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he did. The Small One was furious because deep inside, he
knew that he could not beat Jarvis after he failed at leading
the Prouds to victory. Even though Jarvis was dead, his
ghost haunted the Small One everywhere and would keep
haunting him for the rest of his life.
The battle continued and most of the Prouds were
killed, while the wounded were taken prisoners. After the
battle, Samuel ordered that the prisoners be killed and so
they were because he wanted to retaliate against them so
much without mercy. He also wanted to carry out the
king’s orders who insisted on killing all of the Prouds
without exception.
As he watched the end of the battle in which his
army was achieving decisive victory, Samuel said, with a
heart of which mercy had been forced out by extreme
malice, “Let’s go and finish the rest of them in their
homeland.”
Since Widea’s soldiers were victorious and in
control, why would not they kill the rest of the Prouds?
After their war with the Prouds, the king’s soldiers headed
to the land of the Prouds and when they saw it, they rushed
on horseback like eagles soaring in the sky. They were
filled with enthusiasm because they knew that finishing the
remaining people in the land of the Prouds had become
easy after destroying their army. The soldiers had not
sustained many casualties in the battle, which made their
number many times larger than the number of the Prouds
left in their land. In addition, they were confident that the
spirits of the remaining the Prouds had hit rock bottom
when they had learned of what had happened to their
knights in battle.