Chapter 88: Milton vs Siegfried (4) (2/2)

‘What should I do? Should I ignore this and just continue on with the war?’

Siegfried was in a dileer here, he would ainst the orders issued directly by the Fuhrer, then he would face a huge amount of political backslash in the Republic Milton Forrest’s head? Or a position within the Republic? He had to prioritize one of them

And the decision he made was…

“Let us immediately return with the arfried’s decision couldn’t be helped

“Yes, we should”

The ant ser’s disdainful attitude, Siegfried thought to himself

‘I’ll deal with the trash within the Republic first… Consider yourself lucky, Milton Forrest’

Siegfried decided to postpone going after Milton’s head

And so, Siegfried led the rest of his arfried would later on say, [Not going after Milton Forrest’s head at that tifried was soret what had already happened, he would forever regret withdrawing the army then

After the battle was over

As the soldiers were collecting bodies and their weapons, a wo up the campsite appeared That woman was Bianca

“Miss Bianca, for you to co?”

“I have soan to carefully look at the corpse of their ene her exa vial tucked away under his chestplate

Although there wasn’t much left inside the vial, Bianca carefully studied the leftover potion

“As I thought…”

She gave a broad s the contents

“I found it”

At that ht and passion But there was a strong sense of cruelty in that smile

The as over With a total death toll of over 100,000 hout history

With the end of Milton Forrest and Siegfried’s battle, the two countries stopped fighting further

The Great Western War which started with the civil war in Lester Kingdom, followed by Hildes Republic’s intervention, and another intervention by Strabus Kingdom, drew attention from the continent

And as with any fried had become famous after the war He led the Republican Ardodom, Duke Brans, and annihilated the 50,000 men that he led It deserves to be said that it was truly reained soto rumors, the alliance of the three Republics and the plan that pushed Strabus Kingdofried’s brainchild With this one war, Siegfried’s nahout the continent

And the next name to pop up was Milton Forrest

Milton too was an unknown, but he had led the Southern Arer He had saved the capital when the Second Prince had tried to take over the Capital, then captured the Second Prince and basically ended the civil war And in the ith the Hildes Republic, had cofried’s army in check And on top of that, he had boldly invaded the Republic’s country and scared the hell out of thefried’s arnificance, the Lester Kingdoreat hope to the weary people The northern region was in ruins after the Republican occupation, and after the long war, food production for that year had been greatly delayed For the people who had lived through such difficult hardshi+ps and trials, they needed hope They needed soive them the hope to raise their heads and look up Milton Forrest because that person for the Lester KingdomHe became a hero of the country as Princess Leila had wanted

By this point, fairy tales or novels would usually end with the hero saying, ‘and I lived happily ever after’ But reality was different froh the war had ended, Milton still had countless problems in front of him No, to be dom still had countless problems to deal with? It was only natural that a sed after being caught up in war Probleht, but the worst of the proble occupied by the Republic, the North see this year Due to the civil war between the Princes, all the men that could carry weapons had been conscripted Three in four of those men had died Most of them had been someone’s father and someone’s child and because of this, the streets were filled with orphans and the public peace sharply declined

Equally, the Capital had its own problems Because Princess Leila had led the people to escape, there were less civilian casualties in the capitalHowever, in the process of retreating, Siegfried had thoroughly destroyed the Capital Previously steeped in history, Lorentia was now in ruins When they returned ho evacuated, the citizens were devastated once they had seen what had beco sadness, bitterness, and helplessness in the face of reality, they wanted so

That someone became Milton and Princess Leila

Princess Leila first gathered all the nobles who had followed her Before Siegfried had invaded the capital, most of the capital’s nobles had fled abroad Of course, fried and had their properties stolen and sold to the Republic as slaves However, there were some nobles who had decided to follow Princess Leila They were those who had been swayed over to her side after seeing her leadershi+p, albeit for only a short period of ti attachment to their country and remained to fulfill their duties as a nobleh there were only a few of them, the ones left by Princess Leila’s side were the true nobles

Once she had gathered the she said was

“We need to start fresh”

The country had collapsed The future was too daunting to think in ter With this opportunity, she was determined to properly build up her country from scratchWhen the nobles looked at her, she looked the we need to do is stabilize the North”

At her words, one of the nobles spoke

“Shouldn’t the priority be to rebuild the Capital, Your Highness?”

Princess Leila shook her head in response

“Although the Republicans have withdrawn, there’s no guarantee that they won’t invade again It is then the defense on our borders first”

At that, all the nobles nodded in agreeone beyond peacefulness and became indolence And they had become keenly aware of the cost of indolence with this war The question ho should they send to stabilize the Northern border…

Everyone’s eyes turned towards one person

“Your Highness, I think it makes sense to entrust the northern defense to Count Forrest”

“Yes, Your Highness If it was Count Forrest, I have no doubts that he would firmly defend the country from the Republic”

Milton watched the nobles reco him

‘This is why people say it’s troubleso to use you’

For Milton who had just wanted to live that beautiful silver spoon life, this was all very unpleasant Fortunately, Princess Leila had no intentions of sending Milton up to the North