The First Vampire

Finally, the Blood Knight Army moved!

The rumbling sound of hooves echoed like spring thunder, instantly setting the wilderness ablaze.

Two cavalry troops, each numbering between seven and eight hundred, began to surge, charging at the right rear wing of the Huorong Army formation—a position that had shown the most disarray in the previous probing attacks.

“Raise shields!”

“Long Spears, press forward!”

In the Huorong Army, the officers’ orders echoed sporadically.

The vanguard shieldbearers and spearmen, with their bodies of flesh and blood, built a wall of iron thorns in an attempt to block the incoming tide of heavy cavalry.

Yet, among them, many were shaking in terror.

Having been accepted into the Huorong Army, these soldiers were undoubtedly the elite in the East Territory. The Huorong Flowers pinned on their chests were all personally harvested from cliffs three thousand meters high.

Moreover, to prepare for the fight against the Blood Knight Army, the Huorong Army had specially conducted drills with the East Territory Cavalry.

However, only when they truly faced the rolling iron hooves of the Blood Knight Army did they realize, compared to them, the East Territory Cavalry was as docile as a herd of sheep.

In the trembling earth, two groups of Blood Knight heavy cavalry had rushed to a certain distance; all the horsemen began to draw their bows and prepare their arrows.

“Whizz! Whizz! Whizz!”

Different from the previous exploratory fire, this time the Blood Knight Army had moved close enough to aim directly at their targets.

Suddenly, casualties in the Huorong Army began to rise rapidly, especially among the outer spear-wielding soldiers. Their front-facing shields, designed to block cavalry charges, couldn’t provide complete protection, and to maintain the integrity of their formation, they couldn’t dodge incoming arrows. Like statues, one by one, they were shot down.

Despite this, the Huorong Army, the elite force of the East, did not panic.

Moreover, under the command of their officers, the bowmen at the rear of their formation began to return fire.

So, casualties began to emerge in the Blood Knight Army as well. One by one, horsemen were shot and toppled from their mounts, or war horses fell after being hit by arrows.

But the two waves of cavalry didn’t slow down or widen their distance, but instead pressed closer to the Huorong Army’s formation, still drawing bows and launching arrows.

This was a test of courage.

Closer,

Even closer…

Shieldbearers on the outermost periphery of the Huorong Army had tightened their muscles, ready for the impending collision.

What surprised them was that the two Blood Knight regiments that had charged at them turned their horses around at the last moment.

The two columns of cavalry seemed to hit an invisible wall, violently deflecting to the sides along the tangent.

Such a jarring turn required exceptional horsemanship and tested the coordination and discipline of the cavalry unit. Any negligence could cause one’s own men to collide, triggering a subsequent chain collision.

Officers in the Huorong Army who understood cavalry tactics were so stunned that they watched with their mouths agape, never expecting to see such a flashy display of horsemanship in real combat.

But before they could recover from their shock, they saw another wave of cavalry charging out from between the two Blood Knight regiments that had split to the sides.

“Raise shields, raise shields!”

Screams echoed through the Huorong Army.

Because this time, what was charging forward was a formidable heavy cavalry!

It was only then they realized that the previous two waves of Blood Knight regiments had merely been a feint; the real deadly blow was yet to come…

The earth began to tremble under the rumbling of hooves, and at that moment, it seemed nothing could stand in the way of these Blood Knights’ heavy cavalry!

Forward!

Even further forward!

Accelerate!

Speed up again!

Without hesitation or evasion, even in the face of a forest of long spears akin to iron.

This heavy cavalry unit borrowed the terrifying speed of extreme acceleration, and clashed head-on!

Boom!

For a moment, it appeared as if the world had quieted down, and time itself had been paused.

The next moment, the brutality continued.

One after another, war horses were pierced by long spears, and cavalrymen were knocked off their mounts, but their bodies and war horses still crashed into the Huorong Army’s military formation with a horrific inertia.

A ghastly gap was immediately created in the once intact battleground.

“Hiss…”

Count Brugen sucked in a breath of cold air.

Watching these well-equipped, well-trained, fearless heavy cavalry smash into his military formation, he felt a pang of sympathy, and couldn’t help but blurt out, “Profligate!”

At the same time, Count Brugen felt a slight sigh of relief in his heart.

Although the heavy cavalry of the Blood Knight Army was quite terrifying, they were significantly outnumbered and lacked sufficient reinforcements.

The right wing of the Huorong Army had been pierced with a huge gap, but Count Brugen knew that the enemy could no longer expand their gains.

Next, as long as he kept his cool and instructed his warriors to stabilize the formation, they could close this gap and prevent further spread.

But the next moment, Count Brugen’s eyes widened in surprise.

Because, the heavy cavalry that he thought could no longer advance, continued to tear through the right wing of the Huorong Army with a force that he could not comprehend.

They are a group of madmen!

Count Brugen personally saw a heavy cavalryman, with three long spears embedded in his body, charging forward as if nothing had happened.

There was also one whose armor had been completely deformed by a shield, another who had fallen heavily from his war horse, and yet another whose arm had been broken. All of them kept fighting on!

No one retreated. They all pushed ahead!

Count Brugen could not understand, didn’t these men feel pain?

Did they not fear death?

What shocked Count Brugen even more was that all of this heavy cavalry, numbering around five hundred, were unexceptionally professionals!

Where did the Blood Knight Army get so many fearless professionals?

Especially the three leading them, they seemed like fifth rank professionals!

Did Colin Angler gather all the high-rank professionals in the North Territory into the Blood Knight Army?

Where did he get such charisma to get so many experts to die for him?

“Father-in-law, the right flank can’t hold on any longer!”

The anxious warning from Count Evan brought Count Brugen back to reality, suppressing his internal shock and terror, and called his orderly.

However, before he could give the order, he suddenly felt dizzy.

The next second, it seemed as if the whole world had gone dark.

The sky did not darken.

But in Count Evan’s eyes, the world seemed to lose all its color.

Because, right before his eyes, his father-in-law, the supreme commander of the Huorong Army, had his head chopped off right within his own ranks!

Thump, thump…

Only when the bloody skull rolled a few meters away on the ground did Count Evan realize that the attack was carried out by his own Guardian Knight –

Fletcher!