Bab 63: AFTER BATTLE OF KRAV-GILAN WAS OVER
A few hours after battle of Krav-Gilan was over..
Commander Sahya took in charge of the task of disarming every captured traitors. This task were actually bigger than his power, due the huge number of the captives. So he requests some assistance from the First General's Army.
These fellows were glad to help disarmed the captives. In their mindset, they were the one who precisely felt being help by Sahya's force. Originally, the task related national security was their responsibility. Thus they feel gratitude with Sahya and team's work.
Actually, they held a deep grudge toward their former army fellow in Second General Army's due to their conspiracy with Marcog's Forces.
Previously, after King Yuda enthroned, the Marcog's Force were more favorable by the King's or other officials, including nobles than them.
This unfavourable treatment perceived as discrimination feeling that raise a dissatisfied in First Army, which always be treated as the servant under Marcog's Forces.
To prevent this unfavorable condition broke into armed conflict, the wise first general Prasetya isolated their subordinates in their barracks and were not allowed to make contact with outside, and vice versa.
When they were involved in the mission of capturing Sirna's force, they felt a bit dissatisfied. This because they were not allowed to make a direct confrontation with them. These were actually planned on purpose by Duchess Nindya to avoid unnecessary killing.
So, when all the captives were formally handed over from Sahya forces into their authority, they felt so happy.
As commander Sahya predicted, there were a lot of spies and scout were captured during the ambush plan, not to count some deserter. They would be proceed by military law under General Prasetya's authority.
The fact that many of spies and scout were come from the same people of Magelang made Prasetya's armies annoyed. To vent their anger, sometimes they commit small violence to the captives.
On the contrary, when facing captives from the treason soldiers, those small violence evolved into a new form of revenge.
Many traitor soldiers get beaten until they fainted.
If not due to General Prasetya's intervention, those traitors would be minced meat or be killed mercilessly.
To prevent much more blood spilled over and meaningless killing, General Prasetya promised his subordinates to seal their will of retention. Thus, converted them into an absolute obedient being. This method would satisfy the rage within his subordinates and accepted as a temporary solution.
Such a seal originally derived from slavery curses, but after undergo many improvements had evolved into a more advanced and flexible magical seal. There were only two mages capable of doing that in mass scale, Duchess Nindya and his son, Meyrlion.
Therefore, Prasetya's requested Duchess Nindya's assistance to put an anti betrayal curse to everyone of them.
Thus, this option will achieved the long-term objective which preserving the safe number of man force for defending the Kingdom. On the other hand, these treatments were stressed as amnesty from the King Ranu to the-innocent-soldiers-who-get-tricked, and it only applies once in a lifetime. There would not be the second time.
His Majesty's appearance after a long absence still gave a charismatic effect that affected the soldier's mentality, especially the ex-soldier whose treason. Some of them were hysterically cried begging for forgiveness and put a blame on his leader, Second General Sirna.
Originally, Kingdom law charged a dead sentence to every traitor, especially in military services.
But, with these big number of traitors, applying those laws would bear many unfavorable consequences. One of them were the decrease of Magelang's military power.
Current military power had reach an equal balance against the military power of neighborhood countries surrounding.
Thus, current military posture were sufficient to defense against other country frontal's assault.
The King himself had realized that there were huge danger in any decision which related to reducing current military number. He still need them as the number in fighting the enemy if necessary.
Therefore, King Ranu accepted Prasetya's solution as the King's decree: limited amnesty for every traitor with the specific term and conditions. And the enforcement law for those who committed crime including the dead penalty's execution of ex-Second General Sirna. He was also demoted from his position and replaced by one of Prasetya's lieutenant.
After any related work related to those war finished, everyone separated to carry their own duty.
Lieutenant Colonel Elon and his forces were escorting the refugee to Sharang Lake located in Magetan Duchy.
While First General Prasetya, his army and the captive returned to their base, a good moral lesson for the traitors were already await there.
And Princess Isvara happily join in with her father and Duchess Nindya group were heading back to Titan's Palace in the Capital.
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A day later, in Titan's Palace in the Capital City.
Everyone had reached the final conclusion about these conflicts. The old King should be returned and the current King should not be reigned anymore. But what method would be used still unclear, especially King Ranu still unable to received the harsh consequences of a revolution : his sons which is involved will get killed in the war. He still tried to suggest his soft method and hope everyone will agree upon him.
" No matter what, please do not kill my sons." King Ranu said.
Nindya shook her head. " Did you try to annul Kingdom's law about treason for your sons ?"
" I did not mean that.. "
" Even if your sons were not killed in the conflict, would you let them alive ? Do not forget that our law sentence the dead penalty for treason. Letting your sons alive, that's mean you failed to enforce the law. Sooner or later, someone will underestimate your sovereignty."
King Ranu silenced. He looked down to the floor and soon, his shoulder shaken.
" Right now, I just a hopeless parent, Nindya.."
Nindya released a heavy sigh.
" I can not promise anything. As long as your sons did not commit active action against our forces, their lives would be spared. But once we see them in the battlefield, this right will be forfeit."
" I agree... I believe my coward sons would not dare to participate in the war. I just want to give them second changes to change.."
" So this is deal.."
" Yes.."
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As for Meyrlion, he was busy teaching his converted wire-fu to Tyas, Jack and also Flamas. Myerlion looks happy taught them all, so happy that made Nindya started to think that his son should have a hidden talent as a mentor.
His techniques allowed the user to do close combat fight in the middle air, striking from above the sky, short teleport into right behind the enemy's back or many impossible movement which could only be seen in the Hongkong's Kungfu Movie.
Everyone in Titan's Palace slowly realized, these new techniques had the benefit to close the most common weakness of mages, the weakness from close range attack. Thus, these new techniques had open up another possibilities such another set skill and a new type of strategy, a close combat battle mages. These were something unimaginable before. Therefore, considering these many breakthroughs, even a person in the level of an expert such Commander Sahya were interested to learn and train together.
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