When the golden double-headed eagle flag fluttered above the low walls of the baron's castle, the Children of the Forest launched another attack in the early hours of the next morning.
The flag still flew through thousands of arrows.
The banner Yveta had designed on a whim had turned out rather well.
It fluttered in the wind like a falcon soaring high above, surveying the territory that belonged to it.
Beneath the flag, the human defenders' morale unexpectedly soared.
The Centaur Khan charged straight for the wall, nocked an arrow, and aimed at the eagle banner, hoping to bring the humans' spirits down.
But Black Wolf, the Demon Hunter, drank a bottle of Far Sight Potion, raised his crossbow, and fired.
The Centaur Khan was a God Archer. His arrow collided in midair with the short bolt Black Wolf had fired, and both shafts were sliced in half.
Black Wolf stood atop the wall and met the Centaur Khan's gaze from the wasteland below.
The Centaur Khan's face darkened. "Demon Hunter!"
"Damn it, why did I have to run into one here?"
Black Wolf had also recognized the Centaur Khan's true profession. He turned to Yveta, who was watching the situation nearby, and said, "That centaur is a God Archer. The God Archer and Demon Hunter factions have a longstanding blood feud."
"The Great Tent Khanate, the God Archers' stronghold, once trampled the palace of the Raven King. They destroyed the Griffin School, the Demon Hunters' stronghold, at Kaelrahan Castle, the royal domain of the Magyar Kingdom."
Only then did Yveta understand. So it was a matter of ancient enmity between professions.
The Centaur Khan shouted from below, "The Demon Hunter profession should never have existed! You only came into being because the Ancient Civilization needed to fight the God