Alliance

Karakum,

Aric has received the intel that has been collected by Marcus.

He immediately called all of his chancellors and ministers to have a meeting to discuss strategies to use on the USSR.

Now, they are in a dark room, that has no light or windows.

The head of the wizard of the country, Elowen, points her wand at the void, reflecting scenes about the USSR.

Scene about vehicles and soldiers that are transported quickly to the front line by train and plane from every part of the country.

Factories that are emitting thick smoke to the sky, columns and columns newly make vehicles coming out and then attach on the train.

In cities that have millions of population, citizens rush to the conscripted office just to join the armies.

Ships that are sailing on the sea, planes that are flying in the sky.

All these scenes brought deep shock to the people in the room.

As the scene becomes blurrier and blurrier, Aric knows that Elowen has reached her limit.

"That is enough Elowen, thanks for your help, it brings much help to the kingdom."

"My honor, your majesty."

Aric then ordered to light up the room and start the meeting.

"Well, I believe all of you have a brief idea of what this new country looks like, such a surprise that such a country does not have an existence of any magic. Prime Minister Williams, I would like to consult your opinion about this country, do you think we should alliance with them to fight against the orcs and undead, or should we launch a sudden strike on them ?"

Prime Minister Williams who gets called does not reply immediately but takes some time to think about it.

Until a few minutes later he only answers.

"Your majesty, I believe we should have an alliance with the USSR first, and I think this would be the best option for us. For what intel that Marcus collected and we saw just now, I believe there would not be too much error on their intel. The USSR has a different doctrine and war mode compared to us, and we are not his opponent if we start a war now.

For us, war is something that mainly belongs to noble, civilians could only provide limited help on it unless some of them have such talent. But for the Soviet Union, war was for everyone, their soldiers came from every class, miner, teacher, farmer, or even officers who worked in government.

And also, the speed they send their troops to the front lines, and mobilize, is already far ahead of us, or even any countries we know. Millions of Red Army can just take down Karakum before we even start mobilizing our troops.

We do not have any idea of how will they fight, and neither of them knows how will we fight. However, they will be getting more knowledge about magic during the battle between the orcs and the undead, but nothing will we know if we do not ally with them.

So, Your Majesty, my opinion will be to ally with the USSR and send military advisors to their army, so that we can know how is the way they fight."

Aric nodded, agreeing with Willian's conclusion, but he still wanted to ask the opinion of the other person, the Marshal of the Realm, Thomas Bennett.

"Marshal, how do you think of William's opinion?"

"Your majesty, I object to his suggestion and I will say my reason. From what we know, the USSR has been fighting with the orcs and undead by itself, and successfully liberating all their territory in a few weeks. Even if we do not know how much man and equipment the orcs and undead put in, I believe it will not be less since they decided to invade the USSR.

From that, we can know that their way of fight is stronger than our magic. As Prime Minister Williams said just now, in the future, when the USSR starts its counteroffensive, they will know more about magic. Even if we ally with them, it does not change much. 

But after the USSR gets the knowledge of magic, then we would be facing a superpower that owns a more advanced combat method and also all the advanced magic that originally belonged to the orcs and undead.

How can we ensure that the USSR will not threaten and annex us in the future? We are having difficulties fighting against the orcs by ourselves, and how are we going to resist the USSR in the future that can fight against the orcs and undead at the same time?

Your Majesty, I believe that we should not put our destiny in the USSR's hands, so I suggest that we should let go of the hatred of orcs for now, we should destroy the USSR together. "

His words instantly caused an uproar in the room.

Can the soldiers and citizens let go of the hatred of the orcs and fight together with them on the same side?

Both Karak and Orcs have been fighting for years, they are feuding with each other.

Everyone looks at Aric, the king of the Karak to make his final decision.

Aric was struggling now, his fingers kept tapping rhythmically on the chair. 

Both William and Thomas are not wrong, making it hard to make the decision.

And finally, he make his decision.

"Well, both of you are correct and I decided to execute both of your suggestions. Mobilize our army immediately, ask them to be ready for battle, and send them to port and border with the Orcs. At the same time, sent our diplomatic representative to the USSR and built our alliance relationship.

We will be the ones that join the war at the last, if the orcs lose, then our army will cross the border and attack them together with the USSR, and vice versa. No matter who wins, at least we will get something to improve our power.

Also, the USSR is too strong, we will need some more allies that we can rely on, send more diplomatic representatives to other kingdoms, we will need to build a secret alliance to prevent the attack from the USSR."

Orders are given by Aric continuously, all the ministers and chancellor remember their jobs and prepare to execute them after the meeting.

"For Karak!!!"

"For Karak!!!"

The meeting ended with a shout of "For Karak".

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The train that carries Serina has reached Kyiv, and they will disembark there.

All of the adventure team members were again shocked by the prosperity of the city.

Serina wrongly thought that this was the capital of the USSR, due to the red energy stream and the prosperity.

"Ms. Serina, what you said is correct, but also wrong. Here is not the capital of the USSR, but only the Capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic."

As the lieutenant answers corrects his word, but also more questions come to Serina's head.

She and everyone on the teams did not know state systems like the USSR, and how they formed the government, which is something new to them.

They are going to go to another train that is going to Moscow, as most of the trains here are going to the Baltic Front lines.

The railway station, a grand structure adorned with socialist realism architecture, echoes the sounds of arriving and departing trains.

An hour of break is given to them, let them walk out of the stations and have a look at the city.

Different styles of wearing on the adventure teams quickly attracted the soldiers' and workers' attention in the station.

What immediately comes into view is the huge statue of Vladimir Lenin, positioned prominently in a square adjacent to the station, with an outstretched arm.

Together with the Soviet flags fluttering in the breeze.

"Is this the king or emperor of the USSR?"

Someone asks this question to the lieutenant.

"There is no king or emperor in the USSR, who you see now is our great revolution leader Lenin. He symbolizes the forward march of the socialist cause. The statue is sculpted in bronze, which also stands as an embodiment of Soviet ideals."

Serina here, sees something special in her eyes.

She sees a red ghost flying on the flag, which is something that those undead have seen in Leningrad.

Serina does not fear the red ghost, only confused.

She has seen many red flags, but they only exist here.

But she does not ask the lieutenant or anyone the questions, the answer can only be found by herself.

The group of people continue to walk in the city.

Many new things in the city have caused a great impact on their mind, many questions were asked to the Lieutenant, like what is Socialism.

The lieutenant also took the trouble to explain to them.

One hour passes fast, they again sit on a train that is moving to Moscow.