"They retreated. That's good!" Ajax said with relief as she descended from the sky atop a giant dragon.
"What happened to these Orcs?" Ismir had a headache. The Orcs' sudden attack had caught him completely off guard. In the rush, the Goblin Knight regiment that had gone out hunting had been wiped out, leaving Ismir staring tearfully at his remaining two hundred-odd Nature Guardians.
Although Ismir had the help of the Breath of Nature—the Nature Goddess Divinity fragment—the devastating casualty rate still shattered the former Romanian cling-on's composure.
"Pull yourself together, Lord Ismir. The King won't treat you unfairly!" Reno's consolation finally calmed Ismir somewhat. At this point, he could only trust Reno's words.
"Where are the Nazgûl?" Reno turned to Ajax. When the Nazgûl attacked, Ajax had been stationed at Lulong Fortress, so she had immediately gone out to confront them. Meanwhile, Reno had urgently assembled his forces and marched out, crossing the Swift River to deliver what could only be called a one-sided slaughter to the Orcs in the forest.
The facts proved that the Orcs, who had reduced Ismir to tears through ambushes, were like a sheet of paper riddled by ten thousand holes when faced with Reno's utterly dishonorable flank charge—one poke, and they fell apart!
"They ran off ages ago! They'd been eager to make a move, but for some reason, they suddenly withdrew today!" Ajax said curiously. After facing off against them for several days, the Nazgûl had simply pulled back. It inevitably felt rather anticlimactic.
"I understand..." Reno nodded thoughtfully.
"What do you understand? Stop keeping us in suspense!" Ajax said impatiently. Straightforward by nature, she hated all this twisting, roundabout thinking. The fact that she could ride a fire dragon already said plenty about her temperament...
"There must have been a result