The nobles who retreated hurriedly were able to recapture six out of the eleven occupied estates. After all, they had thirty thousand troops made of the elite knights and magicians of the captured estates. Their absence had made Orta’s blitzkrieg strategy far more effective. There wasn’t that much disparity between the noble and royal faction

However, Duke Cornwall soon ran into a problem.

“No... Those bastards took all the supplies?”

It was textbook Meltor tactics, but it was a shocking surprise for the nobles. After all, they had forgotten about dimensional pockets!

War magicians kept their supplies in their dimensional pockets, so the battlefield commander could often use them for different purposes. As such, there were cases where plunder was far more useful as a battlefield tactic.

Orta had always kept in mind that he couldn’t keep possession of the estates, so he’d chosen to plunder everything rather than hunker down. He took everything his troops could lay hands on, including food from the warehouses, military supplies, and the secret safes in the mansions.

The lords of each estate screamed at the cruelty of their enemies not even leaving gold dust behind. Moreover, nobody was compensated for the damages due to the current situation....