Thus the first meaningful battle in Damien new life was won.
Now the beginning of a long and the tedious process of calculating the losses,the material consumed and patching up the wounded and bearing the bodies of the dead.
But this were the responsibility of Carl and his officers as for him he used this time to look for and retrieve the bodies of those grade one life form or any body that has started his cultivation path like squires and the like he even asked Carl to put a reward of one hundred gold 🪙 for anyone who brought one back as fo why je just he needs them for some wizard related research and to gave worthy burial this after he got them he asked kikyou to give them what looked like a proper burial everyone was moved by their lord respect and the way he treated his enemy he gained a lot of gravitas thi way but when the night came he sneaked away to where they were buried dig their grave 🪦 and he also got some mount corpse it didn't matter it's quality as it can be changed later in order to be able to conjure a proper death knight.
While the baron army 🪖 where busy cleaning the battlefield and resting on the other end of the spectrum was a different thing many hours later after the battle a squad arrived at the main gate of Manheim one of the escorting knights shouted :' open the gate fast for the lord'.
The guardian saw the group where on high alert how could that be the lord he just left a few days ago with an army numbering thousands they did they were stupid but just as they were about to rebuke them the leader of this guard squad recognised the insignia on one of the flags raised by one of the knights it was the lord banner so he quickly said to his man :'open the gate fast for master Dylan ' then he went down to salute the lord and pay respect saying:' welcome back my lord' but no-one answered him they moved fast like the wind and their faces were pale as snow it was like the angel of death or the hound of hell were hunting them.
The leader couldn't help himself of thinking what the hell happened to tha army that was following the lord and what happened that made the lord lose the colour of his face he rembre that just when they were going to face the baron the lord was so full of life and so domineering a creepy felling took hold of his thinking then a bad idea 💡 popped in his head it couldn't possibly that they have lost no way it was well known that the baron is useless and his army is smaller and made of raw recruits he just couldn't shake the felling so he called one of his trusted man and told to go to the merchant guild and pass a message for him to master bourbon "the lord is back and his alone".
So a half hour later Dylan was in his room what's left of it everything was destroyed or shredded or cut outside the door hi faithful butler was standing and when he felt his lord has let out all his anger 🤬 he opened the door went in then said:'can you tell my lord what happened?'.
Dylan looked at hisan who followed him since his childhood like his shadow always supporting no matter what the only person who always did what he asked from perfectly maybe he should have let lead the battle or followed his earlier advice to return back to the grand-duchy as to get rewards and then look for the next assignment for it was better to be a clerk in the duchy than to be a lord in the borders but Dylan couldn't get himself to let go of the power he accumulated over time.
Then he said with a weak voice:' I should have followed you advice and went back we have lost the battle none of those fouls did their job that cursed Francis and his pirates didn't even reach the enemy line before they were routed as for Victor he made watch as my life work was desintegrated before m'y eyes one thousand cavalry man were melted 🫕 just like that as for the other cavalry units they were even worse so I could say with hundred percent that I Dylan that has played the worst joke on me that my first defeat to be at the hand a good for nothing with no future hahaha'.
The butler hearing this he felt bad and sorry for his lord like a father would feel for his son he watched him grow up from just tini Baby 🍼 to a grown man leading others ,winning and skilfully navigating the noble circuit but that same man was broken Infront of him and it's up to him help him stand-up so he said:' I watched you my lord since your birth I can say with absolute seriousness that you are a great man and every great man face from time to time setbacks in order to evolve,advance and since you are still breathing you should move forward we still have the city wall 🧱 so I reckon we should rally the rest of the army by sending what cavalry we have, conscripts some of the citizens and start working on the defence what do you think lord'.
Dylan couldn't stop a tear from falling he quickly whipped out this all man he always believed him,gave critical advice when needed and supported him so he should man up and tear through this obstacle like he does all the time.
So he said:' we will do as you say also send someone to that witch of still here buy every corpse she has as for payment pay whatever she ask and also send for bourbon I want to talk with him'.
Seeing his lord standing up and giving orders he felt good and then said:'i will do as you say my lord as for bourbon he is already here'.
The Dylan said:'you can always count on those merchant to get the information fast it seems but it doesn't matter now I will tidie up and meet him in the throne room'.
The butler bowed and said:'yes my lord'.
On the other camp Damien and his officers where having a meeting about the result of battle and what to do next.
Damien said:'first I would like to congratulate all for this win you all have done a great job but now I would like to hear what is the condition for our army and what is your opinion on what to do next?'.
They all said :'thank you lord'.
First to speak was manid:'i would like to also congratulate on the win but it be expected my lord since your cause is righteous as for our casualties it's negligible most of it happened during last phase of the battle either when we attacked the infantry or from those few knights who breached the spear line and reached the defensive line so we lost five legionnaires and twenty others all are treatable injuries my lord so we could say a rest of a day or two and our army will be in top condition'.
Then it was the turn of Bruce he said:' our scouts has returned the intelligence they brought they were as fallow most of the surviving enem cavalry has returned to Manheim town as for the infantry most of has run for the hill expect for that unit of guard they seem also are heading back to the town lord'.
Then last to speak is Carl:'first let me say my lord with great confidence that those new weapons really are marvelous and with we rule the battlefield second we will start tomorrow our march towards Manheim town after taking this day for rest so that the man be in their top condition even third we will should prepare for a long seige so we should sent word to Stonehenge to start preparing provisions my lord'.
Hearing thi Damien while he taught that the legionnaires could fight more but it was safer to rest after the battle so he agreed then went to see the bodies collected to by his army to add them to his unit of the dead.