Chapter 39: General Kaijuu
Shadowfall Kingdom
Vincent
Tournament grounds
King Raymond
Today is the day we hold the tournament, It's been 3 months since we arrived back here. we are 11 months away from war. I did as Lord Kaijuu instructed, we started recruiting and stockpiling food. My Troops have mostly arrived from all over the Shadowfall kingdom.
In 5 months we will cease all trade with the East Empire. about 78% of my soldiers made it through Basic, including the new recruits. They are all currently still training, The 10 commanders that includes Shanon my current general is sitting on the sidelines waiting for the 1 on 1 bouts with Lord Kaijuu.
When we just arrived I personally showed Lord Kaijuu the laboratory Management had me prepare for him. It was a room with tables and chairs and some basic materials. It had a housing unit attached to it, complete with 2 bedrooms, kitchen etc. on the other side of the lab it lead to a secluded field with high walls around it.
When he saw it he was pleased, he said: 'This is the size of a rugby field, exactly what I needed'. I sent him the relevant information he requested as well as anything I thought might be useful.
He had Sebastian relay orders to Loyd regarding materials, food, supplies, tailor and blacksmith requests including body suits 9 of them, 3 short swords, 1 great sword, 1 abnormally sized wooden sword, 3 sets of armor, 3 sets of boots and a hell a lot of MP potions and Magic cores, even a few dragon cores. What the hell was he building in there.
I haven't seen him since they secluded themselves there.
Ah! he's here.
I filled the rest of the stadium with the soldiers who performed best during the training.
He's wearing one of those black suits under his custom armor he had made. He has the massive wooden sword equipped.
The rules of the tournament are that my current commanders will use their real weapons while he uses the wooden sword. He told me he doesn't want them to die. That scared me to be honest, but when my commanders heard this they where understandably pissed off. They are currently sitting in front of me beside the Ring. The Ring in the colosseum is about the same size a the field at the back of the lab lengthwise. It is round though.
The commander of the archers division is stepping up. Archer Million. Yes his name is really on point considering. He's a full blood elf. He dresses like a dark elf even though he is from the Sunshine Tree Forest to the southwest of Vincent. He has his longbow at the ready. Lord Kaijuu insisted he wore armor for his torso.
They each take their positions. Lord Kaijuu is the furthest away from me and Archer is standing closest to me.
The crowd starts cheering for the match to start. Loyd is using a magically amplified megaphone.
"Soldiers of the Shadowfall kingdom, to my left your newly appointed general. Kaijuu Ryu-sama"
He gestures with his left arm. I hear a clap here and there and some murmurs. Except for the almost deafening screams of glee from behind me from Roka and Felmina. Then my daughters voices are drowned out completely by the 120 or so delinquents that joined us from the East Empire via the Moonlight District. These are the ones that passed basic just FYI.
"And to my right The commander of the Archer Division Sir Archer Million."
He gestures with with his right hand. The group of archers that made it through basic behind him start cheering loudly, soon the entire coliseum joins in. It's deathly silent behind me. Loyd turns around walks out then turns again.
"START!!"
General Kaijuu takes a low stance.
Then takes off.
Archer nocks an arrow and lets it fly, he dodges.
Sir Archer gets off 4 arrows total before General Kaijuu is about 5 Meters away from him when he stops.
He just stands there waiting for the next arrow. He's now close enough that I can see a yellow aura emanate from the suit.
Archer fires, Kaijuu Dodges to Archer's left then the aura changes to red.
He takes a low stance again then takes off, the aura changes again to yellow.
He's super fast.
He stops again just before Archer the aura turns red once again.
"Please don't die."
With a swing from the big wooden sword he sends archer flying into the crowd.
I see now why he insisted he wear chest armor.
"A WIN FOR GENERAL KAIJUU!"
The crowd erupts in a cheer. General Kaijuu holds his hand in the air silencing the crowd.
Then checks on Archer. Archer is out. Sebastian is there examining him and gives General Kaijuu the thumbs up.
General Kaijuu looks at the 9 commanders left.
"Who's next?"
6 of the 9 raise their hands including Shanon.
""""""I Forfeit""""""
Their voices overlap, I can see they all turned white as sheets. Well everyone except for Shanon. The commander from the tank division gets up and cracks his knuckles.
"This might be fun"
He smiles as he's shaking with excitement.
Loyd steps into the ring once again.