A Queen Disgraced: Chapter 5 - The Battle of Jeol Valley

“I would like to avoid spending the New Year out here.”

Orsini’s terrain was a complex collection of mountains and valleys, so it was poorly suited for a cavalry battle. Also, their strategist, Selune, chose to engage in persistent mountain guerilla warfare meant to cut off Sabrina’s supply line and obstruct their movements.

Orsini spent half a year constructing several fortresses, making Jeol Valley feel more like the Jeol Fortresses.

The terrain prevented a large army from moving freely, so it came down to a series of smaller scale battles.

Orsini’s fortresses were cleverly placed so, when one was attacked, the others could send reinforcements and surround the enemy in no time. However, they would leave an escape route to the rear so the enemy could withdraw. Still, the Sabrina force would be surrounded on three sides, so they would take considerable damage if they tried to attack.

Sabrina had 20,000 troops, but they were having trouble breaking through an army half that size.

Sabrina Queen Vishnu grimaced at the slow pace of their advance and it was Karura, leader of her ninja army, who suggested a solution. When Vishnu heard the girl out, surprise spread across her face.

“You want to convince the enemy strategist to switch sides?”

“Selune is young and he is not well-liked within Orsini despite his lofty position. He was even ordered into early retirement until not long ago. No one would ordinarily give him the time of day and he is only being used as a convenient tool during this time of crisis, so he must feel ashamed deep down.”

“Do you think this will work?”

“I think it is worth attempting.”

Vishnu could tell Karura was trying to put on a strong face, but it was true they did not have any better ideas at present. She decided to give it a try.

That night, the entire Sabrina army made a large-scale attack on three frontline bases in three waves. The attack ended in failure with around 300 casualties, but the true purpose of the attack was to assist Karura’s infiltration. She and 10 ninjas of her choosing successfully snuck into the Orsini formation.

“A spy?”

After commanding the defense against the night attack, Selune entered his temporary bedroom in one of Jeol’s fortresses and sensed a presence there.

“I had heard Sabrina’s ninjas were skilled and now I can see why. Come out. It must feel cramped there.”

Karura entered the magical light as if taking shape from the shadows.

She wore dark clothing with its various leather belts kept loose for ease of movement and the hood over her head left only her eyes visible.

“Lord Selune, it is a pleasure to meet you. I am Karura of Sabrina.”

“A woman? And a young one too. Remove that hood. I want to see your face.”

She hesitated for a moment, but she recalled hearing how much of a womanizer he was, decided this would give her an advantage in the negotiations, and removed the hood to reveal herself.

“Oh?” he breathed in awe.

She was a boyish girl with bright orange hair and she had a fairly nondescript face that could have been found anywhere. She was a little short, but that made her breasts look fuller.

Meanwhile, she observed him.

He was a white faced nobleman with long bluish hair, an average build, and greater than average looks. His refreshing appearance and kind presence made him a handsome man who sent a throb through the wombs of all women who laid eyes on him. He was a stylish dresser and wore some light cologne but not so much that it fully hid his sexy masculine scent.

He was the stereotypical type to be liked by women and hated by men.

His face seemed chiseled by a sculptor and his gray eyes seemed to suck at the souls of all who stared into them. His slender nose and thin lips provided a somewhat coldhearted impression, but women who were into that type of man would grow wet and want to strip off their panties if he so much as glanced their way.

Karura herself did not dislike his type, so she felt a tingling in her crotch with his eyes on her.

She was Vishnu’s loyal lover, but she was into men too. In fact, sex was one of a female ninja’s greatest weapons, so she could never perform that job if she could not stand the idea of sex with a man.

Also, he was a well-known womanizer and in the prime of his life. She could imagine sex with him had to be incredible. However, she did not have time to waste on the pleasures of the flesh. After explaining the purpose of her visit, the handsome man laughed in amusement.

“Heh heh. You are asking me to take your side?”

“Yes. Our queen is impressed by your efforts here and would love to have you under her command. We outnumber you two-to-one, so while you are doing well now, it is obvious who will ultimately emerge victorious.”

“Be that as it may, I am still the commander of the Orsini army.”

“As you currently hold the position of Military Advisor General within the Orsini army, my queen is willing to give you the same position within the Sabrina army. Assisting in Queen Vishnu’s conquests should be a much better use of your talents than helping some backwater kingdom like Orsini, don’t you think?”

“Unfortunately, I am satisfied with my current life.”

Sensing no traction in his gentle expression, Karura realized she had been mistaken in this attempt and decided she had to give up.

“I see. Then you leave me no choice.”

She narrowed her eyes. Her beloved Queen Vishnu was struggling to surpass her grandfather Londbardo, but while Karura was in a similar position, she respected her father Hajido and always considered what he would do in any given situation.

If he were the one here, he would certainly eliminate the obstacle before his eyes. She could not let this chance slip from her fingers.

She threw the three kunais hidden in her pocket and also drew her ninja sword and attacked with it.

The three small blades raced toward Selune like a single line of light while she jabbed her sword toward his heart. Not even an experienced hero could dodge that so easily. And this was a nobleman raised in the royal court, so what hope did he have?

But he tilted his head to dodge the small blades while he raised his sheathed sword to deflect her true attack.

“…!”

She clenched her teeth and moved well back.

“Looks like I don’t stand a chance here,” she muttered to herself. She seemed to have misjudged his skills as a warrior, even though a ninja needed to accurately assess the abilities of enemy and ally alike.

She might could manage it if she was prepared to die along with him, but the Sabrina army was not in a pressing enough situation to require that. His survival might allow the Orsini army to put up more of a fight, but Vishnu would have victory in the end.

She had only hoped to kill him just in case, so there was no need to sacrifice herself.

She threw a smoke bomb.

Then she kicked off the balcony floor and threw herself out into the open air.

This was the second floor, but she flipped around beautifully and landed easily in the courtyard.

She had to escape the fortress, return to Vishnu, and provide a report on the enemy strategist. She had contacted him, exchanged some words, and learned a piece of his personality, so that was something. She had not succeeded, but she was not returning empty-handed either. She could also spread rumors that Selune would eventually betray Orsini and join Sabrina. The fact that she had met with him would help give that story credibility.

That was her split-second reading of the situation.

However.

She felt cold metal on her left shoulder just before she began to start running.

Her small body jumped and she froze on the spot.

Impossible. Had that man actually kept up with her movements? She could hardly believe it as sweat poured from her body.

“Ninjas are not unique to Sabrina. We have them in Orsini as well.”

This was Risaya. Selune’s strong-willed head maid had traded her maid uniform for a dark outfit much like Karura’s. When people tried to blend into the darkness and erase their presence, they ended up all looking alike.

Risaya belonged to a regional clan from the mountains of Orsini that excelled in the ways of the ninja. They had been hired by the Orsini royal family long ago, but that relationship had faded away at some point. Ninja techniques were unnecessary in a peaceful kingdom. They had ended up pretending to be an ordinary regional clan, but it had eventually come to light that they were hiding fields and not paying taxes on those fields’ produce. Just when they were going to have their lands taken from them, Selune had intervened and saved them. Risaya, younger sister of their young leader Latva, had felt indebted to Selune and insisted on working as his maid. That was apparently called being a Shadow Wife in the ninja world.

Swift and accurate intelligence was crucial in war, so Selune’s connection to a ninja clan was one of the secrets behind his seemingly magical tactical ability.

“We noticed your infiltration almost immediately. We were simply letting you go free to see what you would do. Your companions have already been slain.”

That was a bluff. Orsini had no way of knowing how many other ninjas Karura had brought with her. But it was enough to apply psychological pressure to Karura given the situation.

“Lord Selune, what shall we do with her?”

“I feel bad, but I am not dumb enough to let someone go after they tried to kill me.”

That voice was Selune’s. He had apparently descended the stairs at some point and she could tell from his presence alone that he had drawn his sword.

He was going to kill her. The thought did not please her, but as a ninja, she had known this day might come one day. Although she had never expected today would be that day.

She squeezed her eyes shut.

She sensed the blade being swung down toward her back.

(I am sorry, Queen Vishnu, but I must leave you now. Please find a way to complete your conquest.)

Then Karura, young leader of Sabrina’s ninjas, was knocked unconscious.

“So anyway, that’s how we captured her.”

The leader of Sabrina’s fearsome ninja army was bound with leather straps and dragged out in front of Orsini Queen Malicia.

Karura looked dejected. She had fully expected to die, but she had actually fallen for Selune’s act. He had instead tackled her.

She refused to say a word no matter what she was asked because she was not going to give away anything that would work against Vishnu, such as details about the Sabrina army’s strength, battle formations, or prepared supplies.

She stuck with it to an admirable extent, which put a cruel smile on Selune’s lips.

“Your Majesty, we should probably torture her.”

“Torture?”

Malicia’s beautiful brow wrinkled at her most trusted servant’s suggestion.

Emotionally, she was not fond of anything as savage as torture. Especially when they were talking about a young girl. Hearing this was an enemy spy had sounded like a bad joke to her.

“Do not worry. I have a soft spot for women, so I would never treat her roughly enough to wound her beautiful body.”

That put a complicated look on Malicia’s face, but she did ultimately leave this in Selune’s hands.

“Killing her would probably be the prudent thing to do, but I say we try torturing her to at least fight the boredom of the front line. Plus, she might reveal something interesting.”

Karura was taken to a room in the fortress’s dungeon where she was stripped nude. She tried to act tough, but the look on her face was bleak. Her arms were bound by leather straps attached to the ceiling and she was left dangling with her toes only just barely reaching the floor.

“Hey, Selune. I really am not comfortable with these methods.”

Malicia felt sorry for the girl even though she was an enemy, so she tried again to get Selune to change his mind. However, another woman was stoked at this opportunity.

“Well, how do I look?”

Someone walked in wearing shocking lingerie composed of a red bra and panties plus fine red fishnet stockings held up by garter belts. To Malicia’s astonishment, this was the Orsini’s only female general, Meldis. She even had a leather whip in hand.

Malicia’s eyes and mouth gaped, so Selune asked in her stead while clearly very much into this.

“What is that getup about?”

“I like to dress for the part.”

“You’re overdoing it.”

Meldis was oddly excited. She was a true masochist who enjoyed being teased by Selune, but hearing they were torturing a female ninja had apparently given her an awakening in the opposite direction. She had volunteered (and insisted) to be the torturer.

“Now, Your Majesty. This will not be a pleasant sight, so leave this dirty work to us and go get some rest in your room.”

On Meldis’s suggestion, Malicia reluctantly left the room along with Court Magician Ralmesel.

The only people remaining in the room were Karura hanging from the ceiling, Selune in his usual stylish clothing, and Meldis in her lewd dominatrix costume.

“Now, let’s get you talking.”

With whip in hand, Meldis circled around Karura to observe the girl.

She was not the stunningly beautiful type. More ordinary. But all her features were neatly formed, making her the kind of attractive that seemed ubiquitous but was actually fairly rare.

Her shapely young breasts were like two overturned bowls and they had an energetic youth and firmness to them. Her slightly plump butt also had some flesh packed inside.

While hanging from the ceiling like that, she looked something like a plump and fresh fowl that would be full of delicious juices if marinated and cooked.

That body overflowing with youthful flesh and healthy sex appeal apparently stirred up the jealousy of older Meldis.

“My, what pretty boobs you have. Here’s what those deserve.”

Meldis pinched the cherry-like nipples and tugged.

“Kh.”

Karura clenched her teeth to just barely suppress a cry, but Meldis smiled with cruel satisfaction and turned her interest toward the girl’s crotch.

“Hey, Selune? This girl has a lot of hair for such a cute little face. That will provide a cushion, so let’s shave it off before using the you-know-what.”

“That would be such a shame. I am not opposed to hairy women.”

Selune’s gentle protest was brushed aside by the desire in Meldis’s aroused eyes.

She grabbed Karura’s left ankle and lifted it up above Karura’s head. Once the girl’s legs would not spread any further, she was just barely still standing on her right leg.

“I should have known a ninja would be flexible.”

This of course spread her nether regions and exposed her bush.

“Okay, Selune. You do the honors.”

As asked, Selune brought a knife toward the girl’s exposed slit. Karura struggled and tried to resist, so he spoke to her in a casual tone.

“I wouldn’t move if I were you. If my hand slips, I could harm you down here. If I accidentally sliced off your clit, you would have to live the rest of your life without its pleasures.”

His threat did the trick. She was a young girl, so she did not want to permanently injure herself while futilely resisting. Also, that man smiled in a way that was alluring yet also made her think he was capable of any cruelty.

He prepared a warm wet towel and placed it over her bush to soak it.

“Nhh,” groaned Karura, so either it was too hot for her or she was afraid of the coming embarrassment.

Selune finally removed the towel, placed his left hand’s fingers on her labia, and began carefully using the shaving knife with his other hand. The makeshift torture room was wrapped in an oppressive silence. The only sound was the quiet “scrape, scrape” of Selune moving the knife while more of her slit was revealed below. He shaved off every last bit of the hair. He repeatedly wiped with the wet towel to see how much was remaining as he continued shaving.

She had been afraid at first, but he was frighteningly good at this. She was confident he had shaved countless women’s pussies bald like this and some nectar was even dripping from her flower petals.

Each time he changed the position of the blade, he also changed the position of his fingers. He would sometimes cruelly tease her in the process, such as pinching her petals, roughly tugging on them, or massaging the sensitive bud at the base of the petals

“Nh, ahh, ahh.”

She occasionally moaned in a longing way, although she seemed to be desperately trying to suppress them.

The dangerous movements of the knife and the sexual movement of his fingers melted her lower body. The amount of nectar dripping from her grew.

“Oh? Karura, are you getting turned on while he shaves you? Hee hee. Yes, I understand. He is good with his hands.”

Selune continued shaving her while Meldis teased her breasts and whispered obscene things in her ear. She began sweating and the one leg supporting her trembled more and more as time passed.

Her face was flushed bright red. She stimulated Selune’s sadistic side so much he suddenly stuck his finger inside her vagina.

“No, stop!”

She writhed as best she could, but his finger continued stirring up the entrance of her vagina.

“Ah, ah…no, no…I’m cumming!”

She quickly achieved climax with his finger still inside her. Her experiences at Vishnu’s hand had left her body very sensitive.

“Well, that should about do it.”

Satisfied with how her body was tense and trembling with ecstasy, Selune waited until her head drooped and then pulled his finger out.

Her nectar-glistening crotch was smooth, free of hair, and without a scratch on it, which seemed to display his eccentric attitude. It was like a beautiful sculpture of flesh without a single drop of blood on it.

“My, how cute.”

Meldis smiled truly happily when she viewed Karura’s baby-like crotch and she finally released the girl’s left leg.

Karura went limp with relief, but her eyes widened when she saw the large thing Meldis pushed in next.

“We built this especially for you.”

She pointed to a bizarre structure with a sharp angle of wood for a back and with wheels attached below so it could be pushed with relative ease. It was commonly known as a wooden horse

She did not have to try hard to imagine what would happen if that was digging into her crotch.

Moreover, Selune pulled out a small bottle and sprinkled a sticky liquid across the wooden horse’s back.

“I’ll add some banshee flower nectar for you.”

Karura’s eyebrows shot up at that. Ninjas were well-versed in medicinal herbs, from the beneficial ones to the poisonous ones.

The banshee flower only grew deep in the mountains were the snow never thawed and its nectar was sold for large sums as a major aphrodisiac. It was frequently used because it was effective and it had become a cliché because it was frequently used, but that only served to prove how effective it really was.

That aphrodisiac increased one’s sexual sensitivity several times over, so Karura could not even imagine what would happen if her crotch soaked in it without even her pubic hair as a barrier.

She wanted to resist, but she had no way to while she was made to sit on the wooden horse with her hands bound overhead. Her feet no longer reached the floor. The most she could do to resist was tense her thighs, hold the wooden horse between them, and keep her crotch away from the sharply-angled back.

Selune and Meldis must have noticed her attempts at resistance, but they pretended not to and forced a blindfold onto her.

Once she was trapped in a world of darkness, she heard Selune’s unique voice that seemed to tickle at her sexuality.

“Now, then. Where should we begin? Do you have a preference between whips and hot wax?”

Meldis cracked her whip in the air to accentuate his point.

“…”

Karura clenched her teeth to prepare for the coming pain. And Selune used a torture device.

“Ahee!”

She thought she was prepared, but a shriek escaped her lips and her body twisted around.

It felt like countless ants were crawling along her left side.

“W-wait, what are you- hyah!”

Something like a goose feather was lightly brushing at her skin from her tight ankle to her muscular calf and then to her plump thigh.

“Ahhhh!”

It was only a light touch, but she reacted with great intensity.

The loss of her vision had sharpened her other senses. Plus, not knowing where the next stimulation would come brought fear. She had no idea what was happening at first, but it gradually grew ticklish and then agonizing.

She clenched her teeth and her toes to try to bear with it. She assumed screaming would only delight her torturers, but the way she struggled not to react filled those sadists with even more joy.

Selune and Meldis each held a goose feather that they used to tickle at her neck, ear holes, hairline, nape, lymph nodes, shoulder blades, breasts, armpits, inner thighs, hips, navel, and butt.

“Ah, ahh.”

She did not notice while moaning, but the goose feathers were not just tickling her; they were also searching out her erogenous zones.

She trembled and twitched while shaking her bright orange hair around, so before long, her knees gave out, she sat on the sharp back of the wooden horse, and a clear liquid sprayed from her crotch.

“Such a sensitive body. Especially your armpits, ass, and back.”

“I-it’s burning me. Ahh, ahh!”

With her arms and legs bound and with the blindfold on, she could not brace herself or dodge the cruel attacks.

“Kh, ahh…i-it’s digging into me.”

The sharp wooden back dug further and further into her crotch to torment her.

She tensed her thighs to try to slow it as much as possible, but her limit was approaching fast. Most of her weight was already bearing down on her crotch.

The sweet torture wore away her willpower as a ninja leader.

“Ahh, h-hey.” She pleaded with them in a pained voice. “Quit wasting your time with this. If you’re going to rape me, j-just do it already.”

“Heh heh. Begging for it already? And you call yourself a ninja? If you want it that badly, then make me want to give it to you. Yes, something like, ‘I am so horny I can’t stand it. Please pound my wet pussy with your cock, Mr. Selune.’ I have a weakness for beautiful women, so I will not cruelly insist you get every last word right.”

“Kh.”

She blushed and lowered her head. But instead of responding to his indecent words, she was ashamed that she had asked for it like that.

But her body had been forced into a state of extreme arousal. She had never known it could be so sensitive. It felt like her entire body was an exposed erogenous zone and she was sweating so much she thought steam was going to rise from her.

“I-I am so horny I can’t stand it. Please pound my wet pussy with your cock, Mr. Selune.”

“Heh heh. You actually said it. And you got every last word right. Impressive.”

“Th-then hurry up and give it to me. You’re a man, aren’t you? Albeit one with a girly face.”

“No, I think not. You never know what a ninja woman is going to do to you during sex and I have plenty of other options when it comes to women. Not to mention that it wouldn’t really count as torture if you were enjoying it.”

Enraged, Karura shouted out into the darkness around her.

“You pervert!”

“Yes, I get that a lot.”

Selune smiled so alluringly he almost looked like a woman and he tickled her erect nipples with the feather while asking her a question.

“So how about you tell us all about Sabrina’s battle formations? Do so and I really will fuck you.”

“His cock is so wonderfully big,” added Meldis.

“Ahh…no…I…won’t.”

Karura trembled with pleasure while shaking her head to reject the offer whispered sweetly in her ear. While she might sell her own body, she would never sell out Vishnu. This went beyond conviction or loyalty. Vishnu was everything to her.

“A stubborn one, aren’t you?”

Fingers grabbed her chin, lifted up her head, and pinched her nose shut. She was forced to open her mouth and a liquid was poured in.

“Ah, khh…cough, cough, cough.”

Unable to breath, she spat out the sweet nectar, but she ended up swallowing most of it. Only then did she realize what she had swallowed: banshee flower nectar. Drink one spoonful of that sweet liquid with such a nice texture and even a saint of a woman would end up masturbating like an ape all night long.

“Ahh, ahh…ahh, ahhh!”

Finally unable to resist the stimulation to her clitoris, she began slowly moving her own hips. The ridge of the wooden horse was made awfully smooth and it was slick with banshee nectar, so it did not harm her vulva. In fact, it was so smooth that the stimulation felt insufficient and her movement gradually intensified.

She had begun an extremely indecent dance.

The breasts shook like ripe fruits on the branch.

Malicia was breathtakingly beautiful, but her body seemed specialized for being seen and it was lacking something a body needed to accept male lust. Karura’s body was much more suited for having lots and lots of sex.

It was young, healthy, and had fat in all the right places. She looked like her skin would repel all water, making a towel unnecessary after bathing.

“Ugh, I can’t stand to watch this any longer. Here’s how it’s done.”

Meldis suddenly grabbed Karura’s hips and forced them down onto the wooden horse while rubbing them back and forth.

“Hgyaaaaahhh!”

Another member of the same sex could be cruel. Karura’s vulva was rubbed against the horse’s back so hard she thought her pubis would break, her mouth opened so wide she thought her face had to be mostly taken up by her mouth, and drool spilled out while she fainted.

But the pain in her crotch woke her back up again. She had only passed out for a moment, but she had pissed herself in that moment.

The liquid had poured down to the floor.

“My, my. A notorious ninja wetting herself?”

She could not respond to Selune’s voice. She could only feel the warm urine running down her thighs.

“Oh, the poor thing,” added Meldis as if she had not been the direct cause.

Karura did not react at all as she gasped for breath while dangling from the ceiling by her arms and resting on the wooden horse.

“Oh, dear. I think we broke her.”

Meldis lost interest once Karura stopped reacting, so she shrugged and pressed herself to Selune’ chest.

“Hey, Selune? I can’t stand it any longer. Please give it to me.”

“If you insist, you horny woman.”

She nodded happily when he whispered in her ear.

“You can stay in my barracks tonight. We both know that young girl wouldn’t be able to satisfy you. Karura, baby, we can pick this up tomorrow.”

She blew a kiss toward poor Karura who was still naked, blindfolded, dangling from the ceiling, and straddling the wooden horse and then she left the torture room with Selune in tow.

The ninja looked utterly spent and unconscious while bound on top of the horse.

However, that was all an act.

She poured all her focus into remaining entirely still and waited until she could no longer sense Selune and Meldis in the room.

(Good, those perverts are gone.)

With an oddly light sound, she dislocated her left shoulder. But that was only the beginning. By dislocating and relocating her various joints in something like a puzzle, she managed to slip free of the ropes.

She fell to the floor, but had trouble gathering strength in her hips. She took a break to catch her breath in that pose.

“Phew.”

That would-be strategist named Selune knew what he was doing when it came to SM. He had produced so much fear, pain, and pleasure in her body, yet now that she was free, she found herself entirely unharmed. That much was a relief.

After finally removing her blindfold, she could finally see the wooden horse that had been tormenting her. It was soaked with urine. She looked down at her now-smooth crotch with a somewhat ashamed look on her face, but she refocused herself and gathered oxygen in her body with a sigh of resignation. It was time to focus all of her energy on escaping.

She began her escape from the enemy camp while entirely nude.

“Karura, well done returning safely.”

When they had failed to break through Jeol Valley and Karura had not returned, even strong-willed Vishnu had been feeling down. The longer this took, the more opportunity other kingdoms had to intervene. Then they would have to divide their attention and have difficulty making another attack. So Vishnu rejoiced upon receiving word of Karura’s return.

“I must apologize. The betrayal plan ended in failure.”

When Karura was brought before Vishnu, she was clothed again. After escaping from the dungeon, her ninjas had rescued her. Risaya had claimed they had all been slain, but only three of them had been.

“Your safe return is more than enough.”

Since Belzeia was not around, Vishnu chose to immediately reward Karura by kissing her, massaging a breast with one hand, and slipping her other hand in the girl’s pants to reach her crotch.

“Ah, please wait.”

Karura pulled her hips back to escape, but Vishnu’s hand was faster.

Vishnu frowned at the odd sensation and, before Karura could resist, she pulled down the girl’s pants and underwear, crouched down, and took a look.

Vishnu saw a crotch as bare as a young girl’s. Karura blushed and sniffled, but she did not hide anything with her hands.

“I was caught off guard.”

Not even Karura knew if her embarrassment came from the inexperience shown in getting captured or in having her beloved queen looking at her hairless mons pubis. It was probably both.

“My, just like an adorable baby. It reminds me of when I first slept with you. Now, don’t feel so down. The hair will grow back. And this is adorable too. Makes me want to tease it.”

After taking a careful look, Vishnu placed her thumbs on either side of the labia, spread them open, pecked the exposed flower petals, and looked up at Karura with a beautiful smile.

“Ah, Queen Vishnu, you are too cruel. And more importantly, I have a report to make.”

Karura fidgeted while reporting on all of the information the enemy had let slip while mocking her as a bird in a cage.

“Based on that, I have determined the location of the enemy’s food storage.”

A sharp glint flashed in Vishnu and Shariera’s eyes and they exchanged a glance.

“Excellent work, Karura. Even in failure, you refuse to come back empty-handed.”

Vishnu nodded in agreement with Shariera’s praise.

“We will strike at that location at once.”

With that decision made, Vishnu set out with her personal troops. With Karura as their guide, they made sure to avoid the Luminay River.

This sort of mission would usually be left with one of her generals, but Vishnu insisted on taking command on the truly dangerous missions. Also, her adorable Karura had risked her life to bring back this intelligence, so she wanted to make use of it personally.

The fog was thick and white, like it only ever was in the highlands. The Sabrina Kingdom planned to use that to hide themselves, but this was Orsini territory and they understood the fog much better.

Malicia ordered the execution of the plan Selune brought to her and each of the commanders did as commanded.

The commanders were not delighted about following a plan thought up by Selune, but they faithfully obeyed their queen. And the soldiers were of course burning with love for their homeland.

In her bright and shining uniform, Malicia sat up straight in her camp stool and calmed her breathing. Her complexion was as pale as blank paper, but her dignified appearance was brimming with a solemn tension. Selune was impressed anew with how divinely beautiful she was at all times.

“Your Majesty, it is time.”

When he approached her and spoke, she stood up, raised her sword of command, and swung it down.

“All troops, attack.”

Ordering people to kill was painful for someone like her, but she managed to control her face and voice.

She was a strong queen, but Selune had been hoping for something cuter. That was the thought on his mind as the battle began.

Thousands of arrows ripped through the fog and poured down on the bottom of Jeol Valley. It came so suddenly there was no avoiding it. Sabrina’s elite warriors were brought down one after another, along with their steeds.

“Retreat!”

Sabrina’s commanders swiftly gave their command, but Jeol Valley lacked the space to do so and it was nigh impossible to avoid the arrows pouring down like rain from an unseen location.

They were defenseless against the arrows for a while, but the fog eventually cleared.

“Damn. It was a trap.”

After viewing the enemy formation, Vishnu realized she had been lured into a trap. Sabrina was caught by a defense in depth formation. Karura, their guide, stood still in shock at the lead, but Vishnu did not think for a second the girl had betrayed them. Karura had been given misinformation without realizing it.

The Sabrina army had been drawn into narrow terrain and surrounded while their movement was restricted. That was a basic strategy because it was so effective.

Vishnu had been careless. That warrior queen had let her anger get the better of her.

Orsini had a large force stationed on either side of Jeol Valley. Demulgast commanded on the right side and Claus on the left side.

“Should we turn back, Your Majesty?” shouted Royal Guard Commander Julia.

Vishnu shook her head while using her spear to knock arrows out of the air.

“No, we press on. Orsini’s main camp is up ahead, so I will take Malicia’s head.”

Turning back now would only lead to confusion among her ranks. She had fallen for Selune’s trap hook line and sinker, but she could accurately predict what the enemy would do next.

She heard simultaneous war cries from the left and right behind her. Those were Darcenis and Raymon’s troops. That meant Vishnu’s army was surrounded on four sides.

“We must break through the center of the enemy formation. We could never win before, but only because they were holed up in their fortresses. A field battle is exactly what I wanted. We can break through their formation and directly attack their capital.”

The valiant women of the Grim Butterflies were prepared to fight to the death for Vishnu.

Her plan was rough, but it was solid at the core. Orsini had used almost their entire army to make this battle formation at Jeol Valley. If Sabrina managed to break through, the path to Eleanora would be almost all deserted fields.

“All troops, attack.”

The 6000 lightly-equipped cavalry under Vishnu’s command began a charge with the Grim Butterflies in the lead.

Western General Shariera had not participated in this operation, but when she learned of her beloved queen’s crisis, she immediately set out to that narrow terrain with her personal troops to secure a path of retreat for Vishnu.

“We must rescue Her Majesty. Follow me.”

“Do not let them through.”

When Shariera’s army entered Jeol Valley, their path was blocked by an army commanded by Meldis, whose skin was glossy and mood was excellent after tormenting Karura and being tormented by Selune so much the night before.

Shariera had far more soldiers with 8000 against Meldis’s 2000, but the terrain prevented that from being much of an advantage.

Meldis’s army took the high ground and surrounded Shariera’s army in a U-shape. Shariera was forced to fight with an overwhelming disadvantage, but she managed to secure a bridgehead at the entrance of Jeol Valley, albeit after taking significant losses.

The Grim Butterflies led by Vishnu gathered together as they made their way to Orsini’s main camp. Their bold plan was to break through the enemy formation. Demulgast’s troops stopped them and it devolved into a confused melee between the two sides.

“Do not fall back! We must not fall back!”

Julia raged like a god of war.

“Every last soldier attack them! Charge!”

Demulgast roared like a demon.

The fighting was too confused for arrows or magic, so swords and spears tore into flesh. Sabrina had an absolute disadvantage here, but they fought valiantly and Orsini took significant losses.

The Grim Butterflies had led the charge and their clothing drew attention to them, so they took especially great losses. But they also had fearsome skill, so they took out an impressive number of Orsini troops as well. It took three Orsini soldiers to take down even a single female knight from the Grim Butterflies.

No one could even hazard a guess how much blood had been shed in attacks on Royal Guard Commander Julia. More than once, the enemy troops gathered around her were scattered while their spraying blood acted like a smokescreen.

The Orsini soldiers decided they were no match for her in close-quarters combat and sent arrows and magic her way instead, but despite her revealing outfit, her bikini armor was equipped with incredibly effective magic defenses that deflected it all and left her without even a scratch on her.

And the Grim Butterflies were not alone. Karura had drawn her ninja sword, held it so low in one hand that its tip seemed to graze against the ground, and crouched down as she charged deep into the enemy formation. When she came across a horseman, she would slash at the horse’s front legs. When she came across an infantryman, she would slash at their knees. Those were not fatal wounds, but it was enough to take them out of the fight. She ran around the battlefield like a top and the enemy could not keep up.

Vishnu slayed a few with her spear, but she could not let herself admit that her side was taking much greater losses.

“Your Majesty, we won’t last like this. Please consider withdrawing and regathering our strength for a later attack.”

Grim Butterflies Second-in-Command Simor rode up alongside her to give that advice.

If looks could kill, Simor would have dropped dead the instant Vishnu glared at her, but Simor was not cowed.

She and Vishnu were childhood friends and they had similar builds. She was frank with Vishnu more often than most anyone else.

Vishnu finally gave in and chose to retreat.

“Hey, listen up! I am Sabrina Queen Vishnu! Are you about ready to give me Queen Malicia’s head yet!?”

Simor swung her bloody spear and went on a conspicuous rampage. Claus’s troops raised a cry and attacked her. A storm of spraying blood surrounded her and the real Vishnu used that opening to desperately escape the battle while protected by her aides.

The Orsini army noticed this, of course, and Demulgast’s troops began pursuit.

“Vishnu is attempting to flee. Do not let her. We must take her alive.”

Olga, one of the top members of the Grim Butterflies, stopped her horse and looked back to see the enemy approaching in swarms.

“This is where we die!” forced out Olga.

The Grim Butterflies did not hesitate to sacrifice themselves to help their queen escape.

“Prepare the magic bullets.”

Their few sorcerers spread out around Olga.

“Fire!”

Magic light burst and the lead knight was blown away while his horse stumbled and fell. That was Demulgast.

“Ah hah hah. That’s more like it.”

Olga did not know the name of the enemy commander, but she knew she had injured one. She cackled and encouraged her allies.

More magic bullets were fired and a few more of Demulgast’s troops fell, but as a whole, they charged right along.

“Fuck those rotten men. I’ll tear off their balls and feed them to my horse.”

Olga bared her teeth and made a crude threat while wielding her bloody sword and moving into the midst of the enemy.

“They do live up to their reputation,” said Selune while looking down on the battlefield from the heights. The Sabrina army was fully surrounded, but they had not lost their will to fight. “It would seem they simply will not give me an easy victory.”

He made up his mind, approached Malicia, and told her he would be joining the battle.

“Selune.”

The look in her eyes begged him to stay here, but he smiled back at her.

“It’s just a bit of exercise. You stay put here, okay?”

She did not know how to use a sword or magic and she was ignorant of strategy, so she really was just a sheltered royal. Once he left, their command would truly cease to function.

“Understood.”

She was nervous, but she acquiesced. Trusting him was the foundation of this entire battle, so she decided her job was to give him the freedom he needed.

Vishnu and her aides demonstrated such stupendous horse-riding skills people wondered if their horses’ legs had invisible wings. They used that soaring speed to avoid Darcenis’s troops as they tried to block their escape route and they worked to break through the thinnest part of the enemy formation surrounding them. Raymon refused to let that happen, so he commanded her to stop while wielding his epee in something of a frenzy. With the enemy gathering around with overwhelmingly superior numbers, Vishnu pierced them left and right with her spear until her spear would not pull out of one enemy and she lost it. She then pulled the curved sword from her hip and slashed at the enemy with that to finally escape that region of wild combat.

After pouring her all into that escape, her silver hair was a mess, she was soaked with the blood of many enemies, she only held a curved sword stained with blood and fat, and her black leather bustier had been torn away, leaving her large breasts exposed. But she did not let any of it bother her. She had the look of a fierce and beautiful demoness.

Covered with wounds, it was nothing more than sheer stubbornness that kept her going. So many of her troops had sacrificed their own lives to let her escape, so she could not allow herself to be captured now.

The Orsini army persistently pursued her, so she fled on and on. She had started with an army of 6000 and was now down to a mere 8, but it looked like she was going to make it. Sabrina Western General Shariera had secured a bridgehead at the entrance of Jeol Valley while battling Meldis, so Vishnu only had to arrive there to escape with her life, even if the battle had been a devastating loss. If she rallied Shariera and Belzeia’s troops, she could try again.

But someone was lying in wait for her.

“You would be Queen Vishnu, wouldn’t you?”

“And who are you? Name yourself.”

Vishnu spoke sharply even as she tried to catch her breath.

“I am Orsini Military Advisor General Selune. It is a pleasure to meet you.”

“Oh? You are?”

She narrowed her eyes.

He would not have appeared on her escape route by pure chance. There had only been so many escape routes to take while avoiding the enemy attacks, so he had predicted which one she would take.

But this was the final obstacle. If she broke through here and regrouped with Shariera, she could escape. The enemy must have hoped to capture her before this.

Selune was accompanied by as few soldiers as she was, but the difference in exhaustion could not have been greater.

“Is there any chance you would obediently surrender?”

“Hmph, no. I am breaking through here.”

With that comment, she kicked her horse and began a fierce attack.

Selune caught her powerful slash head on. The clashing blades made a deafening clang and scattered sparks until her curved sword broke. It had soaked up too much human blood and fat on the way here, so even that magic sword had grown brittle.

Vishnu’s bright topaz eyes opened wide.

She thought she had won due to Selune’s carelessness.

“Die!”

She jabbed the broken sword toward his face. The capillaries in her eyes burst and they literally glowed blood red. The strength of her spirit drew him in and he could not react in time.

But just then, a single arrow flew in from the side and shot through the hilt of the broken sword.

The impact caused Vishnu to wobble. Her red-haired horse must have been nearly out of stamina because its front legs collapsed and her powerful body was thrown from it.

She gasped as the dust and dirt entered her eyes and mouth. Her vision tumbled over and over and she felt sick. She finally managed to get her hands on the ground and raised her head, but by then a mid-sized sword was held to her throat and she could not move.

“Was that you, Risaya? Thanks.”

Selune directed his thanks toward a bow-wielding knight in an antlered helmet.

“You work your soldiers much too hard, Master Selune.”

That androgynous beauty named Risaya had brown skin and a powerful-looking face. She was Selune’s one and only confidant and she played the three roles of head maid, ninja, and knight.

Vishnu had no way of knowing that, so she was more focused on how Orsini’s knights had finished surrounding them at some point. Once she realized escape was truly impossible, she succumbed to her exhaustion and her muscular body collapsed backwards.

Word of Vishnu’s capture quickly spread throughout the armies fighting within Jeol Valley. Orsini’s morale skyrocketed and Sabrina’s plummeted.

“Vishnu has been captured!”

“What? Her Majesty was?”

Cheers and cries of despair spread across the chaotic battlefield at the speed of sound.

Julia, Simor, Olga, Rosaria, Callion, and Lula of the Grim Butterflies were so stricken with despair their strength left them and they were quickly captured or surrendered.

Orsini saw itself as a gentlemanly kingdom, so they preferred not to kill women even if they were enemy soldiers. However, the casualties Sabrina had caused were simply too great for the hatred to be forgotten so readily and the low-ranking Orsini soldiers took it out on the enemy in the form of rape.

The Grim Butterflies were more than just warriors. They were Queen Vishnu’s royal guard and ceremonial guard, so their great skill in combat was matched by their beauty. That may have influenced how the Orsini soldiers chose to lash out.

The knights whose beauty was compared to that of butterflies were pulled from their horses, pinned to the ground, stripped of their clothing, and filled with cocks.

Being selected for the Grim Butterflies was a dream for the women of Sabrina and it made them the envy of all. That elite status gave them plenty of pride, but now looks of regret painted their faces as they were approached and violated by lowly men they would normally never give the time of day.

“Kh. Damn, she’s tight.”

All the men who entered them were astonished, but it should not have been a surprise. The squeezing vaginal pressure was controlled by the woman’s muscles, so with those lithe and muscular bodies, they were bound to have incredible vaginas.

The battlefield became a display case for those beautiful butterflies where their wings were torn away and they were penetrated by thick pins of flesh.

While the Sabrina soldiers tried to flee, Karura abandoned her ninja sword and tried to fight the human current, but she only ended up defenseless and alone. When the Orsini soldiers pushed in like a tsunami, they gathered around her and pushed her to the ground.

The gap between her boyish face and plump body delighted the men. Her ninja combat outfit that was stained with blood to prove how much fighting she had done, and when they half removed that, they found the two flesh fruits they had hoped for.

Meanwhile, another man pulled her pants from her legs, leaving only her small underwear to cover her lower body.

The peaks of the white meat mountains were decorated with reddish-pink nipples. The areolae were not all that large, but the nipples were fairly big.

They had the perfect bowl-like shape that made the men want to reach out and touch them. Two soldiers obeyed the urge by grabbing one each, enjoying the firmness as they massaged them, and planted their lips on the nipples.

They sucked at those nipples and lightly poked at them with their front teeth. The nipples were nicely firm too and the men used their lips, tongues, and mouths to suck at her breasts. It was like they had reverted to being infants.

“Hey, look. This girl’s got no hair down here.”

The soldier who stole her underwear discovered her mons pubis was bare and voiced his surprise.

“Oh? Not often you find a hairless one.”

“No, she’s shaved it off. It’s faint, but you can tell.”

They viewed and touched her crotch while arguing about and imagining the topic to increase their own arousal, but one theory they invented was more popular than the rest.

“I hear most of Sabrina’s female warriors are lesbians, so I bet she’s got a girlfriend in their ranks. But there’s no way the men are leaving a hot body like this alone, so some lucky guy convinced her to have some fun together, right? Then her jealous girlfriend found out and she was in big trouble, so she had all that precious hair shaved away as punishment. That girlfriend’s probably – heh heh – ‘occupied’ elsewhere right now, so we’ll have to comfort this girl for her.”

It must have sounded probable enough to those men since they all crudely grinned in response, but it was of course inaccurate. Karura had been shaved as part of a plot by the rapists’ own commander, Selune.

She sat there expressionlessly letting their silly words wash past her.

“Man, we lucked out. She’s got a cute face and exactly the kind of body I like.”

The soldiers moved in closer and began teasing and licking her body.

“The hell? Why isn’t she reacting? Frigid bitch.”

“Hey, hey. No way a girl with a body like this is frigid. You’re just shit at this. Move aside.”

That second man spat on his exposed erection and rubbed it in with his hand before bringing it to her fleshpot’s entrance and shoving it in while slowly moving his hips forward.

But the slight lubricant of his spit was not enough and it stuck to the inner walls, preventing him from getting it inside well.

He fought that powerful resistance by spreading those flesh walls and gradually entering her further. Before long, it had reached the deepest part and hit something. That was her cervix.

She had decided she would rather die than give them any kind of reaction, but that elicited a nasal moan from her lips.

The man put on a smug look of triumph, but she had only cried out in pain.

Now that he was fully inside her, he began slowly moving back and forth. The inner walls were plastered to the surface of his cock as if to prevent it from moving, creating a lot of tension.

“Fuck, her pussy’s tight.”

That resistance only stirred up his desire to dominate her. He wanted to make her desperately-resisting flesh his own.

He moved his hips at a rapid tempo that showed no concern at all for her body. She could not keep the look of agony off her face, but a sticky fluid gradually seeped out inside her to make the thrusting movement smoother.

Of course, that did not mean she was enjoying this. It was no more than her body protecting itself from harm. But once she was wet, her body did interpret some of it as pleasure.

As the movement grew smoother, a sticky sound came from their union and her nasal moans grew more frequent.

“Oh, now she’s more into it. So how about it? A lot better than your girlfriend, huh?”

“…”

(You suck at this and it feels infinitely better with Queen Vishnu.)

He was comparing himself to the fictional girlfriend the soldiers had invented, but it reminded her of her beloved queen and she snapped back at him in her heart. Her meaning must have reached him through the look in her eyes because he smiled thinly.

“Hm, so you really do have a girlfriend. But what if I do this?”

He added in a new movement now that she was wet enough to make it smooth. He moved side to side as well as back and forth to torment her womb.

The amount of sticky fluids continued to grow and it eventually dripped from their union and down to her butt. The moans escaping her lips were now loud enough that everyone could hear them.

“Shit, I can’t just sit here and watch. I’m joining in, brother.”

“Sure thing. We’ve gotta show this girl what a man can do for her.”

The other soldier hurriedly pulled out his dick and stuck it right in front of her face. He placed a hand on her jaw and she opened her mouth without much resistance.

The swollen piece of flesh passed between her lovely lips and reached her throat.

“Weh, gweh!”

The man forcing her to perform oral apparently did not care if she could breathe or not. He slowly began moving his hips.

She wrinkled her brow every time the pillar of flesh assaulted her throat and a gagging sound escaped her throat. The physical discomfort brought tears to her eyes.

The sigh must have inspired a competitive spirit within the man fucking her because he grabbed her hips and began pounding her more roughly.

A thick cock mercilessly pounded her upper mouth and lower mouth. A lot of saliva spilled from the corners of her upper mouth and just as much love juices left her lower mouth. With each thrust, a sticky sound came from both points of union and she felt like she had become no more than a hunk of flesh made a target of their animal lust.

“Okay, I’ll be using this hole.”

When a third man brought his penis to her ass, her eyes widened.

The ninja girl’s asshole was small, but the man’s brutal penis sank into it all the way to the base.

“Whoa, this hole’s tight as fuck too. But it doesn’t seem like her first time doing it in the ass. Your girlfriend must have wanted to try out every last part of you. And to be fair, I totally get it.”

He spread her plump ass cheeks while rhythmically thrusting away.

The two penises rubbed together through the thin barrier of flesh separating the two holes, but she did not moan. No, she could not thanks to the meat stick filling her mouth.

The man fucking her mouth suddenly picked up speed. Before long, he thrust deep into her throat and ejaculated.

“Gh!”

Her throat was entirely clogged and she groaned with her eyes wide. Her lower holes squeezed tight at the same time.

It was too much for those two men and they came inside her vagina and ass. A milky torrent was pumped into both.

With huge loads of cum filling all three holes, she could not breathe properly and she went limp.

When the men all pulled out of her, her urine leaked out and the milky fluid flowed out of the two lower holes.

This was the second day in a row that she had pissed herself.

“Ha ha ha. I think she liked it, guys. But we’d better make sure she knows what a man is like so she can finally find her independence from that jealous girlfriend of hers.”

While having their say, the men pushed another penis each into her vagina, anus, and mouth. She just expressionlessly took it.

The rapists (they no longer deserved to be called soldiers) did not give her a moment’s rest. Penis after penis entered all three holes and further filled them with cum. Her womb, ass, and stomach were overflowing with semen, so it forcefully flowed back out whenever a penis was pulled out. But a new one would always take its place as if to plug the leak.

She had been one of the fiercest fighters in the battle, so she had also earned the most hatred form the Orsini soldiers. More men than the original group arrived to ensure she was truly drenched in cum. She did not even want to count how many had violated her body in all.

The battlefield had a way of exposing the ugliest and most savage side of people. It was easy for people to enter a world of madness while on the battlefield where death was a constant companion. These men might normally be someone’s beloved husband or boyfriend, but they were currently the lowest scum who were raping a helpless girl. The combined smell of sweat, love juices, semen, urine, and blood created a truly animalistic odor.

But all of a sudden, things changed. Karura found herself in the arms of a young man who held a water bottle to her mouth and let her have a drink. A bitter flavor quickly spread through her mouth and she gagged up a white fluid.

“My lady, why are you wasting your time playing with those weaklings?”

The man holding her was Tull, a Sabrina ninja and one of her subordinates. Her father Hajido had adored him and held high hopes for his future. He had been seen as a ninja prodigy from a very young age, so when Hajido had died, most had wanted him to be the ninja army’s new leader rather than Karura. Without Vishnu’s powerful support, that is almost certainly what would have happened.

He had easily slain the dozen or more men who had raped her and carried her to a safe and secluded place, but seeing the oddly kind look on his face only filled her chest with boiling anger.

“Why did you save me!? No one asked that of you! I deserve to die! After that miserable failure, my death is the only way I can apologize to Her Majesty! I must face a death as miserable as my failure!”

“My lady, please snap out of it. If we lose you, who will lead Sabrina’s ninjas?”

“You will. I was never cut out to follow in my father’s footsteps. The new leader of Sabrina’s ninjas will be you, Tull. That is my final act as the previous, incompetent leader.”

Realizing that she was in no state to think straight, he suddenly kissed her on the lips. That came as such a surprise that her eyes widened and she stopped arguing.

“Do you really think the queen you so adore would be so narrow-minded she demanded your death for this? A single success is all it takes to make up for this single failure. And luckily, Queen Vishnu was taken prisoner, not slain. Why not command her rescue?”

The clear goal of rescuing Vishnu finally brought life back to her eyes. Relieved to see it, he started to stand up, but she stopped him with a question.

“Tull, why in the world did you kiss me?”

“I thought you could use a gentler touch after such cruel treatment.”

“Stop trying to take advantage of this situation.”

She turned her back on him as if in embarrassment and scolded him, but she also did not seem entirely displeased as she bit her lip. The two of them then managed to escape the battlefield.

Scenic Jeol Valley was stained with blood.

The Orsini soldiers would gather together to gang up on the powerful Sabrina soldiers and knock or drag them from their horses. The men would have their heads split open or be skewered with blades while the women were stripped bare and skewered with cocks. The Sabrina banners of the five crimson petals were soaked with blood and trampled by boots and hooves. Those who wanted a woman would rape the female knights, but those who wanted glory persistently pursued the fleeing Sabrina army.

Finally, even Shariera could not maintain her position at the entrance of Jeol Valley and began to flee.

The Sabrina army had been routed. To have their revenge for half a year before, the Orsini soldiers pursued them, but…

“Belzeia!” they cried in fear.

When the triumphant Orsini army saw a grumpy-looking old man riding up with a long-handled sword in hand, they came to a rapid halt.

He had an incredible presence.

He made no attempt to enter that narrow terrain and rescue Vishnu. In fact, he could not. The narrow valley had been a challenge even for Shariera’s troops, so sending his troops in there as well would only lead to further confusion. He instead worked to protect his fleeing allies.

While the routed Sabrina army fled, Belzeia’s troops remained to the end with the Orsini army surrounding them.

It was thanks to his troops that the Orsini army could not pursue the fleeing Sabrina army. Shariera somehow managed to escape the deadly battle line and the Jeol Valley as a whole, so she regathered the defeated army and fled to Sarielal Castle.

Belzeia’s troops finally broke through a corner of the surrounding enemy army with a line of spears and made their way back to Sarielal Castle.

His 6000 soldiers had been reduced to less than 4000, but the Orsini army no longer had enough troops to spare for an attack on the castle.

“I can see why he’s known as a living war god. He has not lived that long life in vain.”

The Sabrina army would not be fully destroyed as long as that old man remained with them, so Selune sighed and ordered the end of hostilities.

There was no need to attack the castle and they did not have enough spare troops to do so anyway.

“Your majesty, we captured Queen Vishnu and won the battle by a wide margin. Please lead us in the victory cry.”

Malicia had felt dazed by the gruesome scene before her, but Selune’s suggestion brought her back to her senses.

“The victory cry?”

“Yes.”

She hesitated a bit, but she finally gathered her resolve and raised her voice.

“Hip hip hooray!”

“Hip hip hooray!”

Her flowing voice was answered by the deep voices of the men.

Again and again, victory cries shook the valley and echoed through the mountains.

“Hip hip hooray!”