My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World-Chapter 387: Army Preparations (Part 2)

After receiving reinforcements from every single nation in the world, we counted our troops, and we had around 5,000~ people.

Frost, the Ice Dragon, said that he had the ability to create ice knights that could fight along with our army, and he could make 10,000 of them if he used all of his MP.

It was a great idea, considering the ice knights were just like puppets, so we could have them on our frontline and reduce the casualties of our warriors.

The dragon told me that he could make stronger variants with something he called "red ice," but he couldn’t produce as many of those as the normal ones.

Still, the difference was pretty noticeable since the red ice knights could have easily killed a few warriors, while the normal ones were pretty easy to beat.

I wasn’t planning on slaughtering their army since most of them were brainwashed soldiers, so we decided to go with the regular ice knights.

Melina and I also tested the mages’ abilities to see which task we could give them.

The most logical order to give them would be to stay in the backlines and support our warriors. However, half of the mages were able to fly, and I believed we had to use that to our advantage.

The elven hunters were experts with the bow and arrow, so we had a group that could replace the flying mages.

In a world where the airspace was mostly dominated by monsters, animals, and devils—having a group of knights and mages infiltrating a city by air was something that not many would expect.

Jackson told us that the capital was four days away, but that was if we walked, of course.

When it came to moving our army, I had a much better idea than to have them walk for a week in the cold, wearing armor.

I remembered that during the war in Kalusia, one of the primary things that screwed with the Droman army was how tired the troops were after walking in the desert for weeks.

However, now that we had the magic quartz, it was better to send a quick flyer to an area closer to the capital and then teleport all of our forces there—skipping the walk and making them arrive at the battle with full stamina.

"I’ll go with you..." Fuego said to me, but I didn’t know if he wanted to help or just keep an out for the egg I was carrying in my backpack.

The two infernal bears, Athena and Apollo, had been sleeping for twenty hours a day, which worried my wife and me at first.

Thankfully, Vespera told us that it was normal for infernal bears to conserve their strength by sleeping.

"They know something big is coming, so they are just getting ready..." my companion explained.

Before I could leave for the capital, I was talking with Harvey and a few other knights when Melina passed by to say good luck to me.

She was busy running around the village taking care of our troops, so we had no time for a romantic farewell, prompting her to give me a peck on the lips and gently caress my face.

"I’ll see you later," she said, her cheeks slightly blushed.

As she quickly turned around and returned to her duties, the knights were staring at me, and I could see Harvey had a mixture of confusion and happiness.

The knights hadn’t seen Melina ever since she recovered her memories, and the truth was that she had changed a little bit—it wasn’t a bad change, though.

From my perspective, my wife was now acting the same way she used to back in our old lives. Before she got her memories back, she behaved the same way she would have at that age.

In other words, it wasn’t that Melina’s personality had changed—she simply matured after her past experiences returned to her mind.

Still, I could see why the knights seemed confused at her behavior, which was a lot more confident than before.

That day, I left the village on Fuego’s back since he could fly much faster than me, and we made our way closer to the capital.

After a few hours, in the middle of the night, we were able to see the capital in the distance, and the entire place looked more like a fortress than a city.

The walls that divided the five rings of the city were incredibly tall and made of processed iron, which would be the toughest wall defense we had encountered.

We were about 10km away from the city, which I thought was perfect. Still, it’s not like we could just put down the magic quartz and bring everyone at that moment.

The first thing I did was raise a wall with ice magic to prevent any scout from the capital to see what we were doing.

I placed the magic quartz in an open area so that the warriors arrived comfortably, and I raised a few structures with earth magic to have some shelter.

Nevertheless, I thought it would be easy to see us during the day, so I quickly tried to come up with an illusion magic spell, making our small, improvised base invisible from far away.

If a person got close enough, the illusion would break, and they would find the ice wall I raised, but if they were just scouting from their walls, they would only see the horizon.

After spending most of the night finishing the base, I was woken up early the following morning by Melina, who had used the magic quartz and was starting to bring our soldiers there.

Now that we were one march away from the capital, we needed to split our troops into different sides since facing their army head-on would have way too many casualties.

However, Melina and I couldn’t fly to the sides of the city without being spotted, and even if we used an invisibility potion, it would only last thirty minutes.

"We’ll have to split our army by foot before the attack..." I commented.