A Demon's Journey

Chapter 429 - Roman Alfornsen

The reinforcements of the Sinyalian Kingdom arrived after a week. It was a large force, led by three youthful commanders. Sophie, Alby, and Roman. Sophie and Alby were only commanding a small force within that army.

The main army reported and listened to Roman's orders. Roman belonged to the War General Association and was one of their brightest talents. Moreover, he also belonged to a family of Generals, so he innately possessed the leadership and all the other talents that a General required.

From a young age, Roman had been taught in the best school of the Glerian Kingdom. Thus, he had been drilled with eloquence and elegance from a very young age. He was a rather famous youth in the capital since he was skilled in both pen and sword.

Even though he belonged to a General background, it wasn't until after his graduation that he joined the War General Association. In fact, he had always tried to stay away from it. But after a particular incident, he changed his mind.

He realized that the power of his family didn't belong to him. He wanted power and to boost his personal reputation. And with the talents he possessed, he felt it would be best if he doesn't go against his instincts and accept his gifts.

He didn't use his family background to pass the test of the War General Association. In fact, he tried to conceal his identity for as long as he could and just acted as an ordinary warrior. It was only when he defeated a high-ranking warrior in the War General Association during a spar that his fame increased overnight, and his true background was revealed.

All of his friends were stunned to learn that this youngster belonged to the famed General Family, which had provided the Sinyalian Kingdom with powerful and prestigious generals. They were all mythical heroes whose fabled tales were still sung by bards in the taverns.

Each citizen of the Sinyalian Kingdom would talk about them with a respectful and worshiping tone. They owed their peaceful lives to this family and innately felt that they must never be disrespected.

There were even individuals who believed that the King could be cursed but not this family. This was the legendary Alfornsen Family. Roman Alfornsen possessed all the prestigious talents of his bloodline and even more.

Just like his father and grandfather, he was skilled in fighting in close combat. His father used a sword to fight in close combat while his grandfather used Double Bladed Nunchaku to fight.

Meanwhile, Roman was skilled in using his fists to fight. He used knuckle dusters as his weapon. And he only began to use these knuckle dusters because the bones of his hands were slowly shattering. He punched with a strong force and his own body couldn't handle the recoil of that force.

The situation improved after he began to use his weapon. At the least, his bones were no longer on the verge of shattering. It wasn't that Roman wasn't skilled with other weapons. He could also use a sword, bow, and arrow. But he preferred to use his fists rather than fight with these weapons.

Roman had inherited the Gold Element through his bloodline. It allowed him to strengthen his body to an unimaginable degree. Ever since he had become proficient in utilizing his Gold Element, he had remained undefeated against warriors of his generation.

Roman was quite startled when he heard that the Glerian Kingdom had a commander even younger than him. Moreover, this guy was actually causing trouble near the Sinyalian Kingdom's borders. The army on the borders was even requesting reinforcements.

The request for reinforcement couldn't all have been due to this youth but for other factors as well, but Roman knew that this must be a terrifying opponent. He had heard that not a single warrior on the battlefield had managed to defeat him yet.

Well, this was only natural since all the strong warriors had been sent to take some rest by both the Kingdoms. The Glerian Kingdom was gathering its forces while also raising some talented experts.

Meanwhile, the Sinyalian Kingdom was relaxing at this moment and was merely deterring the Glerian Kingdom's attacks. They still didn't realize that the Glerian Kingdom would soon be ready to launch a large-scale war upon them.

Anyway, the Sinyalian Kingdom had realized that they couldn't lag behind the Glerian Kingdom in the development of their youths. Thus, they had sent this whole force under the leadership of these three young commanders.

Roman, Sophie, and Alby were the Generals of this force. And Roman was the Head Commander. The soldiers would need to prioritize his words over Sophie's or Alby's words. However, Roman was a rather patient and smart individual. He would listen to Sophie and Alby's suggestions and take the most logical decision.

After arriving, Sophie had already begun to lay various defensive arrays around the camp. In fact, she noticed that the previous arrays had multiple holes and the enemy must have been using these loopholes to barge inside.

She left those loopholes as they were and instead prepared multiple traps for the enemy after they barge inside the barrier to attack them. These tricks were bound to slow the enemy and give them more time to prepare for them.

And if they launched a surprise attack at the enemy, they were bound to suffer great losses. Meanwhile, Alby began to have his team concoct medicines. They organized their workshop in the camp while some disciples went to the infirmary to check what kind of injuries and issues these injured soldiers were experiencing.

The recovery and anti-poison pellets would be prioritized. They already brought a lot of different kinds of pellets that were antidotes and recovery pellets, but they realized now that they were severely underestimating the situation here.

The demand was much higher than they imagined. Those pellets were used before they realized it and these disciples had begun to concoct new batches of these pellets. Sophie also noticed that the condition of injured warriors was a lot worse than they had thought.

She felt that it would be very stressful for Alby to deal with this situation alone. Thus, Sophie began to think of ways to help Alby. After wracking her brain around this situation for a few hours, she had an idea.

The plan was to build an array inside which the warriors could swiftly recuperate. Thinking about such an array was the easy part. It was a whole different thing to execute this array and operate it.

Roman noticed what Alby and Sophie's forces were doing. He didn't stop them and ordered them to focus on the incoming attacks they could face the next morning. He felt that this was important too.

Meanwhile, Roman was focused on gathering information about their enemies. He firmly remembered the information about his opponents and gave clear instructions to his forces. They had to follow these instructions if they encountered the respective opponents.

All of them had been instructed to use the signal and retreat as quickly as possible after seeing Noah. Roman had decided he would personally fight Noah. For the other warriors, Roman had chosen specific warriors who would handle them.

The rest of the forces would remain behind and bolster the camp so that the enemy can't launch any surprise attack at this camp. This camp had been through enough attacks that the Sinyalian Kingdom's side would suffer disastrous losses if it was allowed to attack a couple of times more.

They had to be very cautious. He had heard of Sophie's plan to allow the Glerian Kingdom's forces to launch one more attack so that they can trigger her traps. They can use that opportunity to launch a fierce counterattack.

Currently, Noah's forces were resting and recovering from their injuries and digesting their gains.. They had no idea that the reinforcements had arrived in the opponent's encampment.