3rd Person POV
The current situation for Alkali Kingdom is very bad. Their enemy succeeded in cutting off their supplies and are now isolated from the rest of the world.
The Holy Crusaders were surprise at first to find the demon also attacking Alkali Kingdom, but the pope said to ignore it and focus on the mission.
On the first attack the Holy Church send in 340 scouts but only 50 came back alive.
They receive information on where Alkali position their their troops. Upon gaining this knowledge the holy church send 34000 crusaders in for the first wave of invasion.
Out of the 340000 crusaders only 16000 came back alive, on the other side Alkali lost 13 out of 37 cities and 2 provinces on the south side of the country.
The first clash took 2 months until it was over, however even after the battle the Holy Church didn't let off the pressure and send in small army of 1000 to each of the remaining cities on the south side. Through this method they able to acquire two more city.
A month later the Holy Church decided to push once again but was met with a surprise. The Holy Church send in 320000 crusaders and this time only 320 came back alive. The 320 survivors reported back what happen on the battle field. Everyone of them claim to have met with ten dragons that easily destroyed them. It only took the dragon half a day to slaughter them all.
Hearing this they finally remember what was written on the history book. Alkali the founder of Alkali Kingdom was raise by a dragon and learn many of its secrets. A king chosen by the dragons and each generation of king are all deem worthy by the dragons for it is impossible to become the King of Alkali without the dragon's acknowledgement.
Realizing the fairy tail to be true the Crusaders begins to lose morale, and start to doubt the pope propaganda. In the story the requirement for being acknowledge by the dragon is Justice, Fairness, and Wisdom similar values to be acknowledged by their goddess.
The number of the Holy Church was originally 1 million crusaders now only 356 320 crusaders are left. Therefore they wait for reinforcement and focus more on gathering Intel on the rest of the battle field.
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Holy Soldier POV
I exit the tent after giving the captain my daily report and decide to get something to eat.
After getting the food I head to where my friends are eating. I took a seat beside one of the newbies, set my plate on the table and began eating.
My friends and the newbie are currently chatting about the latest rumour.
"So what do you guys think?" Ask Friend A.
"Is it really a just a rumour I mean it makes so much sense?" Doubt one of the newbie.
"What are you guys taking about ask?" I ask curious.
"Well the thing is we're talking about the latest rumour have you heard?" Friend A ask.
"Nope." I said. "What's it about?"
They began telling me about the rumour, it goes along the line that the pope is a traitor, who is using the goddess's name in order to fulfill his greed he's even join hand with the demons and elves. Furthermore all the archbishop's claims he betray the goddess. If it was only one or two then it can be shrugged off as a power struggle but all of them give the same claim it can't be a conspiracy it's too perfect.
"I don't know but even if it is true what are we going to do about it? We're just soldiers we have no power." I said.
"Yeah your right." The Newbie Agreed.
We finish our meal and head to our own tents to sleep. The next morning when we wake up the captain called everyone to a meeting. When everyone gathered the captain takes the spot light and announce his thoughts.
"Everyone I'm sure all of you heard the recent rumours?" He ask.
We all nodded.
"Good that makes things easier, I don't know if the it's all true or not but there's one thing for sure Alkali aren't blasphemers or demon sympathizers, the Pope lied to us. In fact aren't we the ones working with the demons here?"
He ask.
Noise go up as everyone start to talk about how they feel regarding these rumours, unfortunately the evidence of the Pope's betrayal is all to clear.
A lot of people are unhappy about his recent decision, but what are we suppose to do about all this.
"Fortunately for all of us there's another option, the holy knights and their captain are going to rebel against the Pope. Either you stand with them or your against them." He informs.
Everyone disperse after the meeting, some we're arguing with each other while other need time to think.
As for me I made my decision it's wrong to invade Alkali kingdom and now that I have a different option I take it, I'm going to join the holy knight's army.
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King's of Alkali POV
"Your Majesty!!!" Shouts the Messenger. "It's big news the Holy Church has an infighting according to our spies report!"
I simply nodded to his report. Good it seems things are going just as plan. I have no idea what happen to the Holy Pope but having both the Holy Church and the The Church of Darkness attacking us at the same time is a blessing in disguise.
Those dragons are not the same one from Alkali's Founding Fairytale in fact that's simply a fairy tail.
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Those dragons are dragons Escovack mind control using a ancient near-god level spell. He and Luke defeated and subdue each dragon one after the other so they could present them to me on my 40th birthday.
Who would have thought they turn out to be our greatest ace. As a multi-religious country those Founding Fairytale are use to appease the Holy Church Believing citizens of Alkali.
We then planted doubt to the holy church through the same method. And began spreading rumour through our spies. Those who are against the Pope would use this opportunity to overthrow him.
And the plan was executed perfectly just as my [Probability Calculation] ability. This allows me to calculate possible scenario guide my kingdom to the best possible future. It's one of the many precognition ability.
"Your Majesty!" Another messenger appeared.
"The Empire is willing to lend us a hand but in return they want us to hand over Magi Escovack." He announced.
What!? This is not good this is out of my calculation. Why would they want Escovack? Damn this is getting complicated we really help right now that only 1/3 of our forces is left.
Do I sacrifice my friend for my country or—
"DADDY!!" A voice ask brought me thoughts. I look to the source of the voice it was my 4th daughter, why and how did is she here.
"DADDY! Big Sister is coming back!" She said enthusiastically.
"AND?" I ask.
I understand that is a horrible thing to say as a father but I'm a king first and a father second.
She pouted and was about to retort when one of her guardian interject.
"Lord Magi will be here as well along with some of the Heroes." Said the guardian.
That's good I should have a talk with him because I'm stuck as to what to do next. If I split my army evenly to both the North and East side of the battle field then we can last longer but we can go one the offensive. If it's Escovack then he should be able to present me more scenarios.
The ability [Probability Calculation] has its limits and rules. It does not give me absolute ability to see into the future. I can only calculate the future base on the information I have. If there is a factor unknown to me, then it is impossible to see the future influence by that unknown factor.
Like being attack by the Holy Church, Elves, and the Church of Darkness. I was totally unprepared, I have spies and information network to assist me in using my ability to the best of its potential. The invasion of my kingdom by these three forces took me by surprise. None of the three forces show any sign attacking us until a while ago.
What could be their motivation why attack us, no matter how much I wrap my head around it I can't seem to find any reason they'ed want to attack us.
I laid my back against the throne, shut my eyes, and took a deep breath. Dammit I'm so tired I haven't slept for days, I've really been overworking myself. I got out of my seat and left the throne room and head to my bed to get some sleep.
{Three Days Later}
"Sir Lord Magi is here." Inform a servant.
"Good escort him to come in." I ordered.
The old servant leaves the room and shut the door. A few minutes later the door open again the old servant hold open the door for an middle age man to enter.
"Hello Escovack." I greet.
"It's been quite a while your Majesty." He greets back.
"There's no need for formalities we're old friends." I said.
"It's entirely necessary, your the king please be more aware of the your title, it not something you should treat lightly." He retorts.
"You haven't change a bit, still as stern as ever I see." I fired back.
He frowns upon hearing that, but quickly change the topic.
"Let's get to business shall we?" He asks.
"Yes yes." I answered.
I started with asking him if he knows any reason the empire asks for him. To my surprise to tells me he now has a divine staff, and the empire has been sending assassins after him. I couldn't believe it at first, it sounded to good to be true. This man this magi has been at the top of all magician even without a divine staff he prove superior to the ones who wield a divine staff. And now he too has a divine staff, the only reason the Holy Pope the Pope of darkness and the elf king were in the same league as him was thanks to their divine staff and now that he too possess a divine staff of his own how powerful is the man sitting across from me?
"Anyhow I shall handle the demon army, all you need to worry about is the Elven army." He declares.
Normally that would be insane but I have no doubt he has the power to back his words. As for the Elves I wonder what I should do about them, should I divide the dragons in half to deal with the elves?
"Your majesty!" A servant barge into the room.
By the gods, there sure is a lot of people barging in lately.
"What is it?" I quire.
"I was told princess has appeared in the front line!!!!" Report the servant.
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Oops I put in the wrong title for a second there, I put "vs Elves" but that's for the next chapter.