I want to say that our... my loyalties to the world we had left behind hadn't changed, but put yourself in our... in my position.
We had just been given a world that was completely different from the one we had just left behind.
Ruins were left behind in exchange for villages, and for the first time in years, we could all sleep without having to worry about being killed while we slept.
There were plenty of unused houses and anything we had lost was available to us, houses with hot and cold water, working toilets and best of all, we all had something to do.
Those that were only good at fighting, became guards and began securing the lands around the villages.
I can still remember the first time I saw a dragon flying, you would think that being in a constant war would have made me want to kill the thing, but the truth is dragons don't go near villages and towns.
So all we had to do was leave them alone and they left us alone.
The governments took over some of the biggest buildings in town, and planned for the day we would all go back down to the surface.
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What can I say? what do you want me to say?
Do you want me to tell you about the times we went below and pulled every ship we had left behind, out of the water and brought it on board the castle?
Or the fact that our airforce practically demanded to be allowed to learn how to tame some of the flying animals, to be allowed to fly inside and check the inside of Aincrad.
The problems didn't stop that's for sure, the Adventurers ruled, no they still rule the castle and are the main reason why the Republic and the Coalition haven't started shooting at each other.
I remember opening my eyes and lifting my right hand, all of a sudden there was a holographic projection there, it showed my name, age, what skills, training and well everything important about me.
I went to a small sign that said entertainment and clicked on it, there was an episode of Tom and Jerry being shown, followed by some commercials advertising things that didn't exist anymore and another cartoon.
I kept clicking on to see if I could see more things and I found the weather being shown, both the one inside and outside the castle.
I still remember opening my fridge and realizing I had just taken a jar filled with cold orange juice, I looked inside and my fridge was filled with food.
I don't know why but for some reason that juice was the tastiest and coldest drink I've ever had.
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I'll be the first to admit, we didn't know what to do, and I mean everything.
We didn't know what to do with our lives, how we were going to live, work and so on.
Yeah, I have a farm now, but back then, things were different, so once again it was the Adventurers that came to our rescue.
They offered us three jobs, guild work, construction workers, and players.
Listen, us soldiers kept doing our thing, we patrolled the areas around the refugees, kept people from doing stupid things, but people need things to do.
Some people started brothels, this made us have to create a new law, prostitution is illegal beyond the designated areas, inside towns or cities, as for villages, it would only be allowed at night or on the outside of the village, so the kids don't see things they shouldn't.
Players would do the same as Adventurers and by the laws of the castle, they would not be denied entry to any city, town or village. This meant that they either had to have ended their military service or never had been in the military, to begin with.
The disturbing part of this was and still is the age limit, a person can become a Player when they reach the age of ten and that's it, there isn't any age limit or anything, players are responsible for themselves, weapons armor, medicine, and food.
We all believed that players were meaningless things but after a while, we understood how useful they were, especially to those that lived in the edge of the castle, or those places where security is the weakest.
The construction workers did just that they expand and repair the destroyed villages and towns, on rare occasions they are the ones responsible for rebuilding, the ruins people live in when we make a new city or village.
The guild workers, by now you should know how important they became or are, they are the ones that keep records of the Players, they make sure that jobs are done and most importantly they make sure everyone gets paid.
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Listen I get it, we can't stay in the castle forever, but we made repeated ladings and did everything we could to get anything we left behind, but the truth is, it became impossible to even land.
Hell, what left of our cities is nothing more than crumbling buildings and old military bases.
What I'm trying to say is what are we even going back to? nearly everyone would rather stay on here than go back and I'm not talking about the civilians.
We're tired, nearly all of the military is exhausted and most of us would rather be killed for treason than go back.
Let's face it we lost.
We were given a second chance, so why are we going to deny ourselves from having it, besides when it was all said and done, the last time we even saw the planet itself, the castle lifted itself so high that no one on the ground could see it anymore.