The battle was coming and it was close!
MARCHING FORWARD
Valverno gave a loud roar to the army down below. The tens of thousands of men and women (mostly the female warriors from the Tigress Clan) started to rally their positons. The forces were quickly gathered to take their positions. In their gathering numbers, all the soldiers went square-shaped formations called battalions. Each battalion had been composed by swordsmen, spear men, or archers.
The sword-maidens of the Tigress Clan served as the front guard, with them carrying long shields and long broadswords and long spears. The men of Geraldus’s army and the Cheetah Clan were piled behind the sword-maidens.
On an open valley with little hills and very few trees that stretched out for miles, the squared battalions have assembled. The people with spears took to the front lines and turned from square to rectangular positions. They slightly titled their spears as they stood proudly with fierce faces hidden behind helmets. The swordsmen took their positions behind the spearmen.
For the archers, they positioned in tight corners between the swordsmen and behind the spearmen.
And the calvary was spread into two rectangular formations: one was positioned as the far left flank and the other was the right flank; both at the farthest ends of the army assembling. Both were composed from the Lion Clan, which Teutates had commanded, and the other Wasso and Monico brought with them.
Each squared battalion was spread out and gave room for each other if they needed to quickly spread more out or maneuver with ease. Each square battalion had enough space for other battalions to march with ease.
From there, they marched a great open flat valley where it was a valley composed as a flatland. The leaders of the army, which composed by many soldiers, rode on horses.
Geraldus, Flavius, and Sora rode in the center point. Teutates in front of one calvary squad and Wasso and Monico rode with the other calvary squad. The clan leaders, Orinù and Kelda, rode behind Geraldus and his son. Bjorg, who was fat as he could get, couldn’t ride on a horse and rode in a small carriage.
Lastly, Valverno was flying high above the army walking slowly across the valley they were in. He could see the other army also moving slowly, but with the torches he saw meant the invading army was dozens of miles away. He made sure the Crystal Sword was strapped around him and needed to make sure this army would survive in the coming battle.
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The army composed of Geraldus’s army, both calvarias from Teutates and Wasso and Monico, the three clans (Tigress, Eagle and Cheetah), and the swamp people Geraldus called from, halted when it was pitch black and there was nowhere to be go.
Riskily, they had stopped to set up camp. They set up tents and they were going to going to have rest, knowing the invading the army was nearby. However, Geraldus and Sora were going to patrol and have set up barriers around the army. There was no unnatural magic power that could penetrate any natural power from a White Knight.
Valverno saw it as a risky move for the united armies to rest in the middle of the night, but they were humans. They were carrying all the heavy armor and heavy loads of weapons. He could sense the majority of the army he managed to bring together feeling exhausted all of a sudden. The humans were reaching their limits of walking and carrying the heavy metal.
While the army was going to rest and sleep for the night and move out at first light, Valverno went scouting ahead of the plains and look for the army he possibly could eliminate with his own breath of fire. But he had an uneasy feeling the invading army may have bathed in the Pool of Shadows, or at least had their weapons and armor amplified by Uragiru’s usage of the Pool that could rival against Valverno’s combat power.
As he headed out, Sora rode on a horse followed behind him. He saw her from a distance and he flew down closer to her. The horse Sora was riding was running five times faster than an ordinary horse, so it would mean she used her White Knight power to enhance the horse’s ability to run faster. “What do you think you are doing?” he asked her.
“Going to make sure my reckless brother doesn’t do anything stupid. I’m going with you to where you are going to scout to.”
“Always going with me everywhere I trail to. Lands can change but people can’t change their personalities. Best stick close.”
“Easy for you to say. Look how you got the scar, along with the scars of poked holes across your body when you tried to go save your precious wife from a horrible death. Those scars could have killed you, but you ended up surviving. Someone has to make sure you don’t end up falling to the opposite side.”
Valverno shook his head. It seemed Sora was acting as the older sibling. Now both he and Sora went ahead to scout the terrain for the enemy army. The torches they saw earlier were put out and there was little light where they could see the army could be camping as well.
About some ten miles the half-siblings paced themselves and the united army. They rode and flew fast as the horse could run. Valverno could fly faster, but the horse’s speed wouldn’t be able to keep up with the demigod. So he keep his speed to a minimum and stay with his half-sister who doesn’t have the same speeding ability has he does.
They came to a stop when they saw a large tent standing with a small roof and no walls. There were a dozen soldiers and each carrying a torch. There were four soldiers in black armor holding the tent’s roof. Within the tent, two people were standing.
It was pitch black beneath the night sky and Sora couldn’t
