Chapter 7: Assualt

Ethan donned his silver grey armor and stood steady on top of the city gates looking over the horizon onto the descending army of soldiers. 'Keep steady, keep steady.' Ethan said to himself to calm his nerves. Who can blame him, yesterday he was still a blue collar worker on earth doing nine to five and now he is leading soldiers into battle as a king. Were it not for his impeccable acting and extensive knowledge of similar novels he would even be able to do anything remotely heroic.

''When the reach the wheat fields general, Fire everything we got"

''Yes your Majesty''

Ethan recalled how he ordered soldiers to scatter wheat over the fields and how he told soldiers to dig a small trench to hide in to ambush the enemy forces. 'Man thank goodness I still a know a thing or two about warfare thanks to history class" Ethan thought. As he was thinking he heard the general shout.

" Ready, Aim, Fire!"

As the trainees came within shooting range, Ethan signaled General Magnus to command the fifty archers to release their arrows. The projectiles whizzed through the air, and though a few trainees managed to dodge them, they soon found themselves surrounded by flames. The Verdant Vale soldiers had prepared a trap, igniting the fields and creating chaos amidst the enemy ranks.

Finding themselves disoriented and distracted by the fire, the Blackthorn trainees became easy targets for the swift and deadly sneak attacks launched by the Verdant Vale axemen. Caught unaware and unable to see through the thick smoke, the Blackthorn soldiers fell one by one, their agonizing screams echoing across the battlefield. Asher disguised as one of the soldiers, went straight for the 2 generals, the 2 knights sensed danger and instantly turned around only to see the horrifying lightning before dying. As Asher aimed for the heads the knights had no time to resist and they retained the look of fear on their faces as their heads came rolling off.

With his mission finished Asher moved like the wind using the smoke as cover to eradicate the enemy forces. Swiftly and without much time spent.

After an hour of agonizing screams being heard, the battlefield descended into a deathly silence. Only one soldier from the Blackthorn kingdom managed to escape, stumbling and falling all the way to the camp, the soldier was missing a limb and struggled to run to safety clearly on the brink of death.

"A-Ambush, n-no o-one survi...ved" the survivor was able to mutter to King Orion before closing his eyes to rest for eternity, right in front of the kings feet.

King Orion's face turned black with gloom at the thought of losing two generals and nearly all his soldiers. A bone chilling aura spread from his body sending shivers down the remaining knights spine.

As King Orion was contemplating on what action to take, his gaze turned to the smoke to see a group of figures appearing from the smoke. Among the group of figures 2 stood out the most, one young man in silver grey armor and a middle aged man with a scar on his left eye. These two were non other than Ethan and Asher.

" Admit defeat Orion! Its your loss, you are not a much for the remainder of my forces" Ethan shouted.

King Orion's eyes turned bloodshot as he stared at the the young man, but he remained sane. Knowing full well even a 5th stage knight can't defeat so many soldiers all at once. Not to mention the headache of a knight known as Asher is still standing next to the young man. After thinking he shouted "Retreat" and fled the battlefield quickly.

General Magnus was about to order their troops to pursue when Ethan raised his hand to stop Magnus. " Your Majesty?" bewildered Magnus asked. ''A cornered enemy is not one my kingdom can afford to mess with, retreat to the castle and let's recuperate first before discussing what to to further." Ethan replied.

Unbeknownst to Ethan, Asher next to Ethan had a smile on his face as he thought. "Looks like the cub has started to grow my old friend, I will protect the little one rest assured"

Ethan was busy ordering his troops to clean up the battlefield when the familiar sound echoed once more.

*Ding*