The fight between the Monsters and the Royal Knights continued.
"Greetings, Your majesty, The Monsters are backing away. We think we are winning this battle". The prime Minister said in a happy tone. Prince Albert acknowledged him" What about the situation in the East?"
"The duke and his Knights had killed more than half of the Monsters. This battle we have won" "Good, then shall we warp this war today itself? Let's all go home after it"
"well very your majesty. Long live the kingdom"
Prince and the prime Minister took their swords and killed the Monsters which were left. Half a day later they had recaptured the whole land.
Then they looked at the conditions of the villages and villagers and went to seeing the injured villagers.
"Everyone present here, we have won the battle and recapture our lands, I promise you, we will get the villages, our home back as it was before"" Our benevolent king had allotted money for the reconstruction of every village that is damaged by the Monsters
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"Long live the king"" Long live prince Albert "" Long live the prime Minister".the villagers shouted in praises.
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(In the Eastern side)
"My Lord, the prime Minister had sent an eagle to inform they had won the battle there".
"Good, it will also take us another day to kill Cerberus"" Then let's wrap this war as soon as possible"
"Yes, duke"
The knight one by one slashed the small Monsters. The duke ran towards large Monsters, used his sword to slash the neck of the Monsters Thus was seen by the Leader of Monsters, He was angry and dark energy emitted from the Monster. He ran toward the duke and slashed the duke's back with his claw. The duke groaned in pain. The duke supported himself by stabbing his sword on the ground. His blood was leaking from his back to his and to the ground. Struggling on his knees, he looked all around. He saw the orcs coming toward him. The duke raises his sword to block another attack from the orcs. The duke slashed the orc's wrist, causing black liquid to fall on the ground. The orc's screeching pain could be heard
The duke then found orcs core which was embedded inside the ocr's heart. The duke stood up and ran towards him, and jumped, in one swing destroyed the core by stabbing on it. The monster in pain and died immediately. Seeing their leader die, all the orcs were afraid and were backing away.
"Don't let a single one of these monsters alive". The duke instructed his knight. As they got confidence from the duke, all the knights started to chase the Monsters, The duke, by this point looked like a kill machine, he slayed more than half the monster army. He himself was covered in black liquid, and the ground was covered in bloodbath. The scene was so bad, normal people would have wet their pants from fear.
The battle continued until sunset, the duke, and his army, had wiped out all the remaining orcs. With sunset, the duke officially called the end of the war. They went back to the camp, where soldiers injured were treated, and the duke, covered in black orc blood, went to take a dip in the river.
As soon as he took a dip in the river, he felt immense pain from his back. He removed all the blood, and cleaned himself. Then he went to his tent, tired.He had used most of his power and was tired. He then wrote the report which he sent to the prime Minister through his messenger eagle and laid in his bed to get some sleep.
"Greetings Lord" The commander came and gave his report on the injured soldiers. The duke nodded his head and told the commander to take rest. As the duke tried to turn around, he groaned in pain. The commander saw his condition and looked terrified. The duke's white shirt is covered in his blood.
"Lord!!? Are you okay? " He then ran outside and called Rosalind. When Rosalind came, she saw the duke withering in pain. She asked the commander to remove duke's shirt and placed her hands on his back and started healing him.
It took about 2 hours for him to fully heal." The duke just needs some rest now".
Rosalind announced.
As the duke was sleeping peacefully, Rosalind went outside. The commander followed her out and took her to her tent.
"He may sometimes have fever, please call me, if there is anything wrong with him."
"Yes my lady, and thank you for saving the duke that day"
"Does the duke always have pain like that?"
"Not always, but usually, he has"
"May I know why he is keeping it as a secret, as I look at him now, I think it has gotten even worse"
"Ahh my lady, it's because he did not want anyone know of his weakness, and his whole family suffers from the same pain"
"ohh…if he feels any pain, please call me then" Rosalind sighed
"And thank you for all your help"
" it my pleasure, and it's my duty…commander? "
"Oh I am sorry, My lady for the late introduction, I am Alex silver from the silver family, I have been the duke's commander for more than 5 years now" Alex bowed and greeted her.
"It's a pleasure to meet you too, Alex, I am Lady Rosalind from the Mariana duchy" After their short introduction they part their ways.
Alex went back to the duke's tent and sat down in his chair. After sometime, the groans of the duke could be heard. Alex went to the duke's side and touched his head, he was burning up. Alex went to the Rosalind tent to call her.
Rosalind called the physician and went to his tent. The physician looked at his vitals and prescribed the medication, Rosalind then healed him again and fully removed the darkness, which lurking in his body. She then gave the medication, the duke was half conscious at that time. After seeing him going back to sleep peacefully, everyone present looked relieved.
Rosalind instructed Alex to change the duke's clothes, which were drenched in his sweat, and to keep a cloth on his head to lower his temperature.