Chapter 14
.OoO. Hours later .OoO.
The sun rose, and the golden rays shown down on a bloody battlefield, yet it was not red that flowed, piles of stone and wooden bodies, leaves, and bark. All of them were piled up into a mountainous size. Around it all were the soldiers of the soon to be established Dragon Kingdom.
Each one showed signs of a bloody struggle, and each one showed signs of them being in the brink of exhaustion. Some were even unconscious.
Lucky for them the battle was over and a recovery team set up long before consisting of the labour units rushed over and picked them up before carrying them inside the barrier and into a makeshift infirmary where the labour units healed them.
Galion, was still present in the battlefield, despite his injuries. He was acting as a guard to the Units who were collecting their spoils. Everything on this battlefield was a useful resource not to be wasted.
"It's over," he muttered, "I wonder how the lord did?" he asked himself.
"I'm sure he's fine my friend." Spoke Holran while limping to the earth dragon.
"Yes, you are correct. Should you not be in the infirmary healing?" asked Galion.
"Ha! Look who's talking, I saw you nearly loose an arm 2 hours into the battle and were forced to temporarily retreat yet now you wish to lecture me?" asked and amused Holran. Galion frowned.
"Those are two different scenarios my friend. I was facing a horde 10 times larger than your own yet here I stand, boasting wounds of honour! Signs that I was forced to retreat only after they all fell." Spoke Galion his tone turning slightly boastful.
"10 times my own! Now I know you've gone crazy, it was barely double. Sir Joseph, please take this delusional full to the infirmary he need his head checked." Spoke Holran to a passing Labour unit who looked at them both and frowned.
"You two are idiots, the battle is over, and the clean up is done as well, come along and get some rest, I'll have one of my own treat you." Spoke Joseph calmly.
The two looked to the vast fields to see the last few loads of resources being hauled into the barrier.
Galion frowned at Holran.
"See what you've done fool, I have lost my prestige in front of the others," spoke the earth dragon with a frown.
"Your delusions are a wonder to see," spoke Holran while walking to his barrier.
"Why you…" before Galion could finish his upcoming threat a colomn of water interrupted him.
Seconds later Morgan appeared, littered with wounds and scars much like the rest of them, then the column of water fell over disposing of all the corpses she gathered.
"Please deal with this," she said calmly while entering the barrier around the castle.
The labour units were forced to pick up corpses and put them in the warehouse as well, after proper dismantlement of course.
.oOo.
Within the room of Arthur the young man could be seen laying on his bed, asleep. The Rank up drained a lot out of him. Along with stress.
When Morgan stepped in she saw him sleeping peacefully. She took stock of all the shimmering gold clusters all around him. 'Divine Gold,' she thought, before using magic she carefully lifted the gold off the bed and placed it in a neat pile not far from Arthur.
.OoO.
Arthur felt warmth, and a strange sense of relaxation, but it was time to wake up . Then he opened his eyes to see the ceiling of his room. Then his mind was flooded with notifications.
[You have successfully ranked up. +1800 to all stats…You have gained the skills, King's Aura, Domination field, Magic interference, Creature domination, Weapon's mastery, Call of Royalty.]
[Congratulations on ranking up, you have received 1,000 gold.]
[Excess Exp has been transmuted to Divine Gold…You received divine Gold x13]
[Your souls capacity has been increased, you can now summon Dragon-Sworn soldiers without limits. Please upgrade Nest to unlock this feature.]
After listening and reading to this Arthur smiled and moved on to his status.
[Player status]
Name: Arthur Pendragon (system-issued name)
Title: Ruler of Dragons
Affiliation: True Neutral
Region: Beleth
Level: 10
Exp: /6,000
STR: 680
DEF: 685
AGT: 685
MID: 750
MAG: 730
MAGD: 710
Skills: Lord's share, Sacrificial growth, Dragon Aura, Dragon Senses, King's Aura, Dominion field, Magic interfarence, Creature domination, Weapon's mastery, Call of Royalty, lesser Dragonoid Physiology.
Equipment: Naga steel sword, Naga steel armor, Naga steel dagger, Naga steel spear
[End]
The shock of his own strength made Arthur grin, he wanted to jump around and scream that he was the strongest. "I should get up," he muttered to himself, and did just that.
He looked around and found a pile of white looked to be glowing gold crystals. He walked to it.
"So this is Divine Gold, I'm assuming it's not a unite faction resource, anyone who can reach level 10 and continue to grind can make them. However, I'm sure at the current level very few lords have the power to do something like this," thought Arthur out loud before opening the inventory seeing thousands upon thousands of materials and resources there various categories.
Then he put the gold into the inventory before moving to the throne room where he found all of his units present, each one bowing.
"Lord, congratulations on your advancement!" all of them said in unison.
Arthur smile, "Thank you all," he said before reaching his throne and sat down. "Now then what are our casualties?" he asked.
"Near Zero sire. All who were injured have been healed and all they need is rest," spoke Morgan.
"I see, good. Any take aways from the battle?" he asked.
"Well sire, I believe we need more priests and mages. They can offer wider ranges of strategies in such combat," spoke Lucias.
"I see, and your right. I was planning on summoning more specialist units," he said calmly.
"That would be for the best sire," said Lucias.
"Ok anything else?" he asked,
"Sire I would like to make a suggestion," spoke Morgan. Arthur nodded allowing her to speak, "I would like to capture the naga nest near our settlement," spoke Morgan. Arthur hummed.
"Ok currently we have an campaign we have to complete, once that is done and we either capture the settlement or wipe it out. Then we will focus on the other directions, we will need to enter the mountains to see what lies deep inside and the what lies deep in the sea that would be a threat. Once that is done, we will solidify our defences and focus on increasing our numbers." Said Arthur.
"Yes sire." Spoke Morgan.
"Now all of you prepare tomorrow is war," said Arthur.
.oOo. end of chapter .oOo.