Age of Heroes (Age of Heroes Chronicles)

Chapter 137: Banners of war (2)

He need to approach this matter with rationality. Maybe, it is not like what Lord Mila thought

She might meet her brother who is now travelling the Human Kingdom. Thinking about Mikael, Azrael have half a mind of promoting Mikael as one of his advisors.

He is smart and wise beyond his years, he is a paragon of virtue, and very insistence that though Arakath might rule with military might we must need, essential, he said, to care about the people plight and their burden to create a prosperous and peaceful nation.

Azrael once heard one of his opinions on governing. Mikael wanted, wished really, that a philosopher King will sit on the throne.

He said with enthusiasms, that no matter how hard the circumstances might be, a king that is wise and virtuous must tried their best to uphold the virtues of wisdom and moderation in his dealings.

A wise King must surround himself with persons of high literary and knowledge and people of great talents.

A King that is ruled by a mind of virtue and wisdom, dedicated to the enrichment of life will make the world prosperous and happy

Azrael smile a little.

Ariana always talk about her brother.

She respects her brother, loved him like any other sister loved their bother, but her brother, she said has sometimes a face he doesn't show to her, a scar, wound covered so brilliantly, that only those who also receive it can see it and felt it.

She always said to him that his brother and his father always spoke of their mother with hushed tones, like some secret that she is not allowed to know.

Thinking about Ariana, his mind reels back to the stark possibilities in front of him right now.

And there is a problem with Lord Mila Devonhurst reasoning.

Any kind of march will alert the human population especially now that they have to pass Alan to go to Vern.

They, of course can pass through the use of ships but the waves around the Dark Sea is rough and not only that, they are not proficient in the use of ships and if somehow, the humans kingdoms, especially Vern, who have an impressive navy and Vorthy who is most of the time neutral, but not entirely unpersuaded, join the human race, or ally with them, then he might as well send his people to die.

Unpreparedness will lead to a bad outcome.

And he also heard the family that lives in Alan, the Vermont's have strengthened the wall, recruiting trained soldier to guard the thirty towers along the shore

If that is not enough, since the House of Vermont rise to power, they focused on the Bleeding Wall restorations.

the towers are now maintained, many of them were repaired, while some others were upgraded, as they served as the defense of the realm

The reason why he knows all of this is because he sent some scouts to survey the area around the Bleeding Wall.

Bleeding Walleven before... in their unsupervised state is still a towering obstacle. Now, that it is maintained by upgraded, it would be even harder tor it to be surmounted.

And it is not lie the Bleeding Wall is some kind of castle wall that could easily be scaled up by using some stairs.

The Watchers of the Wall is no longer just composed of ill-disciplined rule breaker of the realm of humans. Some of them are from the soldiers of the Vermont, with high discipline, trained and highly loyal to the noble house of Vermont.

Whoever this Vermont family is, they have strengthened the defense of the wall, which makes if ever, the ambition to reclaim backs the Lost Land harder, if not impossible.

Azrael himself heard and knows the stories of the Wall from the priest of the Dark Church.

It is said that the wall is created by Alan but in the bottom of the wall it is strengthened with magic by Lady of the Lake, giving it one of the hardest defense to penetrate by magic.

Normal arrows don't work as the wind would blow it away like it is some kind of a divine protection and even siege weapons could not break such defense.

That is the reason why some of the Kings prefer to pursue a diplomatic relation with them, to open their gates and allow them to come and trade because while there is a lot of things they have in their own kingdoms, they also lack some stuff.

This statement is true for both continents. Asteros has stuff but not all stuff. Vorthy have their whale oils and their exotic looking fur-clothing but they lack seeds of plants and livestock.

But the path to reconciliation between humans and Demons are not easy.

The hatred between their two races runs deep and the blood and sacrifice the human endures gives them a reasonable apprehension toward their presence but one thousand years has passed.

Azrael believe that they can live in a more beautiful and a better world. At least that is what he learned when he gazes upon Ariana face.

A beautiful woman, with peerless beauty, that makes him dreams a world that is beautiful like her.

Either way he need to confirm whether the Human Continent really did something to his future bride. He intends to ask Lord Mila.

Maybe this is just his suspicion and not backed by any evidence?

Ifand somehow that this allegation against the Human Continent is true, that the Human Continent treats his future bride to be horribly, he will lead the charge to the Human Continent himself.

And he knows he is contradicting of his own intentionbut he can take and endure so much, then there will be a time when he could not take and endure it anymore.

Because if anything happens to Ariana, his Ariana he will never forgive them. It is the one thing, the only thing he couldn't tolerate.

There are times when a man must fight and what reason more justified than protecting the one you love?

Because she is his passion, his life, his sun and the stars in the sky that shines in the morning and glitter in the darkest night, that shines so brightly, illuminating his path for him.

He would not let anything bad happen to her.

But at the same time, he need to be calm and rational before he decides to do something so rash as marching to the Human continent.

He knows some Kings are waiting for such opportunity.

The Human Continent is in a way is bigger than Anvali and even more fertile, with foods and trees and their mountains.

The Eight kings are eager, greedy for what the benefit it will have in their population if they wage war against humanity.

But Azrael prefer diplomacy. Until of course, words prove useless.

Then, it will be war. Now he waits as the events are unfolding.

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