A series of command immediately sounded from the three officers . A depressed village turned into motion . Lively atmosphere started to fill the place again . With rush, several student regardless of n.o.ble or commoner started to move .

The fourth prince's presence really brought back the place to live . Auron also could feel the change in the mood . While he was tasked to evacuate the villager further away, he felt it was easy to move them under the name of fourth prince's order .

Moreover, when the villager was escorted, there were no one that put a disappointed face or dejected face even though, they knew that their village will be destroyed as a result from the war .

It took one hour for Auron and his teams to move the villager away and back to the village . When he arrived back at the village, a command to gather around was issued . With that command, everyone stopped what they were doing and gathered outside the military tent .

"As everyone have already known, soon, we will face an attack from the enemies . And, we will face it with all the member here . " The fourth prince started his speech .

"Before the fight began, I want to give you a chance . A chance to run away and save your life . I will not blame you and no punishment will be given if you run away right now . "

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"Take this chance if you are afraid . Later, there will be no more chance to run away since deserter will be executed on the spot or be trialed in the military trial . "

"However, if you are a brave man, take this chance to make your name known and fight with me here . "

"Yes, defense the village with me here and let your contribution known to others . "

"I will count to 10 . If you want to back down, this is your last chance"

"10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . . " The prince started to count down .

Several seconds pa.s.sed by, however, no one back down even made a slight movement . For the n.o.ble, this was a chance for them . If they can take this chance to make some contribution, their status in their family surely would rise up .

Meanwhile, for the commoner, this was a rare chance to fight in equal status with the prince . Usually, in war, the commoner with low status would be sent at front as a p.a.w.n for the n.o.ble . But, not in this battle .

"5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . " There were still not movement from all of the students . As for the n.o.ble's guards, if their young master didn't move, then they would not dare to move or make their own decision even if they were afraid .

When there were only two seconds left, one person knelt down with head facing down . With that one person's movement, several other person followed .

Soon, the prince finished his counting . There were 8 person who were knelt down with all of their head facing down .

"This is what you guys have choose . For the eight of you stand up, and move away . You have to protect your life yourself as we will not escort you back . " The 8 person who knelt down directly stood up without sound but they didn't dare to look up . Then, all of them left the village and move on their own .

All eight of them were commoner, they were tempted at the glory to fight with a prince, however their fear of death took over their decision . Of course, they not left just like that . When they were leaving, several contempt look and gaze shot out from the other n.o.bles and some commoner student .

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When the eight people could not be seen anymore, the prince continued humbly, "Thank you for choosing to fight with me . It is a pleasure to fight with you guys here . Now, prepare yourself for the battle!"

With all that said, all of them disperse and went on their own . The n.o.bles went with other n.o.bles and their guards . Meanwhile, the commoner tried to make a group on their own .

Time pa.s.sed slowly, there were still long way until midnight, the time when the portal would close .

During the time, the enemies still send several men to hara.s.s them or sent a group to infiltrate inside the kingdom .

At first, there were no casualties at the skirmish . Moreover, they knew that there were only several student that guarding the village . This situation made the enemies became braver . They didn't only hara.s.s them but they also blatantly sent a group to infiltrate inside the kingdom while there were another group that observe the troop's movement inside the village .

When they knew this, the prince sent several royal troops to execute the infiltrator . A casualties began to shown in the enemies' side . This made the enemy's attacking general furious . They sent half of their force to intimidate the enemies and if there were chance to annihilate them since they still didn't know how many reinforcement their enemies sent .

A huge crowd of enemies was showed up outside the village . Moreover, there were also some of the high leveled general there . However, before they could launch their attack, the fourth prince showed which made the enemies backed down and retreated .

This made the troops inside the village cheered up and praised the fourth prince since they could drive out the enemies easily without fighting . Amidst the cheering and praising, the fourth prince frowned .

He immediately called up all of the officer and all of the royal troops to discuss . What made the fourth prince frowned was not the fact that the enemy retreated without fighting but it was because the enemies' number was surpa.s.sed their calculation by lot . Moreover, the quality of their enemy was not like the wars before .

Although, he still felt that he could win the battle, but he knew this would not be an easy battle . A series of heated discussion issued up inside the tent . Some strategy needed to be revised .

Seconds turned into minutes, minutes turned into hours . Finally, the midnight had arrived, it was the sign of a huge battle coming .