DUNGEON CREATOR
Ajax POV
Ch.24
‘Huuuuuh’ with a long sigh Ajax wake from his bed in one of the Baron guest rooms, he grab his uniform and walk towards the mirror while putting on his uniform he sigh again and speak to himself with low voice.
“Huuh, why did I born with such stern face.”
“No one in my family have it, because of this damn face my family put me in military school.”
“I don’t like fighting that much, I prefer talk−”
“Huuh, who am I complaining to.”
With another sigh Ajax finished wearing uniform and a sudden knock come from the door followed by a female voice.
“Good morning General, the breakfast is ready.”
“Okay, I’ll come soon, thanks.”
The voices of the maid footsteps is getting far from the door, and with another sigh Ajax slap his face with both of his hand.
“Okay, work time, work face.”
He leave the bed room and walk towards the dining room where the Baron and two of his Captain already enjoying their tea, and when he take his seat on the opposite side of the table from the Baron a maid serve him a tea, soon after he take a little sip from the cup several cooks come out from the kitchen and serve them soup and white soft bread.
Finished with their breakfast the Baron started to speak. While Ajax think in his head ‘Here we go.’ As soon as he heard Baron spoke.
“According to the scout you sent they will arrive here by noon at the fastest right?”
“Yeah, and we’re already make preparation for everything, I believe the soldiers are starting to make the preparation as we speak.”
“You should focus for the meeting with this new adventurer you invited.”
“You’re right, I’m just nervous, since this is the first huge battle for this city.”
After few minutes silence Ajax gave his order to his Captain.
“Reinfred, Owen makes sure the preparation is going as planned.”
“Yes sir.”
Reinfred and Owen leave the mansion after they got their order from their General, and the Baron called his butler.
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“Rufus tell Conrad to come here soon I need him to see this new adventurer.”
“Okay master.”
Rufus went to the military HQ in the south while the Baron return to his work room and Ajax decide to take a little stroll while waiting in the garden. ‘What should I do, I hope this strategy is enough to deal with them, huuuh, I wish the old man Jenkins is here right now.’ While thinking so he wondered around the garden aimlessly while some of the maid watching him from afar. Around 30 minutes later a maid approach and after a bow she speak.
“General, the Baron asked you to come to his office.”
“Sure, leads the way.”
They both left the garden and went into the Baron office. After a small knock on the door and permission the maid open the door to let the General into the office. As he walk into the room he see the Baron is fixing his attire while Conrad getting up from the sofa.
“Ajax, Ronald is here with the new adventurer I told the guard to guide them to the room downstairs and told them to wait.”
“Well then, I will excuse myself I’m not interested in adventurer so I’ll skip this meeting, and I say this as a friend Ashford. Don’t play with fire if you don’t want to get burn.”
“Good day to you General.”
After giving the General salute Conrad leaves the room and head to the eastern gate. Considering that the Baron and Conrad is a close friend Ajax ignored his rude remarks towards the Baron.
“Shall we go General?”
“Yeah sure.”
Both of them leave the office and head towards the room downstairs where the guild master and the new adventurer wait. When they arrived in front of the door, the Baron knocked a bit and open the door, as the door opened Ajax see Ronald sitting on the sofa and a lady with black dress is standing near a shelfing holding a small statue in her hand, feeling a bit irritated because of the lady behavior Ajax greet her with his stern voice and propose to leave the formality behind after seeing her rude behavior, Ajax always thinks that if you told to wait inside the room you should just sit without touching anything.
After the Baron told the lady to sit Ronald introduce them to each other. After exchanging information a bit Ajax start to feel that this lady called Elris is not as strong as they say even if she’s smart and carrying two swords with her he feels that she can’t wield them properly, seeing her slender arm Ajax sure that the blow she deals can be easily blocked. And as he tried to clear his curious feeling he asked.
“Are you strong lady? You don’t look like one.”
“Would you care to find out?”
‘A fight, she asked me for a fight, I know it, even if she’s looks like a noble she’s still a barbarian’ thinking so Ajax keep asking her if she’s strong when suddenly Ronald who sitting next to her start to joke around.
Hearing that Elris will refuse the Baron request, Ajax convinced that she’s a fraud and not strong enough to even deal with a skeleton, and after hearing that she’s only joined the adventurer guild only to get an ID he’s getting more and more convinced that this lady is just a big fraud. Seeing the guild master turns furious towards the lady Ajax feel a little bit uneasy, when suddenly the door slammed open and a report coming from the guard, when he heard the report Ajax shout a little bit with surprised.
“What….. it’s too early, it supposed to be around mid day the earliest they arrived.”
A moment later a bell sound can be heard from the east and he asked to the other.
“Let’s go to the eastern gate.”
After hearing the Baron threatened the lady to join in the fight Ajax smile a bit while thinking ‘Hahaha, serves you right, you shouldn’t tell lies if you don’t want to get into trouble.’ And soon later the lady spoke.
“Then I won’t tell you where those guys come from.”
‘What… is this, another lies coming from her mouth.’ Surprised Ajax looked back to her while thinking so, and after hearing the order from the Baron he left without hearing the details of the story from Elris. Arrived at the eastern gate they climbed up the stairs to get to the top of the gate, after seeing Conrad and his two other Captains, Ajax asked for explanation.
“How can they come earlier than our prediction?”
“It looks like they break into run.”
Conrad says so as he pointed towards east pointing at the cloud of dust outside of the forest. Seeing what Conrad just pointed Ajax surprised.
“Impossible, how can they run like that?”
”Haha, you tell me.”
Surprised because of the unnatural event happening before them they stare in awe towards the east. Searching for explanation Ajax called out to someone.
“Jenkins.”
“Where is that old man, I need him.”
Soon later a man in his 50’s come straight to him.
“You asked for me General?”
“Yeah, did you ever see or heard an undead run like that?”
“No, I never heard such thing, I’m sure there’s no such thing in any books either.”
“I also think that, but those guys are running here.”
“Impossible.”
The old man says in surprised as he see towards the east.
“I’m sure the fastest undead is the animal kind.”
“Yeah I think so too, so you have any suggestion old man? I’m sure we can’t make it if we tried marching out to the plain.”
“You’re right General our best hope is going for siege battle.”
“What if we form our ranks just outside of the city wall, with that we can still make the cavalry charged from the north.”
Conrad chimed in to give his suggestion.
“Good idea, let’s use that.”
“Form up, Sounds the horn.”
Ajax gave his order to his man to make formation outside the city wall.
A blowing sounds of the war horn can be heard overlapping with the city bells.