Chapter 83: Preparation

Chapter 83: Preparation

"You know the location of the kingdom of Milana, right, Leal? How long do you think before they reach us?"

"If they are traveling on foot and if we are going to consider the amount of break they will take to not exhaust all of their personnel before arriving here. More or less than a month, and I would say, it's more than enough time for us to prepare for the incoming battle."

I nodded. "I see."

"For now, I would suggest that we should stop the current revision of the town, and focus on making weapons and armors for our forces. Although we still have enough as of now, a reserve of them will be much needed." Tanya suggested.

"Right, armors and weapons, we need those. However, we still haven't announced to the citizens that a war will start soon. We don't even know how many personnel we have that would willingly fight against a legion."

"Anyone who can fight will join. Don't forget that we were fighting for this place all those seven years of war, if you who are new to this place are willing to fight, so will the people who were living in this place for longer." She crossed her legs and flattened the skirt of her gothic dress by putting her hands on her knees. "Especially now that this place is much more worth fighting for than before."

"That's good to hear."

"Mister Casimir, I will notify all the blacksmiths to produce the best quality weapons and armors right away!" Karoon said.

I smiled and nodded at her. "Yes, that would be a great help." I sat on the wooden chair. "Now, we need at least a concept of how we could fight back against them. As much as possible, I don't want them to reach the town and destroy things."

"I have a thought." Leal raised his hand.

"Yes, what do you think, Leal?"

Leal is really active in this meeting today. Usually, he tends to keep his silence and just nod at everything.

"It's just speculation, but if the kingdom of Milana have done their proper investigations on us, which I am assuming they did. It's probable that they already know that there are only 2 of us that can demolish those flying destroyers, 3 if a certain someone finally decided to use his wings. Then, if that's the case, I think it only means the Hive mind legion's sole purpose is to eliminate those threats before releasing the Zeppelin bombardment force. That also implies that as long as those threats are still around, the Zeppelin bombardment force will not make a move, unless they want to get destroyed."

"That makes a lot of sense."

As expected, the citizens were very surprised, which was understandable, because I almost jumped out too when Tanya told me about it.

I looked up to the starry sky as I exhaled while leaning my back on the metal chair. I was currently sitting at the backside of the mansion.

"You are still awake."

As I turned my gaze, I found Tanya standing a meter away from me. "Yeah."

She turned her gaze to the person sitting at the other side of the tea-table. "She fell asleep."

I stared at Misha currently sleeping while her head was over her hand over the tea table. Next to her was her empty teacup. "Yeah, when she heard the news, she never left me alone since then."

I stood up and carried Misha in my arms. I heard her groan and put her hand on my shoulder. "Big bro Casimir."

"She's just concerned about you."

I nodded. "I know. Anyway, I will go now." I proceeded to walk towards the door of the back part of the mansion.

"Even you, you seem very worried about this incoming war."

I stopped. "This is the very first war I am going to participate in and to make it better, technically, I am the Commander of our entire force. I would be lying if I said that I am not worried."

"Don't fret, if everything goes worse, I will be there for you. I always will. Just keep in mind that you can always count on me."

I looked at her, her beautiful face was hidden in the darkness, but it couldn't hide the assured smile she was conveying as she stared back at me.

"Thanks. That's a very assuring word to hear, Tanya."