Chapter 290 - Achilles is back...

The battlefield, once alive with the cacophony of war, now lay silent, shrouded in a thick veil of loss. The death of Patroclus had struck a blow so devastating that even the air seemed to carry the weight of despair. Odysseus, ever the pragmatic strategist, had immediately ordered the retreat of the Greek forces for the day, disregarding Agamemnon's vehement protests. To continue fighting after such a catastrophic loss would be reckless, a folly driven by the hubris of one man's unyielding desire to raze Troy to the ground.