The laws of the new world and ours differ greatly. Even though this has resulted in countless dinsional tears between the worlds, these tears are simply too small to allow anything greater than a Two-stars undead to cross overwe have tried our best to widen the tears yet their self-regenerative powers are simply too much for usI beseech your Highness to dispatch more reinforcentswith our current manpower, it would be difficult for us to enter the new world given how attuned we are to the laws of our current world
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Just a while more and well reach the battlefield, I hope youve prepared yourself ntally. Standing at the head of our little troupe, the kitty cat who was noticeably more wilted after a run-in with Princess isian, turned around to address us. Just looking at him now, I could have sworn that his entire feline self was about to crumble.
Prepared?
Please, this brother has slain countless undead and devils during his ti in the Prison of the Dead. No matter how bloody your clans battles are, theres no way they can compare to my vast experience-truly those were harrowing tisdays where corpses piled as high as mountains.
Seeing so nonchalant, Anmi elected not to explain any further but rely said so in a steady voice: Youll understand once you see it yourself.
Since he wasnt willing to dwell any further on this subject, I decided to ask sothing else instead: Anmi, is it really alright for us tocause trouble for the Eldest Prince, Weiderly?
Normally, an outsiders interference during a civil war tended to draw the most hatred to themselves. Just thinking about that point was already enough to give a headache as is.
Dont worry, while isian might not be the most reliable cat in a number of matters, this task of hers is definitely not a trap. As long you all dont cause any lasting harm to Weiderly, the elders wont interfere. With regards to this mission of ours, Anmi seed extraordinarily confident about it, going so far as to say: Moreover, Weiderly has already dispatched his armies to fight against isians. Those guarding him shouldnt number more than twenty. That, Im willing to stake my life on.
Hmph, such confidence, youd better watch out for when those words co back to bite you.
Oh right, exactly how does your clan settle its succession disputes? The importance of a succession dispute was never in doubt, else why would the three siblings ever co to blows over it. However, there was one point that left confounded even till now, if they knew how important the war was, why werent they commanding their armies? The fact that the majority of their armies were outside fighting while less than twenty of their soldiers stayed behind as guardcats just seed a little odd no matter how one looked at it
How huh Anmi paused for a second before saying: Its actually really simple, both sides send out their armies to fight over territory. Once one side has successfully claid the territory as theirs, it counts as a victory for them. Also, a castle is a private belonging of each cat, even if another cat wants to claim it, that can only be done at the last battle.
Is calling for outside help even allowed?
It is, to us, being able to call in outside help is a show of ones success. However, such help must not infringe upon the clans interests. If a candidate betrays the clans interests, the elders wont acknowledge him or her even if that cat wins.
Having said all that, Anmi lowered his head and fell silent, clearly not intending to talk anymore. Seeing that, I glanced at Sinmosa next to and gave a helpless shrug before moving on. As of right now, all we could do was handle the issues as they co.
Honestly, if the worst was to happen to us, I had already planned for Sinmosa to leave us behind and escape with Mo Na. After all, we were visiting an enemys castle here, no amount of preparation was enough and a single mishap might just lead to our downfall.
With nothing else to talk about, the journey proceeded quietly till Anmi stopped in his tracks a short while later.
Past this black forest is the battlefield As he said that, his mood was noticeably sullen.
For Anmi to have such a crestfallen reaction was actuallyrather understandable. After all, this was his clans civil war, no matter what the reason was, the casualties at the end of the day would always be their cats. Was it so strange for him to be sad then? Did these rulers really have to use such barbaric ans to settle their disputes; was there truly no better way or did the river have to run red before they would finally be satisfied?
Dont be scared Mama, Mo Na will protect you. For so reason, Mo Na seed rather attached to this whole concept of protecting and would often throw out those words at the drop of the hat. Even though she was just a child and couldnt be that strong in the first place, my heart cald down sowhat upon hearing her sweet voice. Was this what people called kinship? Right here, right now, all I could think of was how to guarantee her safety and that no matter what, I didnt want her to get hurt.
Good girl, Mo Na, but you seed to have a made a mistake there, its Papa who will protect you. Patting her on the head, the worries on my face seed to disappear with each rub and all that remained behind was the pride of a father. If sothing happens, rember to hide behind your Papa.
Kay~ She sowhat reluctantly acceded to that. but Mo Na is really strong
Mhm, Mo Na is strong but as long as Papa is here, it is Papas duty to protect Mo Na, that is what it ans to be a Papa.
What do you an duty?? Blinking those lovely eyes of hers, Mo Na gave a perplexed look. Even though she had her inherited mories to teach her, it seed like duty wasnt one of those lessons passed down. Perhaps the devils didnt really have such a word in their dictionary.
Duty huh, duty ans to do what has to be done. Just like how Papa has to protect Mo Na when she is in danger, that is Papas duty.
Her fists tightened and she lifted them up in a forceful pose. She seed to have understood what I was trying to convey but given how tiny and adorable she was, her posture just couldnt display the solemnity she felt, instead it just made her even cuter: Then Mo Na will protect Mama as well, dont worry, Mo Na take responsibility for Mama.
Why does it seem like we are on completely different wavelengths
Weve reached it
Amidst our idle chatter, we unknowingly left the pitch black forest and entered the battleground. Lifting up my head upon his reminder, I found two armies facing against each other.
On each side were hundreds of Purgatory Shadowcats with the closer army belonging to Princess isian. As for the other side, that naturally belonged to Weiderly. The two armies stood a re hundred ters apart from each other and violently hissed at each other, filling the entire region with a tense atmosphere in the process.
Right in the middle of these two armies were two lone cats who were chasing each other; from the looks of things, they were probably engaged in a duel of sorts. A leap here and a swipe there, their battle was truly a ferocious one.
Is that the heads of each army squaring off against each other? Looking at two giant kitty cats claw at each other, I was suddenly reminded of those generals from the Three Kingdoms era who would hold multiple general faceoffs in order to raise morale, at least it was so for the winning side
You could say that. Anmi rolled his eyes and curled his lips sideways: Why is it those morons again
The cats from your clan can only fight with their bodies? What about magic? After watching them for what felt like a half a day, I never once saw them throw out a single spell.
MMFFFFAAAAH~~!
Before Anmi could even reply, it seed like a victor had been decided. All we saw were the cats biting on each others tailsbecause of that, both cats gave off a muffled cry filled with indescribable pain. Still, both sides refused to let go of the others tail no matter how much pain they were in.
For cats, their tails were a sensitive spot which gave rise to the saying a cat which had its tail stepped on. Clearly such a saying wouldnt have existed if the pain wasnt excruciating.
Even so, just as I thought that they would end up biting each other till one side collapsed, the two cats suddenly loosened their bites and collapsed, both falling towards each other and supporting the other.
Eh? So they arent fighting anymore?
Just as I was about to ask Anmi however, the two cats suddenly stood up and as if pre-rehearsed, both sides bowed at each other like they had just co to so kind of agreent that only the other cat knew about. One of the cats bellowed: Its a draw once more.
A mont later, both sides erupted in cheers and the field was filled with frenzied NYAAHs in an instant.
Whats going on here
Once both sides had finally quietened down, the other cat who had his tail bitten bellowed as well: With that, I announce the official start of the 38th Succession Battle between Prince Weiderly and Princess isian!
The topic of the first match will behunting.
The rules will be the sa as always, both sides will dispatch one team and within one hour, the side that brings back the most spoils will win
Very quickly, two teams of five Purgatory Shadowcats were ford and sped off in opposite directions from each other. As for those two cats who had their tails bitten, they each took out an hourglass and placed it on the floor.
The other cats on the other handbegan breaking off into groups of three to five and started playing gas. So started chatting while the more bored ones just went to sleep instead. So even started teasing each otheressentially, they were all having fun.
So this is the civil war you told about?
How the heck is this even a war, its just a bunch of cats horsing around!
Whats with wrong this? Dont tell we have to duke it out till one side was decimated in order to qualify for the term civil war? As he said that, he gave a strange look of both complacency and embarrassnt, either way, I didnt know whether to laugh or cry at them.
However, I had to admitthis warring thod of theirs truly exceeded my imagination. No wonder he didnt wish to speak about it then. Thanks to that, I mistakenly assud it was so kind of horrific and bloody affair. I was clearly wrong about that howeverthe way those two cats were trying to bite each other just nowmaybe its just my imagination butthat just seed like them being gay with each other more than anything else!
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