Chapter 82: Ghost Special Corps (2) (1/2)
Chapter 82: Ghost Special Corps (2)
‘Is this how I die?’
Duke Brans sensed his end loo
But…
‘No, I absolutely can’t meet my end here There’s a reason that I must return alive’
The Duke pictured Claudia’s face and steeled hifried as a hostage… the chances are looking grim, but there’s a way out’
The Duke resolved on his one path to survival
“Come as you may Entertain me until my very last”
Duke Brans’ lines h his inner heart was starkly different
Jake assufried also drew his blade and assumed a combat stance
The Duke’s eyebroitched
“Do you intend to throw your lot in as well, boy?”
“Would you label me a coward?”
“Hs to play fair in the first place”
Though he gave a prickly answer, the Duke thought to himself that this was an optimal turn of events
In a duel between Masters, a weaker person trying to lend a helping hand only became a burden In fact, Duke Brans believed that his probabilities of holding Siegfried hostage had just increased
“I do apologize, but I prefer fights in which I ithout a doubt”
“Very well Then come-”
The Duke almost let his sword slip out of his hands as he spoke He had thought there would be no more that could faze him, with all that had happened in this short ti but a co hts in which I in”
A vivid Aura Blade was enveloped around Siegfried’s sword as well
“……”
In other words, before the Duke were two enefried readied himself and spoke to the stunned Brans
“Now then – it is time for you to die, Duke Brans”
With that, the two of them attacked the Duke froh… damn IT ALL!!”
The Duke y he had ever ic to this, and nor was there hope
He was only lashi+ng out for one last time
“That was a considerable pain in the neck”
Siegfried muttered as he sheathed his sword
Before hiht fiercely until the very end with a last hurrah He had given it his all with two Masters as opponents – but he could not change an outcoe?”
Jake received a report frofried
“So far, there have been 13 dead from the battle But it appears 24 more will either die froed as cripples if they survive”
Siegfried frowned at the report
“37 men out of 300… that would be over 10 percent There’s still fried murmured to himself and issued another order to Jake
“Commence a cleanup of this site Especially ensure that no hints remain of our losses”
“Understood What will you do with Duke Brans’ head?”
“Hang it high atop a flag We should make the most of this, after all”
“Yes, as you cofried and his men scrubbed the site and disappeared without a trace
Duke Derek Brans’ death in battle
The impact of his death was h le-handedly flip the flow of a battle, but the death of the Duke reverberated beyond that A cornerstone of the Strabus Kingdoth, as well as one of the syht, had fallen This was an enordo their co but the news of losing Duke Brans, all that awaited the couillotine For the the head of Siegfried who had brought about this state of affairs in the first place
The staff’s decision to co to foolhardily continue the ith their pridom expedition army was exterminated Not only did they lose the Master that was Derek Brans, but they lost their regular force of 50,000 troops in its entirety This was an unforeseen catastrophe for the Strabus Kingdos were also looking dire for the Lester Kingdom
“Hoill the lot of you take responsibility for this state of affairs?”
“Take responsibility, you say? Why do you ask us to be responsible for the defeat of the Strabus Kingdom’s expedition army?”
“Was it not the First Prince and his faction that requested the expedition troops?”
“His Highness the First Prince has already passed away And besides, it was His Royal Majestythe King who decreed that the expedition ar us to take responsibility?”
“Then who shall we ask, you incoain?! How dare the likes of you…”
The nobles shouted at each other at this urgently called assembly, half-stricken with panic
The shock of the Strabus army’s total extinction was too ht their victory was assured
As the Strabus Kingdom’s army stepped in, the First Prince’s faction that had crashed and burned at one tih they fell to the botto the massive responsibility of their defeat in the civil war, the main culprit that was the First Prince had thankfully (?) codom army – who had been requested in the name of the First Prince – was able to take back the North for the Lester Kingdom, the burden on their shoulders for their past failures would be substantially lifted
Yet no one iined in their wildest dreams that the Strabus army would be defeated The expedition army consisted of as many as 50,000 troops, with the Master and Duke Derek Brans personally participating But no defeat could be as complete as this one
The only option left for the First Prince’s faction was to thoroughly deny all responsibility to avoid the consequences The lines that they went along were that the final approval for the expedition ar, and that they had no say in this matter
Of course, the other nobles were occupied with accusatory attacks on the nobles of the First Prince’s faction
Princess Leila, as still te state affairs as a stand-in, observed the unfolding scene from the throne
‘What a bunch of terrific men’
Even if the country were to fall to ruins tomorrow, before her were people that would still bicker on with their politicking for what they could gain today With her current te the theh it’s not like this situation would beco that there was no one in this royal hall that was reliable, Princess Leila left the fools in front of her to their squabbling and fell into her own thoughts
‘Siegfried, huh… who knew there would be such a monster’
To tell the truth, Princess Leila herself did not anticipate that the expedition army would be defeated
She had based her future plans for this war on the pree victorious Now all those plans had becoh her mind
The defeat of the expedition army had most certainly been outside her calculations However, there were two things that were a compensatory relief
The first was that the Southern ar had perfectly routed the Hildess troops that were facing the this time, Duke Palan and a force of 20,000 soldiers had been stationed at the Capital to prepare for the
“We must recall Count Forrest immediately to defend the Capital”