Novice: A Portal Fantasy Adventure by DB King

Author:DB King [King, DB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

After the speech, Ozu spoke more in-depth about the strategies he intended to use to fight the Hushaki, who would no doubt be expecting a counterattack. The first thing to be done, he said, was for half of the Hushaki dead to be added to the pile of Akai dead who were to be burned that evening. This elicited gasps of shock from the shinobi.

“Master Ozu, how can you burn the Hushaki scum along with our own hallowed dead?!” Sabazaki asked. “These invader scum do not deserve such an honor!”

“Of course they do not,” Ozu replied, smiling slyly. “And that is exactly why we will do this. We will make the pyre at the southern end of the rock, beyond the fortified gates, on the boulder that juts out over the valley. This way, the pyre will be seen from miles around. We can be certain that there are Hushaki spies in the forest down below. And I’m sure the traitor Kishiko will send some bats to fly close and count the bodies as we burn them. They know how many of their own fighters they lost in the battle—but because we destroyed all of the invaders in the battle, and none escaped to tell the tale, the Hushaki do not know exactly how many of us died in the fight. It pains me to give their dead an honorable send-off, believe me, but by adding Hushaki bodies to our own pile it will make it seem like our losses were far greater than they actually were. And by giving the illusion that our numbers were cut down by three quarters instead of half, the Hushaki will believe they have already won, and will become complacent and overconfident. It will also make us seem like weaker fighters than we actually are. We can use this to our advantage.”

Everyone murmured their approval.

“Remember, my friends, deception and illusion are integral aspects of the way of the shinobi,” Ozu said. “And we can employ these devices right away, in a very public manner.”

He went on to discuss the larger strategy he would employ and got the shinobi to begin their training, which consisted of advanced methods of moving with speed, agility and stealth. However, while the others were busy with this, he took Yasami and Andy aside.

“I must train the experienced shinobi in the art of advanced stealth and agility,” he said. “Yasami, you are already the best in the clan when it comes to such skills, so you do not need to train in this area as much as the others do. I want you to take Andy and train him in the more basic skills of stealth and agility. However, there is something more: because you two possess the gift of Beast Magic, which the others do not, I want you to incorporate this into your stealth and agility training. In recent days my position has completely changed about Beast Magic and the Old Way, and what happened last night

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