Chapter 2

Come evening on the first day, I was dead tired, it seemed that this whole ordeal took a toll on my psyche.

I was woken up the next day by a grumbling stomach. I think this is the first time in my life that I was hungry but no one was here to feed me.

I guess I should have been more thankful to my parents while I was on Earth. Wait, now that I think about it, isn’t the general basically the parent of the army?!

“What the hell, I seriously need more points or we will all die. Why are there no cheats! I want to go home! I don’t want children!”

“Now, since I vented my frustrations let’s go fix this shit.”

I tried to put on my medal-studded uniform but a small detail caught my eye. The medals, why do I have medals on my uniform?

And then I saw the inscriptions on the medals: Champion of Ares, No Mana Freak, Natural Leader, Intelligent

Yeah, those are my titles. Won’t everyone know what titles I have by looking at my medals? Can I hide them somehow, because it seems they won’t come of my uniform after trying?

Am I not in the tutorial right now? I should try to find out if there isn’t something in the menu to help me.

“System Status”

[Status]

[Store]

[Abilities]

[Map]

[Help]

Oh, there is a map and a help tab also here. I didn’t even notice it yesterday; I really need to get a grip on the situation otherwise I will lead everyone to their doom. Let’s check out the map first.

“Map”

The screen changed to a bird-eye view again. The map only shows the immediate surroundings and everything else was shrouded in fog. Wait, is this the so called fog of war?

Well the map is useless for now. Exploration comes after I survive tutorial. Well IF I survive the tutorial.

Next, let’s check the help tab.

“Help”

[State your inquiry] Oh, that’s cool; I don’t have to search through useless FAQs

“Is there a way to hide my titles?”

[You can hide or unhide your titles with the commands “Hide {Title Name}” and “Unhide {Title Name}]

“Great.” With my newfound knowledge I hid all of my titles. Maybe one day this will come in handy, but now it’s just useless weight.

After the situation was resolved I was planning on checking up on the progress of my engineers.

As I was leaving my headquarters I stumbled on something and fell down on my ass. Well, this is embarrassing.

When I looked around my surroundings I was left stunned. It seems that I have stepped on my own engineers. They were all sleeping outside the headquarters. I must have forgotten to tell them they are allowed to sleep inside the headquarters with me. I really suck as a general.

Oh great, now they are waking up; I must have disturbed their sleep. Yup, as soon as they saw me, they started freaking out and kicking each other awake. They lined up and saluted me. Is this going to be my life from now on?

“Gener-“ I interrupted his apology speech.

“Stand at ease soldier.”

“Yyes Sir!” Well what the hell am I supposed to say now? Discipline is important, but being high-strung is detrimental to organization. Let’s pretend this never happened.Brilliant plan indeed.

It seems that they have already finished the trenches. Yes, this is a good opportunity to pass of my mistakes as rewards. Heh good job me.

“I can see that you have finished the trenches. Excellent, from now on you can sleep inside the headquarters and also be my temporary guards.”

After my bullshiting ended, everything went well. My soldiers were happy and I didn’t come off as an incompetent idiot.

“Grrrumble” Dammnit, can I not enjoy a single moment in my life? We need food.

“Alright today we will all go to the forest to hunt for food.”

“Yes, Sir!”

I was a bit more careful today; I don’t want to end up dead without accomplishing at least something.

We advanced in a diamond formation, this is a new experience for me; being protected by others. Ah, I must succeed if not for myself at least for them since they care this much for me.

We advanced through the bushes on the perimeter but we had no luck. It was only bushes and trees everywhere. It was already lunchtime when we were returning back with our heads down.

As we were stepping into the clearing on the way home one of my soldiers signaled for the formation to stop.

What is going on?! Is there an enemy?

“Sir, it appears that while we were gone, some animals appeared.”

“What?” Someone is so daring? How dare they!

“Are they still there?”

“Yes, sir it seems they are rummaging through the traces of rabbits we cooked yesterday. The animals appear to be wolves but they are a size too big.”

“Heh, accidental bait it seems. Good, let us assume position and score us some food.”

It seems I wasn’t the only one hungry here. Yup, they are even drooling.

As they say, birds die for food, people for treasure; but if they had seen the gleam in my soldiers that day they wouldn’t have dared to utter such rubbish.

Those 3 wolves knew not what hit them. We divided the targets between us and fired all at the same time.

Bang! Rata-tata-ta!(SFX for gunfire or my guess at least)

The 3 wolves turned their heads towards the sound but in the next moment they exploded in a mixture of blood and bones. One even got his head blown off.

What went unnoticed during the moment, was the realization that I suck at shooting! I didn’t hit anything, heck I even shot my own headquarters. This is utterly embarrassing.

I need to practice my shooting to be at least passable. What kind of general sucks at being a soldier?

But at least lunch was enjoyable. Wolf meat is tasty although it is a bit too hard for my own tastes. I need to summon a chef as soon as possible.

Lunch was spent in silence while my army was devouring the unfortunate wolves.

Is this the so-called survival of the fittest? What if I am not the fittest around here? What if my army is destroyed by the natives? Can I win against these magic-wielding people? How many magicians are there even? How powerful are they?

Crap, I need to stop otherwise this spiral will be never ending. Relax, one thing at a time.

First comes the tutorial, I will leave everything else to future me. I hope he won’t hate me too much.

The rest of the week went by really fast. It is a massive drain of time to hunt for food. We hadn’t had time for anything else. This needs to be rectified in the future.

I can’t even stomach the sight of those damn rabbits; they have been our primary supply of food throughout the week. If I see any more rabbits, they will die a gruesome death.

At least my shooting has improved somewhat. On the seventh day in the morning while I was being depressed inside my headquarters a screen appeared in front of me.

[First wave: 1:00:00]

[First wave: 0:59:59]

[First wave: 0:59:58]

Oh boy, here we go. Damn, can’t even pray to a god since I know the asshole.