They had tied they mounts to post outside the vilge out of sight upon arriving. As they find their mounts they are reunited with the rest of their squad.the friendly giant utum smiles and waves to them.“Gora, cofus there you two are we’ve been waiting for you what took you so long”
Cofus and gora smile and wave back to the other, gora approachs her horse as cofus heads to his giant lizard
“Sorry utum; cofus and i had to go see the captain. im gonna have to head home for a month once were done at oniedora id like some time to rest at home and talk to my grandfather about the luutons some more. We have 3 months to prepare so after i recover I’ll come back as soon as possible”
Rex’s squad isn’t the happiest to hear this but they know it to be necessary. utum and Arvus personally saw the the burns on her back and know their full extent.``we understand do take care it has been an honor fighting with you so far and i would like to continue doing so in this war”
utum says with a gentle smile gora nods and smiles back.“Now can someone help me on my horse i cant really move my hips or lower back all that well”
They seem to all chuckle abit at that even gora herself. they all nod and help her up onto her horse.“So who got the most kills?”
secomi asks. Everyone in the party starts looking at each other intensely, their eyes shifting from one another waiting for the first person to speak. finally Sicus just sighs”fine well undoubtedly i got the lowest i killed like 2 and that’s just because I’m a musician OK!”
Arvus stands proudly putting her hands on her hips”wow little bro what a low number im sure there some levies with a higher kill count than that”
Gora shakes her head and shrugs”you couldn’t have least throne a dagger at one two?”
Utum just sighs in disappointment as secomi just points and ughs”come one bro only two? You couldn’t find any more stragglers or what?”
Sicus grits his teeth looking quite angry at his comrades”OK then tough guy how many did you kill”
he says violently pointing at secomi his voice filled with hatred for the swordsman Secomi just grin and crosses his arms in confidence and proudly looks up”i the mighty secomi vanquished a total of 43 of those filthy luuton bastards with my bde”
Everyone but cofus and gora looks quite impressed. Arvus smiles abit”well i didn’t get that many but i got 22”
Utum seems quite impressed by the numbers so far”well i got 45 after i ran out of javelins i just started throwing what i could find”
Cofus grins and looks at the others quite contently”well i guess there’s a reason im the junior commander after all because i cofus cofeneva astra have personally sent 64 of the luutons to their ancestors”
They all then look at cofus quite impressed expect for one among them. Gora looks at them with biggest grin she can muster. Cofus looks at her uneasy feeling a bit nervous about such a confident grin”well i guess you Astra’s really needed me after all”
Gora’s says with a smug tone as she looks down at all the astrans even the mighty utum feels small under her massive ego”what there’s no you could even get half of what i got . You were out for half the entire battle!”
Cofus says out loud. with a voice that couldn’t possibly hold no dishonesty she boldly decres to them”the truth is i lost count after the first swing but by no means could the number have been any way lower than 200! As with each attack my geia moved through their bountiful horde setting them abze.”
The astrans feel shocked to hear this. from anyone else they would immediately believe it to be a lie, yet as gora stands tall as she rides her majestic steed ughing its hard to doubt her words aren’t true.
Utum thinks to himself while its true gora was out of the fight for most of the battle. her geia did make quick work of quite a few. He tries to think in his head what the real number could be”I hate to say it but I believe we’ve been outcssed in our own war. she got to the front line a little before me and had already taken out a number of them. I’m afraid her guess is most likely true”
Utum says, sounding a little disappointed. Cofus sighs and refuses to say anything as they make their way back to rex with his mount being towed along. Sir Aemulus would be out of sight as rex just sits there alone resting his eyes as he waits for his squad to bring him his beast.
Rex grins as he feels the earth shake a little as his fat lizard marches toward him with a bnk stare. Rex hops up from his spot and runs towards his mount and quickly embraces it
“Asi oh my beloved friend how i worried for your safety im gd to see you’re unharmed”
The lizard takes little notice of its loving master, simply gncing down at him for a second before bnkly staring off into space, something reptiles seem to do regardless of size. Regardless rex is happy to see his beloved mount. he quickly climbs aboard it and looks down at everyone except utum who he still has to look up to.”I’m pleased to see everyone is alive and well. We lost most of our levies in that battle but not a single knight perished. We must now report their demands back to our king and prepare for the next battle in three months i have already sent messages to the watchtowers and they will be sending the message to everyone else.”
Gora chuckles abit much to Rex’s confusion”and what is so funny miss grigora?”
She just shakes her head”no sorry i was just thinking how ridiculous it was to ask the astran kings to submit. They must know as little about you as you do them or else they would of continued there assault and not let up until one of us is destroyed”
Gora says in a rather cheerful tone for a rather dark observation. It was true though there was no way the kings of astra would submit to foreign raiders. Rex thought to himself.
The entire squad looks to rex quite excitedly making the captain feel uneasy”um is there something else im forgetting?”
He asks feeling quite concerned. Cofus shakes his head”captain you never said your kill count!”
Cofus voice sounds pyfully disappointed rex cant help but ugh a little as he say that”ah of course my bad i got caught up in dealing with the rest of this camp i forgot something so important” he coughs into his hand and puffs up his chest trying to make himself bigger”i sir rexan cerana astra sughtered well over 400 of the luutons myself ”
They all looks in shock completely bewildered by the captains statement”400!?! How is that even possible captain what could you have done that was so much more effective than me i was right by you the whole time!”
Cofus compins he tries to think very hard while its true his captain most definitely killed more than him. He didn’t think the gap was that rge.
