As jake heard the news of the upcoming war, he immediately ordered the patrol of 2000 men to go with him to the border where he will meet the king and his generals, The remaining men in the patrol we're left behind in the town in case of an enemy attack.
It took 3 days for jake and his men to arrive at the border as Jakes town was quite near otherwise it would have taken a weeks before he and his men can go to the front lines of the war when jake and his men arrived there he was met with rows upon rows of tents with one particular tent designed with gold signifying royalty or a noble bloodline.
As jake ordered his men to set up the tents, he went into a large tent where he met with the king and several men all wearing armor of some kind, guards were present in case of an assassin.
As the king was planning a battle plan with the surrounding generals he saw jake walk-in wearing black armor shining with a cold glint and spear that seemed to have a been baptized with blood quickly the atmosphere quoted down, the generals had some information of jake even though he had the rank of a low-level baron noble title, in the several weeks of developing his town jake killed several groups of bandits quickly filling up the coffers of jakes pockets additionally jake had created a group composing of the best thieves, murderers, and assassins. the purpose that jake created this group was with one purpose, to rob and assassinated nobles.
with the group in place, the group quickly became famous and was named the black crow as they would rob nobles at night and be gone without a whisper leaving no bodies behind, as the group's name spread throughout the kingdom there was a rumor that jake a relatively new noble appointed by the king himself controlled this group,
As jake walked in the tent with the king and the surrounding generals, the king offered him a seat near the generals, jake sat down and the king continued planning a battle strategy
"as I was saying we should quickly take 5k cavalry and flank them while the enemy is in combat with our infantry, additionally our archers will fire through their ranks," the king said but quicky another said another thing, it became an argument.
while the generals were arguing for whoever has the best battle plan jake was sitting there bored, in fact, jake already had a battle plan much much greater than what the generals are arguing he never told them, when the king noticed jakes bored expression the king said to jake " Baron jake would you like to express your views on this matter" when jake heard the king, jake quickly threw a slight grin and said " yes, yes I would" said while smiling