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Chapter 11 – To the capital of Siltvelt…
Thus, we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
1 He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
2 He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
3 He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
4 He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
5 He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
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That evening there was a festival to celebrate Naruto being in the city. There was much to drink and merriment. The group went to bed, but Naruto kept watch over them that night.
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Queen Mirellia Q Melromarc was dressed in her room in the capital of Fabre. There were two people in robes outside her window. She didn't appear to be disturbed by their presence. She asked, "So, Shield Hero. Where do we stand?"
The larger of the two replied, "I am not the actual or a shadow clone, as I explained to before. There has been something that has changed me. I am a person that bleeds and am an actual person. My name is Menma and I am your connection to my brother."
Mirellia smiled and said, "My, that is interesting. How do we proceed?"
Menma replied, "I will work with your shadows, but I would still have some of your shadows keep an eye on the other heroes. They are in danger."
A serious look came across the queen and she replied, "I agree. How do you communicate with your brother?"
Menma replied, "We have a couple means of communication. A scroll that takes an hour or more to communicate or I make a clone and disperse it. He will know within moments. This one is for emergencies only. Since he might be in a fight and the knowledge could disturb him in a fight."
The queen nodded and said, "I would like to have you take my daughter with you to have her be in his party to learn from him."
Menma's eyes squinted in suspicion and asked, "For what reason? She is the crown princess. Correct?"
The queen smiled and replied, "She is, but I want her to learn about the Shield Hero and have her work with the other heroes."
Menma scowled and explained, "I've been on teams since brother was twelve. Some work and some are doomed to failure. The team he is leading are a well-oiled machine." He noticed a blue haired girl enter the room, but continued, "The Spear Hero does not understand that there is no 'I' in 'team'. He leads his team, by attacking the monsters and leaving scraps to his party members. His personal feelings are that he is protecting them. The Bow Hero doesn't lead. He just orders and hopes that things will go his way. He forces the situation and uses the power of the bow to make sure that they win. He has lost a couple of adventurers this way. He also has a vigilante streak. The Sword Hero is a loner and forces his party to keep up with him. He is strong, but will leave those behind that can't keep up or might have hit a plateau in skill."
The blue haired girl asked, "What about the Shield Hero?"
Menma chuckled, and replied, "I would be partially bragging, but here goes."
The girl looked confused and asked, "What do you mean?"
The queen nodded and both figures disappeared from the ledge and into the room. Menma pulled back his cowl to reveal his face. The girl gasped. Menma chuckled and said, "Do I frighten you?"
The girl became stoic and exclaimed, "No! Not at all." The queen laughed lightly.
Menma chuckled and apologized, "I'm sorry. It's just that my appearance can be startling to some." He bowed and said, "I am the brother of the Shield Hero, Menma Uzumaki."
The girl gave a curtsy. She then said, "I am Melty Q Melromarc. Now you were explaining about your brother."
Menma smiled and continued, "Yes, Naruto Uzumaki, the Shield Hero. He is training his team to work together to be stronger as a group and as individuals. While at lower levels, they can take on monsters of higher level. To prove my point. Naruto had a duel with the Spear Hero. Naruto's level was in the 20's while Motoyasu's was in the 40's. Naruto easily defeated him. Even with interference from your older sister. Also, understand that my brother has had to deal with discrimination from your country. Which your mother had strictly forbidden, but your sister, father and the church ignored. This caused many problems for him. He has some trust issues, but that can be overcome by working with him. I would advise not taking a noble attitude around him. It would annoy him."
Melty raised an eyebrow and asked, "Why?"
Menma smiled widely and showed his enlarged canines. He explained, "He thinks that nobles are mostly pompous fools. At least mostly." He chuckled lightly.
Melty looked offended and said, "A noble's job is to serve the people."
Menma laughed and exclaimed, "You would think that, but not all nobles would agree. Some feel that the people should serve the nobles. There are also other reasons, but you will have to earn his trust to learn them. He is an excellent fighter even though he uses the shield, but also a combat medic. He is open to learning new things, but is easy to anger if others are doing wrong to others. He will watch and will jump in."
Melty asked, "Why won't he just jump right in."
The queen replied, "You must understand the situation first before you act. You might be interrupting a ritual, or a baptism and not understand. There are people who change from water to air that need what would appear to be cruel treatment, but this is needed for their lungs to develop. Your interference would condemn that child to a premature death. You think that you're doing right, but you're not."
Menma chuckled and said, "It can be even more subtle than that. A person abused for a long time is lashing out at their abuser. This can look like a harsh attack, but it is the final straw that broke their back and they can't take it anymore. It can even result in death, but you must watch and see what the motive is. You can also be fooled. This is why you don't just jump in. Also, you jumping in could cause a war."
Melty smiled and exclaimed, "I'm happy that you were able to explain this to me."
Menma rubbed her head affectionately. Which caused her to scowl. Menma chuckled and said, "My brother has a lot to learn and will teach you a lot. You will also have to do things that you may not want to do to become stronger."
Melty raised an eyebrow and asked, "Such as?"
Menma chuckled and whispered into the queen's ear. The queen looked back at Melty and put her fan over her lower face. She then said, "Oh my. While I might be offended. Since you explained it. I agree, but he will have to get her to agree."
Melty looked curiously at the two and asked, "What? What will I have to agree to?"
Menma chuckled and replied, "That is for Naruto to explain."
Melty crossed her arms and a pout crossed her face. Menma began to laugh heartily. The queen then explained, "You will be going with my shadow and Menma to talk to your father. Afterwards, you will meet up with Naruto and his party. You are to accompany him for a little while to learn about him and his being an adventurer."
Melty became happy and replied, "Yes mother."
Menma said, "Somebody is trying to impress someone."
Melty asked in an annoyed tone, "Did you say something?"
Menma smiled and replied, "I just call them as I see them."
The female shadow bowed and then said, "I dare say that we shall head out in the morning and head to Melromarc. So, be ready my lady." Both Menma and the shadow disappeared.
Melty looked at where they stood in awe.
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Naruto watched the panther girl closely as she slashed the salamander, but seemed to leave an opening behind herself. Naruto closed behind her and said, "Nala, you're leaving your back open to attack. Make sure you let your team members know about where you're going." He blocked a porcupine that attempted to exploit this opening, but he blocked this.
Nala turned to see this block and blushed at the slip up. She exclaimed, "I'm sorry, Shield Hero!"
Naruto sighed, as Raphtalia moved behind Nala to take out a different salamander that had taken the place of the one that Nala had slain. Milly cast a spell, "As source of my power I order thee, decipher the laws of nature Zwiete fireball." The salamander crumbled under the spell.
Nala commented, "Your team works well and seems to be able to cover for deficiencies of others that have been added to the party." She was looking at the younger party members.
The trio of younger party members were in the middle of a group of monsters, but had Sylvie and Rino standing behind them giving orders. They followed them without question and executed them with some precision. Naruto nodded and replied, "They had a good teacher while in the area of Seyaette."
Nala raised an eyebrow and said, "I thought that that area had been destroyed."
Naruto replied while blocking some beetles, "No, just hit hard by the wave and some rogue soldiers."
Nala growled and exclaimed, "Melromarc should be punished for that!"
Naruto raised his eyebrow and said, "The country will not, but we might have a chance to find and punish the soldiers that participated in the incident." He then exclaimed, "After we clean up, we need to add chakra to all new recruits." He turned to Nala and asked, "So are you going to be a permanent addition to my party?"
Nala drove her sword into the last beetle and smiled at Naruto. She then said, "I would love to be a disciple of the great Shield Hero."
Having cleared the group of monsters. Naruto looked upon the new monsters and fed them to his shield. He found a couple new shields, a salamander and a beetle shield. He switched to the salamander and helped with the cleanup. They also cleaned the edible monsters and fed what wasn't edible or sellable to the shield. Naruto when they finished loading the cart. Naruto looked into the help menu and found a loot drop setting. It had been set to put into the shield. He sighed and grumbled, "Those would have been nice to be able to sell."
Sylvie asked, "What would have been nice to sell?"
Naruto put his shield in front of himself and said, "The shield has been holding out on us. We've been getting loot drops, but they've been going into the shield."
Milly pouted and said, "We've gotten stuff and it's been holding out on us?"
Naruto chuckled and replied, "Looks like it to me. Let's see." Suddenly several swords and gems fell from the shield into the main area of the cart. He then explained, "The gems will be good components for making jewelry. So, we should save them. The swords will be extra if ours get worn. They give a slight bonus for attack and damage bonus, but nothing more. Better than an iron sword, but not much better." He then said, "Alright, time for medical treatments and then head out."
Everyone nodded and then tended to the wounds. About ten minutes later They were on the road again. Naruto began to explain chakra to Nala and the children, "Chakra is another energy in your body. It is the merging of the mind and spirit. Mana is different. If your chakra is depleted to zero you WILL die. So, don't do it. Chakra exhaustion is no joke. If you are running low don't use it. Use magic or fall back. Call me, call someone else, just don't use the last of your chakra. I can help recharge it, but it won't be efficient and it will cause you to take longer to recover. Chakra will recover normally. It depends on each individual. Because of what and who I am. I can recover more chakra than the whole party has in a few hours. There are five basic types of chakra: fire, water, earth, lightning, and air. There are advanced chakras, like wood, ice and others, but we will not get into them until they manifest. Myself I have all but earth, but I can force earth jutsu. It takes a lot of chakra to do those jutsu, but it is possible. Even if you lack a chakra type you can eventually do it, but the cost is enormous. I would advise working on your types first, one at a time and mastering them first and then moving to others if your pool will allow it. Sylvie has the next largest pool other than Jiraiya-sensei. I will tell you now. Control exercises will be boring and will be the first thing you will be doing, but they are important."
Keel asked, "Have Filo and Ryoko gotten their chakra released yet?"
Naruto frowned and shook his head. He then replied, "No, I haven't done that just yet. I want to do that when we reach the hourglass in the capital. The reason for that, it will take a few days for their chakra to settle and then to start training. We have to be in a spot to train and defend those who are training. While I can defend the team for the most part by myself. We need Filo to pull the cart. It will look funny for me to pull the cart…. Don't you think?"
The kids began to laugh at the thought of Naruto pulling the cart and Filo pouted thinking of him pulling off the cart.
Filo called out in a pouting voice, "You wouldn't take away pulling the cart from me would you master?"
Naruto chuckled and said, "No, Filo. I wouldn't. While I'm strong enough to pull the cart. I wouldn't do that unless it was necessary."
Filo perked up and said, "Thank you master."
They continued until they made camp and had a quiet night. They broke camp and made good time to the capital the next day. Filo exclaimed, "Wow!"
The guards knelt when they saw Naruto and Naruto bowed at the waist to the guards as he passed them. Naruto just got a notification that Jiraiya wanted to class up. Naruto allowed it. He looked at the levels and his main party members were all 40 with stars next to them. The kids were now 20 and Filo and Ryoko were 17. Nala was 30. Naruto was now 38. The fights on the road had pushed them up in level. He was happy to get them to the capital and wanted them to be able to class-up.
He then saw a woman dressed in priestly robes walk up to the cart and say, "Shield Hero, Uzumaki. We are ready for your party. If you are ready. If you will follow me. We can assist in upgrading your party and attaching your shield to our country."
Naruto nodded and waved for Ryoko to land. Ryoko landed and she hopped into the cart while transforming. Raphtalia walked beside the cart. She caught some glares from some of the populace, but no one seemed to do anything. They followed the priestess to a church and parked the cart outside the church. Filo transformed and changed. The whole party then followed the priestess into the church. When the doors closed Naruto then said, "I thank you for not making a scene."
The woman bowed and said, "It was brought to our attention by the duke that you want to be treated as a mere mortal. Thus, we will treat you as such. You are to be praised, but I understand that making a spectacle will interfere with becoming the savior that we need. Now let's register you with the hourglass."
They moved deeper into the church and the hourglass glowed. It sent a beam into the shield. Naruto saw a second hourglass appear on his HUD. He saw that it had about 5 days until it would reach zero. He turned to the priestess and exclaimed, "We have about five days until a wave hits Siltvelt. Tell your King and have him get anyone and everyone ready for an attack. I have no idea where it will be in your kingdom, but it will come."
The priestess bowed and replied, "Thank you for this information. You will excuse me while I forward this information. Afterwards we will talk." She hurriedly left the room. Naruto looked at the other attendant and asked, "So how do we class-up?"
The attendant bowed his head and replied, "Shield Hero-sama. Those who are going to class-up go to the hourglass and touch it. They then are given the choice to class-up."
Naruto nodded to the girls. Sylvie, Raphtalia, Milly, and Rino all moved up to the hourglass and touched it. Naruto got a notification and accepted it. All of them glowed and the stars beside their names disappeared. Only Milly seemed to be happy. Naruto asked, "What is wrong?"
The attendant spoke up and said, "It is possible that the paths offered were not acceptable to them."
Three of the girls nodded and Sylvie explained, "The choices offered didn't seem right or weren't right. I'm sorry, Naruto-koi."
Naruto took Sylvie, Raphtalia, and Rino into a hug and looked at Milly and asked, "Did you get what you wanted?"
She smiled sadly and said, "Yes, I'm sorry you guys didn't get what you wanted."
The girls looked back at Milly and Raphtalia replied, "That's great that one of us got what we wanted."
Milly entered the hug, Filo and Ryoko entered the hug just to be part of it. Naruto smiled and looked at the slowly aging members of his party and said, "Hey group hug." And the other members joined in. He them chuckled and said, "Anyone can join." The attendant blushed and joined in. The priestess had just entered and joined the hug too.
Naruto laughed heartily and said, "Now that is like it!"
After a few minutes the group broke apart with everyone feeling good. The priestess then explained, "The king has said that he wants you to take as many of his troops along with you to the next wave as possible. The church will also send healers along to help with healing."
Naruto nodded and then said, "This is more like it. I will meet with the king in a little while to discuss basic strategy. We shall take some of the next few days to gather some adventurers also to help."
The priestess nodded and left the room. Naruto then said to the group, "It is time to get the others ready for basic chakra training. We will work on starting chakra, control and substitution. The other parts will be done after the wave. I will be the main trainer. We will not work on elemental training. It will take too long and we don't have time. We will also work on magic, and martial training. Reinforcing with chakra is not a thing for the newbies yet. Now we will secure lodging and then talk to the king."
The group formed behind Naruto and followed behind him. They quickly found an inn and got a few rooms. The priestess led them to the castle and to the king's audience chambers. He sees a large man with white tiger features sitting on a throne with a woman sitting next to him with similar features. Naruto smirks when a small girl no older than 5 or six with similar features runs into the chambers and into Naruto the girl falls down and starts to bleed from the nose. She stagers to her feet and exclaims, "Who attacks the daughter of the king of Siltvelt?"
Naruto chuckles, as he sees fear come across the faces of the king and queen. Naruto kneels down to eye level and exclaims, "You should really watch where you're going. You might some day run into the Shield Hero."
The girl not seeing the shield on his arm declares, "It was you! You hit me! Guards arrest him!"
Naruto raised his shield and changed it into his medical glove. It glowed green and he then said, "A slight broken nose and deviated septum. No real problem fixing. Entitled attitude. That, I might not be able to fix. Now hold still while I heal your nose. So, you don't bleed all over your fur and the floor."
The girl complied as Naruto held his glowing hand over her nose. She asked after he finished, "Who are you? I don't recognize you as any of our healers and you're human."
Naruto stood and bowed. He then transformed his gloved back into his chimera viper shield and replied, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, the Shield Hero. At your service."
The girl blushed under her fur and bowed on the floor. She then exclaimed, "Please forgive me great god Shield Hero."
The king and queen let out a sigh of relief when Naruto patted the girl's head and said, "You don't need to bow to me, but be more careful next time and be nicer to those around you. You may be royalty, but that doesn't mean that you are to be respected just because you are the princess. You need to earn their respect. Deeds will earn more respect than throwing around your title. That will only earn you more problems and anger from others."
The king then spoke up, "He speaks wise words, Sasha. Thank you for going easy on our daughter Shield Hero."
Naruto then said, "Naruto."
The queen looked at him questioningly and asked, "What, Shield Hero?"
Naruto replied, "My name is Naruto and I prefer to be referred to as such. I came to discuss the next wave and how we are going to deal with this. And before you tell me that I will lead your army to glory, we can stop right here. I don't know how to lead a large group, yet. I want advisers to help. People who have experience to help me. I don't know the strengths and weaknesses of your men and women. Your weapons and magics. You have strategies and so do I. I want to make them work together effectively."
The king nodded and said, "Wise words. I will call up the generals and his sub commanders. How many can you call up to the wave?"
Naruto accessed the help screen and then replied, "I can summon about three hundred to the wave location at my level. When I pass level forty, I can do four hundred. That includes supply carts for those troops. Maybe more, we will have to see when we assemble."
The king nodded and then said, "We need to figure out the composition of those troops."
Naruto then said, "We have five days. I would like for you to assemble your generals and about fifty of your strongest adventures. We will then figure out what will work. We also need one of our group to be a flier to be able to come back to the castle and get reinforcements sent as soon as possible. I will first explain how I did things in my first wave." The king nodded and Naruto continued, "We secured the besieged town. The other heroes attacked the main monster. While this may take longer, I would say it will save on civilian casualties."
The king took a thinking pose and replied, "I agree. It also gives us a secure base to attack the main monster and bring the wounded while keeping the civilians safe. I see little reason for changing it. The generals might not agree, but you will have to debate with them and more than likely they will not be there and their captains will. Making you and the captains the ranking officers there. If any of the Vassal Heroes come, they can also help Fitoria the queen of filolials. The dragon king has kept quiet for the time being, but your dragon girl might draw his attention. So, watch yourself."
Naruto nodded and said, "I will watch for this king and queen. I don't want my girls to be in any trouble. I say we meet up tomorrow if you can assemble the people tomorrow and we discuss basic tactics."
The king nodded agreement and said, "I agree and would like to have you for dinner tonight."
Naruto chuckled and said, "I hope I'm not on the menu."
The king laughed and replied, "I would never attempt to have the cook try to cook a god. Also, I think you would fight against it and it would make you not really want to help my nation." He then winked at Naruto and began to laugh with Naruto.
The daughter and wife looked at each other in confusion.
After the banquet Naruto was in the room with Nala and the children, including Filo and Ryoko. Fried was blushing up a storm and Nala continued to say, "What is your problem? You will see a woman without a shirt eventually." Nala wore pants, but went bare chested. She was offered a towel, but refused.
Naruto sighed and had Rino cover Filo and Ryoko's chest and crotch with a towel. He noticed that Keel wore a chest wrap and had his answer. Rifana had pulled her shirt to just below her breasts. Naruto then explained, "You remember my explanation about chakra earlier?" They all nodded and he continued, "I will be… shall we say kickstarting your chakra. Nala, I'm going to have to watch you very carefully, since you're about sixteen or seventeen in human years. Which is about the cutoff for this procedure. It could hurt you badly. It might hurt or feel really good, but concentrate on staying still."
Naruto started with Filo and worked his way down the line. Until he hit Nala. He expected this one to be like Sylvie and Milly. He wasn't disappointed. When Naruto inserted the chakra, Nala arched her back and moaned in pleasure. Naruto sighed, and knew he was in trouble in a way he was with Sylvie and Milly. When Nala caught her breath, she reached up and captured his lips, not thinking. Naruto, also not thinking, tried to gently push her away, put his hand on her breast and she deepened the kiss. Nala then passed out.
Sylvie smiled and just shook her head as Naruto laid the girl down. Fried looked at the hero and asked, "How can I get girls like you?"
Naruto shrugged his shoulders and replied, "To tell you the truth, I really don't know. If it is living my life. I don't think you want it. My life has been bad in the beginning, and is balancing out in other ways. So, if you want a crap childhood… then…"
Fried shook his head and said, "My life has been bad enough. It should get better later."
Naruto nodded and said, "It's probably not a good idea to think about it."
Fried sat up and became dizzy. Rino grabbed him and led him to his bed and tucked him in. She then kissed him on the cheek and said, "You did good. You may not be the Hero, but I'm sure that you can find a girl." He smiled and closed his eyes.
Naruto and the rest put the rest to bed. Naruto watched as Sylvie pulled down Nala's pants and he raised an eyebrow. Sylvie replied, "You did this to me and Milly. A change is in order. You can watch, help or get out of the way. I'm thinking that she is going to be added to the harem, whether we want it or not. You don't mind a hairy body, do you?" she asked with a wink.
Naruto had noticed that Nala had fine hair all over her body and her face was more panther-like than human-like than most demi-humans. When she grabbed his face her hand felt nice and he didn't mind the feeling of the fur. So, he shook his head and said, "No, I find her attractive and the fur doesn't bother me."
Sylvie blushed and said, "Figures… He does enjoy squeezing my tail." She had finished with Nala and put her in her bed. She jumped and yelped.
He whispered into her ear, "But you do like it when I touch it." He was massaging her tail. She was blushing and leaning her head back into him with a moan.
Rino chuckled and grabbed his ass and said, "I would like some attention too."
Naruto turned and kissed her deeply. This continued for several minutes. The trio finally broke it up and left the room. Rino then said after leaving the room, "You have until we finish the waves and after that… I'm taking you out for a spin. I know the rest of the girls are going to also. I know you have the stamina for it. So, keep training, stud." She kissed him on the lips and went to her room.
Sylvie took his hand and said, "Have I told you how much I appreciate that you came to our world? If I haven't, I would offer my body as an offering, but Jiraiya-sensei would be mad. You save Raphtalia-chan and I. Now the others. You are an actual hero not just because the shield selected you, but because you are you. I have fallen in love with you. Even if we fight over little things later on, I will love you. It is not because I owe you. It is because we are learning to complete ourselves and each other. Even if we go away from you or I go away we will be whole. Not yet, but we will be. It is not that we complete each other, it is that we complement each other. You will be whole and we will be whole people. We are teaching each other how to become whole people. If we lose someone it will hurt, but we will be able to move on."
Naruto looked at her and wasn't sure what to think. He asked, "What are you talking about?"
"We don't know what the future may hold. We of course will try to make sure that none of us will die, but it may happen, but we can't truly prevent that," Sylvie replied.
Naruto squeezed her hand and nodded. He then said, "You're some rabbit. Horny one minute. Sprouting philosophy, the next. I think I love you."
She smiled and giggled. She then said, "Got to keep Konoha's number one Knuckleheaded ninja on his toes."
The pair entered their room and found Raphtalia asleep. The pair readied for bed and went to sleep.
Naruto was surprised. Raphtalia was laying on top of him this time. He was quite surprised that she was naked though, as was he. He knew nothing had happened since her body position was lower than what it was for them to have had sex. He nibbled on her ear. This elicited a quiet moan. Naruto then whispered into her ear, "Do not react. We are both naked. Slowly get up and get dressed. I think that one of the other girls is playing a prank on you, me or both of us." He felt her nod and she sat up.
She got up and blushed at the sight of him, but quickly got dressed. He sighed and noticed that Milly was in the bed with Sylvie and him. Sylvie was still in the night clothes that they had gone to bed in, but Milly was naked. Naruto rolled gently onto Sylvie, who woke quickly and asked quietly, "Are we breaking the rules?"
Naruto replied quietly, "No, Milly played a prank on Raphtalia and I. We woke up naked this morning. It could have been both disastrous and fun."
Sylvie nodded and said, "Well go get dressed before her prank gets the rabbit involved. Please."
Naruto nodded and stood up noticing he was nearly ready to take Sylvie. He got dressed quickly and then hid Milly's clothes. Other than her panties and bra. Sylvie giggled lightly at this. She knew better than to prank her mate. The fox girl spent half the morning running around looking for her clothes. Naruto reminded her about sealing and she found them in a seal on her pack. With that crisis averted Naruto had Rino, Nala, and Milly take the children to the town while Naruto, Raphtalia and Sylvie met at the castle.
Naruto found the Priestess, a couple armored knights, one male one female, about five grizzled looking adventurers and one person with a pike. He noticed something special about the pike, but set that aside. Naruto walked into the room with the Chimera viper shield equipped. He nodded to the two knights, who both nodded back and took a place at the table in the middle of the room. The rest of the group moved around the table. The woman knight began, "I am General Shimera. This is General Hanz. You of course know Priestess Vanya. The man with the Pike is Vassal Hero, Sherman. We have five adventurers representing the adventurer group to save space and eliminate confusion. They will lead that group. Sheila, Johanson, Vas, Yas, and Esper. Everyone, this is the Shield Hero, Naruto Uzumaki and part of his team Sylvie and Raphtalia. We are here to go over…"
"What is a tanuki doing here?" a male of the adventurers asked angrily.
Naruto looked the man in the eye and replied, "She is part of my party. Do you have a problem with that?"
The man looked at Naruto for a minute, but was jabbed in the ribs by the woman next to him and shook his head. He replied, "I guess not."
Naruto said, "Good. She is an integral part of my team. Now let's get down to business. General Shimera, I can bring around four hundred people with me. I figure we will need a medical team, a scout team, a vanguard team, clearing team, a reserve team and a fire team. Can you think of any others we might need?"
Shimera took a thinking pose and then said, "Medical is usually an afterthought. Why include it?"
Naruto replied, "We do not know how far away the wave will appear. It might take hours for the relief to arrive, so having them on scene will help us with having at least somewhat fresh troops, or at least healed troops. Also, my healing can only go so far."
General Hanz chimed in, "I agree with this thinking. While this will cause us to have less initial forces. It will allow us to have more forces over time. Vanya, how many combat priests do you have?"
Vanya thought for a minute and then replied, "About twenty that are trained and five that are in training. We have about one hundred healing priests. We can send about thirty with you. Just keep them safe."
Naruto then said, "We then will establish a med station with the healing priests. Station the trainees and one full combat medic for each trainee. The other healers will stay at the med station on shifts to heal those injured. The reserve will act as their guard for the initial and we will rotate who guards them."
An older woman laughed and said, "Yas is the name. I like your idea. We can also assign some of the adventurers to rear guard too. They may not like it, but it will help keep our supplies safe."
The youngest woman raised her hand and was acknowledged. She asked, "How will we determine who is in this scouting unit?"
Naruto replied, "Good question. My opinion is… it depends on the terrain, the skills available and what type of civilian area we have to evacuate. The civilians need to be removed from the area first. I want to do as little damage to the towns of this country as possible, but we may have to use area magic to eliminate large groups of enemies. I want to not have collateral damage. Buildings can be rebuilt, but lives can't. I also don't want to waste the lives of our men. If an offensive is not going to help, then we should not do it. I would rather pull back, surround and destroy an enemy than waste troops on a useless attack. I know that we need to take out the main monster, but it took the other heroes three hours to eliminate a chimera. I think we can do better with better tactics and not have to lose people in the meantime."
The man from before spoke up, "You're idealist, child."
Naruto laughed and replied, "I'm from a world of shinobi. We've been at war for over a hundred years. If I could use a weapon other than the shield I would be of more use, but hey. I have other uses." He began to laugh.
Sylvie then explained, "He has other means of attack than magic. He has what his world calls jutsu." Naruto raised his hand and a blue sphere appeared in his hand. Sylvie continued, "If this were to hit you. It would not only send you flying back yards, but it would also damage your internal organs. You more than likely would die from it. This is a non-elemental jutsu. There are five elements: fire, water, earth, lightning, and air. Each has several jutsu within their realm. So, he is not just a defender. He is also more than likely the second-best healer we have next to the Priestess Vanya. She can revive, while he can't. Also, he could probably heal more than the Priestess. He just has more reserves. No offense, Priestess."
Priestess blushed and replied, "None taken. Van, you do like to cause trouble."
Van laughed and replied, "You may be right."
Hanz sighed and said, "So we have the basic plan."
Naruto explained, "I need you guys to set up the groups so that they total four hundred. Have them meet in the square early in the morning four days from now. Have all the supply carts also assembled. If we have them all tallied so I can transport them with me. I would also like for you to have one person that can fly back to the castle to tell them where to send the relief troops."
Break
Menma looked at the queen and Melty. He then said, "We need to head out now."
The queen nodded and Menma knelt down Melty looked confused, but the shadow explained, "You need to get on his back, so that we can enter Siltvelt quickly."
Melty asked, "Why?"
Menma replied, "There will be a wave in Siltvelt in four days. We should make it there in time."
A/N: Hope you enjoy the chapter. Hope you enjoy the lead up to the wave. Chapter 12 is done and on the way to the Beta. Again, thanks to MajesticStarX-Overs for her work in being my beta. She is doing a great job of getting to my chapters. Let me know if you like or hate the 'bits of wisdom' at the beginning of the chapter.
Here are the affinities of the those in the party:
Naruto= Magic: Support and healing; Chakra: All basic except earth; Lvl: 39; Race: Jinchuuriki
Milly = Magic: fire + light + darkness (illusion); Chakra: fire; Lvl: 40; Race: Fox
Raphtalia= Magic: light + darkness (illusion); Chakra: wind; Lvl: 40; Race: Tanuki
Sylvie = Magic: fire + water; Chakra: water; Lvl: 40; Race: Rabbit
Jiraiya = Magic: fire + wind; Chakra: all basic except lightning; Lvl: 41; Race: Human
Rino = Magic: lightning + fire; Chakra: none; Lvl: 40; Race: Human
Filo = Magic: Unknown; Chakra: Unknown; Lvl 19; Race: Filolial
Ryoko = Magic: Unknown; Chakra: Unknown; Lvl 19; Race: Wyr Dragon
Rifana = Magic: Unknown; Chakra: Unknown; Lvl: 21; Race: Weasel
Keel = Magic: Unknown; Chakra: Unknown; Lvl: 21; Race: Wanui
Menma = Magic: Unknown see chakra; Chakra: Assumed to be same as Naruto; Lvl: 35; Race: Blood Clone
Fried = Magic: Unknown; Chakra: Unknown; Lvl: 21; Race: Dog
Nala = Magic: Unknown; Chakra: Unknown; Lvl: 32; Race: Panther
