Snippet #942021

"War is about messages to its leaders," Malkini said slowly. He took a few heavy steps forward until he faced the Black Knight directly. "If a leader has his towns slaughtered, his confidence will go down. Make him the dictator of nothing, make everything they touched turn to ash. Make every town his soldiers ever occupied nothing but bloody streets. And then make him look at it... look at all." Malkini looked directly into Kazuki's eyes. "And then you kill him, because hes just a man who tried to conquer a pile rubble who now sits in chains."

A smile came across Mallkini's face. "Of course you will only have to live through that if we fail here. The rebels are plotting and trying to form an army on a village built on the side of one of the massive stone pillars there above the Mevish. A good distance down the river is our good General Yoff and his army. They are using an abandoned underground city as an outpost and base. Its an old city of stone, all reaching beneath the Mevish river. Its from when the Dals occupied the planet, and there's only one entrance. Its this opening in the base of a massive statue built into the rockside, just off the side of the Mevish. And the statue, ironically, is of a Knight. A Neahian one, but a Knight none the less."

Malkini turned back to the group, a few of them disturbed by the concept of cutting a village down to pieces. "Look, the city runs underneath the pillar holding the village. Yoff wants to set explosives there and blow it up, causing the pillar, the village, and any rebels inside it to fall to the ground and die. Believe it or not the Knights in Sor thinks that's inhumane, and what that really means is that they don't want to upset the King of Usin, because then they loose a big source of vegetables for the north-western provinces that cant farm themselves. Kiris and what not. That's why they're sending us. To kill the rebels and try not to hurt the villagers, that's why we are the elites, that's why were Knights. And the Knights never fail, eh?"