A rotund man around 1.7 metres came to the front of the king in the throne room, the rotund man was Walter Witfield, the third tier 7 Arc Mage of the military. The General had a head full of white hair and looked to be in his fifties, he had eyes of the colour of hazel, the man looked like amicable type of individual.
General Karl Schneider made himself famous by his [Half Time Cast] Magic Ring that made him a difficult opponent to fight, whilst General Ingrid Wagner made herself famous by a being a great Master Ring designer. General Walter Witfield made himself famous by being a master artifact designer and creator.
Artifacts in this world were not that main stream because they required a lot of expensive material that is hard to find, General Witfield was also known by the name of Traveller in the Kingdom of Arin.
Maybe that is the reason he has such an amicable disposition, to travel a lot a person must be amicable with people. The first reason General Wiftield was always on the move was so that he could scout potentially dangerous countries like the Empire in the South.
The second reason he travelled a lot was because he could search for materials to create his artifacts, some of the more famous artifacts he created was the pocket dimension artifacts that are only given to important people, these important people are the royals and the Deans of military Academies.
When the Tired King saw Walter come to stage, there was a slightly jealous light in his eyes, in the last few years the king had been envious of this rotund fellow. He practically travels for fun all around the world, the Tired King would like to do that, but his responsibilities shackle him down.
"Walter how were your travels in the south?"
The king asked in a interested voice.
"The South have not changed, however the Emperor is still trying to conquer the south. The Empire has been fighting its neighbouring country such that they are not looking to the north."
The people in the room nodded, the Empire has always wanted to unite the south, but has faced challenges from other countries in the south that would not allow themselves to be conquered very easily.
"Anything else interesting that happened whilst you were travelling?"
"Not much, with the start of the Dralia Mountain Range War Campaign, I had to come back, after all I am still a General of our Arin Kingdom."
The Tire King nodded in understanding.
"Well, I guess what that young fellow Gavin Vermont and the people from Ruhen have created is something interesting."
The Tired King started to focus on what General Witfield had to say about the special battalion, and stopped thinking about travelling.
"The trump card battalion of Ruhen could be called a combination from the fields of Magic Ring Design and Artifact Creation."
There were some people were surprised in the throne room, they only felt the special battalion was special because they used very special magic ring designs.
"Most of the people in this room know that in this world, Magic Rings are more main stream and artifact creation is a smaller field due to its high barrier of entry, thus most people would not recognise an artifact even if the saw it. Thus I was surprised when some of the bodies of the members of the trump card battalion of Ruhen were brought back to Arin."
The people could now guess where General Witfield was going with his speech.
"The members of the trump card battalion of Ruhen all had two artifacts in different shapes in parts of the bodies."
There was a collective gasp in the throne room.
"Such wealth?!"
The noble who said that was from a large noble family and understood the cost of creating a single artifact, the fact that a single battalion had 200 artifacts shocked him a lot.
It must be said that in the Arin Kingdom artifacts can only be found on the important people like people from the royal family or high tier mages like Dean Julia Becker from Witfield Academy.
"These artifacts that are used by the members of the trump card battalion of Ruhen are the greatest weakness in this whole system of continuous casting of combination spells. The young fellow called Gavin did an ok job at design of the magic ring system for the battalion however, the person who designed the artifacts clearly lacks experience."
"General Witfield you have said that these artifacts are important for the functioning of the battalion, but what do they actually do?"
The person who asked that question was a women from the large noble families.
"Ah yes. The artifacts are used to link the members of the battalion, they allow them to share mana and their magic rings, allowing the greater magic ring design that specialises in combination spells to be completed."
The people nodded, the women who asked the question was also nodding in understanding.
"Thus using that point as an entry point Ingrid and I were able to create a method to prevent the trump card battalion without having to send large number of our soldiers to die."
The people smiled at that, whilst they were smiling, General Wagner was glaring at the rotund fellow called Walter Witfield, Ingrid would like to have Walter to call her with her title when they were in such formal situation.
The fellow just did not want to change. All people from his generation were called by name, even Klaus was called by name before he became King, it was only after he became King that he called him by his title of King.
"We have designed a new artifact that will disturb the connections of the artifacts of the members of the trump card battalion. The artifact will work as a domain inhibitor, the artifact will create a large domain when the artifacts of the fellows from Ruhen will not work. This was possible because the person who create the artifact form Ruhen lacks experience, and I was able to find a weakness in the person's design."
The people were happy that they had found a better method to deal with the special battalion, they even stopped thinking of the special battalion as 'Special', however thoughts of creating their own had not been removed.
"As you an guess if the links of the members of the battalion are disconnected, they will not be able to share mana, and the greater magic ring design will not work."
The Tired King had a glint in his eyes, as said before, the Tired King loved the country of Arin and its citizens. The fact that the trump card battalion had slaughtered his citizens with impunity made him very angry and he definitely wanted revenge.
"You did very well Walter, you too Ingrid."
"Thank you Your Majesty."
"Further discussions about retaking the crystal lode will be discussed by the relevant people in the military, for now you are all dismissed."
The Tired King dismissed all the people from the throne room, the people bowed to the King and started to leave the throne room, as the people left, the Tired King turned to Annalise.
"Annalise, summon all my descendants that are qualified to take the throne to come and see me."
Annalise was slightly surprised, she knew that Klaus was thinking of passing the throne to one of his descendants by virtue of being his seneschal, but mostly because she was his lover too.
"I will get it done."