The battle descended into utter chaos. In just ten minutes, the ground was littered with hundreds of corpses. Adrian and Thalia had not managed to escape to safety. They were now surrounded and cornered, making any attempt to flee seemingly impossible.

The chaos had forced the three village chiefs to remain on the sidelines. Their eyes were bloodshot when they noticed nearly half of their elite warriors had fallen in the conflict.

"Why don't we stop the battle, sit down, and talk this through?" Hansen suggested.

His villagers had been holding off the other two villages, and the toll on his men was significant. At least three hundred of them were dead, and most of them were elite warriors. Most of the forces from the other two villages did not join the fray as they only sent their elites. Although the casualties among the elite forces in all three villages were similar, Blade's Reach’s situation was the most dire.

"Hmph! Now you want to negotiate?" Fynn scoffed, mocking the proposa