Chapter 8: Spar

"Adelia's P.O.V."

As soon as I step in the cobble stone heading toward the main hall, I see that the western people were waiting outside of the door, clearly guarding an important person inside the conference hall. As we neared the entrance the soldiers guarding the door faced us and bowed.

"Lift you heads" I said, both soldiers straightened their backs and opened the door

"Strategist Keilan and Adelia entering" One announced

As we enter I saw that Renakel and weilia was seated in their seat as I made my towards them, in left I saw the western Prince Ryker sitting next to the emperor.

"May evangelism reach you" I said and bowed to the emperor, I faced the prince I also offered a bow in which he nodded at me in acknowledgment

I grab the seat next to renakel and situated myself beside him as Keilian seated next to me on the emperor's right.

"I hope I didn't disturbed any important meetings or works" His majesty said

"You did not your majesty, I was just checking papers here and there" Keilian smiled

"Well with that let's start this meeting" He clasped both his hands together, signalling the meeting to begin

"I hope you are familiar with each other this is the Western crown prince Ryker" He introduce him to us

"Beside him is General Colin who will be helping us lead to war"

"War? So you've said yes?" Renakel said leaning towards the table and looking the emperor

"It was too good of an opportunity to pass" He said

"And I believe Keilian and Adelia already calculated the possible outcomes and benefits we will be getting" He looked back at renakel

"I just sent the report today actually, I expect it would be by your tables right now" Keilian smiled

"Great! I need someone to fetch the reports and bring it over here" He ordered a servant, the servant bowed and headed his way out of the room

"Let us start shall we?" Emperor Yuvi looked at the crown prince

"Yes, first of all I would first like to thank the warm hospitality you have showed us" He looked at us

"Second of all I would like to apologize in advance for involving you in this untimely war" He said

"We first got word that the North is preparing for an upcoming war after 1 whole sun revolution. They are preparing soldiers and weapons and its aim is us. The west" He paused "They started to preparing since the start of season of Sun, they are planning to invade us first and if victory is achieve they will slowly invade the other nations" Our eye then meet showing worried and sincerity.

"They invaded the south a few years back and was defeated by us, they must went after you first since no neighboring nation is near you" I said meeting his eyes once again.

"Then when will we leave?" Wei ask

"Not yet" I said looking at her

"I will need to see your soldier practicing first" I looked over to the general

"It would be an honor for me" General Colin said

As they began to talk about more details we were suddenly interrupted with a knock on the door

"Excuse me your majesty, I brought the papers here" The servant came back

"Oh yes please come" He motioned towards the servant

As he grab the papers he began passing it around to the others

"We will be passing farehiya? Won't the air be better?" Wei ask

"No passing by land will help us keep the plan as a secret and gather more troops passing by" I said

"This won't only give us more soldiers but also better the relation in political trades" I continued

"Yes, the Farehiya is not giving me the full report of their trade system, I should have change the leader their but it could severe the ties he made" Emperor Yuvi exclaimed

"Train for 30 days and we will leave to the west after" I said

"Please give me a map and book about the ecological and environmental life in the west nation" Renekal ask

"It would be best to meet them haft way but in our favoured land" he smiled

"So everything should be in our favourable condition? So that we can find ways to strategies techniques to defeat them?" General Colin said

"Well of course. Everything should be taken to consideration, from where we travel to the area where we will settle to meet the enemy. If we go and travel by sea, we won't be able to deal with other small lands and recruit them to fight, if we go fight and it recently rained, it will be to sleeper for humans to run and swing a sword. Everything should be taken into details. The more we strategies, the better the predicted outcome" I said explaining it the western people.

"Well this make me very optimistic, when should be set out?" General Colin asked

"In 2 to 3 weeks depending how well your soldiers, since I will be training them the basics formation for war" I said

"My soldiers are well built and fast" He boasted with a proud look

"It's not how well built they are, it's how they can do well in combat and what art of technique they use. My soldiers will battle them out in hand to hand combat" I said looking at him

"Great! When do we start?" He asked

"Today" I smiled at him

Prince Ryker slowly patted his shoulder and gave him a pitiful look, General colin looks excited as he suddenly stood up

"I will go and gather my soldiers, where do we meet?" He asked looking at me

"We will meet in the Serpent training ground after lunch so everyone will be well fueled" I smiled

"Alright! Noted for that, I will head out now and round them up!" He said excitedly

He then look Emperor Yuvi and Prince Ryker and bowed deeply at them

Both the Emperor and Prince laughed at his action and acknowledge that he may be dismissed

"He admires the strategist" Prince Ryker looked at us

"How flattering" Wei commented and she smiled at him and said "I can't wait to see how your army will hold up" She said

"Wei you are gonna put pressure on Adelia" Keilian said

"We will talk more about this in details in the next meeting which will be held once the spies in the north gather more details" Emperor Yuvi smiled

"Thank you so much for your kindness, my people and I won't forget the favor you have given us" Prince Ryker said

"It would be difficult for us too if the North defeated you, it might also threaten the East and South" Emperor Yuvi smiled

"Well this is enough excitement for one day" Kelian said as he began standing up

We followed him by standing up and bowed to our emperor

"Continue with your work, the prince and I has something to discuss" Emperor Yuvi dismissed us.

"Oh and Adelia" He continued, I halted and look over at the emperor

"Don't over do it" He gave me a smile, I gave a small smile back and bowed again

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"So did you round up your soldiers?" Renekal asked

"I already sent a messenger to inform them. I'm sure they will be excited to combat the western people" I said smiling at him

"I can't wait to watch, I wanna to see how good the western people and their alleged rigorous training is" He said and folded his hands

"From what I witnessed while passing by in the training grounds, they all build up muscle make themselves bigger and uses their strength and brute force when fighting" He said offering a hand towards me.

"Come, let us eat first. I assume that you didn't have anything except tea" He said. I grab his hands as we made our way towards the food hall.

"Adelia! Renekal!" Someone shouted behind us

I look over and saw Weilia and Keilian walking towards us. Weilia grabbed my hand and said "Are you heading over to the food hall? Let us go together!" she smiled

I smiled back and Renekal said "Come on before they run out of meat" He replied as he continued to walk

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"Everyone seems to be excited" I said, seeing the soldiers warming up and polishing their armor

"They've been acting like that since awhile ago" Wei said as she looked at the soldiers

"They almost empty out the lunch hall, gathering as much energy as they can" She continued

"So what are you gonna do?" Renekal appeared beside me

"Well, maybe have them do a combat with each other i'm planning doing 3 rounds just to justify both techniques" I said putting my hand in his shoulder

"Aren't you suppose to visit the agricultural fields?" I asked facing him

"Well.... due to.....ah! recent rains, I have is scheduled to be moved tomorrow" He reasoned

"Rain? we didn't have any rain for the past 2 weeks" I questioned him

"Due to the seasons I will have it scheduled by tomorrow" he proudly said, Keilian grab hold of his shoulder and moved closer to him

"We are men after all and we also studied the art of war, this events right now is truly exciting" Keilian defended Renekal

"That's right and what about you Weilia? Don't you have a building need to check out?" Renekal pointed out

"I'm a woman, and seeing men fight eachother is fun" Wei didn't even defended her self

"Well, enough of that since we are almost about to start how about you guys sit down over there" I pointed the high rise sits. The three of them went to the bench area and sat down while I went to the podium meeting the prince and general.

"Your grace" I bowed to prince Ryker

"Good afternoon Lady Adelia" he greeted

"General Colin" I looked over at him and smiled

"I hope you you're ready, Lady Adelia" He smiled as he greeted me

"certainly, this is what I was born for" I smiled back at him

"Well I can't argue with that" He said

As I began climbing up the stairs to the podium, a hand reached out towards me. As i look up to see who offered a hand. It was prince Ryker giving his hands towards me, in order not to offend him, I reach out and took his hand as he guided me up towards the Podium.

"Thank you" I smiled at him as he smiled back and said

"Well it's the small things that I can offer" He said

"Now, Colin take it easy and don't over think" He continued and turned over to look at him

"Don't worry your highness! I promise you honor and pride!" He boasted

"Well don't get too competitive, we are doing this to match each others capability in order to generate a good flow and skills between our soldiers" I smiled and headed over towards him as he was already in front of the podium.

"Shall we?" I asked

"Oh we shall" He smirked