CH259 The Consul
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The war—or rather, the battle—between the Fury Army's Northern Dankrot Defence Force and the Kellerman invasion force lasted effectively for only a few hours, with the cleanup afterwards dragging into the rest of the day, but the outcome was clear.
The Fury forces had seized an indisputable victory; the Kellerman army's highest-ranking officer lay dead, and Josiah Kellerman, heir of the Kellerman Family, had been captured alive.
At the same time, Exercitus Alexii—the Fury Army's taskforce division deployed to deal with the Wildkin invasion in the Kellerman northwest—also reported its own triumph. The Half-Legendary Orc Chief was slain, along with the Clan Chiefs of the Mantisari, Taurus, and Snakemen tribes who had joined the campaign.
Yet while the victory against the Wildkin was loudly announced to reassure the Empire's anxious citizens, the Fury Family itself kept their triumph over the Kellerman invasion force curiously quiet.
