The iron hooves of the Lion Heart Knight Order came and went like the wind, with the sunset painting the sky outside Gelang Village blood red.
Scavenging crows landed on the charred fences, letting out excited cries over the corpses.
It was mealtime.
Only after confirming that the steel torrent disappeared at the horizon's edge did the old village chief of Gelang Village nervously peek his head out from his house.
He called several bold young men, holding shovels and sacks, shivering as they walked towards the barracks.
The few surviving Kingdom soldiers also left with the Lion Heart Knight Order. Heigmer needed to take them to testify in the Judicial Court, proving that the Ryan people did not cower in the face of the invasion of evil forces.
They just didn't win.
Now the barracks were empty, with some leftovers picked through by the Salvation Army, including bodies scattered on the ground.
Their leather boots and unburnt coats were considered heirlooms by the country folk.
