Chapter 179 Blood On Hands

One hour later... Everything was over.

The Lying Water Kingdom Saints' battle against the Fire Legion initially was somewhat balanced...

the saints couldn't have it their way in front of the sees of white flames, but still, the average level of the fire legion knights was quite low, and quickly dozens of Fire Legion knights ended up giving their lives for the cause.

but that situation didn't last long, after the arrival of Mila, David, and the rest of the Burton Saints and working with the knights as the spearhead... along with the 300 Wind Legion knights who kept annoying the Lying Water Saints with their explosive arrows every time they plan an attack, the situation quickly turned around to their favor.

The battle became much more at ease that 500 Fire knights defected from fighting the saints and began to wreak havoc on the remaining Lying water army without being deterred, causing great destruction in it.

Trapped by flames and explosions from all directions, the Lying Water Saints began to fall one by one at a high rate and began to tactically retreat little by little towards the east.

Even Caesar managed to deal the final blow to a level 21 Saint and kill him with the help of a fire legion squad!

The screams of this particular saint resounded on all the battle field, giving a shudder to anyone who heard him...

It was unknown whether those screams were because of the strange gloomy gray flames that were burning his guts that gushed out, or out of shame that he is dying at the hands of a mere level 14 knight!

Seeing that the situation would not get any better, the Lying Water General flew away towards the east at top speed along with 6 other saints with out even bothering to look back any more.

....On another front, the Knights' barely balanced battle was broken after the 300 Knights of the Wind Legion arrived personally at the field to help.

although Robin appointed them for support from behind and for gathering information, they were all using perfect major heavenly law technique... one that the wind emperor used to establish his empire and the one his descendants used to rule nearly a quarter of the known world!

Wind blades and hurricanes blew away the remaining Lying water knights, most of them were killed or captured in no time after breaking the balance, and less than 100 individuals of them managed to flee.

...meanwhile, the main body of the army of the Burtons rushed out and surrounded the rest of the Lying water army, putting them in chains, as they had done with the others who were couth in the rectangle trap.

In this battle alone, more than 120,000 prisoners were captured!!

And this is a huge record. Usually, soldiers fight with the well-known slogan "victory or death," but again the secret lies in destroying the morale of the enemy to the point that he does not even want to die.

Today, the main army of one of the strongest duchies in the kingdom of the Lying Water... has been broken.

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In the command tent over the hill -- two hours after the last soldier of the Lying Water Army was chained

"What are our losses?" Robin asked gloomy right after the arrival of the last official, ignoring the smiles and positive atmosphere in the place

the sight of the Burton infantrymen getting massacred while they were trying to fake escaping can't get out of his head

"...25,000 infantrymen were killed." spoke the assistant general in charge of the infantry

"A thousand cavalry were killed, and two thousand heavy infantry who were in the front row after the wall was destroyed, they attacked from behind, and almost all of them died…" Then the assistant general of the special troops added

Caesar looked at Peon and Theo and nodded toward them and then advanced, " The heavenly lions' battalion has lost 327 of its finest knights, the Fire Legion lost 118 knights, another 49 knights from the Wind Legion, and 20 knights from the Darkness Legion..."

Robin's features shrank after hearing these numbers and slowly sat in his place weakly, he looked like he have aged a few hundred years...

"Hey, what is the matter with your reaction? Those numbers don't count if we compare them against smashing an army of this size... when everyone knows what happened here we will be treated like heroes in the Black Sun, and all kingdoms will fear us! Hahaha," David laughed out loud and patted Robin on the shoulder.

The assistant Generals, high officers, and the Saints present nodded their heads with faces full of smiles, from which side were you looking at it, the victory was overwhelming!

Even Mila came behind Robin and hugged his neck, "Don't be hard on yourself, you have done well, if not for your bold strategies, the number of dead would have doubled, maybe even more..."

"Saints..." Robin muttered, clenching his fist

He was superior to the enemy army in everything except the number and level of the saints, had it not been for the 21 saints they were facing, he would not have needed to make all those arrangements and plans to limit their danger and trap them

He wouldn't have needed to give orders to sacrifice those 25,000 men and women to make the shield wall trap...

They might praise him for the over all picture, but he can's stop thinking of the blood he got on their hands after issuing the orders to the infantry behind the gap to retreat and don't fight back... he felt like he had failed them.

David looked at the rest of the Burton Saints and sighed.

He knew what Robin was thinking... Their family deeply lacks cultivators in the Sainthood realm, and if it weren't for all the benefits that Robin gave to them recently that added more saints to them and raised the others' level, they wouldn't have won today even with losing half their army!

"Our victory today was not because of my strategies or because of my talismans, it was because of the sacrifice of the infantrymen who implemented what I said knowing that many of them will die, and the knights who fought those who are in much higher levels than them with out fear...

give the families of each infantryman a special additional pension, and to each knight's family 10,000 gold coins and a monthly pension of 50 gold coins, understand?" Robin spoke while rubbing his forehead

"Don't be harsh on yourself, father, those infantrymen you are the one who raised their morale to the point of sacrificing themselves without questioning because they know their death wouldn't be in vain, and even those knights it was you who created them... Also, isn't that a bit too much? I request you reconsider." Caesar was delighted to hear of this decision about the deceased in his legion, but the total amount that needed to be paid has frightened him,

Even leaving aside the thousands of infantrymen who will take the extra pension, the 10,000 gold coins for each knight alone is a huge problem... almost 500 knights died in total!

"Don't worry, our new slaves will cover the costs after we sell them..." Robin waved and then asked one of the assistant generals, "How many Fire Explosion talismans do we have right now?"

The assistant general in charge of the archers took a step forward and spoke, "We had a hundred thousand in Jura, and the Talisman Masters brought us another about 30,000 Fire Explosion talismans from the new lands, bringing the total to 130,000 Fire Explosion talismans...

Patriarch Brian took 20,000 Fire Explosion talismans with him to protect Bradley's Pearl City, and today we have used 40,000 Fire Explosion talismans from our stoke… so right now we have about 70,000 Fire Explosion talismans, a little more or less~"

"We used 40,000 Fire Explosion talismans in one battle and yet they weren't the reason we won..." Robin muttered, a disastrous figure!

Saint David nodded, "The sage had the right to urge the start of this war. Their tactics for dealing with talismans have crystallized to a very advanced stage. If we were not able to produce large quantities of Fire Explosion talismans now, we would have been defeated in a crashing matter."

The kingdom of Dolivar was invaded and half a duchy was taken from them with less than 8,000 talismans, now this number is not enough to repel the first wave of soldiers in one battle!!

"...Mila, call the temporary head of the Rune Academy now, tell him to declare an emergency and stop making all kinds of other Talismans and focus on only the 6th and 10th level Fire Explosion Talismans.

from today one no need to make Vitality, Voice, wind blades, or even Darkness... Even those who are still in training should start picking up the pin and try their luck... I need Fire Explosion Talismans, a lot of them!" Robin made up his mind and spoke.