Her Graceful War Song by Summer's Blaze

Chapter 120

Carissa and her friends were huddled around a small fire, their cracked lips dry and chapped.

"Is there any evidence that she was among the troops withdrawing from Sandoria?" Carissa asked.

"No, but she chased a group of Westhaven soldiers when the battle started, and she hasn't returned since," Barrett said.

Then we should thoroughly inspect the city for her among the corpses," Violet sneered icily.

"She's not dead!" Barrett's eyes flashed with anger. "Don't curse her! As members of the same army. how can you curse a fellow soldier?"

Violet rolled her eyes, and snorted. "The war is over, and I'm done with being a soldier. Don't drag me into being her comrade. She doesn't deserve it!"

Barrett was infuriated by her words. He tumed to Carissa, and said seriously, "I'm the one who disappointed you, not Aurora. If it were another soldier captured, would you save them?"

Carissa countered, "If another soldier was captured, would you risk the lives of twenty thousand troops to chase after the enemy's main force?"

was momentarily

of a soldier's life, General Warren. You have no proof that General Yates is among the retreating troops. Even if you did, you couldn't be sure she was with the main force. Pursuing them through the border mountains would be

Travis, who always supported Carissa, were unsatisfied

in the area. They don't belong to the Southern

he understood that anyone intruding on their territory would face their

standing by? Aurora wasn't the only one captured-her soldiers were,

certain she was captured?"

of enemies. As soon as the battle began, there

such an obvious trap, it shows poor judgment. Do you want us to risk the lives of so

had no answer for the criticism of Aurora's poor judgment. It was

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"When I realized what was happening, I called out to her, but she didn't listen. I was leading my troops in combat. If I had pursued her urgently, my soldiers would have followed me without knowing the situation. I couldn't jeopardize

intense fighting in the city, with the chaos and confusion, it was possible for friend and foe to be indistinguishable. If he pursued Aurora amidst the intense battle, his soldiers might mistakenly think it was part of a tactic and follow him. That would have endangered the Hell Monarch Army

unit, Barrett absolutely couldn't afford

accurate. After Aurora was lured away, Rafael had judged that the enemy would