Conquering His Cold Heart

Chapter 725 Generals to the frontline (2)

"You performed marvellously young Frost." General Katrina smiled at Frost as he walked to her side.

"So it was all part of your scheme." Frost glanced at her sideways finding that the woman he saw previously and the one standing before him now were completely different people.

Given her eager, loud and rather boisterous personality Frost assumed that General Katrina was more of an instinctive type, one who overwhelms her opponent with force and will rather than keen strategy, but he was wrong, dead wrong.

"Scheme is such an uncouth word Frost I much prefer strategy." She smiled with a knowing look, enjoying seeing the slight surprise in the young man's eyes.

"Seems that I foolishly judged a book by its cover...a mistake I won't make again."

"Oh you likely will young man. People can't help but make assumptions based on visual input as for most that's our primary source of information. The best you can do is be prepared for your analysis to be wrong."

".....I'll remember that."

"Good, humility in the face of someone stronger and or more experienced will allow you to continue onwards, to further improve. Arrogance though sometimes justified can lead to misconceptions and even the destruction of one's path...." Katrina looked over Frost in his entirety, noticing his stance, the subtle shifts in expression as well as the slight change in the air surrounding him.

"You've advanced to the mid stages...impressive." Her eyes couldn't help but light up.

"Facing off against a worthy adversary made all the difference." After crossing blades with Bella, a foe that was far beyond him and then Bacchus who was supposedly at a similar level to himself, Frost was able to cross the threshold, to understand what he was missing and stabilise his B-rank foundation.

"Was this not your original intention?" He asked wondering how deep the old General's thought process ran.

"Hahahah I may be a master of warfare but accurately pinpointing one's breakthrough especially someone at your level and who I'm unfamiliar with is beyond me." Katrina laughed and shook her head, a little embarrassed by the pedestal Frost placed her on.

"My initial predictions assumed that the battle between you and Bacchus would be hard fought. Though he may not have been at the peak of the early stages his bloodline and innate battle senses should have proven difficult for you to overcome despite you're slight lead but...." She once again looked over Frost in his entirety before continuing. "You truly are a monster; you didn't simply hold your own nor did you leave him with a serious injury but instead you directly claimed his life and rather easily at that." She had to raise her hands in defeat, Frost was way beyond her estimates. A natural born warrior with talent far eclipsing anything she'd ever seen before.

Frost felt that Katrina's words made a lot of sense. A monster especially in the lower and middle ranks rely heavily on their natural form, their innate strengths which naturally surpass the bodies of Sapients however if the sapient is armed with a high quality weapon that can cut through a powerful carapace or hide with ease or has mastered a weapon style that can easily handle the simplistic attack methods of a monster then their advantage disappears.

The lines become even more grey as one reaches A-rank as Aura becomes the defining trait rather than one's physical form (though it still plays a large part).

"Interesting."

Frost and Katrina continued to observe the battlefield for a little longer, allowing Frost the chance to calmly analyse a battle between multiple A-ranks, a scene rarely seen in the civilised world to the south.

"Frost I'm assigning you to Jessica's Magic corps next, Sergeant Suna show him the way." Eventually Frost needed to be put back to work, his little break was over.

"Yes General, this way Major." A tall woman with partial scales across her skin then led Frost towards the magic corps stationed upon the northern wall.

Frost was initially excited, eager to stretch his mana veins but then he remembered the leader of the magic corps, the lust filled General Jessica who wanted nothing more than to devour him.

"Relax Frost, Jessica knows better than to mix private affairs with official ones." Katrina lightly laughed before waving him off, allaying at least some of his fears.

A few minutes later he was deposited amongst the magic corps and was staring at the image of a bold woman with an impatient expression on her face as she stared down from her perch on the left side of the northern wall.

"Beta team increase your firepower by 10%, Epsilon recuperate, Team Omega swap out your batteries!" The sexy mage woman who earlier wrapped herself around him was giving off orders like a machine, she didn't even look his way, as though he didn't exist, a rather start contrast.

He had to wait in silence for nearly 10 minutes before she had time to deal with him and even then it was far from positive.

Your journey continues on empire

"Do you know any war magic?"