My Reincarnation as a Chicken Chapter 50 The Preparations Pt.I

Day 18

'We have an epic battle coming up with an enemy that could most likely squash us all like the insignificant bugs we are before its eyes, however, I don't think any of us here are planning on dying anyti soon. So I am going to have divide you all into groups just so we don't die. Leader of the rat n, you will be leading your race to set up ambushes and traps for the enemy forces. You also will be sharing information on what happens on the battlefield so we can keep track. Gorm, you and the goblins are going to have to engage in a frontal assault. Next, Sunalla, I believe you said you and your water nymphs are capable of performing water magic for healing? I'll need you guys to leave your comfort zones and move on land to support the goblin forces. I believe the Ogre Tyrant may bring a king or two with him, but we only have one king on our side and she will be coming with her forces, so the goblins will not be alone, however they will co on the actual day of warfare, so the goblins have to be well-prepared. The dryads who are incapable of participating will be providing food for our forces by simply helping them move about the forest much more easily than our opponents. Any questions?'

Sunalla raised her hand so I called her out.

"Um, what about the ogre tyrant?"

'Is that even a question? Don't we all already know the answer to that?'

I put up a bold front, but on the inside I was scared as hell. To take on soone on the level of Minerva. It's going to be hell chipping away at his HP, let alone with his defense stat and the fact that he'll be attacking . But, according to Diane, Minerva said she would participate if I did, so I would assu that she would take care of Krull if he actually participated. The only problem was convincing Minerva to not fight him.

I had given them my orders, just like they wanted to. I wasn't sure how they would take it, but to my surprise, they all nodded, no one disagreed.

After that, the eting was disbanded and the rest of the days was spent preparing our forces.

Day 1 of preparations was spent spreading the information to the various races that were taking part in the self-defense. The news spread so fast that, by afternoon I spotted the races already in action, training themselves.

I stopped by the rat n today since the leader had invited . It turns out they live underground so had he not personally brought I wouldn't have found them. They had a whole tunnel of networks that led to every single part in the forest so that was how they heard so much information. So it was no shock when I found out that the rat n had already began to set up the traps and were training for the ambushes. They were a well-oiled machine and to be honest, it was scary.

What was even scarier was when I arrived at the rat n's base. I could see over a hundred of them constantly moving through the nurous holes in the walls. Turns out he was lying about their numbers and there were actually way more rat n in the West than he initially told us. This made complain.

'With this many why don't you guys just go on a full blown assault?'

"You were the one who gave the orders."

He retorted as such and I felt embarrassed.

'Whatever. You'll need to move so of the rat n to join the goblins. Also, if you guys have so many tunnels can't we just use them for the transportation of our troops? We have a ho field advantage, why aren't you guys using it to the best?'

"Sorry."

The rat man ended up apologizing, realizing how stupid it was to neglect that. But then I had a thought.

'You guys built all these tunnels, right?'

"Yes."

'Ok then why not build tunnels to Sunalla's river? That should make it easier for the water nymphs and guppies to join in on the battle, no?'

"Y-yes. You're right."

'How long will it take to create the tunnels?'

"We should be able to finish by the end of today if we start now."

'The end of today? Will it affect your training?'

"Not if we leave it to those setting up the traps."

'Ok then, you guys do just that. I'll take my leave now. I'll inform Sunalla of my plan. I leave everything to you."

I left the rat n and flew as quickly as I could towards Sunalla's river. When I got there I could see so water nymphs on the banks of the river. Since there was no practical way to train their healing magic, so of them were just sun bathing. So stupid. I spotted Sunalla amongst their ranks eating a fruit. She looked like so kind of bikini model, except with her blue skin.

When I got there she greeted and I did sa. I told her of my plan and she said as long they stopped at the river bank she wouldn't have a problem with it. And like that I had already catered for the mobility of the nymphs and guppies to the battlefield.

The next race I headed to, was the goblins. Apparently all the tribes had gathered at Ooo and the hob-goblins were training the regular goblins on how to use make-shift spears and throw rocks at their targets. To be honest it was going miserably. I knew it was only our first day, but watching how miserably they were at practice was going was painful. It definitely wasn't good for my heart. It was my life… err our lives on the line here. When I got there, I found Gorm and he introduced to the other leaders. Apart from Gorm the other leaders didn't have nas. I rembered the sprite saying sothing about how rare it was for evolved monsters to have nas.

'Gorm, I'm sending about five hundred rat n to join you guys tomorrow. Is that ok?'

"F-Five hundred!?"

'Yea, turns out there were more rat n there so I figured that I better make good use of them.'

After the goblins, I headed over to Diane's tree. Nothing was off with the dryads. She said they would provide fruits for them. I was sure fruits weren't going to cut it and she said she would inform the nymphs and guppies to try to distribute so fishes from their river. She also gave so shocking news.

"Also, I have soone who will be able to participate in this battle."

'Soone? Who?'

"I believe you have already t."

She pointed to the sprite who was standing by her side, my escort for the past few days.

'Eh? I thought you dryads couldn't participate?'

"Well luckily she isn't a dryad."

'Oh? I forgot that. So in that case is she a good fighter?'

"I don't think so, but she specializes in support and healing magic."

'Oh?'

I looked at her and she was as red as a tomato with her hands on her face. Was there sothing to be embarrassed off?

'Ah wait. In that case, are there more tree sprites who could help us?'

"Um… There are well over 100 tree sprites in the west, however, I am not sure the other dryads will allow their tree sprites to plunge into battle."

Ah well, it's not like I can force them to participate. If she was willing to let even a single mber join, why not?

'Ok then, I'll think about her placent and I'll inform you tomorrow.'

"I-I… I'm really good at making things!"

She shouted before I could fly off. Then my mind went back to her blessing.

'The [Heavenly Crafter], eh? Pleasure to have ya on board.'

With that said, I left them. It was already night ti so I went to check up on Ulva. I wanted to ask her to help us fight, but she looked so angelic and cute. I simply didn't have the willpower to ask a girl to fight for ! That was too unmanly! Instead, I went hunting. Today was the first ti in a while that my stamina had gone below 90%. I ended up passing out in Diane's tree that night even though I didn't want to sleep there!

Day 19

I woke up to find out that Ulva had left so of the rabbit at for last night. I gratefully ate the at I suffered to catch but couldn't eat last night.

Day 2 of preparations, started out great. I headed off to the rat n to check on their progress with the tunnels.

"Lady Hinotori, we managed to finish building the tunnel last night. Now we are joining it to the points were we are setting our traps so the nymphs and guppies can join us in ambushing. We will also set up spots where those who will be healing will be stationed. They should be ready for use by tomorrow noon."

'Ok good. Did you send the rat n who will be joining the goblins off already?'

"Yes. They should be there by now."

'Ok then, I'm going to check them out.'

When I got there, I was sort of scared by the view from the sky. This had turned into a military camp and they were being trained like dogs. I flew in and when Gorm spotted , he ca running at .

"Hinotori-sama! The reinforcents you spoke of appeared. I'll be frank. I thought you were exaggerating when you said they were 500 in number. With this, I believe we have a chance."

'Hinotori-sama? I like the sound of that. What happened to the goblins?'

When I looked at them were no longer skinny pot-bellied uglies. Now they were skinny muscular uglies.

"It took a while, but I managed to get all the goblins into better shape."

I wanted to ask how it happened in one day, but I had learnt that if I let sothing like that get to , I lose.

'Also, the rat n are constructing stations so you guys can go for healing when injured. When they're done they'll inform you of where they will be. Please pass the information on to the goblins.'

"Alright! Leave it to !"

After that he left back to oversee the training and I flew away to Sunalla's river.

When I got there, I could see the water nymphs coming in and out of the newly built tunnel. Out of curiosity, I asked one of the nymphs about what was happening. Apparently the nymphs were going through it to see how deep it went. They planned on manipulating the river water into the tunnel so that they could move better and faster in there. Since this would speed up their reaction ti, I gave them a thumbs up.

Next was the news the tree sprite gave from Diane. I had been told that so random treants had turned up in the forest out of nowhere and were being very violent, so I should go take them down. At first, when she described it to I was sort of pissed since it was simply Diane using for whatever she felt like, but I decided to simply check it out.

There were two treants and each was easily twice my size. Although stat wise, I was stronger and they were simply D- in rank. I would have taught them a good lesson if I hadn't found out that they were Ichi and Ni. My first sprouts.

I was so glad to have found them that I almost teared up. They had grown up all big and strong and I couldn't believe that they made so much progress in such short ti. I also didn't understand why they weren't evolving into mushroos. Was it because I created them and not a mushroo?

I ca to the conclusion that that didn't matter and I should have focused on the preparations. So I included them in the defense task-force imdiately, putting them in the traps departnt. They could pretend to be random bushes and attack out of nowhere.

After reporting back to Diane, I then had the issue of finding a job for the sprite. I hadn't really thought about what she was going to do. I was thinking of adding her to one of the dic teams since I couldn't really have her working with the rat n. Then there was the issue of creating tools, but I doubted we could find her the necessary resources. There simply wasn't enough ti, but Diane suggested that I let her tag along with on that day for healing asures. I was hesitant about it, but

Ulva was sitting quietly in Diane's tree, simply observing everything happening. So that night, I hunted down so horned rabbits and dragged them back to the cave. Before I could eat, I passed out from low stamina again.