Book 11: Chapter 1
The plains in the North were very flat and vast. I felt that I saw the sun again as soon as I entered the hinterland. We were previously surrounded by mountains with the only space being the narrow path in between. After we exited the valley, we came to the large plain. We all instinctively exclaimed with surprise when we came to the large field of ice.
We spent a long time to get here, because it wasn’t easy to traverse the path constructed to transport the cannons, and we had to do away with the protruding limbs and bodies sticking out of the snow. Our engineers were comparable gardeners to thorns, chopping off the body parts sticking out with shovels.
I think the battle brought my kill count up close to Mommy Elizabeth’s. The densely packed anthropoids in the ice disgusted me. We spent almost one week to kill all of the anthropoids. By the time we reached the plain, it was almost time for the next full-moon night. If my calculation was correct, that’d be in approximately three days.
Ling Yue and I had come to an agreement. She was going to help me with my problem on a full-moon night for one last time, and then I would send her home. After all, I needed to reach the palace of the North in less than a month.
Shusia and Tanya followed behind us with upset expressions. It was just as Ling Yue said. Their attitude toward Ling Yue hadn’t changed in the least despite what I did yesterday. They just didn’t have the right to harm the Princess. It appeared that Ling Yue was sad about it, too. She didn’t want to leave for no reason.
Ling Yue timidly hung her tail down. She had gotten her revenge, yet she didn’t look as though she was happy. Shusia and Tanya got up and left without a word after I said I’d make Ling Yue my Princess. Ling Yue was very sad about it. Perhaps the thought of staying by my side did cross her mind before. She had nobody to return home to, after all. But alas, the people around me didn’t like her. She felt wronged, and she didn’t want to be resigned to that fate. So accordingly, she refused to stay by my side.
She was an anthropoid, while the people around me lost their loved ones to anthropoids. As an anthropoid, Ling Yue would also be very sad by my side.
After we reach the plains in the North, we’d be an unstoppable force.
I walked up onto a hill. That was the only trace showing that the plain was connected to the mountain area. My army spread out completely for the first time. The brilliant infantries formed a few phalanx formations. One glance and they resembled a sea of red fire. The white colour that was also visible was the soldiers’ white cloaks to shield them from the cold.