Just like that, the twenty Lionheart Knights dispatched by the Boske Duchy were completely annihilated. Even the "Black Lion Knight" Frederick, one of the Seven Great Knight Commanders, became a traitor and a minion of the Red Dragon.
The fate of the hundred Double-Headed Eagle Warriors sent by the Principality of Norton was even more tragic—Cassius didn't even bother to take action personally. He merely issued a casual camp mission, deploying a few Red Scale Conquerors, who decimated these so-called "elites" that weren't even considered professionals, letting those exuberant wyverns ruthlessly burn them into charred remains.
Cassius lay sprawled in the grand hall, gazing at the Anzeta map before him, especially fixated on the small nation adjacent to the Ashen Kingdom.