The First Magic World War

Charles left Strasbourg with just a batch of Labyrinth Guards and five thousand Westwind Knights; his combat strength was not considered abundant. None of these Beastmen abstained from eating humans. If they were all sent to Dubrovnik to be turned into Labyrinth Guards, that would have been enough manpower to fight a decisive battle.

Sabastine shook her head and said, "These Beastmen fight to the death, as if they have no desire to surrender."

Charles was also helpless. He too had shouted for them to surrender, but Quedero's Beastmen, advancing despite casualties, fought fiercely to the death and showed no signs of wanting to surrender.

Charles called out, "Send up a batch of soldiers to join me in blocking the gates of Red Cliff City, then go and attack with the Magical Alchemy Warship."

Sabastine shouted back, "Okay!"

She had been worried that Charles might not hold out, but upon seeing him fight with such efficiency and ease, she reassured herself and returned to the fleet. First, she sent a group of people to Charles and then began to command the attack on Red Cliff City with the Magical Alchemy Warship.

This battle left Charles with no opportunity to think. In his previous fights, he would battle while strategizing, considering various ruses, but this fierce onslaught made him nearly forget everything, becoming a killing machine, concerned only with how to kill the enemy in the most ruthless and efficient manner, with no time to think about anything else.

He didn't know how much time had passed when the Stellar Battle Qi within him suddenly accelerated and advanced to a new level, rising from the thirteenth to the fourteenth order.

The increase in strength eased the pressure on Charles slightly. Looking at the endless tide of Beastmen before him, he sighed to himself, "Why does everyone love war so much? So many wars are not necessary at all."

"Beastmen need to survive. All they have to do is establish a good system and develop agriculture and animal husbandry!"

"Why insist on war?"

Charles forcefully suppressed the dual fatigue of body and mind, continuing to kill with maximum efficiency. Even he hadn't noticed that his Gunmanship, marksmanship, and occasional swordsmanship had shed their greenness, revealing the cruel and cold aspects of Asiluo Clan Secret Techniques:

When Charles casually drew his sword and killed a Transcendent Beastman who had broken through the Withing Rose bullets and sheathed the Blood Rose, firing six shots that killed six Beastmen, he realized that all the soldiers Sabastine had sent were dead.

The soldiers Sabastine sent were her own, not Charles's Labyrinth Guards. Without any Transcendents among them, they were mere elite soldiers. How could they withstand such slaughter?

Charles sighed, about to re-immerse himself in the battle when a loud shout came from the sky – it was Antonio's voice: "Quedero is here; if you do not surrender now, you will all die today."

In his hand, he was holding the Silverback Gorilla Quedero, the once fierce Beastman of the Sacred Order, now as stiff as a corpse, motionless as if he were just a broken sack.

Charles felt the pressure lift off him. The Beastmen, who had just been charging fearlessly, stopped their assault, and almost every Beastman warrior wore a face of sadness. The Beastman Alliance had mobilized in great numbers, but what they got in return was one defeat after another, quickly losing their fighting spirit.

With a figure as prominent as Quedero potentially killed, the remaining Beastmen lost all will to fight.

When Charles once again called for the Beastmen to surrender, those who had been fiercely battling a moment ago seemed to have been crushed in an instant. They threw down their weapons, and many Beastman warriors even wept bitterly, realizing that falling into the hands of humans meant they would never return to their homeland.

Antonio landed on the ground and tossed Quedero to Charles, saying, "He's still breathing. Do you want to kill him to set an example?"

Charles was overjoyed and said, "It would be a pity to kill him."

A Sacred Order Knight from the Brittany Family said, "This guy is powerful and has an unyielding will to fight. He's unlikely to surrender. If you plan to subdue him, it will probably be quite difficult."

"He's not like Tumishen or the Black Dragon, other Beastmen," the Knight from the Brittany Family added with a hint of admiration when mentioning Quedero. After all, the Silverback Gorilla had managed to hold out until now, despite being surrounded by eight Sacred Order fighters and a top-tier combatant like Antonio, which was indeed remarkable.

If it were a one-on-one fight, barring Antonio, probably no one could match this Beastman of the Sacred Order, even without his Dragon Slaying Stick.

Charles hastily said, "No worries, no worries, I have special methods of persuasion."

He picked up Quedero, casually kicked open a house, took out a Magic Contract that had already been signed, grabbed Quedero's hand, stained it with some of his blood, and signed the Beastman Sacred Order's name.

Full of joy, Charles waited a while!
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But there was no response. He was greatly disappointed, thinking to himself, "Did I do something wrong in the procedure? Or has this Magic Contract lost its effectiveness?"

"Or did the Old Goat deceive me, there's something I haven't figured out about this Magic Contract?"

Just as he was contemplating this, he heard the laughter of a young boy, and the Magic Contract in his hand turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the unknown void.

Charles let out a huge sigh of relief and stirred Bloody Glory. This artifact didn't have healing powers, but stimulating the Beastman Sacred Order to wake him up wasn't difficult.