Troops began to clean up the battlefield which was dyed red and black , smoke and gunpowder stench was filled in the air
Citizen who saw it were stunned because of blackened ground , many even volunteered to clean it up but was refused
After that army also recovered food and money the troops bought with them , armors , shield and weopens were collected them
After that they were present in front of Ash , ash and Carl discussed and drew pointers from the batte
First it was designed that soldiers would also wear a metal plate under their uniform to protect from minor sword attacks and helmets would be made more protective too , cavalry was given police officer role as cavalry uses were minimum now and enemy troops can easily swept them
The money that was taken was used for welfare and development of the first workshop , concept of minimum wages and worker welfare was introduced
Many people were happy to hear that , to solve food problems crops like potato and corn was introduced because of their high yields
Tax was reduced and many modern methods were added into people's daily life , many people from the surrounding territory started coming and now population of city excluding summons was 10000 , not too much but better than previous state
Ash victory spread across the empire , Ravenfield again became the hot topic in the empire , even commoners knew of this while many were saying that Ravenfield has not died yet , nobles were anxious of the unknown
Quite a few were interested and plan to ally with Ravenfield while some thought that it was the final bright flames before being burnt out
And one of the last type was marquies Oscar , he became marquis through war and capture of surrounding territory, he wanted to capture Ravenfield for so long but couldn't due to Winston and also fame of Ravenfield
He organised the goblin attack and then waited for the time young ash would make mistakes and right after being declared a traitor ash fell for marquies trap too
He had justification to expand his territory but it was fortunate that leon troops got first to check the water otherwise marquis house would have suffered quite a bit
And now he was preparing an even bigger army to capture the territory in full sweep and wanted to spend the next month in the luxurious palace of Ravenfield
While many were dreaming about this
Somewhere in Royal academy
A beautiful girl with long blue hair and pure white skin was training in archery , her name was Lyra evergreen
She was practicing to launch 5 arrows at once , althought was considered impossible by many but it is said in legends that the Greatest archer in history used 10 arrows at once and even leon did with 5 arrows at once
She was actually a noble too , her late father count evergreen fixed a marriage with a duke son
At first she was against it but she accepted it because it was her father last wish
She met her fiancee who didn't even knew about her in academy, she observed him first and quite liked him because he was a prodigy in swordmanship and was just like her training hard everyday
She didn't even knew she became his girlfriend, at a time she was even fantasizing about it but it all changed when someone defeated her and it was none other than a lazy student named leon who was even abonded by his family because of his laziness
She began completing with him like crazy and each time they compete she failed , she became obsessed with winning souch that she began to ignore ash
( Lyra POV )
Yeah I still remember that like yesterday
Then after few months ash came and told me to quit it but I refused and suddenly he came and said let's break up and I was like ok because I can't let him block my path and i even thought that he was jealous of leon so much so that i insulted him
I was angry with him but lately as I got observed my life began to become a mess after he left , i now realise that maybe he was right , actually I was regretting it
I wanted to again go back to how we were but by then he left academy because his father died and now he will became heir
When i thought I could go to apologies to him , his family became empire traitor and leon got assigned his territory, I was sad because now ash was dead for sure , i wanted to save him and ask for his mercy by using it as my reward from his majesty
But surprisingly he defeated both royal and leon troops which was a insane feat because i have seen both powers and effectiveness with my own eyes
His story of victory is being portrayed as legend by commoners and the story of happiness and the great palace of Ravenfield which rivals royal castle in granduer and bigger in size
Many surrounding lords were afraid of him , even my mother was one of them because our territory borders dukedom
I began training more hard because I just can't let him go from my mind lately
I suddenly decided that I will go to his territory to ask for forgiveness and end it for all to clear my heart
I am sorry father but in this life because of my mistake , i think he would have me and even kill me or use he to threaten my mother to give our resources or territory to him
I just don't know what will happen but maybe we could reconcile, maybe just maybe
I now the meaning that we don't cherish relationship untill they are not more
It took two times for me to understand it , how pathetic am i , huh
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