Catalyst System

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    Everyone listened to Veroa's words regarding this coming war. War is not to die, war is not to hurt. Slowly, they all understood the meaning of some of the meaningful fractures along with the further explanation Veroa conveyed.

    The young man named Adillez was a young man who was recruited slowly through training which they thought was punishment for a mistake - a mistake they made in the early days of Veroa just leading the City Tungsten. He who could not help but sit limp at that moment after looking into Veroa's eyes that disturbed him with his three other friends while bullying the young man who was saved by Veroa. The bullied youth was also the same as being soldiers, even the five of them being good teammates.

    This afternoon, the journey for war continued. Although it will not be after the schedule and very late is expected a week more, but no one will dispute it.

...

    A shadow slowly revealed a black-clothed human figure with a covered face and a pair of twin blades crossed on his back, then he bowed his body paying homage to the person sitting on the chair.

    He was King Arthur, still relaxed in his room, though he did his duty in charge of state documents, but he had ignored the war declaration. Barrium city no one knows, the storm is heading towards him while the leader just considers it a gust of wind.

    Seeing a scout who was supposed to be in charge of ensuring security around the city appear as suddenly as it was, he was quite surprised by the flat look on his face with both of his eyebrows raised. “Speak!” not caring for him who kept bowing his body, he simply ordered the man to convey his affairs. His attitude is certainly not shown in public, while his character with his father is completely inversely proportional.

    “Good, Your Majesty. The servant was about to report the reconnaissance results around the city within a radius of 5 kilometers...” The scout explained what he saw with sweat that had soaked his forehead since he first saw the huge army that was heading to Barrium City. He himself delivered the report in a quite trembling voice imagining how Barrium City would survive the onslaught later. Besides because the city does not yet have readiness for such an impromptu attack, the number of troops owned is not as much as the troops that are coming. It can indeed seek help, for example the City of Ferrum which is quite close to this city. But, perhaps the arrival of reinforcements would be enough to make this city half destroyed.

    This made King Arthur very surprised, because he did not expect that the declaration of war signed to resolve personal problems would be true. Moreover, after hearing that the number of enemy troops that numbered around almost 4000 people had been quite close to Barrium City, he broke out in cold sweat as he thought with the scouts. He immediately left to prepare the defense forces and told the head of the army to ring the danger bells.

    In his heart he deeply regretted that he had ignored that declaration of war, but he thought realistically that it was not the right time to think about anything else.

...

    The sun almost sunk as they reached in front of the fortress of Barrium City. Not yet giving a sign to attack, Veroa observed the situation first whether his troops were able to penetrate the fortress without causing casualties or not. He was thinking of trying it first by attacking using magic, here the adventurers and the old warriors who had magic skills would debut.

    Veroa smiled in response before answering “You know? There are so many reasons not to do it. As an example of the preparatory aspect, it means that they are certainly aware of the greatest weakness of the location of this city is when the city is besieged from all directions. After realizing this, what else will they do in peacetime?”

    A few seconds Guild Master Alfrederic was speechless realizing what Veroa was saying. “I'm sorry for my stupidity, my lord. I'm so enlightened” he lowered his head, then smiled meaningfully. He was amazed by her, that Veroa was still a teenager. But, he was like a person who had a lot of experience related to war. He himself had only realized it, surely Barrium City had prepared everything possible to cover its tender location to attack. For example, if an army is divided into four parts and attacks from all four sides, then the enemy's fighting force will be divided into four parts for each direction. On the other hand, if the troops are focused in one direction of attack, the, any preparations in the direction of the other fortress would be futile and they would have to all-out defend one fortress that had a defense system on par with the other fortifications. Meanwhile, their defensive power was also divided into four directions of the fortress, so that if the troops attacked only one fortress with their full strength, they would have difficulty.

    “Tell the adventurers who are magicians to prepare themselves, choose the right attack to knock down the fortress” after saying so, he also immediately informed the old warriors of his plan to prepare themselves.

    The distance between the Veroan army and the fortress of Barrium City still takes about 30 minutes to make the old soldiers and adventurers who are experts in magic within the range of his attack. Quite a lot of them had long-range attack magic skills, about 30% of the total number of adventurers and 15% of the total soldiers. However, of course the attack plan will begin at night.

    “My lord, will you not order me or others to take care of the scouts of Barrium City?” Yuyue Wulan had previously asked regarding this after she sensed the presence of dozens of people who were hiding in several places around Barrium City. However, Veroa did not take issue with it and let the scouts observe them. No matter how good their strategy is, going against absolute power means nothing, that's how he thinks.

    Yuyue Wulan during this trip despite having the role of Veroa's personal bodyguard, she was not restrained from staying beside him. In fact, Veroa told her to mingle with the female adventurers or the female soldiers, so that she was unsaturated and had many friends as well. Moreover, someone who needed a strict escort was a weak person, whereas he was confident in his ability to protect himself. Well, as long as there was a need related to the current activities, the war, he would naturally report it first and return to control as usual before being told to mingle again.

[Meteorite stone]

[Wind missile]

[Bigbang flame stone]

    Various magic began to be cast by each person, with the ability to attack that has high destruction power to destroy the big wall in front of there. Of course, as security, everyone is protected by soldiers and adventurers who are experts in defense if at any time there are those who attack secretly.