Dragon skill

Finally, Vangark had jumped to other lands for the war of kingdoms. He had not done so alone; three of his vassals had followed him, and better still, a friend was with him, Fraant, whom he had met in K173. Then the king of K276 took him to his kingdom. They joined forces once again, this time to invade together. Fraant had been invading for three months and was seduced by his companion's proposal to fall into a kingdom they believed accessible to them and attack both sides when war broke out. It wasn't a bad idea. Vangark wanted merit; they both wanted it, one eager to reach the rank of prince for the first time, the other just to kill.

The kingdom they chose was K172. Thanks to a friend who provided them with information, they could see that they would not be in danger, at least there was no blue dragon or anyone stronger than them in sight.

The war paired them with K10, a kingdom that was a little empty and had some strong warriors, which discouraged Vangark's friend, who soon cheered him up by giving him the coordinates of a target. But Fraant argued that if the big ones were around King's Landing, he wouldn't be able to strike ALONE, and he was partly right. Both had to remain in their alliances, otherwise they wouldn't be able to receive the Alliance Conquest rewards. They were together, but they couldn't help by attacking, rallying, for example.

It was Fraant himself who sent him the coordinates of an archer who was attacking one of his vassals. Vangark didn't hesitate and took advantage of the fact that the attacker was without a lord and hit him twice in a row, then captured his lord. He released him immediately, not wanting to be pursued, and went back into hiding.

He felt his companion's regret, after having been in two kingdoms attacking alone, now he found himself unable to do so, so he was on the lookout for prey, something that could get him out of his bad mood.

“I'm going to sleep,” he said. It was true, it was late, and the one who calls himself king in K276, and others now call “The Absent King,” lamented, but before his friend left, he tried to convince him.

"Look, King's Landing in K10, there are four warriors, they are taking the enemy castle.

The two began to investigate. Fraant couldn't jump to that kingdom; he still had ten minutes to wait. Vangark was impatient, but he didn't want to show it. His friend was in a bad mood, and if he sensed this, he might leave and be left alone to face those four.

While Fraant waited, they sent a scout with a vassal. King's Landing was with Lord, and almost all of them were archers, mostly T4, and a few T3. They identified who was leading the takeover of the fortress and quickly began to devise a plan. It had to be good for both of them. They knew they couldn't hit everyone, they could lose the lord, fighting against bows is always difficult, but at least they would try to annihilate one completely, and to do that they had to capture their lord.

Vangark proposed striking King's Landing, confident that with his stats, his commander lineup, and his dragon, he could capture the enemy lord. But before his army struck, a vassal of Fraant had to rally and follow the target so that if he tried to flee, they could find him and even block him with the blue dragon. With the lord captured, Vangark would strike first, then his friend would finish him off, both would win, and perhaps they could hunt down one of the other three who remained with him.

The plan was approved, they analyzed it three times, sent each other the coordinates of their locations, everything was ready, all that was left was for Fraant to jump, only three minutes remained.

When he was able to, the two plus the vassal positioned themselves according to the plan, looked at each other, Vangark gave the signal, sent his army, and Fraant's vassal began the follow-up rally. The king's strike was destructive, killing almost everyone guarding King's Landing, but there was one detail: he couldn't capture his lord.

“You didn't capture him?” asked Fraant.

“No, I don't know what happened,” replied Vangark, stunned.

Everyone who was there jumped, hid, and placed bubbles. Both couldn't believe what had happened; it was a close call. Fraant, far from calming down, got angry.

“Are you a noob?” he asked angrily. “Why don't you use the reroute skill?”

“I haven't used it in months.”

“That's why you didn't capture their lord, you noob.”

The two argued for almost an hour about the use of that dragon skill. But they didn't reach any conclusion, other than that the plan had failed. Vangark, trying to calm the situation, told him that the war still had hours to go, and they could have better targets to hit the next day, but even he doubted his own words. He still wonders if it would have been better to use reroute to achieve the victory they wanted.