Relentless Pursuit

"The First Prince and the others are done for now! Even the Northern Principality's own knight corps has appeared, and in terrain this narrow, there's no way the First Prince and the others can escape!" Fine sweat had already formed on Rell's forehead. He was clearly frightened.

"Rell, you still have time to worry about the First Prince? Let's get out of here first! Good thing Nalant stopped us earlier, or we'd be dead for sure too!" Boris said to Rell, still shaken by the close call.

"Right, let's run first!" Rell glanced behind him, nodding his head like a pecking chick.

Because at that moment, the Northern Principality cavalry behind them had clearly spotted their group of fish that had slipped through the net.

Over a hundred ordinary cavalrymen and ten directly affiliated knights broke off and charged after them.

Though the directly affiliated knights' warhorses were clad in armor, they were all top-grade steeds carefully selected from across the Northern Principality, and were not the slightest bit slower than Nalant's group.

"Lachi, take two men and return to the camp immediately. Notify His Majesty the King and all the earls!" As they fled, Stella's expression was grave.

Quite a few of the rangers in their group were not even riding warhorses. Now that the Northern Principality was pursuing them, their speed was immediately dragged down.

Although she and Nalant rode fine warhorses, they could not bring themselves to abandon their subordinates and flee for their own lives.

"But... Miss Stella... how about you, Sir Nalant, and the others return first? I'll take my men and lure the enemies behind us away!" Naturally, Lachi did not dare abandon Stella, so he instead proposed a suggestion better suited to the current situation.

In his view, his subordinates probably would not