Small Battle

Ferlin Eltek POV

'We've marched here for a few days with little to no rest. The damn Duke and his greed, I hope a rogue arrow hits him where there isn't any armor.' He said inwardly while clicking his tongue.

"What's that?" A soldier said. This drew the attention of everyone to the front

We saw a group of densely packed people holding wood and metal rods with some people behind them standing next to metal barrels and further back there is a loos crowd of people who seemed to be spectating.

"You, Go tell the prince to surrender." Said Duke Ryan to a cavalryman

"Yes Sir" He said before riding towards the town.

"Everyone else get into your positions and get ready to enter the town" He said before everyone scrambled to there spots and continues marching towards the town.

"Wood style: Wood of trees wall" They heard a shout behind them before a large number of trees built up and prevented any sort of retreat.

'What is that?' I freaked out wondering why i heard a boys voice before those trees appeared.

"What is that?" Someone said after they turned back to look at the front. They then saw 4 flashes of light before a slight whistling was heard.

"Crash" 4 balls of iron slammed into the front lines devastating it.

"Everyone, charge!" Duke Ryan yelled realizing what was happening after another volley had hit them again 20 seconds later.

The whole army started charging forward obeying his orders as they knew there was no retreat. It only became worse as we got closer, it seemed as if the enemy was no longer firing iron balls but volleys of arrows as something else began to tear apart the people in the front. Th final straw that stopped everyone in there tracks was a few simple words.

"Earth Style: Moving earth core"

The ground we were running on just lowered. The entire army was sunk into the ground with nowhere to run.

"Surrender" we heard a voice as we looked up and saw a gray haired man standing atop the hole we were in. We looked around and saw people surrounding the top of the hole while pointing down the metal rods that gave us all a sense of fear.

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Back to Shu POV

"Duke Ryan, You are hereby executed by hanging for initiating a rebellion and attacking the crown" Roland said before the stool was kicked out from under the man by another man with Gold hair.

The battle finished up yesterday and we have been organizing prisoners since. We questioned all the people and then discovered a man named Ferlin who asked what was happening to dDuke Ryan. When he found out Duke Ryan was going to hang, he asked if he could be the one to do it before explaining what the duke had done to his wife. The prince was going to refuse before I told him to just let the man. Most of the upper people who had died in the siege in the previous timeline actually lived this time. Duke Elk is here and he seems to be terrified after what has happened and hopefully we won't have to deal with a rebellion in the future from the families.

"Alright, that was the last of the people who were going to hang. Let's set off for Longson" Roland said before they loaded up the prisoners into the wooden boats (along with Ferlin who is going to retrieve his wife before returning to be a teacher).

I followed them to the stronghold where the duke's head was shown and the gates were opened. Roland then gave out the ransoms and met with the church before packing up and returning to border town a week later after making Petrov the new leader of the stronghold.

"My, you two sure missed each other." I teased while looking at Roland and Anna who were staring at each other lovingly. "You know, I have had a theory for a long time."

"And what's that?" Roland asked while briefly looking away from Anna.

"The reason witches and humans can't have children is the fact that the magic power will erode the child before it even exists."

"And?"

"That means if you have something to combat the magic power or at least has its own magic power then a child can exist." I state

"Wait… you mean."

"Whenever you are ready I will use chakra transfer to give you some. Everything after that is up to luck." I say while looking at the blushing Anna. "Anyway I'll talk with you later." I said before leaving.

Things kept moving along over the next 2 weeks, Leaf introduced the Golden Ones as Roland announced how the serfs could advance from serfdom, we gave them all Little Rock and wooden huts that I made. Roland started the night classes and Anna evolved her ability. I noticed crimson watching Anna and trying to replicate what happened before she gave everyone a scare by evolving her flame transformation to the point where she can make herself into small beads of black flames that float around. It also gave String some ideas. She realized that strings didn't have to just be normal strings. She can now manipulate the air into strings and as long as something is within a few meters she can turn water, wood, dust, and even flames ino strings that obey her. Barov started to believe Roland had been possessed by a devil so I went up to him and said. "If Roland has been possessed then they would also believe you are possessed so if he goes down, you will. So instead of worrying about that then help make sure he doesn't fall so you can keep your own position." This seemed to have woken him up. After a few days Roland revealed the minecart that he had been working on. It shocked quite a few people. Then About a week later, I returned to see Mito give birth. They had a son and named him Hasuko(AN: Botched translation of son of between the pillars. (Hashirama means Between the Pillars)).

'Now it's about time for our good friend Theo to meet the witches. Hopefully he remembers everything I told him…. I really hope that he doesn't forget about the scrolls either.'