True King's Ecstasy

"More power, put more strength into your swings, you're not going to war like this," Delviny shouted with her usual strict tone. Her aggressive and active personality automatically comes out when she starts training other newbies.

This caused a lot of them to give up even before they start it but those who stick around with her always end up being the best out of the group showing how effective her training was.

Daphnia, Lyra and Velian decided to oversee her training methods and the performance of newbies to get a general idea of their army power.

The 7 swordsmen led by Remi became one of the main pillars as most of the newbies look up to them. With constant training and new equipment, their performances increased so much that even professional knights in this city hesitate to challenge them.

Remi's unto acted directly under the orders of Delviny so, Sariya had no connections with them. Most of the knights in the viscounty didn't like having two veteran units in the same place so they thought about challenging them but after seeing their performance in the war they couldn't help but close their mouths.

"Mother, what do you think about newbies? Since you know the empire how do they look like compared to the empire soldiers?" Interested about it, Velian questioned Daphnia who was looking at everything with a calm gaze.

"I would say most of them are the same but our training is much more effective and harsh than empire, in another one or two years we will have a considerably powerful army," She answered Velian's question carefully as she knew this was a serious question.

"They don't have magic swordsmen like Delvi, Remi or me and there are few newbies that I think will be able to successfully train this art," Velian thought for a minute about the faces that came to his mind.

"I don't want any casualties so those who can't even go through this training are useless, I won't allow them to participate in war as warriors," Lyra also agreed with his words.

"Yes brother, we can't afford to lose much manpower, I honestly don't have any idea about what will happen to Rapidclaw kingdom after this war," Lyra said looking at Delvi.

"Veli, what do you think about creating a new knight order? I think having two different units is not that great for a kingdom so let's build one knight order which is directly under your orders," Velian thought about her idea for a minute. There were many flaws as well as advantages to it but having two military forces always clashing is not an ideal situation for anyone.

"That's great, I think holding a tournament is the best way to choose the best 8 knights," Daphnia and Lyra were interested to know about his new idea so they got close to him to listen to it attentively.

"It doesn't matter who wins it, he or she will become the new leader of that new knight order," Daphnia felt a little sceptical about his idea.

"But won't it be dangerous if someone unreliable win this?" Velian chuckled at his words for a minor before looking at her with a serious look.

"Mother, do you really think someone in this city can beat her?" Daphnia and Lyra both looked at the person he was pointing his finger at.

"My bad, I take my words back," Daphnia said with a little laugh seeing Delviny looking at us with a weird look.

"We need to arrange many things before the war, so let's just get going, sister will come back after finishing her training," Hearing Velian's words, Daphnia and Lyraboth followed him to the mansion.

***

Meanwhile, in the Rapidclaw kingdom, people were constantly trying to protest as they didn't have enough food to survive because most of the food was used in war. Even though people didn't openly oppose the nobles and royalty in the royal capital most of them had hatred in their hearts.

Most of their families lost one or two members due to this war and some don't even know whether their family members were alive or dead due to this war.

Even though the capital was highly protected without letting citizens go rampage, it wasn't the case for most of the other noble territories.

Some nobles had to take extreme measures to prevent any rebellion. Normally killing one or two peasants or increasing taxes might have worked for them but right now, people were so enraged that some of them even went as far as to kill noble families even knowing that they are doomed after that.

While the whole kingdom was on a dumpster of fire the officials and ministers couldn't help but seek protection from their lesser.

"Your highness, our food is almost over, I don't think we will be able to complete our agricultural work in time with this war," He couldn't finish his words as he heard a shout from the pedestal where the king was listening to everything.

"Shut up, what happened to our request which I sent to other kingdoms asking for help?" His voice was impatient showing how desperate he was.

"Montero kingdom agreed to help us as Sacredmore empire is a huge threat to everyone in the South but Union only promised to send us provisions, it looks like-" He couldn't finish his words as someone interrupted him.

"It looks like they want to be spectators of this war," The man who interrupted them.was none other than the crown prince himself.

"Julius, how did it go? Did you manage to convince the guild to help us?" Hearing the desperate voice of his father, Julius couldn't help but worry.

"No father, they said they won't participate in this war, I honestly don't know what they are thinking but they are clearly planning something," His words enraged the king as he suddenly stood up from his throne with an angered expression.

"Is this how those vile adventurers treat us even after my family let them stay in my kingdom for almost fifty years?" Julius saw how dangerous the situation is by looking at his father.

The aura, majesty and patience he had before the empire attacked them was nowhere to be seen instead it was replaced with a desperate man trying to take any help he can.

"Finrod Rapidclaw orders, all the adventurers should be expelled from the capital right now, if they can't even help us in a situation like this they are no use to us," All the officials had reluctant faces but since it was their king's advice they couldn't go against it.

*Sigh

"Why did this happen to us?" Julius thought looking at his father with pity.