General Schneider was smiling because he too believed Captain Hans Ignocia deserved to be rewarded, and the fact that the Captain could be role a model of other military people under him. There was a collective sigh from the people in the throne room and some bit of jealousy from other people.
Most of the people believed that under those difficult circumstances, Captain Hans Ignocia made the best decision, thus they did not want to have such an individual punished by a King most believed was tired of his job.
"Can the commander be saved?"
The Tired King continued with his questions.
"Yes Your Majesty. I have summoned Gilbert Winter to come and heal her."
This person called Gilbert Winter was a tier 5 life special affinity mage under the military, under the military he was the one with the highest magic tier. The royal family had a tier 6 life special affinity Arc Mage, some rumours said they had more than one of such people.
"Karl, do you think she is able to command the forces again when we go back and take back what's our?"
The Tired King's statement had a lot of information, it supported the idea that Arin might have been defeated in the previous battle, but they had not lost the war and they would still contest for the crystal lode again.
The forces of Arin might have lost a lot of forces during the battle, however Arin had reinforcements that were supposed to come and help them when Ruhen finally came to war.
However those reinforcements never managed to come and help because the forces of Arin were blitzed by the special battalion and never had a chance to deploy these reinforcements.
In the mage side, the forces that were used mainly consisted of military mages, from the Mage Army. The mages that are not part of the military were not recruited before to enter the battle.
These mages mainly consisted of mages who learned mage craft in academies not run by the military, like the royal academy, thus Arin still had forces, and in the previous battle they had not used their trump cards like the special battalion of Ruhen.
"Your Majesty I believe she can."
General Schneider chose to support Major Alexandria Wells.
"Then when she recovers she will continue to lead the forces in the Dralia Mountain Range War Campaign."
The Tired King turned towards to another of the military Generals of Arin, General Ingrid Wagner.
"Ingrid, the forces of our Arin lost due to this so called special battalion. I was informed that you were responsible for cracking their method of continuous casting of tier 2 combination spells. You must have the report of the casualties that were created to kill the individuals of this special battalion. Tell me you have cracked their method."
The Tired King might look tired but he still loved this country and its citizens and the way the people died to manage to kill the special battalion made him angry.
"Yes Your Majesty, General Witfield and myself had managed to figure a way to deal with them."
General Wagner spoke with confidence, the fact that she was slow in cracking the method of the special battalion allowed the mining camp to be taken by Arin.
"The special battalion uses the magic rings of their mages in a special way, they engrave parts of greater magic ring design on the magic rings on the members of the special battalion."
There were surprised faces in the throne room, such an idea was something new in this world of magic, or at least it was the first time being heard off in this continent.
The magic ring was always the personal proper of its owner and could not be shared, the fact that these people were sharing magic rings was shocking. The Tired King had a light in his eyes when he had that as well.
"From what we have investigated, the members of the special battalion are recruited when they are young and had not become mages. When they are progressing in their magic tiers parts of this greater magic ring that specialises in combination spells is engraved in their magic rings."
General Wagner continued with her explanation.
"Who is the designer of such brilliant but deadly method?"
The one who asked the question was a noble from some of the smaller noble families.
"The designer has been investigated and found to be a tier 4 mage called Gavin Vermont. The method might brilliant and deadly but it is costly, continuous casting of combination spells slowly destroys the magic channels of the members of the special battalion. The bodies that were brought back by the retreated forces all showed heavy deterioration of the magic channels. These people's journey in magic was ending very soon"
General Wagner answered the noble.
There were surprised looks on everyone's face when they heard that, the fact that such a method was used is very shocking.
The matter was a simple pros and cons situation, do you waste 100 mage talents by making them normal mages or do you make them into a powerful trump card that can kill thousands of people, even if they will need to retire afterwards.
The kingdom of Ruhen chose to make them into a trump card, that clearly is more powerful that 100 normal mages as clearly seen in the previous battle.
Any country would make a similar choice if given a chance to get such a powerful trump card, even Arin. Most people in the throne room thought of the pros and cons of such a method, and afterwards thought if it is possible to get the method Ruhen made the special battalion.
The name of Gavin Vermont would be famous in the Nuren Continent.
"The most obvious weak point of the special battalion is their tier 3 mages."
That statement pulled the people from their thoughts of trying to find a method to get the method of creating the special battalion.
"Whilst the tier 2 mages of the special battalion have the parts of a greater magic ring design that specialises in combination spells, the tier 3 mages have parts of magic ring design that has a Change Activation for increased mana regeneration. I am sure you can finally understand that killing the tier 3 mages would deprive the special battalion of its mana."
The people in the throne room had looks of understanding for a moment only to be replaced with looks of doubt.
"I know what you are thinking, killing the tier 3 mages would be very difficult, in the previous battle our forces had heavy casualties trying the same idea. Only by having a large number of tier 3 mages or having a tier 4 mage can such a method work."
The people all had understanding looks.
"The method that General Witfield and I created is different, I will let General Witfield explain how that works."
General Ingrid Wagner glanced at the Tired King on the throne as she gave the stage to General Witfield.