Chapter 198 - Green hat.

When it comes to travelling on foot, it averagely takes 7-10 days to tackle a distance of 100 Kilometers. Travelling with a Horse takes 2-4 days less depending on the overall Cargo and how many people are travelling, be it alone or be it in a bundle. But what about flying using one's Fire Controlling abilities as an aid? It doesn't require any physical strength, but it's solely based on Stamina instead, which gives advantages in some other aspects but also leaves the Fire Controllers Vulnerable to some other dangers, for example being spotted by an enemy or the weather can prove quite troublesome too.

The main advantage with this sort of flying is travel speed as you might have already figured it out by yourself. it's nearly 90% faster compared to travelling with a Horse. However, everything good comes with at least a handful of negative traits. It has some disadvantages, like for example Eric can't fly at full speed for an extended period of time without wasting all of his Stamina in less than 20 minutes, which after would require at least 3 hours to fully replenish. Being stock in the wild without the energy to lift an arm up, can turn out for the worse in a blink of an eye. Waiting for his Stamina to replenish however, is the lightest aftermath.

It would be dangerous on another level, if he was going full speed way above the ground and ran out of stamina. The impact with the ground would leave him with internal and external damage as a nice little gift. Plus, rolling for tens of meters through the ground due to massive friction(Which would cause a strong shift of momentum.) Would break quite a few bones too. Even the greatest healers of Zameria wouldn't be able to do him any good.

To clarify, Eric did start flying at full speed first until Mogranius caught up with him and yelled for Eric to slow down, catching up with an Electus was more than tricky though. It took half of Mogranius' stamina and then they both had to fly at a slow low consuming speed. After that little tweak on his speed, they extended their flight into an hour long without risking any massive stamina loss.

After an hour of flight, they would land on the ground carefully and take a good half hour break without aims of sleeping that would be a bad idea in so many aspects. If they felt like they required more than half an hour, they would stay more in order to be as ready as possible for this tremendously important journey.

To aid their stamina replenish, Sitting on the most comfortable or dry rocks they could find is a good idea. If they couldn't find dry ones, they put their powers into use. Mogranius prefered to sit on wood, so he tried to dry one up. Only to forget that wood is flammable, luckily he was capable to shut the Fire down, it was a level three power move. I suppose Sleep deprivation tends to make both of them forget some basic facts.

If they felt like their Stamina is close to completely replenishing, they would stand up and walk slowly in order to cover a few hundred more meters without losing all of their energy. It might sound like a small contribution to this task compared to how much Kilometers they can cover while on the air, but once bundled up it can still equal to a few Kilometers.

They continued with this technique back and forth for a few times until they parted ways once Pameres Kingdom was just a couple of Kilometers away, seeing local landmarks helped define where they are but their map also came in handy too. Reading a map can be difficult but only if one doesn't acknowledge obvious landmarks.

One landmark which isn't too easy to forget, is the Forest closing in towards the road they took (To clarify, there are three main roads. One leads near the forest and is an alternative way to Green Kingdom primarily. The middle road leads towards Silver Kingdom primarily but as established, Green Kingdom is nearby too. This is the road they took. And the road at the very top leads to upper portions of the Country. Such as Gravel Kingdom, Red Clay Kingdom, Beach Bay Kingdom and even directly leads to Dragon's Flame Kingdom.).

Pameres Kingdom is roughly a kilometer away from a branch of this large forest, that branch almost shaped like the letter "C" helped them know where they are a bit better. It helped them find where the three main roads part, which signified how close Pameres Kingdom is.

As for the Travel time, it took them a bit over 5 hours to arrive. They crossed a land of 80 Kilometers for 5 hours! This can define how easy travelling was over 200 years ago before this war began! For a King back then, it would be like having tens of extremely fast messenger birds.

It is Eric's responsibility to alert King Michael and King Zar of the upcoming danger, and it is Mogranius portion of the task to go alert BaleTown in order to get every possible Guard here at Pameres Kingdom before trouble rises over the Horizon. They need to be quick and agile, because for once more time isn't by their side. The opposing Army will take their time to recover from that blinding night attack, but they are still just 80 Kilometers away while Gaster Kingdom and even BaleTown is 100 Kilometers away from Pameres Kingdom. If Pameres Kingdom is lucky enough, the two Platoons might arrive mid battle.

When Eric dashed into King Zar's Throne room at the break of dawn, he found no one there, obviously. So he had to cross his desired limits in order to alert everyone. He had to yell! And just when he started to get the Demon of Rage under his control too. What a pity. 

"Wake up! Where are the Guards? I need King Zar down here now!" Eric screamed from the top of his lungs, but the Guards took a couple of minutes to surround the Throne room, a good portion of them were likely holding a shift around the loyal bedrooms. King Zar has so many enemies now that he opposed the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance, he can't risk being off Guard.

Another reason why it took awhile for people to notice Eric, is because there aren't many homeless people left in the Castle. Most acquired their own house and likely obtained a job thanks to the newly opened businesses. The opportunities were available for both of the Genders, which will surely help boost the economy in many aspects and free the Castle Rooms too.

Anyway, getting back to the point. When the Guards walked down they thought that the Caste is under attack! Even raising their Swords in wishes of slashing Eric in two pieces, more than half of them didn't recognize him! Luckily a couple of Guards arrived who remembered his face, well more like his coal dark hair. Maybe it was a unique sight? "Electus! What's the meaning of this panic?" At least the Guard didn't make it all about ego, such as saying. "Why do you disturb the Royal Castle?"

"Wake King Zar up and bring him down here. There is an entire damn Army coming to conquer Pameres Kingdom!" The Guard didn't like the sound of such an issue at all, his knees felt weak and his stomach tied into a Knot. Not because he fears to put himself in battle, but because Pameres Kingdom doesn't have enough Guards here to defend the Kingdom. They can quite possibly lose this battle! He didn't say a thing and dashed upstairs right away seeking the King. 

Knock knock knock! "Sire wake up!" Knocked the Guard on the door, almost crushing it's wooden form even. One would think that the world is ending if they woke up to such vicious door banging.

"What what what! This better be important." King Zar was heard complaining from the other side, stomping his way towards the bedroom door. He walked out, dressed with a green robe and a cute little green night hat too. Throughout this chaos it almost made the Guard laugh but he feared the consequences.

"The Electus is waiting in the Throne room, he claims that an Army is coming to invade us!" To such an explanation, King Zar's eyes opened up in shock. As if cold water was splashed on his face against his will!

"Tell him to wait, I'll be there in a short moment!" Of course a Kingly figure like him, can't walk down with night clothing if he has a few minutes to change.

He didn't take too much time dressing, he just put up some brown breechers, a black shirt and his chest armour too. "I hope you didn't come all the way here from Silver Kingdom to crack a joke Eric." Spoke out King Zar as he was tip toeing his way down the stairs.

Such an expression got Eric irritated a bit, he is sleep deprived and there is a developing headache right in the middle of this forehead thanks to it and this entire situation. Furthermore, he is battling a Level 3 Inner Demon of Rage! There are many odds against him, he could snap at any moment for the smallest tiniest reason, especially over such an expression. "Why would I catch a damn cold from all of the travel I went through just to make a Joke. What am I? Stupid?"

"My apologies then. Tell me what you saw in more detail!" Asked King Zar once he noticed how serious this situation really is.

"A large army, possibly over 600 men is marching down towards this Kingdom! I doubt that they are here for good because they either came from Red Clay Kingdom or Crutal Kingdom. And we know that only one Domain here can send down so many Soldiers, we know his reason too!"

"Shit." Answered King Zar and swiftly added after. "This is bad, really bad 1/3 of our Platoon is in BaleTown. We could use them here more than ever!"

"I know, Mogranius is on the way there. If we are lucky, they will arrive in time. Isabel is fetching 51 Guards from Lan Zhe and I need to go to Gaster Kingdom now." With this explanation, Eric was trying to convince himself that this battle will work to their favour. If it doesn't, the entire revolution will crumble into dust.

"Wow you two already went into action." King Zar is pleased, it isn't easy to set everything up from here with resources limited but the Ignites found a way.

"Well there is no time to waste, they are only 80 Kilometers away. Me and Mogranius caused a bit of Havoc to the army last night with what was planned as a sneak attack. He burned their food supply too, so that might work to our advantage."