Charm Points Maxed: My Enemies Became My Underlings

Chapter 14: The Expedition

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

He was referring to helping her remove the curse. Since he said he would do his best, he would not go back on his word.

Ofia took his words to heart and secretly thought about how she could investigate the foreign emissaries.

Soon, it was time for Lei Yuan to head out. Although he was the one who had selected the soldiers, all of them chose to follow behind Knight Eisen and ignore Lei Yuan.

It seemed that he was the leader of this campaign in name only, and everyone looked down on him.

Lei Yuan did not let the issue linger in his mind. His goal was to rescue Lotti. How he went about it was irrelevant to him.

However, as the leader, he still had to ensure the safety of the soldiers and knights.

When they were halfway through the march, Lei Yuan became a little confused by the surrounding terrain.

In order to prevent any accidents from happening, Lei Yuan asked, “Knight Eisen, this is my first time coming to this area, and I am not familiar with the terrain. Therefore, I cannot formulate a battle plan, so I need to ask for your advice first.”

He knew that the other person did not like him, but at least they were working together, so he probably would not make things difficult for Lei Yuan in terms of tactics, right?

But this time, Lei Yuan had assumed wrong.

“Can’t you just take a look at the terrain and figure it out?” Eisen snorted coldly. He refused to tell Lei Yuan about the surrounding terrain, and instead waved his hand and gave an order. “Everyone, follow me!”

He was planning to completely ignore Lei Yuan!

The soldiers who were following behind were originally concerned about the Queen’s orders and did not dare to act so recklessly towards Lei Yuan. However, when they saw Knight Eisen’s attitude, they stopped worrying and openly revealed their hatred for Lei Yuan on their faces. They said, “As Knight Eisen commands!”

As for Lei Yuan, they would never acknowledge him as a knight!

Lei Yuan’s expression was a little complicated. He did not say anything and just followed the team silently. His goal was to save Lotti, not to fight with this group of people.

Seeing that he did not oppose, Eisen thought he was afraid and became even more arrogant.

In this team, Lei Yuan was the nominal leader, but he was a newcomer who was not respected by the soldiers. Eisen had the real power here.

The group continued to march forward. Along the way, Eisen gave orders without consulting Lei Yuan each time, and Lei Yuan did not object.

However, this did not mean that he was completely ignorant of matters. From the looks of it, these orders were not harmful to the team as a whole, so he did not interfere.

He reminded himself, ‘Just focus on saving Lotti. Don’t bother with anything else.’

Finally, the group arrived near the enemy camp. The bushes here hid their figures well.

At this moment, the enemy camp was very quiet. There was no one guarding it.

Lei Yuan immediately became vigilant.

There was something wrong with this scene. How could there be no one patrolling a military camp? Could it be that the enemy knew that they would come, so he set up an ambush in advance?

“Hmph! They don’t even have any defenses. They’re really not taking us seriously!” Eisen snorted and immediately gave the order, “Everyone, charge! You must rescue Ambassador Lotti!”

“Yes, sir!”

This shocked Lei Yuan. Eisen was a knight, after all! How could he be so brainless?

Lei Yuan immediately stopped everyone, “Stop! It’s an ambush!”

The soldiers stopped and looked at Lei Yuan with dissatisfaction, but they were also half-convinced of his words, so they did not move forward.

“An ambush?” Eisen laughed. “Where did you get that from? There’s no one guarding the camp. Isn’t it a good time to attack?”

“Don’t you think this is too unusual?” Lei Yuan hurriedly explained, “They must have known that we would come to rescue her when they captured Lotti. How could they not be prepared? They must have set up an ambush for us!”

‘Can’t they see such an obvious scheme? It can’t be possible that they’d ignore it, right?’

However, Eisen’s reply really surprised Lei Yuan.

“If you’re afraid to go, just say so. There’s no need to beat around the bush!” Eisen said disdainfully, “Do you really think our soldiers are all as cowardly as you?”

Lei Yuan’s head was full of questions marks. He was only reminding them to be careful of an ambush. What was this person thinking? Or maybe Eisen was actually stupid?

“Did you listen to what I said just now?” Lei Yuan repeated, “They’ve obviously set up an ambush. If you attack now, you’ll be courting death! Or did you forget that we have the lives of our soldiers to account for?!”

“Don’t give me that b*llcrap!” Eisen obviously did not want to listen to Lei Yuan. He continued, “So what if there’s an ambush? You think we can’t beat them? Our country doesn’t need cowards like you!”

‘Fine, there’s no point in trying to talk sense into him.’ Lei Yuan pondered, ‘Why don’t I act alone?’

Not only would he be dragged down by this group of people, but it would also be a thankless task.

After that, Lei Yuan gave up on trying to dissuade them and allowed Eisen to lead the team into attacking the camp.

He planned to find an opportunity to sneak into the military camp, rescue Lotti, and escape.

Everything happened as Lei Yuan had expected. After Eisen led his men into the military camp, they were immediately ambushed.

However, what Lei Yuan did not expect was that there was actually only one person in the military camp who attacked them. Even if it was just one person, he beat Eisen and the soldiers back until they had to retreat away from the camp. This shocked Eisen.

“I’ve been waiting for you for a long time!” The man slowly stepped forward. He had no weapon in his hand, and there was only a Hydra wrapped around his body. “Today, none of you shall leave alive!”

The group had been pushed back quite a distance. Eisen did not expect there to really be an ambush waiting for them. But when he saw that there was only one person and a snake as their opponents, he breathed a sigh of relief. They had more people, so they could still defeat this guy.

Eisen waved his hand. “You haven’t won yet! Men, let’s attack together and take him down! That is a legendary beast, a ferocious Hydra. We must capture it and present it to Her Majesty!”

The Hydra was almost unheard of, as it was a rare mythical beast. If they could capture it, it would certainly be a great accomplishment.

The soldiers seemed to have been greatly encouraged, and they charged forward all at once.

Lei Yuan was speechless. How did Eisen become a knight? He was truly brainless.

The enemy was not dumb. If they did not have complete confidence, how could they have sent only one person to confront them?

Moreover, that was a Hydra!

Through the system, Lei Yuan checked the levels of the man and beast. These were not low-level grunts. Especially the Hydra. Lei Yuan’s Charm attribute would be completely useless against it.

“That fool. He deserves to die!” The system could not help but complain, “Host, you can’t win by fighting head-on.”

‘Then how should I do it?’ Lei Yuan pondered.

Charm did not work, and neither would brute force. They were too strong.

Lei Yuan thought about what method he could use, while Eisen’s team was beaten up by the man and his beast. This man knew that Eisen was the leader, so he controlled the Hydra to swallow him whole.

Eisen’s weapon was knocked aside during the battle, and he did not even have the strength to pick it up. All he could do was watch as the Hydra approached him.

‘What can I do? Am I really going to die here?’

“Look over here!”