By this point, Jerz and Tom were already exhausted and no longer wanted to fight. Claudio had run out of momentum as well, so both sides temporarily called a truce. But Claudio, Tom, and Jerz all understood that from this day forward, there would be no end between them until one side was dead.
Standing below Jerz's fortress, Claudio stared at Jerz's heavily defended army and thought in confusion, Could it be that Lu Yang didn't hit them that hard?
But that couldn't be right. He had personally seen Lu Yang's forces launch a fierce assault against Jerz's legion. With nothing more to do but sigh in despair, Claudio gazed at Jerz's fortress and withdrew with his main force.
That sigh was also the last sigh Claudio would ever utter beneath Jerz's fortress. From then on, he would never again have the ability to lead an army here.
Claudio was still relatively fortunate. The truly unlucky one was Harreken. He had led his main force to attack Radvijev and Stephen, only to be fiercely counterattacked by the main forces they had brought back.
Stephen had previously been hit rather badly by Lu Yang's Forbidden Spell Mage Corps, but even so, Harreken had only occupied one-third of Stephen's territory and one-fifth of Radvijev's territory. He had not even had the chance to lay a hand on Roland's territory.
Just as Radvijev, Stephen, and Harreken were deadlocked, unwilling to retreat yet forced to do so, Sanyou Weimen appeared. Acting as a mediator, he persuaded both sides to cease hostilities. He then summoned Jerz and Tom, along with Olma and Anatoly, who had not been affected in the slightest by this incident. The eight greatest guilds then announced the formation of the strongest alliance.
Claudio and Harreken had barely returned home and settled