When Yu Lin Bloodhawk voiced his doubts, the High Elf officers were puzzled too, but their confusion was entirely different from his. They asked him whether elegance and bravery necessarily contradicted each other, and he had no answer.
Because elegance and bravery really did not necessarily conflict. Elegance and belligerence seemed to clash a little, but... this was the military, so perhaps there was no conflict there either.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk could not answer the High Elf officers' question, but that hardly mattered. His main headache now was how to resolve the dispute between the Quel'Danil Standing Army and the City Lord's Household Guard.
From its founding, the Quel'Danil Standing Army had been organized and trained to the standards of a field army. Although it had qualified as a proper field army from the day it was established, the withdrawal of large numbers of human and Troll troops and police had left both Quel'Danil and the Seaside Plain short of forces to maintain order. As a result, all the work the Quel'Danil Standing Army had done so far involved maintaining order rather than fighting in the field. Put plainly, they had been doing police work.
A regular field army that spent all its time training and doing jobs unrelated to its actual purpose was bound to feel frustrated eventually! Of all Quel'Danil's military forces, everyone else had opportunities to fight, while they stayed home with nothing worthwhile to do. Naturally, the other troops had mocked them plenty, and the entire army had long been itching to make its name in a single battle.
In principle, however, this battle really should have belonged to the City Lord's Household Guard. After all, they had spent so long preparing and laying their plans. Just as they were about to reap the rewards, the