Empires of Ashes

*They Brigardi cease bombardments for the day to lick their wounds and strategize.*
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???: Do you speak common?

"I do, who are you?"

Thegul sing their chants of morning and play off their dead with low horns.

*The noble and his army approach the village, where the prince is waiting*


*After a brief exchange the noble and what look like professional law enforcement and guards enter the village. Leaving the rest of the army (Mostly spearmen and archers) waiting for the prince to join them*

OOC:
Downloading anime... its a 23 GB batch coming with ~100 KB/s most of the time... thought i would check if its on youtube... it is!....but its english dubbed... okay, no prob, ill just watch the beginning with dub until the whole batch finishes downloading... starts watching episode 01... remembers that dubbed anime is so bad, its better to wait in boredom until the original version with subs downloads...

Trajan watches interestedly

*The princes army march out and form up with the newcomers before the Prince addresses them all in Cymraic*

*A messenger approaches Trajan*

Trajan: what is it?

"The prince has sent me to jnform you that his men are ready to continue advancing with your legions. And to also tell you that he now has nearly 700 men with the new reinforcements"

"Excellent"

"When are you going to continue marching?"

"when? *chuckles* the auxilia already are, the legions are preparing to leave now"

"I will tell the Prince"
*He leaves*

"also tell him I wish to see him, alone"

"As you wish"

/Several minutes later\
*The prince approaches the Consul*
"Yes uncle?"

"I have had a thought nephew. I have yet to see your combat skills for myself"

"....this is true"

"We have a little time before we must leave. Spar with me"

"Where?"

"just outside"

"As you wish"

he leads the way

*Once there, the prince draws his sword and raises his shield*

Trajan draws his gladius hastam as one of the invicti hands him a scutum hasta

*He watches Trajan*

he raises the large shield, covering most of his body

*The prince steps forward, his shield protecting similar amount of his body*

he stands his ground

*The prince rushes Trajan, his shield crashing into Trajan's and blocking his gladius*

Trajan digs his heels in before pushing back

*The prince does a similar thing and pushes Trajan back, thrusting into the space created by this action*

trajan does a quick backstep, before thrusting his own blade into the space, the handle unexpectedly lengthening

*The prince pulls back and keeps his shield up*

the extended weapon smacks off his shield before retracting again

"How the fuck does that work?"

"that's classified" *chuckles*

"That thing is nasty!"

"Standard issue for all invicti"

"And here I am with a plain old bastard sword"

he chuckles

"Come on, you're the one who wanted to fight"

"I know"

*He bashes his shield with the sword*

he raises his

*The prince sheathes his sword and draws a small more ornate blade*

trajan's eyebrow raises

"As much as I enjoy the big sword, it doesn't mix well with a big shield"

"true, true"

"I have to admit, this is a very exciting sparring match!"

he chuckles
"Quite"

"To be honest, single combat does little to show ones competency in a battle. Mainly die to ye fact that we'd both have an army of well trained soldiers backing our every action"