- Carter what do you think? – My father ask me.

- I think we have to use our troops with care formation is going to be important. – I answer trying to think what would be the best tactic but it’s hard since I’m not used to it.

- You are right formation is important but it is also knowing what each part will do. – says my father then he start giving orders to the lieutenants so that they can pass the orders to the soldiers – Lieutenants, make sure every novice swordsman will be supported by 2 beginner swordsman, novice swordsman will be offensive, beginner defensive, mages 10 meters behind, tell the earth mages we need to avoid and delay flanking tactics.

I’m surprised at the orders and how easy my dad was able to form a plan, less than 5 minutes most of the troops have reformed into the formation my dad used, the earth mages formed walls that obstructed the enemy going towards our flanks and they also raised multiple walls at each flank to make it even more difficult, the enemy army was finally charging at us.

The clash was loud, I saw how a lot of our novice swordsmen were able to stop the orcs with pure strength, the beginner swordsmen were being pushed but they were protecting themselves with their shields, they got pushed back hard, our battle was tough a group of enemies tried to go around towards the flank.

Still I was paying attention to the front were the battle was happening, I saw one of our soldiers using one of the defensive moves, and he was able to disarm the enemy and just after use his sword to hit him at the throat killing him, but I was also seeing a lot of our soldiers dying, the battle was hard, I looked towards my dad.

- Can I fight?

- Long range only Carter, use your magic. – answers my dad.

I started to concentrate and use my fire magic to throw some fire at the enemy but I saw that while good it was not great, so I stopped myself and took a breath, got a good idea I started to use wind magic, and while this was not lethal the amount of wind and I focus it all at the height of the heads of the enemy and this cause hundreds of orcs to be incapacitated not being able to see, and these orcs stopped and the orcs behind them the ones not blinded ended up hitting the orcs in front and attacking them.

This allowed me to see that the orcs were not intelligent or at least this group was not, our soldiers continued the fight, I took my sword and had in front of me in case that anything would get behind the front lines, time passed and step by step we were winning, at one point the mages used water to make the terrain even more difficult to traverse.

After some time we finally got most of the orcs killed and most of the goblins killed, I was not able to see much since I was a child and most adults were bigger than me, the results of the battle made me sad even though my Dad did not look that affected by the results.

Out of the 3000 soldiers we brought we lose close to a 1000, all of them from the front line were the melee fighters were, the healers, mages, and enchanters were not touched at all.

My father at this point called for 100 novice swordsmen, and took some of the mages and along with the enchanters we went back into the dungeon, the swordsmen knew what was waiting for them and were able to dispatch the goblins in the first floor easily, once we arrived at the second floor, the difference of having mages was easily felt, what took us the previous time a significant amount of time to clear the second floor we ended up doing in less than half hour, once we arrived at the third floor we saw the sphere just like we had left it before.

We started to study it, and my second mom was able to verify everything I said before about this core and how it was moving the mana around, I got close to the enchanters and they were discussing what could be the best method to try and change the current situation, I recommended we used some enchantments that could use the magic that was being fed towards the upper floors that way if there is no magic available then they cannot produce goblins.

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I thought my idea was clever but it was not possible the tools we had just could not do what we needed, we could not tap or stop the stream of mana, at one point my second mother had the idea of using the enchantment circle that it is used to trap doppelgangers, having gotten nothing so far we started to do this, at this point a messenger from the troops at the top came down, more enemies had appear, the number was less than before, my dad decided to go to the surface, and left my second mom in charge of everything down here.

We completed the engraving of the circle and the strangest thing started to happen, the dungeon core started to get illuminated and some words appeared in the wall, I could not see the words from my side the light from the enchantment covered my sight, but at this point my mother order us to go back towards the surface, everybody, we went back in formation, as soon as we reached the surface, the dungeon entrance collapsed after we had exited the dungeon.

We had to start a fighting retreat towards the fort, the goblins and orcs were just coming endlessly trying to kill our army, took us a week but finally we were back at the fort, hurt but safe.

- Dad what happened? – I ask

- Carter we did something that was unique in some ways, and our testing of the new troops was effective, sadly we rushed a bit now we truly need to build an army to retake the our previous lost lands, and I will put you in charge of at least training the swordsmen for the army, your second mother will take charge of training the mages, and I hope my brother finish soon discovering how to use the bow at the novice level because we are going to need archers – says my dad, it feels like he is talking more to himself than to me.

- Dad I ask again what happened with the dungeon?

- I don’t know Carter, the dungeon left a message that it was going to hibernate, and a message from the gods sounded that our mission was accomplished. – Says my dad.

- Are they going to give us more instructions? – I ask

- Looks like it son, what we did in discovering that dungeon caused the demonic gods to throw caution to the wind and try to interfere, but we are in one of the last bastions of humanity, here is the place where our faith is at its strongest, and by this I refer to the entire kingdom, so the Demonic gods failed, the only thing they could do was send troops, and they did send troops, but since we moved relatively fast we were able to reach the dungeon and the army that the demons had moved was “small” yeah more troops are coming, but they will arrive too late. - says my father

- Oh I see.

- Now we need to train more troops especially in our area, almost all our losses from the battle were troops that were beginner level, but once our troops were at the novice level the extra strength and constitution make so that our troops are better.

After that talk I went back to my room in the fort over the next few days we finished settling down the troops and my uncle Dylan was going to stay in the fort to take charge of the troops, the Royal reinforcements had also arrived, so we moved back to our household.

Now in my new routine I had, instead of training my swordsmanship in the morning, I had to train an entire group of soldiers to make them get more levels in swordsmanship and find a way to sped up the process, my mana sense and my knowledge of how I had trained served me well and I was allowing the soldiers to grow faster, I was also not neglecting my own practice but I just could not focus entirely to it as I did before

One day in the smithy I decided to test again my mana sense on high quality swords, we produced around 10 every month for the army, so I took it upon myself to investigate and see what was different, and again I encountered failure, though this time I was able to see some lines in the sword.

More time passed and I continued with all of my trainings, the fort was having difficulties since our raid all the attacks on our fort came with orcs and higher variants of goblins, this also meant more people being able to level up naturally their beginner class towards the novice one, the only thing they needed now was time to hone their skill to the appropriate level, thank the gods the other 2 forts that were managed by the other 2 dukes were not being attacked the same way.

At this point I tried again to see if I could do some healing and well it was difficult and slow going but I finally able to heal, and by doing this I was finally able to see if I could do what I had failed to do when I was a lot younger, discover a way to make healing cheaper, it took me a lot of time and plenty of trial and error, I also used the medical texts extensively, and well I knew that in my previous life a lot of healing was targeted towards the area that was actually in need of healing, all the machines and all the other tools that helped the diagnosis was so that the medicine of any kind would be targeted to the specific illness, but here a lot of healing spell looked more like washing the body with mana to help it heal at a super accelerated rate, so fast that sicknesses could not keep up and died.

With all the wounded at the fort I started to try and just heal the cuts, I did not want to heal the whole body while it was only a cut in an arm or a leg, after almost a month of trying I was able to learn a new skill Mana Manipulation, I think that what we were doing before was not enough at least with the mana, also after gaining this skill, I could feel that now I could pump way more mana into all my spell or even modify the spells accordingly, and surprise my fire magic skill level up towards yellow level 1.

- Mom – I yell as I run towards my second mom.

- Carter calm down, what happened? – ask my second mom.

- I discovered how to get into yellow level with magic. – I tell her excited.

My second mom different from me was already at the max level on her magics, and she had discovered that she could also get more elements that what she had before, she had always earth and fire, but after I taught her some of the science knowledge that I had, and how it could be applied to magic she was able to gain wind and water, over the last 8 years she had trained herself enough that all 4 of her magic skills were at level 100 in the orange, and she was pleased herself.