Reborn with Infinite System Points, I Can Directly Change Item's Value-Chapter 45 --The Pet Eggs Hatch!

Snelow City.

As one of the Eaglecrest Empire’s frontier strongholds, this main city was garrisoned with troops year-round. As a result, there were many military NPCs within the city, but very few life-skill NPCs.

At this hour on a normal day, Snelow City would have long since dispatched soldiers outside the walls for drills.

But now, the city gates were tightly shut, with no one entering or leaving.

Because at this very moment, outside the city walls, there was an army encamped beneath banners utterly different from those of the Eaglecrest Empire!

Most of them were mercenaries with long beards and braided hair.

"Trash of the Eaglecrest Empire! Aren’t you usually arrogant as hell? Get out here and fight us!"

"Hahaha, cowardly turtles! The Eaglecrest Empire is full of cowardly turtles!"

"You think hiding will save you? Even if you stay cowering inside, we’ll still break your city and loot you clean!"

They kept creating all kinds of commotion outside the city, as if conducting military drills.

From time to time, they would even send a scout squad over to taunt and probe the city’s defenses.

The people inside were terrified, living in panic and misery.

...

Inside Snelow City,

the residents had already locked themselves indoors, too afraid to go outside.

The city’s only defensive force consisted of several hundred members of the Snelow City Guard.

At this moment, they were gathered atop the walls, staring at the dark mass of enemy troops outside with grim expressions.

The City Guard Captain was only a Level 30 swordsman. Furious and alarmed, he glared at the mercenaries who kept hurling insults and slammed his hand heavily against the parapet.

"Damn it! They just had to show up while the city’s main force is away reinforcing another front.

This Mercenary Legion definitely came prepared!"

The other city guards lowered their heads in silence, the atmosphere suffocatingly tense.

Someone muttered in a low voice, "We only have a few hundred men left here.

That Mercenary Legion outside has at least several thousand, doesn’t it?

With such an overwhelming difference in numbers, how are we supposed to hold the city?"

Hearing that, the City Guard Captain’s face darkened as well.

"Now we can only pray that the main force returns in time. Otherwise..."

By the end,

his voice had faded away.

Everyone knew perfectly well that the main force could not possibly make it back in a short time.

Before they returned, Snelow City would most likely have already fallen.

"We... have no hope left!"

No one knew who let out that despairing sigh.

In an instant,

the entire wall fell into dead silence. Even the City Guard Captain shut his eyes in dejection.

...

Outside the city,

after repeatedly probing and provoking them, the Mercenary Legion saw that Snelow City still made no response.

The Mercenary Legion Commander grinned wide, exposing two rows of yellow teeth.

"Hahaha, brothers, looks like Ruvan really did lure away this city’s main force!

Follow me! Once we kill our way inside, the whole city will be ours.

And when that happens, every one of us will get rich!"

After that round of incitement, the Mercenary Legion immediately erupted in excited howls.

They raised their sabers high, just about to charge—

when the Commander suddenly signaled for everyone to halt.

"Wait. Who’s that?"

The mercenaries followed the direction of his gesture and all froze.

There, atop the city wall, stood a white-robed figure who had appeared at some unknown moment.

...

"Get up!"

John’s low shout jolted the despairing city guards from their stupor.

The City Guard Captain stared at John and parted his lips.

"You are...?"

John said calmly, "I was sent by the Eaglecrest Empire to support you. Get up.

You are soldiers of the Empire. Yet when the enemy stands before you, you do not dare fight. What kind of disgrace is that?"

Hearing those words, the several hundred city guards were instantly overwhelmed with shame and hurried to their feet.

But when they saw the battle-ready Mercenary Legion outside the walls, their faces turned pale again.

Seeing this, John sighed inwardly.

"These city guards are truly timid. I’ll have to rally them a bit more."

At once, he raised his voice and said, "Men, do you still remember the oath of the Imperial Guard?"

The city guards were stunned.

John recited it himself.

"Never retreat before the enemy. Whenever battle comes, we answer.

Hold the wolves beyond the nation’s gates; annihilate our foes upon our soil!

Have you all forgotten that?"

After those words,

the city guards seemed to wake from a dream.

Their faces flushed red as they shouted in unison, "We remember it by heart! We have never forgotten!"

Only after seeing their morale restored did John finally nod in satisfaction.

Just then,

a burst of mocking laughter suddenly rose from outside the city.

"Hah, and here I thought it was someone important. Turns out it’s just a smooth-faced brat. Still wet behind the ears, aren’t you?"

"Hahahaha! That little runt looks so skinny and weak I could crush him with one punch!"

"Who gave you the courage to come here and die at a time like this? You really must be in a hurry to get reincarnated!"

Once the mercenaries saw John’s face and realized he was not some important figure from the Eaglecrest Empire,

the last trace of caution in their hearts vanished.

They all raised their blades, and their level panels lit up.

"Kid, if you know what’s good for you, get lost right now. With our strength, you think you can afford to provoke us?!"

[Mercenary Commander] Lv.45

[Skills]: Mercenary Enhancement, Savage Charge...

...

[Mercenary Vice Commander] Lv.40

[Skills]: Frenzied Plunder, Deadly Hunt...

...

John’s gaze turned icy as he looked at the mercenaries.

Within this Mercenary Legion, the strongest were only the commander and vice commander, both around Level 40.

As for the rest, their strength was all over the place.

The weakest were little more than mercenary stablehands, some of them only Level 10. Most were ordinary mercenaries in the Level 20 to Level 30 range.

They were nothing more than a rabble.

Just as John was about to order the city guards to open the gates and follow him out to wipe out this mercenary band,

a prompt suddenly rang out in his mind.

[SSS-Rank Pet Egg x2 has finished hatching!]

[Please open the Pet Space and draw your random pets.]

"The Pet Eggs have hatched?"

John’s thoughts stirred. He turned to the City Guard Captain beside him and instructed, "Wait here for a moment.

Hold the gate. I’ll be right back."

With that, his figure flashed and vanished from the spot.

When the mercenaries outside saw this scene,

they immediately took it as proof that John had fled in fear of battle.

At once, they burst into mocking laughter.

"Tch, I thought the kid might actually have some skill. Turns out he’s just a coward who doesn’t even dare fight."

"You people on the wall really think someone like that can help you hold the city?

Why not open the gates and surrender now? Cooperate with us instead!"

"A coward like that still had the nerve to talk so righteously just now.

Even I, a mere mercenary, look down on trash like him."

Those cruel words from the mercenaries fell into the ears of the city guards,

leaving them both furious and doubtful.

Because John’s actions really did look like he was running from the fight.

Who suddenly says they have urgent business when the enemy army is just about to storm the city?

Besides, although he claimed he had come as reinforcements, he had shown no proof of identity.

Could he really have been a fraud who came here just to toy with them?

For a moment, the morale John had just managed to raise began to waver once more.

Seizing the opportunity, the mercenaries launched their charge at once!