When Garland's HP dropped to zero, Jack's Runestone of Luck was still beside him. Garland's body which was floating just a few feet off the ground, fell back to the ground. Several items fell with it.
Jack swooped in and picked all the items up without bothering to check them. They were still in the middle of a battle, after all.
"Garland, no!" Claudius uttered after seeing his partner's fate. He realized then that they had been too confident. Garland had seen the eye-catching flock of Eagle Rider Hunters and proposed to Claudius to come to exterminate them. The two of them then forced themselves behind the enemy's line, that's why they had so little support while being outnumbered. They thought that their troops would arrive soon, but the incidents where the army inside the fort came out and the prince escaped to the western hills had taken away their troops' attention. Hence, the support they expected to come, never did.
