
Hearing the warning from the Merchant Federation's forces, the guards from Novus City became hesitant. After all there was their family in this city, therefore if they decided to fight back and lose then their family might also get into trouble.
In addition, most of the troops in Novus City had already gone to help Elos fight against Duke Wock, who had been a member of the army, this caused most of the troops guarding Novus City to be those who were old or children who were not very skilled at fighting.
The guards protecting Novus City started to become hesitant, even some of them decided to start surrendering because this war was impossible to win.
If you already know that there is no chance of winning then why bother fighting a war that has the possibility of getting their families killed? Wouldn't it be better to give up, that way then all of them could still live.
When the doubt to surrender or not spread throughout the Novus City Wall guard soldiers, a soldier immediately stood up and shouted "Have you forgotten who gave us tax breaks and let our children get free education? Have you not forgotten that most of our former inhabitants and families are hungry, and every winter thousands die of hunger! But now why are all these things no more? Why don't any of our people starve to death!".
"It's because Mr. Elos, he gives us a better life every day, at least we don't have to worry about hunger anymore. But those of you who have been granted leniency by Lord Elos decided to betray him! Are you not ashamed? I don't know what your decision is about, but one thing for sure is that I support Mr. Elos! Even if I have to die, I will try so that no enemy can take Novus City. Have you forgotten the kindness that Lord Elos has given us all along? Now is the time to pay for all that kindness! Choose, fight or get out of here to be a traitor!".
The guards of Novus City stared at each other, they came back to realize the kindness that Elos had given them all along. Especially the policy of Elos about tax relief, by easing the tax so many people do not have to worry anymore about hunger.
After hearing the man's words, some of the hesitating soldiers instantly took their weapons, even the soldiers who were already thinking of siding with the enemy decided to go back to siding with Elos, instead, they will pay for Elos' kindness today.
The city guards who had previously panicked became resolute, they raised their weapons to fight.
The soldier who was the leader of Novus City stepped forward before shouting "The troops from the Merchant Federation, we refuse to give up! Therefore, if you are still planning to take Novus City then you can only kill us all and then take this city! As long as we're alive, then we won't let you take this city, fight!".
"Fight!", shouted the other soldiers as they took up their weapons.
Vice-captain Rilhe's face turned grim, after all the weak city guards still dared to challenge his elite troops.
The enraged Vice Captain Rilhe pointed towards the enemy city wall with his sword "All the attacking forces, let no one survive! You don't have to feel guilty, everyone in Novus City is the enemy now, kill them all and let no one live!".
"Kill!", cried Rilhe's troops excitedly, they ran towards Novus City with ferocious eyes indicating that they were ready to kill.
Rilhe's troops began to put the stairs on the walls of Novus City and will go up the city wall, the guards of Novus City also began to shoot using arrows or anything so that the enemy failed to climb up.
As the 2 groups were busy fighting each other, a woman suddenly walked over the walls of Novus City.
The woman looked towards Rilhe's troops coldly "Are they fools who think that they can destroy my master's Novus City? Alright, since they think that way then let me show them the price that anyone who dares to attack my master must pay!".
It just so happened that a Novus City guard also discovered the woman's whereabouts when the war was about to start, so the Novus City guard warned worriedly "Miss, why are you here? Don't you know that this is a battlefield? I suggest you get out of here as soon as you can, unless you're ready to die like us".
But the woman did not heed the soldier's warning at all, rather this woman did not consider it important.
Under the gazes of everyone who was about to start this war, thousands of swords suddenly appeared from above the sky.
The swords above the sky have a red color like blood, more precisely this sword is indeed made of a collection of blood.
Vice-captain Rilhe looked at all those swords carefully, a bad premonition appearing in his heart when he saw those swords. When determining that all the swords were pointing at him and his entire army, Vice-captain Rilhe's face immediately turned white like paper, he was already in a panic now.
"The whole army's running! Quickly get out of here!", shouted vice-captain Rilhe.
But it was too late, the woman on top of the Novus City wall had already waved her hand "Death!".
The thousands of swords flew out quickly and pierced through the thousands of Merchant Federation troops, after the swords pierced through their bodies then this sword again changed shape into a pool of blood that flew back to the woman.
Vice-captain Rilhe stared at his army that fell to the ground every time it was pierced by that blood sword with a sense of despair, he had a rank 5 but could not stop these thousands of swords from killing his troops.
Several blood swords flew towards vice-captain Rilhe, yet he moved quickly to stop all the blood swords that tried to kill him using the sword in his hand.
But as time went on, vice-captain Rilhe realized that the number of blood swords attacking him was not decreasing, but rather increasing.
When the blood sword that attacked him was already too much, finally vice-captain Rilhe could not stop it anymore and was pierced by dozens of blood swords.
"Slabs!".
Dozens of blood swords pierced the body of vice-captain Rilhe, there was already no longer any chance he could survive the attack. The body of vice-captain Rilhe fell to the ground and lost his life, to death though then he could not figure out who had killed him.
Finally the battle was over even before it started, approximately 5000 Merchant Federation soldiers had already died under this blood sword attack.
The eyes of the entire Novus City guard instantly turned to the woman who could bring out thousands of these swords to defeat the enemy.
The problem was that the woman did not care about the residents at all, she only saw the corpses on the ground coldly "You ants think you can defeat my master's Novus City? Truly a foolish act, as long as I am alive then no one can pass through Novus City! I, Lara Sern Vertide, the Labyrinth Manager, have Mr. Elos will not let anyone take this lord's Novus City".
Without waiting any longer, Lara turned around to leave this place, she returned to her labyrinth which was given by Elos for her to manage.
Although the Labyrinth Manager could not leave the labyrinth, but their moving area could continue to increase according to the labyrinth level as well. Therefore, Lara was already able to move around Novus City without any problems.