I BECAME A SKULL IN ANOTHER WORLD WITH THE LABYRINTH MASTER'S WORK.

CHAPTER 56: GIVING UP

The entire Hiam City began to be filled with corpses as well as blood, there were countless corpses all over the ground.

Most of the troops or adventurers guarding Hiam City were already filled with despair, however the Elos army was too strong that there was no chance for them to win.

Elos could also tell that the Hiam City troops had no spirit to fight anymore, therefore Elos raised his sword before shouting "Everybody who releases his weapon and kneels on the ground will stay alive, but whoever still holds a weapon or tries to escape then they will all die! Surrender, put your weapons down to stay alive!".

Listening to the cry of Elos, the soldiers of the Animal Human Kingdom also joined in shouting "Give up! Anyone who dropped their weapon and knelt on the ground would still be alive, but anyone who still held their weapon would be killed!".

The enemy soldiers stared at each other, then they dropped their weapons without hesitation onto the ground. After all, Marquis Nate did not treat them well at all, rather Marquis Nate made rules like other nobles, namely increasing their taxes excessively, regardless of whether the residents could eat or not.

So in the face of a defeat like this, then they also had no loyalty to the Marquis. Most of the people threw away their weapons and kneeled on the ground, there were only a few people who remained stubborn and tried to escape.

Finally the war ended, some of the people who surrendered were not killed, but they were detained so that there was no sudden rebellion. In addition to all the weapons disposed of by enemy soldiers were collected, these weapons might be used by the new soldier Elos in the future.

Riona also reported that she had already completed her task of killing Porte, Hiam City had already fallen completely.

Zeyi came to Elos when the war was over, and he began to report "No soldier was killed, but about 5 undead troops were destroyed in the war this time. There are also 10 people who were lightly injured, maybe it will be a little disturbing if they continue to fight because of the injuries. In addition we have 142 prisoners, most of them just residents holding weapons, not at all looking like trained soldiers".

Elos nodded "We will go to the next city, we will continue to attack relentlessly until nightfall, the time for the soldiers to rest. Let the 100 troops stay in Hiam City to keep the prisoners as well as the city so that the enemy does not seize it again, then gather all the bodies of the enemy to make new soldiers while the bodies of our comrades will be brought back to the badlands to be buried".

"Well, sir!", replied Zeyi who left as quickly as possible to do the task that Elos gave her.

Elos is not a man who has no feelings, for the enemy troops who are dead then Elos can turn them into an army of the undead, but for the army that had followed Elos to death, Elos could not make them undead. However they had fought for Elos, they had to be buried with respect because even their families would not agree to see their family members become undead troops.

They only stopped in Hiam City for an hour before leaving for another city again, while in Hiam City then Elos got an additional 200 undead troops again.

During this day, the army of Elos continued to move until it captured as much as Hiam City and 3 other cities, in the end the day was dark and the time was night. This made Elos decide to let the soldiers rest, if Elos remained stubborn to let the soldiers continue to fight then his troops must be weakened due to fatigue.

Elos' army stayed in the last city they captured today, and decided to leave again tomorrow morning. According to what Elos had already thought, they could seize the 4 remaining cities tomorrow.

Most of these 8 cities only had wooden fence defenses, therefore Elos could seize them quickly.

In addition, there were 3 additional cities that Elos captured, each city giving about 200 additional undead troops to Elos. So during this day, Elos gained a total of 800 new undead troops and lost less than 50 undead troops, truly a huge advantage.

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The next day, Zeyi came to Elos' house early in the morning.

Looking at Zeyi who came early in the morning with a tired face, Elos slightly shook his head "Have you not rested all night? I know that you're trying to do your best, let alone that you hold an Intel ministry that's crucial to this war. But you must not forget to rest, after all if you die of exhaustion then I will lose a very great follower".

Zeyi smiled at her tired face "Thank you for your concern, but Zeyi only needed to eat a banana to relieve her fatigue. Zeyi actually came to the master's house early in the morning like this because there was something important, the 4 cities that we originally planned to attack today decided to surrender to us. More precisely, each mayor of the 4 cities came here to surrender early in the morning. Sir, what should we do with them?".

"His mayor came alone to surrender? Let me meet them, as long as they completely give up then there will be no objection to accepting it. But if they try to play dumb with me, they'll be sorry".

Elos takes Riona to go see the mayor, Zeyi leads them to the house where the 4 mayors are waiting.

When they saw Elos coming, the 4 mayors stood up from their seats and bowed.

Elos looked at these 4 mayors carefully, they were made up of 3 men and 1 woman, and their age was already looking very old that was over the age of 50.

Elos waved her hand indicating that they could all stand up again before sitting on the main seat, while Riona stood behind Elos as well as Zeyi stood beside her.

"The mayors, in front of you now are our master Elos. Whether or not to accept your surrender to the 4 cities depends on our master's decision" Zeyi explained.

Elos also said "no need to waste any more time, give me a reason why you should accept your surrender. After all, even if your 4 cities join, we can still win very easily. So give me a good reason".

Hearing that, the mayors stared at each other before a man who seemed to be the leader of these mayors spoke "Master, we are ready to give up, we are ready to give up, so did our inhabitants in exchange that the lord would not bring his troops to attack our city. In exchange, the soldiers from our city are ready to join the ranks of the lord's army, besides we mayors do not mind being sentenced to death or banished. We have also brought all the money in the treasury of our city, all this money will be given to the lord so as not to accept our surrender. But do not attack the city and make the victims of innocent residents of our 4 cities, let our families in the city stay alive, that is the only requirement we need.

Elos knocked on the table for a minute while thinking, no one dared to speak for fear of disturbing Elos.

Elos opened his eyes "I agree, but you mayors and your families will be transferred to the Capital of Dyremann, you will be prisoners there so that as long as your 4 cities betray then you are with your whole family on death row. But no need to worry, as long as your city completely surrenders then I will treat you no differently than the rest of the population, unless your freedom with your family is restricted until this war is over. Only I can show you the new mayor of your city, besides half of the treasury you gave me I also took, while the other half will be used by the new mayor who I appointed as the cost of managing the city. Hows it? Do you guys mind?".

The 4 mayors stared at each other before standing up and kneeling at Elos "We give our allegiance to the lord!".

Elos nodded, with this then he did not need to waste any more time, the 8 cities in the hands of Marquis Nate already belonged to Elos. Currently there are only 2 more cities that should be captured by Lumina.

"In hindsight, why did you guys suddenly give up on me? Do you not have loyalty to Marquis Nate or do you do this for the lives of your people?", asked Elos a little curious because these mayors are very easy to give up.

The female mayor smiled bitterly "Marquis Nate is not at all much different from a criminal to us, there were even a lot of townspeople who did not support him because the rules he made caused many people to die of hunger every year".

Elos was a little surprised to hear this, he now understood why these 4 mayors decided to give up. It was useless for all of them to fight to the death for masters who did not care about their lives either.