Major Misaro, with his strong-man hairstyle, and the ground forces under the command of Knight Jiahphier had certainly worked hard. They had only just retaken Farhome City, yet they had to throw themselves into another fortress battle.
In the entire Asti System campaign, there had been almost no fierce boarding actions. The assault troops under General Misaro, with his strong-man hairstyle, had basically spent the whole campaign sitting on their hands, earning merit without lifting a finger. Now it was finally their turn to shine, so it was only natural they had to work a little harder.
After all, what goes around comes around.
Fortunately, the battle to retake Farhome had gone smoothly. At little cost, they had completely wiped out the nearly twenty thousand Marauder soldiers in the city, including three psychics. Their own fatalities hadn't even reached triple digits.
The greatest loss had actually been the civilians the Marauders had taken hostage. They didn't have exact figures yet, but reportedly more than a hundred thousand had died in the city's battle. Some were killed by stray bullets and the aftershocks of artillery fire; others fell victim to the desperate Marauders' revenge before they died.
Still, considering the Marauders had threatened to throw all eight hundred thousand civilians in the city into protein compressors, losing "only" a hundred thousand this time was already quite good.
That was probably why, after receiving the casualty report, Brunhilde had spent only another minute reading through the brief report—which was barely a hundred words—one more time, then stopped asking about it.
Of course, there were probably still plenty of Marauder stragglers scattered across Farhome's deserts, hills, and grasslands, as well as the outlying towns and villages, continuing to threaten public order. But that was for the local government to handle later.
After that,