"Haha, pah! It's clearly you, Arnold, who clings to life and fears death, yet you shove your cowardice onto the civilians."
"Arnold, you don't need to explain anymore. Your explanation is just a cover-up!"
Arnold's sincere explanation earned only Kandel's mockery.
At once, Arnold's face turned pale, and his whole body began to tremble.
But Arnold was indeed the defeated one. No matter how much more he explained now, it would be useless.
The commanders and priests beside him, however, could no longer stand watching.
Commander Cullen immediately spoke up. "Commander Kandel, twisting Commander Arnold's words like this is going a little too far."
"Although Commander Arnold did indeed turn to the army of the Aio Continent, after coming to the Flame Continent this time, he has not harmed a single civilian. On the contrary, all along the way, he has constantly pleaded for the civilians and soldiers of our God of Flame Continent!"
"And who are you? What right do you have to lecture me here? Aren't you exactly the same?"
Only, the moment Cullen finished speaking, he was met with Kandel's mockery as well.
"My name is Cullen, commander of South Carlo City. Although I was indeed defeated, I also fought until the very last moment. If the city walls had not been breached, I would not have surrendered either."
"However, I now feel fortunate that back then, when the city fell, I chose not to let the soldiers throw their lives away any further."
"Because in the face of the Aio Continent's invading force, even if we had resisted more, it would only have been sending the soldiers' lives away in vain."
Cullen was not rendered speechless by these few jabs from Kandel.
Because Cullen could say that he himself had been perfectly open and aboveboard, without