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                   Location: D'kman Barony, Campsite                                                                 Year: 1067 AD

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(POV : Aymar)

 

 

*Multiple Hooves sounds in the Background*

 

It's a Cold morning,

 

Young boys and girls standing in a line leaving equal distance with weapons and other items placed infront of them,

 

I inspected the weapons and rations placed for every standard unit under my command,

 

Everyone carries an equal amount of rations, equipment and only a few of them have different weapons because of their mastery of that particular weapon,

 

"Woah!" *Crash*

 

the sudden noise broke the disciplined silence, as these idiots looked at the direction and started talking to themselves,

 

"Shut the Fuck Up!" I shouted making them stand straight in attention stance,

 

I sent John to observe Kolin training her magic, in the hopes of him gaining some affinity, So I had to babysit these idiots,

 

Thankfully John drilled discipline into them, otherwise, it would have been super awkward if they didn't respond to my shouts,

 

"Now gear Up!" with that they packed the items infront of them, into their own bags and weapons in respective scabbard or holders before preparing to leave one by one in groups with someone to lead at front, The plan is simple, They will split in three groups and camp an entire week out in the woods, and survive with the limited rations following basic training protocol,

 

After setting them off, I walked towards the crowd where the Noise originated,

 

It was someone who fell off of the Horse, now his hands are full of scrapes with fresh blood coming out,

 

"Why are you ganging up on him?, Use Wood ash on his wounds!" I barked at the crowd like a mad kid, wood ash is commonly used for small injuries since they help heal faster,

 

Eddie had a bitter face being embarrassed that one of his archers screwed up,

 

My Mongol Horde dream is facing Expectation Vs Reality Scenario,

 

These bunches are training to be Cavalry Archers, but sometimes, such things happen, so far no one is injured fatally, but if  this trend continues, I have to stop the Cavalry archer plan completely,

 

Turning away in the distance, I could see few minions sitting around talking to themselves while Taylor does regular exercise with subordinates under her, although those goofing around guys are under Taylor's team, they usually train under John, and since John isn't here, they are loitering or chatting,

 

Looking at other minions training under Taylor, I realized an Issue, I am missing a military structure,

 

The current setup is like this :

Every Sergeant have a mixed group of people with different skills but when it comes to training, they will go to respective Sergeants based on their skills,

For example : Kolin has 6 girls under her, all of them are slaves from church (Jill, Talisa,...), when it comes to training, Jill (Jill valentine lookalike) will go train under Eddie since she is a crossbow user and Eddie is the only Sergeant with the expertise of Archery, while Talisa (Water Mage) will go train under Taylor because she is dual sword user (if it was a heavy sword, then she will train under John), as for the rest they are mostly Spear user just like Kolin, and likewise Eddie's group will mostly consist of archers, Taylor swordsmen and John will have Heavy weapon wielders,

 

I made them mix with the team so that one day, If I figure out a way to train them in groups, I could make use of their versatile skills of every soldier, but I haven't made a plan yet,

 

Even the name 'Sergeant' is new to them since The military units and tactics in this world have different names for every Kingdom, for now, I made my minions call John, Eddie, Taylor, and Kolin as 'Sergeant' because each of them manages an average of 10 or 10+ minions each, I don't have a proper structure of how groups works, nor did I taught them the scope or purpose for these groups, I only have a system on how they should behave when they are in the Base, but first I need to make a proper structure, and teach them on how to act independently, like the leader will make sure that every soldier has enough rations and know how long it will last until next supply or destination arrives, and keep reserves incase shit goes down, I want them to act independently because if someone totally relies on Central command, then they lack the rational thinking or will become incompetent since their next actions depend on waiting for further commands from the top which is not Ideal, 

 

After that guy is taken care of, I left for the Main Tent to check out how things are coming together,

 

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The first one to see me was naturally Sia, with a pouting face who clung to me like a Koala not letting go off of me, 

 

She does this because of this morning's incident, in order to hide my monstrous bulge from Sia, I ran out of the Bed, and now she thinks that I am trying to avoid her,

 

Pecking on her lips in an attempt to appease her, I made her sit on my lap at the Study, making sure that she doesn't interrupt me before gathering on current matters in my [Data management] Tab,

 

The Items that I Ordered will arrive at Capital and as for the Carts and Carriages, we need to send the Ferocious Beast Forest Wood first for them to start work with it,

 

I turned my attention to the parchments on the Study Table to do my financial outlook,

 

I gathered some intel on what could be my possible trade routes from people been around the kingdom and their general knowledge,

 

There are some unreliable sources as well but First I have to see what and all advantage I have,

 

Our Territory or should I say every village close to Ferocious Beast Forest Naturally has access to cheap Firewood, while only we have more Fur supply compared to others(my assumption), especially I have a supply of Direboar Furs thanks to the White Kitty,

 

I need to find someone who is an expert in making Luxurious Fur materials or maybe I should just sell this shit and let the buyer bear the burden of finding Tailors,

 

As for bigger scale trade, big players already have their hands on them,

 

Most Honey comes from the forests of the Holy Kingdom, while Wine is from southern Kingdoms, there are a few High-class Pink Salt Mines spread across kingdoms, but they are all controlled by Church as well,

 

The Kingdom of Sadrina has a huge influx of Trade profits since it is the only kingdom that has ports, And for some unknown reason, it survived and retained its individuality despite being close to the Imperious Holy Kingdom,

 

It seems that people are milking everything that they can profit out of, I don't think there are any cake slices left for me,

 

I can't decide just with assumptions, I need to go out there and see how things work myself once all of my Orders arrive,

 

"Master Mead?" Dora asked, but when I saw her melons, I changed my mind to do something naughty, She looks like she would develop into a cute Busty android 18,

 

"Mine!"

 

While I was thinking like that, my mead vanished into Sia's belly,

 

'I desperately need to educate Sia',

 

Her uneasiness of me, having another girl has vanished after last night, she now looks cheerful with her usual attitude,

 

"Sia why are you carrying that Dagger explicitly?" I finally asked her about the dagger sheath that she wore over her maid uniform,

 

"Oh that?, dad told me to keep it that way" she replied simply, upon closer inspection, I realized it is not her wavy dagger but the Damascus Dagger that her Dad used when I returned, I didn't pursue about that matter further, her father must have told her to keep the dagger in order to remind me constantly of the consequences of me betraying her,

 

Despite Sia's humming next to my ears, I drafted a basic structure for my future group using previous world military structure as a base,

 

 

Name Units   Commanded by
Squad 10   Sergeant/squad Captain
platoon 50  5 Squads Lieutenant
Company 100  2 Platoons Centurion
Batallion 1,000  10 Companies Colonel
Brigade 5,000  5 Battalions Brigadier General
Division 20,000 4 Brigades Major General
Corps 100,000 5 Divisions Lieutenant general
Field Army 200,000 - 300,000 2 - 3 Corps General
 
(This table is now included in Character List under the Title 'Other Details')
 
 
'I can be a Lieutenant considering that I have little more than Sixty Manpower under me' I mused,
 

After getting notified that John has returned, I advised Sia to wait for me at my room while I train, for which she nodded sadly,

 

With that settled, I entered the woods to see the King Beast,(The White Kitty)

 

'It has been a while since I met it, I hope it is not mad',

 

 

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Arriving near the Cavern's Entrance, I could see my slave girls waiting for something,

 

When I enquired for the reason, it seems that they were waiting for Kolin,

 

I was about to go inside the cavern, but I halted in my tracks hearing the distant sounds,

 

*Wild Beast Squeals and whines*

 

I looked towards the direction of the Noise, where I could see a brown and white silhouettes shapes from the distance, slowly their image became clear as they came towards us,

 

Its the White Kitty, slowly walking towards the cavern while dragging Direboar in its mouth, like a cat bringing rat that it had hunted, except in this case, the Direboar is little bigger compared to White Kitty but still dragged it like a kid carrying trash bag unenthusiastically, it brought the Direboar while the latter screamed loudly,

 

On top of White Kitty was Kolin, holding a sharpened thick Bone Spear with intimidating air like an amazon,

 

Once coming near the Cavern, Kolin dismounted and walked towards an opening near the Cavern,

 

When she waved her hands, the King beast opened its jaw, letting the Direboar go,

 

*Earth-shaking Hooves sound*

 

The Direboar immediately distanced itself from the apex predator, The White Kitty,

 

It ran straight for Kolin who stood there with battle stance, the Direboar didn't care about her existence as it was running towards the nearest woods to be disappeared into the wild forever, But Kolin had other plans for it,

 

*Crash* *Hooves sound slowed*

 

She Immediately used her frost power to summon an Ice boulder hurdling the path of the fleeing Direboar, which didn't expect something like that to happen, as it hit the ice boulder, breaking it and also slowing it down, That's what I call a proper speed breaker,

 

*Whining*

 

The stumbled Direboar seemed to have broken one of its bones, as I could see it walking with one of its legs curled up,

 

But Kolin didn't show any mercy to that literal pig,

 

She ran towards the boar with an inhuman speed before throwing the spear towards the Sky like a Javelin thrower,

 

It went too high vertically that the Direboar had to lift its head straight Ninety degrees angle to follow the black dot in the sky and before it could understand the danger it was in, the Spear impaled the Direboar's nose and straight into its brain, I think since It exhaled few spraying of blood from its nose and its head slumped down after that,

 

Few minions poked it to ensure that it is really dead, before preparing to process it,

 

I honestly feel pity for that Direboar, While I was pitying that creature another Creature came to complain it's share of ramblings, It was the White Kitty with a face filled with fear and desperation,

 

I looked at Kolin who's gaze softened at my sight, and looking at Kolin approaching towards me, the white Kitty ran away from my spot, ".....",

 

"Do you require a report or Base Tour master?"

 

"Both, but before that,....... What did you do to him?"  "Umm... Nothing" She avoided the question as she led me towards the Cavern,

 

I was about to retort following her into the Cavern but once entered, I was distracted,

 

It looked nothing like before, the cavern used to be dark and have a rotten smell with those Dire Bear Remains, but now everything is gone and the cave seemed to have been cleaned and renovated,

 

There were Torches in the walls, and spaces have been allotted for specific purposes like Fur and Leather storage area, Firewood storage area, an area that looks like a mini campsite, an area for frozen meat storage (Meat Frozen using Kolin's Powers), and a Bone storage area with some workbench for making sharp bone arrows, that particular place was filled with bone dust, most probably due to working with Bone fragments and at the side of the area was filled with hay and logs placed horizontally which seems reasonable considering who was residing there, It was for 'Doggo', The Big Eagle now giving me a looking like 'You still alive?, Thought you dead',

 

Maybe sometime I should take it to help me during hunting, Wouldn't it be cool, Like after killing the prey, it'll bring it back to me like a good Doggo it is, Shooting an arrow is easy but getting your ass off to drag the prey back will be tedious, 

 

Now back to the Cavern, The place which previously stinking is now properly cleaned,

 

"What's been happening here, while I was gone, when did you started hunting Direboar?"

 

She averted her gaze wanted to walk away but I grabbed her hands stopping her escape,

 

"Well... Direboar kind of came in the way, Actually, I wanted to hunt... Nightmare Direwolves" she replied under my pressure,

 

"And Who gave you permission to hunt Nightmare wolves?!" she looked down not able to say anything,

 

"I'm honestly happy that you're getting stronger, but you are not allowed to risk your life like that", *Roar*  White kitty also scolded her along with me, As for the kitty's roar she just snorted, enraging the kitty,

 

"Listen Kolin, I'm worried about you, please understand" her stiff face loosened when I said that, she immediately crouched hugging me tightly,

 

"Thank you Master" she muttered in low voice,

 

We hugged for a few minutes, I didn't let her go because of her feverish boy temperature wants me to punish her for the insubordination, Her Heat will feel like Heaven especially during winter times, I can easily imagine that,

 

"uumm....Master?"

 

Her words brought me out of my reverie, " *Throat Clearing* Now give me a full report" saying that I went ahead towards the small camp tent in order to hide my bulge, and prompted her to follow me,

 

There were two tents near the campfire in the middle,

 

Behind the tents are dry food storage, where Grounded flour had been placed there,

 

Thanks to the Antler deer shit, the crops grown verdantly but only half of them could be harvested, the rest half were destroyed by overgrown weeds, but even just with one half we got the greatest harvest that we ever had so Kolin smartly decided to stock up on those,

 

"So John can also kill a Direboar huh?"

 

"Like how I did, but he directly throws at it with his raw strength shattering its brain and also breaking the Spear"

 

"......"

 

Turns out John has also increased his strength, enough to kill a Direboar, but only from a distance since it is unwise to face an animal which solely rely on their raw power especially Direboars which are huge meat masses, Just a force from their weight is enough to crush people, hence melee is impossible,

 

"Kolin, I have a request..." I told her about the Golden Casket and the need for ferocious Beast Forest,

 

"I don't think we need to take it out, taking it out will only bring problems, for now, we should let it stay there, I'll notify people to patrol the Area and as for the wood for Cart, just leave it to me" After pondering few moments she replied,

 

I left quickly in order to protect her from myself,

 

 

 

- Outside Cavern's Entrance

 

 

 

After learning of the changes, I went straight towards John who was tortu...training my mini soldiers,

 

I asked him to train me, Knowing that Kolin and John working really hard to get strong I can't help but influenced by them, But I can't directly train with White Kitty's Tail as I did in past, It would be like Noob vs Pro and I believe training with John would be more Ideal,

 

"But Master it will be Harsh" he answered honestly,

 

"No Pain No Gain" I replied with a smile and ironically after that I regretted what I said,

 

 

- Thirty minutes Later

 

 

" *Panting* No.... More" I slumped on the ground soaked in my own sweat,

 

"But you still have Fifty-Eight Laps Master or Duel me barehanded" he listed my options,

 

"What?!, Nooo! You're a Monster!" I squirmed,

 

"I get that a lot" he replied as if I'm praising him,

 

"How did I end up having two Monsters under me" I complained to nobody in particular,

 

"Really? Are you Done?" he asked with a metal needle in his hand,

 

"No! you can't! I'm your master! return to your Pokeball!"

 

I know what the needle is used for, if someone slumps down like me, he'll poke their Arse with that Needle to get them back to running again, I've seen it many times, but it's not funny from this perspective,

 

"Don't worry master, I won't use it but if you want me to train, then you have to move your muscles more" he said that Calmly,

 

*Sigh*  I was relieved knowing that,

 

Thankfully my Master post saved me, I passed out after that,

 

-

 

*Fire Crackles*

 

By the time I opened my eyes again, it was Sia next to my Face with her typical drooling sleepy face, seems like someone must have brought my 'Corpse' back to my room,

 

I tried to prod her mouth with my fingers but she immediately tried to bite on me before hugging me more tighter,

 

I stopped bothering her and looked at my hands which I can't even lift properly, I was that Tired,

 

'So that's the strength needed to kill a Direboar huh?' I stared blankly at the wooden crossbeams on the Ceiling,

 

'I have a very long way to catch up with them' I thought before falling back to Dreamland,

 

 

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(POV : Roland Von Raven - aka Fourth Prince)

 

 

 

*Crowd talking to themselves*

 

I scanned at the guests sat on the Long Table, with me in the Center,

 

I can see Marquis's Sons, Duke's sons, few Insignificant Princes with some power to their name, and a lot of minor Nobles and Bastards,

 

To be Honest, they are not enough, and keeping them appeased is one hell of a task, but in order to put down the Regent Bitch, this is the least I can do,

 

*Throat Clearing* 

 

The crowd silenced and looking at me,

 

"I believe everyone knows the reason for our meeting" as I said that I glanced at everyone's faces for confirmation,

 

"Your Highness, you can rest assured, you can assume your objective as achieved, but can we get into some important issues" the Duke's bastard ran his mouth around making everyone smirk, 'They want my end of bargain first huh?', It's all because of that worthless Baron, they are skeptical that I would honor the agreement, I can clearly remember that blue-haired bastard cursing me that night, but he's easy prey, I need to take care of the Regent first,

 

"Ofcourse, we can do that, but we can't rush it now, or else she may doubt it and the whole plan will be spoiled" I reasoned,

 

"Are you sure that we won't get caught?"  "Yes, what about the Guards? How are you gonna bypass them?" Here goes a Barrage of questions,

 

"Calm down, I have solutions for everything, Every detail is planned in a way that you won't get caught, even if you did, you can use my name, and as for the guards, we can convince her to ditch them before bringing her to the dark mountain" I explained,

 

"Isn't it rumored to have a monster residing in there?" one of the viscounts interjected,

 

"It's just a lie spread by bandits to hide in there, don't worry, just a few dozen soldiers will scare them away" I replied,

 

I solved their further doubts on the plan,

 

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After Seeing them all off, I sat back at my chair wiping my temples,

 

For now, they all seemed to be satisfied with the preparation, so they left,

 

In exchange for supporting me against the Regent, I will give them a chance to ravage one of my Half-sisters,

 

The Forty-seventh Princess, The Naive Princess they call her, Daphne Von Raven,

 

"Hehehe Sorry Sister but you should blame yourself for being that beautiful"

 

 

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Full Status
General Attributes
Name Aymar D'kman HP 9 STM 12
Gender Male MP 10 STR 9
Age 9 SPD 9 WIS 9
    DEX 9 INT 10
Skills
Type Name Features
Passive [Info Processor] Lvl 6 [System], [Status], [Memory Replay], [Mini-map], [Data Management], [Autopilot] & [Simulater]
Active [Ice Magic]  Lvl ??  [Small Projectiles] & [Grenade] (Optional : Suicide)

 

 

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                       [Social Management]
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Family List

- Annabelle D'kman (Mother)

- Payn D'kman (Father)

- Galeron D'kman (Brother)

 

Harem Members

- Pleu Von Raven (Princess of Ravaeyn Kingdom)

 

Sex Partners

- Grenade Amber (Marchioness)

- Strangers(??)

 

Lover

- Chelecsia - (Race : Shapeshifter)

- Kolin

 

Love Interests

- Annabelle D'kman

- Chloe Von Raven

 

Maids

- Gloria

- Dorothy

- Helen

 

Slaves

- Jill

- Talisa

- See (5) others

 

Personal Servants/Minions

- John

- Eddie

- Taylor

- Kolin

- See (55) 

 

Trained Animals

- Doggo - (White-Tailed Eagle)

 

Acquainted 

- Boris (merchant's Son)

- Chloe (Princess)

- White Kitty (Big Cat Beast)

 

House Servants

- Sauze (House keeper)

- Valter (head Butler) - {Race : Shapeshifter}

- See more house Servants

 

D'kman barony Townspeople

- See the List

 

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Added a Title called 'Geography' in Character List showing known Places and Kingdoms

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