Chapter 148

They maintained their stride as they filed through the gatehouse entrance. Despite the fact that he knew the two guards, he could still see the scorch marks from the flames his daughters used to burn away the captured enemy. He understood that in order to begin a new life, he would have to make sacrifices. It was going to take some time for the name to become ingrained and seem completely natural. On the other hand, the village chief ordered the remaining hundred soldiers to form a line in the courtyard. The event that was going to take place couldn't be postponed any longer.

"Get the others," Galileo said with a sigh. "The enemy shall die."

Following that, Harriet made her way in the direction of the head chief with a solemn nod. Most of the wounded men they had left behind were hopeless, and no one was surprised by this; it was merely a matter of keeping the soldiers under surveillance. Those who were thought extremely old, feeble, or terrified (as was the case for nearly all