Age of Adventure - Chapter 361 THE END OF THE BATTLE
The sun shine brightly as morning has truly come. After hours of battle, the conclusion of the battle had arrived.
Vanheim had triumphed against Veranis.
The sound of horns being blown; the sound of the drums echoes on one side of the Vanheim camp.
The war ended and now Aero is no longer in the battlefield. At this stage, Aero no longer needed to issue any commands.
None of the enemies that is left had any more will to fight. Their generals had been cut down and their king had been killed.
All in all, they lost fully and completely.
One could only imagine the chaos that would happen in the Capital of Veranis after this matter reached them.
There are still a few generals in Veranis that guarded the border and when they heard the news of the victory of Vanheim and the appearance of Aer, what would their reaction be?
Will they accede to the trend of time or will they put up meaningless resistance? Right now, while Aero had returned to his war tent, the other generals like Quentin and Kyle is still out there, pursuing the enemies.
In the end, they were only stalks of wheat to be reaped!
And there is no harm in weakening the enemy force.
Alexander had brought most of his forces here in the Plain. And they got annihilated by Aero. That alone had decimated most of the manpower in Veranis army
And it would be a big blow to the confidence of the generals that is left in Veranis.
Aero of course had a follow up plan after he defeated King Alexander in the Plains. He wanted to take Veranis but he also wanted to take it with little damage to his army
If he could take the kingdom of Veranis with only small effort, he would do it. And this overwhelming victory is one of the ways he could use to erode the morale of people in Veranis.
Even now, he is thinking of sending letters to the generals in Veranis to capitulate to Vanheim. He sighed a bit. He got up from his chair. He is alone in the tent as other people had their won task.
Viola is also nowhere to be seen.
It is not appropriate for her to be seen by the other soldiers. It is different for the other high ranking military member to see her and for others to see her.
Lady of Vanan identity is very sensitive matter. As such, the more people that do not know her relations with him, the better.
Of course, Aero would fulfill the promise he had given her. After all, he had given her his word.
But it is not time for her to appear in the world yet. Things need to settle down first before he could start on Viola matters
The wind blows the fabric door and Aero takes a deep breath. He walks closer to the door and went out from his tent
He sighed and thought to himself
‘War is truly a terrible thing’ he fought because he had to but that does not mean he like it.
The entire battlefield right now is covered in corpses, rivers of blood fertilizing the earth, all the green grass is red in color.
One could see thousands of dead horses, soldiers and all sorts of shattered weapons and armor and in the distance countless Veranis soldiers is falling with the systematic attack of Kyle.
Aero recognize that Kyle talent is very high in commanding army.
At this time, Aero suddenly had a thought that if Kyle ever decided to betray the Empire, he had to personally kill him.
While Kyle is not the same kind of general like him this did not mean Kyle was not exceptional in his own way.
The way he orchestrates his battle formation and his calm in dealing with situation would make him a formidable general in any battlefield.
Kyle is the few people that Aero had known to change completely after a setback. Kyle had chipped off all of his bad traits and instead hone his emotions, cold and calculative in his plans.
A very formidable enemy and a reliable ally.
Kyle tactic of using his cavalry to divide the army had been incredibly effective.
Although the enemy was trying to flee, at least half of the army had not been able to effectively flee because of the chaos in front of them and behind them.
Quentin participation only increase the rate of which they are annihilating the enemies. The enemy had been routed completely and their army had fallen apart completely
There was no more suspense in the war in the Plains.
As Vanheim soldiers pursued and cut down the Veranian army down from tens of thousands to a few thousand, even the staunchest and loyal subject of Veranis had understood that they could not reverse the decision.
The Chancellor that had created this result had already gone back to the safety of thousands of guards around his camp
Even if one of them wanted to avenge the king and the generals of the army, they first had to break the camp.
That is almost impossible so all of them began to flee in every direction.
The adventurers on the Veranis side also flee but unlike the native of the world they all decided not to flee toward Veranis.
They know that Veranis would surely fall after this and so they do not want to be on the losing side.
It is clear that Aero of the East would not just pack up and return home after such a victory.
Those who were more keen knows that Aero would surely press down his advantage and probably marched toward Veranis and took the capital city as fast as possible before any resistance force in Vanheim could group themselves.
The wind is blowing and it is blowing in the favor of the Empire. Vanheim is the victor of this battle and with this victory, Vanheim would truly become the superpower of the East
They all could feel that wind blowing. And adventurers are very resourceful especially in saving their own life.
As such, some of them even surrenders and loudly proclaim that they would not mind fighting for Vanheim
Most of them surrendered to Kyle and Kyle accept their surrender without much hassle
The reason why most of them surrender to Kyle and not Quentin is simply because Quentin is the native of this world.
He would not understand the adventurer’s motivation and desires.
Kyle on the other hand was different. He is an adventurer like them so he would know that they adventurers only want benefits from the quest and they are not truly loyal to anyone
Of course, this is not to say that adventurers are all this fickle.
But for most adventurer’s soldiers that accept the employment order, they all were more interested in the quest rewards instead of wanting to fight this war for Veranis
Their loyalty is very flexible
If they try to surrender themselves with Quentin, Quentin who did not understand the mindset of the adventurers might suspect them as spies, trying to scheme against the victorious Vanheim army and they would all be executed. Since that is the case they have no choice but to surrender to Kyle.
Kyle also did not shy away from accepting their surrender.
The moment he accepts their surrender Kyle would order them to follow him to kill the Veranis soldiers
The moment he gives his orders, the adventurers quest window popped out.
They all got demotion of their skill because they betray their forces but at the same time they also got the quest of changing their allegiance.
Most of the adventurers is really afraid to die now since it is not like before. Which work pretty well for Aero and Vanheim