Chapter 76: Chapter 76

Ten days have passed since the battle against Viscount Sitena. During them, Duke Galan Bradley went to the capital of the Black Sun and attended in front of the council and Sage Alpert where they tried to make him speak about the origin of this new war invention, they pressured him too much, but in the end, he told the council directly that he could not give them details of the identity of the person who had supplied him with the talismans but that the inventor was surely someone who worked for the Kingdom of the Black Sun and was ready to help them against Dolivar's bullying. The council was not very convinced by his words. but in the end, he is a duke and they can't just torture him until the information comes out. so in the end the matter was temporarily closed and the duke remained in the capital to follow the development of the war with the rest of the power centers of the kingdom. the situation is getting more and more tense day by day, after the end of the great battle with the Viscount, tens of thousands were killed or captured as slaves But Sitena herself and about a quarter of her army fled back into the Dolivarian lands and joined the incoming army which gave them more headache. the good thing is that they left in a hurry, leaving behind their cities, food, and weapons in excellent condition which further strengthened Edward and his army. If Sitena and her men knew this they would have burned everything themselves, but unfortunately. none of them expected that the battle would end as soon as it began. they didn't even have the chance to take anything with them! all their hope is now bound to the third battle of this war. Right after the battle ended, General Edward commanded the capture of the castle of the Sitena family and he reinforced everything possible during the ten days. He raised the walls, even more, multiplied the guards, and reorganized the ranks of his army for the next huge battle. during this period also another batch of saints and knights arrived from the Duchy of Bradley, carrying more than one thousand five hundred fire talismans! which excited the general more and raised his confidence to a new level, the weird thing is that it was unknown if the one hundred knights and five saints that he liked the most, or the weak level six talismans. But even though all those reinforcements, the tense gloomy atmosphere didn't leave him. he knows that this stronghold is not impenetrable. And the reports says that there is an army of one hundred seventy thousand soldiers on its way to the castle right now! It was an army made up of almost all the standing soldiers available in the duchy! and at the speed of their advancement, they would reach the castle in no time. Soldiers from Baronies, Viscountcies, Earldoms, and Marquesses. every family inside the Tinley duchy was forced to send a portion of their army, even Duke Titus Tinley himself sent a large part of his personal army This is in addition to Setina herself and her soldiers who were able to retreat An army like this, and led by a level thirty general. in theory, it's more than enough to drive an army of less than sixty thousand from the kingdom's lands and reclaim what they've taken over, and it's even enough to hunt down the remnants of the army even inside the Black Sun and invade part of their lands to regain their face and standing that got destroyed in those two short weeks. A strong wind passed by the ear of the person sitting on the main terrace of the castle, he opened his eyes and without looking back asked, "Where are they now, Peon?"