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--Josh's camp---

Josh looked at his men whom he had successfully divided into groups of 5 , The first group had 12 men, the second had 36 men, the third had 20 men, the fouth had 16 and the fifth had 15 men ,

"Group 1 will constantly scout the perimeter of the base , There should be at least 3 people stationed at each checkpoint , If an enemy approaches, 1 person should rush back to alert us, another trails them quietly from the shadows , And the last should always stay on guard at the checkpoint, in case other enemies approach again , Remember, unless necessary, do not attack them , , , ,just observe quietly , Do you understand?"

"Yes Captain", they replied swiftly ,

When they were building traps, they also built hidden bases and covered them with mud, leaves, grass and sticks, so they could spy on their enemies without being seen ,

"Group 2 Will focus on infiltrating our enemy camps , Since you are 36 in number, 18 men will infiltrate Gary's camp, while the other half will infiltrate Mark's camp , From the 18, divide yourselves into 6 groups and infiltrate the camp from all entrances , Once your position has been compromised, escape and return to the base carefully ,"

"Yes Captain" group 2 replied ,

"Group 3 will be stationed at all trap positions , Each trap should have 3 people guarding them , Once the enemy falls in to the trap, secure their headbands and take them as prisoners or free them , Once the prisoners and their headbands are secured, 1 person should rush back give little Momo the headbands , Once given, return to your positions by the traps , The other two should redo the traps and wait for another enemy encounter ,"

"Yes Captain" group 3 replied ,

"Group four will be in charge of guarding 4 of the flags, I will keep one with me of course , , , , , Spread yourselves around the hill in groups of 4 and protect the flags , Remember choose a location that wouldn't give off your position to the enemy easily ,"

"Yes Captain", they also replied ,

"Finally, group 5 will have 3 sub-groups in charge of: guarding our main base, protecting little momo and protecting myself , Remember little Momo is the one who will have all the enemy headbands in his position , If another enemy steals all the headbands we worked hard to get, then we will loose this battle , Although I'm confident in my own skills as a Knight Captain, we must plan for the unexpected , Hence, since I have one flag as well, it is your duty and responsibility to protect me"

"Yes Captain", group 4 replied ,

---Outskirts of Gary's hill----

A group of soldiers hid quietly in the bushes and trees, carefully waiting for their preys to move closer towards them , They had planned to ambush their enemies ,

They had painted their faces, necks and hands with mud and had stuck tree branches, leaves and grass all over their hair , It was clear that they had tried as much as possible to remove any and all shine from their skins , It would be extremely hard for anyone to spot them with this kind of army camouflage ,

Berry Jax was one of these soldiers , He stood at the back of a tree, waiting for his prey to get closer, while holding trees branches as part of his camouflage , There were a total of 4 people walking into their territory ,

Once the enemy was close enough, Berry and his team moved out quickly ,

Berry arrived behind one of the men, and sharply pressed his fingers behind the man's ear, into the pit between the jaw and the neck , This region was the 'Parotid Lymph Node' , He then gripped of the ear in a fist, and dashed the lobe from bottom up, twisting the ear up towards himself ,

The soldier who's ear was gripped, felt his entire body go numb , , ,and he subconsciously fell on his knee's in defeat ,

Berry, swiftly took off the soldier's headband and used his rope to tie the soldier as a prisoner , By the time his team was done, they escorted the captured soldiers to the outskirts of their base , They figured that since the soldiers were now 'dead', they would not be able to interfere with their camp anymore , Hence they freed them and returned to their main base ,

As Landon watched through the monitors of the system, he took a mental note of Berry and his team , Especially Berry , , , , , When the enemies came, he was the one who signaled the men to attack ,

If Berry had been a few seconds late, this ambush would have been a complete failure , Even Berry's quickness and decisiveness when dealing with his enemies was remarkable , The others in his team were good, but Berry was a natural , It was like he was born to be an assassin ,

Landon was pleased ,

---Josh's Camp--

As Trey and his team left Mark's camp, they decided to first observe the perimeter of Josh's camp , They knew that like all their Captain Mark, Captain Josh would also station people around the perimeter ,

The team looked at the trees carefully, but didn't see anyone on them, so they ruled out the possibility of Josh's men using tree huts like they did , In their own camp, Mark had made camouflage tree huts with mud, grass and leaves on top of the trees ,

Just as they were about move into Josh's territory, Terry spotted a heap of dried grass, leaves and twigs that looked suspicious ,

The only reason Terry noticed it was because the grass seemed to be growing in the wrong direction, compared to the sorrounding grass ,

"What do you guys think of that heap over there? Terry asked

"Hmmmm, it looks normal to me , , , , ,do you think theres something weird about it?" One of his teammates asked ,

"I think their knights are hiding in there ," Terry responded while nodded ,

The other 3 were shocked , , ,The heap, is really small, how can anyone be under there? only a child could fit there alright? , , , ,

Terry wasn't sure if his hunch was right but it wouldnt hurt to double check ,

"I'm guessing that they dug out holes there, jumped into them and placed the grass and leaves on their heads while waiting for enemies , , , ,Once the enemies passed through the checkpoint, they would get out of those holes and report what they saw to Captain Josh , , , , ,I have a plan"

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Terry and his team walked in casually pretending to not be aware of the hidden knights in hiding ,

Once they were out of view from the heap on the ground, they hid in the bushes and waited to confirm their speculations ,

As expected, after 3 minutes , , , , ,two knights jumped up from the ground , One went towards the left, while the other towards their direction ,

Terry signaled for two of his men to capture the other knight, while the rest focused on the the approaching knight ,

Once the knight passed their hiding spot, Terry quickly arrived behind the knight and covered the knight's mouth with his hand , While his teammate quickly weakened his pressure points and took off the knight's headband from his arm ,

"Now you are considered dead, remember dead men tell no tales , So once I take my hands off your mouth, you cannot speak or scream , , ,Understand?"

The soldier nodded understandably , Afterall, what could he do? He was just a corpse now ,

They decided to check if there was any other person in that hole , They couldn't ask the captured knight because he was already considered 'dead' ,

Terry decided to go for a surprise attack by jumping into the hole and taking out his enemy ,

Once in the hole, the young knight was shocked for a while before trying to defend himself , They battled in the hole for 2 minutes, before Terry found and opportunity to secure the knights headband ,

It wasn't that the knight was weak or anything , Infact, from a spectator's point of view, they were evenly matched in strength , The only reason why Terry won was due to the fact that he had way experienced in combat and battle than his opponent ,

Just as he was done, his other teammates brought back the headband from that knight that went towards the left ,

With just 3 headbands, they decided to continue until they got at least 10 more ,

A while after they left, Lucius came out from his spot of hiding , He told the dead knights to go towards the meeting ground and wait there until the exams were done ,

"Terry my boy, your biggest asset is your brain , This boy is already smart and observant enough to access his enemies potentials , Combined with his fighting prowess, in the future he will be a powerful force to behold ," Lucius thought ,

-----Mark's Territory-----

A group of knights were silently following their prey while waiting for an opportunity to seize their enemies flag ,

At the start, they thought that these soldiers were looking for people to hunt down, so they decided to lay low for now , But after following for a while, they noticed that there soldiers were not hunting, but hiding ,

This only meant that they had their camps flag with them and didnt want to get caught , They were 4 enemy knights in total , But his team only had 3 members , They needed to act real quick to accomplish their task ,

Although it was risky, they were all willing to take that risk ,

One of these soldiers was Billy Vein, who was a knight under Captain Josh , He was the shy knight that gave Landon a smarr suggestion during the city's inspection a while ago , But now, he was beaming with confidence ,

The enemies located a good hideout and decided to stay there for a while , Just as they were about to lay low, Billy's team appeared swiftly ,

Billy quickly numbed the first knight by hitting his pressure points and took his headband , By the time he was done another enemy came towards him , This one was strong , A began seriously fighting while observing his other two teammates from the corners of his eyes ,

His teammates had been a little slower in attacking their enemies , Hence the element of surprise didn't go too well as they planned ,

Everyone was fighting seriously, trying to snatch each others headbands , Billy had been thinking of how to get close enough to snatch his opponents headband tied around his neck, when all of a sudden he realized that his teammate was about to be 'killed' (headband taken off) ,

He hurridly kicked his opponent and successfully helped his teammate in the nick of time ,

His teammate used the opportunity to quickly take the headband, while Billy returned to fighting the knight he fiercely kicked ,

His teammate who he had just helped, decided to assist the other teammate who also had trouble finishing the job ,

Billy fought for 7 minutes before successfully taking the headband from his opponent , He looked at his opponent and said

"Your good, I'm honored to have fought with you this time , I was just lucky to have won this time around, Thank you ," Billy said while smiling

His opponent smiled back, but didn't say anything , Afterall he was dead , What could a dead man say?

Once Billy and his team were done, they decided to quickly leave and head back to Josh's camp , Walking around with the enemies flag was also too risky ,

As Landon observed more, he was shocked at Billy's transformation , Wasn't this the boy who had once looked like a cute K-pop star? Now his body looked like a sexy 'Gong Yoo' , Even his shy attitude and aura had been replaced by a serious and manly one ,

Landon really admired Billy's courage and fearless attitude , Although it was risky for their 3 man group to go against 4 enemies, they still took the chance ,

And when Berey saw the helpless situation his teammates were in, he didn't even hesitate to help them out , He was loyal and hardworking ,

Such a man could even die for his comrades in war , Although it was admirable, Landon didn't like them taking such risks as sacrificing their lives easily , What he wanted was for them to think various ways of rescuing their teammates and themselves safely ,

If the chances of a soldier making it back was less than 70%, Landon didn't want them to take on the jobs , Like he said it was admirable, but too risky ,

Take for example, if the empire was to send thousands of troops right now to kill him, his people and retainers, he would try to find a way to secure everyone's safety by letting them escape , What was the point of fighting to the death with no power ,

Landon firmly believed in the 'Live today to fight tomorrow' philosophy ,

Just because one couldn't fight his enemies today, didn't mean they would never crush them in the future , As for Landon l, the only thing he needed was time and the systems help to avert all crises coming his way ,

And when he was ready, he would find out who poisoned this daddy here , Oh yes , , , , ,he was still pissed about the poisoning that took place when he first got here ,

Although he was cured, he was still a very petty person , If you were good to him, he would give you the world , But if you looked for his trouble, he would kill you a million times over , He was a very very very petty man, and he was aware of that flaw ,

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Before everyone knew it, time was up , They had been constantly battling, observing and capturing their opponents for 2 whole hours ,

Everyone assembled in straight rows of 3 behind their Captain's , No one was late ,

Landon had put 2 bags in front of each team Captain , One bag was used to collect all headbands from their surviving team members , While the other, was used to collect enemy headbands and flags ,

Once collected, Landon counted everything in front of everyone, so that they could know how they did as a team so far ,

Josh's team had collected 2 flags and 19 headbands, Mark's team had 1 flag and 25 headbands, while Gary's team also had 1 flag and 27 headbands ,

Their results were overall the same in Landon's eyes , Although Josh had the lowest amount of headbands, he had obtained 2 flags , While Gary and Mark were similar in their scores too , Everyone had successfully passed as a team in this exam ,

Once the soldiers heard their results, they were so happy that they almost cried , One had to know that this was the hardest exam in their lives ,

Most of them lacked battle experience and weren't all that familiar with battle tactics, but they persevered through and all their hardwork bore fruit ,

They themselves had seen the changes in the bodies and their ways of thinking , They regarded each other as family, and for the first time had a deep sense of brotherhood ,

Now that they thought about it, most knights in the Capital were very selfish, only thinking about how to get more power and wealth , If you were not strong you would be trampled on and even ridiculed there ,

But here in Baymard, they had a new understanding of how life should be , The strong should always protect and provide for the weak , , ,No matter how poor people are, it was not enough reason for anyone to treat them like trash ,

Now was just 6:30 Am which was too early for their normal training sessions to end, so they knew that there was more to the exam than this ,

"Since we time on our hands, we will move onto the next stage for today's exam , You can what you just did as 'Phase 1 part A' while this one will be 'Phase 1 part B' ," Landon said ,

"I need you all to form groups of 6 which will include 2 knights from each team , The last test showed how well you performed in your Captain's team, but now I need you to work well with other knights under other Captains , Remember we are all people of Baymard , No one is more superior or inferior to the other , There is always room for improvement, so keep working hard ," Landon continued ,

The men thought what Landon said was right, they were all for Baymard , It didn't matter which Captain they were under, provided they did their best for Baymard ,

"Now , , ,form groups of 6 as required , Of course the Captain's will be grouped together separately from you all ,"

They hurriedly form their groups and waited for further instructions ,

"Over the last weeks, I have been training you all on how to use simple tools with your own bare strength, and then using them to climb hills and cliffs , By using your bare hands, you all have improved your physical stamina, flexibility, mental strength, muscle coordination, muscle strength and a sense of judgment for adaptability , Some of you have even conquered your fear of heights and death ,"

Landon looked at his men who were beaming with pride and confidence, and felt a sense of accomplishment within him ,

A few days ago, he had paid some villagers had to assist him in building the exam set , For this test, Landon had set it up almost like the military drill sessions back on earth ,

"You all follow me and I will show you were your next exam will be held ," Landon said

Once they arrived, seeing what was in front o them, they were confused about how the test would progress ,

For each team, Landon had put 5 stacks of wood separated by a very short distance , Only 6 people could jump over one stack at a time (he had used trees for this test afterall) , The soldiers were all expected to jump over these wood stacks without touching them ,

The next drill was the tire drill exercise back on earth , , , , Soldiers would hop in several car tires while trying not to fall , Since there were no tires in this era, he made circular moulds with mud, leaves,grass and twigs , oldier's were required to hop through 20 tires without falling before going to the next exercise ,

He later build a 5 row wooden jumping bar over some muddy water (Which had dried out now but it made the ground look mushy) for each team , The goal was for the soldiers to cross the muddy water by using the hanging wooden bars he built, without touching the ground ,

Followed by a large wall made of net, hanging over the side of a 10 feet, sturdy and old tree ,The men would run up to the wall, climb and slide down the tree like a pole and move on ,

They would later crawl under several nets, that were pinned very close to the ground , And finally, they would have to rock climb the cliff at the side of the mountain to get to the top ,

Once on the cliff top, they would meet Commander Lucius, get a block of wood from him and rush back to present it back to Landon , Mission complete ,

"For your test, Baymard is at war and the only way to save it from extinction is to retrieve something very important from Commander Lucius and bring it back to this king , Your task is to pass through all the obstacles, get the item and successfully retrieve it without damaging it ,"

Landon looked at his excited men and continued ,

"But there's something very important to note , When doing rock climbing, each team will only be given 8 ropes to use , You are to secure your rope as well as your teammates, before proceeding to climb , Commander Lucius will not give you the item if you are one teammate short , If one person isn't there, you all fail ,"

Everyone finally understood that they seriously needed to work well as a team ,

"Also, going to Commander Lucius and coming back should only take 15 minutes , Once the time is up, your exam will end"

They were all worried now whether they could do it or not , As Landon looked at their worried faces, he decided to boost their confidence by letting their Captain's demonstrate it for them ,

Infact, once Landon finished building all the obstacle courses, he had showed Licius and the Captain's how to perform the drills ,

At first they were slow, but now they were pro's , Afterall, they didn't want to let the soldiers see them fail as Captain's, so they trained extra hard for this ,

"As you can see there are 5 sets of obstacle courses in front of you , There are 3 net walls available for all to use, remember that ,The only other thing you all share is the cliff , , , , ,so 5 teams will perform at once , Now I'll let you see how it's done by letting your Captain's work as a team for this test ,"

As the men watched their Captain's work together very fast, they were amazed and looked at them with worshipping gazes ,

The speed at which their Captains climbed the cliffs together amazed them, as they knew that they themselves couldn't be that fast as of now , But nonetheless, they were now confident that the test was within their capabilities ,

When their Captain's returned, everyone clapped and said various honest heartfelt praises ,

"Now , , , , ,the first 5 teams, step up and begin , The Exam starts ,"

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Joseph Fig was very anxious and nervous as he watched the exam progress from the sides , He observed that some knights had their legs tangled up on the rope wall, while others couldn't jump swiftly over the stacks of wood present ,

Most people fell when they had to jump through the circular stacks of dry muddy leaves , And few people were slow when doing rock climbing , Their king had taught them how to make decisive decisions on where to place their hands when rock climbing ,

He also noted that for some people, by the time the reached the cliff top, Landon would say their time was up ,

Others had collected the item from Lucius and on their way back to Landon, their time was up as well , Some people also damaged the item on their way back by dropping it in the mud, or letting it fall from the top to the bottom of the cliff ,

This was also a fail to their king , Their king said the only thing he would allow to damage the item was blood , Carelessness with important items or even state documents, could lead to exposure and worsen your position with your opponent , If you get the item, one must secure it before proceeding to return ,

But surprisingly, what Joseph was worried about was cliff climbing , When he climbed before, he was confident because he was alone on his rope , But now, other people might depend on him to climb up the cliff , Their security and lives were somewhat in his hands ,

Their king had told them that in a military war campaign, when a rock wall, cliff or mountain side, was visible anytime, many people would choose to go around it , Joseph included ,

This was the first time he had ever heard of a need to know how to scale hills, cliffs or mountains , No one had thought of this idea, but Joseph could see the wisdom in it ,

No enemy would imagine that someone would willingly climb a cliff just to attack them, so they would leave that edge unsupervised , Giving room for them to invasion to occur ,

And If you were not fast enough when climbing a cliff, the enemy might discover you and throw boulders down on you instantly crushing you , As their king always says 'You need to be swift as an assassin in war' ,

Joseph decided to do his best and toughen up for the glory of Baymard and his majesty, as well as improve himself , Even if he didn't complete the exam, he needed to be confident in carrying his teammates through ,

And Joseph was right , Although time was important in this drill, Landon's primary objective was on teamwork , He needed each knight to feel the responsibility given to them in a team , They couldn't act selfishly and they needed to make wise decisions that benefit the entire team as a whole ,

When Joseph and his team ran towards the bottom of the cliff, Joseph took one end of a rope, knotted it around his waist and passed the other end of the rope to his next teammate , This was of course for safety measures ,

Joseph realized that he was the safety climber (lead climber) of the group, while the others were supporting climbers behind him ,

Joseph took another rope, tied it around his legs and butt as a harness and knotted both ends of the rope with the other team rope around his waist , His teammates did the same thing as well ,

Of course his highness had said that each person must always have a daggar when climbing up a cliff or rock wall , One end of a new rope should always be tied to the dagger and the other end to the climbers waist rope ,

Once they reach a dangerous height, the lead climber was to pierce the soil and rock cracks deeply as support and climb up the cliff , In this way, if all of them slip, the rope attached to the deeply pierced knife will save them ,

Joseph looked the tall cliff in front of him and decided to start climbing it , He looked at a vine in front of him and hesitated whether or not it would be wise to grab it now ,

When he did, nothing happened and he immediately became happy in knowing that he made the right choice for his team ,

As they progressed up the hill, suddenly , , ,grrrrrrrrrrrp , , ,Joseph felt a tug on his team waist rope and looked down , He immediately saw one of his teammates dangling helplessly from the team rope , His teammate had slipped , Joseph thought fast ,

"Use your daggar to stabilize yourself by stabbing it into soil and climbing back to your position , We will wait for you dont worry ," Joseph said with a smile

The knight smiled bitterly with his face filled with guilt , He looked like he was about to give up ,

"It doesnt matter if we don't make it in 15 minutes, what matters is that we work hard together and better our skills , You were the best at the other obstacle activities , So what if your slow in this one now? With his highness' help we will become professionals in no time , Preserver and dont give up easily , " Joseph encouraged while smiling with confidence ,

"Yeah he's right, cheer up, I myself almost slipped there too , We are all learning, are we not? No one is as good as our Captain's now, so dont worry , Push on ," Said another knight smilingly ,

The knight looked at Joseph and the rest, and smiled more confidently as if he just had an enlightenment ,

"Thank you all", he replied ,

As Landon, the Captain's and Lucius heard them, they all smiled and nodded as if acknowledging what was said , It was the main point they were trying to drive home today ,

Likewise, as the other knights heard this, they also had a stroke of epiphany and finally u understood what the real goal was for this exercise ,

Once Joseph and his team reached the top of the cliff, their time was up , Although they had failed in the aspect of time, they had passed regarding their teamwork ,

They held their heads high and didn't feel down at all , In their minds they were thinking of how to improve themselves more over time , Infact all the knights, didn't get discouraged, but aspired to improve and become as tough as their Captain's ,

Once they were all done with the test, everyone went on with their daily duties excitedly in anticipation for the last exam , Tomorrow was the last day for this hellish exam ,

Would it be a normal sword fighting competition? or something else? This question made them ponder deeply the entire day ,

---------'-zzzzzzzzzzzzz (snore)----------' and finally everyone went to bed with anxious smiles on their faces and a sense of accomplishment in their hearts , They felt strong and confident ,

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-----The next day------

The soldiers had gathered at the training courtyard in the castle , Today was the last day for the exams ,

Those who were proclaimed 'dead' yesterday felt like they had to do exceptionally well in today's test , They were so anxious such that they were literally shaking unknowingly ,

For them, they had let their Commander, Captain's, teammates and his highness down , This alone was enough for them to want to prove their worth's ,

Landon looked at his men and smiled ,

"Today, Commander Lucius and I will test your swordsmanship skills , We will be looking at your reaction time, flexibility, prowess and fighting tactics ,"

"Each person will be given 4 sandbags weighing 4 kg each and a 15 kg sandbag to carry on your backs , You are to fight each either Commander Lucius or myself for 5 minutes, while wearing these weights , Two matches going on at the same time , Commander Lucius will fight in one match, while I, the other ,"

Landon knew that Lucius could last for 2 hours straight without even taking a break when wielding his sword ,

Lucius was a war veteran , To get the his position, one needed to have slaughtered a lot of enemies in the battle field , In some war cases, Lucius had to fight for 4 hours straight before the war ended , Others lasted for 2 hours while some for 3 hours ,

Breathing exercises were very popular for knights , In the battle field, one needed a lot of stamina and momentum to push on ,

Landon knew that at the end of every match, it would take 1 minute for the knight to leave and a new one to come on stage ,

For veteran knights, that one minute was perfect for breathing exercises and gathering momentum for the next opponent , Although Landon knew this, he still didn't want to burden Lucius that much ,

As for Landon he knew that he couldn't last for more that an hour without getting tired, so he asked the system for help ,

'System , , ,do you have energy boosters that I could use?'

'Answering host, this system has everything, even instant Ramen noodles , Therefore, system will have energy boosters , One shot of energy from the system can last for 1 hour only and costs either 3 development points, 5 technology points or 1 bonus points , This energy shot revitalizes one energy level, bringing one's body to maximum energy conditions , All traces of fatigue and pain will disappear from the user , Does host want to use his development points towards this?' The system asked ,

'System, can I use this shot on anyone other than myself?'

'Yes you can host'

'Good , , , , ,After every hour, give Captain Lucius and myself energy shots , So for 4 hours we will need 3 shots each , In total, six shots will be used , Right system?'

'That is correct host , , , ,In total the host will use up 18 development points for the hourly energy shots'

Landon nodded and was pleased , He also decided to get some for Lucius, because although he knew that, although Lucius could really last long, he wanted Lucius to fight the young knights in his best conditions ,

Others should not fight Lucius when he was tired, as that will also not be fair to the knights who fought him in his best condition previously ,

The reason for the weights is to see how the men could fight in different scenarios , When facing an enemy, you might have to fight when carrying heavy items or even rescued civilians on your back ,

What if you were carrying an unconscious princess and the minute you put her down, someone sneaks attacks you and kill her? Besides you might need to escape while fighting and carrying heavy items in your hand or a person on your back , Adaptability is key ,

It is also important to note that your enemy might not carry any extra items or persons when attacking you , So they would be free and weightless compared to you , Hence Landon insisted that they fought with these weights on ,

Landon realised that most of the young knights couldn't fight well when carrying weights on their backs and legs ,

Surprisingly, the weights on their hands didn't disturb them all that much from wielding their swords , The problem was that they didn't know how to balance their center of gravity when fighting with these weights ,

So most of the time, they would fall down, trip or even accidentally drop their swords , They were struggling to adjust themselves, but in battle, the enemy will not give you the time to adjust ,

Looking at his men, Landon decided that he would start training them regularly with weights ,

After 1 hour of battling, Lucius was surprised that he didnt feel tired at all , He assumed it was because of the breathing exercises he did during the battles ,

Lucius looked at Landon and was deeply impressed , He had assumed that the young lord would get weak after an hour of multiple intense battles , He decided to see how long Landon could last before opting for a break from the exams ,

2 hours went by and even 3 hours had gone by, yet Landon didn't even break a sweat , Although Lucius found it oddly strange that he wasn't tired , He now regarded Landon as a 'Monster' for wielding a sword so long ,

Infact Lucius wasn't the only one thinking that , The young knights all thought Landon was not human , Lucius they understood, but Landon who had never gone to war before could last this long? They were all impressed by their king ,

Once the exam was over, Landon informed the knights that they would get their results and rewards tomorrow morning before their regular training sessions ,

After having breakfast, Landon made up his mind to check on the farmlands and mines today ,

As he was walking out of the upper region with Terry, one of Tim's apprentices rushing over ,

"Good day your highness, all the slate-boards and chalkboards requested have been successful made ," Paul said while bowing

his head at Landon ,

"Raise your head Paul, this is Wonderful news, Let's go see your master first shall we?"

"Yes your highness"

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"Goodday Your highness, all your orders have been completed and are ready to go , If I must say your highness, these chalkboards and that strange white stone you call chalk are simply genius ," Tim said while gazing at Landon with eyes filled with worship and adoration ,

Landon chuckled

"Dont get too excited Tim, in the future we will create more marvelous products in Baymard , Afterall, although the idea was mine, you and your apprentices did all the actual work , So you all deserve most of the credit ,"

"No no no your highness, a true man doesnt take credit for what he did not do ," Tim said while shaking his head ,

Landon could only look at him helplessly ,

Infact, as time went by , , ,Tim had come to know of all the brilliant ideas and things his highness had done in Baymard , From making the land bear food, to producing chalk and so on ,

How could a 15 year old have such profound knowledge? In his eyes, Landon had already become a wise sage who knew how to solve every problem in the world ,

"Tim, are you and your apprentices literate?" Landon asked ,

"Yes your highness, I taught them how to read, write and do Math ," Tom answered confusedly ,

"In the future, I would like you to teach more people about Capentary and construction , Would you be able to do that?"

Tim thought for a while and finally replied ,

"I would your highness, but my workshop is too small to accommodate a lot of people here ," Tim said while looking around his messy workshop ,

"Dont worry about that for now , , , ,Tim, I want to open a school for everyone in Baymard , Once people know how to read and write, I want you to pick two of your apprentices or yourself, to teach them about Capentary and construction later on , You don't need to worry about anything else , I will give you an entire estate in the lower region consisting of 18 buildings for your new workshops ,"

Tim was shocked , Isn't an entire estate too big for just a tiny workshop , What is his highness planning?  , , ,Landon looked at Tim and instantly knew what he was worried about ,

"These buildings will be able to allow over 2000 people to work in them at once , I will put you in charge of these buildings and all construction projects in Baymard , Although we don't have a lot of people now, very soon this place will be filled with people ,"

Tim finally understood where Landon was driving at ,

"Plus in the future, I will also teach you new never before seen techniques for welding, constructing materials or buildings and creation of new devices and equipments , You will be the first person in the entire empire to use these techniques , As for the new equipments, they will mostly be made from Iron , Of course you and all villagers under you will get paid for your services monthly ,"

The more Tim heard, the more excited he became , Right now, he hardly had any customers who in his workshop , His customers over the years, were the Barons and the city lord , They paid him a fair price for all his works, and he was content with the amount ,

The only reason he cared about the money was to feed his apprentices and himself, as well as help some villagers here and there ,

When he had excess money, he would drive a cart to the next village, buy food and share with some villagers of Baymard ,

But now, he had the chance to let the villagers earn some coins, while he would learn new skills and techniques in his profession , How could he not agree to his highness' request?

"So once you understand the principles and methods that I teach you, I need you to also teach everyone coming later on into your workshops ," Landon continued ,

" Of course your your highness" Tim said happily ,

Landon knew that he couldn't request Tim to teach the principals of construction now, or Wiggins to teach the principals of mineral ore extraction or anyone for that matter ,

Right now, none of them knew anything about physics, chemistry or even biology , They knew math, but not the earth type of math , They only knew how to add, subtract and do basic division , The good thing was that they were all literate ,

Landon planned that while the villagers were learning how to read, write and perform math, he would give each of the leaders books on all four subjects , Allowing them to study them first and then later teach their workers in all work departments ,

Tim was happy , , , , ,but also now extremely worried ,

"But your highness, more importantly how are we suppose to get enough Iron for all these?"

"Dont worry, after you install these chalkboard to the various classrooms in the upper estate, I'll take you to a place ,"

Tim was still confused, but chose to believe Landon anyway ,

Tim took three apprentices, put all the boards in a cart and followed Landon and Terry to one of the estate's in the upper region ,

Once they arrived, they spent their time, dismantling the fancy designs and paintings on each wall , , , Afterall, Landon thought classrooms should be free of all distractions, so the students could better concentrate on their studies ,

They attached the chalkboards to the walls in various rooms and used one room as a storage room for all slate-boards ,

Landon decided to go to the lower regions so he could show Tim the Iron ores and also collect chalk for the classrooms ,

On his way down, the system notified him for his reward ,

'Ding!!'

'Congratulations host for creating chalkboard (blackboards) and chalk , You were rewarded 40 Bonus Points (BP) for the creation of the chalkboard and 10 BP for creating chalk ,' The system replied ,

'System show me my stat's ,

>Host name: Landon Barn

>Age: 15

>Status: King of Baymard

>Level: Beginner ( Still Level 1)

>Current Sitaution: Healthy

<Overall Points: 82 DP and 50 BP

(* Note: DP is development points and BP is bonus points)

Actually Landon had forgotten about the fact that he could get points for creating chalkboards and chalk , His mind was very focused on starting his mission on cannon making and gunpowder ,

He needed to teach chief Wiggins the alchamist, how to make gunpowder for the cannons fast ,

Suddenly, the system gave him a new warning alert ,

'Warning Warning , , , , ,Host a ship is sailing towards the sea coast of your land ,'

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Landon said his goodbyes to Tim and rescheduled with him for tomorrow ,

Landon then made a U-turn with Terry back to the upper region , Terry was confused as to why Landon looked so flustered ,

Immediately as Landon stepped into Lucius' office, he said

"Uncle Lucius, there's a ship coming towards the sea coastline of Baymard , Please gather 100 men and come with me towards the coast ,"

Lucius jumped up from his chair, took his sword and ran out , While they were running Lucius asked ,

"How long do you estimate before they arrive?"

" 2 hours time ," Landon replied ,

Everything happened so fast and Terry was still confused, but he decided to wholeheartedly trust Landon's analysis ,

He thought that when he and Landon made their way towards the lower region, Landon must have probably seen a tiny dot-like figure on the sea approaching Baymard , Afterall, one could see the seas from the central region clearly ,

1 hour later, while they were gathering enough men, a soldier from the seaport ran up to them ,

"My king, a large ship is approaching the coastline , It is estimated that they would arrive in an hours time ," Said the knight ,

"You did well soldier , , , , Thank you for your report , Go back and tell the rest of the soldiers stationed there that we will bring enough men for safety before the ship docks on the coast ,"

As the soldier was about to leave, he turned around and realized that a lot of knights where already gathered in the courtyard with Landon ,

'Did his highness already know of the approaching ship? or is there another training routine I'm not aware of ,' the young knight pondered ,

Just like that, 30 minutes more had passed by, and Landon started moving towards the sea coasts with his men ,

Once at the seaside, Landon had the villagers go back for safety reasons and waited for this unexpected ship to dock ,

The first time Landon came out here during the inspection, he knew something fishy was going on ,

There was an already built ship dock here, and the most villagers had said that every after 4 months, Landon's father, the king of Arcadina who came to Baymard in the ship for visits ,

Apparently the city lords and Barons had lies to the poor villagers so as to stop them from being nosy ,

During the time when the ship docked, the city lord would always ban people from coming to the coastline or even going towards the lower regions ,

Thhe city lord claimed that they would bother his majesty and get killed if they showed up to any of these places ,

The villagers were so afraid to die that once the ship docked they would hide in the central region and only hunt for food in the forest outside the city gates ,

At first, he didn't understand what the barons and city lord's plans were , But after visiting the mines in the lower region, he had finally completed the puzzled mystery ,

There was no way his father would take time out every 3 months to visit Baymard , He would rather believe that cows could fly that believe that story ,

The villagers had lived all their lives here and were simple people , What did they know about royal visits? sigh , ,they were really scammed out by those nobles ,

It was clear that these were the merchants who traded with the city lord and barons , The emblem and flag on their ship shows that they're from the empire of Carona ,

From Baymards location, Carona was its closest neighbouring empire compared to Terique , It made sense that these Nobels would trade with people outside the empire of Arcadina , That way his father would never know a thing, So Landon concluded that this ship must be a merchant ship ,

As the shipped docked, a chubby 20 year old boy surrounded by his own knights walked off the ship towards Landon's direction ,

He smiled as he opened his arms and loudly spoke:

"Ahhh where is Baron sylvain and city lord Augustus? have they fallen I'll? I have just finished trading with some cities in the empire of Yodan and decided to get my usual supply from here ,"

As Landon looked at the boy, he observed that the the boy was completely clueless about Baymard's current situation ,

This boy was a jolly guy alright , Infact Landon thought that he was the smaller chubbier version of Santa Claus back on earth without the grey hairs and beards , , , , , Just looking at him would make anyone smile ,

As he spoke, one could tell that his smile was genuine and he's cheeks would get turn rosey red , Such a cheerful guy, Landon thought ,

"Sorry sir, but the city lord and Barons have been stationed in other cities in the empire , I am the new lord and new king of Baymard, king Landon ," Landon said with a smile ,

Mr , Santa Claus was taken aback, yes Santa , , , Infact Landon had already decided to call him that irrespective of what his real name was ,

Santa's eyes almost popped out and his mouth opened widely , Landon really thought that this guy didn't have any poker face at all , Why so surprised?

"So you are king Barn's son Landon? Your nothing like what the people describe you to be , I can tell a person's true nature by just observing them , Hmmhmm I think your a good fellow bro , , ,You give me good vibes ," the man said while nodding ,

Santa walked around Landon in a circular manner while constantly nodding , Landon and his knights didn't know whether to cry or to laugh , (😅)

'Sir, can't you see hes our king? can you at least not circle him as you like? Can't you do it without making it look so obvious?' The knights thought ,

'Yup , I was right, no poker face at all , , , , but I like it' Landon said with a smile ,

"Ahhh where are my manners?" Santa said ,

Everyone rolled their eyes heavenwards , , ,(🙄🙄) , , even his own knights did it too ,

"My name is Benjamin Hamilton , , ,for short, you can call me Ben or what ever you like , Since we are already friends, I'll call you younger bro , ,hihihi infact you all should call me elder bro or little bro , ,hihihihi" Santa said while acting shy like a blushing maiden ,

'Since when did we become friends with you? can you not be so shameless?' most of the knights thought ,

"Since we are already friends, I'll call you Santa from now on , , ,right santa?" Landon replied playfully ,

"No no no what kind of name this that? Little bro, are you making fun of your older bro here? , , , , ,hmhm Its weird alright?" Santa said while holding his jaws and shaking his head , (😱😩😪)

Landon couldn't hold it any longer and burst out laughing hard ,

"Ayee , , , you said I can call you whatever I want, so are you going back on your words now? , , , ,Besides santa means a cheerful person (**he lied 😏)  , I like you a lot that's why I gave you the nickname ,"

"Really? , , , ,I like you too bro , , ,yayyy , , ," Santa replied while holding Landon's hands and shaking them vigorously ,

One of the knights from Santa's side coughed and looked at Landon as if begging for him to forgive Santa for his actions ,

Landon smiled back at him as if reassuring him that it was ok ,

"Little brother let's talk business" Santa said as he held onto Landons shoulders and walked towards the lower region ,

In conclusion, when it concerned Santa, Landon had just one philosophy to go by ,

'If you can't beat him, join him'

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"Little bro, I won't even lie to you , , , I came here to buy some mineral ores from you , , ,would that be possible little bro? Please , , , ," Santa asked with pleading puppy dog eyes

"Of course it would , , , , ,not only that , , , , ,In the future, I will be making new unique and interesting products that'll be only available only in Baymard , , , Anyway, Just tell me how many tonnes you need and I'll provide them for you immediately ,"

Santa's eyes lit up when he heard the words unique and interesting , , , ,he was a merchant afterall

As they moved through the lower region, Landon purposely showed Santa the labs and chalk samples that he developed ,

As they moved through the lower region going, Santa was stunned , , , , 'He actually made the land bear food , , , , ,this guy , , , , ,' Santa thought with a smile on his face ,

One could see fields of wheat, beans and all other foods covering up to farmalands , There were bananas and plantains growing on the sides as well as apples, tomatoes, lettuces, cabbages and spinach ,

All the times he came to Baymard, 97% of farms didn't even have a single crop growing in them , But now these farms were overflowing with rich crops , How could Santa not be shocked? Was this still the Baymard he knew of?

And unlike the other nobles he met, Landon didn't disrupt the peace in the village just because he was passing through with a guest ,

Santa observed that as they passed through, everyone on the farms greeted them warmly, especially Landon , And there were no false pretenses in their gazes , He noticed that most people looked at Landon as if he were a God ,

This little brother of his even cracked jokes with the villagers and carried the little children who came to see their parents at work , The kids were all happy that they could touch or be carried by their king , He even did a little magic trick for them before they left ,

This is how nobles should act, Santa thought , Infact, Santa was a noble himself , He was the third son of Baron Hamilton of Carona , Since he couldn't inherit his father's title, he chose to be a merchant ,

Over the years, he built quite a name for himself and became known through out Carona as the 'Foolish noble merchant' by many ,

They call him foolish because since he was young, he never liked following all those pretentious and fake Nobel rules , At an early age, he always liked doing things that regular people loved ,

Once, he disguised himself as a peasant and worked in a bakery for 3 months , On the third month, his dad found out and gave him the beatings of his life , Because of his nature, he became a thorn in his dads eyes ,

People would mock and laugh at the Baron saying that he had a peasant son, as if there was anything wrong with that

He later on bought a ship and successfully crossed the sea's bringing different thing s from different parts of the world into Carona , He became popular and the go-to-man for all shop owners and nobles in Carona ,

But his dad was still constantly disappointed in him, as well as his two older brothers , For them, it was an honor for a noble to fight and go to war for his majesty ,

The only people who loved him dearly were his mom and his three sisters , They thought he was cute, funny and very kind ,

He just didn't like pretending and doing senseless things , Why couldn't people talk to each other regularly without the extra rules attached? That's why he secretly admired Landon, he could tell that Landon wasn't one who was also hung up on the rules of ettiquet ,

As they passed through, the villagers didn't even bother with Santa at all , , ,Their gazes were on full focus towards his highness Landon ,

Was this the weak and dumb bastard child of king Barn , Infact Santa knew that he wasn't weak , The aura Landon gave out was that of a person who had experienced a lot of battles ,

When he learnt that Landon would be creating items that have never been seen before, Santa was skeptical ,

After after taking a tour in the laboratory and seeing this so called chalk, Santa was pleasantly surprised ,

Although chalk seemed like a small matter, to Santa it really wasn't , It was genius , Do you know how many slate-boards are thrown away per year in his empire because they get scratched or destroyed?

Chalk was way better than slate-pencils and way cheaper , slate-pencils are like sticks which are used to scratch the boards for educational purposes , Chalk was the best solution for this problem, and it was only found in Baymard , How could Santa not want any?

"Little brother, is it possible to buy these chalk sticks now? I need enough chalk for 10,000 people in one go"

"Not for now Santa, these chalk sticks are barely enough for my people as it is , And we dont have enough man labour to produce such large amounts , , , ,but, If you can get me 3000 slaves or people who are genuinely looking for work the next time you come, then I'll be able to produce a huge batch for you , , , ,How about that?"

"That makes sense little bro , , , ,okay okay , , , , ,at the end of each month, I will send one of my trusted aids to you with a ship containing 1000 workers in them , I will do this every month, until you have 3000 men from me ,"

"That's good , , , , speaking of which , ,how much will you pay per tonne of ores? Landon asked

"I usually pay 1200 gold coins per tonne little bro , And I'll be leaving with 150 tonnes of these ores today ,"

'So I'll get 180,000 gold coins today , , ,not bad , ,' Landon thought ,

"Alright , , , , ,so how much does it cost to get slaves?" Landon asked

"In the slave markets, slaves are gotten by how beautiful or how strong they are , The average slave costs 1600 copper coins per person" Santa said

'So for 3000 people I'll need 480 gold coins ,' Landon thought ,

"Do you have any rare seeds on your ship?"

"Of course I do silly , , , , , Wen I used to come here, the nobles would buy bags of wheat, beans and other foods from me , There would also be a few who buyed the seeds of these foods, although they knew that the lands couldn't bear anything , I'm guessing they still wanted to try their luck ," Santa said with a smile

"Good , , , , ,once we are done with your order, I'll take a look at your seeds ,"

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As the day went by, Landon, Santa and the knights loaded up all the ores unto Santa's ship and Landon gave him 12 chalk sticks as a parting gift ,

Landon ended up using 300 gold coins to buy bags of dried apple seeds, pear seeds, watermelon seeds,peach seeds, grape seeds, orange seeds, pepper seeds, peanuts, rice and beans seeds ,

He quickly looked for Lyore and carefully explained how the fruit seeds are to be planted ,

The farmers who saw the seeds where curious about some of them , They had never heard of watermelon's and peach fruits before , They were now curious as to how the fruits will look and taste , Plus Landon was craving some himself too ,

With 179,700 gold coins more in Baymard's pocket, Landon was thrilled , But this gave rise to a new issue he had , , ,who would be in charge of government funds in the future?

For now he and his mom could do it , , ,but later on, he needed to write Laws, procedures and violations codes for Baymard ,

All his trusted aides were knights, and he couldn't use his mom or Lucy either ,

The finance minister needed to be someone who was trustworthy and didn't show any characteristic traits of a greedy person , The chosen minister must also be well learned, with a mindset that always focused on the improvement of Baymard , , , ,This would be difficult , Landon thought ,

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On the training courtyard, Landon promoted some knights and rewarded them as lieutenant's under their various knight Captain's ,

Mark, Josh and Gary where promoted from Captain's to Major General's for the army , Each Major had 2 Captain's under them , And each Captain had 4 Lieutenant as well under them ,

Every knight was told about their strengths and witnesses, as well as recommended personal workout routines for them to do in their freetime ,

The knights who got promoted were extremely proud of their accomplishments and felt that all their hard work paid off ,

Those that didn't get promoted, didn't feel jealous or envious of those that did , They knew how hard those Captain's and Lieutenant's trained to get those rankings ,

Berry Jax, Terry, Billy Vein, Joseph Fig and 2 others were promoted to Captain's under their various Major General's ,

Once the training session was over, Landon took Tim to the lower region and showed him around the estate on the left side of the farms and the mines ,

Tim saw both mines and was completely shocked , , , one had iron ore's while the other, molybdenite , , , , ,the other ores in the caves held no importance in his eyes , , ,but to Landon they were extremely rare ore's ,

"Tim, I will put you in charge 350 men who will work in the estate , Out of the 19 buildings present in the estate, one will be used as a storage facility for keeping all ore stones extracted from the mines , Each stone type will be stored separately in different rooms ,"

"No problem your highness, this won't be an issue , " Tim said while nodding ,

"The second building in the estate will be used for glass production , We will need to collect a lot of sand from the sea for that"

Glass!!!!!!!!! Tim was shocked , One had to know that glass was only produced accidentally by lightning in this era , Hence it was very rare and valuable , Sort of like a collector's item ,

Tim had seen glass before, green colored glass and blue colored glass in the former Barons estate before ,

In this era, sometimes when lightening striked the ground tubes of glass would be formed , The electricity in a bolt of lightening can melt the sand making it combine with other substances which later hardens into glass , Hence people thought that only the Gods could make glass ,

Back on earth, glass was first man-made in the late 15th century , And before that, people only waited on lightening to do some well ,

Obviously, Landon couldn't wait for the 10th century to move towards the 15th or 16th century for glass making be invented , He urgently needed laboratory test tubes, so as to make gunpowder ,

He needed to isolate different compounds from the ores and accurately combine them to make effective products in the future ,

He needed to complete his mission as soon as possible, as well as ensure Baymards safety for the time being , He hated the feeling of vulnerability towards his enemies ,

Anyone could gather a large army and kill him presently , Ever since he was cured from the Whisp poison, he had felt something or someone wanted him seriously dead ,

He ruled out his father because, although his father hated him, his father also couldn't bothered to kill him , His father was the sort of person that wouldn't waste his energy on an enemy that he considered to be weak , So that leaves his siblings in the mix , All of them were black-hearted and down right cruel , It had to be one of them ,

He needed to make the cannons fast so as to protect Baymard, his mom, Lucy, his men and himself as well ,

As Tim listened to Landon, he couldn't help but wonder if Landon was actually the reincarnation of a God , Either way, he was happy to be a part of the glass making process , This was history in the making ,

"Don't worry Tim, I'll show you how its done" Landon replied with a smile ,

Tim calmed his exited heart down and looked at his highness with reverence ,

"The third building will be used in producing what I call war cannons , , , ,I will also teach you how to create them ,"

"The fourth building will be used to make construction tools like Pickaxes, construction rail cars and other mining equipments , , , , ,as for the rest of the 16 buildings, keep them unoccupied for now , , , ,Soon, other things will be created in them ," Landon continued

"Your highness how soon do you want to start?"

"As soon as possible , Out of the 350 men, 100 will work on ore extraction, 100 will work on glass production,100 on cannon making and 50 will work in producing construct equipments , , , ,Dont worry by the end of the month, Baymard will be expecting new workers so by then you'll have more people in the production line ,"

Tim nodded and listened attentively ,

"You will be the overseer for all departments in the estate , I also need you to assign all 6 of your apprentices as supervisors for each sector and department ," Landon said ,

"The glass making department will have 2 sectors: Sand extraction from the sea and glass making itself , , , , ,Likewise, ore extraction will also have 2 sectors: ores from the first mine and those from the second mine ," Landon continued ,

Landon later told Tim the salary for all workers, supervisors and overseers , He also ensured Tim that he would have cooks and guards around the estate for the workers ,

Since the paint company had used up all the mining pickaxes available, Landon gave Tim enough money to go to the next city and buy 1000 more in preparation for the set of slaves coming from Carona ,

Tim had agreed to go to the neighbouring town, the next day and return before the end of the week, so Landon had to postpone his mission for now ,

Speaking of the slaves, Landon needed to make accommodations readily available for them once they came ,

In the central regions, most houses were concentrated far away from the front gate of the city in fear of enemy attacks , Landon thought that he could use those empty spaces to build mud thatched houses for them , He would need to gather and pay a few more workers for the job though ,

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--------The next day------

Since Landon couldn't start the mission until Tim came back, he decided to open his school today ,

The adults could attend classes anytime of the day, due to the fact that some of them worked at morning shifts while others worked at afternoon shifts , Landon forbade anyone, especially the miners to work above 9pm in Baymard , Mining while using lamps air candles was still too dangerous in Landon's opinion ,

The children on the other hand, had to attend only morning classes ,

After training, he asked the knights to gather all the villagers around the town square in the central region , Even the miners and farmers had to attend, plus the alchamists and fishermen , Everybody!!

He looked at the large crowd and climbed up the podium in the city square in the central region ,

"Citizens of Baymard , Within this past month and a half, history has been made here in this glorious city , The farmlands have bored food, the people are healthy and the town is growing steadily , , ,Some of you have had steady wages from working in the various jobs in Baymard, and can now afford to feed your families , You all need to feel proud because, this is the result of your hardwork ," Landon said

Everyone nodded and felt warm inside, especially those who had been working in factories and farmlands ,

"As you all know, Baymard is no longer part of Arcadina , The empire has rejected us because in their eyes we the trash of Arcadina , The empire abandoned us and left us for dead , But do we need them? , ,No we don't , We will make our own empire and make them regret ever throwing us away ,"

As they listened, they blood began to boil , For years now, they had been requesting food and assistance from their former king, Landon's father, King Barn ,

But what did he do? Absolutely nothing , He neglected them for years and left them to their hunger ,

"The empire laughed at Baymard thinking that we would always remain weak and die from starvation , , , ,But, haven't we proven them wrong? It is my dream to make Baymard a paradise on earth for you all , We will progress mentally, physically and financially together , We will fight and trample on our enemies together , , , I promise to make the city a holy land to all who see it , Are you all with me? Are you all with me!!!? Landon asked loudly ,

"Yes" They yelled passionately ,

"Good , , , ,In future, I will offer up more jobs to you all allowing all of you to make as much money as you would like and live better lives than your current states , , , , But for this to happen, I need my people to become literate , , , , I will teach you all and allow you to further yourselves in the world , My people must not be looked down on by anyone in the empire , I will make you all leaders of tomorrow and Baymard, the promise land for all , This is my promise to you ,"

They were stunned , His highness was willing to teach them? Their hearts were filled with joy and gratitude towards Landon , Their children would become literate and smart like people in flourishing cities , They vowed hat they were going to seriously learn and develop Baymard alongside with Landon , They also wanted to witness history in the making ,

Landon explained the schooling system to them and had everyone register for a session ,

He had Lucius and the three Major general's, write out their names on parchment papers , Lucius wrote down the names of all children, while the three generals Registered the adults , Gary registered adults for morning classes, Josh for early afternoon classes and Mark for late afternoon classes ,

Registering, allowed Landon to know how many people would attend the classes daily , Just like that, the first day of class was set for tomorrow morning ,

He also told them about the slaves and refugees that would come at the end of the month, and got 100 volunteered men and women who would aid in building houses for them ,

He discussed the pay and also promised to provide them with food and guards while they were working , He wrote down their names and told them that they would start the next day ,

And finally, he gathered 350 men and women in advance for the building and development of cannons , He also wrote down their names and told them to begin work Monday next week, since Tim would come on Friday ,

Off the bat, he decided to let most of the women work with making glass, as that did not involve strenous digging for ores in the mines ,

Although women could do the job, men had more raw strength and were just faster than women ,

On earth, women could work in alot of jobs due to the progress of technology , There were machines that dug up the ground and carried raw materials for people , All one needed to do, was to control these machines ,

But now, in this ancient and wayward era, there was no way he would allow women carry heavy stones and rocks all day , They'd get sick and damage their organs and bodies , Landon wasn't risking it ,

But he could allow them to be a part of putting sand in sacs and letting the men load them unto carts that would transport them to the glass making factory , The women could also become alchemists or scientists if you will ,

They could also weld and mold the cannons in a giant furnace , , ,but he would never allow them to work in the mines ,

The women who signed up were happy and excited , Women in this era only cooked, took care of their families, sewed, farmed, mold mudbricks or became maids for rich households , Even working as a blacksmith's apprentice was not allowed ,

They were bored with these jobs and wanted something new, but now they could , And the best thing was, they got to earn the same salary as a man ,

In this era, even in the same profession, men earned more than women , For example, In the same backery or farming jobs ,

Even if a woman did exactly the same thing as a man, she'd still get lower wages compared to that man , They usually got frustrated because they too have families to take care of , Some of them were widows and some had husbands who were became bedridden with illness ,

They became the bread winner in those cases, and had to support their slhusbands and children , But this era made things too hard for them ,

Over the past month, Landon had been teaching Lucy, his mom Kim, Grace and little Momo math , Likewise, Lucy and Kim also taught Grace and little Momo how to write, read, count numbers, and also do basic addition and subtraction ,

In Landon's opinion, Grace was very intelligent and had a sharp mind , With more time, Grace would definitely become a master in mathematics , In the future, he would let his mom teach math 2, while Grace thought math 1 , But not for now , , , ,she had to continue learning properly ,

Landon went down to the Alchemy department and transported a huge stack if chalk to the classrooms in the upper region ,

Each student would be given 2 packs of 12 stack chalk sticks (24 pieces of chalk in total) and 2 slate-boards for free at the beginning of the term ,

Once they lost or finished their school supplies, they could buy extra supplies from the school store or the local stores in the central region ,

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After dinner, Landon decided to continue writing books on all the knowledge he acquired from: his past life as an engineer and from the system rewards ,

Ever since he finished the farming mission a while ago, he had been writing daily on : Farming, Basic Chemistry and Mathematics ,

He had been using the systems time capsule, for 3 hours a day in the real world (** 15 days in the time capsule) alongside a concentration speed pill ,

1 concentration speed pill allowed him to concentrate and write super fast for 1 hour in the real world ,

After taking the pill, he realized that in 2 hours (10 capsule days), he had written 5 books , Landon was pleased with the pill ,

So far, he had written 32 copies of basic chemistry, 25 copies of introduction to farming, 39 copies of Basic Mathematics and 3,000 timetable parchment papers for each student ,

Today, after his morning teaching session, he decided to continue making more copies , His goal was to have: 60 copies of basic Chemistry, 50 copies of introduction to farming and 60 copies of basic Mathematics by Friday ,

Once all the copies were done, he would allocate them to schools and all industrial departments in Baymard ,

He also decided to continue writing and re-adjusting the laws in Baymard, as well as the military rules for soldiers ,

Baymard was sort of a ruleless city , Since the empire stopped caring about the place, the nobles who lived here before, just did what they wanted and also took what they wanted ,

'They were just bullies' , Landon thought ,

And just like that, Landon's week flew by fast ,

He spent his days: writing, teaching, assisting in farming, building mud houses, fishing, training and building gigantic furnaces for different departments in the construction industry ,

Occasionally, he would also visit the mines and the alchemy laboratory, to see how they were doing ,

By the time it was Friday, he had accomplished all his goals ,

Out of the total copies he had, he kept 30 Basic Chemistry books, 30 Basic Mathematics books, 30 Introduction to farming books and 2000 copies of the timetable in the school storage room ,

In Baymard, every student would get 2 parchment paper timetables for free , , , , ,But if the student loses them, he/she would have to buy one from the school or ships in the central region , 2 of them would cost 1 copper coin ,

As for the rest of the books, he decided to distribute them to all supervisors and overseers within all the industries in Baymard ,

On Friday, Tim came back with a large wagon filled with pickaxes , They were unloaded and neatly arranged in a tool storage facility for the workers ,

Thinking about it now, Landon thought it would be a good idea to build a locker room where everyone could keep their tools in it , Of course building it, would be the duty of deoartment 4, when they start working ,

Landon gave 10 copies of basic Chemistry,10 copies of basic Mathematics and 300 Timetable sheets to the construction industry ,

Since all the supervisors already know how to read and write, as well as do math, he decided to give them the copies , Be it the alchemists or even Tim's group of people , All of then knew how do read

Hence, each supervisor was to keep 1 copy and read and fully understand them ,

In the future, although these courses will still be taught in school, if the employee doesn't understand something at work, it is the duty of the supervisor to explain it to him/her ,

Back on earth, supervisors and overseers knew the how's, the what's and the why's , , , , ,Why they kept the temperature low in some procedures, why the pressure was high, the dangers of doing certain things, and so on ,

Engineering itself is a very risky field , Some compounds and chemicals, can only be kept or worked on, at certain pressures and temperatures ,

Higher pressure's, could cause explosions in the tank, killing everyone instantly , Afterall 95% of chemicals are flammable at specific entropys, pressure's and so on ,

Hence, in Landon's mind, the supervisors and overseers must be knowledgeable enough to explain and assist the workers , They must act and guide all those under them ,

He also gave 10 copies of basic Chemistry, 10 copies of basic Mathematics and 300 copies of the Timestable to the Qlchemy Industry ,

As well as, 4 copies of basic Chemistry, 8 copies of introduction to farming, 4 copies of basic Mathematics and 300 copies of the timetable to the Food Industry ,

His reason for giving the food industry Chemistry and Mathematics books, was simple ,

Very soon, Baymard would start processing canned tomatoes, tuna and many more , As well process their own spices and food preservatives ,

To make all this happen, chemistry plays a major part in it, talk less of Mathematics ,

Once the night came, Landon jumped onto his bed and closed his eyes immediately ,

---------------zzzzzzzzzzz' --- finally, the little king was fast asleep ,

Again, the days flew by fast, and just like that, Monday was here ,

'Let's make some glass' Landon thought ,

Gunpowder was a delicate thing ,

To make it, one needed saltpeter, charcoal and PURE sulphur , The purer the sulphur, the stronger the explosive effect of the gunpowder ,

So far, there was saltpeter and charcoal available, but pure sulphur was a different matter on it's own ,

Pyrite rocks (called the fool's gold) is formed when Iron ore and sulphur, fuse together naturally with time , Since Iron is silvery and sulphur is yellowish, the rock is a blend between the two colors and can easily be spotted in the mines , Hence the name fool's gold ,

Most Pyrite rocks have 53% sulphur, in them ,

If Landon just threw these pyride rocks in with the charcoal and saltpeter, the gunpowder it would produce would be trash ,

He needed at least 97% of pure sulphur, for it to be extremely powerful , Hence extraction was the only way ,

Landon could have used the clay pot method to extract the sulphur but that method was unsafe and not practical for industrial use ,

Generally, when Sulphur is being extracted, a very poisonous and toxic gas called H2S is released ,

When using the clay pot method, there is no real safe way to dispose of the H2S, making the workers breath the poisonous gas ,

Large amounts of H2S can instantly damage your health, but small batches will not cause a lot of harm ,That's why people only use this clay pot methods in small batches (5 to 6 stones) a time ,

Landon didnt want to risk the health of his workers health, so the clay pot method was off the table ,

How could he let them breath in poisonous gases? The workers would be producing gunpowder for god know how long , At leafy it should be safe ,

Hence, he decided to build his own apparatus using Iron and glass , He wanted to create a safe way to dispel the H2S gas, as well as carry out an industrial scale batches (150-300 stones) ,

If he was going to build something, why not make it industrial scale? What's the point of throwing 5 or 6 rocks there, when you could throw 100's?

It didn't make anything sense for Landon, who had hired more than 100 workers to just through a few stones a day , He wanted a mass production of sulphur, not a tiny sample ,

'Go big or go home', he thought ,

He also decided to build it in a way that was easy to manually control for now , , , , ,But when electricity would come , , ,hehehe , , , , ,he would attach temperature sensors, pressure sensors and other devices to a control room ,

'Ahhhh , , ,the future is so bright , , , , , I cant wait to build a food processing plant , , , , oh wait!! , , , ,I miss toothpaste maybe a , , ,no no no , , ,I'll do an industrial paint making plant first ,' Landon thought while drowning in his futuristic fantasies ,

Little did he know, that dangerous forces where gathering in the shadows ,Waiting to make their move ,