arrived that Ash first sat down with the new commanders. It was not as if he had not met any of them but mostly he had only greeted them in passing while he was out amongst the common troops. It was not only him and Tolarea that was moving amid the troops either. Each one of his wives moved around working with the troops and their commanders in any way they could. It was hard for Ash to remember but his wives were amount the elite of each of their tribes younger generation. They had been given the best training and resources so in many ways they were much more skilled than a common troops not to mention their levels were much higher than the average soldiers.
Celina having the same standard fighting style of most the troops worked with them daily. Ash had feared that it would cause problems with Uthla but instead he was quite happy with the troop’s small advancements.
Seia worked with the few archers within the group from time to time but mostly spent her time hunting for Ash’s supper. It wasn’t that the army camp didn’t have good food but it was mostly bland food that was made for a large number of people and while filling was not that tasty.
Li spent her mornings and evenings cooking for Ash but when she was not in the kitchen she moved among the troops healing any wounds they might have received during training. Ash did this as well so that he could help increase his abilities level but the troops were much more comfortable asking Li for help than him.
Mia created a small farm at the edges of the camp where she used her nature magic to grow vegetables. The rest of the time she spent moving amount the woods helping Seia hunt. Ash still didn’t know much about nature magic since it was what they called a melded or unique magic.
Tina spent most of her time taking care of the large hawks that had been moved to a small pin in the center of the camp. The birds didn’t like the forest and at first would squawk noisily all night but now that Tina groomed them each day they had started to quiet down.
Gena like Tolarea never left Ash’s side but she didn’t involve herself in the battles and remained silently at his side watching anyone close to him with narrowed eyes. Ash knew that she had no problem talking like Li did but when she was working she was almost like a moving statue.
Eun spent most of her time with the commander Uthla and reporting everything back to Ash. The main reason for her post was because she and Uthla had trained together when they were younger since the two were close together in age and their clans were close to each other. It was also Eun who had spoken up and helped Uthla keep his post. If Ash had been the jealous type he might have suspected something untoward but given how many wives he had Ash didn’t have the time to worry about every one of the actions.
Though each one of his wives had things they tended to throughout the day today they were all by his side as he sat in the large command tent waiting on the officers to arrive.
Taking a deep breath Ash look up at the dark green cloth ceiling of the tent then looked back to the group of demons gathered before him. There were far more than he had anticipated. It seemed that the clan heads had moved fast after leaving his palace and almost all of the commanders were present.
“We have received new that the enemy forces are less than two weeks away from the duchy capital,” Ash said trying to keep his tone even. “I am sure that each of you have received your orders but I wanted to bring you all together at least once so that we could make sure that everyone was sure of their part in the coming battle.”
When none of the commanders said anything Ash continued. “We are expecting that the enemy forces will surround the fort and erect siege weapons before attacking but if they directly assault the fort then we will have to skip the first to plans of action and move directly to their third…So please keep that in
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