The battle continued late into the night.
As dawn's first light touched the soil of El Island, it was the Gray Elf Rebel Army who stood victorious.
The Burning Lion Knight Order was not wiped out as a cohesive unit, but it had genuinely lost at least twenty Knights. For a relatively small Knight Order with a core of barely a hundred members, this was a devastating blow. Not only would their Knight Commander have to endure the censure of the other orders before the Queen, but he would also have to invest vast resources to rebuild their ranks.
The impact would take a generation to fade, and the shame would be even more difficult to wash away.
To the Gray Elves, a myth had been shattered. These were the conquerors who had warred against the Order Church during the collapse of the Old Empire, who had stood against the Holy Kingdom, who had been unstoppable on El Island. Now, for the first time in centuries, they had suffered major losses.
