Chapter 79

I can see an unfamiliar ceiling above me when I open my eyes. Oh, right. We are in Lunas after liberating the holy city. Sialeeds takes me to this room and starts to undress, but before she can do anything, Chiyome decides to join, and here we are.

Having a threesome is great and all, but it takes a lot of my stamina to make sure the two are satisfied.

I slowly get out of bed and leave my room. As I leave my room, I can see one of the servants notice me and quickly bow her head.

"Sir! What can I do for you?"

"Can you make a warm bath for me?"

"Of course, sir! Do you want to have some breakfast while waiting for your bath?"

"Sure. Let's have some food before the bath."

"Then please follow me."

I follow the servant to the dining room, where I can see Frey and Lyon already eating some kind of stew with bread. When they see me, Frey waves his hand with a giant smile on his face.

"Gerrald! Here!"

The servants start to panic when they see the prince pulling the chair for me. It is their job, and it is embarrassing if the prince needs to pull the chair for his guest instead of the servant nearby. I can only smile at the sight in front of me. 

I shake my head and sit next to him.

While waiting for my food, I look at the prince and say,

"How are you, Frey?"

"Hmmm? What do you mean, Gerrald?"

"How are you? Are you doing fine? We are on the finish line. Are you glad that the war is almost over?"

Frey looks down for a few seconds before saying.

"Yeah. I am glad that I can finally return to my normal life. It is tiring. War is not something I want to experience once again."

"However, what if someone wants to attack this country to exploit the civil war?"

He looks at me with a serious expression and says,

"Then I will fight and lead my people against the invader."

I give him a smile and say.

"Then you will be fine without me around."

"Eh? You did not want to stay, Gerrald?"

I shake my head and say.

"Sadly, no. As you know, I am not from this continent, right? I need to return home. Don't worry. I will visit every once in a while."

"Promise?"

I pat his head and say.

"I promise."

"En!"

=//=

It took a month and quite a number of casualties before Stormfist fell. Even when not too many soldiers defend the city, it takes us a month to occupy the city. Stormfist deserves its title as the second-strongest city in the entire country.

Even with the help of Chiyome opening the gate for us, it still takes a long time to occupy the city. The real problem is the barrier just outside the city that protects the city from any magical attack. Because of this, we need to breach the wall traditionally.

I offer Chiyome service to turn off the magic barrier and destroy the wall from the inside. However, Lucretia held me back because she did not want me to destroy General Boz and Admiral Raja's pride.

It is a stupid reason, but I know the reason why she asked me to stop. This battle is not my battle, and I cannot take over the operation because it is outside my command chain. As long as Boz and Raja did not ask me to help them in destroying the barrier or the wall, I would not do it.

In the end, they manage to occupy Stormfist after a month of siege, and here we are in the meeting room.

"Thank you for coming here. As you guys know, our only target is Sol-Falena, the capital city."

She opened a map of Sol-Falena with many circles on it.

"Sol-Falena is the perfect city to defend. There is no shortcut to conquer it. Because of this, we need to take over these four points."

She points at the four circles on the map.

"The first and second ones are the East and West dam bridge. General of the Infantry Unit, Boz, shall lead seven thousand soldiers attacking from the east."

Boz grins and says.

"Leave it to me!"

Lucretia nods and looks at Dinn.

"General of the Cavalry Unit, Dinn, you shall lead seven thousand soldiers attacking the western dam bridge."

"I will not disappoint you."

Lucretia then looks at the Commander of the Dragon Horses Cavalry, Laden, and says.

"Commander Laden, I need you to lead your cavalry unit to attack from land and water. Your unit will be the one harassing the enemy. The ability of Dragon Horses to swim and climb walls will be valuable in hit-and-run tactics."

"Leave it to me. Their soldiers will not rest when we are in action."

Lucretia then looks at Admiral Raja and the prince.

"Admiral Raja, we need to use Dahak as our moving headquarters in this battle."

"Of course! Dahak will be ready when we are moving out."

"Not only that, we also need it to attack from the south. We will directly attack Sol-Falena from the south with Dahak as our headquarters and main rallying point."

"I see. We will be the main army, then?"

"That's right. We will attack from the south and give support to the east and west."

Admiral Raja nods her head and says.

"I understand. We might be the main army, but we act as support rather than the main show."

"Yes and no. We will support the others for the first wave but will be the main army after my plan is successful."

"What plan?"

Instead of answering her, Lucretia looks at me and says,

"Gerrald, I need you and Chiyome to do me a favor."

I blink for a second and say.

"What is it?"

"I need Chiyome to infiltrate the capital city and disable the trump card."

"Trump card? Which one?"

Admiral Raja asks curiously. Lucretia looks at Frey, and I can see him take a deep breath.

"The Royal Family has one trump card. The dam."

"What?" Admiral Raja looks at Frey in confusion. "What about the dam?"

"The royal family can destroy the dam, and thousands of tons of water will destroy any ship coming from the south and the army from the east and west."

Upon hearing that word, the others start to change their expression. They are now looking at Lucretia in a serious expression, including me.

"What do you need her to do?"

"I want her to steal an orb. It is an orange orb with a symbol of water and fire on it. After doing that, I need her to see if Godwin has something to destroy the dam other than using the orb. If they have something, destroy that thing and make sure they do not restore it."

I nod and say.

"I shall inform her."

"Thank you."

She gets up from her chair and says,

"Let's prepare for the upcoming fight. We shall march in a month. This will be the final battle! Let's win this war!"

"YEAH!"