Time seemed to fly by as Phansesis got to work he made sure to keep in touch with all the peasants who worked for him and could be found wandering from place to place all day making sure everything was in order.
His stress was almost unbearable, he would hear a loud noise and run to see what had broken.
His stress was all void for at the front the Kiran's army crushed Purtain with ease, the battle had started with equal sided armies 2,000 vs 2,000 Purtain had the high ground but chose to rush into the Kiran army allowing for them to be outflanked and destroyed all the Lord's including Kithlac.
by the time the news reached Phansesis it had been a week, this made Phansesis sad but not to the point of depression or morning.
he was more fearful of his orders to appear at the front as a front line Sargent.
it took him two days to reach the front on horseback and he had ridden hard to get there, upon reaching the front a man in glorious attire walked up to him.
This man stood 6ft 7inches wearing the most beautiful armor a man could devise he had in a sling a great sword bigger than any Phansesis had seen yet, being 5ft of blade itself with a 1ft handle, it could not be put in a sheath at that size so the muscular man had tied one leather strap on the two ends so as to carry with ease. This man stepped forward and barked
"who the hell are you and why are you here."
to which Phansesis replied
"I am Phansesis of the Phoenix son of lord Kithlac, I was ordered here to be a Sargent."
at this the muscular man had a solum look as he said
"I am Sir Beor 5th General of Purtain and leader on the land division, I am sorry for your loss."
he then lead Phansesis to a large tent in a field full of tents, there were multiple others talking about various things before Beor yelled
"Listen up we need all of you to hear this or everyone here will die."
as soon as he said this all ears where open to the option of life.
"we have residing in this camp 5,000 hardened troops who have seen over twenty different battles, but we also have a numbering 20,000 who have never seen a battle they come on orders or self conviction."
at this all eyes where widening how many where they up against to have so many come in retaliation. After a slight pause Beor continued
"we have no clue the size of the enemy nor their leaders, bases or the like we are blind and so we must make sure as to not loose more than we have to."
he then waved his hands at some young man who was standing behind him this young man walked up and introduced himself.
"I am prince Fredrick the 2nd I have been handed Beor's position"
he went quiet to let that fact sink in
"we will mix the veterans among the greens and push up on the enemy camp with our infantry and archers through the forest half a mile away from us."
then he pointed to a flat grassland on the map and said our Calvary will hold a potion here to act as a retreat and a Frontline against their Calvary if they have any."
he then pointed to a hill that overlooked the whole area and spoke words that made Phansesis shiver with fear
"this hill will be stationed with all our catapults and trebuchets, here we will be able to raid hell on any advancing force that breaks through or tries to make a slow advance, remember if we fail at any side we loose this battle so lead courageously an-"
as he was speaking screams could be heard as fire spread from the south side of the encampment. the enemy wasn't doing a full-scale assault just a slight raid, this was solved in a matter of minutes and afterwards Beor called Phansesis to his personal tent seeing as the meeting was over.
Beor looked at Phansesis with tears in his eyes and he said with a slight sob
"come here boy"
Phansesis was confused but entered.