Grim put his sword on his shoulder and said with curiosity:
"So you're the generals of the Grand Generals? Just the weakest."
The other three were like Grand General Ronin but they wore Samurai armor of three different colors and carried many special weapons. They exuded a serious and dangerous aura. One guy said:
"We'll fight you, Grand General Owl Hayuki said you shouldn't be underestimated. But maybe he's wrong."
Grim grumbled:
"So what? What do you know?"
The three samurai took out their weapons. The yellow samurai carried a Naginata, the blue samurai carried dual katanas, the red samurai carried a Nodachi. Grim said arrogantly:
"Hmm, the weapon looks weird. But I don't care."
Grim and the three samurai rushed forward and fought each other. Returning to Elastor, he faced off against three big barbarian warriors. They carried heavy weapons, one in left shoulder armor with a long ax, a topless guy with two axes and one in heavy armor with a greatsword and a warhammer. They all tattooed animal symbols and runes into their billowing muscles. Elastor said:
"I know who you are, generals of the Kraton Empire, underlings of the Grand Generals."
The topless guy replied:
"Hmm, you know us too? It's an honor."
Elastor said:
"Seems a bit boring, I was hoping for more."
The man in the heavy spear replied angrily:
"Just us is enough to kill you. The might of the Grand General Bahamat Weham will bless us on the battlefield."
Elastor held out his middle finger to them and said:
"Then I would very much like to know your names so that I can engrave your graves."
The guy in the heavy armor was furious, he said:
"We are the three Mountainking brothers. I am the eldest brother, Jhan, the other topless is my brother Bjon and the youngest Erin. And the one who must die is you you brat."
They rushed to attack Elastor. Elastor gave a cunning smile and replied:
"And I am the Elastor Magnum. And I say get your master out now!"
Elastor launched a bolt of lightning at them and began the battle. Julia met three marksmen, two men and one woman, who shot all the soldiers around. Julia thought to herself:
"All the soldiers were killed by a bullet through the head. It was terrible."
Her enemies were wearing cowboy costumes and The Cattleman hats, they had new guns and were stronger than muskets. Female marksmen said:
"You're one of those ladies Zilan Zihetich mentioned. Then you're our new prey."
They pointed their guns at Julia, she quickly raised her hand and said:
"Woah, woah. Shouldn't we introduce the first as well. I'm Julia Manester, and what's your name?"
The female marksman put her gun with the structure of a Winchester on her shoulder and said:
"We're the best marksmen in the empire. I'm captain Rosanna, my lieutenant Billy uses that shotgun and John uses dual revolvers."
Julia nodded in understanding and replied:
"Then let's start the match."
She put on Armory Vines armor and continued:
"I'm not a good shooter so I have to use darts."
Rosanna pointed her gun at Julia and replied:
"And we've never missed a bullet."
The battle had begun, the marksmen split into three directions and opened fire all around and Julia rushed in the middle. Lamalia faced three female knights in heavy armor, each holding a sword in one hand and a handcannon in the other. Lamalia said:
"Looks like you girls are pretty strong too. I can feel it."
The female knight in the middle said arrogantly:
"Looks like you know where you are, don't you?"
Lamalia replied with anger:
"No, I don't know."
Lamalia threw an earth fist into the rampart and sent the three of them to the ground. Lamalia said arrogantly:
"But your position is not to look up at me."
The three of them got angry and pointed the handcannons at Lamalia, they said:
"In the name of the power of Grand General Jean Johanna, we will destroy you from arrogance and flesh."
Lamalia rushed to the front of the enemy's gun and replied:
"And in the name of the Sandx queen's power, oh that's me too. Get the hell back to that damn empire!"
Lamalia started a more fierce fight. Alata met three men in black cloaks all around him. He raised his spear in preparation for a fight and said with caution:
"Who are you? I know the Grand Generals have three generals under their command so you could be them."
One of them spoke calmly as if he had no intention of attacking:
"No, we are not generals. We have come to mark the position for Grand General Onias Elan. He has left a riddle for you.
"I am near where the sun is shining
Scenery with mountains and forests
The weather is so cool
Ask where I am?"
Now if you'll excuse us, we'll be leaving now."
Immediately the three cloaked men moved like shadows and flew out of the battlefield into Sandx city. Alata hurried after them and said hastily:
"Hey, wait, I don't know what your intentions are but you can't run away from me."
Alata flew fast to chase after them. Belle looked at the alchemists surrounding her. They had one or more mechanical body parts and robotic arms on their backs. One person said:
"Ordinary magic? It's outdated, now machine magic is the most powerful weapon."
Eva replied:
"Is that so? But how can machines stand up to ancient magic?"
The person earlier said:
"You really don't understand anything."
The three of them took out a device on their back like a huge battery and placed it on the ground, they opened up the stabilizing legs that held it firmly on the ground. The batteries then released the power lines creating a wall of electricity around Belle. She test fired a fireball into the air but the wall's electricity released and absorbed it. She then launched a fireball at the battery, but the current absorbed it as well. Belle said:
"Well, this is new."
The person before replied arrogantly:
"You won't be able to use magic against the technology of Grand General Xanuguis Emont."
Belle was trapped in the electric wall and had to find a way to get out. Two other generals went up towards Exos. Exos summoned the Moon halberd and calmly said:
"So, we meet again. Urgan and Eron"
The other two stopped, they were Urgan, the general using the trident, and Eron, the general using a black spear. Urgan said:
"Exos, it's been ten years since we met again. All this time, have you been here to fight alongside the enemies of the empire?"
Exos replied:
"That's right, I'm no longer serving the empire. So, what does he want to tell me?"
Urgan said:
"Grand General Rhohan Restruction has been very disappointed with you, you were once his right-hand man and have now betrayed. Your death will soon come. And along with this continent you are defending."
Exos replied:
"The Highland Continent is the first place to feel peace, not an industrial city where workers live in oppression. Here the fate of people is their own choice."
Eron said:
'A man's fate can only be determined by the emperor. If everyone had a choice, who would choose the most dangerous things? The balance between the strong and the weak always needs to be balanced."
Exos replied:
"We were once comrades, but that doesn't mean I'll be lenient."
Urgan and Eron picked up their weapons and rushed to attack Exos, he just stood there waiting for the enemy to approach. Urgan and Eron stabbed Exos at the same time but he immediately blocked their trident and spearhead. Urgan and Eron pushed Exos back but he pushed back to hold them back. Exos immediately slashed down to separate the two. Then he immediately slowed down time. Exos slashed at Eron quickly and sliced him in half. Exos then looked over at Urgan and slashed him in the chest. Time flowed back to normal, Eron's corpse fell to the ground and Exos lay on the ground spewing blood. Urgan said in surprise:
"Ah shit, I don't know when you'll stop time. Even though you're only a general, you're already as powerful as a Grand General."
Exos pointed his halberd in front of Urgan and said:
"Tell me now, why hasn't Rhohan gone to war?"
Urgan replied:
"He's coming soon, to set the kingdom on fire. Don't you realize? The generals go to the battlefield to lure your strongest warriors out of there. Without them, there are no powerful attacks on my army. But with three generals, they can't stand it."
Exos stabbed Urgan in the chest and said calmly:
"Then you also underestimate them. In a year of training for this war, they trained to be able to compete with Grand General Urizen Gloria, who was defeated by queen Eva Gloria. And one of them is my best students."
Urgan expressed surprise and shock, he tried to say one last time:
"Grand General Urizen? Impossible."
Urgan stopped breathing and died. Exos pulled the halberd from his chest and used a cloth to wipe the blade. Exos telepathically contacted the Crusadia team, he said:
"Crusadia team, kill all generals immediately and return to the battlefield immediately."
They all responded strongly:
"Yes! We will!"
Crusadia team started to counterattack. But meanwhile on the battlefield, the empire continued to bring ashore mutant warriors. They had been genetically modified to become bigger and stronger than normal people and had no emotions or feelings left to fight to the death. They were two meters tall and had bigger muscles. Mutant warriors dressed in heavy armor and wielding swords and handcannons entered the battlefield. Their first ships landed, they immediately flooded the beach and attacked right away. They both opened fire and killed and gradually pushed our army down. The three horsemen stabbed one of them with their spears, but he charged forward and beheaded the three of them. The warrior then pulled the enemy's three spears from his chest and continued his attack. The gunmen opened fire on them but their armor was too thick and they were fired back by the enemy. Our infantry and cavalry retreated to continue their defense while they advanced. Crusadia team needed to return to the battlefield quickly. Eva still tried to attack on the tower to kill more enemies but her position was being attacked by zeppelins. Eva was forced to retreat to the lower floors while the castle was being heavily bombarded by artillery fire. Exos launched crescent-moon darts at enemy cannons and caused them to explode their zeppelins. The members of the Crusadia team took turns winning against their enemies at the same time. Grim swung his sword around and confronted each of the three samurai's slashes. Yellow samurai slashed repeatedly in front of Grim but he quickly parried the slashes. He crouched forward to dodge a powerful swing of his Naginata. He continued to block two more direct slashes of the blue samurai. Grim slashed up and kicked him back and instantly turned his sword behind his back to block another yellow slash. Grim turned his sword forward and jumped back to slash at his neck. The yellow samurai died and the remaining two rushed forward to continue their attack. The red samurai swung his sword at him but Grim immediately parried him, thrusting the blade deeper and cutting the blade of his Nodachi sword. He still used the rest of his sword to stab Grim's shoulder, the blue samurai also slashed Grim's back twice. Grim immediately slashed upwards and thrust through the red man's throat. Grim pulled his sword from his corpse and looked at the remaining samurai. Grim said with horror:
"And you're the last one."
But the blue samurai was still very brave and continued to fight, he said:
"I will fight you to the death, or my honor will be stained with cowardice."
Grim opened his arms and replied:
"Then what are you waiting for?"
The two rushed forward, the samurai stabbing Grim in the head, but he turned his head to dodge. Grim swung his sword across, but the samurai blocked it. The samurai quickly stabbed Grim in the stomach, he spat out blood. He then stabbed Grim with both swords and pushed him back down. Samurai said with condolences:
"Victory is clear, you have lost. Please die with honor and peace."
But Grim laughed and replied cunningly:
"You're the one who lost when this battle started."
Grim instantly turned smoke and flew behind the samurai, he stabbed through his chest and pulled out. The first three generals were simply killed by Grim. Julia stood in the middle of the street, surrounded by houses and she didn't know where the marksmen were. Suddenly a bullet flew from somewhere behind Julia, but with her keen hearing she immediately turned around and whipped her whip to deflect the bullet. Rosanna was surprised by Julia's quick reflexes, she said in surprise:
"She's so fast, she doesn't seem easy to play. John, distract her. Billy, go to the ambush, put her in a pincer position and we'll fire at the same time."
Billy and John nodded and got down to action. Rosanna reloaded and said smugly:
"Come on dancers, we've got more fun."
Julia walked while observing her surroundings in case of an attack. Julia drew six darts from her shoulder and said:
"Where are youuu?"
Suddenly bullets came out from a gap between the two houses, Belle immediately leaned back to dodge and quickly threw the dart into the middle of the gap. John who had shot earlier immediately dodged. Then they ran parallel along the two roads. Julia threw darts at John and John opened fire on Julia, and they confronted each other through the gaps in front of them. Rosanna moved quickly over the roof to approach Julia's back. She also opened fire on Julia but her speed was faster so she dodged very quickly. Julia spun in midair like a dancer and threw three darts at Rosanna. She raised her gun to block the darts then reloaded to continue firing. Julia was continuing to confront John when suddenly Billy slipped from a corner to Julia's surprise and fired a shotgun at her. But John's bullets were also coming in front of her and Billy's cluster bullets were spreading in front of her. Julia leaned back a bit and dodged all of John's bullets but she was hit in the right waist. Julia lay face down on the ground and motionless, blood oozing from the wound. Rosanna slid down the roof while the other two approached Julia. Rosanna looked at her and said:
"Is that all? And Lady Zilan told us not to underestimate her."
Billy noticed the bombs of roses behind Julia, he picked one up and said:
"What is it and why is it so beautiful?"
Rosanna replied hastily:
"Hey, don't mess around with her."
Suddenly a rose bomb exploded in front of the three of them. John and Rosanna were pushed away and Billy was blown up. They stood up, Rosanna discovered Julia had disappeared in the explosion and found Billy dead. She loaded the gun and angrily said:
"Damn Billy, where is she?!"
Rosanna and John slowly moved up, they noticed Julia's blood was flowing towards a house, they nodded and followed it. Standing in front of the house where Julia's blood flowed, they immediately emptied their bullets into the first floor. They quickly reloaded and fired to the second floor even through the roof. John took dynamite and lit it and threw it inside. The whole house exploded, Rosanna smiled proudly and said:
"She must have exploded like Billy."
Suddenly John lay on the ground with three of Julia's poison darts on his back, he foamed at the mouth and died. Rosanna immediately turned around, but seeing no one, she angrily said:
"Where are you?"
Suddenly Julia's voice answered from above:
"I'm up here."
Julia jumped from the roof and prepared to throw the dart. Rosanna immediately raised her gun and opened fire. Each bullet shot up and was about to hit Julia but she threw the dart faster and hit Rosanna in the chest. Rosanna was poisoned, so she died immediately. Julia landed lightly and won with the next three generals. As for Belle, she walked around within the electric wall as if she had no intention of attacking. Three alchemists waited outside, they lost their patience and one said angrily:
"Are you that weak? Can't you think of a way to get out?"
Belle replied confidently:
"Ha, have you lost your patience? You just inadvertently revealed that this place has a weakness."
Belle looked at the battery and thought to herself:
"If they use electricity to start, then give it more power."
Belle waved her wand and released an electric current into a battery. The electric wall had no effect on Belle's current and the battery was absorbing too much electricity. The alchemists rushed to stop Belle, but it was too late. The battery overcharged and exploded, pushing the three of them away. In the smoke Belle shouted:
"Nature's Symphony!"
A wall of vines rose around the three alchemists and kept them inside. They immediately used the manipulators behind their backs to cut the vines and turned their attention to Belle. Belle sucked all the smoke into her wand and began to attack. They turned their manipulator into a plasma gun and fired consecutive beams at Belle. Belle swings her wand around to block the beams. She then instantly controlled an enemy beam with gravity magic and threw it away and killed one of them. The other two discovered that the saw blade had been worn away because it couldn't destroy the wall of vines because it was constantly healing. They gathered all their firepower and attacked Belle with every plasma gun. Dozens of beams shot up and Belle kept jumping and dodging. She released an elemental aura, she jumped and spun in mid-air and launched an invisible beam of air into the barrel of the second alchemist's hand. Her arm explodes and Belle instantly launches another air beam at the center of her chest. The second alchemist was destroyed and one person remained. She quickly started up her jetpack to run away, but was stopped by the vines. Belle quickly launched a light orb into the jetpack, it exploded and killed her. Belle said:
"For Annabelle."
Belle won to avenge her giant white butterfly Annabelle. Next was Lamalia, who was resisting the armor-piercing bullets of the other three female knights. Her armor was shot repeatedly but Lamalia immediately healed the damaged armor pieces with stone transformation. A bullet hit Lamalia's face armor, cracking half of her helmet and revealing half of her face. Lamalia's eyes became sharper and she pursed her lips in anger. Lamalia instantly recovered her armor and charged into a one-on-one attack with the three female knights. She lifted rocks up and hit them causing them to drop handcannons. They also rushed forward and swung their swords repeatedly at Lamalia, but her armor was too thick for the sword to do anything. Lamalia immediately stood up and threw a punch to the chest of the person in the middle causing her to fall back. The other two immediately swung their swords and slammed into Lamalia's chest. The other also rushed forward and swung his sword so hard at Lamalia's helmet that it cracked. Lamalia's head was bleeding, she smiled confidently and said:
"We should stop playing around."
Lamalia released long spikes on her armor to repel the three knights. Their armor was also very thick so it was difficult to penetrate. The knight on the left rushed forward and stabbed Lamalia with her sword, she immediately caught the blade and broke it. Lamalia immediately stabbed into the gap in her armor and killed her. The other two also immediately rushed to attack, so Lamalia immediately jumped on a sharp stone stake to stab one person to push her away. Lamalia lunged forward and threw a powerful earth fist into the enemy's face, she didn't dodge in time. Lamalia killed one more person. As for the other knight, she charged without hesitation. Lamalia immediately transformed the stone beneath the other knight's feet and grabbed her leg. Lamalia dragged her down to the sand below to bury her alive. She threw her sword at Lamalia but she dodged it right away. The female knight tried to crawl up but couldn't, she said in a panic:
"Can you be so cruel as to kill me slowly?"
Lamalia replied strongly:
"So aren't the innocent people your empire killed like that? Sin must be paid for with death. I can't forgive more wicked people."
Lamalia killed the remaining female knight, she won. But Lamalia also realized the difficult situation of our army against the army of the empire. She immediately climbed up the rampart and shouted:
"Hurry up! Retreat to the stronghold, we move to the last stand!"
The infantry was also very weak, so they immediately moved to the ramparts and went to the tunnel to move to the place where the Eye of Horux was protected. But the cavalry remained behind to hold back the enemy, Lamalia said nervously:
"Cavalry! Quickly retreat!"
The captain of the cavalry team shouted:
"Do it! Don't let the enemy pass through the ramparts! We'll fight to hold them back to buy time for everyone to defend!"
The cavalry fought bravely to the end, they continued to fight the mutant warriors. Lamalia did not want their sacrifices to be in vain, so she immediately rose to the giant stone walls in front of the ramparts to form a thick wall. The infantry total was only ten thousand, four thousand went down the tunnel and six thousand continued to defend. Laura in her Vision wizard form was creating whirlpools to drown enemy ships. At this time, their navy was restrained for a while and could not attack the mainland. But the zeppelins were still flying inland, they began to bombard our cities and armies. Emanda created a magic circle pointing to the sky and shouted:
"Thunder Cry!"
The thunderbolts hit the enemy zeppelins in turn and destroyed many. Our Zeppelins, because of the damage from the dragons, had very little left to fight. Less than a hundred of our zeppelins were still fighting. Returning to Elastor, the other three barbarians rushed forward and attacked him. They swung their weapons at the same time at his armor and pushed him back. Elastor said:
"The Star!"
The Star was summoned and joined Elastor to attack them. Bjon threw an ax at The Star, but it dodged and charged faster. The Star immediately bit Bjon's left arm and pulled him away. He was in pain and was about to swing the ax at The Star, but it immediately used its tail to launch lightning into his other hand, causing him to drop the ax. The Star quickly moved to another location to wait for the attack. Erin rushed forward and swung the ax at The Star, but it pulled Bjon's arm, causing him to accidentally slash his brother's arm. Bjon was so angry that he immediately picked up the ax and threw it at Elastor's breastplate. The ax was knocked out of Elastor's armor and sent him back down. Bjon leapt forward to grab the ax in mid-air and quickly swung the ax, pounding Elastor continuously and furiously. Erin also rushed forward and swung the ax into Elastor's back. But Elastor still did not want to counterattack. Jhan rushed forward and swung his sword at Elastor's chest armor and then another ax swing. Elastor rotated his neck and sent a hook punch to Jhan's face sending him flying. Elastor darted high over Jhan's head and delivered another kick to his head that sent him crashing down. Elastor landed hard on the ground and released electricity, pushing the three brothers away. The Star also rushed out and fired three more bolts of lightning at them. But these electric shocks didn't do them much damage. Elastor stabbed and killed Bjon, Erin charged again and swung his ax at Elastor. He immediately turned around and threw an electric ball at the ax to throw it away. Erin lunged forward and pushed Elastor against the wall. Elastor punched him in the back and kicked him away with an electric kick. Jhan picked up Bjon's ax and threw it at Elastor's helmet to distract him. Jhan lunged forward and swung his sword at Elastor, but he parried the blow and sent the blade down to his leg. Jhan stepped back in pain and Elastor immediately swung his sword and cut off his head. Erin stood up to continue fighting, but The Star jumped out and bit him in the neck. The Star bit deeper into his throat and killed the other. Then it withdrew into Elastor. Elastor won but he thought with a nervous part:
"Strange, they're very strong, but I think under the Grand Generals they should be as strong as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Unless they're just here to..."
Elastor looked out on the battlefield and realized that the Crusadia team had left too long to confront the generals. Elastor hastily telepathized with everyone and said:
"Everyone, hurry back to the battlefield. These generals are only to lure us out so they have a chance to attack the stronghold."
Alata replied:
"Not yet, they're planning something. There's three guys I'm after, they're dropping something all over Sandx City."
Grim also said:
"That's right, something is flying around Lanxter city."
Grim caught something and looked closely, it was a firefly. Grim informed everyone:
"It's fireflies, they don't seem to do any harm but what do they spread them out for?"
Elastor quickly thought more carefully and replied quickly:
"Quickly close the tunnel, I don't want them flying in there. I don't know but I'm having a weird feeling about this."
Alata said:
"They also say a Grand General has landed in one of the four kingdoms, keep an eye on your surroundings, everyone."
Suddenly Emanda broke in, her voice very alarmed, she said with concern:
"Everyone, there's a very strong elemental energy coming down here, be careful..."
Suddenly everyone's telepathy was disrupted making them unable to communicate. Elastor said:
"Grand Generals already here?"
In the sky landed rays of light on the cities. They landed in front of each member of the Crusadia team and came out the Grand Generals. They felt a tremendous power emanating from them, a power no one dared to confront. Grim met Grand General Owl Hayuki who was a ronin warrior. Belle met Grand General Xanuguis Emont who was the alchemist. Julia met Grand General Zilan Zihetich who was a female gunner. Lamalia met Grand General Jean Johanna who was a female knight with heavy armor. Alata was looking for Grand General Onias Elan and he noticed from afar on the wall of Gloria city someone was painting. Elastor saw the powerful Grand General Rhohan Restruction as a knight in black armor landing with one of his knights, they landed before Exos. Elastor tried to attack but was blocked by the biggest Grand General Bahamat Weham. Eva looked at Rhohan with a strange fear she had never felt before. Rhohan said calmly:
"Grand Generals, burn everything for me, glory to the emperor."
The Grand Generals had come, they would bring doom to the Highland Continent.