In 1285 year, the peace that had been maintained for nearly 300 years finally broke, which was initially only a war between the two kingdoms, undermined and pulling all the kingdoms to join the war with each other on the continent. The smell of blood and the red paint that adorns the countryside, cities, valleys, or forests has become commonplace to see but even so, it still makes people who see it fear and traumatize the memories that occur in their lives.
The war on the continent was divided into 10 kingdoms consisting of small kingdoms to large kingdoms, even though there were alliances between several kingdoms, of course, this happened because of the advantages gained. And after that is achieved generally they will fight each other again to seize each other's territory.
The kingdom of Estafera is one of the small kingdoms among other kingdoms that inevitably have to be dragged into war. Unfortunately, even though they are located at the edge of the continent, the kingdom they are fighting against is Rostalia which is the fourth largest kingdom among the 10 kingdoms.
Even so, the war between the kingdom of Estafera and the kingdom of Rostalia has been going on for 3 years, with a kingdom that has a fairly small area, it is already an achievement in defending against a stronger enemy.
One day the King of the kingdom of Estafera summoned his strongest war generals to face him head on.
"Excuse me, my King, the servant is here," replied the general, bending his knees and paying respects to his king.
"Romandia, your task now is to go to the city of Esmoth and protect the territory from the soldiers of Rostalia, whatever happens, you must defend the territory, if we lose the territory then the morale of the opposing kingdom will rise" the king's firm order to the war general romandia.
"Yes, my king" Romandia answered loudly to the king which indicated he understood the king's intentions.
"If you fail, your life in exchange" continued the king, putting pressure on Romandia.
Romandia who heard this broke out in cold sweat while thinking about what would happen if he failed to do his job.
Unlike the previous King, the new king of Estafera is known to be strict and quite cruel to all his subordinates, this includes the people he leads so many of the residents of Estafera live miserable life. This may also be the reason why the kingdom of Rostalia attacked the kingdom of Estafera.
However, as a general of the kingdom of Estafera, Romandia inevitably had to obey all orders from his king even though the successor to the king's leadership was not as strong as the previous king.
"Yes my lord, I'm leaving immediately" Romandia replied as he stood up to pay his respects and left the king of Estafera who was known as the king of Lurt.
After leaving the royal castle, Romandia sighed taking in the view of the city with the sun setting before heading to his troop barracks.
"sad, this kingdom is not like it used to be" the sentence came out of the mouth of Romandia who saw the beauty of the city.
After a few minutes, Romandia finally rushed to his barracks to order his soldiers to Esmoth city.
The footsteps of horses were heard near the gate, the soldiers immediately rushed to line up to pay respects to those who came using the horse.
"Welcome general Romandia" one of the soldiers who seemed to have a high position came to greet while helping Romandia get off his horse.
"hooh" Romandia answered getting off his horse.
"Pay respects to the general Romandia!!!" shouted the same soldier to the other soldiers who were marching.
"Just stop it, we don't have time for that" Romandia interrupted the soldier who was one of his subordinate captains.
"Ugh..well" the captain replied surprised at his general.
"Everyone hear it!!! Our next task is to hold off the attacks of Rostalia's soldiers and prevent them from capturing Esmoth's territory" Romandia shouted while looking around the soldiers who were standing in front of him. "We will leave in 1 hour, prepare everything and return," continued the general Romandia, giving directions and strict time to his soldiers.
"Understand general!!!" replied the soldiers in a nervous tone, they knew that some of them might not survive.
"Now disband!!!" the orders of general Romandia to disperse the marching troops.
Not for long, Rizumi arrived who was one of the captains and also the son of Romandia.
"Father, what is our plan of attack this time?" Rizumi asked the general who was his father.
Even though his father was a general, Rizumi was always as informal as a captain to his generals. This is of course an ethical issue in the military world of troops but Romandia can only accept it.
"Rizumi, this time you won't be joining." Romandia answered to his son to prevent Rizumi from joining.
This was because, Romandia knew that the chance of surviving from defending the area was very small, the difference in strength was quite large and the lack of soldiers was a big enough factor affecting the battle this time.
"But father, I am one of the soldiers of Estafera, of course, I have to join in defending this country."
"Not for this one Rizumi" Romandia replied in response to Rizumi.
'Unfortunately, this country is not what it used to be, you are still too innocent and don't know anything about the dark side of this country,' Romandia thought to Rizumi's answer, who was very loyal to the country of Estafera.
Rizumi who listened to his father's reply could only end up disappointed and confused as to why he prevented his son from defending this country, if Romandia was afraid of Rizumi dying in the war, Rizumi's ability was not bad and quite reliable among the soldiers who had high positions.
Romandia who saw Rizumi gloomy about his decision decided to immediately leave that place and immediately get ready to lead his troops to the Esmoth city area.
1 hour has passed, and the soldiers gathered and lined up in the field. The sound of armor and the glare of sword light reflected from the afternoon sun looked beautiful, but behind that beauty, the soldiers were so nervous that they hadn't even walked or reached Esmoth territory.
"It seems like everyone has gathered, we will walk non-stop until Esmoth from here, we will probably arrive tonight, you guys stay careful" one of the captains gave the direction to the other soldiers who were marching.
General Romandia mobilized part of the royal army consisting of 6 captains who of course had their own troops. The number of troops deployed was as many as 6000 people.
"General, everything is ready," reported one of the captains named Remilo to general Romandia.
"Hmm…. Okay, now let's move" The first movement that signaled the start of this task was carried out by Romandia himself.
The line of soldiers began to walk away from the kingdom.
"Have a good fight."
"Good luck to you."
"God with you."
The troops walked along with the residents cheering for them. Even though the kingdom of Estafera seems to have lost, the residents still believe that there is still a glimmer of hope for this kingdom to win.
Romandia raised his sword to give morale to the soldiers and residents of Estafera to keep them confident. But Romandia did not expect that there would be additional troops in the troop convoy he was now deploying.
Without the slightest suspicion, Romandia led his troops into battle, whether it was to their death or their victory, only the end could answer this.