The Rawyth Kingdom Capital city where the royal palace was located was less developed when compared to Arin's capital city, there were more beggars on the street and things like thievery was at higher rate. The peasants of the Kingdom of Rawyth were considerably less educated when compared to the peasants of Arin, the more educated of the peasant caste were the merchants of the kingdom.
The kingdom of Rawyth's development as a country did not have much in terms of planning for the peasants, the whole caste was not given an opportunity to better themselves, they were relegated to being the farmers and generally, the labourers. The kingdom it self was created in a period where mages were still believed to be gods and they themselves the mages got that same complex.
Thus the people who created the kingdom were more inclined not to care for the peasants, the kingdom of Arin had not been created when Rawyth was created thus Rawyth did not think otherwise when they developed their country the way they did.
However their beliefs were heavily challenged when Arin was being developed, the fact that the kingdom actually let peasants have an education was difficult for them to accept. However as Arin grew more prosperous and eventually passed Rawyth which created the current highly prosperous Arin and a comparatively less prosperous Rawyth.
The current king of Rawyth was relatively younger when compared to the kings of Ruhen and Arin, that is the reason the people in the north called him the Young King. The Young King had high ambitions, he wanted to make Rawyth as prosperous as Arin, he understood that the human resource of peasants could be used better like they did in Arin thus he wanted to change the way of life in Rawyth but his plans were being stopped at every chance.
The old noble families of Rawyth did not want to give up their power to the normal human peasants, they were just people who were like that, unlike the nobles of Arin who had started their country with the plans to better use peasants, Rawyth's nobles could not allow it. The intelligence of the mages of these noble families was high like other mages, but these people had very ingrained traditions, they too were inclined to keep the situation the same.
The Young King needed to increase his power so as to force his own ideals, these noble families with as much history as the royal family of Rawyth could not be underestimated. Thus the finding of the magic crystal lode by Edward Smith, a Rawyth mountain ranger, was an opportunity that could not be missed.
The fact that the finder of the magic crystal lode was a citizen of Rawyth already gave him the reason to enter into the so called righteous war with Arin for the possession of the magic crystal lode, all he needed to do was do war preparations.
But before they could start the war they could not give Arin a healthy breathing space, they must give Arin a hard time as they are still doing the preparation for a full scale assult.
"General Baumen, how is the probing of Arin at Edward's Crevasse?"
The man who asked had the question was a middle aged man with grey eyes and brown hair, the man had a deep voice that commanded attention. The man had broad shoulders and was very tall at 1.85m, it was very visible that he took his exercises very seriously. The man was not handsome by any stretch, but the man had male charm that covered his lack of handsome looks.
The man was the Young King of Rawyth Dietrich Benjamin Rawyth a tier 6 Arc Mage, the Young King seemed to respect the general that he was speaking to, unlike the king of Arin who called his generals by their first names.
"Your Majesty, we have been probing the mining camp as often as possible, apart from that we have been scouting the surrounding area around Edward's Crevasse."
The Young King just listened and did not comment yet
"We suffered some losses during a big attack on the camp, but those can be considered negligible because we used those forces to figure the forces that have been deployed at the mining camp."
The general that was speaking to the Young King did not really mind the deaths of her subordinates, the general was an older women when compared to the Young King, she looked around 40 years old and she was wearing her military mage uniform.
This general was tier 7 Arc Mage Edith Baumen, a top tier military general with great talent for strategy and tactics. The general was also the military's Ace when it came to battle as she was one of the special people who had a special affinity, she had had the Death Special affinity, so she was very dangerous, maybe more so than General Schneider.
The special affinity and military talent made her very valuable in the military of Rawyth, one thing that the general did not have was good looks, she was plain in her looks, however she had the disposition of a career woman so she was serious and calm most of the time, which gave her a special charm that men who liked more matured women liked very matured.
"Your Majesty to prevent Arin from getting ahead by producing a lot of magic crystals I had a lot of search parties to search for similar openings like Edwards Crevasse."
"General Baumen for you to come to me with this information means there have been some results."
The Young King could already see where the conversation was going.
"Yes Your Majesty, from what we have been able to discover is that the Edward's Crevasse lode is possibly one of many magic crystal lodes scattered around the Dralia mountain range. The patch that we found is Small lode when compared to Edward's Crevasse, which is a Very Large lode, ours can only be used to developed mages for a small amount of time until it gets finished."
"Those fellows from Arin are very lucky that a Very Large lode was found on their side of the Dralia mountain range. General Baumen continue to search for other lodes. In the meantime the pressure that is put on the mining camp must be increased, we must slow down their mining of the lode so that we can catch up on them."
"I understand Your Majesty, I know what to do."