Chapter 108: Gray Roads 3

Sena waited for anyone in her office. It was only until the night that a familiar figure appeared before her. The girl with waist-length hair ambled inside the office quietly.

"Avilina. I was waiting for you."

"Lady Sena, it is good that you are back."

"How was the battlefield?"

Avilina stride, her hair followed with her. she wore mail and plate, her cape brushed the wooden floor. Her eyes glimmered as she touches the table. Sena could smell blood on her.

"It was fine milady. There were few rangers that tried to burn the armaments. We succeeded in quelling. The elves should be hanging on their own trees."

"How many?"

She presented her finger.

"About forty three. To make the elves retreat and warn them. We hang them on their own giant trees. There wasn't enough space so we nailed stakes and use them to tie the elves. Would lady like to see them?"

Sena frowned.

"No, I rather not see a knife eared for the time being. I am still recovering from my vertigo."

"Was the journey hard milady?"

"It wasn't."

Avilina scanned the office.

"So was Sister Susan and Bruno taken?"

"They were. The Princess needed them for something."

"Is it a secret?"

Sena nodded. Her eyes impassively looking at the flickering light source.

"Yes, the Princess requires secrecy. I am sorry."

"No need, I understand."

She closes her lips. She then dragged the chair nearby and sat, her legs crossed.

"The men are being stirred up milady." she said, "The other two banners are waiting for the attack. The situation in the other fronts is getting rough too. The veterans of the campaign are hitting the dwarfs and the Orcs hard. Those blast powders are breaking their defenses quite hard. I believe that if we don't move soon they will be captured and our standings in the land will lower."

"I really don't care about my standings at the moment," Sen said blandly. "Slow and steady, I would like to have the area secured. Then, we will kill them all. Hang them on their prided trees and make them bellow and stare at us in fear. But still, we have already waited long. The problems in the area are just minor and at the same time most men have been healed right?"

"Yes, most of the main forces are healed. There are no problems with the garrison and all the mages have secured the barriers that will allow us to smoke them out of their holes."

Sena touched her chin, "That is the plan if they do not die first of the smoke. I believe that most of the garrison have been armed with masks stuffed with charcoal and herbs?"

"Indeed, we have done so. Even the lowest rank have their masks on. Although it is quite heavy to wear. It should be enough to make them fight and see right. Although I said 'see right' it would depend on their own perception. But I believe that they would be able to succeed in rightly killing the elves. The Mages are also going to mix the toxins with the smoke. So we won't have to worry about their strong slender limbs. In fact, this will bring them to what they despise the most. The 'Human Toxin' will make them normal and weak."

Avilina smiled.

The honor belongs to the human. They have believed that the elf won't understand. Avilina smiled devilishly. Sena remained composed and unmoved. She knew that the plan was brought up by one of the church attendants who learned the methods from a certain priest garb in black. The plan was to use the smoke and toxin to devastate the whole elves forest.

Usually such methods of fighting is spite upon. It is underhanded and cowardly to the point that usually knights like Sena would scorn at it. But the priest garb in black robes merely told them that the elves are not humans. Thus they are monsters, lower than them. They treat humans like dirt and thus why should they treat them nicely? They have made the humans suffer and how many peace treaties they have sent? How many good men did humankind sent to their giant nation of trees?

Sena hated the elves. She hated the elves for she was taught. They are beautiful, indeed. But they are nothing but self-righteous beings that thinks of themselves as a superior existence. So Sena thinks that they should suffer. It is war and in war there shall be no mercy. The humans have been battling them for over years now and it was time for humanity to strike.

Humanity's morale is quite high. The weapons were sharpened and all men are ready to kill for their nation and God. The ode of the church and the light of the sun has made humankind enter a trance of deep rooted devotion to finish the job that their ancestors have started years ago.

Sena was no different. She would love to kill the elves right here and right now. She was no saint and in honestly killing the elves and getting the nightmare done and over would be heavenly to her.

War had made her depressed. She smiles devilishly yet her heart was in turmoil. Blood and blood, the days of killing made her maiden heart cry in turn. She had one dream a long time ago. A dream of being the white female knight that would save people in need.

When was the time she appeared to someone and shielding them from harm? She wanted to become the knight in shining armor yet instead she was a war lord that was out to slaughter.

Her thoughts have become odd. Her devilish smile vanished and she took hold of her sword Astra. When she was in dire or when her feelings are odd. She would grab the sword named Astra, and thought of the day where a little girl saved her from death.

"Milady?"

Avilina ceased her smile when she saw Sena's brooding face.

"Nothing, it is nothing. Hey, Avilina, have you thought about your own dreams?"

"I do. And my dream is to honor my family by participating in this war. Is it different for milady?"

"No. It is the same."

She weakly smiled and said.

"Can you leave me alone for a while Avilina? It seems that my head is still spinning."

"Ah, then goodnight milady."

With that, Avilina left Sena's office.