rely on their instinct for survival to run wildly towards the two sides of the collapsing city wall.

"Boom! Boom!!!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"

With a section of the city wall collapsing with a deafening roar, countless soldiers who hadn't had time to escape, along with the wall itself which had shattered into giant stones, fell into the abyss-like pile of rubble below. Their terrified cries were followed by their disappearance into the swirling dust along with the city wall.