Chapter 1011 Ronald, The Genuis Tactician

[I’m at a place filled with trenches and in the far distance I can see a couple of floating islands] I sent Lily when I couldn’t spot her anywhere.

[Oh, you are at the central place then. I’m not that far away. Let me come to you]

[Ok] I didn’t wait in my place for her. If she said she wasn’t that far away, it meant she’d take an hour or two to arrive here.

During this time, I started to roam the world, examining all these preparations. To be honest… I was impressed!

“Nice work!” I said when I saw her chariot drawing near, “you did make a good use of these talents.”

“Hahahaha! It’s great that you know who the real heroes are behind this… Let me introduce these three to you; this is Lina, Roland, and Karabof… The three are the outstanding talents who made all this possible.“

“Oh… These are…” I looked at the three and measured them up. They weren’t humans, but came from three different races.

One was a dwarf looking young man, and the other two were giants. The three standing next to each other gave a spectacular image that was a little funny for some reason.

“Lord, I’m honoured to finally meet you,” the girl said, “I’m Lina, an expert at designing and drawing blueprints.”

“I’m honoured too, lord. I’m Karabof, and my talent is about leading workers and getting the best out of them.”

“And you must be Ronald… What’s your speciality?” I looked at the dwarf who just kept looking at me in sparkling eyes without saying anything.

“Lord… It’s really you… Damn! I lived my entire life hearing legends about you. You… You are my idol!”

“Come on,” I couldn’t accept him saying his entire life and all he lived was a year or two, “what can you do?”

“He is a military training genuis,” Lily leant over Ronald, patting him on the shoulder while adding with a big smile, “thanks to this dude, we managed to arrange things not only here, but back at the other two training grounds as well.”

“Is that true?” My eyes shone with excitement when I heard what she said. And Ronald nodded with slightly red cheeks as if he got embarrassed or something.

“Great! I’ll depend on you from now in terms of arranging and planning for military grounds,” he just saved us a big deal of headache to be honest, “now, can you explain to me what you’ll do here and at the second training ground? I got to go and order these monsters and Hescos here should get into the right line up.”

“We already spoke and explained everything over to Hescos,” Lily said, stealing a side gaze to Oglak, “but it seemed they were waiting for someone to give the final order for them to follow our arrangements.”

“Lord, I’ll go and tell them to follow everything down to the letter,” Oglak nodded and bowed his head before he left when I waved for him to do that.

“Sigh! They hold that dude in high regard,” after he left, Lily couldn’t help but sigh.

“Lord… Lord… Is it true that you can order monsters here?” and just like a little kid meeting a true magician, Ronald couldn’t prevent himself from jumping around and asking.

“Sure, is it weird?”

“It’s amazing!” he shouted in pure excitement, one that made me feel sorry for the future of this little fellow.

I’d use you buddie in hellish work, and you got to endure thanks to that immense admiration you got for me. Don’t blame me for using you too much.

“Good,” I turned to Lily, “show me your plans for the second training ground then. We need to start these two grounds as soon as possible.”

“Great,” she turned instead towards Ronald, issuing for him to speak up with a simple nod.

It seemed she held this fellow in high regard already. And I hoped he wouldn’t disappoint me.

“Lord, here are the designs of the three continents…” and as she gave him the order, he leant on the floor of my chariot and spread out many sheets of papers.

They all had drawings, densely packed and very complicated looking ones. From first glance, I understood that understanding these arrangements would take a long time without doubt.

And the more he spoke, the more I realised his big value.

This little fellow didn’t miss anything, not even a single idea or possibility at war situations. He designed such complicated and hard to grasp drawings and planning based on one simple concept; to mimic war in all its brutality and different foes, terrains, and situations.

He even arranged places where my forces would be pressured by greater numbers than theirs, situations where reinforcements would arrive to relieve the pressure.

According to his words, the former situation had the forces to hold on for the longest period of time. And the latter would train them how they’d react when reinforcements arrive.

He kept explaining for long hours, and I felt time passing like running water. However, I got more interested in hearing everything.

I admired his meticulous mind. He didn’t let a single possibility go by without preparing a place for it. And he didn’t stop there!

“Lord, according to this schedule, forces from here would train for days before switching with those training here. Then forces here would switch with others here, and…”

He even thought about the time schedule and switch arrangement for all of my forces. That would greatly help. After all, no one could tell what would happen on a real battlefield.

Things were destined to be changing and unpredictable. So to make sure my forces grasped everything, got adapted and well trained at different scenarios, he made such a well detailed time schedule with well thought of switching order.

If my forces followed this… Then in less than six months they’d get to take a double tour at each zone in the three training grounds.