War

It has been three years since Derrick and Rosetta got lost in the dark forest and the encounter they had in the Stellar shop.

Derrick was now ten years old, he has been focusing on his training after the fight he had on the Stellar shop, he knew he has gotten weak physically and has gotten himself a training routine, his parents often doesn't even understand the type of training a kid his age was doing.

There has been visits between Rosetta and Derrick once every six months due to the distance between their kingdoms, it was the proposal of their parents, if it was left to Derrick they should not even see each other until they went to the academy.

During their meetings Rosetta and Derrick often spar with one another, although Rosetta has grown during their spar, she was reaching the stage of intermediate ice mage soon and her powers was growing steadily, her powers weren't the only thing growing she was steadily developing into a beauty with all the appropriate areas starting to develop.

Her feelings towards Derrick was starting to bloom, during their interaction over the years, she has felt that Derrick wasn't normal, he often act lazy and stupid, but she felt all of these was just a camouflage Derrick uses to keep people away.

Nobody knew how strong Derrick was as a mage, because he usually only spar with the bare minimum power needed with Rosetta.

Today was a rare day when Derrick was resting, all of a sudden the town hall bell was rung, which only indicate one thing monsters have been sighted, thousands of goblins and about two thousand orcs have been sighted close to the boundary of the dark forest moving towards the Dark's territory.

The soldiers stationed around were immediately called and were all gathered, the citizens were moved to an underground shelter that has been built for centuries, the blood thirsty monsters, were marching in a cordinated manner which baffled the soldiers.

The abrupt attack of the monsters was something nobody expected, the activities of the monsters have calmed down for some years now and the dark forest seems to be trimmed yearly to cut down excess monsters that were coming close to the boundary of the dark forest.

There was no warning and movement of such a large number of monsters, which would have been noticed before they could even come anywhere close to the boundary of the dark territory.

Now they were just a few hours away, Baron Stan quickly sent messages to his close allies and the Archduke of the eastern territories for help, but he knew this was in vain because before the letter would get to them and before they would be able to mobilize their army would take a few days and they don't have that amount of time.

It was a war of attrition, strength, strategy and luck, the orcs and goblins numbered up to eight thousand and the soldiers which Baron Stan could cater for, for now was only up to a thousand and five hundred, which all of them have been called from their various stations.

Baron Stan looked pale, but was still stead fast, him alone was worth two hundred soldiers not counting his wife.

Baron Stan quickly organized the whole of his army, he needed to give them a morale to fight the monsters, they needed a plan but they needed the soldiers to get rid of their fear.

Baron Stan stood on the podium to address his soldiers "we would be fighting a war we haven't fought before, against monsters that seems intelligent, this might be the last time we will be seeing each other, but can we let those monsters trample on our homes?" ""NO SIR"" "Can we let them murder our family" ""NO SIR"" "Do you want these monsters to play our lives" ""NO SIRRR" "Are we all together?" ""YES SIR"" "Are we gonna send these monsters packing" ""YES SIR"" "Then let's march to victory" ""YES SIRRRRR""

Derrick was indoor sleeping until the bell rang which woke him up, he went to find out what was happening but was stopped by a man dressed in all black, whom his face couldn't be seen, Derrick heard an hoarse voice from the stranger dressed all in black saying "young master my job is to protect you, and I have been given instructions that you are not allowed outside the mansion and we are to flee if something went wrong on the battle ground"

Derrick smile which was always plastered on his face was replaced with an icy frame, his gaze was dark, the mana that was seeping out of him made the man dressed in black shudder, he looked like a demon that was out to kill and only a word came out from his mouth

""MOVE""