When the sun rose again in the east on the steppe on the banks of the Usko River, the flames of war that once covered the station and the steppe dissipated, but the scars of the battle remained on the ground. The entire station was littered with the corpses of Chaos beasts, the trenches were piled up into hills, and patches of black-brown ant colonies were scattered across the grasslands. The smell of blood permeated the battlefield, inviting a flock of birds to feast on the feast, screaming and flying up and down like rising clouds.

The devastated barracks were littered with collapsed tents, broken wooden fences, overturned vehicles, and blood stains everywhere. The smell of blood and burnt paste combined with the smell of the liquor used to disinfect it mixes together to create a unique air. People were busy carrying away corpses and treating the wounded, and everywhere shone with the white glow of Sharya's healing power. Because of the existence of the central hospital, most of the injured were spared the danger of life, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune. However, when the Chaos Beasts attacked the station, more than a dozen priests and nurses who were rescuing the wounded under the parapet were unfortunately killed, and they died as glorious as the soldiers of the former enemy.

In this bloody battle, which lasted all night, more than 16,700 Chaos beasts and more than 100 Chaos Kugan cavalry were killed, including three Slaanesh's god-favored knights and four minotaurs. This is a great victory, but the human losses are not light. Of the nearly 700 knights, soldiers, and lightly wounded who participated in the battle, 189 were killed and more than 270 were wounded, which can be regarded as more than half of the casualties. The cavalry that went out of the city to assault was almost completely wiped out, and only four of the fifty-eight knights, attendants and musketeers in the two sorties survived. They are Hyde, Marshall, Frey, and Simon, the squire of the Cheetah Knights. This is truly a costly victory!

But without the participation of the powerful ice and snow mage, General Lukin, this costly victory would not have been possible. In fact, by the time Lukin awoke, Chaos Dancing Queen Relia had already destroyed the wooden fence of the Central Hospital with a large attack spell, killing and wounding thirty defenders on the spot, opening a large gap in the station's last line of defense. The Chaos Beasts roared with joy, the death squads swarmed into the gap, Old Loren's brass pistol firing almost at their chests, and the entire central hospital was in despair.

But the appearance of General Lukin turned everything around, and he took his mighty Spirit Bear into the crowd of beasts with a thunderbolt, knocking a minotaur away like a sandbag with a single blow. The chaotic dancing girl tried to attack him with the last remaining magic power, but the powerful war mage bounced back with a wave of his hand, and seriously injured herself. The blue-haired dancer named Lelia fled with her broken arm, and the Chaos beasts trampled on themselves, trampling countless dead in the narrow alleyways trampled by giant bears, swept by ice arrows, slammed with muskets, losing all morale and crumbling like the tide receded.

When the beasts fled to the exit of the station, the former Beastmaster Krandesgore, who was entrenched in the collapsed door of the station--- a giant Chaos egg, launched an indiscriminate attack on these former men. It waved its tentacles and pincers, killing and injuring many of the unlucky ones who had stepped on its body in the chaos, and then happily threw them into its mouth and munched on them. But its happiness didn't last long, as the war elephant-sized blizzard bear tore open its body with a blow, and then an ice pick from General Lukin pinned it to the trench, and the giant monster struggled a few times and collapsed like a puddle of rotten flesh.

After this powerful ice mage slew the two Slaanesh Chosen Knights with lightning speed, the remnants of the Chaos army shattered and shattered, leaving only the courage to flee for their lives, including the Beastmaster Kent Gore. The Kugan riders brought by Kraken and Abdel resisted for a while, but soon fled under the devastating blow of the giant ice bear, the ice wind and lead bullets of death chasing them behind, leaving behind the corpses of the grasslands.

The night's bloody battle was over, and all that remained was to rescue the wounded. Lara arrives and cries when she sees Hyde, covered in blood and unconscious, and it takes a long time for Loren and Marshall to stop and release healing magic. Frey pursed her lips, just against Hyde, as if everything was silent. At dawn, a cavalry brigade of Kislev arrived here. There were more than four hundred of them, and they had already routed a team of Chaos Beasts on the spot. According to them, the military stations and outposts in the south were also attacked last night, but not on the same scale as the attack here. The operation did not appear to be local, but was part of a larger attack that Chaos had been planning for a long time. General Lukin agreed with the captain, and he immediately took command of the cavalry, leaving one hundred and twenty fierce Ugol cavalry archers to guard the station, and then led the main force of three hundred horsemen to pursue the Chaos Beast.

Hyde, who had just woken up under the healing magic of Greenhill, Lara and others, was unable to participate in the operation, because he was so badly injured that he broke several bones, his lungs were pierced, and his physical exhaustion was exhausted to the extreme. He even struggled to sit up in front of General Lukin, who had said a brief farewell to him before leaving, which made him feel a little ashamed. But the mighty battle mage took the brave young man's hand, thanked him cordially, let him recuperate from his wounds in peace, and then led his troops away in a hurry. This general is also a man of temperament, and he comes and goes like the wind.

"I salute you the highest respect of my soldiers, and I pay you my highest personal respect! It was your fight that saved the life of Mrs. Greenhill, and it was your fight that saved my Lukin's life, and I will always remember all this!

These were General Lukin's last words before leaving. He half-knelt in front of Hyde's bed, bent down his majestic bear-like body, clasped Hyde's hand, and thanked him in a thunderous voice. The sound rustled the tarpaulin of the small tent, as if even the rudimentary wooden bed was about to shake, and Greenhill had to squeeze his eyes and signal him to be quieter. However, the black-armored general didn't seem to notice this, but hurriedly turned around and left the tent, jumped on his horse, and led the Kislev cavalry and the mighty bear spirit to set off.

"General Lukin is a very good man, but he is also a man who is too thick-lined. A lot of the time, he's not very understanding!Ah, that's why he lost to my kind husband at this point! I'll tell you a secret, they were competitors in the first place!"

Greenhill, dressed in a white dress, shrugged her white shoulders and smiled and complained. The beautiful lady was a naturally light-hearted and cheerful person, and her smile filled the tent with light, which made both Lara and Hyde blush a little, but Frey was rather calm.

"Dear Mrs. Greenhill, I have heard of General Lukin from my dear Lord Edelman. He is Lady Kesley, but joins the army of the Imperial Court. His name is so great in the Northlands against Chaos, the Ogre Tribe, and the Dark Elves that any knight of the Imperial Court doesn't know the prestige of the Ice Battle Bear?

Frey posed her question to Greenhill, and the dark-haired girl's eyes were a little red, and she choked up a little when she said "Lord Edelman." When the battle was over, she rushed to the place where Edelman had died, hugged her fatherly knight's mangled body, and cried for half the night until dawn before rushing back to the station. Now she still has the tears on her face, and the pain of losing a loved one makes her voice painful.

"Well...... This is a complex issue. But you must have heard of how His Highness Luther Huss, the great hero who fought against the Chosen King of Chaos, disappeared without explanation, right? ”

Greenhill's smile vanished, and the beautiful temple priest of Sharya furrowed her slender eyebrows and answered Frey's question with a bit of heaviness, her hands unconsciously intertwined, as if to represent her inner thoughts.

"I'm sorry, please forgive my presumptuousness, dear Mrs. Greenhill!"

The short-haired girl bowed to Greenhill a little nervously and apologized, feeling that something seemed wrong with her question. Lara stared at her big brown eyes a little stupidly, the little girl with her braided and freckled nose was more like an innocent child, and the battle-hardened Frey, though only two years older than her, felt much more mature.