Flame of Cytherea: Cytherean Chronicles book 1 by D. R. Rosier

Author:D. R. Rosier [Rosier, D. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

He spent the next hour helping the soldiers and healing the wounded. His magic felt low, but he had enough for that if he went to each one and physically touched them. He also figured out how to focus his magic. If he just turned it on, it would actively try to restore, heal, protect and change. But if he focused hard enough, he could get it to just heal and restore the soldiers, they had no need of protection or change at the moment and it was a waste of magic.

The oath Anton had given him didn’t mean he had to come up with all the ideas, it was just when there were conflicting ideas he could force his through. No one had a differing opinion though, the way forward was obvious. Take the sixteen hundred men that were left and free the southern villages. There were still five hundred enemy soldiers down there, though split up in the towns.

For now anyway, he was convinced the commander of the enemy invasion had escaped, he had a feeling he would go for the towns as well, to collect his remaining troops and set a new trap. Though the end of the battle had been a rout, they had lost about four hundred of the two thousand soldiers that survived the trap. Still, in a battle, five to one on the butcher’s bill was a huge win, even if it didn’t feel like one.

He did use the oath once though during the strategy meeting.

Anton said, “I need to go back north, report to the king and collect more troops.”

He shook his head, “No, you’d be gone over a week. You need to lead the forces doing actual battle, why don’t you write a report of what happened, what troops you need, and send an air talent to deliver it.”

He had some good ideas from Earth’s history and had smelled out the trap, but he wasn’t a general. He didn’t mind giving Anton orders, but he couldn’t run the soldiers. He was also getting more comfortable with the culture and how things worked here, but he still knew he had a lot to learn. The problem was, he didn’t know what he didn’t know.

As long as Anton was here with his own ideas and advice he wouldn’t do anything too stupid in ignorance. Like get four thousands soldiers killed? He sighed at the thought, Anton wasn’t all that happy about staying because of his blunder, hopefully he would get over it.

Although he could probably depend on Nora for that instead of Anton, he didn’t think the soldiers would follow a woman’s orders, plus, she was in charge of their little group, she couldn’t do both at the same time, at least, not well. He also thought that though she had experience in a small squad and could lead, that might not translate well to leading a much larger force.

The battle had only taken a couple of hours, once things were settled and they had gotten some food down, they set out for a half days march.

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