369 SUPREME CONSIDERATION IS SPEED

Is it not the throne a seat of thorns? Who would want to sit in such a throne?

This all plays out like this, always.

it did not only happen in war. It also happens in other situations in life.

There are many disadvantages of being first of taking the crown of Veranis in the current situation.

For other generals, if they raise the banner of wanting to oust an illegitimate heir to the throne, putting himself on the right cause, possessing the higher moral ground, he would then easily take the throne later. 

And the rule and order of such a person is also would likely be more stable than the one who come first

Such a person also has the advantage of waiting it out as the conflict between the forces that take the capital and the Vanheim forces to clash with each other and swoop down at the last minutes when both forces are tired and exhausted.

With this, it is easy to see that being first is not necessarily a good thing. 

And every general that have an ambition to be King all knows this. Yet, at the same time, this is what Aero is hoping for. 

Let them wait. 

Let them think over. 

Be cautious.

Think more.

Nobody wanted to be the first and as such, the general that wanted to stabilize the situation would also be cautious and they wait. 

And the longer they wait, the more momentum Vanheim forces would accumulate.

The answer is speed.

The use of speed in this situation would bring untold power. 

Striking first, before your opponents have time to think or prepare, will make them emotional, unbalanced, and prone to error. 

And when he follows that with another swift and sudden maneuver, he will induce further panic and confusion. 

Hit with unrelenting force.

Acting with speed and decisiveness will garner his army respect, awe, and irresistible momentum.

War is such that the supreme consideration is speed. 

This is to take advantage of what is beyond the reach of the enemy, to go by way of routes where he least expects you, and to attack where he has made no preparations.

By the time they figure out what he wanted to do, they would be too late. 

Aero also put in the letter for Kyle and Quentin to negotiate with the ruling leader of any of the cities that they wanted to bring down before unleashing the army of Vanheim upon them

Aero predicted that many would surrender their city instead of facing the might of the Vanheim army.

In the absence of central authority from the Capital, this task would be easy. Of course there is other factors that would surely made these cities leader to open their gates and welcome them instead of fighting them.

When that happens and the news arrives at Veranis, more city leaders would open their cities and accept Vanheim occupation.

He also put out a reminder in the notes that he had written in the parchment

Vanheim must not act like uncivilized barbarian killing and pillaging all the way. It must maintain the high moral ground that they have secured. 

Alexander had broken an oath witnessed by the Gods and to prevent such thing ever happening again, Vanheim had no choice but to subjugate Veranis.

Of course, Vanheim would not meddle too much in the administration if they surrender and those who surrender would be heavily rewarded. 

Aero find no pleasure of burning down cities and massacring innocent people.

As for those who surrender, there is nothing wrong with giving them some reward since the reward would entice more people to surrender. 

Aero believes that not many actually supported King Alexander decision to attack Vanheim.

Of course, normal people could not understand the ambition of Alexander and his conviction that Vanheim would swallow them sooner or later. 

But Aero would not be the one that would tell this truth to the people of Veranis. 

Instead he would paint a picture to the world that Alexander had broken the hearts of the people of Vanheim who had always treated Veranis well and had never ever had any intention to bring harm to Veranis. 

But with Alexander act of declaring war, Vanheim could no longer trust any words that come from Veranis and there is no other choice than to control Veranis completely so that such events that could threaten the stability of Vanheim would never happen again.

Aero shake his head as he shakes the thought out of his mind. He closes the fabric entrance of his tent and then look at his skill 

His Demonic Devil Energy Drain is already at superior rank 

This skill had always been useful to him., In the battle before he had uses it many times to replenish his own energy.

This is also one of Lizhu Gerard skill. He smiles a bit and then just shakes his head

He then checks the other skill which is Analyze. It is at adept rank. 

This skill is also use by him a lot. 

Overtime he was in a battle, as long as their attack or skill is below the rank of Adept, his eyes could easily analyze the weakness of their attack and the weak point of their movements.

Even though he had the powerful body after having been dipped into the River Styx, he still finds this skill useful

It also made him able to predict the trajectory of one attack. After a while, it has become instinctive of him to analyze the attack of his enemies.

He uses nine points to raise his Analyze skill to superior rank. He then read the new description of the skill

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ANALYZE (IV) SUPERIOR RANK

With this skill you could Analyze unknown object from this world and gain assistance from the Heavens to analyze its origins and name. As you have now reached the superior ranks in this skill, you could easily see through feint movement by your enemies and you could also analyze the weakness of your enemy attack

At the Superior rank, you could analyze the weakness of any skill or weapon below your rank

-Need to undergo a destiny fated quest to gain the opportunity to reach the Master rank

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Aero just nodded at the description of the skill and look at the other skill that is still not yet being ranked up.

He smiles after seeing the next skill on the list. It is none other than Sacred Sword Finger.

He also uses this skill a lot in battle. It had many uses and is not simply an energy skill. It is very flexible and very easy to use.

When he shoots the energy from his finger, it is like using a blade to cut. 

He has ten fingers. He could shoot it from all of his fingers and this kind of skill is like having ten mobile swords for him to use

There is nothing more advantageous. He could be slashing a person with Heaven sword in one hand and his finger on his other hands could shoot sword energy.

Of course, with the current rank he could not imbue that sword energy that shoots out into his attack. If he could use it and imbue it in any of his other attacks, it would even be more powerful

From what he had understood Lizhu Gerard is an expert in the sword art. And each of his move possess some understanding of the sword.

While Aero did not seek such expertise in the sword, it did not mean he did not want to possess such power.

He uses nine skill points to raise the skill to superior rank and then he opened the status window of the skill

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