Hey guys, Flipkicks here and today I bring to you is a new chapter for "The Queen's Glaive", thank you guys for checking out the story and what you all thought of the previous chapter.

Sorry for not being consistently writing much for weeks. Work has been increasing with the Holiday season so I haven't had much time writing my stories.

Warrior: Eclair Seaetto (Shield Hero)
Dark Mage: Dorothea (Fire Emblem Three Houses/Faubley born, Melromarc raised)
White Mage: Y'shtola Rhul (FF 14/ Q'ten Lo Born, Siltvelt Raised)
Warrior: Elena Haven (Shield Hero)
Warrior: Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail/Zeltoble)
Warrior: Lyndis 'Lyn' (Fire Emblem/ Melromarc}

I do not own either series or characters involved in this story.


Streets of Melromarc

After meeting with the Queen, Ichigo was being 'escorted' or rather pushed to the castle's blacksmith. Of course, he had issues with her guards mainly pushing him around when he could just follow along and learn something about the castle, the guards acted with haste and wanted to make sure that he was properly armed and dressed as the Queen's Glaive.

"Damnit I'm not some kid!" He shouted with annoyance in his tone, "Plus I have a weapon!" He brings out Zangetsu out of thin air and everyone was shocked two blades in both of his hands. "Can you all let me go now!"

The guards that were holding Ichigo immediately let go of him and Ichigo put his weapons on his back and hip.

"Why do I need more weapons when I have these two?" He questions them with a tickmark on his forehead, "Mind explaining things to a guy like me?"

One of the knights steps forward and answers the orange-haired teen's question, "Check out skill tree. Look at the bottom right corner of your hud and select skills." Ichigo does as the knight instructs and selects the skill option, "See your unobtained skills?"

Ichigo looks at every skill that he could learn and only sees a few of them being highlighted as white, giving him the clue that he might need to know different weapon skills.

Skill: Getsuga Tensho (Zangetsu)
Skill: Getsuga Jujisho (Zangetsu)
Skill: Shunpo
Skill: Bankai (Zangetsu)
Passive Ability: Dual Wielding
Passive Ability: Beast-like Instinct
Passive Ability: Master Swordsman

'4 'skills' I already know and more 'skills' that came from years of training...' He continues looking at his Skill Tree and sees something that catches his eye, 'Magic?' moving the screen to his left, he sees that he has not learned magic. 'Ice, Fire, Wind, Earth...basic magic I presume.' He then sees the more advanced magic skills that he could learn by simply improving by trial and error and also combat experience.

He then looks to the right side of his skill tree and sees something very unusual, {Summoning}.

'I can summon things?' He raises an eyebrow as to what he could summon here. He then checks out the types of monsters or something that he could potentially summon as an ally.

{Unnamed Ice Deity}
{Unnamed Earth Deity}
{Unnamed Wind Deity}
{Unnamed Fire Deity}

'Guess I have to either find the deity or level up...' Ichigo says in his head. 'So much complex ideas that it'll take hours, days, months or years to unlock everything.'

Ichigo, of course, isn't a gamer since most of the time, he is facing off against other Soul Reapers, Hollows, and Quincy's. Sure he has played a few games in his world whenever he had the free time and played games with his twin sisters but isn't a casual or hardcore type player like his sister, Karin, who is a casual gamer. He has seen her play whenever he was not actively working as a Soul Reaper or working for Ikumi.

"So what do you think?" One of the other knights asks Ichigo.

"Seems more complex but I'll figure it out as time goes on." He answers the knight's question.

"Good, now let's get you our outfit."

"Wait what?"

"As the Queen's Glaive, you must have a uniform, signaling other people of power that you're her Guard and must be around for whatever the Queen's mission might be." One of the other guards started to Ichigo, "Come now, there's a store for you to be fitted so follow us."

With not much else to do, Ichigo follows the knights to the next store for their visit.

The townspeople begin to wonder as to why the knights are escorting some guy with spiky orange hair, some thinking that he could be a criminal or a new night in need of new armor or something between those lines. Some of the women in town see a rather handsome individual and wonder what he really is.

As Ichigo continues walking with the knights, he sees regular humans and other humans with animal features from ears, tails, so on and so forth.

"What's with the..."

"Demi-humans?" One of the Knights presumes to know what Ichigo was going to ask, to which he nods his head, confirming his question.

"Demi-Human is a variation of the human race with some bestial features. Their growth can be sped up through gained experience. If two different species of Demi-Human have kids, it will be a mixed breed. Therianthropes exist." The knight explains what the Demi-humans are and goes on as to why they're here in town. "Many years ago, there was a civil war between us humans and the Demi-humans that ended up having us humans on top. In their country of Siltvelt, they have majority power of their and have us as their slaves compare to Melromarc where it's vice versa."

"So Siltvelt and Melromarc are still at odds huh?"

"For the most part. While there are still in talks of a potential treaty between us and Siltvelt, it's a work in progress with our Queen having some conversations with the ruling authority. Your job as her Glaive is, of course, protecting her but you are also going to be an ally in terms of politics."

'Great...something that I am not even good at...' He knows that politics is something beyond his resume since most of his resume mainly involves fighting strong beings from his fights against Byakuya, Grimmjow, Ulquiorra, Aizen, and Yhwach.

With Ichigo thinking on how he can be a 'political ally' with the Queen of Melromarc, he begins to wonder if he can really help the Queen with no policial background.

30 minutes later, they arrived at a clothing store. Ichigo and the captain enter the store where they are greeted by the owner.

"Oh hello. What can I do you for Captain Rad?" She asks the knights captain.

"I'm here to help him out with a suit. This is the Queen's new Glaive and he is going to need some new clothes."

The owner then goes up to Ichigo with a tape measure and begins measuring height, waist, reach, etc.

"I could have it ready by three days max. All I need is the money and magic crystals for it." The owner then begins writing down what types of crystals she would need to integrate it into the suit and once she was done, she handed the list of what she needs to the captain.

"Very well. We should be able to hand you them later on today." She then nods her head and the captain gives her the money. "Have the suit packaged to the castle. I'll send word to the guards to make sure that you can enter." She nods her head and the two of them leave the store as she would get to work on making a 'suit' for the Queen's new Glaive.

"So what now?" Ichigo asks the captain.

"Besides waiting for your uniform, we're going to be having a test you in combat. Friendly of course. So we'll be heading to the Training grounds and we'll be seeing how you handle yourself in battle."

'Should be easy.' Ichigo says to himself as he could tell that while the captain is at a higher level than himself, he could take him on since he is a mere human compare to the Soul Reapers, Arrancars, Hollows or Quincies that he faced."Lead the way."