The moment after the commencement of the battle, the enemy army marched forward. Nervousness was clearly visible in the faces of every soldier, it was very clear to them many were going to die today. Seeing this I frowned, 'Should I give them some motivational speech or something to pump what or what?' I thought before deciding not to as enemy archers were about to enter the range.
Since my archers were on greater height hence enemy was in our range before we were in theirs. "Archers Fire at will and frontline militia raise your shield", I immediately shouted following which they let a lose the first volley of arrows killing 50 enemy archers immediately, and with this first blood was drawn. Meanwhile, most of the enemy fire was absorbed by either shield of frontline militia or by themselves directly. After losing 250 archers enemy commander realized that he can not win this skirmish so he immediately ordered the infantry to charge forward along with cavalry on both flanks.
Seeing my frontline had already lost nearly half of their strength I gave a series of commands, "Frontline militia brace yourselves, sword and shield soldiers reinforce the frontline and 50 archers on both flanks focus on the enemy archers while the rest target soldiers without shields." What followed after this was the collision of both of our frontlines. Militias were already started to waver if It was not for the sword and shield soldiers reinforcing them they could have collapsed just after the first impact. Seeing enemy cavalry provoking both of our flanks I ordered them to be on guard and do not leave their positions, following which I told them to leave a gap between them for our archers to shoot them if they come in range.
The enemy being peppered by archers immediately lost 50 cavalries and retreated out of range. The battle was reaching a stalemate despite the enemy frontline having greater numbers because of our superior positioning of our archers.
'If this goes on despite winning I will not score higher in this trial', I thought. "Right flank cavalry, charge the cavalry to your side and try to hold them for a while and right flank shock Infantry charge the flank of enemy frontline". I shouted following which the 2 handed axemen on the right side charged like madmen on the enemy flank immediately putting them at disadvantage. One must know that in terms of charge damage shock Infantry are better than any other infantry unit. Seeing his army at a disadvantage enemy commander ordered his cavalry at the right flank to bind my cavalry of left flank with some of his own and rest to attack from behind our position.
Not wanting to lose this chance I shouted, "Heavy lancers charge through the cavalry coming towards you and then make a turn to the enemy backline." After waiting for so long when they got the order their blood boiled and they charged towards the incoming enemy like an arrow, supported by friendly light cavalry these heavy lancers tore through the enemy like a knife through butter and started going toward the remaining enemy archers and reserve troops in the backline. Seeing this I immediately ordered the remaining shock troops to charge following which the enemy infantry flanks starting to collapse. Meanwhile, heavy lancers reached the enemy backline and started harvesting them, and then they turned towards the backs of the enemy frontline. Seeing this enemy commander panicked and with 50 light cavalries charged to protect his frontline because if the frontline collapsed then the outcome will be decided.
"Everyone Charge!!!", I immediately shouted before charging myself after seeing The enemy commander this close. Chaos spread on the battlefield and I started throwing javelins like crazy hoping to get a lucky hit and fortunately, I do get lucky and my last javelin pierced his chest killing him on the spot. Silence spread throughout the battlefield, seeing their commander killed soldiers lost their will to fight and surrendered following which a voice sounded in my ears-
[Trial Ends]
[Battle time - 01:18:39 hours]
[Troops killed - 1244]
[Troops surrendered - 756]
[Score - 12500 points]
[Grade - A]
[Special Reward - Grand Shiv Temple (Building)]
'A grade, that's great, if I hadn't got that lucky hit I don't think I could have easily won the battle and got an A grade.' I pondered after seeing the results.
[Congratulations Aragorn, you had successfully completed the trial. Your grade had been transferred to your village and your points had been converted to gold. A one-time shop is available with various things required in starting the village.]
[Shop(+) *all items are at a special discount]
One must not forget that an A grade is the highest available grade for a territory unless you have special limited edition cabins. With such reward, I was like on cloud nine. 'Hehehe... with this I can be king of the world, I can have 100 women in my harem, I can have Jia as my queen, I can swim in the mountain of gold, and then I will forge a ring with Volcano fire, it will be most beautiful Ring, most precious...my preciousss!!!'... arhm, let's get back to the topic. So after this, I decided to check the shop which had everything a village needed starting from Items to Talents, Blueprints, Buildings, and even civilians. After going through everything I decided to purchase the following things -
[Master BlackSmith (A grade) - 1000 gold]
A blacksmith is always important and a master blacksmith can not only make better weapons but he can also teach more apprentices also improving their training speed. Since he is an A grade so he has the potential of becoming a Grandmaster.
[Master Tailor (A grade) - 1000 gold]
[Master Scholer (A grade) - 1000 gold] X 2
A master scholar can take apprentices to train them in his field of expertise, improves research rate, and can greatly reduce the time it takes for one to graduate from territory school/college.
[Master Builder (A grade) - 1000 gold]
A master builder can drastically improve the building speed, can supervise in building more complex structures, or can help to build simple structures more robust.
[Journeyman Hunter (B grade) - 500 gold] X 2
[Basic Light Cavalry (D grade) - 10 gold] X 100
[Advanced Trainer (A grade) - 1000 gold]
An advanced trainer can train troops in advanced formations or advanced weapon techniques. Reduce training time of novice or basic soldiers. Helps to raise Elite soldiers.
[Diamond Rank Civil Officer (A grade) - 1000 gold]
[Wooden City wall (Building) 1 X 1 km - 200 gold]
[Global Trade Platform(Building) - 200 gold]
[Basic General (C grade) - 200 gold]
[Library (Building) - 200 gold]
[Civilians (Randomn grade) - 1 gold] X 700
[Standred set of carts (Blue Print) - 50 gold]
[Master Herbalist/Doctor {A grade) - 1000 gold]
[Herb garden (Building) - 150 gold]
[Remaining - 800 gold]
With this settled, now it was time to choose territory name and location and with that, I will take my first step in becoming an Overlord.