The southern wall of the castle was completely unbreakable, and the artillery strikes of the 10 trebuchets failed to destroy the iron castle. Seeing this, it was no wonder that people called it the Solar Castle due to its amazing strength and durability.
Despite the failure, the trebuchets threw stones relentlessly at the city center. This was done in order to let the townspeople and soldiers of Sungate escape on their own.
With the fire growing, they had no choice but to leave the place. After thirty minutes of waiting for the impact of the trebuchet attack, Liam raised his right hand as it was tightly clenched.
Adrian saw Liam's hand gesture, indicating that he wanted to end the artillery attack. Adrian looked back, ordering his soldiers to stop attacking.
The soldiers began to stop reloading the trebuchets, ceasing the attack and focussing their eyes on Adrian.
The vibrations in the city began to subside, the soldiers who had been sheltering in
Tobias came out of the tent, startling the ten infantry soldiers standing guard outside. They hadn't expected Tobias to wake up from his coma.There wasn't a single horse in the place, so Tobias had to walk to Sungate, which was behind the hill. As Tobias was about to leave, one of the soldiers stopped him."Your condition is unstable, Lord Tobias. Let Karin's aide recover your strength first," said one of the soldiers standing before Tobias.Tobias didn't answer, instead turning to stare intently at the soldier in front of him. Realising that Tobias' attitude was hard to persuade, the soldier began to give up.He opened the way for his commander to keep walking. The young man strode back with dignity, the golden coat that looked like a shadow of a coat constantly fluttering in the wind."I'll go after him. You take care of Tobias' tent," Karin's aide said, the infantry soldiers nodding.The woman, along with her fellow medic, stepped quickl
Seeing Liam call out to her, Karin immediately rushed to the man. She was stunned to see Tobias lying limp on the ground, vomiting blood. Several captains surrounded Tobias, guarding the young man from Valcke's attack."Take him to the med tent," Liam said, and Karin nodded.Tobias was immediately carried by two medics on a stretcher. Along the way to the medical tent, she felt the man's body turn cold. Karin was much more afraid of a cold temperature than a warm temperature.Not only did his body temperature turn cold, but Karin also checked the young man's pulse. He still had a pulse, but it was weak and slow."He is dying. Take him to the private tent!" said Karin.They took Tobias to a tent set up originally to treat wounded captains, but it was now being used to treat Tobias' condition.Karin and her two soldiers arrived at the place, they lifted Tobias' body up onto the bed. Karin herself focused on getting the tools to help her task o
***The next dayTobias and his soldiers were still camped in the battle area. Liam has moved towards the Sungate city centre, he needs to organise the city to return to normal.Edgar and Adrian helped each other to gather the prisoner-of-war soldiers. The number was much larger than the prisoners of war when they were in Silkland. It could happen because most Sungate soldiers immediately lay down their weapons after the southern gate was destroyed.Tobias himself was still in the medical tent, under the full care of Karin and Anne. No one was allowed to enter and approach Tobias. They wanted to protect his fully awake condition.The tent's curtains opened, Tobias, who was eating food to fill his skinny body, began to stare at the visitor who came to the tent.It was Laura, the woman who had put him in a coma for five days. Tobias already knew his mind and heart were shackled at that time by Laura's suggestion of magic.Laura came in with her head bowed as if feeling guilty about some
After about fifteen minutes of waiting, a soldier wearing long pants and a short-sleeved T-shirt rushed over to the medical tent to inform Tobias."Lord Tobias, they're done," the soldier said.Gunnar, who had woken up, immediately stood up, helping Tobias to return to his tent. However, before he could stand up, Tobias had already reached out with his left hand, preventing Gunnar."You don't need to take me. Just focus on your condition," Tobias explained."But what about your condition? You can't leave without anyone's help," Gunnar said, worried."Don't worry, Captain Gunnar. I can escort him," replied the soldier.Tobias nodded. He began to lift his body as his right hand continued to grip the IV bottle tightly. The soldier walked over and carried Tobias away."Have they both returned to their posts?" Tobias asked.The soldier helping him shook his head with both eyes focused on the road ahead, "No. They're still waiting fo
***Two days later.They had already informed Tobias about their willingness to conduct negotiations. Prince Bernhard was in Nashant, along with Valcke's defense minister and the general commander of Valcke's forces.The prince realized Archibald's forces were unstoppable, given Valcke's troop numbers were drastically reduced due to Prince Berthold's faction withdrawing from Atrea.Now, the number of soldiers in Atrea has reached 50,000 soldiers. That number can only protect one major city in this place; the choice is only Stratham or Nashant.Initially, Valcke's troops would continue to hold off Archibald's attack, but their morale dropped after watching the incredible power at the Sungate battle. They were unable to resist the tremendous god-level power that Archibald had.The negotiations were located in the city center, at Sungate's government office. Tobias had prepared it in such a way, as well as the security in the city.The y
"Jiyu? What does that mean?" asked Arius."Freedom," Tobias explained."How much does Valcke benefit from working with you?" asked Bernhard."The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I have never been enemies with Valcke, only with Equestria," Tobias replied."All the cities we occupied, they were re-inhabited by Valcke citizens. I just took them from your control," Tobias explained."Our enemy is the same, Equestria. By working together, we can bring Equestria down," Tobias continued."Let us discuss first," Bernhard pleaded. Tobias smiled as he held out his hand.The young man's heart was pleased and relieved. Bernhard had indirectly thought about the benefits of Tobias' proposal. The crown prince just wanted to make sure whether his members agreed or not with the proposal.Liam led Prince Bernhard to an empty room in the meeting room, unlike Tobias, who chose to walk closer to Gabriel and Falco.Tobias stood before them, g
***The next day.Tobias and his captains had much work to do. The war was indeed over. The victory fully belonged to Archibald. However, in order to preserve this victory, Tobias needed to organize several things.The most important thing was to keep the government in place. Tobias would run the government from Sungate for the time being while Liam was assigned to the military.He had already given his first order, telling Jiyu's soldiers to set up border posts in Highvalley. It was the first measure to prevent attacks from Equestria.Karin walked in carrying a small piece of paper sent through the postal carrier's raven. The woman told Tobias that the message had come from the West. Tobias guessed it was from the expedition team led by Gunnar.Tobias stretched out his hand, took the letter and read it slowly. It was short but clear and authentic. Gunnar said that he was already in Nashant. Not a single Valcke soldier was there."So,
***Two weeks later.A white flag with two eagles flying, one eagle holding a flower, the other a sword, with a ribbon dangling from the right to the left side of the eagle.The writing on the ribbon was suggested by several people, but Tobias decided on it and put the finishing touches on the logo. Finally, the Kingdom of Jiyu flag was complete and flying over the central government offices in Stratham."The last of the food supplies came from Fairspire and Leafvile. With this amount of food, we can survive until the winter is over," Karin replied.They all gathered in the conference room on the second floor of the central government office in Stratham. When Tobias and his troops arrived here, he immediately considered using Archibald's residence as a government centre.He arrived ten days ago. His first order of business was to call together all the leaders of Atrea's towns and cities. There were 23 of them, representatives from each city,