Love Me Just Once (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 129

What sudden attack is this? Hathor, startled, rose from his seat. Meanwhile, new cries continued to echo from outside.

“Fire! We must flee!”

One of the generals who had been standing guard near Lestda in his absence rushed into the tent and shouted.

Hathor hastily grabbed his sword and shield and stepped outside the tent. What met his eyes was a black sky and flames that had dyed the white snow entirely crimson.

Seeing his troops panicking and scattering in chaos, Hathor clenched his teeth. Of all days—today, when Lestda and half of his most trusted forces were absent—such a perfectly timed assault should occur.

Yet it was already too late to mount a counterattack; half his formation had collapsed. Finding no hope anywhere he looked, Hathor made the decision any competent commander must make without delay.

“Retreat! Head for the mountains!”

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Cutting down the soldiers of Onde charging toward him, Penrel wondered what madness this was.

These were clearly the same people who had come with him from Edegroon—those who had once stood under the same banner of Aglante.

Yet now, they were attacking the king and his army.

Though his mind understood their lord owed no loyalty to the royal family, Penrel, born a Soar and raised within the military, had never imagined unity being shattered in such a manner.

Unlike Penrel, who was deeply shocked, the king seemed unsurprised by the situation. Penrel glanced sideways at the man calmly cutting down soldiers who had been allies just yesterday. It was as if he had foreseen all of this.

No—perhaps he truly had known. Penrel recalled the king’s unusual behavior in recent days.

After the first battle, the king had swapped positions nightly with his generals—a change made solely at his discretion to confuse potential night raids.

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