A few weeks passed with no problems I had received a reply from the emperor he has agreed to send an envoy of his army and his 3rd son to work out a mutually beneficial treaty.
The empire wasn't focused on controlling land it cared about strength and longevity so accepting treaties even with small states was very beneficial.
Now we only needed to wait a few months until I could relax again but before then I was preparing for the dust kingdom's retaliation attack.
Fom the book the dust kingdom was the nation that conquered the other two surrounding kingdoms it had a big army and excellent intelligence networks crippling the economy and trade routes of rivals.
It was also technically not a kingdom but instead a queendom it had matriarchal primogeniture succession laws and has never once had a king.
I remembered this part of the novel mostly because it was a big turning point for the MC both power wise and in character development speaking of which I am going to have to find a way to correct my impact on him.
I am not stupid enough to think I can try to keep the story the exact same while also having taken an interest in protecting an important plot point I am not that egotistical despite how it may seem.
I had just gotten out of the bath then I heard it the alarm bells I ordered be put on the walls.
*ding! ding! ding!*
Fuck it all
I got change quickly into the serothor army armor that I had made it was simple just some padded fabric and light chain mail with a metal helmet that doesn't get in the way.
If you can only have a single piece of armour choose a helmet especially in a world with magic and soon in the future ways of flying.
I had already trained everyone on the gathering procedure according to the scouts it was an army of people that they couldn't count meaning it was well above our size.
I decided to tell everyone my thoughts and orders now.
"It is very unlikely that all of us will survive there will be casualties that I am certain of but just know everyone's life will not be in vain even if it is with my last breath our sacrifice will be worth it.
Expect high level magic maybe even a sword master or two we should aim to kill their mages and commanders first once our traps have all been set and cannon balls all shot it will mostly be a bloody battle.
All those who I have spoken to about protecting the gate once the battle starts you will be the last line of defence before the city.
Archers stay on the walls and support until you run out of arrows healers divide into field medics and non combatants scouts stick to the edges now all we can do is wait!"
I spoke for longer than I probably should of but that didn't matter I looked out in the direction they were going to come from I had all the trap activation mechanisms in my hands I would only join the fight until I ran out of cards to play.
After a few minutes I could see them on the horizon they kept coming but even though their numbers were large I felt myself smiling they were walking into a minefield I had set up.
Magic runes which once touched would create a spark and that spark would react to the slime gel creating an explosion.
*Boom! boom! boom!...*
A cacophony of explosions rang out I saw them running around looking for their attackers which in turn caused even more slime mines to detonate I didn't really like setting mines as it could endanger my own people but I made sure to note the exact number and location of each mine.
Soon the explosions stopped and I heard a large voice ring out.
"CHARGE!"
The army started running towards the city with almost zero strategy that's was when I realised they expected that we had a small number of experts and were too small to defeat their massive army.
This resulted in throwing numbers at us and while this was indeed our weakness I felt my face start to hurt from the strain my smiling was causing they were doing just as I had hoped.
Once they reached a certain distance I detonated the most destructive trap I had made it consisted of large lines of slime gel buried just under the ground and as I detonated it I saw the army get seperated by the explosions.
Now they were grouped where I wanted them I gave out my order.
"FIRE THE CANNONS!"
Large bang sounds resounded across serothor's walls the mages on the other side must have seen the projectiles coming because they put up magic shields not that it would help them.
These cannon balls were filled with slime gel and and as they broke from the impact the explosive substance was spread all over the magic shields and battfield.
Then I gave my next order.
"archers fire arrows!"
The volley of flaming arrows barely reached the army and I heard some laughter from the enemy army.
But after a few seconds that fire spread to the slime gel and I gave an order.
"EVERYONE BLOCK YOUR EARS!"
I followed suit and I saw the most beautiful explosion I had ever seen I heard the bang and even covering my ears they got a little sore I could feel the heat wave even from the large distance.
With that all the slime gel traps had been used I looked at the enemy army the entire front section had been decimated all that was left were charred bodies and a few lucky or unlucky survivors.
Even with the large chunk of their army destroyed there was still an ungodly amount of soldiers how many people did they have?