Salamander Returned Home and Reunited with His Mentor

On June 16, Cosmic Year 126, the same day the Big Mad Dog Unit captured Goloya Fortress, the Great Sword Shield Unit captured many territories of the former Longsog Kingdom.

In the villages, cities, and other places within the captured territories, the Dion Army either withdrew or surrendered.

The people welcomed the Great Sword Shield Unit's arrival. To them, the Great Sword Shield Unit had come to save them from their suffering.

Among the people of the former Longsog Kingdom, aside from those so-called traitors and those former Longsog citizens who had abandoned their kingdom and sworn allegiance to the Dion Empire, who could obtain a certain degree of status—

Ordinary Longsog citizens, those who were not Newtypes, were either treated as inferiors or as General Slaves, and they were often oppressed by the people of the Dion Empire.

Although being bullied by the people of the Dion Empire made them hate the Dion Empire, what the former Longsog citizens hated and despised most were those traitors.

These traitors oppressed former Longsog citizens even more brutally than the people of the Dion Empire. Some even snatched away other people's beautiful daughters to curry favor with the masters they served.

Therefore, in the cities and villages captured by the Great Sword Shield Unit, these traitors sometimes fled even faster than the Dion Army.

Salamander returned to his hometown, a city named Dark, and returned to his former home.

Looking at the damage war had inflicted on his house, with several large holes in the roof, dampness, countless patches of moss, disorder, and filth both inside and out, as well as much of the furniture ruined beyond repair, he fell silent.

Relina stood beside Salamander, holding his hand. Salamander unconsciously tightened his grip on hers with his right hand.

Relina knew that