The day before Nux and his wives participated in the War,
"Hmm? We are going to let the few of them retreat? I don't understand? Why do we have to do that?"
Evane questioned with a confused look on her face.
Ember then glanced at Amaya and sighed, "Ask her not me, I am only planning to achieve the result she desires."
Everyone turned towards Amaya.
"It's simple really."
Amaya started explaining,
"First of all, it is stupid to Kill Armando, who is our informant."
"That's true." Felberta agreed.
Amaya nodded and then continued,
"The second reason is more of an insurance move.
If we completely wipe out the enemy, then there is a chance that Herms might use this chance to counter and say Alcimus participated in this battle.
I do not know what he is planning, however, his plan seems to involve Alcimus participating in this War.
There is no reason for us to give him what he wants therefore, to prevent him from forging a story like that, we will keep a few of them alive."
Amaya explained.
"I don't get it." Evane frowned.
"If he wants to claim that Alcimus participated, he could simply force his soldiers to clai- ah, I apologize, we have Armando who can go against this, I forgot about it." Evane realized and turned silent.
"No wait, Armando's presence doesn't insure everything, if he wants, Herms could simply kill all soldiers who returned to the base and claim Alcimus's participation in the war," Allura spoke.
Hearing that, Ember's smile widened, "Well, I have planned that already, even if they leave the city, we would still send Vidyut and some soldiers to follow them and I will also command Armando to enter the Solid Earth Kingdom.
Once he reaches a city, he and his soldiers would rest and start talking about how the Skyfall Kingdom participated with so many King Stage Cultivators and how it was an unfair fight."
"Ahh, so the soldiers will complain about unfairness while in truth, you want them to spread what happened so that Herms would fail to use this opportunity," Felberta spoke.
"Indeed." Ember nodded.
"Heh, that's a good plan." Felberta nodded with a slight laugh.
"Of course." Ember nodded back.
Then, she turned towards Lane and questioned,
"But are you sure you want to stay out of this and not fight them directly? I know your main weapon is not a bow and arrow, I don't know why you insist on using it."
"I am fine with bow and arrow," Lane replied.
Seeing her acting like that, Skyla narrowed her eyes,
"Sister Lane." She called out.
"What?" Lane tilted her head in confusion.
"You are hiding something from us."
As someone who stayed with Lane practically her entire life, Skyla could guess it within seconds.
"I am not." Lane closed her eyes.
"Don't lie to me, you close your eyes when you lie," Skyla spoke.
Then, she walked towards Lane and questioned,
"Sister Lane, what are you hiding?"
Lane was forced to open her eyes and seeing that Skyla had already caught her, she sighed,
"Nux told me to keep an eye on you all…"
"Huh?" Amaya frowned.
"Explain," Ember spoke as well.
"H-He was worried that Herms might appear on the battlefield, and since he is an emperor, there is a chance that we do not get the time to report him.
So he requested me to stay behind and act like his shadow to inform him the moment things go out of his hands."
"Nux's Shadow…" Felberta muttered to herself.
"Why didn't he ask me to be his shadow? I would have been more than happy to do it." Amaya was a step bolder and spoke her thoughts out loud.
"That's because…" Lane spoke but then turned silent.
The women turned towards him and narrowed their eyes.
They needed answers.
A small smile then appeared on Lane's face as she replied,
"That's because I am special and he trusts me more than anyone else."
Lane dropped a bomb.
"Tsk, stop daydreaming." Amaya was the first one to counter.
"It is clear who is daydreaming here."
Lane was unusually aggressive.
"…"
The women didn't have any answers so they were forced to turn silent.
"Nux's shadow…
I am more suited to be his shadow…" Thyra spoke to herself.
She then glanced at Lane, who was just smiling to herself, and narrowed her eyes.
Lane may fade out when all of them are together because she doesn't speak too much, however, after she and Skyla…
She was the best assassin in this group.
Yes, even better than Ember.
It was surprising but both these sisters were monsters, to the point that Thyra even wondered how Felberta's father trained these two.
"Alright, let's stop talking about all this." Suddenly, Ember spoke up.
"Yes, we would talk to Nux later about why he chose her rather than choosing me," Amaya spoke.
"I told you the reason already." Lane didn't back of either.
"Oi, ask him later, be serious for now." Ember's tone was stricter this time.
The women turned silent and Ember continued to explain her plan.
…
"RETREAT!"
Armando commanded.
He and the other 2 Generals quickly turned around, seeing this the Expert Stage Cultivators, who were still fighting against Nux's women frowned, however, the sharper one started following the Generals.
The soldiers were confused as well, however, seeing their Generals and Deputy Generals running away, they all retreated as well.
"Don't let them run away!
KILL THEM!"
Ember commanded.
The Woods Soldiers, who had surrounded all these soldiers strengthen their defenses and started killing as many soldiers as they could.
However, even with all that, the Soldi Earth Soldiers, under their Generals' command succeeded in breaking through the already weakened defense line and escaped.
"Vidyut! Chase them!"
"As you command, General Ember!"
Vidyut shouted and,
"Soldiers! Follow me!
Today is the day we wipe all these basters down!"
"YEAAHHH!!"
The Woods Soldiers were burning with spirit as well.
Just like that the long-lasting War finally ended, and the Solid Earth Soldiers retreated back to the Kingdom.
From the Solid Earth Villages, to towns and then cities, news about how the Skyfall Kingdom helped the Woods Dynasty spread like wildfire.
The Woods were finally free and could focus on recuperating. After raiding the base that the Solid Earth Soldiers, they found quite a lot of gold coins and other things the Solid Earth Soldiers plundered.
Of course, it wasn't all, however, it was still enough to get them started.
