Although not northern, the Stoke people are equally unkind to the winter, which symbolizes cold and desolation. But only this year, only this winter, almost all the people of Stoke are looking forward to it being a little longer, a little longer, and they even feel that it is not unacceptable to live in such a harsh environment forever.

Because the Stoke themselves know that when the cold and biting snow melts, it will be the day when their homeland will be baptized by the fire of the northerners. Although the cold is bitter, it will not make their families ruin and uprooted. And when the northerners' hooves arrived, what they had to endure was far from being as simple as shivering with cold.

But spring is still coming after all. Because although the ice and snow temporarily stopped the northerners from moving south, it could not freeze the passage of time. The warmth of spring gradually dispelled the cold of ice and snow, and the dots of green began to appear on the continent again. From a natural point of view, the abundance of vitality is already something that can be seen everywhere.

But the irony of the world is that only where there is light, there is a shadow. In what was supposed to be a new season of hope and life, destruction and carnage filled the entire southern continent. Because...... Once again, the northerners' offensive began.

Poof!

Lishana calmly pulled her own blast from the throat of her foe, blood spurting from the throat of the Stoke soldier, some of which splattered onto Lisanna's old sword-marked armor from the squeezing of her heart. But the maiden didn't care at all, and kicked the Stoke away from her, and then indifferently searched for the next enemy.

When facing the Stokes, Lisanna's sword is always the deadliest and most ruthless. All those who are not familiar with Lishana will have an inexplicable fear of her after seeing her fight. Because she obviously has pink hair that symbolizes softness and gentleness, she looks like a gentle and quiet girl. But every time she is on the battlefield, her performance is even more eye-catching than some male fighters.

Because Lishana's killings never pursue anything else, she doesn't think about whether she will be stained with blood if this blow continues, nor does she think about the gorgeousness and ornamentation of her movements and gestures. Lisanna's combat has always pursued only one, and that is to kill enemies with the simplest and quickest moves, and if she can't, she will seek to inflict maximum damage on them.

Because of this, the enemies under Lisanna's sword usually have very hideous and terrible wounds. The soldiers who fought with her remembered that Lishana once got her sword stuck in the enemy's body, so she directly cocked the poor guy's vertebrae out......

Therefore, many warriors feel that although Lishana seems to be sunny and warm, she is a pervert with twisted bloodthirsty desires. Although they were somewhat glad that the pervert was on their side, to be honest, the warriors of the Golden Eagle Knights were only in awe of Lisanna, and it was difficult for them to accept.

And this is one of the reasons why Lishana became Alexander's personal bodyguard, and Lishana was indeed subtly isolated there.

Lisana lunged forward, her body weaving through the battlefield like a ghost. The two swords in her hand alternately flew, and she unleashed her sword with precision and swiftness, striking fatal blows at passing foes in a rapid run.

And if Lishana doesn't hit with one hit, she doesn't love fighting, her fighting style of running and attacking while actually belongs to a fighting skill, which was created by Malorite according to her fighting style in the state of Wind Dance and given to Lisanna. Named Shadow of the Reaper by Mallorite's very middle two.

With Lishana's current physical fitness and nerve reflex rate, she can barely maintain a high speed of movement, and she can also grasp the timing of her sword while moving. However, she is not able to perform rapid changes of direction in high-speed movement like Malorlet, and if she can't, she is doomed to be unable to strike the same target repeatedly while using this technique. And once she stops, her body will also be greatly reduced due to overloaded running, and even temporary combat ability.

Focusing her fighting energy on her legs, Lisana dodged the warrior who stood in her way with slight deflections, and if it was an enemy, she swung the Swift Shadow to slash the fellow.

"Seven...... Eight ...... "Every time Lisana draws her sword, she can tell whether she has killed an enemy with this blow just by the touch of her wrist. She shuttled through the battlefield and drew her sword while silently counting the numbers in her heart.

Lisanna was calculating how many enemies she had killed in this battle. By nature, Lishana doesn't like to kill, and she doesn't like to bring blood and pain to others. But the scene of her mother's death haunts her like a curse, so whenever she meets a Stoker, the Lisana that people see in their normal lives dies. In its place, it was the pink demon who harvested the lives of his enemies like a machine.

But this evil ghost still retains his own glimmer of goodness. So every time Lishana kills, she will keep a note of how many lives have died under her twin swords, and then when the battle is over and she is completely safe, Lishana will pray and confess sincerely, hoping that the souls that have died because of her will be laid to rest.

"Thirteen...... Fourteen ......"

Lishana felt that her physical strength had reached the limit, as she would fall into weakness every time she used Shadow of the Reaper, so this fighting technique was often used by Lishana as a finishing move when the situation on the battlefield was completely clear. At the moment, it seems that she should have killed a dozen enemies in this battle.

"Fifteen ......"

Lisanna's speed was drastically reduced by her physical exhaustion, and she finally slashed off the head of an enemy with a blast of wind, and then staggered to the ground under the stunned gaze of her comrade who was grappling with the enemy.

"As a woman...... There's a lot of inconvenience!" Lisanna blushed slightly, and she thought to herself as she took a deep breath to regain her strength. Fifteen enemies wasn't a feat, but she couldn't help it. Because...... Her relatives have been here for the past two days......

As long as it is a girl with normal development, even if it is a high-level warrior, she still can't get rid of the troubles of her relatives.

Lisanna rolled over and sat down on the ground with difficulty, and then began to think back to the experience of the war between the two empires during this time.

The Hawke Empire's army has been demoralized since the beginning of spring, and now the battlefield in the eastern plains of the continent has presented a one-sided situation. The northern soldiers marched straight in, and the Stokers were like a herd of lambs to the slaughter in front of the northerner army, armed with dark elf equipment and magic cannons.

The northerners are now in full swing, directly into the interior of the Stoke Empire, and with the thrill of revenge, they are content to inflict on the suffering inflicted on them by the southerners.

Moreover, the army of the Hawke Empire is currently mixed with the army of barbarians. These barbarians who came down from the northern icy plateau were even more at the forefront of plundering and destruction. They wreak havoc in the fallen southern villages, destroying them, killing, raping, plundering, and setting fires to their best practices.

According to information obtained by Regner, some barbarians even hid Stoke babies under the age of one in the army. Why? No, no, no, no, they want to be able to feast when no one is around.

There have been incidents of barbarians eating babies in many armies, which provoked the military of the Hawke Empire to be on the cusp of public opinion for a while. Cannibalism, whether it is a northerner or a southerner, as long as he is a normal human being, is very difficult to accept.

In the end, Alexander, as the current de facto commander of the military, could only order that the barbarians within the army should not be allowed to do such heinous acts of cannibalism again, and that other human soldiers should jointly supervise them. Moreover, for the sake of his prestige, Alexander executed several barbarians with an arrogant attitude as a warning. Only then did this kind of heartbreaking thing slowly put an end to it.

It's just that cannibalism is easy to restrict, and the rations provided by the empire this year are not bad anyway. However, Alexander could not control the plundering of the army. Because this is something that not only barbarians will do, but also the human soldiers of the Hawke Empire. And these humans have their own reasons: because the Stoke people used to do the same thing to them.

In the end, Alexander could only let his army burn and plunder the enemy's territory, as long as he did not go too far, the second prince would not delve into this.

Lisanna had been by Alexander's side, and she understood how painful it was to have the prince, who had always been upright and bright, make such a decision. So, despite Lisanna's own soul-like aversion to harming civilians, she didn't take advantage of her proximity to Alexander to say even a word.

And now, Lisana still follows Alexander everywhere on the campaign.

Because the fighting in the east had largely subsided, Alexander began to focus on the western theater at this time. Two years ago, Saron had teleported tens of thousands of strange soldiers to the inside of the fortress with an unimaginably huge magic circle, launching an unprecedented siege battle.

The Hawk Empire's army, which had lost the Costa Fortress as a support point, had to retreat from the western mountains and give up part of the plains as a buffer to defend against the Stoke Empire's attack.

However, as the pressure on the situation on the battlefield in the east has plummeted, the Hawke Empire finally has enough energy to deal with the passive situation in the west.

Alexander thus came to the southwest of the empire, where he would personally command the army to recapture the fortress of Costa. And today's battle is just an encounter with the Stoke Empire by the remnants of the north. Although the enemy was more than twice as numerous as his own, Alexander was guarded by the Golden Eagle Knights, who terrified the Stokers. So, this battle was not so much an encounter as a one-sided massacre.

And now, the slaughter is finally coming to an end.