Chapter 231 (2/2)

Fight in hu off the Alacryan es, I sent to my bond as I jumped off her back

‘Got it I don’t sense any retainers or scythes, but be careful, Arthur Always be careful,’ she replied before flying off to the side in her hu a cloud of frost Behind ed forward into battle

Ahead, I could already see our first wave of troops trying to withdraw Much of the white field was covered in blood and corpses and only ressed

Withdrawing and i Dawn’s Ballad in pale blue fire, I held my sword aloft for those behindforward alongside the line of battle es clad in armor andour field of vision Perhaps it was a good thing, since I wouldn’t be distracted by the sight ofon ReadReadNovelFullonlinecom

On the other side were the Alacryans Many of them were already bloody and sweaty fro soether while others were off by themselves

There were no front lines, no division of forces to utilize their specializedaside e with fervor, reinforcing confidence andand fire

The charge forward ht, but the the clash was dreadful I felt it just aswhile ic was always present as both sides took dae from one another

The carefully forressed into chaos amidst the snowy field My first opponent fell instantaneously as he had approached, with a single slash fro enemy soldiers fell just as quickly under es that had charged alongsideinjured by the occasional lone e that struck them by surprise

I felt uneasy once s aside Hesitation was useless in a battle like this With Dawn’s Ballad in one hand and a spell always ready in the other, I left a trail of Alacryan corpses with every unabated step

The first enee that I found was by hiround His shoulders were hunched forward and his entire body was terribly thin with a sickly pale tone His hands were clad in tendrils of lightning

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Our eyes locked, and he peered into ed

I abandoned my curiousness and rushed forward He was an enemy I needed to kill The more of theWith the addition of wind e’s torso before he even had a chance to strikean eye, I moved on to my next ene out the cries for help fro of nore as eneh the flesh of our soldiers Stains of pink from snow-mixed blood could be seen more often than white itself, and in soround had turned into dark cri onto weapons, chopped off legs, and split-open heads littered the battlefield as I ran around, targeting the flashes of ic that appeared in the distance

Had it not been forthrough my veins, I would’ve knelt down and retched on more than one occasion

About an hour had passed, Sylvie and I regrouped and headed back to the carief and horror e from my bond, and my state of mind wasn’t any better The two of us elco, but it only made it worse Most of the same soldiers were injured, many unconscious

I couldn’t help but think that, out of these dozens of soldiers, howlimbs had I run across out in this battlefield?

Medics ran around carrying supplies while the few ee of backlash fro their mana But despite all of the activity and noise around us, I felt like I atching everything through a thick foggy lens

“Good work,” Varay said, pattinga seat below a tree on the far edge of the caathered ourselves

I wasn’t tired My es I had killed in that hour But ainst the beast horde These soldiers that I had killed were people—people that had fa at me to not think about this, it was hard not to The only s my orders It was that small difference that differentiated a soldier fro orders

The day stretched on with the end of the battle nowhere in sight During this time, more and e fore at a notice down below near the shore The campsites had beco patched up and carried away in carriages back to Etistin

During this tione down to the battlefield four ti ready for our fifth run

“Are you okay, Arthur?” ry but feel nauseous just thinking about food,” I replied quietly “Let’s get this over with”

Sylvie nodded “We’re doing a good thing though We’ve saved hundreds, if not thousands of allies by taking down those hed

Readingis off about them?”

“I do I tried not to think about it because we’re winning, but it’s still onlike that… but this—theanized troops that Agrona had created Not in a way that I had iined theainst before were elites,” Sylvie replied

“Maybe you’re right,” I sighed

Maybe I really had overesti that they’d done over the years, the ene to invade an entire continent It’s only nore

That hen I overheard one of the injured soldiers talking

I whipped around and ran to the legless soldier lying on a table with a auze around his injuries

“What did you say?” I asked, terrifying the ies I shouldn’t have said soeous like that!” he exclaimed, eyes ith fear

“No I just want to knohat you said just now So about ‘freed’?”

“I-I just said that I felt a little… bad for the to a whisper “One of the Alacryans, just before I killed hiranted freedoranted freedo to me with an expression of concern “Do they enslave their soldiers?”

Thoughts accelerated in : how untrained the soldiers seees were, the disunity ast their troops thata free-for-all, and even the lack of uniform and armor that helped them tell each other apart from their ene at Sylvie “Those are just their prisoners”

Sylvie’s eyes widened in realization before asking the question that really mattered “So then, where are their actual soldiers?”