“Hah!”
“Strike!”
“Hah!!”
I stood off to the side as I calmly watched the training of the City Guard.
They were standing in formation as they repeatedly struck forward with a standard sword on the orders of Eriog. This had followed a long morning of running and all manner of physical punishment in the name of muscle training.
The members of the City Guard would officially be graduating tomorrow, and I was here to witness their last training of this kind.
From this point on they would work in tandem with Jral and the other members of the guard team that came from the Olirag Clan.
They would now guard the City in shifts, and contrary to their name they would also undertake missions outside of the City as well.
Escort missions, retrieval missions, scouting missions, and whatever else the City would need.
All of them were informed of this and were told all about the potential dangers many times. They could even drop out right this second if they wanted to. Up until tomorrow at least…because tomorrow is where they would sign new contracts that bonded them to the City for 3-5 years.
By now all of them were a minimum, 3rd Cycle Body Refinement with a few 4th Cycles among them as well, with Micah who had long since recovered from the forest, being one of them.
Along with their cultivations, Eriog had firmly turned every last one of them into proper fighters. They had learned how to fight on their own, and they had learned how to fight as a group.
They had been taught to fight against other people, and even beasts as well.
A proper fighting force had been established. I made sure Richard knew that no effort should be spared to make sure they were taken care of.
He already knew that though.
Anyway, after these members graduate tomorrow, they would still have to train in shifts but not as rigorous, and they would also have mandatory cultivating sessions. They would also be giving custom made armor form the blacksmith.
It would be standard issue for every member. It was in the same build as the things we had in the Tutorial, but far better quality and of course it would all be black.
I guess it was only right that the City Guard of Black Cove City, worse black armor.
What would be special about the armor though, was the symbol that would be in the center of their chest plate.
The Symbol of the City.
We deliberated it for quite some time, but it ended up being really simple.
There were three horizontal squiggly lines to signify water, and a black flame that set on top of it.
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I liked the simplicity of it.
The symbol would eventually make its way onto a flag and be placed atop the City walls and on the City Lord mansion.
The City was shaping together nicely.
Especially with the addition of the MTS, or Mavelia Transport System as it was dubbed.
Vanessa, with the assistance of Greja, managed to work out a nice deal that was apparently intense.
The core of the deal was the same, but on top of the 20% tax there were a few other one time fees and rent for the shop space. that had to be paid for them to set up a branch here.
Our one concession was that we would only receive three ‘free’ builds of the MTS. One of the four would be built between our two Cities.
They would be coming at some point to build our side of the MTS here. I was very curious to see how it all worked.
Actual teleportation.
The use of it would be open to the entire City, but it would require a small fee of some sort since we would have to pay the Mavelia folks for maintenance.
Anyway, this would make trade between our Cities very easy but it also posed a security risk so it would be heavily guarded at all times. In fact, it would have its building.
Regarding the other three we would be getting, we wouldn’t actually physically get them, but the Mavelia Merchant Union would simply keep it on record that we had three asks of them to build one for us.
Anywhere we wanted.
Of course, only anywhere on the planet but still, that was very important.
I know for a fact there were other Cities on the planet, and it would be great if some sort of network could be set up between all the Cities.
Unlikely for now.
Instead, I wanted to make sure the MTS systems were used for truly far but important points of interest.
Whether that was another City, or an absolutely distant dungeon, or just somewhere far for the sake of being far was to be decided, but either way I had to be intentional with where I asked for them to be built.
Which meant another adventure was on the horizon.
Well, there were quite a few adventures on the horizon, but one that would likely take me a way from the City for months was also definitely in the works, but I wouldn’t do that until I was a bit stronger, and the City had other Qi Refinement Realm Cultivators to handle the situation in the Dead Land Dungeon.
Speaking of being stronger.
Even now I had the Grivs on and was constantly enduring pain just to stand and watch the training that was taking place.
The boys weren’t with me today though.
Both of them were outside the walls.
Conducting training of their own. The group that would be a part of my personal guard were currently being put through a crucible of sorts. Having to live in and fight the beasts of the nearby forest for 2 days.
After that they would be tossed in the harbor for some time.
A body of water that held dangers of its own.
Something Grant and all the other prospective fishermen learned very quickly.
It didn’t take them long to band together into one big group so that they could help each other.
Honestly, I really don’t understand why the men that signed up for this position were trying so hard.
None of them knew me, none of them were in Outpost G, none of them owed me or this City anything.
Yet they continued to persist.
All for the sake of guarding a young man they didn’t know.
I don’t get it.
So of course I asked them.
And the answers I got were not what I expected but I guess I should’ve.
All ten of them served in some type of military capacity in various countries. This I already knew.
But what I didn’t know was what it did to them.
For years it was all they knew.
All they had.
It was a life of war, blood, and death.
Some of them had done things that wouldn’t be recorded in any history books.
Things I wouldn’t repeat to children.
It felt like a crazy coincidence that somehow ten former members of the darker sides of various militaries would all end up in my City and agree to something like this, but no one was immune to being transported to the Tutorial.
We were all brought there.
It made me wonder how world leaders felt when all the power they carried was stripped from their very hands, and then placed into the waiting maws of
So, when they heard of the position, they practically jumped at it. Quickly passing Richard’s interviews, and then being tossed at Eriog for potential training until Lirian joined in.
They called him a little demon.
I wonder how that felt, to be trained and bullied by a 13 year old child.
Anyway, since they were to be some sort of elite force, the training had to match.
And they all relished it.
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