On the afternoon of November 3rd, Landen arrived by carriage at the Lord's Manor of Bristle-Wolf City. Behind him stood two captains from the Bristle-Wolf Knights.
After the morning's battle ended, Ben Kaul and Sherman from the Imperial Capital arrived at just the right time, acting as the Empire's peacemakers. The border war between the Dragon Kingdom and Girislav concluded with the Sixth Prince's territory, polluted by the Fallen Devil Race, being completely wiped clean.
At Landen's request, the Sixth Prince himself was temporarily kept in White Wolf City, while the witches he had maintained needed to undergo vetting by the Great Fairies.
At noon, Landen hosted a grand banquet. Every Legendary and Demigod present—apart from Jandis, who had been blasted away—as well as all High-Ranks and knights who had taken part in the battle on either side, were invited.
Today, Landen had faced a Demigod and a Legendary head-on without falling behind, thoroughly opening the route from the Eastern Region border to Frost-Wolf Forest. It was a victory no less significant than the one at the western border.
The gains had been so abundant that only after he finished speaking at the banquet did he remember the true reason this war had begun: the Count of their Northwest had been detained without cause by the Sixth Prince.
When the Count was found in the prisoner-of-war camp, he was already in dreadful physical condition. Only through the efforts of several Life Mages did he show some signs of life. And according to Landen's tracing through retrospective magic, the witches had tested many forms of magic on him, even using his High-Rank body to experiment with Magic Pattern Weapons and gunpowder.
The Count was now barely clinging to life. More critically, his only two children who had shown promise of reaching