General Baumen was very solemn as she said she understood to the Young King, and it was possible to sense that General Baumen was on a war path, she was talented in battle and war after all.
"It's good you understand. When can I expect the full mobilisation of the full military?"
The Young King glanced at another person in the room, this person was the king's seneschal.
"Your Majesty supplies are still being prepared, I expect the end of the war preparation to in 5 months."
The seneschal was a middle aged man, this man was clearly similar to the Young King in age, the man was rotund and looked like a merchant. The man had red short hair with hazel eyes, the man looked very professional in his formal seneschal clothing, the name of the man was James Hoffman, tier 5 mage. James was a very well mannered individual who gave the feeling of being a good friend all around, maybe it was because of his somewhat cute rotund body which gave him a special following of females some of which became his wives.
James and the Young King could be considered old friends, before the Young King took the throne from his father James and Dietrich were friends when they were young, James came from a small declining noble family. Dietrich got attracted to James talent in administration and with his talent in magic, so he felt he needed someone like him to support him, thus during the time in the royal academy the two became friends.
"Five months huh? What do you think General Baumen?"
"I don't think we should declare was just after the preparation, if we had not found the small magic crystal lode I would say we declare war immediately. Instead we should wait for the benefits of using the magic crystals to manifest before we enter war."
"Your Majesty what General Baumen says makes good sense, and I have a feeling the cunning king of Ruhen will send envoys and try to ally with us, that old snake will try and use us to lower the combat strength of Arin whilst he will come later to try to get the most benefits."
James the seneschal was advising the Young King, as he already knew of reports of the envoys of Ruhen coming to Rawyth.
"I understand James. General lets end the conversation here, James will plan the mining of the crystal lode."
General Baumen left the Young King with his seneschal to plan more schemes and plans.
A few days later the envoys of Ruhen arrived in Rawyth and had a conversation that was not known by anyone.
As the two kingdoms of Ruhen and Rawyth were scheming, the conflict in the Dralia mountain range was heating up.
"Joana watch out!!"
That was the voice of 1st Lt Michael Sergei as there was a tier 2 spell that was barrelling toward 1st Lt Joana Davidson at high speed, there spell looked like a giant black ball that just gave people dread when they saw it, it was tier 2 spell [Giant Darkness Ball].
The two lieutenants were involved in a battle near Edward's Crevasse, Rawyth had sent another attack force just recently after the previous attack force, and they were better prepared and it was possible to see that. The forces of Arin were getting pushed back, but the forces of Rawyth were not pushing them at a fast rate, as they mostly wanted to exhaust the Arin forces as a 1st priority.
There were bodies everywhere in the battlefield, there were bodies of mages, bodies of the regular forces and bodies of the miners, the miners were not spared from this attack. The bodies were all in different position and the way they died were mostly different, some were decapitated, some were burned and etc. Thus the battlefield was full of many body parts, arms, legs and bodies missing full torsos were all around, anyone not use to this type of situation would be vomiting.
Joana stepped on a body she retreated to cast a tier 2 defensive spell using her main element of Earth, [Earth Wall], a big wall several metres in length and height materialised in front of Joana.
The wall could barely hold as the it was corroded by the darkness elements, it was only because Joana used a defensive tier 2 magic ring, [Increased Magic Resistance], that the wall was able to save her.
The area around the [Earth Wall] was completely corroded and a big hole was left on the ground, some bodies on the battle field were also corroded into nothing.
'Michael I am still fine, I can hold on for a few seconds.'
Joana thought to herself as she could feel that she could not defeat this enemy, her opponent was a male with darkness affinity as a main affinity and it was clear that he used an offensive magic ring to bring the already destructive nature of darkness affinity to a new level.
'I need to retreat.'
Joana acted right afterwards as she casted tier 2 spell, [Whirlwind Steps] to try and get away, whilst she was escaping her also casted tier 1 spell [Wind Blade] to try and distract her enemy.
Joana's opponent was not an idiot, seeing that she was about escape, he casted tier 1 spell, [Water Shield] to shield himself from the [Wind Blade]. The man also casted tier 2 spell, [Water Wall] to try and prevent Joana from escaping.
'I have to save Joana or she won't make it.'
Michael thought to himself as he launched tier 1 spell, [Lighting Arrow] using his main element of Lighting at his opponent who was a female who responded by casting tier 1 spell, [Fireball] in response. Michael and his opponent were clearly using offensive magic rings because when the spells collided they cancelled each other and a big explosion occurred with the explosive force of multiple grenades exploding at the same time, soil and grass were removed by the explosive force.
'Damn I cannot disengage to save Joana, she is preventing me from disengaging. I am forcing my way out!'
With those thoughts Michael acted by casting tier 2 combination spell, [Fire Storm] the spell used Michael's secondary elements of fire and wind, a giant five wave materialised in front of Michael and barrelled towards his opponent, anything on its way was completely burnt, whether it was the bodies on the battlefield or anything could not survive the blaze.
That spell distracted the female opponent as she had to cast counter methods and that gave Michael a chance to cast tier 2 spell, [Lighting Flash] to get away. The spell was clearly faster than [Whirlwind Steps] because his opponent could not catch up after he managed to disengage and quickly approached the Joana's fight.
But he was too late because Joana's male opponent had just casted tier 2 combination spell, [Black Lighting Arrow], the spell used the elements of Darkness and Lighting.