SIEGE OF ST.ELLIS

"What do you mean the Rebel army is approaching, why haven't you notified me earlier?." 

"They have been spotted marching towards us with an army numbering around 30,000, also the port was destroyed by witches." 

These fouls arguing like usual, I am Daniel Smith a member of the city council of St.Ellis. As you've probably heard by now, we are about to be attacked by the revolutionary army or the rebels, to be fair I could have seen this coming from a mile away with all the new policies put into place it was a matter of time before people begin to protest. Although this army is too well trained and too well equipped to be formed a year ago. Yet here we are arguing instead of mobilizing our forces to fight them off. 

"It is no longer matter of whether or not we will fight, I will take the local forces and prepare our defences." Mayor Freddie Vennetti says.

"Even if we gather everyone that will only be around ten thousand, and besides I hear that the Rebel leader has a codex that allows him to create an explosion, I suggest that we just take everything we have and leave towards the capital." The one who is speaking now is the Mayor's son Freddie jr or Fred, unlike his father, he's all talk no bite plus he's a vindictive piece of shit.

Along with those two their's me and the final person is rear admiral Benjamin Flint. The four heads of state in this place.

"Shut up you disgrace, if we leave here right now and go towards the capital the Washingtons will have our heads !" Mayor Vennetti says slamming his fist down. 

"Can the navy send out a small boat?" I ask Benjamin who rubs his chin and nods.

"Alright then we can use it to contact the nearby national defence force, but we will need someone to go towards them." I say fixing my glasses on my face.

"I will go, it's been a while but I've sailed multiple boats before I settled  down." Freddie jr says quickly raising his hands like a child.

"That won't be necessary I will go I've even captained an Iron wave before during a battle with the Mappan's Royal navy." 

That so-called "battle" was just the Mappans firing their main cannons then running away. Even if that wasn't the case we still need him here to command the navy when they recover, even if they won't be that useful here.

"Rear admiral I respect your decision, but without you the navy is a bunch of headless chickens, speaking of I want an update about the navy situation, Freddie Jr Vennetti I order you to take the boat and ask for help from the national defence force and finally Daniel smith organize the local forces for me I will get some information from my family elders. 

"Yes sir! "

"I will father."

"I will do it to the best of my abilities Mayor" 

After the meeting, I went to meet old friends.

"Sherif Oswalt best you have, these things have been outdated since the last war with the Mappans." I say angrily holding up the rifle towards him.

"Calm down these are only fifty years outdated, it's you the higher up who decided to cut our spending and sold the rifles we had last year." 

That's right before I joined, the previous Financial Adviser ordered a budget cut of all non-navy related military sector. This lead to a bunch of official leaving and later the Adviser being fired due to corruption. 

"I see then, what about men I need some men to help dig some trench and set up a canon line."  I say putting down the rifle on the ground.

"Alright, then I have some friends who served in the military once I will have them help out." 

"That would be greatly appreciated." I say leaving the office to be greeted by a woman with blonde hair and blue blonde eyes wearing a blue and white uniform who salutes upon seeing me.

"Reporting for duty I am Captin Lucy Dorothea, I was sent by Rear Admiral Benjamin Flint to  assist with the defensive procedures." She says placing her hands to her side.

"That's great, do you have any military experience that's not navy related."  I ask staring at her.

"Yes sir! I was originally a part of the  National Defense Force before I  transferred to the navy, my rank was sergeant sir!" 

Yes even better,  with this our defence can be secured.

"Alright then follow me we will soon begin defence proceedings."

"Reporting for duty former Corporal Dennis Johnson and the hungry dog squad." 

Standing before me and saluting is one hundred men dressed in the Futam army colour of dark blue and red. Leading is a man with one of his eyes covered by an eye patch in his hands is an old worn-out rifle.

"Thank you for showing up, we don't have much time on our hands, so we will skip over introducing ourselves, for now, we will be building up defence armaments, in an hour from now we will be receiving reinforcements from Mayor Vennetti until then we must succeed!" 

Like that we begin to work, it was slow and tedious at first but later when our reinforcements arrived the process sped up later than by the late afternoon we were finished. Not too far away we can see the rebel army gathering together unlike us they are wearing pure dark blue uniforms and they have much more cannons than us like ten times more.

I can even see the famed witch army in the sky most likely patrolling around and to the side, we can see people riding what looks like demons but even I can tell those aren't a demon but mana beast. I was confident earlier but now I'm not too sure the Witches alone are dangerous but Alps as well no way.

"To think we have to be fighting this kind of army while being undertrained and using outdated equipment." I say taking a drink from the rum bottle directly. 

"That's just the beginning of our problems the cannons they are using are from Gucci, meaning that our city walls are done for." Captain lucy says adding more fire to the situation.

"Well hot damn it must be that damn King Alexander his father and grandfather would never approve of his madness." The Corporal says already drunk.

"Let's have one final drink let's call it the drink of death!" I say raising the bottle in the air, then everyone presents follow then we have a big cheer.

Boooom! Bang! Bang! Bang! 

Those are all the sound we heard behind us it wasn't necessary to check it's already obvious what's happening. To think all our hard work has gone down the drain. Well I'm a man it's time to face the music and I'm going out swinging. 

Before I could even get up the door is kicked open and men dressed in dark blue enters, rifles pointed towards us and loudly shouting towards us. 

What a stupid end to my short rule.