After I died, my personal maid rebelled.

Time passed amidst the sounds of battle. Noticing the dissipation of the halos, Catherine slapped herself hard, reopening the wound on her face. As if remembering something, she ran quickly into the palace.

Commander Kate and Sister Arabella must have anticipated this, and given the terrifying ritual, Sister Arabella is probably not in good condition right now!

No wonder they wanted me to come here, no wonder they wanted me to assemble a new force!

Sure enough, as soon as Catherine ran into the palace where the command center was located, she saw the advisors frantically lifting the High Nun from the pool of blood.

Arabella's body was half shriveled and squeezed dry, and half decayed into an immortal state...

The staff officers, as if they had found a pillar of support, hurriedly said, "Sir, her breath is very weak. Please bring the Great Sister back to Saint Jane immediately."

"I understand, I understand!"

Catherine carefully stepped forward and picked up the elder sister, then turned back before leaving the room and asked, "Did the commander instruct you on what to do next?"

The staff officers raised their heads, gave a proper military salute, and said with tears glistening in their eyes, "Please rest assured, sir. The division commander has made arrangements. Command of the southern front will now be fully handed over to Regiment Commander Federico."

"good……"

On the other side of the battlefield, the savior who witnessed Nicole's death once again encountered the hunter in the shadows, Dane.

The Goddess Army was in defeat, and what was even more fatal was that their retreat was cut off by the Light Cavalry and the Loyal Death Legion.

Both sides were exhausted. In fact, the Savior found it hard to believe that the Northern Army could continue to launch an organized attack after suffering such heavy casualties.

According to her observation, even including the loyalist legion, the number of Northern Army soldiers still breathing did not exceed 25,000.

If we exclude the loyalist legions, the Northern Army's casualty rate has exceeded three-fifths and is approaching four-fifths since the start of the war.

You should know that most of the warriors guarding the royal city are precious veterans!

Now they are being sacrificed in formation on the battlefield, and even the highly decorated Union Army Division Commander Kate has put himself on the chessboard...

With the war so brutal, how could the Northern Army still fight?

"What, you're not planning to resist?"

With a thick layer of blood scabs on his clothes and covered in wounds, Dane casually raised his giant axe and chopped the savior's head in two.

Pulling the spear from the nun's neck, Erian wiped the tears from his face and asked in a hoarse voice, "This guy's hard to kill, isn't he? Should we use a Molotov cocktail?"

Dane slammed his giant axe into the ground, stared at the savior's slowly blinking eye, and sighed, "Where are the Molotov cocktails? We've used them all up."

"Why don't you ask Commander Paul for a light?"

The two of them looked at the Paladin Commander Paul, who was slaughtering everyone not far away. To put it simply, Paul was more like a bloodthirsty butcher than a Paladin.

Erian was silent for a moment. "Forget it, I'll just use undying magic to corrupt her. What about you? Weren't you going to search for the mage's whereabouts?"

"Those guys are cunning as devils; they probably slipped away before they even entered the royal city."

Before she could finish speaking, the saintly savior, who had just been lying on the ground with a clear head, was pulled into a spatial rift that suddenly opened and vanished without a trace.

The two fell silent again until the distant bugle call sounded, and Federico led the 2nd Division's most elite regiment and two supplementary regiments into the capital, thus officially announcing the end of the war.

The Goddess Army finally experienced despair. The hostile nuns cursed Oswald before they died, only to be brutally dismembered by the soldiers. The trembling Southern Army soldiers tried to fight for prisoner treatment, but ultimately could not escape the fate of being beheaded.

Standing atop the pile of corpses, the cries gradually merged into one.

The price of victory was heavy: Division Commander Kate was killed in action, Sister Arabella was seriously wounded and fell into a coma, and less than one in ten of the elite veterans in each unit survived, while the enemy's army did not even need to be trained.

Man-eating locusts, monsters fed on human flesh; blood hunters, ordinary civilians arbitrarily modified; the Southern Army, a bunch of fools thrown into the battlefield in a muddle.

In other words, as long as there are still humans living on this land, the Goddess Army can make a comeback at any time, while the Northern Army's outstanding soldiers are becoming fewer and fewer with each death.

Unless the elite troops of the Third and Fourth Divisions are brought in, it will be difficult to launch another apocalyptic battle on the southern front.

"We've won, for now..."

The work of clearing away the bodies didn't end until the afternoon of the fourth day. Federico, who took over as division commander Kate, rarely spoke except to give orders.

The enemy has lost another incarnation of the curse, which is a good thing, but other than that, Federico can't find any words to comfort himself.

He still remembered his division commander's ideal: to fight all the way to the southernmost coast of the Southern Territory, then retire from the army and live out the rest of his life in a small house by the beautiful seaside.

People suspected that the division commander was ambitious, and Division Commander Kate liked to joke about it, but regardless of public opinion, he was the most valued by the Duke and the most trusted and beloved by the young lady.

"How heartbroken the young lady must be," Federico couldn't help but think. He had no ambitions, only the ability to wage war, and if he could, he would be ready for the next war to break out at any moment.

"Now that our Northern Army's cavalry numbers have increased, relying on cities for defense is not conducive to leveraging our army's advantages, especially when facing a large-scale enemy force. Holding the city walls will only give the enemy time to amass a large army."

As acting division commander, one must act like a division commander. Although no soldier doubted that Federico would not receive a formal appointment as division commander, Federico still emphasized to everyone not to forget the word "acting."

The remaining military commanders gathered at the Northern Army's post-war debriefing meeting.

Of the regimental-level officers, only Federico, Erion, and Paul remain. More than half of the battalion and company-level officers have been killed or wounded, and the squad leaders fared even worse. It can be said that those who survived are the cream of the crop.

Federico finally understood why the Duke was in such a hurry to establish a military academy: if officers became expendable, the entire army would be at risk of collapse.

Therefore, starting today, he will readjust the future development direction of the military.

"Our southern troops mainly rely on the waterway from Green Gorge City to the Royal City for supplies. This year the situation is better, as the Third Division of the Eastern Territory can also provide logistical support."

"But another problem is that our military forces are mostly concentrated in key areas or near transportation lines. It is difficult for us to achieve refined management in a wider area."

"I think you have all witnessed the methods of the Goddess Army. Humans are just expendable resources in their hands. Sometimes, if we don't manage a place, the enemy will take advantage of the situation."

"Therefore, I suggest that, while the Goddess Army is temporarily unable to assemble a new force, the three divisions in the south should break down regional barriers and implement a strategy of regiments and battalions stationed in cities, while companies and platoons protect villages. At the same time, highly mobile heavy cavalry regiments should be formed in various locations. In the next battle, I will make the Goddess Army pay for their blood debts!"