Early that morning, a messenger led two heavy horses through the devastated battlefield to Davi Swan's camp.

The guards stopped him, and the messenger said that he had offered a gift in the name of Annam Reeves, the lord of Liberty City, asking for a truce for a day.

The messenger remained outside the camp, and two heavy horses were led to Davi Swan's tent.

"Is the young city lord courting us?"

The rich Davey Swanmore rubbed his beard, and the corners of the Mad Dog Grand Duke's mouth curled in an arc full of malice and contempt. He had just wanted the servant to lead the heavy horse to feed the pets...... But Davey Swan's appreciation made the Mad Dog Grand Duke give in: "They even know that you like horses...... Mr. David, do you want to take it? ”

"Of course you have to take it. Tell the messenger outside that I have promised a truce. Davi Swan said to the soldier, then looked at the Mad Dog Grand Duke with a grin.

"We'll have dinner in his City Lord's Mansion tonight."

……

Annan thought the same way.

The musketeers, knights and mages of Olmedo, who had been re-replenished to a thousand, were all preparing for a night attack on Annam, known as the "Annam Trojan Horse".

Capture Davey Swan alive, or die.

For the sake of secrecy, Annan didn't even bring the gray-robed mage and Lord Lorraine.

And in order to increase the success rate, Annan asked Elimayas to turn into a human and follow them in action.

In the evening, the crowd began to assemble on the battlefield. To Annan's surprise, he saw Elimoas in human form.

It was a cold and elegant beautiful girl, cold from the majestic vertical pupils, elegant from the long blue dress studded with gems, and beautiful from the delicate skin like morning dewdrops.

Annan was at first looking at Elimoas's moving cheeks, but soon fell on the jewel on the hem of her dress. It was a look familiar to Elimoas—the way she saw the treasure.

Annan asked Krar to say something morale-boosting. The soldier who came back from the dead and became an undead soldier was in a good mood: "If you don't want to be chased by dogs all day long like me, you win." ”

Amid the laughter of the soldiers, Annan appeared in front of them: "You have only two tasks: to capture Davy Swan, or to kill him." And come back alive. ”

Night falls, and the silver moon falls. Annan held the mane of the heavy Wanma and unleashed a low-level summoning technique.

The portal opened, revealing a stunned groom on the other side.

The knights began to pour into the portal, then the musketeers, and finally the mages.

Davey Swan's stables were right behind his battalion commander, and when a group of enemies who were supposed to be on the front line suddenly emerged from their camp, even the guards did not realize whether they were friend or foe.

Like a hot dinner knife cutting through butter, the "Annan Trojan Horse" operation was unexpectedly smooth, and it hardly encountered fierce resistance. When a large number of soldiers returned from the front line, Annan on the other side of the portal realized that they actually wanted to attack Liberty City tonight.

Davey Swan's breach of contract sowed the seeds of his own inconvenience: the musketeers found Davey Swan's smashed body in the tent, certified by the complex-looking Lord of Loraine.

Whether king or pariah, everyone is equal before the magic musket.

They even came close to capturing the Mad Dog Archduke alive, only to be escorted by him under the escort of the President of the New Mage Guild.

To some extent, Annan breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise he would have to struggle with whether to hang him or let him go.

The two heavy horses Annan did not let them bring back. A heavy horse is worth a few hundred kinnars, but if the war ends sooner and the soldiers sacrifice less, it will be worth it.

The Mad Dog Grand Duke's revenge took place in the early morning of the next day, but without David Swan's command, the soldiers who were still using the same tactics as yesterday were exhausted by their lack of flexibility.

For example, after being targeted by mages and archers, the group of white dragons cruising in the sky was changed to grabbing dozens of pounds of stones and throwing them at the enemy's dense area.

As the only young dragon, Elimayas received special attention, and Annan, who feared that she would be injured, left her to wander only outside the range of mages and archers.

The mage of the gray-robed mage and the knight Annan of Lord Lorrain also allowed them to come to the battlefield, but they had little fighting spirit in the face of their former companions.

Even Tina was sent into battle to terrorize her enemies with the black dragon she had sculpted for years.

The result of the loss of the commander was that the casualties in Liberty City were much better than yesterday's, and the endless tricks caused the Mad Dog Grand Duke's men to suffer heavy losses, especially after they retreated, and the enemy suddenly burrowed out of the camp behind them.

Before they could figure out why the portal appeared, the soldiers who had just retreated were lost in the flanking attack, and only a few rangers escaped.

The newly expanded dungeon is once again overcrowded. Annan met with hundreds of captives and told them: "You have two choices. Do something for Liberty City, pay for your sins and become a freedman, or have your family redeem you. ”

Soldiers mostly choose the former, knights mostly choose the latter, and mages choose half and half.

They became soldiers, either voluntarily or by force, but without exception they were ordinary people. There is no profit, there is no dignity, so there is no loyalty.

And it costs at least a hundred gold narls to train a knight, and the family who pays this money can certainly afford the ransom.

As for the mage...... The clever ones can't see the future in the Mad Dog Grand Duke.

This fiasco caused the enraged Mad Dog Grand Duke to smash many more treasures, kill many servants, and even confiscate the corpses on the battlefield and return to the Overwatch.

Ormedo had his soldiers clear the battlefield, the corpses of the enemy buried in place, and their warriors transformed into Heroic Spirits or buried in the cemetery to the east.

Unfortunately, luck doesn't always favor them, and Claire is still the only one of the hundreds of Heroes to be "resurrected".

The day after the retreat of the Mad Dog Grand Duke, Annan held a funeral for the dead warriors at the cemetery.

The funeral was also attended by the dead fighters.

The saddest thing about this funeral was not Annan and Olmedo them. Nor are the soldiers who become disabled, like the optimistic Red, who thinks that he lost both legs, so he will never fall.

It's the soldiers who are still alive. They are immersed in the grief of losing their companions.

"Annan, is the war over?" Cathy asked, taking Annan's hand.

"I don't think so...... Because the Mad Dog Grand Duke is still alive, he will not rest. ”

The Heroes' clothes were buried in the cemetery, filled in the soil, and then "flowers" were laid on the Heroes' graves—still a Liberty City specialty, wheat.

Cathy, who still couldn't understand death and thought it was just a kind of long journey, pouted: "They died on the eve of victory." ”

Annan told the girl in a soft voice that did not want to wake the sleeping soul: "It is not that they died on the eve of victory, but that victory came because of them." ”

(End of chapter)