"That's mighty generous of you, Blackfire." Aleyria said with a smile, appearing suddenly next to them. "Isn't this worth a lot of money?"
"It's nothing compared to what you're doing for us, Princess. Besides, King Alexander owes quite a bit of Planetary Treasures." Blackfire said with a laugh.
Aleyria nodded and wisely refrained from asking how Alexander managed to owe him so many treasures.
"EHM! HAHAHA Yes yes! We're doing a lot for the realm, it's all good, Aleyria, don't worry!" Alexander laughed loudly. "Thank you very much for your generosity, Blackfire!"
Blackfire rolled his eyes internally in his mind while nodding gracefully. "Should I continue with my story?"
"Please do." Aleyria replied as she took her position beside Alexander.. "The night is still young and you're proving to be an excellent storyteller!"
"Very well. I will continue."
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After we destroyed our first AAR, the mood of the rcenary group lightened up considerably.
The effect was threefold.
First, my regint and I had managed to put to rest the worries that stemd from all sorts of rumours that we heard in the taverns and bars we frequented.
Additionally, it also boosted Aragosh Dragonos's prestige, as it was he who accurately predicted my victory with a hundred percent certainty.
Finally, although we were brashly confident that we were one of the top rcenary groups in Symphonia previously, and were willing to get into brawls with people claiming otherwise, it wasn't until that mont that we truly and completely believed it.
We were second in Symphonia, and anybody who disagrees with that can either shut up or speak up and get beaten within an inch of death's door.
We quickly reached the Symphonian base planet and submitted our report and evidence for our very first chunk of rits!
Completely annihilating an AAR - one thousand organizational rits.
For my contribution as the leading regintal commander to achieve that feat - one thousand personal rits.
Each of my battalion commanders got a hundred rits. While my troops received a range of five to fifty rits.
It was an incredible amount. Ten Eternal Battlefield rits could be traded for one Planetary Treasure! I basically got a hundred Planetary Treasure for half a day's work.
Everybody in the rcenary camp cheered up completely when they saw how much I got. We couldn't wait to engage the next AAR in battle! All the regintal commanders were submitting requests to Aragosh Dragonos to be the next regint to enter battle against the AARs.
Our morale hit an all ti high!
Aragosh Dragonos imdiately set off from the Symphonian base planet after resupplying and dived deep into the seventh solar system. He had filled each ship with enough resources to last us a few years. Apparently he was determined to stay as close as he could to the special mining planet to increase our chances of awakening a 'Shora Crystal Hound'.
Hanging out at the edge of the seventh solar system was an extrely common idea and was shared by many leaders. And as such, we quickly ca across a few other organizations. Two, in fact. One Symphonian and one Haran.
An incredible scene was taking place as we halted our advance to spectate.
Hundreds of thousands of Haran chas were fighting against an equal number of Symphonian chas.
As you can imagine, the Symphonians were taking an absolutely huge and one sided beating.
"Let's take them on!" A young and hot-blooded regintal commander eagerly shouted into the leader's communication group.
A murmur of agreent sounded from a few young leaders as well.
Yerra Draco sighed and spoke up.
"What do you think will happen if we join the battle, and the other Symphonian forces beat a full retreat?"
"Oh. That's true. I didn't think of that." The young and hot-blooded regintal commander said sheepishly. "What could we do then? Simply watching our faction get slaughtered like this is really hard to do!"
"Of course we're doing sothing." Aragosh Dragonos said in an as-a-matter-of-fact voice. "Zas is currently negotiating with them the conditions of our entry into the battle. He should be done soon. In fact… Ah here he is. Zas, tell us so good news."
"They're willing to give up all of their rits for this battle for our involvent. In addition, the leaders are willing to ah, visit, our main ship and do their commanding from there." Zas reported.
"Excellent!" Aragosh Dragonosh said evenly. "All regints, Eagle Battle Formation. We will engage as soon as their leaders reach us and their identities are confird."
Eagle Battle Formation is a beautiful creation by Aragosh Dragonos.
He nad it because of the initial formation which resembles an eagle. The left and right flanks would comprise of eight defensive regints each and would curl outwards towards the enemy. There would be two regints placed in reserve in each flank.
The flanks were actually nothing more than funnels. Each flank regint would engage with a large number of the enemy and promptly retreat towards the center, while another regint would swoop down to take their place once the first regint had retreated.
This undulating movent of the regints is a little bit like the flapping of an eagle's wings.
The center would be where the head and the sharp claws of the eagle will be. Our elite dragon regint would serve as the eagle's beak and attack the enemy from above, while the other four heavy regints would serve as the eagle's claws and smash the enemy from below.
The center is basically the at grinder.
This formation works because of the absolute disparity of strength between a normal regint and our elite and heavy regints.
Hmm? A heavy regint consists of solely heavy chas. It is slow, but packs an incredible punch.
It is a beautiful formation that only works with our rcenary group. With Aragosh Dragonos, Yerra Draco, Rona Rhythmos and Zas holding the center, it was like a ship having a million kilogram anchor in the middle of a storm. They were absolutely unmovable and everything thrown their way would be reduced to nothing very, very quickly.
That battle was the first huge battle that involved every unit in our rcenary group, and I believe we perford admirably.
Sure, there were hot-headed regintal commanders who overstayed in their positions instead of beating an ordered retreat towards the center. But the flank reserve regints, which were led by seasoned and senior mbers of the rcenary group, always moved in at the right ti and helped these young commanders out.
As you know, casualties were unavoidable in battle. But excellent strategies and tactics can do so much to minimize that. And that battle truly opened my eyes to that fact.
Still, a formation could not hope to deal with all the crazy ideas that the enemy field commanders might have, and that battle too proved that while excellent strategies and tactics were paramount, having field commanders who are resourceful and who are able to react instantly was as, if not more, important than good strategies and tactics.
I was one of the defensive regints assigned to the left flank and I was placed at its far end. We approached the battle from behind the original Symphonian regints and Aragosh Dragonos had them form up into two beyond both our flanks to avoid our flanks from getting flanked. That was basically their entire job.
However, sohow, the enemy's right flank (which is our left, where I was) was much stronger than the rest. Their chas displayed a much higher level of skill and their commander too was an excellent one.
They had never seen a formation like ours, but their commander apparently thought that he'd be damned if he were to do exactly what the formation expected him to do. So he led his extrely skilled regint of chas and went straight to circle around us.
His five thousand near-heavy chas smashed into the original Symphonian regints with their guns blazing and shredded those weak good-for-nothings to pieces. They didn't even last five minutes.
I quickly turned my regint to face them, all the while signalling to our two reserve regints that I needed help.
But to my horror, the two reserve regints were already engaged in battle. They were helping out two regints who had sohow managed to get themselves almost surrounded.
I was alone. Damn it!
I had a thousand heavy chas, four thousand dium chas and four thousand light chas. My light chas' attacks had proven to be highly ineffective against the Haran chas. There was no need to ntion how they would fare once they got within range of the Harans.
My dium chas had proven to be nothing more than armored target practice. Only my heavy chas could stand their ground and fight. But being outnumbered five to one, they wouldn't last very long.
"Defensive formations!" I roared. Whatever happened, I would be damned if I despaired without giving them a good fight. "Commanders, your strongest barriers please!"
"No." A soft voice sounded in my head. It was Rona! "Send your units to an all out attack.. Now."
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