'Someone attacked my territory? But who?' asked Caleb.
He opened the game map and saw that one of the three outposts in the north was being attacked by a group of militia troops, around 6 units in number.
They attacked the outpost and aimed to destroy Caleb's second Town Hall. He could not stand still to see this.
Caleb exited from his bed and left the first town hall. Right outside the town hall, four Heavy Scouts were standing guard and were ready.
Quickly, he ordered the four of them to leave the town hall to attack the enemy troops attacking his outpost.
Not only that, he also ordered the same to the other four cavalry units in the second TH to attack.
There were eight heavy scouts in total that went to attack the six militia units, more than enough to defeat them.
[UNIT INFO]
[Unit Name: Heavy Scout]
[Train: Cavalry]
[Number: 8]
[Def Stance -> Agg Stance]
From the game map, Caleb saw a red dot indicating that his troops were speeding away from the area of two THs towards the militia unit that attacked him.
The four heavy scout units in the second TH were already fighting with them, given the close location of the enemy units to Caleb's troop units.
They managed to eliminate all the militia easily, with Caleb's four heavy scout units only suffering minor injuries —their HP bars turned yellow.
As time passed, however, their HP bars would recover quickly. So, a medic wasn't necessary —it would have been faster if a hospital building had been available.
Caleb learned from one of the militia that the troops came from the player Darklord with; the name of his town was ACCCidRAINN.
The man did not know the exact location of the player Darklord because he had not explored the fog north of the two THs.
Caleb assigned a heavy scout unit to explore the two town halls north of his town to avoid another battle.
[UNIT INFO]
[Unit Name: Heavy Scout]
[Train: Cavalry]
[Quantity: 1]
[Agg Stance -> Idle Stance]
'Let's see, which one of you is the Darklord?' asked Caleb.
One heavy scout rode quickly with a neutral stance, not going to attack anyone. It took about two hours for the unit to reach the location of the other two players' town halls.
That made the Infantry Camp finish producing eight militia units ready to fight. They gathered at the infantry camp checkpoint —outside the building.
Not only that, the population increased as six houses finished producing villagers. Even so, Caleb wasn't worried about the population since the idle villagers would immediately become militia.
In short, when all the houses were finished producing villagers, the idle villagers could be transformed into builders, farmers, lumberjacks, miners, or even troops.
In this case, 13 idle villagers are waiting to be assigned. Eight of them will become a militia as the unit production process at Infantry Camp is completed.
[Unit has been created]
[Unit Type: Militia]
[Number: 8]
[Kingdom Power: 1380] [+80]
[Villagers have been created]
[Number of Villagers: 6]
[Population limit: 49/55]
But it will be a different story if Caleb raises troops through unit bundles, so they will increase without taking idle villagers.
The increase in population this time is due to the use of two bundle units —Heavy Scout and Light Swordsman.
Caleb ordered a villager to return to build at least 4 houses until his quota was met.
[Construction begins]
[Building: House]
[Building Type: Economic Building]
[Quantity: 4]
[Cost: 200 wood || 100 food || 100 stone]
[Construction duration: ]
[00:00:39:59]
'Alright, in this way there will be a lot of idle villagers. I can allocate them to my army,' replied Caleb.
'Even so, the militia unit's addition to kingdom power is not significant. What can be expected from a militia?' asked Caleb.
Yet, the militia became a necessity for players at TH level 2. If they didn't create them soon, the stability of their town hall would be threatened.
[Mid-level treasure cave found!]
[Explore the Treasure Cave?]
[Yes] [No]
A panel notification appeared before Caleb, indicating that his scout had found a mid-level treasure cave in the northeast. Caleb immediately said yes to the confirmation to explore the treasure cave.
[Scout explores treasure cave]
[Exploration duration:]
[00:00:29:59]
Caleb was just waiting for the results of the mid-level treasure cave exploration. He didn't really expect bundle resources. He actually needed a bundle army, even though it was only level 1.
From the north, Caleb's heavy scout approached another player's town hall. When the unit reached there, he could see that the entire area of the town was guarded by a palisade wall.
Still, he could see the situation inside the town because of the heavy scout's vision range.
[DING! Congratulations on finding the town hall]
[King's Name: Darklord]
[Kingdom Name: ACCCidRAINN]
"So, here you are. No wonder you could directly attack me from the north to my second TH," replied Caleb.
[One incoming message!]
An incoming message information panel appeared before Caleb. There was only one possibility, which was that the player Darklord sent a message to him after one of the heavy scout units visited his town hall.
[Sender: Darklord]
[Kingdom Name: ACCCidRAINN]
[Hi, there. I am sorry for attacking you. I didn't mean to. Please, pull back your unit.]
[I promise! I won't mess with you again]
'Too late. You should already know who the owner of that outpost is. You attacked me, that means you want a war with me!' Caleb explained, annoyed at the message the Darklord player sent.
He pressed the message menu and typed something to reply to the message sent by the player Darklord. The content of the message conveyed Caleb's stance on the sudden attack from the player.
[Recipient: Darklord]
[Kingdom Name: ACCCidRAINN]
[TO HELL WITH IT!]
[You've attacked me. Do you think I'm stupid? I won't let you]
[You will suffer the consequences soon!]
[Message sent]
Caleb smiled. He drew his heavy scout back to the second TH. In preparation for attacking the player Darklord, he needed to concentrate his troops in that place.
Apart from the short distance, the large area was also a reason to consider, unlike the first TH area, which was already crowded with other buildings.
From the game map, Caleb saw eight heavy scout units ready in his second TH area. He brought out 10 units of Light Swordsman from inside the first town hall, then ordered them to gather in the second town hall area.
To increase the attack power and strengthen the defense, Caleb split the eight militia units into two groups, each group of four.
The first group was placed in the first town hall, and the rest in the second town hall. The defenses had been arranged when his troops went to war. At least Caleb could feel relieved for a while.
He called Commander Leonidas and then attached the commander to the platoon of Caleb's troops: 8 heavy scouts and 10 light swordsmen.
[Commander attached]
[Buff obtained to all units]
[Def +25]
[Atk +10]
Caleb nodded. With preparations like this, he no longer needed to be afraid of the player Darklord's town hall defense. His troops could definitely destroy the place and kill the player.
[ENFORCEMENT INFO]
[Commander: Leonidas (S Class)]
[Unit:]
[8x Heavy Scout]
[10x Light Swordsman]
[Agg Stance]
With an order from Leonidas, he and the other troop units left the place, heading north, attacking the Town Hall ACCCidRAINN belonging to the player Darklord.
The distance from that place to the enemy location took four hours of travel, different from when the heavy scout walked with the same unit.
This time, the infantry unit joined in. Automatically, the speed of the troops had to be adjusted to the speed of the infantry unit.
That was why the troops were advancing slowly, so it took four hours of marching.
Caleb was just waiting for the result of the battle. He looked to the side and saw that Militia production was ongoing, leaving two more units.
Elsewhere, he saw that technology research was still ongoing. Research for Double Axe technology would be completed in three hours, while research for Eye Vision technology would be completed in four hours.
Before the battle at the ACCCidRAINN town hall was over, the two technologies would be completed on time.
An information panel appears from the results of scout exploration in the mid-level treasure cave. The results went to the player's inbox. Caleb opened the inbox menu and pressed the system message section.
He opened the mystery chest obtained from the exploration, the mid-level mystery chest.
[Mystery Chest opened]
[DING! Congratulations you got a mystery reward]
[5 Random A Class Commander Fragments]
'It's the commander of A-Class.
'That's fine. If I summon this commander, it will increase my kingdom's power even though it's not much.'