The morning sunlight entered into Caesar"s tent abruptly waking him up."Mmm"
Caesar moaned as he stood up and stretched his limbs, he put his outfit on and walked outside of the tent.
"Attention!" Ivar bloodfallen roared and all of the soldiers put their hands over their heart to salute.
"Step"
"Step"
Caesar walked slowly through the gap of soldiers, "It seems I"ve gained their respect" he thought to himself as he was walking.
"Plop"
Caesar jumped on the back of the horse and the soldiers started marching… Caesar"s army marched through the plains relatively safely, there were no more interruptions this time.
As the sun went down and the stars came out, Caesar looked towards his troops and yelled
"We will be marching through the night to make up for lost time"
"Yes, Sir!"
Three Days Later
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"Clak"
"Clak"
A scout came rushing towards Caesars location with an excited expression…
"G-general, the northern forest is 20 kilometers ahead!"
"Good, call back the other scouts."
"As you command"
Caesar looked back towards his soldiers and roared
"Make haste, the northern forest is only 20 kilometers ahead"
The soldiers all nodded with serious expressions and marched at a quicker pace.
After moving for about an hour a giant and lush green forest entered into their eyes. Caesar raised his hand and roared
"Halt"
The soldiers looked at him with confused eyes…
"If we get any closer we could potentially be in danger of the elven archers. We don"t want to camp up in the range of the enemy do we?"
All of the soldiers nodded with realization apparent on their faces and started placing their tents up.
Suddenly
"Peeew"
The sound of a projectile moving at fast speeds sounded in Caesar"s ear, his battle instincts warned him "DANGER".
Caesar quickly turned around and barely grabbed an arrow 2 inches away from puncturing him in the neck.
"Crack"
Caesar snapped the arrow in half and looked towards the forest to see a sole male elf standing there… Looking closely the elf had a smug expression.
"Looks as though we have underestimated their archery, camp up 20 meters back and place wooden walls around the camp"
"Yes sir"
Caesar looked towards one of his archers and beckoned him over with his hand…
"Do you need me general?"
"Hand me your bow"
The soldier had a suspicious expression on his face but handed his bow to Caesar
"Thank you"
If one looked closely a vein was popping out on Caesar"s forehead. Caesar pulled the bowstring until the wooden bow was stretched to its limits, he placed an arrow on the string and aimed down the middle.
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"Wow I"m surprised that general has a little bit of skill"
"Good shot Aladin"
Aladin smiled smugly, "Hmph, arrogant humans thinking they were safe from my arrows"
"Bang"
A loud sound came from the plains where the humans were, Aladin turned around and fear showed in his eyes but it was too late.
"Puch"
The arrow penetrated his neck and exited.
"Thud"
Aladin fell down while trying to hold the blood in his neck… His eyes showed disbelief
"ALADIN!"
"CALL A HEALER"
"It"s too late, he is already dead," one of the older elves said with sadness
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"I"m sorry I broke your bow"
"No problem general I can get another one"
"What is your name?"
"Sam"
"Good, I will remember your name and gift you a bow once we reach back to the kingdom"
"T-t-thank you general"
Sam walked away with fast steps, he was clearly excited about the new bow Caesar promised him.
Caesar walked around 20 meters back towards the moved encampment, the soldiers were busy placing wooden stakes to shield the camp from any arrows that made it this far.
Caesar walked into the middle tent and started contemplating "I believe the king"s orders were simply extermination, however, I am quite curious as to who the mole is"
About 1 hour later a soldier came to Caesar"s tent.
"General, your orders have been completed"
Caesar nodded his head and stepped out of his tent, there were tall wooden stakes all around the encampment. There were 2 relatively large openings to exit and enter in the front and behind of the encampment.
"Splendidly done" Caesar voiced his approval. He turned towards the soldier on his right and commanded
"Go hit the drum once"
"Yes general!"
"Badum"
The sound of a drum sounded out through the entire camp, the soldiers stopped what they were doing and rushed to the middle and started lining up.
Caesar was standing at the front of the soldiers that lined up… Once the last one lined up He voiced his commands.
"If we charge into the forest we will die…. The cavalry would become useless and the archers would just be slaughtered"
Caesar continued after a moment of silence
"We need to drag them out of the forest"
The soldiers nodded their head in understanding but Caesar"s next words shocked them to their core.
"So we"ll burn it," Caesar said with a sly grin on his face
One of the knight captains"s stepped forward while sweating
"G-general we can"t just burn the forest"
"Why not?"
"W-w-we will become enemies to all elves"
"Wouldn"t the same thing happen if we slaughtered the elves anyway?"
This time another Knight stepped forward and started explaining…
"I-I was ordered by the viscount in the scenario that we were to win the battle to t-take some female elves for interrogation on how their magic worked"
The temperature in the camp dropped after the knight spoke those words
"Huh? Tell the viscount the next time he wants something in a war, to come his fuc*ing self"
Caesar continued…
"This is the safest method, this allows us to have the least amount of casualties."
"But general-"
"Did I stutter when relaying my orders"
"No general!"
The archers immediately started preparing flame arrows…. They placed oil on a cloth rag and placed it on the shaft of the arrow.
Caesar moved out of the camp with 100 archers and 100 infantry, they moved until they were about 100 meters away from the forest.
"Shields up!"
The soldiers put their shields up to block the archers…
"Light the arrows on fire" Caesar ordered
The archers placed the cloth that was on their arrow in an already prepared fire… The arrows lit on fire.
"AIM" Caesar roared
"FIRE AT WILL"
"Pew"
"Pew"
Hundreds of arrows shot towards the forest, it looked like a rain of fire was descending on the forest.
"Next Volley!" Caesar roared right after the first volley and the archers started preparing the next flame arrow.
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"L-L-L-LORD ANDUIN AND PRINCESS ANNA T-T-THEY ARE SETTING THE FOREST ABLAZE"
"WHAT?"
"THAT MADMAN, WHAT IF THEY WAKE UP THAT THING?"
Anduin quickly regained his composure
"Order all elves to rush out of the forest towards that madman as quickly as possible, it"s only a matter of time before that thing wakes up"
"But lord…"
"IF WE GO THE OTHER WAY WE WILL RUN INTO THAT MONSTER DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"
Anduin roared in anger
"Yes Lord I will relay our message to all elves"
Anduin places his armor on and looked towards Anna
"Prepare for war"
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"FOURTH VOLLEY" Caesar roared...
"Ah that forest is sure burning beautifully" Caesar couldn"t help but admire it
The archers around Caesar all started sweating "The general isn"t crazy is he?" they thought inwardly but didn"t dare voice it out.
"AHHHHHH"
Suddenly a large number of elves started running out of the forest, it seems the female elves temporarily stopped the fire from spreading in one area with their magic.
More and More elves started rushing out of the opening in the forest…
Caesar looked at the number wide-eyed and looked towards the captain
"Didn"t the briefing state there was only around 500 elves in this forest"
*gulp*
The captain gulped and replied
"Y-y-your right general"
"Then why is there easily around 3000 elves rushing at us right now"
"I-i-i don"t know" The captain started stuttering
"HIT THE DRUM TWICE, CALL THE REST OF THE TROOPS IN THE ENCAMPMENT. PREPARE FOR WAR"
At this time in the back of the forest, a loud noise echoed out that shook the grounds for hundreds of kilometers.
"SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH"
"General, wh-what is that?"
"Fuc* if I know"