Chapter 178 - Deployment

After what seemed to be hours of just drinking tea and and eating biscuits, everyone in the room which Julius was in looked exhausted from simply talking so much.

"King Julius, I must ask though. Do you not feel that it is time to attack the enemy? If we manage to start moving our troops right now, we'll be able to reach at least one of the great kingdoms in a single week. In doing so, we can eliminate each one of them one by one," Ian offered.

"I see what you're saying. However I've changed how I would like to do things. I would prefer it if we all just attacked each one of the great kingdom rulers on our own. With all of us here, that would make for eight people right?" Julius asked as he counted Ian, Liam, Spike, Steph, Rosie, Dae, Knight, along with himself.

"Yes but there are 9 kings and queens. That would still leave one more ruler open to be attack," Ian argued.

"Fear not, one of the queens of the great kingdoms has already been killed. That would only leave 8 kings and queens remaining. If we all take 1 ruler of a great kingdom each, we'll be able to come out of this war victorious as he would have defeated all of their leaders. Without a leader, an army is as good as dead," Julius explained.

"What about the captains, vice captains, remaining army members along with other strong individuals who are willing to take the role of leader?" Ian argued back.

"You do make a good point there. The best thing to do for now is to just send out the army of the undead that we already have here. By the time a new leader steps up to lead the armies of our enemies, we will have an army of our own which will guarantee our victory," Julius replied with a confidant smile.

"I guess you really do think quickly when it comes to battle. Although that would only be expected seeing as you've trained for so long and gained experience through countless battles. I would only expect the best from my king," said Ian.

"So now that you've decided to attack the kingdoms right now, when shall we take our leave?" Spike asked Julius.

"Hmm, how about right now? Unless you are all busy with stuff that you have to do. If that's the case, we can just reschedule the attack for another date," Julius said in a nonchalant tone.

"No! Anyone who would make the king wait so that they could accomplish their own selfish desires deserve nothing less than death as punishment! We shall move out as of this moment!" Spike yelled out filled with determination.

"Like I said before, there's no need to go all out with your formal speeches. We're friends after all," Julius said as his hands began to sweat from the awkwardness in the room after he had said those words.

"F-Friends?"

"You really consider us your friends?" All of them asked Julius at the same time from feeling surprised however Julius took it the wrong way.

"Uh- was I not supposed to consider you my friends? I mean after all we've known each other for a pretty long time and after everything you've done for me, there's no way I couldn't see you as my friends," Julius said which brought everyone in the room to tears except for Stevan of course.

"Come on, stop it with the crying. We have a war to go into. You wouldn't want your enemies to see you in this pathetic state, would you?" Julius asked them a rhetorical question to which they all shook their heads in disagreements they wipes away their tears and headed outside the castle so that they could move out.

After going outside, both Dae and Knight closed their eyes as they informed all of their undead soldiers to start moving out and head towards the 9 kingdoms so that they could take care of the small fry.

Seeing that his very own undead army had began to make its move, Julius smiled before he began to cast multiple secret arts being the same one.

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After summoning a ruby dragon for each member in his army which were the subjects or better known as the sector leaders, all of them began to leap on top of their respective dragons.

"So how are we exactly to drive these dragons?" Stevan asked he got on one of the dragons which wasn't for him.

"Stevan, you're not supposed to come with us to the main battle. I would be better for you to lead the undead army instead," said Julius as he wanted Stevan to get off the ruby dragon so that Knight could hop on it.

"Huh? What do you mean I'm not supposed to come with you guys?! I'm arguably the strongest person out of everyone here except for you," said Stevan as he complained about Julius' decision.

"Even if you may have the strength, you're much too reckless in battle. You enjoy to focus only on attacking and often can't defend yourself. That makes too risky for us to take you with us," Julius explained hoping that Stevan wouldn't throw a temper tantrum.

"Come on! I promise to take this seriously! I'll do everything in my power to help you out, just please let me enjoy the right of being in the battle! I haven't fought anyone or anything in so long. I feel like I'm starting to lose myself," Stevan pleaded as he begged to be allows you fight along side Julius.

"Fine! But you mess even a single thing up, I'll be forced to remove you from the front lines," Julius finally gave in.

"Knight, do you mind if Stevan takes your spot in the battle?" Julius asked to which Knight humbly shock his head to indicate that he didn't mind at all.