Reason

Being victorious, James regained his lost courage back. Looking for his next target, he charged forward to one of the hawk like beasts who was picking on a mercenary. Trying to sneak up on a quick phase, James slashed his sword downwards, hitting the wing of the hawk like beast, cutting its wing of.

Looking at the mercenary, he could see the gratitude in his eyes towards James. Having faced these beasts now, James felt that he could beat them, these beasts also bleed, so if you stab them hard enough, they will fall eventually. Keeping this into mind, James confidently searched for a new target.

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After close to 10 minutes fighting nonstop, the situation on top of the wall had changed quite a lot. This time it was the beasts were falling down one after the other. After having killed five of these beasts, James felt the fatigue getting to him, slowing his movements. Looking tired, James inspected the area, wanting to find a location to rest up for a bit.

Before the battle started, the Judgment army soldiers mentioned a few locations on the wall there were allocated for soldiers to rest. Thinking back to this, James walked slowly to one of these posts.

As the whole battlefield was chaotic and disorganized, there was no proper chain of command left in the field. Taking an advantage of this, James took the initiative to leave by himself without getting proper permission.

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Having arrived in the inner room of a watchtower, James could see various wounded and winded soldiers in this location, including Sir Edward. Feeling a bit ashamed that he left the field without permission, he slowly walked towards Sir Edward, who was aware of his existence.

"I wanted to ask if you fled the battle, yet I can see from you face and body that you have fought for some time." Sir Edward took the initiative, passing James a cup of cold water. "And would you look at that, you even managed to hit one of these beast." Sir Edward jokingly said, seeing James' bloodied sword.

After drinking his cup of water, James replied proudly, "Actually sir, I managed to slew five of them." Feeling relieved that Sir Edward would not blame him for taking a rest, he was now more at ease. Looking around him, he heard a group of knights chuckle between them. James remembered this familiar sound, it was Edgar's.

"You, killing five of those beasts? Are you certain that they were not already dead when you stabbed them?" Edgar walked over saying mockingly. "It is impossible for you and that sword to be responsible for something like that, you are definitely lying."

All the relief James had a moment ago, disappeared in an instance. However, after facing beasts that were scarier than Edgar, James this time took the courage and mock Edgar himself. "Let me guess, you hide here all the time trying to find ways to attack me instead of these beasts?" James called out.

Hearing this, Edgar's face started to change colors, "How dear you, a meager low classed noble's son, to talk back to me!, I Should real-" before Edgar could finish his sentence, he noticed that Sir Edward looked to his direction rather angry. "Anyway, I have more things to do than argue with a trash like you, let's go men" Edgar avoided the topic and walked away.

After Edgar and his gang walked away, Sir Edward turned to James and said "Be careful of him. He is from a strong and old family who holds great powers. Moreover, after you guy's fight this morning, I looked into what was going on between you two." Looking a bit worried Sir Edward continued, "It turns out, that a childhood friend and crush of Edward is actually in love with you. What was her name again, Loraine or something?"

As James heard the name 'Loraine' come out, he saw a cute blond girl's face in front of him.