The Greece Antagonist

Chapter 464: Chapter 16 The Most European Lucky Draw in History (4.1k)

Early next morning, Arcadia Royal City.

After a night of nonstop travel, a party of six finally arrived at their destination.

Atalanta, who had been dozing off on Luo En’s back, gradually woke up after a night’s rest. Although she was severely drained of physical strength and magic power, looking listlessly tired, she could at least guarantee basic mobility.

“We have urgent matters that require an audience with His Majesty Iasus!”

The twin brothers up front said, as they tossed a bronze emblem of Apollo etched with the pattern of the Sun to the guards at the city gate as proof of their identities.

Before long, a middle-aged man with the bearing of an officer hurried over, confirmed the identities of the two princes of Sparta, and promptly ordered the soldiers to let them pass. He then personally led the six warriors on a swift journey to the Arcadia Palace.

With a guide to clear the way, the six of them had an unobstructed journey and quickly arrived at the grand doors of the palace’s main hall.

After a brief notification process, they were smoothly ushered into the Arcadia Palace’s reception hall, where they saw the legendary King of Arcadia, Iasus.

He was a tall and burly middle-aged man, whose rugged features faintly revealed the good looks of his youth.

After exchanging a few curt pleasantries, the twin brothers got straight to the point and described in detail what they had encountered on their journey to the King of Arcadia.

“Your Majesty, this Beast Disaster is by no means minor, and we hope you will take it very seriously!”@@novelbin@@

“Thank you for coming such a long way, and for the well-intentioned warning, I will definitely consider these matters seriously,”

replied King Iasus repeatedly, looking grave.

However, he hadn’t said much before he began to gasp for air, his face took on an unhealthy pallor, indicating that his physical health was in poor condition.

“Wha…what’s wrong with you?”

Seeing this, the twin brothers couldn’t hide their surprise.

“Apologies, making you witness such an embarrassment,” Iasus coughed, his face tinged with bitterness as he reluctantly shared his ailment.

At the start of the Beast Disaster, the King had hoped to prevent the impending collapse and thus personally led the Divine Blood Guard of Arcadia to hunt the rampaging Magic Beasts deep in the mountains.

However, he gravely underestimated the Beast Disaster and overestimated himself.

In the end, the Divine Blood Guard of Arcadia suffered heavy casualties under the onslaught of Magic Beasts, with even himself being seriously injured, from which he has yet to recover.

After hearing Iasus’s recount, the twin brothers’ faces were filled with sighs of regret and sympathy.

Concealed within the team, Luo En couldn’t help but criticize inwardly.

Marching a regular army into the depths of the Arcadian Mountains to engage in jungle warfare with hordes of Magic Beasts, what brilliance was that?

The Divine Blood Guard might bear the prestigious title of “Divine Blood,” but they were mostly diluted descendants of multiple generations of demigods, far from a match to the true Divine Blood Heroes. Not to mention Luo En himself, even Medea could easily take out hundreds of them with ample preparation.

Let alone those Magic Beasts born and bred in the Arcadian Mountains, which fully utilized the advantages of their terrain.

Therefore, the best use of the Divine Blood Guard was to lure the Magic Beasts to relatively open areas, utilize the advantages of formations and cooperation to kill them, instead of wasting precious high-tier military units in environments unfavorable for group combat.

The fact that the old man had escaped was a testament to his luck.

Of course, it was also possible that when the Beast Disaster first began, it wasn’t as severe as now, so Iasus and his surviving troops were afforded a way out.

But such turmoil had forced Arcadia to shift from offense to defense, hunkering down in the city-state and recruiting heroes from other city-states while awaiting rescue.

By abandoning vast swathes of forest and roads, they worsened the Beast Disaster, which spread further and wider.

The fact that Luo En’s group encountered packs of Magic Wolves on the official road thirty kilometers from the Arcadian Mountains was the result of these events.

What was more deadly was that this Beast Disaster seemed extraordinary, as the Magic Beast herds appeared to continuously “enhance” and “evolve.”

While it was still within a controllable range, Iasus’s decision to lead the Divine Blood Guard of Arcadia to their deaths had likely allowed the Magic Beasts to further strengthen themselves by devouring flesh that bore divinity and armor imbued with magic power.

On top of that, these Magic Beasts began appearing on official roads, preying on travelers and warriors coming to participate in the suppression efforts.

Caught off-guard against the deliberate, many must have ended up as food for those mutated Magic Beasts, making them even harder to contend with.

As a result, the more experience packs that were delivered, the faster the Magic Beasts in the mountains developed, raising the difficulty of hunting and suppression in turn.

Even the twin sons of Zeus from Sparta nearly met with disaster.

Indeed, the incompetence of a single leader can doom an entire army.

After silently criticizing, Luo En patiently waited until the exchange was over and then followed the twin brothers out of the Royal Palace reception hall.

After Iasus’s actions, coordinating the local “high-tier military units” was out of the question; they could now only rely on recruiting “hero units” from other areas to form elite squads in an attempt to enter the Arcadian Mountains, investigate the causes of the Magic Beast mutations, and solve the problem at its root.

“Gentlemen, please wait.”

As Luo En was contemplating this, two soldiers wielding spears and shields moved to block the middle door. A white-robed High Priestess emerged, giving a slight nod as a gesture of respect and then led them to a side hall. She unveiled a black gauze, revealing a crystal ball enshrined beneath on the altar.

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