Feilengcui emerged victorious with abundant spoils of war.
In this battle, they captured thousands of human captives, a large number of warhorses, weapons, armor, and even rounded up the belated supply team of the Shalba family.
According to the customs of the Aegean Continent, each captive could be exchanged for freedom with a ransom, in other words, all of these represented money.
However, what slightly annoyed Liu Zhenhua was that the majority of these human captives were composed of servant soldiers and mercenaries. The servant soldiers were mainly slaves, so no one would pay a ransom for them. The knights loyal to the Shalba family were definitely valuable, but they resisted the most fiercely and had long been mostly killed. Additionally, they had not managed to capture the two mages. Master Fran was a space magician who had used the "Kohler Escape" and fled early. Otigha, the fire mage wasn’t as lucky, he was captured alive by the Fairy Dragon after just a single move, along with the Earl who fell from the sky.
What you gain, you lose. The losses of Feilengcui in this battle were also considerable.
Supervising the captives, burying the bodies, and counting the spoils of war, it took Liu Zhenhua a full two days to finally complete most of these tasks. The great fire on the Red Earth Highland was still not extinguished.
The more Ning Yu compiled the data, the more troublesome it seemed.
At dinner in the Lord’s Hall erected from bamboo that night, Ning Yu reported the current issues to Liu Zhenhua with unease.
"The lack of food is a big problem."
"I predicted this problem when the fire broke out," Liu Zhenhua also felt somewhat troubled.
Before this battle started, nobody had expected the opponents would resort to "Setting the Red Earth Highland on Fire", so everyone only took some portable items when crossing the river. The Larza beasts, fat gazelles, short-legged horses, and deer all enclosed and kept in the big beast pens behind the highland, had all been wiped out by the fire. The fire had also claimed the salted fish and vegetables drying on the highland, as well as the food stored in the cave dwellings.
"Although after this battle, we have obtained many warhorses and the Shalba family’s baggage carts, the revenue is still far less than the expenditure. Another annoying problem is that these slavers came empty-handed, only with the intention of plundering. They carried no money with them. Although Feilengcui won after a tough fight, they did not manage to garner any cash from the captives." Ning Yu counted the takings, "Now, we need a large amount of money to buy food."
"Didn’t we capture a lot of warhorses?" Avril asked curiously.
"They could be used for food in the short term, but definitely not in the long term. Horse meat is too thick, and if it’s consumed as the main food for a long time without any vegetables or cereals, it could result in scurvy." The elder of Andulan denied this idea.
"The citizens of Feilengcui total more than twelve hundred. Add to that, the prisoners which number more than a thousand, solely relying on warhorses for food isn’t worth it. A well-trained qualified warhorse could be worth hundreds, even thousands of gold coins in the human world. It wouldn’t make sense to use it for sustenance." Due to her Fawkes background, Helen’s eyes turned golden.
"Hurry up and turn these spoils of war in Witherspoon into gold coins and buy food." Helen said cheerfully.
"To rebuild Feilengcui, this money might not be enough." The Fairy Dragon, Daisy, contemplated for a moment and said, "The ’Fire that Burns the City’, also known as ’The Three-Day Fire’, is a standard war-typed Forbidden Curse Magic Scroll. It uses the magical power to draw the flame from the heart of the earth for the attack; it is a very powerful fire magic. Its power is sufficient to destroy one-eighth of the biggest city in the Northeast Province, Witherspoon. The most insidious part of this magic is that even a Stone Castle would be turned into fragments after three days of fire burning."
The Fairy Dragon’s words weighed heavy on everyone’s hearts.
It had been two days.
Not only were the magical flames on the Red Earth Highland not showing any signs of dying out, but it also seemed to be burning more fiercely. The entire contour of the sleeping beauty on the Red Earth Highland could no longer be made out, all that was visible was the twisting fires, the jumping fire spirits, and the dissipating flying sparks. The only identifiable object left that could barely be seen was the stone statue embedded in the middle of the Red Earth. After enduring the raging fire spirits, the stone statue had turned a transparent fiery red. The sand and glaze in the Red Earth had turned into a flowing glass-like liquid, streaming down the face and body of the statue. Follow current novels on NoveI(F)ire.net
If it really burns for three days, what the Fairy Dragon said about the stone burning to fragments doesn’t seem to be an exaggeration.
"Could summoning the ’Torrential Rain Spell’ extinguish this fire?" Avril rolled up her sleeves and took out that magical bamboo tube again. This bamboo tube made from bamboo roots instantly caught the Fairy Dragon’s attention.
"The quick change from cold to hot would make it crack even faster." Liu Zhenhua shook his head.
"So our home is just gone ?" The bamboo shed was very simple, and Helen could see the raging fire on the Red Earth Highland of Feilengcui with just a glance.
Her eyes were filled with moisture.
Helen’s words echoed the sentiments of all the Feilengcui citizens; whoever it is, seeing their homeland being swallowed by the fire, and having no way to stop but watch, wouldUndoubtedly feel terrible.