From the very beginning, Lucina knew that the Orcs would collapse sooner or later, but she had not expected it to happen so quickly. Under the constant harassment of their army, pushed to the limits of exhaustion and hunger, the Orc legion's will had lasted only five days!
The soldiers beside Lucina shuddered involuntarily at the sight. The enemies they saw, once incomparably fierce, now seemed... no longer like living people.
This was not an isolated case.
Over the following days, they saw countless such "enemies."
Their minds seemed to have been destroyed. One after another, they wandered like walking corpses. Even if a Mana Bomb landed beside them, they showed no reaction. As long as they had strength left, they would instinctively keep walking across the grasslands. Once their strength ran out, they would simply sit down and never move again...
Surrender?!
They seemed to no longer possess the concept of surrender.
They had become puppets devoid of any intelligence. They seemed to have lost the ability to think. With just a single command, they could abandon everything, including the weapons and armor they depended on to survive.
"It seems it's almost over!" Lucina stood atop a small hill, gazing deeply ahead. "This war has truly gone much more smoothly than expected!"
The Orc soldiers who had lost all will to fight were escorted by the Dawn Legion in a long, winding line toward the heartland of the Dawn Kingdom.
The once utterly chaotic Orc legion was now perfectly orderly. There was no whispering, not a trace of disorder. If not for their complete lack of fighting spirit, one might have thought at first glance that they were highly capable soldiers!
There were more and more prisoners, and the front line stretched ever longer. Sometimes, a single Dawn soldier