The Fate of Adipura Kingdom

54. Important Information

"What will Patih Purno do?", Aryo asked curiously.

"Ahhh... according to Patih Purno's uncle will extract information from the captives earlier", the old man replied while stroking his chin.

No doubt that a prisoner will be treated demian, Aryo just hope Patih Purno not too force his will considering he is not a warrior but a royal soldier.

They sometimes act outside the rules of the swordsman, even in ways that are arguably too harsh. It is their principle that the path they take becomes easy even though they have to sacrifice a lot of effort.

Aryo and the old man were still talking about the war situation but soon a soldier came to inform him that Patih Purno requested that the two of them meet him immediately.

"Well, get us there"

"Good young master"

The soldier then drove Aryo and the old man to the room where prisoners of war were held. Inside there were already several armies of iron horses as well as Patih Purno and Subani.

In front of them were dozens of opposing soldiers who were now prisoners to their knees with their hands tied behind their backs and their heads covered with sacks. Patih Purno asked the two to come because there is business to be resolved today.

"I'm sorry I made young master come here"

"Ah.. It's okay, Patih, I'm sure the reason Patih asked us to come here is because there's something important, right?"

"True young master, for more details I leave it to Mr. Subani", Patih Purno let his colleague explain the matter to be conveyed.

"Sorry young master, what we want to say is about..."

Subani then explained what he had to convey to Aryo as the initial leader of the rebel forces. The longer the explanation from Subani the worse the look on Aryo's face, he was not out of thought with the explanation he heard now.

From the explanation of their concerns about the true skin tribe, on the enemy side there were hundreds of black tribesmen with the equivalent of fifth level wolf warriors, and some of them approached the strength of striped tiger warriors.

This was a shocking piece of information, a big question popped into his mind. How can the opposing forces get help from such a strong army, what do these black tribal people want to participate in the ongoing war.

"Wait uncle, is this information true?", Aryo cut off the explanation from Subani.

Subani gasped in surprise, but he almost finished explaining the matter but Aryo then cut his explanation. Subani then turned her head towards Patih Purno who was responded with a nod of his head.

Subani steps towards one of their captives and opens the sack that covers the captive's head. Subani then told the captive to explain the information he knew.

"Please forgive me, I. I. will tell you everything"

"Ba. well, well", the prisoner began to explain the information he knew even if it was not too much.

The prisoner confirmed the information that Subani had submitted just now. In their camp there were now more than hundreds of black tribesmen with terrifying strength. Their gazes were always sharp even their own fellow comrades, there was never any laughter among them making the other soldiers reluctant to get close.

And he later recounted that the Obstacle kingdom established cooperation with the black tribe on the recommendation of the red devil. Suddenly the explanation made Aryo hold his breath, the figure mentioned was very imprinted in his memory.

The red devils have fellow students who come from the island of Sulagendi, because he is on a special mission he can not attend to help the Adipura kingdom troops and Obstacles. He then offered his partner to join the kingdom and it turned out that the offer was well received.

With the help of king Padri hundreds of black tribesmen successfully crossed from the island of Sulagendi to the island of Jawata. And the last information he knew was that King Padri was interested in making black tribesmen into a special army of the kingdom of Obstacles.

Aryo's eyes glared at the statement from the prisoner, he did not think that it would happen. If the army is formed then the Constraint kingdom will become very strong and of course will run rampant to crack down on small kingdoms later.

It takes great power if you want to defeat the kingdom of Obstacles if all that happens, Aryo does not want all of it to be true. Then he was determined to immediately finish off all black tribal forces in the battlefield later.

"So how are we going to respond to this all Patih?", Aryo turned to Patih Purno with a still bad look on his face.

Patih Purno captures the meaning of the look, he knows that Aryo is now thinking hard to find a way out of all these problems.

"There is no other way, we have to finish off all these troops in the next war" Patih Purno gave the answer.

All but the prisoners of war nodded their heads in unison in agreement with the opinion of Patih Purno just now. If indeed it had to be done then with all their might they would be able to accomplish it.

Finally after that Aryo, the old man, Patih Purno and Subani came out of the room. They then moved to their respective resting places because the sun would soon sink in the Western horizon.

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The atmosphere at the camp of the Adipura royal army and its allies became so bleak, the screams and cries of the soldiers now adorned their camp. The leaders of the army tried to calm them down, but the fear of death had eaten away at their souls, all they saw was the word death.

Their fear continues to be very severe, although with great effort it will not be easy to get the soldier back excited again to fight. The events they had experienced and they saw today were so soul-shaking, not the least of which ended up being silent with a blank look forward.

At first they felt confident of winning easily, but after seeing the strength of their opponents they finally realized that the numbers alone would not help to win this time.

Minister Balda who observes the course of the war must accept the fact his troops must be repulsed to this day. Many of his wounded soldiers even had to die on the battlefield.

Fortunately, the soldiers who had still retreated did not get an attack but now their mental current really fell drastically, their bodies did not stop shaking because they had just witnessed the strength of an opponent who was not inferior to their numbers even more.

Patih who became the leader of the army that had just retreated directly facing the king of Jaka accompanied by minister Balda and the young lady at the side, a feeling of fear attacked the Patih. He had already imagined how furious the king of Jaka would be after hearing his report while on the battlefield.