Third person POV
While in the battle, some Vamzoms were brutal to Vatrene's army and the church army. Some stabbed some of them brutally and sucked some of their blood with their Blood Swords, before drinking it by having their swords' magical vines sinking into their arms and absorbing the blood through it, drinking it. Seeing that while blocking Ariel's attack on him, Basilio was stunned, "Woah…"
But then, Ariel barely overpowered him and pointed his sword at him. "Hehe, time to give up, little man."
And then, Ormoc struck Ariel in the upper back with his sword and ran Lightning magic through it to electrocute him. "Hey, what are you think you're doing to my brother…?"
Ariel was electrocuted, and Basilio was stunned to see that Ormoc had struck him.
Ariel regained his position and balance and clashed with Ormoc's sword even with a puncture wound on his upper back. "Why you little…!"
Ormoc held as much as he could, and Basilio quickly struck back at Ariel by shooting him in the back with his pistol, which fired Vamzom aura-infused bullets using Basilio's Vamzom powers.
Ariel screamed in pain, and Ormoc managed to push back.
This sent him crashing to the ground, and Basilio and Ormoc are now okay with barely any scratch.
"Woah, kuya, that's awesome," Basilio said to Ormoc in astonishment.
"Yup." Ormoc smiled back. "Your Ate Paulina and I had undergone intensive training to be heroes for this mission."
"Oh…"
"Yeah, it was so hard, to be honest."
"Yeah…"
Both siblings then shared a fist-bump.
Meanwhile, Ariel couldn't get up due to the pain from Basilio's and Ormoc's attack.
His back was rigged with bullet wounds from Basilio's pistol.
A bit later, the battle was over, and Vatrene's 1,000-strong army was reduced to just 255, which was a humiliating defeat for them. Vatrene's church army, which made over half of the amount, was severely weakened to just 100 thanks to Pantano's heavy bombardment and melee attacks on them. Because of all this, Pantano and Ruslav, who had fewer casualties, won the battle. Vatrene's remaining army fled in extreme humiliation while some of them dragged Ariel's unconscious body along with them back to their country's border. This abandoned their camp as well.
Now, seeing their victory achieved and taken, Pantano and Ruslav rejoiced, and some of the Vamzoms pointed their Blood Swords upwards towards the sky in victory while some laughed a bit maniacally because they will feast on some of the dead bodies of Vatrene's fallen soldiers. Basilio authorized this and left a significant amount to be healed up and be interrogated by them.
In the aftermath, as some of the Vamzom soldiers feasted on their dead human feast, Basilio and Cas clanged their glasses of light beer to celebrate their hard work for the victory they had aimed for, as well as for Pantano's northeastern region to be kept. Then both people of high position complimented each other's moves and contributions in the battlefield.
"Haha, nice tactics you have there, Cas-san," Basilio said to Cas brightly while sipping on his glass of beer.
"Yup!" Cas replied with good pride of himself. "I am smart."
"Also, Kuya Ormoc and I had a combined attack on Prince Ariel, too."
"Huh? How did you know about him?"
"From books and intel from my Vamzom soldiers a while back."
"Oh…"
Ormoc came with a small plate of roasted beef and canned tasty corn and entered their conversation. "Yeah, me and Basilio were cooperative in our offense against that princely guy. Well…I can tell by his clothes."
"Oh!" Cas looked at him. "That'll be Prince Ariel, First Prince of Vatrene."
"Oh, so that's his name?"
"Yes," Basilio answered back.
"Ah, okay then…"
Meanwhile, Paulina and all the medics of both Pantano and Ruslav are busy tending to those who were wounded during the battle, working hard to do so. Chivo was among the injured, but he wasn't injured heavily, only having some light cuts thanks partly to his agile movements. And then, Artem called out to Basilio and asked, "Want some blood?"
Basilio, Cas, and Ormoc heard that and looked at him.
"Blood?" Basilio asked back.
"Yes," Artem replied back positively. "Want some?"
Some of the Vamzom soldiers in his regiment then dragged a dead body of a Vatrene soldier with open wounds that spew out blood.
Seeing that, Basilio felt uncomfortable about drinking blood a lot and directly from a dead body because he doesn't like doing it personally. But he decided to do so to satisfy his occasional thirst for blood for a while. So, Basilio took a deep breath and said, "Okay, here goes nothing." But then, he looked at his predominantly black uniform. "But I don't want to stain my clothes by this."
Seeing Basilio's predicament, Ormoc quickly grabbed something from his chest plate and gave it to Basilio. "Here, tuck this into your clothes."
Basilio saw that and grabbed it, before tucking it, which was an extra shirt from Pantano, into the neckline of his uniform so it would not get stained by blood.
Now with that, Basilio feasted on the blood of that poor, dead, Vatrene soldier, drinking it with vigor. Cas and the others were taken aback by it and watched with mild shock, but no disgust at all.