Chapter 23

After the girls finally calmed down and stopped torturing me, which from some weird reason felt really good, wait....it shouldn't have felt so good....am I a masochist? Am I really that low of a person?

Anyway, now it's time for the exciting stuff, the invasion! There is a small problem though, Yafrenia and Narkis are separated by a large river and as such moving the army over it would be quite hard under intense fire from the enemy, but I have that solved since this is where Raijin comes in! Since Yafrenia and Odrax have been allies for a long time we can freely mobilize troops along their border, and as such enter from their border while having the advantage of the higher ground and the dense forest should work pretty well to conceal our troops. But we still have to protect our country so the army's 256 divisions will be dispersed as such:

Mage Div. Infantry Div. Flying div. Special Terrain Div

Narkis-Odrax border 10 100 5 15

Yafrenia 5 15 2 7

Odrax capital 5 15 1 0

Narkis 10 25 8 5

Yafrenia-Narkis border 5 5 10 8

And my royal guard will be split into two halves, one half will be tasked with protecting important places in our countries and the other will act as my personal division, in total we should have a little over two million troops in the army and royal guard and at least another few hundred thousands volunteers as most of my subjects are familiar with fighting and military techniques as we teach them in schools.

The emperor of Narkis is experienced in leading armies in an offensive manner but in terms of defense he is lacking experience, but as I don't have much Intel on his generals I can't pronounce myself on that matter, but after the emperor the next biggest problems are the hero and the church. Raijin said he'd take care of the church, can't wait to see how that goes. But for the hero, I don't really want to fight him since I already did once, but I already have an idea for that too, ain't I a genius, having thought of everything before hand?

After mumbling to myself for a little longer about how great I am, I went to Ignea's room. I wonder if she'll think I'm rude for visiting her in the middle of the night? Eh, she probably won't mind it as much as she did about me starting a war so I'll just knock on her door lightly. To my surprise she opened the door, damn I really wanted to see her cute sleeping face but I'll leave that to another time.

-What's with you, knocking on a girl's door at this hour, it's rude, ya know?[Ignea]

-Well, I have to talk something with you so can you come with me for a bit?[Seiji]

-Sure, where?[Ignea]

-The grand library inside the castle.[Seiji]

As we walked down the silent corridors of the castle, the light of the moon was the only thing brightening this place up, no candles, no lamps, nothing, this place has been the same for thousands of years, ever since the first demon king built it. It's a needlessly large place, with the insides of the inner walls spanning out for almost two hundred thousand square meters, all filled with the most luxurious things in the world, designed by the finest architects and with a magic barrier so powerful that if the world were to end, only this place would remain, all that only to protect the two things that exist under the castle, one of those two things is the grand library. Even the members of the royal family have access only to the first floor out of the fifty, from the second floor onward only the demon king has access. As we arrived to the large wooden doors that separated the library from the rest of the castle, I looked at Ignea, the moonlight gently covered her beautiful face and making a sort of glimmer along her thin lips, her golden hair almost had a glow to it as the light reflected of it. She also stopped and looked at me, than she smiled, for that slight moment I couldn't feel anything, all my senses went numb as I found myself staring at her, the only thought that passed trough my mind was a simple one: don't let anyone else have her. I quickly averted my gaze and opened the doors to the library. As the maids couldn't enter this place, dust had accumulated on the shelves, and spider webs had formed on the railing. The floors have the form of circles with another empty circle in the middle, trough which ran down the stairs to the floors underneath.

-So what did you want to tell me?[Ignea]

-You know how the other side has a hero and we don't?[Seiji]

-Yeah, but what's that got to do with me?[Ignea]

-Well, I thought it's about time we changed that.[Seiji]

-What?[Ignea]

-Tell me, little fairy, wanna become a heroine?[Seiji]