Chapter 217 (2/2)
The soldiers around us laughed at our little show Sinder, nearly killed by his own captain, wasn’t as a the at th of the Wall towas in place for when our battle would begin It wasn’t a job that a captain should be doing, but seeingthat helped me as well
These soldiers that I had trained, lectured and sometimes even sparred with, relied onan arer in nu on ReadReadNovelFullonlineco you shake, a his staff Patting his shoulder, I shot hiht, let’s have your wife make us one of her mean cruh, his body visibly relaxing “It’s just like you to be thinking of food at a tihted to know that you like her pie thata plan for the future—anything to get the soldiers’ heads out of the dark hole caused by the loo battle
That’s when I saw General Arthur’s little sister… Eleanor was her nairl was hard to notice with the large ned to her, was nowhere in sight, replaced by a dark-haired archer with bright eyes She seeround
“Miss Leywin,” I greeted “What happened to the soldier I had assigned you?”
The little girl stiffened into a rather clumsy salute “Ah, yes! hello, Captain…”
“Albanth” I s her “And you are?”
The sharp-eyed woies for the confusion I’time instructor so I relieved Stella of her duty to watch after her”
“I see,” I ser sister wasn’t the one to shrug off her protector “In that case, I will leave her in your care”
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“Yes sir!” she said, bri with confidence
“Miss Leywin” I turned to face the approaching beast horde that appeared to be getting even larger than I i us out even after seeing that?”
“Yes” The little girl’s expression hardened as she gripped her intricate bow “My brother is fighting out there with only Sylvie to help hi is help him and my parents, who are here as well”
She couldn’t have been older than twelve or thirteen, yet here she ith little traces of innocence and youth left I wanted to ask whether her parents knew she was here and if they would approve, but it wasn’ther and the archer named Helen a salute, I continuedtoward , people would think that he had cliht of the Wall with his bare hands Thetoand has requested your presence immediately”
“Got it Thank you,” I replied before i to the main tent
By the ti the tent with a rather particularly sour expression She bu of curses under her breath
“Captain Jes the captain’s arm
The blonde-haired captain whirled around, her free hand already holding her saber before realizing who I was
“Captain Albanth,” she nearly spat out while sheathing her sword
Surprised by her veno me off with a cold shoulder “Ask Trodius, ” she hissed before striding away
I opened the entrance to the tent to see Captain Trodius going through some paperwork in that eerily impeccable posture he always had
The captain kneas here but he continued on with his work as if to make a statement This went on for a few er and cleared er cut me off The man didn’t even look in my direction until he had finally finished whatever it was he was doing, despite the fact that he had sent a
Finally, afterhis papers into three even piles, he looked up and locked eyes with me “Captain Albanth”
“Sir!” I saluted,loudly
“Have your melee troops prepare tothe beast horde in the terms that we dictate”
“Excuse ies, Senior Captain, but it was tothat the melee troops would enter combat only after we’ve lured a majority of the beast horde into the trap we had—”
“Captain Albanth,” the senior captain interrupted again “Do you kno round passages for our trailblazer divisions to safely explore the Beast Glades? I won’t go as far as to weigh the value of lives between the efforts spent on this fortress, but just realize that it doesn’t round routes”
“But, Sir” I took a step forward only to bea step back, I continued “With General Arthur’s plan, we’ll be able to iive our melee forces a much better chance to sur—”
“As I have stated before, Captain Albanth , I won’t go as far as to weigh the value of lives…” The senior captain let his sentence trail off, letting
“Besides, the lance said it hi out of respect for his position, but he’s but a boy that’s ignorant of war It’d be in your best interest to realize that as well”
Clenching my fists behind my back, I stood silent
Trodius took the silence as ave me that fake smile that seemed to work so ith the people who didn’t truly know him “Good! Then we’ll have your melee troops advance immediately You and your troops will do whatever it takes to hold your ground until Jesmiya’s forces are ordered to come around the flank to assist you By then, the archers and conjurers in position will be in range to fire freely at their backline”
Gritting er, I was barely able to respond with a nod before turning around to leave Suddenly, Jesmiya’s mood back e had run into each other see this conversation
“Oh, and Captain Albanth?” the senior captain called out “I realize that through this, the death toll will be higher, but know that our victory will be thatafter all of this”
ARTHUR LEYWIN
‘Arthur’
My gaze shi+fted fro in the air, back to the sight of the Alacryan army ithin the forest
‘Arthur!’ Sylvie’s voice rang louder
“I don’t know!” I snapped “I don’t knohat to do, Sylvie”
My role was to stay here, to help the forces of the Wall defeat this beast horde Even if all of this was nothing but a diversion, my fa happened to any of theer? With so many elves stationed around Sapin, it would be alainst an army of that size
‘I know it’s a hard decision,’ she responded, her soothing voice cal me just a tad ‘Rest assured that I will support whatever choice you ears in my brain turned tirelessly while I debated After ical side stepped in It reassured ot to the Wall would greatly lower the chances of the menter like my father
Pressed for time as both the beast horde and Alacryan army advanced relentlessly toward their destination, Ito Elshi+re Forest”