Book 11: Chapter 2
“I never heard about our army being completely wiped out!”
The elder looked at the Queen with a strange smile and replied, “My Queen, I kept it secret in order to avoid causing panic. We can only attribute this failure to humanity being too vicious. Can you believe that they blew up the mountains on both sides?”
The Queen looked at the elder and questioned, “What are we going to do, then? Are we going to accept humanity’s demand to surrender?”
The Queen wanted to surrender. Her desire to surrender was strong. She wanted to surrender when she heard the envoy mention Troy Galadriel Rosvenor. The man mentioned was not a general of any other clan, but her tribesman. Leah, therefore, must’ve succeeded. She must’ve been able to contact Troy from humanity, which meant that she could return home now.
Despite being the defeated party and despite not being honourable, she wanted to return home. She didn’t care where she had to live and how she lived as long as she could escape her life in the North and be with Leah. She just wanted to escape the life of a puppet in the North. Where she went was of no importance.
The elder looked at the Queen and thundered in a righteous tone, “How could we do that?! This land is the result of the efforts of countless people! Every inch of this land contains your race’s heroic blood, and yet you want to just hand it to humanity?! What right do they have to occupy this land?! My Queen, do not lose hope just because of a single failure. I believe that our tribes will continue to give their best. You should know that the other tribes are not offering all their strength. You just need to force them to send out their forces. We still have the strength for a battle if you get everybody who can fight to take to the battlefield!”
He was particularly passionate. It sounded as though he wanted to sacrifice every drop of blood in him for the North.
The Queen looked at him and bluntly asked, “Is that right…? So is your tribe holding back, as well, then? Have you not sent out your main forces, either?”
“What are you saying?! What are you saying?! I, I would have personally taken to the field if not for my age! Am I the type to be afraid of death?! I have given everything I have for the North, so how could I betray the North?!