Rome Must Perish

"This is... Wallis!" Despite the disfigurement, Budocaribas recognized him instantly. With this exclamation, his whole body trembled: "That guy is dead! He’s finally dead!!..."

He shouted uncontrollably, tears beginning to glisten in his eyes.

It was no wonder he was so excited. Although the war between the two tribes was initiated by the Segestica Great Leader Andres, Wallis, as the vanguard, was the greatest nightmare for the Aldean Tribe. Over the years, countless Aldean warriors had perished under his large sword, and under his fierce onslaught, the Aldeans eventually lost the fertile lands along the Kupa River. But this greedy wolf continued his assault...

Now he was finally dead, and the nightmare that made the Aldean people tremble and quieted children could finally dissipate...

Having roamed the seas for years, Karsipengpas didn’t feel too deeply about this, nor did he try to suppress his compatriots’ emotional outbursts, instead he curiously asked, "How did you win this battle?"

Alakosia, having anticipated the question, immediately replied proudly, "We first dispatched 4,000 soldiers to line up on the flat ground next to the river by the hills. The soldiers in the front line were equipped with your weapons, making the Segestica people who came to inspect them think it was you Aldeans challenging them, so this guy—"

Alakosia stomped on Wallis’s corpse: "Led over 4,000 people to meet us, but ended up being defeated by us. We pursued them all the way to their village entrance, where the fleeing soldiers blocked the village gate, and we seized the opportunity to charge in—"

"And then you seized the entire village and killed this evil wolf?!" Budocaribas interjected excitedly, giving a fierce kick to Wallis’s face.

"Uh..." Alakosia didn’t continue that thread, though he had vaguely described the battle process, who exactly killed Wallis was a specific pointer. Seeing that the Aldeans valued this matter, if he falsely claimed that the rebel army killed him, and if the Aldeans found out the truth later, the trustworthiness of the rebel army might be questioned.

So, he changed the topic: "Not only did we capture that village, but our leader also led 5,000 soldiers to continue eastward, defeating another 3,000 Segestica warriors who came to the rescue, and pursued them again to their village entrance. I estimate that the Segestica Village is now occupied—"

What?!!... The two Aldean Elders looked at each other in shock, thinking they had heard wrong: Defeating Wallis’s army and capturing his village in one day was shocking enough; now they even defeated another Cabdes’s army and occupied their village, how was this possible?!