---A mess.

That's what this was meant to be. Utter chaos and collapse, ahead of an invasion force.

A strategy that would have been more effective without our presence. But now, one Grovemaster still lives, and the traitor woman and her forces are dead or defeated.

They crumpled quickly, but that was the intend of the surprise attack from behind. To crush them as swiftly as possible with an assault there was simply no way for them to be prepared for, directly after the crushing blow to their morale that the visible death of their leader must have dealt. Perhaps some genuinely regret their actions, or perhaps they simply fear death.

I would kill all of the traitor woman's forces if it were my decision. They are, all of them, fanatical liabilities with no care for the people of their country, they people they are meant to be in service of. Even if they did regret it, they would still have been the kind of people who were willing to throw everything away for a traitor in the first place. But it is not my decision, so I will simply abide by the choices made by those in command.

My blade gleams with crimson, so I flick it sharply to scatter the blood onto the earth before sheathing it on my lower back once again.

The paladins among that one's forces were the only ones I witnessed marching as a parade of idiocy, and thus I am perfectly capable of answering Mathiassen-san's question.

"Any paladin without the traitor woman's iconography is unlikely to be among her supporters. All those I witnessed were shocked when they witnessed the fanatics' march."