Capítulo 2108: The True Enemy (Part 2)

It had been an amazing victory, but no one rejoiced for it. The conquering army had now to deal with a city filled with traitors who couldn't be executed or imprisoned without reducing Zehnma to an empty shell.

The inhabitants of the city, instead, were afraid of the punishment the Crown would inflict upon them for siding with the Mad Queen. They had no care for the brilliant strategies that had been employed or Lith's white robe.

The only thing that mattered for them was that Thrud wouldn't let go of Zehnma so easily and she would try to recapture it before the Kingdom fortified it again. For them, the war had just started.

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Duchy of Essagor, Vastor's Manor, Inside his underground lab.

Lith's assumptions about the absence of the Abominations from the battlefield were only in part correct. They were indeed fighting the Undead Courts and keeping themselves away from Vastor, but there was much more to that.