After the royal family came, the four followed Rosikh to join his squad. Rosikh had captain rank in the Crimson Cloud Kingdom"s army. The captain meant, he was leading 100 men, and the four joined his squad.
Randy thought he would be really free from the princess when he joined Rosikh"s squad, but he was not; Audrey tagged along with him with absurd reason. It was because of him, her private guard included in Rosikh"s squad, so she too should join Rosikh"s squad so that the private guard could protect her later, that was why she joined Rosikh"s squad too.
What surprised him was King Andreas agreed with his daughter request. Rosikh"s squad was in Vanguard Battalion, the frontline of the Crimson Cloud Kingdom"s army yet King Andreas agreed his daughter in the frontline which riskier compared to other battalions.
He thought royal family joined the war only for morale boost for the army, but he was mistaken. Prince Alden also joined other vanguard squads with him as the captain.
After everyone arrived and ready, they teleported to the north, to the city in the north, Redin City. King Andreas summoned the humongous teleportation gate, it was about 10 meters tall and 20 meters wide.
Randy amazed by the size of the teleportation. The Ascension Guild never offered him the teleportation gate, he would never buy it though as he had no use for this big teleportation.
Looking at the amazed look at Randy"s face, Audrey giggled out, "This is called Ma.s.sive Teleportation Gate, it"s one of Crimson Cloud Kingdom"s treasures. Despite the big size, it can teleport you everywhere as long as you have visited that place once, but of course, it can not be used to teleport between world,"
Even though Audrey often played a prank on him, but she always explained anything he didn"t know. Audrey also told him the detail situation of the Crimson Cloud Kingdom, also the reason why the minister was unfriendly to the trialers. It was like he got the second Shana here.
Remembering about Shana, he remembered that it"s been a week he arrived at Ascension World, also today, his data should have downloaded by Ascension System from the Battle System, but he received no notice from Ascension System.
After King Andreas summoned the teleportation gate, Vanguard Battalion advanced first to the teleportation gate with the general in charge lead. Even though Randy didn"t know much about the detail of the Crimson Cloud Kingdom"s army, but Rosikh already explained it. Captain was leading a hundred heads, Major General was in charge of a thousand heads, and General was in charge ten thousand heads.
A battalion consisted ten thousand heads, which was 10 Major General, 100 Captains, and a thousand Lieutenant. To become Lieutenant, you must be, at least, Copper Rank whilst to become Captain at least you must at Bronze Rank, and a Silver Rank needed to become a Major General.
Of course, a trialer like them would not be able to have promotion as they were not even Crimson Cloud Kingdom"s people.
Randy advanced into the teleportation gate along with the Vanguard Battalion. Somehow, facing the teleportation, he was traumatized because of the Gateway Trial. Fortunately, the teleportation gate was no difference with the door teleportation.
When he stepped into the teleportation gate, he was immediately teleported to the gra.s.slands, while in the front of him was a huge steel city wall. The steel city wall was about 30 meters tall and stretched out along on the gra.s.sland, from the east to the west, he could see the end of the city from where he was.
The Vanguard Battalion kept advancing to the west while Randy absentmindedly looking at the huge steel city wall. Soon, he found it was not a city wall; it was a border wall.
This steel wall was used to fend off against the beast horde. At least it was what Audrey told him.
After advancing for 20 minutes, they stopped as they were waiting for the other armies came. Soon, 50.000 people, the five Battalions reinforcement arrived.
Since Randy arrived here, he focused on the steel wall, and he didn"t notice there was another army behind him. After all armies arrived, King Andreas made a speech. Right when the King started his speech, there was a notification from Ascension System
Ascension System: Your data has been downloaded!
Not only Randy, but the other three also received the same notification. The four immediately checked their respective "data".
The data was the window stats itself. There was no difference with the beforehand window stats. But only the window stats which was working normally as other features could not be accessed, such as the forum, Guild menu, Guild Messenger…
"Ugh," Randy who wanted to use Guild Messenger to tell his family could not help but feel dejected. It"s been a week, and he had not sent a message to his wife.
"She should be worried, right?"
He was not sure either as before he went for the journey, his wife like a maniac, been hunting the monster non-stop. Now, he already surpa.s.sed her, far higher than her, he bet she was currently hunting the monster even crazier.
Sigh!
Just as he let out a rueful sigh, Shana popped out in the front of his face, "Uncle, I miss you," she made a hug motion on his face, but he felt nothing as Shana was just a hologram.
Looking at Shana, his dejected feeling relieved a bit and let out a happy smile.
"Uncle, you can not send a message is because you are in a different world. The message could not be sent as this world system and the system on earth is different. So the only way to meet your wife and family is to complete the mission as soon as possible,"
Shana understood Randy"s concern, trying to give a solution for him.
"But my mission is protecting the princess. How can I complete the mission faster?" He too, wanting to complete his mission as soon as possible, but…
"Uncle, it"s easy. You just need to end the war early and to end the war you only need killing the opposite leader? Beast or monster all the same wherever they are, you only need to kill the head, and the beast"s army will be rooted in just a matter of times,"
Shana said those things like it was not a trouble at all. But to kill the leader of the beast"s army? At least, it was an Emperor Grade one. He himself almost died facing the Blue Tibre.
"Nah, let"s put that aside first, I will act after knowing the detail, if possible of course I will kill the leader. But for now, tell me about this Ascension World?" This was what bothering him a lot. Ascension World, what world was this? He asked Crimson Princess, but Audrey only smiled mysteriously at him.
But he was bound to be disappointed as Shana shrugged her shoulder, "I cannot tell you anything about this world, this is not in my jurisdiction,"
After 10 minutes King"s speech finished. Randy was still in a daze, thinking how to complete his mission as soon as possible, and then the King"s speech finished. After the speech finished, a sound of the gate steel opened sounded.
Audrey who was beside him, nudging his side stomach which awakened him from the daze.
"Get ready! We are in the war, I will not save you if you dozed off in the war," Audrey said with full of enthusiasm. Clearly, she was so excited in this war, her mischievous expression was changed into excited as she cannot wait to join the war.
Soon, the gate was fully opened. The 20 meters tall and 30 meters wide gate opened, Randy along the Vanguard Battalion marched forward.
Rosikh"s squad was in the front row of Vanguard Battalion, In the front stretched out the vast barren land. Across the Crimson Cloud Kingdom"s army, Randy could see was a sea of beasts.
Gulp!
Randy could not help but gulped a mouthful saliva. Even though he was often hunting at monster or beast"s nest, but he never found this much beast.
"It"s a horde beast. Underworld Faction will use this million horde beasts to weaken our army before their main army launching the real deal force," Audrey explained with excited expression despite facing this million horde beasts.