Gloria and her army waited near the hill. They were ready. The trick was simple, Gloria positioned her army near the most suitable position of attack. And in the dawn, there was an intentional weak point in the defenses. Because she and her commanders thought there is an army coming to attack them in a few days they jumped to this fake opportunity. The assault begins silently, they wanted to be as great of a shock value as possible. When they climbed half the way they meet with Hank's archers.

  They just started running to meet the enemy. But of course, the weak point was a trap. The tick sharpened logs were raised. When they noticed this is a ruse Gloria's commander Bruce just ordered his troops to raise their shields and start an orderly retreat. He had no intention of attacking a ready enemy on a hill. The Glorias troops retreated but they lost a lot of people while doing so. But out of the forest nearby cavalry of the Brad appeared. Hank was with them. Out of mountains the shock troops spearman, and Brad's troops who are not cavalry attacked. Between two fires and shocked a short battle happened. For protecting himself for future endeavors from Glorias revenge hank killed her on the battle field.

  There was supposed to be an awesome battle scene but sadly I have no will to write. Bruce happens to have electric sword skills and Hank defeats him by using his fire spell and his new pet wolf whom Hank subdued with his new mind magic in the last second. But in the end, the battle is total victory. Hanks has a lot of plunder. The moment he intended to leave Marcus Steel to come with his troops. He askes why hanks leaving the whole barony to him. He answers "I bring unfortunate to everyone around me, I am going to start a new in somewhere far away with my newfound fortune. I am going to buy a large land and be a gentleman plantation owner. But I have to warn you, the people of this land will try to corrupt you as they did to Herch family. They will mislead you by trying to say to you whatever they think you want to hear. They will constantly barrage you with praises. People who constantly say you are right are not your friends. People who constantly point out your mistakes and lose your will to do things also not your friends but that is not the point. Asking is people who make tyrants or the tyrants turn people into obnoxious grovelers is like asking is the chicken comes out of the egg or the egg comes out of the chicken. These people are used to being yes man for little interest like you not noticing their incompetence so they can keep their positions. So if you let them little by little you will find yourself thinking you are the greatest leader who ever lived. Because you get to use to flattery you become someone who not wants to hear nothing but flattery. So you are warned. I am not doing you any favor by letting you take ower these people. Be wise and stay away from flatterers."

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Then Hank goes far away and starts doing what he was spouse to do in the first place, be richer and richer, by using never management and production methods, getting new resource locations like salt mines with dirty bribery and flattery tactics whom he knows rather well do to his previous life being wasted fighting corruption. He's fighting not happens against governments or the lords but bandits who threaten his trade lines. And he only deals with nobility underhanded tactics if he needs to get rid of them, not open warfare.

Ok, this is the end.