It is the sixth day of the war to take control of the city of Bronimo between Fruvania and Malitbok.
The soldiers of Fruvania being on the defense from the Malitbok attacks to take their city have already lost their commanding general Abikpo on the third day to the supreme commander of the Malitbok forces and due to this their formation is now in disarray.
They barely managed to hold out for the last three days due to the help of general Flutkin Kinto but that is just prolonging the inevitable fact that another city of Fruvania(Bronimo) will once again fall into the hands of the Malitbok forces thereby losing the second to last city of fruvania.
The only chance the Fruvanians have to prevent their entire nation from being wiped out in this war is to create a magical barrier around the remaining part of the city that the Malitbok forces have not yet invaded and to create the barrier is what the entire forces of Fruvania are trying to achieve but the Malitbok troops know this too and the last thing the supreme commander of the Malitbok forces Umabe Dick would do is to let an opportunity of wiping out the Fruvanians from the map go to waste.
To create a barrier of such a scale eight progicans are inserted in eight strategic places around the city and are activated by the mage in the middle of the city by transferring magical energy from the magical circle in the middle of the city to the locations where the progicans are inserted.
Seven of these locations have been secured by the Fruvanian forces and all that remains is the eight location at the south-east of the city.
General Dick knowing this, has taken twenty of his best men to prevent this from happening because as long as a progican is not inserted and activated the magical barrier will never hold.
After surveying the city , general Dick went after the southeast location, a rundown two storeyed building ruined by war and lack of maintenance.
Upon arrival he noticed that the progican was about to be inserted he knew if he had wasted a little time he would have been very late, thanking his stars and vowing to use this opportunity well he attacked the soldiers there trying to insert the progican with his twenty soldiers.
They numbered about fifty five in all but though he was outnumbered he was unfazed because he trusted his ability and that of the men he personally trained.
He ordered his men that each of them are to kill three soldiers or face his wrath and anyone who knows general Dick will know that he meant what he said.
With the fury driven in them by their general they attacked the fifty five soldiers of Fruvania trying to insert the progican.
If there is one thing general Dick was sure of it was his skill with the sword.
Since the young age of seven Umabe Dick has been training with a sword and has become the youngest person in the entire nation of Malitbok to be made a commander in the military.
He quickly moved up in rank as he is both versed in the art of war and physical combat so it was not surprising to anyone when he was chosen as the supreme commander of the Malitbok forces in this war to wipe out the fruvanian from the face of Amesteria.
He is a man who has never been bested in a sword fight and one of the lifelong wishes of General Dick is to find a fighter who will make his blood boil and make him fight within an inch of his life.
With this thought in mind he has entered different battles and put himself on dangerous situations with the aim to enjoy a good fight but he often comes out disappointed.
And the same is the case with this war as he challenged the commanding general of the Fruvanian military force___ Abikpo to a one on one combat because he heard that the man was quite good with the sword and he has always wondered how a man will fight when he knows that his existence and that of his nation is at stake.
Abikpo who has heard a good deal about general Dick and also knows quite well of his prowess with the sword should have declined the offer but that evil pride who is known to have brought down many great men convinced general Abikpo to accept the challenge believing that he will be the one to slay the great general .
Dick was so delighted when Abikpo accepted his offer and he hoped that that day would be the day he gets to see a real fight because Dick wanted to see himself fight with the fear that he might lose his life.
So it was that when the fight began general Dick attacked Abikpo with everything he had and so did Abikpo but imagine the disappointment of Dick when the general went down only on the first attack.
Dick used his special move on him,a move he invented when he was young in fighting tough opponents and that is to attack the hand holding the weapon instead of the opponent directly. He really didn't expect it to work but surprisingly it worked.
When the fight between general Dick and his twenty men against the fifty five soldiers of Fruvania began, general Dick was not the least worried about the outcome but surprisingly the soldiers of Fruvania put up more fight than expected of them that general Dick himself had to join the fray.
Before long the number of the Fruvanian soldiers were reduced considerably to only three while general Dick himself also suffered great losses because out of his twenty men only eight remain.
The remaining eight quickly pounced on the three left while general Dick proceeded to take out the progican from where it was inserted.
At a second glance at the battle he saw that out of the three men remaining only one is still standing and his men just lost two soldiers from their last count.
It was six of his men against on foot soldier... the battle has been won.
As he was advancing toward the progican he heard footsteps coming up behind him, thinking it was one of his men coming to give the report of the battle he turned only to see a glowing piece of silver aimed at his head.
If general Dick did not have a quick feet he would have lost his head but he survived with only a cut to his elbow.
Taking a good look at the one who attacked him he recognized him as the last remaining foot soldier so he looked farther behind the foot soldier to see his six remaining men on the ground.
Some dead others on the verge of death.
General Dick did not like what he was seeing but he had to accept that it is this man standing in front of him now who killed his personally trained soldiers in a few seconds.
At this thought general Dick got infuriated he took a look then at the object of his hate to know if he knew who he was but no one of interest came to mind.
The foot soldier has nothing special to say about himself he looked really tired like this war wearied him out than the rest of the soldiers and one look and you will see that he has been fighting for the last three days non stop.
The only thing to note on the foot soldier is his red eyes, every other aspect of him is normal and ragged.
"Who are you boy?" general Dick asked
but the foot soldier said nothing.
General dick thought to himself that maybe if he was to introduce himself then the boy would surely do the same so he said
"i am general Dick Uwabe, the supreme commander of the Malitbok forces so what is your name boy?"
but the foot soldier said nothing.
And the general stating his rank made no impression on the foot soldier.
The only change the foot soldier made was to his stance as he got himself ready for a fight.
General Dick seeing this noticed that the foot soldier's stance is perfect and that everything about him spoke resolve.
The general even though he is angry at the silent treatment he received from this foot-soldier got more interested in this boy since he showed readiness and an unflinching willingness to fight.
So the general got himself ready as well for he is not one to say no to a challenge.
Upon attacking the foot soldier again the soldier dodged and blocked and directing the general's attack to his left in this way throwing the general out of balance, he made a swirl turn and aimed for the general's leg, if not for the unmanned glont which fell on the building they were___ thereby destabilizing the building, the general would have lost a leg.
When things have settled, the general knowing that he has twice now barely survived with his life got really angry not at himself but at the foot soldier before him who chose not to say his name.
General Dick has always imagined his death at the hands of another great general like himself or at the hands of a known powerful enemy but to imagine that he would have a tough time at the hands of an unknown soldier and not to say a common foot soldier he would not have believed it.
He imagined what his wife would have thought if she heard this and the thought made him laugh.
Since the foot soldier has no intention of conversing with words but with his sword the General decided to do the same.
The general has always been one to choose people based on merit and not on rank or family status and whoever this soldier was he is worth his undivided attention because he himself can vouch for his skill.
So on attacking again this time the general used his special move aiming for the soldiers arm but the foot soldier dodged by throwing up his sword so that the general's sword passed between the soldiers hand and his weapon then on catching his sword again in mid-air and with a pace unmatched by the general he aimed this time at the general's left arm cutting it clean off____ then not giving the General time to reorganize his senses dashed at the general hitting him with his side squarely with the aim of getting the general to fall on his back so as to land the finishing blow but the general is a hefty man with almost twice the mass of the soldier making it a bad move by the soldier since the general caught him by the elbow, head-butting him and kicking him toward the side.
The soldier quickly regaining his senses saw the general rushing towards him and as he has lost his sword due to his recent crash had no weapon to defend himself so he looked around him and seeing no suitable object to use as a weapon except for a rock beside his foot he picked it up and when the general made a downward attack on him he rolled to his side and with the rock he hit the general with all his might on his right foot this attack stopped the general's second attack midway but it was not enough to stop him completely since the general recovered himself quickly and aimed at the soldier again but the soldier gaining a few seconds from his first attack this time aimed at the general's knee with all his might thereby shattering the general's right kneecap and this time it worked because the general dropped his sword and got down on one knee bringing him to the same level as the soldier who used the rock to hit the general at the side of his head thereby shattering his skull.
Blood clouded the general's eyes he could also notice that he has lost much blood due to losing his left arm, the general lying on his back saw the soldier pick up his(the general's) sword and walk up to him ,he saw a faint gleam of the metal hovering above him and the foot soldier said
"Kazeem….. Mido Kazeem."
and then everything became dark.
The foot soldier walked over to where the progicon was and after inserting it well on the ground, activated it and signaling to his eagon Nira, He jumped off the building.
Nira hearing her master's call flew to the location and catching her master at mid-air they made for the middle of the circle where they signaled the mage there, Nerina that the southeast location is ready.
Nerina seeing the foot soldier flying towards her and the hand signals he was making began the chant to create a barrier around the entire city.
"With the holy blood I have within me and by the authority of the seven heavens. I Nerina clover create a magical barrier to protect the soldiers and the citizens of bronimo from the hands of our enemies!"
Nerina chanted and as she is chanting this she caught her palm and let the blood drip into the magical circle she was standing upon.
By doing this the center magical circle lit up sending magical energy to the surrounding progicons which in turn gave off a blue light from their different direction and converging in the middle and with that the city of bronimo is now covered in a magical barrier and the enemy forces still inside the city quickly retreated before this action was finished.
The ones who couldn't make it out where killed or taken prisoner by the fruvanian forces.
But though on the sixth day the Fruvanians managed to barricade their city and kill the supreme commander of the enemy forces they would not count it as a win because they lost more than three quarter of their forces.
And now that they were shut in they had nowhere to go and it will only be a matter of time before they ran out of resources.
There was no denying the fact that the Fruvanians have lost the war.
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