A Slight Reprieve

With a heavy feeling in his heart, Maricus looked around the battlefield as his men slaughtered the remaining bandits who were either running away from the fighting or were mounting a futile resistance against the elite troops of the Flavic sector.

There were also those who had decided to surrender once they realize that the battle was in no way tilting in their favor, and they were going to be slaughtered like worthless animals if they kept on fighting. When Marcius's men rushed to kill them also, as per the policy of no mercy for the outlawed scums, the Lord General of the Aemilia clan stopped them.

"Leave them and chain them up as prisoners. I need them to give us the location of their hideout." Marcius commanded.