The Shadow King's
War Preparation

10 Hours before the invasion of the monsters, in the temporary residence of General Hill, sat a very gallant man, that man was General Hill, and beside him stood a beautiful girl, he was the direct assistant of General Hill.

General Hill, thinking about what strategy would be best to defend the city, was assisted by his deputy who sat in front.

Suddenly the sound of another person knocking on the door was heard, when the 3rd knock, Hill let the person in.

"Please enter." Hill ordered, and opened the door, then entered a male soldier, who was about 25 years old.

The soldier facing General Hill, standing firm, would not speak before being sent home.

"What's wrong?" general Hill asked the young soldier.

"General, I bring reports from the scouts." A scroll was handed over to General Hill, here the move was Assistant General Hill.

The assistant directly handed it over to General Hill, without opening the contents.

A thin roll of paper was in General Hill's hands, he began to unseal it and read the contents of the report.

The report contained reports of an army of monsters that had approached the city fortress, and their distance was about 1 km, but the monsters still had not started attacking.

Not only that, in the report it is said that, the monsters are broken into 4 parts, which four parts lead to the door of each city.

General Hill while reading the report, he started looking for a piece of paper and a brush, started writing something.

He then handed it to the beautiful assistant.

"You call the person who has the name on this list of papers, have them face up, the other you prepare my weapon for."

"Okay, General," said the beautiful Assistant, before he left, he bowed his head.

General Hill began to stand up, and wearing his armor, the Deputy General too, followed General Hill who came out of the room.

Their goal was a fairly large city field, there were 10 thousand troops in this city plus 100 Hunters.

The pasuka gathered in the field. On General Hill's side, he did not directly meet the assembled troops, but did other business.

General Hill started walking towards a tent with a size of 8x12. Inside the tent were four men waiting, these men were the captains of the army whom Hill had told him to face.

Seeing General Hill entering the tent, the four immediately stood up, General Hill told them to sit back.

furthermore General Hill who was sitting in front of the four of them, the Deputy General also followed him.

In view of the way they looked at General Hill, it can be seen that these four people were very respectful of General Hill.

That is no excuse, they are people who have fought together and were led directly by General Hill.

Not only that, it can be said that General Hill is their teacher, even if it is indirectly.

General Hill began giving instructions to them.

"Sorry too late, you know, that the army of monsters is approaching, and they are also dividing their army, into four groups." When he finished speaking he took a cup containing a warm tea and drank it, after which he continued.

"So, of course, the army of monsters will attack this city in four directions, which are four directions, leading to the four doors of this city. So I command you to, lead the defense within each of the city gates."

The four captains did not refuse orders directly from General Hill, instead they felt it was a pride, because they believed in doing an important task.

After completing the instructions to the four of them, General Hill, ordered them to return to their respective posts and began to guard the posts that had been given.

Because there were no more things to take care of in this tent, General Hill decided to get out, and headed for the assembled troops.

General Hill, following his deputy out of the tent, headed to a field, where the troops had gathered. But before that he headed to the place where his weapon was put.

****

A wagon driven by 5 horses came, the wagon was carrying a black chest, this chest was exactly like a coffin, only it was larger than a chest in general.

The people around started talking, because they were curious about what chest the horse was carrying, and there was another who asked who was dead.

But there was one soldier whose stature was quite old, around the age of 60 years, but even though he was old, his posture was still valiant not inferior to young soldiers.

This soldier named Andorl began to give answers to other soldiers who were still confused about the coffin.

"Hahahha, I will tell you." The strong laughter of Andorl made some soldiers notice him.

"Hey, old man, you're making a fuss, if you know, tell us."

"Sadly, what a young man who does not know manners, okay I will tell you, this green one. What's in that box, is a spear."

"Hey old man, don't look at you, don't you see what the horse pulled him like, it's obvious the horse objected, if you say it's a spear, it's impossible."

said a soldier who did not believe what Andorl said.

It would be difficult to believe that it was a spear, because which spear had such weight, up to 5 horses were not good enough to carry it.

"Huh.. young people today, do not know the history of their own country, yes already, if you believe it or not, you better wait and see later." Andorl left the young men and returned to his ranks.

****

On the side of General Hill, they were walking towards the place where the cart carrying his weapon was, on the way, General Hill met his Assistants who approached him after he had finished his duties, he immediately reported to General Hill, who was not there, that everything was finished, the General told him to walk to his right side, where the Deputy General was on the left.

"Good, but I forgot to ask you something. I wonder, how many Hunters are involved in defending this city?" Hill asked his assistant.

"That's only 100 Generals." heard what his Assistant General Hill said raise one eyebrow, a little annoyed.

"Just 100, I'm not surprised, as I thought, so not half of it, yeah."

"Yes, in those 100 people what is the highest class?"

"1 Class A. The other is C, if the Class under C does not want to participate in the defense of the city."

"And that Class A, which Squad are they from?"

"They were, uh, the Squad that had just been picked up, because it had defeated the snow spider, and they were also the first to have discovered the tomb."

"So that celebrity huh, speaking of the tomb by the way, is the report sent by the Hunter guild, is that true?"

"I have conducted a follow-up investigation of your instructions General, but it cannot continue, because the witness suddenly died , having said that was in the report, so I draw the conclusion that, the report is 90% true, General."

"So he died after giving testimony, and his death is unknown?"

"Yes, General."

"90% of the report is correct, which is where the report says that the source of the recent emergence of monsters, the origin of the tomb, the tomb which is 1000 years old, and only now appears, there was likely a person who triggered it to unseal it, and that person was likely the first person to find the tomb."

Just briefly hearing the report given by his Assistant General instantly made his eyebrows accurate.

"As you may think, the General, the Squad is likely to feel guilty, and they are willing to help defend the city, even though they are not from this city, but from the Capital."

"Yes, it's not necessarily those who release the seal. Are the Hunters who did not participate in the defense already in the data.? The general asked his assistant.

"Yes, General, everything has been in the data" his assistant said. His ability to do good work.

"Good, after finishing this matter, I want you to report to the Hunter guild, to revoke their Hunter license."

"Yes General, I will carry out as you command."

At last they came to a town square, when it sounded a melodious sound of horse footsteps.

The horse, a cart carrying General Hill's weapon, was covered with a black coffin, the wagon approached General Hill, and stopped.

Then came 5 men from the assembled army, with a firm posture, these were not ordinary people, but elite troops, which belonged to General Hill.

The fifth, approaching the cart, and began to lift the crate, when lifted, the cart became visible as losing weight.

There is a special reason why those who are tasked with lifting the chest, because if ordinary people will not be able to, only those who have been trained specifically can lift it.

Despite being specially trained, they still seem to object. It shows that weapons and crates have an inhuman weight, even though nothing in this world is human.

The soldier brought General Hill before him, and they laid him down, when the chest was dropped on the snowy ground, a strong sound was formed and the snow around it scattered.

The five saluted by kneeling to General Hill, Hill received their salute, and told him to return to the ranks.

Afterwards, the Deputy General spoke to Hill.

"General, are you planning to use this weapon?" The Deputy General was confused as to why Hill was using this weapon, even though the one in the opponent was just a group of monsters.

Here as the Deputy General, he did not know yet, the crisis that this city was going through, Truly General Hill felt, His representative was not yet suitable to be beside him, not because of his fighting ability or cleverness, not because of his fighting ability, but rather his experience, it could be said that he was too young to serve as the deputy general, because this was the King's request, so he agreed to occupy the position of Deputy.

"Yes" answered briefly, General Hill, not wanting to prolong the conversation.

"All I know is that the weapon is an heirloom of the Shakespearean family."

"Yes right." Hill replied briefly.

"Then, General are you, going to be serious in this fight."

"Then your way of thinking, you don't deserve to be next to me. Never underestimate every fight, even if your opponent is a fool for sure, but if you want to, die silly do it." Hill spoke bluntly, with nothing to hide.

Hill has a trait that likes to be frank when talking, all this time he just holds back from saying it, because there is no right time.

When he heard that, Deputy General Thomas Arya, bit his lip, for having done such a foolish thing, in front of a man whom he greatly admired.

General Hill had already stepped away from him, and approaching the coffin, seeing that, Thomas Arya rushed up to General Hill.

"General Hill, forgive me for saying such a foolish thing." Thomas Arya apologized by bowing his head.

Hearing that, General Hill turned to look at him.

"Lift your head, I hope you won't do it again." General Hill, still giving him a chance, Thomas Arya is a talented warrior, only lacking his experience and ego is still high, if he overcomes his shortcomings, he can become a strong warrior.

A chest, which has a black color, with gold stripes on its edges, while in the middle of the chest, there is a picture of the family coat of arms of Shakespeare.

General Hill opened the chest, slowly, when the whole cover was removed, a very beautiful spear appeared, the spear was about a meter long with a black handle.

At the bottom end of the handle is engraved a dragon shape wrapped around a small height of 30 cm. While the blade is transparent light blue with a length of 50 cm.

The spear is estimated to weigh over 1000 tons, including the world's heaviest weapon Al-Calen.

Looking at his long-overlooked spear, Hill smiled and stroked, like again caressing a lover.

"For a long time, I didn't use you, this time may be the last." During this peaceful day, it was impossible for Hill to hold his spear, and also he planned to pass it on to other descendants of Shakespeare.

Yes, Hill after this will plan to retire, because Hill, does not have a young age anymore. Where the age that Hill has, is a time for rest.

The news for the pension has not been conveyed to the King, if the King knows it, maybe he will reject it, Hill is a General who can not be replaced, although replaced with other descendants of Shakespeare still can not.

Another factor that made him decide to retire was that he had failed to find the fugitive, who had recently been assigned to him to be arrested.

The fugitives are Keosy and Suri Cruise.