Alex felt that the whole world was spinning around him after hearing the maid's words.
He had just woken up after taking a nap and the war started.
'What was going on here?'
'Did the Amidon start the war so quickly?' Alex muttered inwardly with a confused expression.
"When did the war start?"
"No, before that tell me for how many days I was unconscious? Was it one day or more" Alex asked with a panicked expression.
"Majesty, you have been unconscious for two and half days." The maid replied giving a gentle nod but as soon as he raised her head she flinched back a little seeing Alex's dead expression.
"I have been unconscious for two and half days," Alex muttered with disbelief and felt guilty thinking that he had left everything to Christina while he was asleep.
'While I was sleeping, Christina must be under deep pressure and had to take my place to carry the plans.'
'I am an idiot. Trash!!'Alex muttered while clenching his fist tightly.
[Host, that's the reason I forbid you from doing that spell. Though you also profited from the spell and you have broken through to Mid Master rank but I don't think this was worthwhile in this kind of situation.]
'No, it was necessary as there are many Epic ranks on the other side. He needs to have some cards.'
Alex shook away the system nagging and looked at the maid and asked"What about the forces of Nevan?Did they arrive?"
"Your Majesty, Lady Christina had left two days ago and the forces of Nevan instead of coming here directly went towards the frontlines."
"And there was a person named Ben who came here with the information of some things but left after giving the details."
"And there is also a lion that was brought by that person."
Alex raised his brows and asked for Leo while he went toward the room to open the map.
...
"It would take one and half days for me to get there if I move through the horse but if I use the flight spell, I can reach there in four hours but that would exhaust all my mana," Alex muttered while rubbing his chin.
He read the letter Ben had left for him and was quite satisfied with Nevan's progress.
Riya had taken good care of Nevan in his absence.
'She had suffered a bit.'
'No, all my wives had suffered.'Alex muttered with a melancholic tone.
He shook away those negative thoughts and started to think about the things he had to do.
Flight spells take three mana per minute and to reach the place, it would require him to squeeze all his mana reserves.
As Alex fell into deep thought, he heard a roar.
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The roar snapped Alex out of his thoughts and he looked around to see a large lion jumping on him.
"Leo is that you," Alex shouted with a surprised expression.
Leo had grown up quite a beat and had already reached mid-disciple rank.
"How the hell did you reach disciple rank so easily?" Alex asked curiously while rubbing his fur.
Roar!!!Roar!!
[Leo, is talented and genius unlike you.]
Alex raised his brows as he understood a bit what Leo was saying due to the bond.
'Bond!!! I see, my breakthrough must have given Leo a boost.'
Alex, who was rubbing Leo's thick fur, suddenly stopped and stared at Leo intensely, making him flinch a little.
"Leo is in disciple rank now. He is surely faster and better than the war horses. I can use him to transverse half the distance and then use a flight spell."
"With this, I can reach the place within 12-16 hours."
"Yes, I can do this," Alex shouted, giving a gentle smile which shook Leo for a moment.
"Hahaha!!"
"Leo, I didn't raise you in vain. It's time for you to do something good for this Lord."
..........
While Alex began his journey, on the frontline of the battlefield.
The great blue expense of the sky was contaminated by a single black cloud that rose from the dried-up and parched ground.
Besides the great dark rising cloud, the open sky meets with the scorched earth from all directions which had been set on fire.
The land was strewn with dead bodies, bodies of the defeated army who had been beaten pathetically and some even had their face disfigured while some had their head rolling on the ground only to be crushed by another stomp of the soldiers and turned into a bloody mess.
Crows and vultures seem to be attracted by the bloody mess and gather around rotten-smelling food that lay around and come in groups to enjoy the feast.
Some gathered around and took the reusable weapons and looted the corpse without caring about the blood and amputated limbs and the stench of death that lingered all around.
Arrows were zipping and hissing through the air while some of the men were sobbing and snivelling in fear.
Swords and shields were ringing against each other creating a sonorous melody of death.
On a certain pile of corpses, a figure stood with dishevelling long golden hair.
Her chest rose and fell as she took deep heavy breathing, tiredness can be seen on her face along with a pained expression.
Her eyes twitched and she swung her sword with all her might as she felt a sneak attack coming for her head.
CLANG!!!
Two swords collided and a loud blast shook the place while a figure was blown away by the impact and crashed on the ground spurting a mouth filled with blood.
The body was dragged on the ground leaving a bloody trail along with the pieces of armour left that broke off and fell due to the impact.
A figure suddenly materialised and he swung his sword quite apathetically.
A blade of sword emerged from his sword which descended on the ground and killed many in an instant.
Some soldiers who saw Christina getting injured ran towards her trying to help her but their body was decimated into pieces just by a single swing on the man's swords followed by loud mocking laughter.
"I have heard much about Lady Christina's valour."
"But it didn't seem too much. It seemed that everything was rumoured that had been made up "The man spoke with a large grin on his face.
Getting up with trembling legs, Christina wiped off the blood from her lips and looked at the figure that blew her away like a ragdoll with a single blow.
Christina's expression stiffened as he saw the figure whose strength seemed to be around Epic rank but was not in the Epic rank at the same time.
"Pseudo Epic rank!" Christina muttered faintly as he remembered Alex's words.
Both Mordek and Longard were taking care of the East and West sides where Epic rank warriors of Amidon seemed to have been spotted but now another one popped out here.
"Lady Christina, seeing you getting like this hurt hurts my heart and soul."
"A beautiful lady shouldn't be on the battlefield."
"Women should just stay at home and take care of the household, produce babies and serve men."
"Battlefield is for man while beautiful flowers like you shouldn't participate."
Hearing the snickering words, the image of the certain man appeared in her mind where, unlike others who scrutinised her, he respected her choices.
Even though the time she had spent with him was short, it was still quite peaceful and heartwarming.
Her blood started to boil on hearing the words of such a narrow-minded person.
Pointing her blade towards the enemy with eyes filled with resolution and coldness, Christina spoke.
"Most women are born to raise a family, grow up, give birth to children and nourish them while taking care of the households and serve their husbands and do the duties of a woman or in other become a nun if widowed, to spread the word of Holiness and preach morality."
"But there are some who are born differently and when these kinds of women, instead of living their life like a flower, are cast out into fires to face the harsh life, they don't break under the intense pressure rather they become hard and sharp-edged tempered weapons."
"I finally found out in that particular morning of chaos that, despite being ostracised by the people for a major chunk of my life, I was a woman, who was born to fight."
"Just like he said, I was a flower who was destined to bloom to its fullest amidst the bodies of the dead and the river of red."
A smile that was capable of melting anyone, even those who had the heart of rock bloomed on Christina's face silencing everyone on the battlefield who looked down on women.
"Today, I shall teach you just how fierce women are."
