BATTLE DAWNS

"Sir, the commander has called for you," the attendant said while bowing with an armored guard from the commander's retinue behind him. As James saw the guard he knew that the final battle would finally begin.

"father, I would leave you, to go to your meeting with the commander, take care of yourself father and I hope we shall see each other in the end" James then hugged sir Eric tightly then turned and left, this battle would be the final battle that would determine their fates as those who survives these battle would be heavily rewarded and be provided with a lot of resources for cultivation and they were not sure they could both survive this as even transcending mortality experts could fall during this battle.

"Yes son, take care of yourself too okay" Sir Eric shouted as James walked out of the room with deep love and worry in his eyes, then turned and left with the armored guard.

As James was in his room, he thought of the different ways he could prepare for the coming battle, he could come up with almost nothing, as his art of refining was at a bottleneck and it would be hard for him to make a breakthrough in it, as once he had done this he would have reached perfection on a major realm and tier one martial arts like the 'boundless waterfall' was hard to practice to the transcendent level for, first stage cultivators as they could only practice, unranked and tier one, martial arts.

As he thought of this a light sparkled on his eyes whereby, he got up and went to the closet, where he proceeded to bring out a blood-red sword with sparkling runes, all around it, as lames saw this a sense of pride could be seen pervading through him.

"With this my strength, would dramatically improve although, this is just a peak unranked weapon but because of the intricateness of the runes it has the power of a peak tier one weapon with half a step into tier two level and because I am its creator I can use 120% of the power of the weapon" he muttered to himself while marveling at how mystical and profound the 'understanding of runes was.

Although a lot of praise could be given to the understanding of runes the main reason, for his tremendous success in his study of runes, was James agile and inquisitive mind, which helped him decipher, the book without a teacher to help him practice it. So James had reasons to be proud, as rune making was one of the hardest crafts to go into and required, a high comprehension ability.

As a hint of profound mysteries needed to be added to the runes, even though the rune-maker might not have comprehended the profound mysteries but that was what made runes so fantastic, as you can follow a predecessor path, helping in the understanding of profound mysteries and it was also because of this that you can only become a tier one rune-master once you reach, the transcending mortality stage as you can use profound mysteries.

As James, was thinking about, all this, he had a bugle when he and the other officers heard this, they couldn't help but shudder as they knew about the chaos that was about to occur, even the ordinary soldiers had a bad feeling with the strange ambiance in the air.

James then put on his leather armor which was given to him as he was promoted to a scholar, this was one of the most important gifts given to scholars, in order for the scholars to protect as making armor type magical tools, are one of the hardest to produce as they required, the skin of demonic beasts and also a lot of precious metals and also a very skilled rune-master to inscribe the runes on it, the process was often dangerous and odious, so there were few armors made.

James finished putting on his armor and his other gears, and then went to the castle wars to join up with his unit, once he reached there and looked over at, the enemy side a cold breath couldn't help but escape from his throat as he saw the vast sea of people, the enemy usually attacked with a large number of people but, for this battle it could be seen that they had brought out most of their cards.

"By the all-father, how is that possible" James heard a soldier standing near him exclaim as well as murmuring from the surrounding. The shock impact of the enemy tactics could be seen clearly as the soldiers, morale was visibly lowered by their display as this was going on. A bald muscular man with a fiery aura around him could be seen floating above the castle wall, this man was of course commander garret,

"brave men, of the sky empire", his voice boomed while he paused and looked around the castle, as he did this, it was as if he was looking at every soldier individually " you have seen the enemy, and their vast number's, but this our chance to show the island, even the whole world that the honor and valor of the sky empire are not to be undermined" he then paused again as he did, a loud and intimidating shouting could be heard all around the castle walls.

"The enemy may be large in number, but we have our valor and the homestead advantage and, I know we will be victorious, as when they charge up to the wall they would be defeated like the park of cards they are. So men are you with me" he shouted with a booming voice

"Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!" came the earth-shaking reply, as the moral of the men could be seen rising.