Two months later,
Cid's plan worked like a slow venom.
The moment Vara's agents fed Kine false intelligence, his lieutenants started dying.
Convoys burned. Outposts turned. By the third week, even Kine's own soldiers started defecting.
In the fourth week... A charge through the Southern trade road, flanked by Chief Commander Darius.
By the fifth, Hana marched through the outer cities with mechanized battalions.
And by the sixth... Kine was surrounded.
They didn't even give him a battlefield.
Cid personally cut through the front gates of his stronghold. And when Kine tried to offer terms, Yuri gave him none.
"You wanted to cure the kingdom?" Yuri said, sword at his side.
"Congratulations. You're the first infection we've burned out."
Kine died on his knees.
And with that, King's Medicine was wiped from history.
Inside The War Chamber,
"We've done it," Elias said, sitting with his boots up. "No more rebellion. No more shadows."
Cid didn't speak. Neither did Loki.
