"Rawyth finally declared war, that Young King sure took his time to get it done. I believe our preparation are also done?"
The person who was speaking was a lanky tall man, the man had long black hair and blue eyes, his hair had small bits of grey at the ends. The man was handsome with some wrinkles in his face, overall he looked liked a middle aged man. The man's blue eyes were very sharp, it seemed that he could see through anything, but the overall of the man was that he was an evil schemer of highest degree.
The lanky tall man was the Cunning King of Ruhen, his name was Rekya Arnold Ruhen tier 7 Arc Mage. The reason this man became king without there being even a competition for the throne was because when he was he was tested for his affinity when he was young, he was found to have a special affinity. The Cunning King had Life special affinity, it goes to show that personality does not have an fluence the affinity you are born with, as far as this world is concerned the whole thing is random.
The fact that Rekya was chosen to be next king did not mean he did not have any people who tried to challenge him, but it very difficult to fight a person who cannot be killed due to having the ability to heal/recover himself. The Cunning was not only talented because of having healing/recovery magic, the King had a certain collection of magic elements that allowed him to use a special type of magic. The King also had Water/Ice and Earth affinities as secondary affinities, the collection of Life special affinity, Light affinity and those two affinities allowed the King to use the so called Wood Magic.
Wood magic is magic that only a few can use in all of the Nuren Continent, there are just too many requirements to use it, but what mages say about magic still holds true, 'there is no strongest magic, only the strongest mage'.
"Yes Your Majesty, the preparation are done, we can enter the war at anytime."
The person who answered the King was the King's seneschal.
"Jurgen you can send our declaration as well, that should pressure the hearts of the soldiers of Arin, knowing that they are fighting two countries at the same time."
The seneschal of the Cunning King was a long time subordinate of the Cunning King, the moment the King was decided to being the next king, Jurgen Chalston was introduced to him as someone who would serve him for all of his life. Jurgen had also a fair amount of magic talent, thus the current Jurgen Chalston was a tier 6 Arc Mage, thus this individual was very powerful.
Jurgen and the Cunning King were some of the old bones that ruled the kingdom of Ruhen.
"Jurgen also summon Gunter."
"I will get it done, your Majesty."
However, before Jurgen could do anything, someone came to the throne room to announce the entrance of a person.
"Here enters the General of the military, General Gunter."
When the Cunning King and Jurgen heard that the person they wanted to summon was already here, they simply glanced at each other, and said nothing.
The person who entered was a moderately beautiful women with a height of 1.6m, which made look quite petite. The woman looked around 30 years old with auburn hair that reached her back, she had black eyes that were seemed to pull the soul. The woman had a cunning smile on her face, there was also a scheming look that was prevalent on her face. This woman who had a similar disposition to the Cunning King was General Lisa Gunter, tier 7 Arc Mage, she had a similar position to General Baumen and General Schneider, in that she was the overall leader of the military.
General Lisa Gunter might look like a 30 years old women, however she was from the Cunning King's generation, which meant that she was very old. Without the use of magic crystals a person would reach tier 5 in their magic tier when they are close to 200 years, so this tier 7 Arc Mage was definitely old.
The reason she looked like a 30 years old was because there was a tier 7 Arc Mage who had Life special affinity, which was the Cunning King.
As much as Rekya Arnold Ruhen could be considered to be cunning and treacherous, he was still a high tier mage with high intelligence, thus he understood that if he wants his rule to be stable he needs supporters. The Cunning King rewards his supporters with increased vitality and life span using his magic, life magic at higher tiers does have the effect of increasing vitality leading to people looking younger and have increased life spans. The result of this is that most of his subordinates look around 30 years old, which is kind of weird because most of these individuals are higher tier mages who are older.
Though the people around him don't understand the reason he keeps grey hair and a bit of wrinkles on himself, most of the time he just says it's a preference thing, at least Jurgen also chose to look to have a similar age to the Cunning King, middle age.
"Gunter it looks like you also got the news of the declaration of war by Rawyth?"
"Yes I did Your Majesty. I believe our declaration will be sent out correct?"
"That is correct, when the fighting starts, I want you to wait before attacking, I want Rawyth and Arin to reduce each other's numbers, they gained too many benefits due to the magic crystals, I want those benefits to be reduce before we attack."
"Your Majesty that will make Rawyth to be cautious about us, we did plan to attack Arin together. I am sure the Young King is already very guarded against us."
"This was always a three horse race, we have to think about the situation when one horse can no longer run, I want to immediately remove Rawyth after Arin is removed."
"I understand Your Majesty."
"To quickly get rid of them, I will allow you to use the special battalion."
"Oh… Really…"
General Gunter had a smile on her face, her smile could just make a person feel uncomfortable, even Jurgen also glanced at the king, this battalion must be very special.
General Lisa Gunter might look like she was harmless with her petite body, but she is arguably the most offensive person amongst the tier 7 Arc Mages of the countries involved in the war of Edward's Crevasse. The general had three of the four most offensive elements as her three elements, the General had Fire affinity as her main element with Darkness and Lighting as her secondary elements. The General was only missing Light to have all the high offensive elements, the General used the correct Magic Rings to become one of the people with high offensive power.
The General left after getting her orders.
"How is the search for a magic crystal lode Jurgen?"
"Nothing so far, Your Majesty."
"Any news on the empire?"
"Nothing so far Your Majesty, the empire is not looking North at the moment. Intel says that the empire is engaged in a big conflict with its neighbour."
It seems that even the Cunning King was very careful when it came to the empire.
This empire must be very special.