Chapter 1: After the War.
A week before the Crimson General was summoned.
The five year war between the demons and humans has just ended, it was a bloody battle over a feud for land.
After graduation at the military academy at eighteen, she was thrown immediately into the battlefield after getting a recommendation from the headmaster- she climbed through the ranks fast.
"Participating in battle is the highest honor anyone can be bestowed upon." She tells her thousands of soldiers being lined up, yelling with confidence and the aura of a true general.
She places her prized silverith sword being gifted by her mentor and raises it in glory of the human race.
"We fight to our death, if we die we will die with honor! This is for the royal family and the kingdom!" It was a painful speech to send her comrades to death, but she had no choice. Everyone aborted in cheers for their leader and became brave to face the enemies head on.
This was her duty.
Five years of battle, many loses of friends and colleagues. Her hands have been stained with the blood of her enemies, she worked hard to get to where she was and then finally-
Thud!
The sound of the demon lord's head falling onto the ground could be heard, the battle was taking place in the border territory of the demon lands where a sea of dead bodies could be seen, being trampled and ignored.
"Lower down your weapons! The demon lord has been slain!" One human soldier points at their general standing at a mountain of dead bodies as she presents the decapitated head to the demon soldiers who stood in place- shock, despair and fear came over them."The war is over." (Rowan) mutters, feeling tired and drained of the whole thing. It wasn't easy defeating the demon lord but she managed to persevere.
"T-The war is over?" One soldier couldn't believe what he just heard, finally, all of their pain would be over. He turned over to his buddy, giving him a high five. "YEAHHH!"
"Huzzah! Huzzah! Hail the general and her legacy!"
"Indeed we defeated the demon army once more!"
"Her tactics are unbeatable!"
Every armed soldier raises their swords with laughter and smiles, finally the five years of war are finally over.
The crimson general stood where the demon king's body laid.
The head was on her bloodied hands, carrying it by pulling the end of the demon lord's hair with not much expression on her face. She was unbothered by the scene, her other companions covered their mouth and held their breakfast seeing a dead body like that starting to rot.
But Rowan Bonheur...
"Jonathan, this... will be my gift to the king." She turns to his right hand man, a soldier boy just right around her age and was in a family of talented blacksmiths.
Jonathan Smithers, he was one of the many few that she trusted with his life. Studying with him in the private military academy, he was her best friend that defended and protected her when she needed it most.
No one believed a woman could continue with the path of military life.
Flies flew over the top of the demon lord's decapitated head, they surrounded her as she smelled of the battlefield. Both humans and demons suffered a great loss in the five year war.
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