Bab 38: Final peaceful day before war
After about 15 minutes, two people entered the queen's palace. They both were generals of Mevadi army. Their name, Gora Singh and Badal Singh.
As soon as they saw Maharani Padmini, they bowed and greeted her, "Annapurna, MayDaata…"
Author Note: Annapurna (अन्नपूर्णा ), is the name of a Goddess who provides food to all the living beings. In Hindu Puranas, she is the Goddess of food. By referring to their queen as the one who provides food on their plates Annapurna, they are giving utmost respect to their queen. The second term maydaata (मायदाता) means giving the queen the same treatment as they would give their mothers.
Such a humble and respectful culture… (Proud to be a part of…!)
Maharani Padmini, who was looking at the skies said, "There are a lot of birds flying over the walls of Chittod lately…"
She then looked at both of them meaningfully while saying, "Especially 'Arabian Falcons'…"
Both generals understood immediately. They instantly knelt on the ground begging for forgiveness, "Punish us, Annapurna…"
"We slacked on our duty, punish us, Annapurna…"
"First find those rats out… Chittod won't allow any traitors inside his territories…" Maharani ordered them.
"As your wish Annapurna…" both generals bowed and left the palace.
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The next day,
When Aarv woke up from his sleep, he was greeted by the system's congratulatory screen.
[ Congratulations to Player Aarv for levelling up…!]
[
Strength: +0.5
Agility: +0.5
Dexterity: +0.5
]
Aarv hastily checked his profile,
[
Player profile
Player name: Aarv Bhosle.
Level : 2.
Energy points 1/500 ( 20X territorial bonus activated.)
Strength: 2.0
Agility: 2.2
Dexterity: 1.8
Constitution: Normal Human.
]
All of his stats went up by 0.5. Aarv felt a strange heat generating inside his abdomen. Soon the heat spread through his whole body making him feel warm and comfortable.
Although he did not know what the heat represented, he could feel his body getting stronger and stronger. The heat lasted for 10 minutes before dissipating, leaving Aarv with a shocked expression. He could visibly tell that all of his senses had been heightened and his mind was much clear after levelling up.
'Let's test my new limits…'
Thinking of testing his new limits, As soon as Aarv got out of his house, he saw a messenger running towards the main palace of the fort while shouting,
"Urgent Report… Urgent Report…"
All Rajputs present in the fort started following the messenger towards the main palace. When the messenger reached the main palace and saw the king, he knelt on the ground while saying,
"Annadaata, Urgent report…"
"Hmm what happened…?" The king looked at him with questioning eyes.
"Annadaata… the Khilji forces have left Delhi and heading towards Mewad… they will reach Mevad by tomorrow…" The messenger said hastily, with anxious eyes.
MahaRawal Ratan Simha looked at him calmly and said, "Let them come…"
Gora and Badal who were behind the king also said, "yeah let them come… we will let Khilji see the crimson water from our Rajput swords…"
All Rajputs felt their blood boiling. Nobody knows who started it,
"Jai Bhavan…"
"Jai Bhavani…"
"Elingi Mahadev ki…"
"Jaii…"
All Rajputs started chanting…
Aarv looked at the scene with tears in his eyes…
'This is the real Hindustan…'
He wiped the tears off his face and vowed to himself…"I will not let anything happen to it… NO MATTER WHAT…!!"
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After all the Rajputs settled down from their initial hot-bloodedness, they started to prepare for the war.
MahaRawal Ratan Simha ordered both commanders under him to first bring all the ladies, kids from the surrounding villages inside the fort first.
He also ordered them to fill all the ration reserves as well as weapon reserves of Chittod.
The war machine of Chittod started to churn at its full capacity.
Ratan Simha also sent letters to all the Rajput clans in nearby regions to assemble at the fort of Chittod. Little did he know, Allauddin Khilji had already sent letters to them threatening them, If you joined the war of Mewad, After Mewad, I will kill all of your clans…
Here at his house, Aarv also got to work. He first assembled his 100 guards, giving them new swords, Armours and bows. He also gave them special horses which were bought from Gujarati Merchants.
"Get familiar with your new wealth… you will need them most in the upcoming war…"
While talking, one of the instructors came near him and said in his ear, "The people you asked for have arrived…"
Aarv nodded at the instructor and looked towards the guards in front of him who were testing out their new weapons as well as armours.
"You all can leave… but don't forget to rest because you all will be restless for a while…!"
"Yes, Milord…" All of them bowed to Aarv as they left the main courtyard.
The instructor quickly brought some people with him to the main house, some of them were blacksmiths while others were carpenters. When Aarv looked at them, they fearfully knelt on the ground while saying, "We greet the noble…"
Aarv looked at their earful expression and told them to get up, "Get up… I have some work that needs all of your help…"
He passed a slate with some drawings on it. The man at the front took the slate and looked at the drawings,
"This…"
Aarv looked at his shocked expression and explained, "This is a new weapon that I thought of…"
Then he looked at all the people in front of him and said, "For Chittod to win the upcoming war, these weapons are really necessary…"
All the people, be it blacksmiths or carpenters, had shocked expressions on their faces as they one by one looked at the designs on the slate.
"You don't have to worry about the resources, you have to make as many of them as possible… I will let Instructor Singhal handle it from here…"
The instructor who brought all the people in bowed to Aarv while accepting his task, "As your wish Milord…"
At the time, the people didn't know what these diagrams were except for the instructor Singhal. Who saw them and understood what they were…
They were the designs for Tand Balistes… A weapon that was feared by all the middle eastern cavalries in the world…
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