Defeat

On the open ground to the North of the Tumala Fortress, the war was going smoothly at first, but soon, Bruce Gary, who was on top of the reconnaissance tower, realized that something was wrong.

No matter how hard the army tried, they could not advance even half a step!

"This! I have to consult Lord Bishop about this!"

He took out the magic communication device on his waist and waited for a few minutes before it was connected!

"Hello! Is this Lord Bishop?"

Bishop, who had already escaped to Asuma in the carriage, pointed the magic communication device at his face.

"I am Bishop!"

"How is the situation at Tumala?"

Gary immediately pointed the magic communication device in his hand at the battlefield. Through the magic communication device, Bishop found that the human soldiers were already retreating in defeat.

The adventurer squad was also being held back by the high-level undead creatures.

Turning the communication device, Gary waited for Bishop's next instruction.

After a moment of silence, Bishop said to Gary, "For the sake of your loyalty to me for so many years!"

"I'll tell you what to do next!"

"Come down from the watchtower now and find a two-horse carriage, it's time to run for your life!"

Hearing this, Gary was stunned.

At this moment, due to the weak connection between the magical devices, the magic communication was cut off.

Gary climbed down from the watchtower and came to the stable panting. He could not be bothered to care about anyone else.

He found a double carriage and drove the carriage out of the camp himself. He was running for his life!

Originally, as Tumala had Gary commanding it, the soldiers were still in good order. However, there were suddenly no new orders from the combat camp.

These soldiers were all dumbfounded!

Facing the endless undead army before them, these soldiers who had lost their command began to rampage like headless flies.

In just an hour, the situation of this war had been reversed. The undead army used this opening to break through the human army.

They advanced with great speed until they reached Tumala City.

As there was no way to stop the undead army, all the soldiers who still had the strength quickly fled.

Seeing this scene, the hero, Benedict Smith, took his remaining two squad members and fled in a hurry as well.

Because of Benedict Smith's outstanding performance on the battlefield, he had been targeted by the high-level undead.

In the previous battle, if not for the Demon Slayer Sword, all five members of their team might have died on the battlefield.

Now, only three members of their team had escaped, and the remaining two had fallen before the undead.

While escaping, the heavy gunner, Oliver, became very unhappy. He shouted at Benedict Smith, "We just ran away!"

"What about Tumala City?"

"What about the city?"

"Didn't you see it just now?"

"The Undead Lord didn't even appear himself, and we're already in such a sorry state!"

"If we didn't escape quickly just now, the three of us wouldn't even be alive!" After saying that, Smith put the Demon Slayer Sword on his shoulder and turned around to cast a support spell to escape to the south.

The two people behind him exchanged glances and quickly left the fortress of Tumala.

Not long after the three of them left the fortress, the entire Tumala started burning up.

This was the last defensive measure that Hall had left in the fortress, which was to set the entire camp on fire once the undead got in.

However, it was now completely useless, because the Sky-covering Dark Curtain had already covered the entire defense line of Tumala, even the flames had no effect on the undead.

The undead soldiers did not stop there. They entered the city and killed the remaining soldiers who did not manage to escape.

News of the defeat of Tumala quickly spread to the Fergus Empire. When Emperor Fergus Nielson heard the news, he was so scared that he almost sh*t himself.

The first thing that big-headed Nielson thought of was to run away, towards Alex City, which was furthest away from the Undead Army.

Not long after Emperor Nielson escaped, he was killed on the way by the subordinates of the Imperial Military Secretary, who had been waiting for a long time, disguised as bandits.

Having expected all of this, the Imperial Military Secretary, Garcia Alberta, suppressed the Senate of Fergus as soon as Emperor Nielson died.

On the same day, he cleared out everything in the castle and became the new emperor of Fergus.

The first thing Alberta did when he ascended the throne was to send all the elite soldiers that he had prepared for many years to Asuma to build a new defense line in the North of the city.

The second thing he did was to ask for help from the headquarters of the Holy Court in the center of the capital city of the Duchy of St. Margaret on the side.

Everything was in order. The Undead Army that had attacked from the North was completely blocked outside the northern defensive line of Asuma.

Because they were focused on fighting against the undead army from the North, more than half of Hall's ten thousand troops had been sent away.

In the courtyard of the palace in St. Margaret, Mavis was strolling around, admiring the beautiful flowers in the courtyard.

The sound of hurried footsteps came from behind her.

Mavis turned around and took a look. It was the commander of the palace's guards. He was holding a black envelope in his hand.

When he came to Mavis, he knelt down on one knee and handed over the envelope in his hand.

"Your Majesty! This is a letter from the new emperor of Fergus, Alberta."

She had initially thought that the Fergus Empire had already perished. She did not expect the Fergus Empire to have a new emperor.

Taking the black envelope, he opened the seal, took out the letter inside, and began to read it carefully.

In the beginning, it was filled with words of admiration from Alberta. The Queen did not show any emotion on her face.

However, when she saw the end, her beautiful face became gloomy and uncertain.

After she finished reading, she turned around and instructed, "Invite the Archbishop of the palace, the members of the Senate, and all the nobles to the castle!"

Hearing this, the leader of the guards was very confused. He did not know what had happened.

However, what he could do now was to carry out what the Queen had told him.

Before he left, he continued to ask, "Your Majesty, what kind of reason do you want to use to invite them?"

Mavis looked up at the distant sky and thought for a while.

"The Duchy is about to be destroyed, get everyone to the banquet hall of the castle before dark!"

Hearing this, the captain of the guards immediately stood up and ran off quickly.

Seeing her subordinates leave, Queen Mavis could not help but mutter to the eastern sky, "What the heck just happened in Fergus?!"

"Even the greatest mage of mankind, Hall, has failed!"

After tossing and turning, she called her closest sister, Melissa, and asked her to head to the Fergus Empire with her men to investigate Hall.