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Chapter 17

"It's alright, I'm here, Second Prince Your Highness, may I ask, do you want to win this battle, or do you want to regain your country?"

"Is there a difference?"

David Clark raised his finger and shook it. He said, "There's a big difference. If you only want to win this battle, then as long as you cooperate with the weapons I brought, and let Captain Scott lead a team of cavalry to charge, victory is certain."

Henry Harris showed a confused expression and asked, "Isn't that great? What's wrong with that?"

"Heh, yes, it's good, but eight thousand against thirty thousand—even in victory, it's still a defeat." David Clark said calmly.

Henry Harris was also a man of deep thought. After thinking for a moment, he understood and thought to himself, "That's right, even if we win this battle, we won't have the strength to advance into our homeland. But it seems like he still has something left unsaid."

Only now did Henry Harris realize that the young man before him possessed wisdom beyond ordinary people, so he suddenly became respectful toward him. "I wonder if you, little brother David, have any way for our army to achieve a great victory?"

"Of course there is a way, but it requires you to show your determination. Can you do it?" David Clark still wore a slight smile.

"Determination?"

Ethan had not spoken all this time, but his eyes had been fixed on David Clark. He suddenly used the secret communication spell of magic to say to William Scott, "Perhaps, fate is changing."

William Scott smiled faintly, remembering that after the late king's death, the mage Ethan had learned from the stars that the Kager Empire was about to fall. But because both he and Ethan had received great favor from the late king, they stayed by Second Prince's side. And now, perhaps the fate of destruction had a turning point because of the appearance of this strange young man.

"Heh, then everyone just..."

Only then did the others begin to realize—no, he is definitely not an ordinary child. At the very least, his thinking is quite ruthless: putting us in the most dangerous place while he watches from the sidelines, and it even seems like we were the ones begging him to tell us his plan...

It turned out that David Clark had used satellite monitoring functions to learn the enemy's troop movements, and had sent the forty-some people from before to retrieve all the technological weapons from the ruins and bring them to Valley Gate City.

After that, he moved all the items and personnel in the city to the distant mountains. Then, using his knowledge of construction engineering, David Clark buried timed bombs in many places underground in the city. With the satellite's remote control function, he just waited for the arrival of the Silver Sword Knights.

David Clark knew that when people are in their deepest sleep at night, if they are suddenly awakened, they lose the ability to think and fall into panic. To achieve this, David Clark buried the bombs in places where they wouldn't hurt people but would have the greatest explosive effect. Once detonated, the ordinary soldiers would flee outside the city.

The second step of the chain plan was here: when people are panicked, they instinctively head toward where there are more people. So David Clark gave the guns and weapons to those forty-some people, forming a special operations squad, and had them ambush at the places David Clark had previously found. When the enemy arrived, they would drive them away, forcing the Silver Sword Knights to move toward the place David Clark had planned.

The third step required David Clark's knowledge of human psychology. When people are panicked and in darkness, if the direction and distance they travel are great enough, they will end up back where they started—making a big circle and returning to Valley Gate City.

So, to complete the third step, David Clark selected four thousand of the remaining ten thousand Light Knights, equipped them all with warhorses, forming a small unit with both strong combat power and mobility, and under the cover of night, launched a surprise attack.

After that came the fourth step: Second Prince would lead his own troops to persuade the defeated soldiers 'trapped' in Valley Gate City to surrender. Because of the earlier explosions and the swift cavalry assault, the Silver Sword Knights would surely feel that the enemy—our side—was unfathomable, making the surrender more likely to succeed.

As for the most important point of the entire battle, it was how to persuade or capture the core members of the Silver Sword Knights. After seeing William Scott's superhuman strength, David Clark made up his mind: yes, it would be a close-quarters duel between the generals.

Thus, under the calculations of David Clark's super brain—so powerful even he himself didn't know its limits—this battle, which would be celebrated for countless centuries to come, finally achieved ultimate victory.

William Scott smiled faintly. He had never met such a person before. Clearly, he didn't want to see the bloodshed on the other side of the battlefield, which was why he came here, but now he was showing the excited smile of a child. Was he hoping to see how this side's battle would unfold?

The Wind Swordsman Dawson had a cold look in his eyes and said, "No matter what you've done, I have no complaints. Now, only our duel remains. The unfinished fight from five years ago—let's begin now."

William Scott immediately pulled his attention back. No matter what, the person before him was the Wind Swordsman Dawson! "A fight? But don't you want to know something even more interesting?"