Mike was in front of the war lord, Bo Chun.
"That's my story of being in China and the townspeople. "If I'm working for you, if I'm going out to risk my life fighting against some fat guy in order to save a prince, then I want them to have a bunch of money."
The War Lord said to Mike, "How about I test you with a few fights against a few of my officers, and I'll estimate how valuable you be as my champion and bodyguard, and then I pay your hiring fee to your village caretakers."

Mike asked, "Do you have any other Musa Warriors? Last time I fought someone, I ended up killing them without meaning to."
The military leaders said, "Okay, I'll just start you off with some small subordinates. Choose whatever weapons you like from the armory."

After about an hour and a half, we started doing some preparation before the villagers, including the town mayor and the number of people from the city, both military and civilian leadership. The civilians came out to see what a Musa Warrior can do. To start out with, I decided just to go with a sword and shield. I figured the first guy wouldn't be too much of a challenge - I just need to be careful not to kill him. And indeed as the guy charged at me, he seems slow, but I had full control of myself, so I easily blocked his sword attack with my shield. This went on for a while. He was clearly getting exhausted, but I was finding it quite easy. Then, he tried to kick my feet down but I knew it, so I quickly stepped aside so I wouldn't fall. What should have been a normal sword went straight through the bigger sword, disarming the man.

The military leader said "Stop."
I asked, "Does that mean I won? I don't know how this works."
Many of the younger people looked along with most of the townspeople, but the man was looking nervous. My opponent said to the military leader "Yes sir, he does seem as though he's capable of feats, such as the mighty Musa Warriors I've seen. I responded, "I'm just being careful not to kill you for the most part."

Again the people started laughing. The warlord once said, "Enough! This man really is a Musa Warrior - not tested and not military trained, but more than capable of doing that than normal men. I would not be going against Dong Zhuo along with the other Warlords overnight, and his personality and beliefs may require supervision, so to speak. Nephew, I wish for you to be his supervisor."
The nephew responded, "What, of this untrained buffoon? I should be Champion! I should be a bodyguard! I will be Musa Warrior! I am the greatest soldier in this Army and you want some stranger that doesn't even consider this his world to be a champion?"
Mike responded, "Hey, are you insulting me?"
The nephew said, "Well, I'd rather not be subordinate to someone who can't even beat me in battle."
Mike said, "Is this guy a Musa Warrior or not?"
The wall guard replied, "Well how about we see what the two of you can do in battle against each other. Mike, come with me. I will show you the highest quality weapons test. Test against my nephew, but don't kill him. Even with you, he's still the second best man I have, and I would like someone I can trust to be responsible to watch you."

So Mike decided to follow the warlord. The warlord said, "200 gold to the town leader, and 52 oz to the adult villagers who watched this man before I hired him."

Mike was looking over the specialty, more elite weaponry and armour, and he was pretty sure a lot of this was quite different then the other weapons and armour he saw before. Mike was familiar with normal Chinese weaponry, and he's quite certain he spotted a few quite familiar items - especially the Roman Phalanx and Spartan shield.
He asked, "Okay have you guys traded with Rome?"
The warlord replied, "I was in the district with some people who like things that came from Rome, but as stability in China became dangerous in the yellow turban Rebellion, they did donate to me some weaponry supplies. The man you fought against usually uses that noticeably large rounded Shield in battle. He apparently uses that against the yellow turban Rebellion, and farther places before joining up with me after that was completed. That would have been when he saw the other Muso Warriors, which is why I had him fight against you."

Mike responded, "Wait, so you were checking me out with the small fly to begin with?"
The warlord said, "No, if you would just some weakling, I wanted to make that clear to me immediately.
Mike said, "Okay, I guess. So now this-" He picked up the Roman Shield. "Does anyone in particular use this one?"
The warlord responded, "No, they all find it too awkward to move it around. The only ones who can use it would be me and my nephew and the both of us keep our equipment in my special bags... but if you beat him you can put your equipment there too. Which reminds me, after this battle you might try focusing on certain weapon arrangements. I'm not going to have you testing out weapons for the first time when you're supposed to defend me on the battlefield.

Mike was already testing moving the Roman Centurion shield around. "Am I going to get a horse and is this going to work with one? Is this going to function with what I have on? I think I might use this."

The warlord started laughing. The nephew was in the special Commander's tent having foot soldiers Assemble his armour onto him. At that point, the mayor of the Town being watched by two officers came in. "You and your uncle wish to defeat the tyrannical Dong Zhuo, yes?"
The nephew replied "Yes, what of it?"
The mayor said, "Then why would you want to hurt a good man who wants to repay his debts and help out people?"
The nephew replied, "Just being a Musa Warrior would not give him the ability to have him replace me. I'm a trained soldier. All my life, I had defeated and killed countless bandits and other such ne'er-do-wells. Just because I'm not a Musa Warrior doesn't mean some untrained one who knows nothing should be able to take my job as champion."

The mayor responded, "If you feel like he's replacing you in the heart of your Warlord and master uncle, he might just join until his obligations are done and he gets some money. He has fanciful ideas of what to do for the future, and he does not really want to go to war. Just give the people in my town some money by going off to war and complete the obligations then. He has ideas like this printing presses telescopes... he wants to see if he can make it. I'm sure if the two of you keep this fight non-fatal, you can get along."

The nephew is quiet. "Are you scared he's going die by my blade?"
The mayor said not as much as I am scared of how he will affect his relationship with his warlord if he kills his nephew."

Mike was standing at the arena with the Roman Shield and medium-length sword combo. He was testing out moving around with them. Before he said something, he looked over and saw the nephew coming in. but why was he sensing something he was imposter midi to the nephew before but then you realize there was something about those wide swords he was carrying. He was figuring it might be a bit more difficult to deal with the nephew than the other guy, but he would be able to block the attacks with that big shield until he could break the weapons like last time. But as soon as he looked at those swords and felt the power, he felt he had to get them out of his hand because he would not be Breaking those two swords with his capabilities now.