Chapter 66. Annoyance

"Unbelievable."

Girolamo Marchisio, the leader of the Charles VII rescue team sent by the Setnil Holy Nation and commander of the Holy Nation's 2nd Knights Division, couldn't hide his astonishment.

"We're being unilaterally pushed back? Us? One of the Holy Nation's most elite units?"

The selection of the rescue team was the result of careful consideration and meticulous vetting.

The division's most outstanding members were chosen, organized under the command of the commander himself and the deputy commander.

Though numbering only eleven hundred, they boasted a fighting strength equivalent to a regiment (approximately three thousand).

And yet.

Despite all that.

Girolamo’s valiant subordinates and trusted comrades were currently being decimated.

By a small force of barely a battalion...