War Strategy to Live Another Day
The night wind that before bringing cold air started to change into warm air.
Men and women clad in a steel plate that leaks frevor if seen by detection skill, The inevitability of the battle to come reeks blood that has to be spilled.
The crack on Markos' helmet makes his vision narrow, The only thing he can see is the Lovlarix Cape that is worn by a sturdy man on the other side of the Nothingness, The man's dark blue eyes squinted with killing intent that don't even bothered to be concealed.
"Senior we cannot afford any more losses, four of our elites already died because of them and they didn't even suffer any casualties. Please be sensible" asked one of the Khapex to Markos.
The words strike some sense into Markos that is engulfed by the heat of the moment, He sent one last look to the Lovlarix soldiers swearing to himself that he will kill as many of them as possible in the battlefield.
As a True Rank, they are indeed itchy to fight each other because of the scarce fighter of that rank making them fighting the same person over and over again in their respective kingdoms.
Seeing the retreating Khapex the sturdy man with Lovlarix caped on him sigh in disappointment, He thought that he will fight with a person of his caliber but that will not happen seeing the retreating enemy.
He turns his head to a nearby rock and says, "Come out, Tell me the situation, Where is Zed Lenvers" Not long after he said that, Owin and Vical come out of their hiding spots and walk towards the group.
"Reporting senior, one of our comrade on this mission, Zed Lenvers was last seen on the mountainside in that direction," said Owin as he points on the left front of the Lovlarix Senior.
A Senior title is given to a person who is in the Elite ranks of an army and already experienced war or a war veteran with immense experience regarding fighting and killing.
A Senior in a designated army has a high social ladder that is even higher than regular nobles, high nobles are higher because of their ancestor that gives an immense contribution to the rising of the kingdom.
The senior nods his head and getting his team ready to search the perimeter by assigning them in a group of four while the remaining will be grouped up with Owin and Vical, Just as the team wanted to move out, a rat dashed towards them at a fast speed that makes it look only like a moving shadow in the others eye but not in the senior's eye.
The rat makes a bone-cracking sound as it reshaped into a dashing muscular human figure that has a well-toned muscle all over him, This person is none other than Zed.
The senior smile in amusement, "Well, the person went missing already found his way back. Let's go back, it is the captain's direct order to not waste any more time because we need to march to Dierge Caldera Valley in two hours".
"ZED?!" Owin and Vical exclaimed and jump to embrace Zed's return but quickly denied, Zed avoid their jump and makes them land flat on the hard ground.
The others laugh like there's tomorrow because of Owin and Vical's action.
The senior looks at them with a straight face and to his surrounding, 'The commander once said that before a war, one can lose their senses and do a thing like there is no tomorrow, Perhaps it is true, looking at the normally quiet people laugh like this' he thought while remembering the commander's lecture.
Just like that, they make their way back to Jestin City to give further instruction.
One the way, Zed and his friends talk lightly about the upcoming war.
"Hey, This is our first war, right? Can you picture the scene of the war that we will attend?" asked Vical while touching his chin, wondering if the war they picture is the same as the real war.
"Well I'm sure it's just as they said, Body littered everywhere, Roar and Cries of man in battle or something that sort," said Owin after thinking briefly.
"Yeah we got this, No matter" replied Vical with confidence.
Zed is on his thought, 'I hope it's just like they said and we will go through this safely'. "I just hope we survive this war and live another day to talk like this again," said Zed making the entire atmosphere turns gloomy.
The senior heard what Zed's team was talking about and cannot help but to smirk, 'I'm sure you all will be surprised even though you know how it plays out'.
After twenty minutes, the group arrives at Jestin City where carts upon carts rammed to each other with a high volume of equipment, meat, and soldiers walking around packed the street with the stench of human sweat.
The elites are gathered for a briefing before going to war, the captains is explaining the strategy that they will use and assigning the elites.
"So here is our strategy, The artillery section that has short-range spells will be stationed on the bottom of the valley near the river with a portion of infantry to help if any of the fallen Khapex survived the fall" the captain's finger point the on a section of the map as it slides up "Where the infantry and artillery section above will activate a formation to sweep the enemy above to the bottom of the valley where our short-range mage will attack them as they fall to the steep curve of the valley," explained the captain.
The captain then continued, "From our spy, The enemy has three captains that is a peak Noble rank and one True Knight rank where it will be handled by one of our Palace Guardian that are dressed as a Lovlarix Elites, He is Sir Andreas Venizelos Stavrelis 'the tenth'" a sturdy man that wears dark grey armor like any other elites with Lovlarix cape on it step forward in front of all the Elites.
Zed and his friends were shocked because Sir Andreas is none other than the Senior that help them before.
"as you all know that I am only a level nine Noble Mage rank while the two other captains that are attending to other matters are both level nine Noble Knight rank, that proves that we cannot beat this True rank enemy that's why we have Sir Andreas here to help us," the captain said as he tells the elites the purpose of a Palace Guardian that is outside the palace.
The elites shot an admire look towards Sir Andreas because everyone in Lovlarix wants to be the Palace Guardians where only the most elite of soldiers chosen.
"We already deactivate the mist trap in Bronze Rift Mountain thanks to Zed, Owin, and Vical there," said the captain as he points towards Zed and friends, "So that leaves us with one less problem to think, and just in case they brought a cavalry with them that can counter our Infantry we made a decision that we will also place a cavalry on our rear that is hidden with level two formation that will surprise the enemy".
"So that's all for the briefing, any questions?"
"Why didn't we just use the Cavalry to rammed through the enemy infantry? Why must we hide them?" ask a woman with a boyish face that has a bearing that screamed rookie.
"The terrain is bad, We didn't want to risk our warhorses to stumble and fall. We can put spells on their hooves but it will drain our essence in the long run, and if they decided to bring cavalry then that means they are taking a desperate measure and bear all of the said risks which push us to take the risk too" answered the captain that makes the woman nods her head in approval.
The captain eyed the rest of the elite asking if there are any other questions.
"Captain what about the Filmmis Prairie, although the valley U shaped curve is long and wide it didn't diminish that they don't have such long-ranged spells that can flank us from the right," asked Zed after looking at the map closely.
The captain is quite shocked by the question, 'How can we missed that?' the captain thought.
"Yes, You are right. That's a sharp conclusion Zed" said the captain praising Zed.
The captain left for a moment to talk to the other captain and came back shortly and say, "We conclude that everyone who is confident in their defense skill will be positioned on the right rear to meet unexpected surprise from the Filmmis Prairie"
After the briefing, Zed is given by the elites an approving smile because of his analysis. In the Elites Veteran mind, Zed's thought can save countless lives if the flank really did happen"