'The victory was given to us… But I feel so undeserving! We must pursue the enemy as swiftly as possible and make them pay dearly for stepping on our soil and trying to humiliate us!' was the loudest thought Gresch had the next day.
It was shared by many soldiers in the Naregan army. Meanwhile, my daughters were just burning with the desire to kill even more humans and conquer them properly!
After the first victory over the Vardish, the bees and the humans spent a full day over the battlefield, looting and cleaning up. Although the biggest stores of gunpowder had exploded during the battle, there was still enough of it and bullets that Gresch could equip a thousand soldiers with these barrel-loading muskets.
They still had to train how to shoot. A few Agents could explain to the soldiers the process—they saw Vardish soldiers do it plenty of times—but nobody except the soldiers could learn how to actually hit their targets.