King of Technology

by Stayrr

Chu Yi dies in a car crash and becomes Landon Barn, the illegitimate son of king Barn, ruler of Arcadina. Because his mother was a maid and the king’s greatest disgrace, his father had always despised him. The same could be said for his half-siblings. When he turned 15, his father had announced that the city of Baymard would be given to him, and would no longer be under the empire’

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A man laid on a black beautifully crafted couch.

In front of him were different foods and fruits all lined up in well crafted wooden bowls, as well as a jug of wine to quench his thirst.

The man was also the same age as Eli. He had dark red hair, thick manly eyebrows and light green eyes that looked like that of a cat.

The man in the cage, was called Slytherin Cord.

He was one of the top intelligence personnels in the empire... What ever you wanted to know, he would get the information for you... His results were always 97% accurate.

Because his siblings had arrived, Eli didn't want to risk them finding out about his involvement with Slytherin Cord.

Although they wouldn't be able to recognize him, one should always prevent unnecessary situations from arising.

One year ago, Eli received shocking news about his father. In all honesty, he thought the nan was an arrogant pig.

His father had another bastard son other than Landon, and this bastard son was older than Eli by a year.

The bastard went by the name the 'the ghostly prince'.

His whereabouts were a mystery to those that try to find him. He always wore a giant silver ring on his thumb, as well as a silver metal face mask no matter where he went.

It was only a struck of luck that Slytherin found out about him.

Slytherin was passing through the city of Ganjia and decided to lay low for a while since he was on a mission at the time.

He saw the metal faced masked man by a stroke of luck and was curious.

After doing investigations for 5 months he was disappointed. This man had a tight network around him.

Slytherin then decided to kidnap one of the man's lower ranked knights and tortured him. Although the knight didn't know much, what he did know was still astonishing.

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This man had been building his army for the past 4 years now. No one knows his base. Not even the knights. Apparently, he keeps knights at different cities and makes them blend in, by letting them work with the city lords and barons... So basically, the knights worked as double agents.

Even the king, City Lords and Barons didn't know about his existence.

From Slytherins view, the Ghostly king was a dangerous one. All the men Slytherin sent to locate him, turned up dead.

'This man was a ghost alright' thought Slytherin.

Ever since Eli had received this piece of news... he had been planning on killing his father and sitting on the throne fast.

Small fries like his royal siblings didn't bother him at all...but this ghostly king...this one was a hard but to crack...

Eli didn't know what the Ghostly king was planning... and neither he did he want to find out.

His father had to die fast, before other bastard children pop out again to claim his throne.

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"Did you finally locate his whereabouts?"

"Not yet. I think he knows that someone is trying to track him down. My next operation might be a setup... it's too risky." Slytherin answered.

"Your right... lay low for a while before you begin again."

"As you wish, crown prince...oh that reminds me... there's turmoil in the capital. The left minister has rallied up a lot of nobles to support Prince Connor as the crown prince."

"Hmm for my brother to make this move, it shows that he is confident about his strength.

"What about the Right minister?"

"Recently, our spies have also reported that he had successfully been bribed to side with Prince James for the position of the crown prince... although your the crown prince, your brothers are more popular in the capital than you are." Slytherin answered while crunching on an apple.

"That's a given, afterall, they took advantage of my absence and worked their way up."

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"I also heard that prince James and Prince Connor had been giving out money to a lot to the peasants in Hope's of gaining their support."

"Hahahaa ... what a desperate move to make... at the end of the day, the one who decides who becomes king and who doesn't, is still my father". Eli responded.

"True... I also thought it was stupid... From what I can see, your real competition is the Ghostly king... That man would be a hard wall to crack. ...Even your father doesn't know of his existence."

"I know, that's why I need to gather enough forces fast."

"What about your royal siblings and all the disturbances their causing in the Capital?"

"Why bother over something like this? What does it matter anyway. Soon they'll all be dead."

"And your bastard brother Landon? ..Do you want me to find out about his situation?" Slytherin asked.

"No no no... that would be a waste of your skills and time... What can a dying man do? Besides Baymard is a 3 month journey from here... "

Slytherin listened and thought that what Eli said made sense. Afterall, Slytherin had personally witnessed Landon being poisoned at his 15th birthday feast.

Eli had sent him there to make sure that his knights did a good job of poisoning Landon. So he had observed from the shadows.

He had also continued observing Landon within the 2 day period before his departure to Baymard.

Landon's complexion had changed to a pale blue-ish color within those two days. Even getting him unto the carriage required help from his knights.

Anyone who saw this would know that Landon was already a dead man. There was no cure for that poison. Only death awaited him.

"Besides... I need you around here. I need you to keep tabs on Connar, James and Janette. Find out about their every move. ... I want to know, where they go, who they see and what they're doing daily... don't worry about that bastard Landon... Soon I will take his land from him.. He is but the least of my worries right now". Eli continued.

"Not a problem... I'll send my men to secretly follow them on their way back to their territories."

"As for the ghostly king, make sure no one finds out anything about him... not even my father. It would be better if his existence remained a secret... And if anyone is curious about his background. Come up with any story you want... but never mention the fact that he is the king's son".

"As you wish, crown prince" Slytherin replied.

"Good...Soon, I will take care of him as well. By then, I would like to see just how powerful this brother of mine really is."

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Within a week and a half, Landon had successfully produced 12 cannons within the Construction industry and 56 large sacks of gunpowder in the Alchemy estate.

To ensure that the gunpowder had a superb Combustion ability, Landon had gone through several processes to ensure that the gunpowder particles were all finely crushed powders with uniform particle sizes.

At the same time, Landon had also recruited 150 knights into the army within this past week and a half.

Landon wasn't worried about the slow production rate of cannons and the number of knights he had, because he knew that, in another 1 and a half weeks more, slaves and refugees would be arriving Baymard from Santa.

Today, Landon positioned 8 of those cannons on the city walls and decided that the remaining 4 cannons should be brought to the barracks headquarters in the upper region.

Behind the barracks was an empty field that led to a dense forest. From the high walls on the Baracks, one could see the dense forest that went on for about 80 square miles leading to a tall volcanic mountain.

From what he had heard, the mountain has not had an eruption for at least 10,000 years and is not expected to erupt again in a comparable time scale of the future. So this was an extinct volcanic mountain.

It was the perfect place for the knights to practice cannon firing in future.

For today, he chose to test 1 of the 4 cannons from the barracks and had 2 knights drag the cannon unto the empty field.

Both knights and workers wanted to see, as well as his mom, Lucy, little Momo and Grace, so he allowed them to come. But not all the knights of course (* Who's going to guard the city walls in the central region?)

Many of the workers were curious as to what they had been making. They had been creating this weapon for quite some time now and didn't fully understand what it could do.

But for Tim Mayers and chief Wiggins and the various supervisors in the industries, they understand exactly what would be happening today. Based on the chemical reactions and production processes, they knew that this weapon would have a great explosive factor.

Everyone's heart was pounding as they crowded on the city walls, waiting to witness history.

Landon also had some workers create 7 strong circlular wooden fences with rope and wood, 3 feet away from each other. Then, he had his knights place 7 wild boars in each circular fence.

He assigned a gunner and crew needed for operating a single cannon, and instructed Lucius and the knights on how to operate the cannon.

Cannon operation required a specialized crew and a gunner to run it smoothly.

Each cannon was to be manned by 4 soldiers and a gunner. The gunner was in charge of loading the gunpowder, while 1 soldier was in charge of providing cartilage by igniting the canon. The 3 other soldiers were in charge of ramming and sponging the cannon, as well as holding the ladle.

Also, each cannon could fire about 60-75 shots (cartilage) daily.

After properly explaining to his knights, they followed instructions and pointed the cannon at a projected angle towards the fourth (middle) animal fence.

"My lord, we are prepared", Major General Gary said.

"Good...now... FIRE!!"

One of the soldiers ignited the cannon. Sludge and smoke fired out from the canon, and instantly:

'Boom'

The ground shook slightly and everyone felt sounds echoing loudly in their ears. It was truly deafening.

Everyone was shocked silly.

This... What kind of weapon was this? The results exceeded everyone's expectations.

Lucius' eyeballs nearly popped out of his eyes as he looked at the results... Then, he started remembering the days where he used to fight for territories along the borders.

The Pyno continent looked exactly like that of North America back on earth.

You could say that Arcadina was like Canada and Alaska combined, with Baymard located at the topmost part of Alaska.

The empire of Deiferus and the empire of Yodan both shared borders with Arcadina and could be considered as the United states and Mexico combined.

From the East of empire of Arcadina, a lot of cities trailed towards an extremely large Island close to Baymard (* similar to how Mexico trails into the continent of South America back on earth... only this happens from Alaska in canada)

This massive Island is empire of Carona.

Likewise, from the west of the empire of Arcadina, a lot of countries trail towards an even bigger island. This is the empire of Terique.

Acadina and Deiferus have always been in conflict with each other...This conflict led to a large scale war 200 years ago.

The main issue was that, the Deiferus soldiers would sometimes conquer major cities along the Arcadina borders, brutally killing the people and soldiers stationed there. Once city's along the borders are conquered, the overall size of the empire would be reduced.

If this continued, then sooner or later, they won't just be contented with cities at the borders.

Hence in the past, Lucius had always been sent to the borders to fight and kill the Deiferus soldiers.

Although all the leaders of each empire signed peace treaties with each other hundreds of years ago, humans were always greedy beings who want more than what they had. And since Arcadina was the biggest empire in Pyno, they didn't mind, taking some of it's cities.

Once new rulers ascended the throne, they always looked for more power and cities to conquer, so the treaty wasn't always applied.

Even till this day, there are always wars around the borders.

If Lucius had this kind of weapon, then most of his friends wouldn't have died in the battles.

He had been involved in intense battles that went on for 12 days straight, with each side sending backup every single day. He had even seen his friends being cut down before his eyes. Although they had succeeded in keeping their border cities, Lucius felt that there was nothing to be happy about.

As Lucius looked at the cannon, although he was happy for the creation of this weapon, he felt sad at the thought of his lost friends... (sigh)

Landon walked around and checked the animals.

The one that was targeted was dead, as its face was blown away into smithereens. The other 4 around it also died from the shock wave impact.

The last 2 that were furthest away from the target, didn't die... But had their knees split open and blood gushing out of their ears.

'Excellent' Landon thought.

The knights had cold sweat on their backs seeing the damage it caused... If they were faces with this kind of weapon, they would have no means or chance for survival.

Tim and chief Wiggins laughed and hugged each other like a bunch of 5 year old kids.

"Hahhaha.This is great, Marvelous .. ..Genius" Tim Mayers said excitedly.

"That basic chemistry book basically changes the game for Alchemy... hahahaha...what is matter? this is matter!! ...Ahhh his highness is a godly genius... Old Tim, I'll buy you a drink today... " Chief Wiggins said while patting Tim Mayers back.

"Peiiiy!! no way.. I have to keep reading my basic Chemistry book... I want to see and create more materials... Did you know that even Iron itself has different temperatures for which it can be welded by? Damn..there's even something called Enthalpy and entropy... When we created Glass for the first time, I almost lost it... Genius.. simply genius..." Tim said

"Oh!! dont forget about air my friend... what we are breathing has different elements in it...blah blah blah..."

As the two men spoke, their apprentices looked at each other and smiled. Today they had witnessed history.

Although everyone was shocked silly, deep down, they knew that with this new weapon, Baymard would have a means of protecting itself.

They couldn't help but looked at his highness with awe.

'Godly genius'

After cannon testing, Landon asked Lucius to ensure that the soldiers trained daily on how to use the cannons.

Every week, Lucius would be in charge of drawing a schedule that allowed everyone to train and prepare on how to use the cannons. Afterall, it was impossible for 330 soldiers Plus the added 150 recruits to practice daily.

So a schedule was the best way forward for these 480 men.

All in all, each soldier would have the opportunity to practice cannon firing at least 3 times a week, going from Lucius' drawn-up schedule.

Landon held his mothers hand with his left hand and Lucy's hand with his other hand, as they walked around the barracks.

"Brother Landon, why don't we go to the castle?" Lucy asked curiously.

"Little Landon, Im also curious as well...arent we done? why aren't we going back home?" Mother Kim asked suspiciously.

Lucius and Landon looked at each other for second and quickly averted their gazes.

Something was fishy to both women, but they decided to brush it off.

As they continued to stroll, Landon kept looking at the blushing Lucy and smiled.

Mother Kim, as if feeling the weight of being a third wheel, held onto Lucius' arms, as well as Grace's arm and ushered them forward.

Too bad she didn't see the intense blush on Lucius' cheeks... But Grace did.

Grace in turn rushed up ahead with little Momo leaving the royal couples behind. She had to get to the castle quickly.

Mother Kim felt awkward and blushed deeply. She looked at the handsome Lucious from the corner of her eyes, and was lost in thought for a while.

When she and her son were banished, Lucius resigned and decided to offer his services as a knight and protect them towards their journey to Baymard.

Kim had always known that Lucius took Landon as his son, and that Landon did the same with Lucius. She always thought it was natural and never thought anything about it.

But when she was at her lowest, this man had always stood up for her and guarded her against any dangers and troubles.

She didn't have any feelings for him before, because whether she liked it of not, she was king Barn's concubine at the time.

But when she was freed from her hell, she decided to live her life a new.

On the day they left the Capital, she started noticing how handsome and manly Lucius was. As time went by, she realized that all this while, she had been in love with Lucius.

She didn't even know when it started... was it when Lucius helped her take care of her son in the Capital? Or when he resigned to follow her to Baymard. She didn't know and she didn't care.

When he smiled at her, her world would stop and she would get confused and say the wrong things.

Plus, she wasn't sure if he felt the same way... what if he didn't love her? Wouldn't she just be forcing her love onto him? What if she ruined her friendship with him because of love?.. She would never allow that to happen.. No way!

Lucius as if noticing her gaze, turned his head facing her.

"Your highness, should we go back to the castle now?" Lucius asked as he saw her flushed face.

As he spoke, her face turned redder and redder...Honestly, he thought that if her face got any redder, it would pop.

He chuckled inwardly and smiled.

"Y..Yess let's do that...uhmm a..after you" she stammered.

Landon and Lucy who kept watching at the back almost couldn't hold it in. Was this the tiger mother that they knew? Who was this shy woman?

As soon as Lucius and Mother Kim disappeared from their view, they laughed out loud and almost fell over.

As they were laughing, Landon sneakily pecked Lucy's left cheek.

Now, it was her turn to blush. She placed her left hand on her cheek and pointed the other one at Landon.

"You!!!!..."

Landon took hold of her hands and smiled at her warmly.

"Is that all you have to say to me... my dear Fiance"

Lucy almost choked at his words.. Fiance? Since when? How come she wasn't aware of this?

She was blushing even more now, and quickly pulled her face away from his gaze.

"Ayyye... Why are you hiding from me?..."

"Brother Landon why are you teasing me like this?...I.. I.." Lucy stammered as she spoke.

"Come with me"

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Landon covered her face with a thick piece of cloth and led Lucy up the staircase off the castle. They moved for a while slowly, until they reached the throne room.

Once Landon dropped the cloth, Lucy was shocked.

There were a lot of people in front of her, candles sorrounding her and a lot of flower petals sprinkled all over the throne room arranged in a special way.

[Will you Marry me Lucy]

was spelled out by the flower petals.

Lucy turned around to look at Landon and was shocked.

He was on bended knees.

Was a king suppose to kneel to anyone? she asked herself worriedly. But that thought quickly left her brain when Landon gave his speech.

["Lucy Gustav, we've known each ever since we were little. You've always been there for me through thick and thin.

When I was down, you stood up for me... when I needed someone to lean on, you were always there.

As time went by, I slowly fell in love with you. I love your smile, your caring nature and your heart.

Look, I guarantee that there'll be tough times. But no matter what troubles we face, I will fight for you and continue to love and cherish you.

I promise you that no one will work harder to make you happy more than I will.

Lucy, I want to marry you because when you love someone as much as I love you, getting married is the only thing left to do.

So what do you say, will you match me Lucy?"]

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Everyone including, the knights, the maids, Tim and Chief Wggins were shocked.

What did they just see? The King was kneeling down!!

Is this how marriage proposals are suppose to be made? This was the first time they had seen such a thing. Usually women didn't have a choice. Their parents chose a strong reliable husband who could take care of them and that was that... sometimes they would be lucky if it was the man that they took loved. Marriage usually involves politics and power for most nobles.

But his highness bent down on one knee for his wife and even made such a grand gesture towards her.

The women on the other hand were all in the spirit of romance. Grace, mother Kim and the maids felt like this was what a man should be.

The men looked at the women and thought:

'Is this what women want?'

They had to admit that this was pretty romantic. The flowers, the candles, the ring, those words... It all made sense somehow. They were almost gave a big thumbs up to his highness for his idea.

From the moment Landon came into this world, he had noticed his uncontrollable feelings for Lucy. Whether it was because of the old Landon or the current him, his emotions were strong. Every time during dinner, supper,..heck even breakfast, he would stare at her in a daze.

As the days went by, he also began to notice her feelings towards him. They're love was literally oozing out every time they met.

Of course he didn't want to marry her immediately... they were just 15 years old, afterall.. But in this era, most girls got engaged at the age of 12 and married at 18 to 20.

Lucy being engaged now, was considered late in this era.

Also, Landon didn't want people to think that there was something wrong with her or that she only good enough to be a concubine or a whore.

No matter how times change, human beings were always the same. Back in earth, if a woman passed the age of 30 and never got married, everyone would point fingers at her. Even at age 26, people would still talk bad about them.

He had seen and noted all of Lucy's uncertainty. It was very clear that she had assumed that she would end up as a concubine, or worse just a side-chick.. bruhhh...

He did this to reassure her that she would always be his queen.

In his mind, they would get married when they were old enough to do so. For now, he just wanted her to know that she belonged to him.

So within this period, he had asked Tim to create a ring made out of Iron with a tiny green jade stone on it.

Landon brought out the beautifully crafted ring and waited for her reply, while looking deep into her eyes.

Ever since he started talking she had been crying. Of course she loved him... it was so obvious for everyone one to see.

"Yes brother Landon... I..I..I'll be your wife." (sob sob)

Landon took her left hand an placed the ring on her middle finger.

"This ring is a symbol of my love as a man to you. It is also proof that you are my fiance, the one I love and the one I will marry."

Landon got up and held her in his embrace.

"If you should willingly remove or give me back this ring, it would mean that you no longer want to marry me or have me as a husband...Keep my ring safe and cherish it as well" Landon said while looking at her warmly.

Everyone clapped and cheered for them.

Josh looked at Grace and smiled. Grace upon feeling someone's gaze on her, turned and locked gazes with Josh, who was standing directly behind her. She blushed and turned towards little Momo.

"Elder sister are you still sick? Why is your face so red?" Little Momo asked innocently upon seeing his sister's condition.

Josh chuckled, and Grace truly wished that the floor could open up and swallow her whole.

'How embarrassing ', she thought.

Even Grace felt like no one would ever marry her anymore. Her friends in the village were already engaged, while others married.

She didn't want to marry young or be promised to anyone, because she had to take care of little Momo.

But looking at Josh now, she started having hope that he would marry her as a concubine at least.

Lucius on the other hand, was extremely happy.

Landon had come to him last week and told him to man up and confess his feelings to his mother. Infact he himself had started to see the way she would always look at him. He was sure that she cared about him. Landon was right. What was he waiting for? Was it when he turned 50, that he would confess?

Hence he and Landon had worked out this whole scenario.

They need to find a moment where both mother Kim and Lucy would not be around the castle alot, as well as have classes. Today was that day.

They had been in cohorts with Grace, the knights, the maids and everyone else.

On his way to the castle, he had brought Kim to the gardens and confessed to her. He did it the way Landon taught him.. on bended knees. Heck he even rehearsed some other lines that Landon gave him.

Mother Kim was so shocked that she too burst out into tears. She accepted his love kissed him and ran away from him like a 5 year old girl. He quickly chased after her and brought her here.

The mighty Tiger became a small kitten in his embrace.

Lucius looked at Mother Kim's smiling face and whispered in her ears.

"When I propose to you, I will make you happier. Because I love you."

As he said that, He slowly used his left hand and held her right hand tightly.

She looked at him and was stunned for a moment. Then she Suddenly smiled.

Their hearts were finally one.

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Landon climbed on his bed and thought about the day.

Even at dinner, Lucy would look at the ring and smile at it.

Even the way she waved, had changed. She started waving using the back of her hands like how Julia Robert's did in the Princess Diaries.

Himself, Grace, Lucius and the 3 Major General's were trying to hold back their laughter's every time she did it.

Women... they were all the same no matter the era (sigh).

Landon smiled and looked his next mission.

[Cement Manufacturing]

\"System, show me my stat and rewards\" Landon said as he lay on his bed.

Host name: Landon Barn

Age: 15

Status: King of Baymard

Level: Beginner (Still Level 1)

Current Sitaution: Healthy

Host also received 120 BP for the creation of glass.

Originally, host had 82 DP and 50 BP

But since host had previously used 71 DP points for buying space time capsules and concentration pills, your DP dropped down to 11 points.

(* Note: DP= development points, TP= technology points and BP= bonus points)

He looked at his mission status again and thought about how he should proceed in the future.

[

Mission: Build cement block houses for all Permanent residents in Baymard.

Sub-Mission: Since host has received 20 Godly food recipes and 5 spice making recipes, host needs to create new pallets and spices for your people.

Rewards:

•Full knowledge on the human Anatomy and beginner to intermediate knowledg in the medical field. So what if you can build a lot of warfare weapons? Host doesn't even have a single healer in your town.. Shame on you!...

•Host will also be given 5 random medical techniques for treating patients.

•Lastly, host will also receive 350 development points (DP) and 2000 Technology points (TP).

Deadline: no specific time required

]

Landon sighed as he looked at his rewards towards his next mission. Where were was the outlay or mechanisms on guns?...

Honestly speaking, Landon majored in electrical engineering, and also did alot of hardware engineering as well.. he only knew how to develop and design electrical appliances.

It was unrealistic to think that just because he had come into a fantasy world, he would suddenly become a sage... bruh...

Yes, he was smart... but he only focused on electrical and hardware engineering. The rest of his time was focused on anime, manga and light novels..

Although he had done military service for his country, that didn't mean that he would know how to create guns... He could quickly assemble some of them, but that was it.

Each weapon had it's own mechanism and important materials that needed to be used in order to successfully create them.

If it was anything involving phones, laptops, TV sets... that,..he could do... But to Suddenly tell him to create paper... (sigh) isn't that too much?

Who could honestly say that if they were put in his situation, they would know more than he did?

If a person knew everything, that meant that he/she would have had to study all engineering types, gone to law school, while being a doctor part-time and maybe even ran his/her own company as a boss. As well as teach on the weekends...

There are more than 200 industries on earth. If someone claimed to know everything, they were simply scammers.

Also, there was no electricity in this era, so even if he made a printer or photocopier, where would he plug it? And even if he needed a battery wouldn't he need time to create it?

Landon also realised another major problem that he was facing.

Although the system had given him knowledge on cement making, it hadn't given him knowledge on house designing and construction.

Landon wanted to build houses in a way that would take the future into account.

Soon he would put water pipes throughout the City, as well as other daily commodities. He had no idea where and how to place the pipes. All he knew about was how to place the cables and wires for electricity. Ge didn't even know how thick the various pipes should be.

Landon had decided that every house would have 2 floors: the ground floor and the top floor.

Each house would have a kitchen, 2 bathrooms, a parlor and 4 bedrooms at the top floor. It would also have a front and back yard, as well as a mailbox and a garage.

Oh yes...he was planning way ahead for when he would finally make cars. He also wanted to make the houses accessible to street roads, railways and bus stops.

All this depended on how the houses were built and positioned in the city.

He had noticed that all the houses were focused around the town square in the central region. There were almost no houses close to the upper regions or lower regions.

In future, all the schools would be located in the upper region, as well supermarkets, luxury hotels, malls and so on.

Landon knew that most people would eventually want to live close to the upper region.

Hence he decided to start building the houses in the part of central region, that was closest to the upper region.

Once the first houses were completed, he would start moving the citizens in to them in an orderly fashion.

Landon had a grand plan for Baymard. He decided to divide the upper region into 4 sections.

District A, would obviously host himself, the knights and the barracks.

District B, would host Fighter plane airforces and other airborne military weapons.

District C would host justice courts, the main public police offices, the Education Bureau, Government Policy Offices, all schools, banks and so on..

District D would have, Luxury hotels, amusement parks, car stores, banks and so on...basically good entertainment.

Landon also decided to break the Central parts into 4 parts.

District E, would be the closest to the upper region housing all of the 1500 original citizens who had always stayed here.

District F, would follow after District E. It would host all the Regfugees and Slaves.

District G, would have all the regular hotels for visitors, as well as beautiful national parks, some banks, bars and so on...

District H would be closer to the entrance/exit having other police stations and offices that determine whether or not someone could go into the city. It also had offices that issues ID cards, other important outposts and so on..

As for the lower region, it would also be divided into 4 parts...but it would still be completely filled with factories, be it toothpaste, soap, whatever Baymard needed.. Only those that worked there or had a tour pass, could enter the region.

The coastal part would also have 4 parts. All in all, there would be a large dock for visiting ships, another area that would focus on military submarines, as well as military ships..

The possibilities were endless.

For now, Landon just had to focus on building cement houses.

The point to note was that, although there were 1500 people present in Baymard, there were only about 1000 houses here. People lived together as married couples, they had children and maybe even lived with their grandparents or parents..

With 3,000 more people coming in, he could easily build the houses for 4,500 people fast.

Once he succeeded in providing housing for everyone, he would then start building high story buildings that would house future families and slaves who come into Baymard.

These houses would come have massive car parks and other amenities. Of course, those that come later would have to pay rent for those places.

For refugees and slaves who come in the future, he would give them a 4 months headstart before he started collecting the rents. He hoped that before the time was up, they would have already gotten jobs around Baymard.

The rents for these houses would be fairly cheap depending on the dust that they're built in.

Each District in the central region would have sky high buildings to rent, as well as normal villa houses for those who have made enough money to live lavishly.

Also, all districts, be it the upper or lower regions, would have at least 1 police station and 2 gas stations.

Landon thought about Baymard and sighed. The population was really too small for the land mass.

Take Toronto Canada for example. That city alone had 95,000 privately owned housing units, over 100 hotels, several schools, about 80 malls, several airports and other buildings...

Yet Toronto was smaller in land mass compared to Baymard... Was this some type of joke?

Driving from one part of Toronto to the other could take up to 10-30 minutes without traffic, so one could only imagine how huge Baymard really was.

The more Landon thought about the future, the more Landon realized how much knowledge he lacked and how he little the population of Baymard was.

But he wasn't really in a rush... Building his dream world, would take a lot of time and a lot of effort.

For now, he could buy knowledge on whatever he needed from the system.

\"System, can I buy knowledge on house designing and house construction? As well as all knowledge involving handgun mechanisms, paper making and water supply for buildings.\"

\"You can host. For the guns, would you like knowledge on the Single-Action revolver, Double-Action revolver or Semi-automatic Pistols?\", the system asked.

\"The Semi-automatic pistol would do\".

\"Host's first request will cost you either: 120 DP, 300 Technology Points points or 100 Bonus Points

The second request will cost host either: 100 DP, 250 TP or 80 BP

The third request will cost either: 80 DP, 100 TP or 20 BP.

And finally the fourth request will cost either: 130 DP, 380 TP or 110 BP\" the system asked.

\"Take out 120 BP points for the first request, 100 DP for the second request, 20 DP for the third request, and 130 DP for the final request... Also, show we my balance points again\".

\"Host's Overall Points: 11 DP, 1000 TP and 50 BP\"... Does host want to receive these information now?\"

\"Yes\"

As Landon laid on his bed receiving the long string of information that he had just bought, he couldn't help but feel that, tomorrow would be a very hectic day.

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--Lower Region--

1 and a half weeks ago, when Landon first produced the first cannon and gunpowder sample, he had already completed his mission.

He needed tools that would aid in manufacturing cement, so he asked Tim to assign department 4 to the task.

Within the construction Industry, department 4 was in charge of building all equipments or tools needed by other departments or industries. Be it industry tanks, pumps, screwdrivers, or even hammers...they would do it all.

Landon asked them to create:

•2 large rotary Kilns:

•300 shovels

•40 wheelbarrow's (carriage wheels would be used instead of rubber)

•30 Iron buckets (since rubber wasnt invented yet)

•100 hoes and 50 manual spice grinders

But now that he had just got information on how to construct houses, he found that he was lacking a lot more tools.

"Tim, it has been a week and a half, since I asked you to make some tools for me...how many equipments have you made so far?" Landon asked curiously.

"Your highness, with 50 people working on the tools, we already made all the shovels, as they were even easier to make than swords. The Iron buckets, hoes, spice grinders and the wheel barrow's were done as well... But we are only 2/3's done with the kilns".

"Excellent... good job Tim... Have 5 people continue working with the kilns... I just remembered that there are more tools that we would need before the end of the month. I appologise in advance about my negligence on the matter", Landon said sincerely.

The things he needed were too many to be made before the end of the month. there was only 1 week and 4 days left, before the slaves would arrive. This would definitely put pressure on them.

Tim looked at Landon's pained expression and immediately understood what he was thinking about. It was rare for rulers to be this considerate towards their subjects. Tim smiled.

"Your highness... no need to appologise, we would all be honored to do whatever job you request of us. Your only human your highness, it's normal for you to forget sometimes". Tim replied.

"Thank you Tim... But you know, your words make me more guilty... hihihihi..."

Tim smiled and chucked as well.

"Dont worry your highness we won't hold it against you".

"Alright... I'll bear that in mind...Here's what I need...blah blah..."

Landon explained and drew diagrams on parchment papers, on how each equipment would look like.

He needed:

•2 large manual cement mixing machines

•2 large manual making cement block machines

•40 Wall screeds

•40 floor screeds.

•40 two-man saws

•40 mini wood scroll saws

•40 hand Rip saws Hand saws

•100 Thick wooden measuring rulers and 1000 well cut plank boards of different sizes.

•1000 nails, 50 door knobs with keys, 100 door hinges 50 paint rollers

•4000 reinforcing steel bars (rebar) and 200 long steel tying wires (rebar wires) to join the bars together.

"With the exception of the 5 who will work in making the kiln, the are 45 workers available for the task.

The first 4 projects should indeed have 4 people working on them. But for the 5th to 8h projects we will consider them as 1 giant project.

Have 15 people create each saw type. And when they are done, get them to start creating the measuring rulers and the planks.

The 9th project should have 7 workers on it to make: mails, door knobs, hinges and paint brushes

While the other 7 workers should focus on finishing the 10th project." Landon said.

"Your highness, that would mean each worker would have to create 8 screeds in a week and 4 days... isn't that too little? No offense your highness... but from what you described, these saws would take less time to create than swords... A normal blacksmith would be able to make 3-4 swords a day my lord... these tools should be done within the next 4 days...What happens when they finish their task early? Do you want them to create more?" Tim asked seriously.

"No... those that finish early, should help out with the other projects... what we need now is enough tools to start the job. Once the slaves arrive, we can assign more people to create more tools."

Tim nodded his head while listening.

As for hammers, the department had always been making them for a long time. So far, Baymard has over 300 hammers within the Construction industry.

When Landon browsed through the knowledge he had acquired, he found out that the foundation of all houses were done with wood, concrete and steel bars.

Steel was used because it could expand and contrast in heat and cold, as much as concrete. Which means that it won't crack the concrete that surrounds it.

He also needed to cut down trees and make several planks neatly. If it wasn't done well, the foundation would not be sturdy. That's why he needed them to make saws.

In this era, people used axes to cut their wood. That was a real waste of time, just saw the wood open.

Since there was no electricity, all the tools he made operated manually. The workers should use the 2-man saw to fall the trees.

When trying to get precise wood measurements, they could use the measuring rulers, chalk, wood scroll saws and Rip saws to get the exact wood blocks needed for each part of the house.

He also needed to make sure that the cabinets for the kitchen, bathrooms and so on... were done properly.

In this era, people tied wood together with ropes, instead of using nails... ..Thats why he also requested for nails to be made asap.

"Now, that we are done with department 4, let's talk about department 3, the warfare department."

Landon also gave him a detailed understanding and sketch on how the handguns were to be manufactured.

"Also, put all the hoes and spice grinders on a cart, I'll take them over to the food industry".

Landon met chief Wiggins and handed over all the tools to him.

In this era, people used sticks, sharp stones, pickaxes and their hands to dig up the soil.

The hoe was flatter compared to the pickaxes and wasn't as heavy as the pickaxe. Wiggins didnt know how this thing could help them. He looked at the tools in confusion.

Landon decided that it was better to show him how it worked, than explaining its functions. So he decided to head towards the farms.

Once they arrived, Landon gave 10 hoes to random workers and 1 how to chief Wiggins, while holding another hoe in his hand. He rolled up his sleeves and turned towards them.

"Lets begin, follow my lead"

Landon held the hole with both hands and swung frontwards towards the ground. After softening and smoothing the soil, he then started forming beds by digging up the sorrounding soil and placing it on top of the area he smoothed.

As everyone followed his movements, they realised how fast and easy, using this tool was. Less than 3 minutes, they had already formed a farm bed.

Normally, it would take 1 person an hour to make a standard size bed. After using a pickaxe, stones or sticks to soften the soil, the farmers would use their hands to form the beds.

Chief Wiggins looked at the tool in his hand and smiled. This was a game-changer for him.

"Once the day is over, you all can return the tools back to your supervisor".

Since the demonstration was over, hewent back to the food industry with chief Wiggins. And on their way, Wiggins kept talking about how this tool was godly and so on.

Landon looked at the excited man and chuckled. When Wiggins spoke about farming, he really looked like a kid.

As they rod back, Landon kept thinking about spice making.

Although he wanted to start now, he knew that he couldn't without more people. So he decided to wait for the slaves and pass the time assisting every department.

As Landon thought about his situation, someone far away was preparing for a stormy night.

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Benjamin Hamilton A.k.A Santa, had already gathered 800 or more slaves and refugees from his city, on the first three days of arriving Carona.

On the fourth day, he got and urgent massage from the 9th prince of Yodan, Bari Maclaine.

The 9th prince was a funny one.

He was kind, simple minded, loyal and hardworking. When his half-siblings fought over kingship, he only focused on learning how to run the 2 small cities under his control.

His Father, king Maclaine, had 6 wives and 2 concubines.With this, Bari had 23 siblings.

Actually, he was born a week after the 8th prince, while the 10th and 11th prince's were born 4 and 6 months after his birth. So in 1 year, King Maclaine had welcomed 4 prince's and 1 princess into the world.

The workings of the inner haram was brutal.

The main official wife, kept getting in her feelings and trying to control the other wives and concubines when she could. If she noticed that her husband favored anyone more than her, she would try killing them or setting them up.

His mother was unfortunately one of these women.

His mother had stayed in the kings chamber for an entire week, which made the first wife drown in anger.

She then made up a story about infidelity and hired witnesses to testify against his mother. There were over 100 witnesses.. of course the king would believe them.

And what made matters worse was that, his mom never begged or belittled herself in front of him. She only said one sentence and that was it.

"I'm innocent.. do what you want to do"

It would have been better if she had screamed, begged or cried her eyes out... But the way she said it, made the king afraid that he had made a mistake.

But since he had become a laughingstock in the entire Capital, he had to follow through with the punishment. She had no proof, it was her word against hundreds. Even the some of the other wives had testified against her.

Very quickly, those emotions left the king and anger took over his mind. 'How dare she act proudly when she was the one who was caught cheating? Did she take him for a fool?', he thought.

As he looking at the proud woman who stood before him, he decided to go ahead with the punishment.

She would have to do the walk of shame.

Different empires had different rules. In Arcadina, cheating royals would be locked up shabby rooms for rest of their lives.. or until their husbands forgave them. In Yodan, it was vastly different.

The women would walk a long distant completely nude while having food and rocks being thrown at them. After the walk, the cheating womans marriage would be annulled.

That year, the 9th prince had already turned 16 and ran his cities independently.

Once he got wind of his moms situation, he rushed back to the Capital and headed straight for the palace.

Hd looked at his hurt but prideful mother and anger rose within his heart.

For a fact, he knew that his mother was innocent... but sometimes, he wished that she would at least talk or cry like other women did.

Instead, she smiled at him and bottled up everything inside. That smile instantly brought him to tears. He loved her with all his heart and thought that if he became strong, he would easily protect her.

But he was wrong.

He looked at his weeping little sister of 9 years old and hugged her tightly. Tomorrow was the day for the marriage annulment.

Early the next morning, he held his mothers arm and led her towards the throne room.

Within the continent of Pyno, different empires had their own beliefs and non-beliefs.

The empire of Deiferus, believed in the Goddess Serena. It was said that she was the one who created the stars, the moms and the land. She blessed the land as well as cursed it. So all marriages were blessed by her ministers.

Arcadina for example, believed in the souls of their forefathers being Gods. They would pray and call their ancestors Gods..

The empire of Terique believed in the sea god, Carona believed in the god of fertility, and in Yodan, they believed in absolutely nothing... they thought it was ridiculous... if gods existed, where were they?

Once they got to the throne room, the king said some rubbish mumbo jumbo and long story short, he annulled the marriage sent ter packing.

The king didn't even know his 9th son's name, he was only concerned with the first 5. One of them would likely be the next ruler of the empire.

He didn't choose a crown prince yet because he wanted his sons to prove themselves of being worthy to rule the empire.

But this decision only made his haram more deadly and made his sons and wives plot to kill or assassinate each other. Even the princesses fought amongst themselves.

His father looked at him coldly as he supported his mothers shoulders...he in turn, returned the gaze.

As they locked eyes, the first wife whispered into the kings ears and sneered at him.

"You are to return all the knights under your care and work as an ordinary knight... I will give you 50 gold coins as your inheritance...Be lucky that I even had the heart to give you some... You can choose which town you would like to work in, and I'll have you posted there immediately". His father said.

The queen didnt want to allow him to have any knights for fear of revenge towards the disgrace she gave his mother. The look in the boys eyes were strong. He would definitely kill her if he had the chance.

"I agree. But I also have 1 other request... I want to renounce my sister from being a royal.. and I choose to be stationed within the city of Vienna". He replied.

Now that his mother had been sent away, he dared not keep his younger sister in the palace. Those women would turn her into a slave or worse their punching bags.

His father of course approved. The princess was his 17th child. He didn't even know her, talk less of caring about her. One less mouth to feed, he thought.

Bari chose Vienna because ever since he ran the territory, everyone over there became his family and friends... He was sure that they would treat him kindly... And unlike most people within the empire, those in Vienna were very honest and somewhat pure. They had also been living far away from the Capital, and didn't know much about the dark side of royalty.

These people were a breathe of fresh air to him. It was the perfect place for the family of three...

at that time, he failed to notice the evil twinkle within the queens eyes. Had he seen it, he wouldn't have been in this mess right now.

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As Santa looked at the message, he knew he had to rush over to Vienna... sigh

'Little brother Landon, it appears that he will come, bearing too many gifts this time around.'

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For the past 1 week, Landon had been waiting for the ship to come with the slaves.

Landon had decided to use this period, to create more equipments for the new industries, that were about to be formed.

And after waiting for another 3 days, he was informed that there were 10 large ships sailing towards Baymard.

From the system, Landon could identify the ships. They were Santa's ships... but why were there so many?

'Just what was he thinking?' Landon thought.

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On the shore, Landon looked at the ever smiling Santa and felt helpless. It was really hard to get angry with this jolly fellow... sigh..

"Little bro... I've missed you... not seeing you all this while, has made my heart uneasy... Little bro, I hope your not mad at me for coming late...hihuhu..." Santa said while giggling.

Everyone on the ship was surprised. Isnt that the king? .. why would he talk to a noble like that?

Before they had set sail to Baymard, Santa had explained to them the situation Baymard was in.. He also assured them that the king of the newly independently established territory, would definitely treat them well. He had guaranteed them safety, shelter and food.

Back on the shore, Santa explained what happened and why he had brought 10 ships of people with him.

Long story short, once the 9th prince arrived Vienna, everything was going on fine at first.

But a month later, there were sudden attacks and killings happening within the city. By the end of the next month, more than 11,000 people out of 96,000 people had died.

When they had captured one of the attackers, it was revealed that the queen had been sending a group of bandits called the 'Evergreen Bandits' to harass the citizens, while trying to kill him. Once he was killed, it would be announced that him alongside the citizens, died from an attack from bandits.

The queen had to make sure that it wasn't traceable to her, so burning and killing other people was only their secondary mission.

But when the bandits came, the prince along side the city lords knights fended them off bravely. At the end, their primary mission of killing Bari had failed.

The queen became restless and ordered her secret knights and about 23 gangs with more than 5,000 people in each gang, to join forces and burn down the entire city.

The city lord got wind of the plan early on and informed the prince. It was said that in the next 3 months, they would arrive Vienna and the attack would commence.

So,they started evacuating the people from Vienna immediately.

Once the Bari heard the news, he also sent a letter to Santa requesting for his help.

2 months later, the city lord had evacuated all the barons, as well as over 71,650 people. The city lord of the next town was close friends with Basi as well... so Bari successfully settled these people to settle in his town with all their belongings.

4 days after that, Santa arrived with 10 giant size ships... they boarded the ships and headed for Baymard.

The city lord couldn't go with Bari because he was still an official in the empire. He took his family and his knights and headed back to the Capital.

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Listening to the story, which felt like all those Tv dramas he had watched, he was somewhat taken aback. He also felt pity for Bari, his family and the people.

But basically, apart from the 800 slaves that Santa originally got.. he still took 13,350 people from Vienna.

So in total, there had 14,150 people on those ships.

Although he felt sad for them, the amount of mud houses he built couldn't contain all of them... forget it, he would just have to give them an estate in the upper region to live in.

He decided to use the closest estate to the central region.

Of course the prince and his family would live in the castle with him... royalty was royalty, afterall.

Santa looked at Landon and smiled.

"Since you paid for 3000 slaves, I will send the other 2,200 more... remember, there are 800 slaves amongst the group", Santa said.

"How can I ask you for more? what kind of person do you think I am? You don't have to do that."

"Its because I know what kind of person you are that I'm willing to get more slaves for you. It would be good if you can save them from their salvery. These people are usually treated and treated even worse than animals.. If they stay with you, I know that you would help them in every way possible."

"Your right.. I agree with you... Since that's the case, I will pay you for your trip as well.. And if you ever find refugees ur people that need help, send them over as well". Landon said

After getting the gist, Landon sent 50 knights to call over all the overseers, supervisors, Major generals, Captain's, his mother, Lucy, Grace, little Momo the head butler and Maid to come over.

He wanted to introduce them to everyone here.

Once everyone arrived, Landon had them line up on the highest point of the ground... As he did that, he also had Santa gathered all the people along the sandy shores.

'System, can you amplify my voice? I want those at the back to here me loud and clear. At the same time, I don't want those at the front to feel like I'm screaming... I want everyone to get the same Volume or tune when I'm speaking'.

'Host, yes I can. It will cost host 10 DP, 15YP or 4BP per hour'.

'Why so expensive? Isnt it just amplification? Aren't you cheating me?'

'If the host thinks that it's too expensive, then that is not the system's problem... the system is an almighty system and above petty arguments with host. .. is host buying or not?"

Landon really thought that this system was a petty black-bellied system. Above arguments? Pleeeease...

'Fine... I'll buy it then.. use my BP for 1 hour"

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"My friends, I know that some of you feel helpless, scared and afraid... I assure you that Baymard will be a safe haven for you.

You all had laboured and toiled within Vienna, and had to face and witness death of your own friends and families.

Yes, I'm talking about the 5,000 poor innocent souls that died from the first attack on your city.

You all have been put through hell by those treacherous gangs who only feel plessure from bloodshed.

I promise you that within my territory, I will give you a new life and a new path, in which you all can proudly walk on!!

Whether you are slaves from Carona or citizens fro Vienna, from this day forward, you all will be my friends and my family. Your pain will be my pain... and your happiness will be mine as well.

I hate that word 'slavery'. It is vulgar and goes against my beliefs. In this land, there is no such thing as slavery.. and there will never be

On my land, everyone has to go to school, and children are not allowed to work until they reach the age of 14, in which they can applly or get what we call 'an internship' for the time being until they finish school.

With time, you all will come to understand and love Baymard, just as much as I love it.

And if you face any issues within the territory, you can meet any of these people standing behind me, to aid or assist you...

Once more...Welcome to Baymard!!!!!"

"Prince Bari, what do you want to do now?"

Truth be told, when Bari looked at Landon, he didn't know how to react. Afterall, this was their first meeting.. and Landon was younger than him... So... he was very confused on how to address him.

He kept wondering whether Landon would feel threatened because he use to be a prince.

Bari was an honest man, who would never take what didn't belong to him.

When he was 'supposedly' given cities to run, his father had let the city lords deal with politics and ruling the city, while he just fought and trained hard.

As the 9th prince, he was brought up to basically never even dream of being ruler.

Because his father didn't want to give any sort of power to any of his other sons apart from the first 5, the king asked the city lords to run the cities alongside his sons.

This was the best way to spy or keep tabs on them.

They were to report if any of his sons was planning or scheming to kill or even dream about killing his self or his 5 eldest sons.

Initially, the city lords obeyed the kings orders, but when he got to know Bari, he changed his mind.

In his opinion, Bari had never even thought of the throne for a single day. So there was nothing to report about. And as he got to know Bari, he began to form a strong bond with him as well.

The queen would never allow any other child to rule the empire, other than her son. So she made sure that Bari and his other brothers were trained up as knights.

They were brought up to only serve the real heir to the throne.

That woman worked in the shadows.

If any of the other children got more land or more followers, for sure they would have to die.

With all this, as a prince, Bari was only trained with the way of the sword.

In a way, he was similar to the old Landon.

The old Landon, didn't give 2 F's about running an empire or controlling a city.

In fact, the old Landon was surprised that his father even gave him land at all. He honestly thought that when he would turned 15, he would move to a small village with his mom and Lucy, and then work as any other peasant.

The money that they had saved was enough to take care of 3 mouths for the next 15 years, if they lived as peasants.

The old Landon was also a humble, quiet and simple-minded person. He never bit off more than what he could chew.

As Bari looked at Landon, he became somewhat nervous.

If Landon didn't like him, he might be thrown out of Baymard, along with his family.. he didnt have a home anymore and was scared of rejection.

"To be honest, I want to be a knight." Bari answered nervously.

Landon looked at him and smiled.

"Hahahha, why are you so stiff? Since you are brothers with San... I mean Benjamin, then I will be your brother as well." Landon added hitting his back playfully.

"Look over there elder bro, aunty is already smiling and laughing with my mom..." Landon continued while pointing towards Bari's mother.

Bari looked and was a little stunned.

His mom would only ever laugh in front of him or his sister. No one, not even the king had seen her laugh.

A deep and warm smile formed on his face.

'It seemed I worried for nothing', he thought

Landon looked at him and sighed in relief.

He didn't want Bari to feel any discomfort towards him.

He knew that given Santa's personality, Only those who were truly honest could be friends with Santa.

Santa would never bring anyone one who wanted to harm or take his position as king to Baymard.

And even if he did, for sure... Landon would kill the threat.

"If that's the case, once you complete your training under my army, I will make you a Captain under my father to-be and your Army General... Lucius."

Once he was done, Landon stocked 1 of Santa's ships with a lot of Feldspar and other rare mineral ores.

He also gave him more chalk and paint samples.

At the end, he had made 1,200,000 gold coins from Santa.

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With 14,150 new people, Landon had more than enough workers to start his numerous projects.

Landon had all the knights help everyone sign a non-disclosure agreement stating that within the next 20 years, whatever they learn can never be shared to those out of Baymard.

He also read the rules and punishments that would follow if anyone disobeyed them. Especially the disclosure form.

The punishment was the death of the individual and his entire family. Everyone already swore in their hearts that they would keep whatever they had learnt in their hearts.

Plus, they didnt know the empire well and wasn't sure that any other nobles would care for them as Landon had promised.

They weren't about to risk it at all.

Amongst the group, 1600 people volunteered to be knights, and were moved to the barracks.

Landon decided to count Beri and his family of 3, out of the work schedule as well.

Lucky for him, there were some people who had professions while they were in Vienna.

There were 7 Doctors, 14 nurses, 6 teachers, 20 blacksmiths and carpenters, 9 Alchemists and 3 people who used to work as Government officials for the city lord of Vienna. Making a total of 59 people.

He also realised that there were 2,127 children from ages 0-14 within the group.

Presently, while the adults worked, the children would spend the entire day in one of the buildings on the school estate. They would play, eat and study sometimes.

Landon had only assigned 28 caretakers for those children. Kinda like a preschool kindergarten vibe.

They were divided according to the their ages and placed in separate rooms. He had made sure that for every age, there was someone to attend to them.

There were those who were very young and still learning how to walk. While there were others who were 14, and liked running around and playing energetically in their classrooms.

Little Momo, was also very lively in his classroom as well.

Landon had made schedules that gave the children nap times, breaks, class time, play time, lunch, dinner and breakfast as well.

And when the parents finished work, they would come over and take their children away.

Many parents appreciated this system, as It gave them time to do their own things without worrying about their kids.

With this service, the adults who were at work, especially the women, felt very free and happy.

These women felt liberated. They had always stayed at home, cooked, took care of the kids all day, while their husbands go out and come back whenever.

They had always dreamt of trying out their husbands jobs or even doing something more with their lives.

Some of them, even work alongside their husbands presently. How exciting.

Generally, the daycare opens from 8 A.M to 10 P.M.

So for those with night shifts, when they finished their jobs at 9 P.M, they would still have time to pick up their kids.

Landon was sure that if he ever stoped this daycare service, there would be riots and fights within the city.

He had also built 10 iron swings in the playground and cleared the fields for them to play in. In future, he would provide coloring books and toys for sure...

Now that 2,127 more children were added to this number, Landon decided to add 1 more building towards daycare and also add 292 more caretakers.

Making a total of 2,428 children in Baymard...So each caretaker would be in charge of about 20 kids at once, while doing rotational shifts.

Also, there were 369 elderly people who were between the age of 60 and above, who had arrived Baymard as well.

When Landon asked them what they wanted to do, all of them said that they wanted to stay at home with either their sons or daughters and look after the house while they were away.

Landon agreed to their request and told them that if they needed anything, they should just tell any of the guards that they see.

But there were also some people, who seriously surprised Landon as well.

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There were 3 old men, about the ages of 76-80, who said that they wanted to work in the mines, as fishermen or as hunters.

Their families stood at their backs and surprisingly looked at Landon with an apologetic gaze.

He didn't understand why they were looking at him in that manner... But after talking with these men for a while, he would fully understood the meaning behind those looks.

All 3, claimed to be as strong as an ox. One's name was Willow, while the other 2 were Hermon and Paitus.

Of course Landon would never allow these men to work in the mines, unless he was 99% sure that working there wouldn't affect their health in any way.

As he looked at the 3 men he was even more convinced of his decision to say no.

Landon literally thought that if they stood outside on a windy day, the wind would for sure blow them away.

"Kid, do you think that we are weaklings?" old man Hermon asked.

"What?" Paitus asked Hermon, as he didn't fully hear what Hermon said.

Paitus had hearing problems due to old age.

"He said that we are weaklings!!" old man Willow repeated while shouting in Paitus' ear.

Now Paitus got the gist.

"Whatt!!!! you dare say that we are weaklings!"

Landon didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. When did he say that they were weaklings? Aren't they just twisting his words?

"Do you know who he is?" Old man Paitus asked as he pointed at old man Willow.

'How the heck should I know?'Landon thought

As Paitus spoke, old man Willow turned from side to side, as if posing in a male photoshoot. He started showing off his non-existent muscles as he flexed.

"Do you know who he is!!" Old man Hermon exclaimed as well.

"This man here is the strongest man in the world!"

'I beg to differ' Landon thought as he looked at the flexing old man Willow.

"This guy here had once fought an assassin with a single finger... a real assassin... the most deadliest of them." Old man Hermon exclaimed while frantically waving his hands about.

"The fight was brutal I tell yah!!...he blocked a sword strike with his finger and used that same finger to slice off the man's ear".

'you think we are in a wuxia world?'

"Its true!!...He cut the man's ear off with one finger, and re-attached it back with another, while using his right leg to fend off the man's attacks". old man Paitus said.

'That's biologically impossible'

"He was also, the only man to ever swim from Vienna to the continent of Carona without any boat!!".

'His limbs would have fallen out by now if it were true'

"He also caught a sea fish the size of an entire estate and beat it to a pulp." Old man Hermon said.

'That would be a whale, and there's no way you could ever injure one'

"He once juggled 5 gigantic rocks using his right hand, while drinking wine with his left"

'What are you? Superman?' Landon thought

Old man Willow looked at the unconvinced Landon and hmped.

"Fine!! if you don't believe it.. then I'll prove it!"

Before Landon or any of the knights could stop him, old man Willow had already tried to lift up a large rock by his side.

"Crackkkk!!!"

It's safe to say that he had failed woefully.

"Ah!!!! My back!!!..You tricked me... why didn't you tell me that the rock was heavy? you damn cheat." Old man Willow said while wailing in agony.

Landon hurriedly supported the man.

"So he cheated Ayyy? How can you openly cheat like that?" old man Hermon exclaimed.

"Whatt!! he cheated?... It all makes sense.. how could the strongest man loose to a tiny stone like this?" old man Paitus said as he nodded vigorously.

'How did it come to him cheating? And what did he mean by tiny? that stone is at least 200 kg alright?'

Landon turned around and saw Lucius and the knights trying to hold in their laughter's.

"I request for a rematch... I'm not weak I tell ya!!.. you probably bolted down the rock and cheated." Old man Willow said

'Old man, although I have the system, I would never use it in a fair competition alright?... wait, wait ,wait!! What am I even saying? Since when was this a competition? You clearly sprung this on me, and now your claiming that I cheated?'

"Look.. no one is saying that any of you are weak. In fact, I think that you all are very strong." Landon said.

"So you think I'm stronger than you?" old man Willow asked

"Asolutely." Landon replied

Landon felt truly helpless. How else was he supposed to answer him?

"Good... just so long as you know that I'm the strongest man in the world" old man Willow said while nodding his head.

At the end, Landon talked the men into accepting jobs like gardening. Landon only wanted them to snip bushes or twigs within the royal garden.

At first they denied, because they thought it was a job for sissies. He had spent the last 25 minutes trying to stroke their egos.

These old men really made him feel like he was raising a child.

They wanted to be coaxed and pampered. Everyone else called him your highness, but these men called him 'kid' or 'brat'. One can tell that they had always acted like this wherever they went.

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Landon looked at the large rock and decided to move it away from there. Who knew how many senior citizens would try to prove their strengths to him.

He carried it up... And just when he was about to move with the stone, the 3 old men who were about leaving, saw him carrying the stone and ran back towards him.

"So you think your better than us?"

"You think your stronger than me?"

"Give the stone here, I will show you my strength"

Looking at the old men running towards him, Landon finally understood why their families kept looking at him like that.

'F*'

After successfully running away from the old men, Landon continued his assessment.

He soon realised that, he now had 9,700 adults who could work, out of the group of 14,125.

Adding to the other 100 volunteers who built the mud houses previously, he now had a total of 9,800 workers.

Landon didn't want to start building houses without a water treatment plant, central heating plant and electricity.

After browsing through his mind, he realised that the pipes needed to be connected through the walls of the house and so on.

If he did it later, then he would have to break down the walls and floors, just to install these features. That was just double-work.

Landon had scheduled for home construction to be done 4 months later.

That would be in September.

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He first started off with the 'Crude oil refining' process.

To Landon, this section was the most important piece to the puzzle as it was essential for most departments.

With oil, Landon could produce synthetic rubber, which could later be used to make tires, pipe insulation, rubber handle grips and other important tools.

Also, he needed to use oil, as fuel for the electrically powered work machines that he was going to create.

There was no way that the men could lift those gigantic heavy pipes that existed back on earth. They also had to put the pipes underground and move them from place to place.

Hence, he needed heavy construction machines like dragline excavators, Bulldozers and so on.

"System, can you locate the nearest underground crude oil reservoir?"

The system took a minute before answering him.

"Answering to host, there's one in the ocean, just 7.4 Km from the shores. And another one, 3 km away from the city wall."

Landon didn't like those answers.

He didn't have an oil drill ship, to go out into the sea. And his last option was out of the city itself. It was on the highway going to the next town.

After thinking for a while, his eyes lit up. Didn't the system say that it was almighty?

"System, I want you to re-direct the oil towards the lower region... . right... here..." Landon said, while circling a certain area on his monitor.

"Not a problem host. Do you want it to be an oil seep or deep underground reservoir?"

For now, an oil seep would be the best option over underground oil reservoirs.

Back on earth, there were a lot of oil industries that benefited because of oil seeps.

In California USA, there are tiny lakes and ponds of pure crude oil floating on the earth's surface. These ponds, are the oil seeps.

One doesn't necessarily have to dig the ground with a drill, to get the oil. The oils move upwards on their own.

It's like all those cartoons that show when a man finds oil in the ground. The oil will squirt upwards, forcing itself out of the ground.

Of course when Landon finally made his own drill, he would for sure dig up the ground and sea oil.

For now, the workers would have to use iron buckets and drums, go scoop out the oil from the pond.

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It's safe to say that the system charged him for his request. At the end he had used, 280 Technology points.

Since, the other departments couldn't started without oil, Landon had all 9,800 workers help build a manually operated processing unit within the alchemy industry.

He allocated 1 building for this process, and within 3 days, everything was built.

They built 3 gravity tanks, 5 fractional distillation vessel that had an oven like bottom, several storage tanks and a few mini heating systems..

Landon wanted to use gravity to his advantage here, so he built the gravity tanks at a higher elevation level than that of the fractional distillation columns.

Landon knew that when making oil products, it was necessary to drain the water in the oil first.

He had requested for 3 tanks to be made, so that when one is full and experiencing its wait time, the workers could fill the other 2, as much as they liked.

After 2 days, gravity had separated the water from the oil.

The water was drained at the bottom and the oil was sent to the distillation column.

Landon and chief Wiggins watched as the oil flowed downwards towards the inlet of the distillation colum.

"Your highness, are we in the distillation stage yet?" Chief Wiggins asked as he looked at Landon all blue-eyed and bushy tailed.

Ever since Landon showed him the way, (*as he claims), Wiggins had become a 5 year old kid whenever he saw Landon.

They would talk about math and Chemistry, and Landon would solve any bumps or issues that he had along the way.

Landon was sure that even on his wedding day, chief Wiggins would still ask him a ton of questions.

He was also sure that if he ever died, Chief Wiggins would probably slap his corpse wide awake.

The man was obsessed with Chemistry.

"The distillation process has just began. I'll explain it to you, as the process continues".

Wiggins nodded as he carefully followed Landon's explanation.

There were 5 fractional distillation columns. But the process only needed 3.

The other 2 were backup, just in case any of the working columns need to undergo a routine maintenance check or gets damaged.

A single column had 6 outlets and 1 inlet. These outlets were for the products: Petroleum gas, gasoline, kerosene, Diesel, lubricating oil, fuel oil and residue (tar).

Of course the crude oil was passed in through the inlet.

The fire heated the oil, and the various products were formed due to vapor rise at different temperatures.

At this point chief Wiggins was subconsciously holding Landon's wrist without him even knowing.

'Dude, it's just oil separation alright? Why the heck are you getting so excited? When I show you water purification in future, what are you going to do? get a heart attack?' Landon thought as he shook his head helplessly and continued to observe the process.

Some of the products were passed through mini heating systems, so as to remove any water, gases and unwanted carbons from them.

From there, these oil products were sent on their way to their storage tanks.

Since Landon didn't have a cooling system yet, he made the pipes connecting the products to the storage units, extremely long.

The pipes spiralled through what resembled a long aquarium filled with cold sea water.

He then added mercury to the sea water, ensuring that the hot vapor in the pipes would be cooled down and turned in to liquids, before reaching their storage tanks.

Mercury was one of the coldest liquids in the world. At normal atmosphere pressure, mercury's state is that of an ice block.

Chief Wiggins jumped around happily, as he observed the final stages of the process.

He had read of tar, diesel and the entire processing process from the book...But actually seeing the process made him a firm believer.

Screw the ancestor gods that they had worshipped... could they make this happen? Could they make oil?

For him, Landon was God's sacred messenger, who was sent here to make them believe in the god of knowledge...

If Landon knew what Chief Wiggins was thinking, he would definitely forbid him from spreading such believes.

He didn't want to be worshipped at all.

Although he had the system which was godly, Landon didn't truly believe that he was a messenger...

For sure, he believed that some powerful being, maybe God even, created the system to move around developing countless worlds.

It was just a job. Nothing more.

Plus how could he be a messenger, if he had never seen the person sending the message?

Impossible!!

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Just like that, the week had finally come to an end.

Landon had successfully created the first batch of petroleum oil. As well as other oil-based products like fuel and tar.

--Riverdale City--

The wind howled against the trees and the sounds of crickets could be heard from afar.

"He accepted the job. Within 2 weeks, he should arrive." said a man with a cold tone.

"Excellent"

--The next day--

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Today was the scheduled day for straightening and creating the rules and regulations for the army. As well as changing the various job descriptions.

A while ago, he had 20 of the women who took care of the children, assist him in sewing material badges when the children had nap time or classes...

He had also asked department 4, to make a lot of safety pins for the badges.

Those men who came a week ago, had to properly follow a rank system. Landon decided to follow the same military rank system that existed back on earth.

The lowest rank being Private E-1.

For the enlisted soldiers to advance to the next grade, they needed to spend at least 6 months in each grade.

Within the 6 months spent, they would have three physical and written exams. Those that pass will move to the next grade after 6 months. For higher personals ranks it was usually years.

The ranks increase as so:

•Enlisted (6 months in a rank to advance):

Private E-1( PV1 or recruits)

Private E-2 ( PV2)

Private first class (E-3 or PFC)

Army Specialist (E-4)

Corporal (CPL)

Seargent (SGT)

Staff Sergeant (SSG)

Sergeant First Class (SFC)

Master Sergeant (MSG)

First Sergeant (1SG)

Sergeant Major (SGM)

Command Sergeant Major (CSM)

Sergeant Major of the army (SMA)

•Warrant Officers (1 year rank advancement):

Warant Officer 1

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Chief Warrant Officer 3

Chief Warrant Officer 4

Chief Warrant Officer 5

Officer Ranks (2.5 year rank advancement):

First Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

Captian

Major

Lieutenant Colonel

Colonel

Brigadier General

Major General

Lieutenant General

General

•General of the Army...[ Lucius ]

Of course, Lucius was presently in the position of General of the Army.

He also adjusted the time spent in each grade, to fit this era.

Most nights who had originally come to Baymard with him, would be from Warrant Officers.

They had been training since they were 7, so they have at least 10 years of experience under their belts.

Within the new recruits, out of 1,200, only about 300 were previously knights. The rest were just ordinary people who volunteered to be in the army.

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Within this 1 week, the new recruits, both men and some women... were very happy with their choice. They studied, trained and formed strong bonds with one another.

Those that were slaves within the group, started opening up more and even joking around here and there.

The military atmosphere was truly beautiful to them.

Some were already orphans as it was. But now, they shared clean and spacious rooms with other roommates, had fun and during their breaks, they would run around Baymard happily.

Those who were already knights were also grouped with Landon's original knights and trained.

He wanted the men to change the way they called themselves. They were soldiers in the army.. not knights in the barracks.

Everywhere in the Army estate, he had put wooden sign boards and written different words using paint.

These signs showed different directions and the names of buildings, so that nobody would get lost.

These signs would generally say:

[Baymard Army: Hospital or Baymard Army: Training Facilities]

Something like that.

Landon's main point was that, once they saw this daily...eventually it would stick to their minds like glue. And soon, they would see themselves like soldiers in the Army, and not knights.

He also decided that he would make the military fort like a school. They would go to class, study war tactics, study their weapons, do physical training, shooting practices, first aid studies and so on.

He also provided enough holiday time and pay for each individual. So that those who got married could leave and spend time with their wife and children.. or husbands.

Most of them were new, and fell in the Private E-1 category. So he had some of his warrant officers split them into groups and teach them during their scheduled class time and field trainings.

They were to understand the safety measures involving each military weapon, as well as study the weapon intently.

He also gave iron whistles to all those who were within the Warrant officer class, Officer Ranks, and finally to Lucius.

They were to train and mold the soldiers with the whistles.

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Today, he distributed the batches and posted the rules and regulations on a large notice board with pins.

He also posted class schedules, outside the regular Baymard class schedules and field training schedules...As well as the punishments for violating each law.

Once he was done, he closed the board with a glass frame, so that no one would dirty the board or the paper.

He placed all the boards along side each other and stepped away. The boards were as wide as 6 chalkboards joint together.

The 1st board showed clear white parchment papers detailing the military rules and regulations, as well as punishment for each rule.

The 2nd, 3rd and 4th showed everyone's name and rank arranged alphabetically, depending on their ranks... The 2nd showed those within the 'Enlisted Ranks', the 3rd showed those who were 'Warrant officers' and the 4th showed those who had 'Officer Ranks'.

The 5th board showed the latest military news and exam schedules for each rank.

And finally, the 6th board showed a gigantic map of the enter Military Fort. Landon had paid the system to create a detailed colorful map that even had the names of each building written down.

Also, in all buildings, he had put building maps that showed were each room was and what direction they had to go to get there.

Each floor was labeled floor G, A, B, C.. and so on.

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All the new recruits, were each given their schedules and a mini-map of the extremely large military fort by their Major general's and Captain's.

There were about 27 large buildings in the estate..Landon wanted to make sure that they didn't get lost easily while staying and studying here.

The recruits also received badge's and safety pins each.

Landon had informed them that when they were on duty, or within the Fort or in training, they had to wear their badges. The badges had different colors and strips.

All Enlisted soldiers had green badges, but their stripes were different colors depending on your rank.

The Warrant officers wore blue badges and again had different strip colors as their ranks increased.

The Officer Ranks wore red badges, while Lucius as the highest authority within the fort, wore a silver badge.

They only had to pin one a day. They were given a total 6 badges, should incase they lose them.

Landon had also requested for department 4 of the construction industry, to weld Lockers, locks and keys for each soldier. As well as create proper obstacle courses for the soldiers.

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As the day came to an end, some people were excited over their ranks and badges within the army, while others where pumped up about exploring the Fort.

Some of them didn't even know that there were so many buildings within the fort. It was all new and exciting to them.

A 29 year old lady, was being led by a soldier on duty, to where Landon was standing.

"Is it time?"

"Yes my king"

Ever since he created the daycare system, Landon had been visiting the children once a week.

He would tell them stories that engulfed morality, compassion, loyalty, hope and all over basic qualities that made humans who they were.

Landon thought that this era was completely bullshit.

There were hardly any morals being taught here. To them, strength was everything.

Fighting, killing and so on... Landon wanted people to only do so if they were left with no choice.

He didn't want the children to kill people, just because they could... Death was normal to this people.

If most of the people in power were somehow transported to earth, Landon was sure that they would be institutionalized...

To many of the people in this world, loyalty was only relevant when money or power was involved.

But not everyone was bad.

The most corrupt places were those close to the Capital's of most empires. The towns or cities at the outskirts usually had far less corruption involved.

Every noble liked being close to the royal Capital cities.

Landon could understand their plight in this case.

For example, back on earth, most people would leave the country side to go to the big city, where corrupt rained and violence prevailed.

Country people were simple minded. They had their farms, they were kind to their neighbors and so on...

Coming back to the situation in this era, earth was still a haven.

Earth had rules that forbade open murder, * and physical abuse. There were some 13 years old slaves, that were already used sex toys or house pets... What the heck?

This was clearly child molestation. What was wrong with this people?

Those bastards needed to be locked up and beaten to a pulp.

Barons did it, Kings did it, rich merchants did it... this whole world should be thrown in the trash can... Throw it away!

Landon had told the caretakers to treat those who were abused with extreme care.

He had realised that they didn't value their lives at all. They were just like empty vessels without a soul.

This world was too cruel for those without power.

That's why, a London had made up his mind to only take slaves or refugees into Baymard. He would build a paradise that, not even the so call rich people could make.

That was his vow to them.

The children between the ages of 4-14, gathered around the largest room in the building. They sat down crossed legged, and waited for the story to begin.

Every week, they looked forward to Landon's stories.

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"Thousands of years ago, in an ancient empire called China... there lived a beautiful young woman named Mulan..."

As he told the story, the kids became very sad for Mulan, as the matchmaker had confirmed that she would never be a bride. When they learnt that her father was going out to war again, they became even more depressed.

Landon looked at their jittery faces and smiled.

"Did you know what she did?"

The children shook their heads and leaned towards Landon in anticipation.

"Late that night, she made a big... decision. The biggest of them all... soooooo... big."

The children felt extremely anxious at this point.

Even the caretakers who were listening at the back, felt like they where about to die from the suspense.

'Your highness, can u please get to the point?', they thought.

Landon continued his tale, all the while pretending not to see their anxious gazes.

"After saying a prayer to the ancestors, she used her father's old sword and cut her hair short.Then...she took her father's Warrior clothes and dressed herself up like a man".

Everyone gasped.

A woman's hair in this era, signified her youth and her beauty. Only married women could cut their hair.

A young unmarried woman could braid her hair, leave it free and unbound, or but it in buns.

Mulan had just cut her hair, while she was unmarried. And the matchmaker didn't even approve of her to be a wife yet.

How was she, to find a husband? Will she be unmarried for ever?

Plus was it ok, for a girl to be in the army? Although they knew that his highness had recruited women to join Baymards army, they couldn't fully understand why he did that.

And now this Mulan girl also joined the army?

Weren't women suppose to just cook, sew, farm, clean the house and take care of their children?...

"As her parents slept, Mulan jumped onto her father's horse, Khan, and took off".

As Landon recited the tale, the children would exclaim or get angry as they listened.

"Stupid Huns"

"Bad Hun's bad Hun's"

"...(sniff.. sniff) poor Mulan"

"Shes so brave"

"Oh no!! they're sorrounded"

"Go Mushu"

"I like uncle emperor"

"Waahhhh!! She found a husband"

And just like that, Landon had passed 2 hours giving a detailed version of Mulan to the children.

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"Aunty Beverly please sit...how are the children doing?"

An elderly woman smiled as she sat next to Landon. She was the wife of Chief Wiggins.

The first time she met Landon, she was surprised by his manner of speech. He always called those older than him seniors, auntie's or even grandpa. He was very respectful towards his seniors.

People in power usually didn't care about age seniority. Money and power were the only way to show real seniority in this world.

She very much, like this new king of theirs.

Actually, the only people Landon never used those titles with, were his knights and the workers within the industries. Landon had formed a bond with them and didn't feel the need to call them so.

He was a man from earth afterall, and his family had raised him with high moral values. He couldn't just break these habits away, just because he was in a new world.

Plus this was Chief Wiggins wife...there was no way that he would ever disrespect her.

"Your highness, the children are learning very fast and efficiently. We already have some bright ones in the groups as well.

Some of them in class 7 (7 years old) can already recite the timetable and write letters clearly.

Those in the younger classes, also know the alphabets by heart as well" She said.

"Good..Good... what about the new comers?"

"Your highness...we did as you requested. Some of the slaves have already started to look fuller, compared to when they first got here.

They now smile more and are starting to open up, bit by bit... Soon, they would know that they are safe here your highness. "

Landon smiled and nodded as he listened.

"You all have worked very hard..."

"Its what we ought to do, your highness." She said while shaking her head.

"oh yeah!... I'm going back to the lower regions, is there anything you want me to give Chief Wiggins?"

As soon as Beverly heard Landon, her eyes lit up and she quickly rushed to the kitchen and grabbed a basket of food.

"Sorry to trouble you your highness.. ermm... This is his lunch" she said while handing over a large basket to Landon.

Landon could smell the sweet aroma of baked bread.

"It must be nice to be married, right aunty...hihihi..."

Beverly turned all red.

"Your highness why must you tease me so?" she said while placing both hands on her hips.

Landon giggled, and hurriedly walked out the door as fast as he could.

"Honestly, this child..." she said while smiling.

In her eyes, Landon was still a 15 year old boy who was forced to act tough now and then.

She smiled and looked out the window.

'Times have changed'

-- Yodan Empire--

'Crashhhhhh!!!!!\"

A clay vase ornament was thrown at the floor, nearly hitting the 5 shivering men, who were kneeling down quietly.

In their hearts, the woman before them was the incarnation of the devil.

\"You damn buffoons!!! Where are they?\"

No one answered here as they nervously looked at the ground.

She took an apple and threw it at them.

\"Answer me goddammit!!\" she yelled.

\"My queen... W.. we tried our best...b..but..\" one of the men finallya spoke fearfully.

\"But, but, but, but what? Must I do all the work myself?...Answer me!!!!!\" she yelled.

The men didn't know whether to speak or not. If they spoke she would get mad... and if they didn't, she would still get mad.

\"My q..queen... we were only able to confirm tha..thatt they left the empire on a ship. Our subordinates... are tr.. trying their best\" Another man said.

\"So are u saying it's my fault?... How dare you?\" She said angrily as she quickly grabbed a sword and sliced the man's left hand off.

'Slice!!!!!'

\"Good... useless men don't need hands\" she said

She had meant to cut off his head... but when the man saw the blade, he leaned back with his hands up, and instead got his left one cleanly cut.

'Better hands than my head', he thought

The man felt a heart wrenching pain...But he knew that if he made a sound, this maniac of a queen would kill, not just him, but his entire family as well.

She looked at the blood on her shands and she became more pissed off.

Just as she was about to vent her anger on another man, a maid walked in an whispered into her right ear.

She dropped the sword and slowly sat down on her chair.

The king was coming

\"You all can go... use the back exit\"

The men praised who ever it was that had saved them, as they hurriedly got up from the floor...And just as they were about to leave, the devil intervened.

\"Wait!... I change my mind... Guards!!!! Take these men to the dark room and torture them to death. I believe that they are spies from my husband's enemies\".

The queen's command was simple: Torture these men under the excuse of them being spies for the king's enemies.

The men who were previously kneeling, didn't even struggle. The color from their faces were completely drained.

As she watched the men being dragged out, a gruesome smile was plastered on her face.

'Its only a matter of time'

--Baymard--

Over the past 1 week and 5 days, Landon had been shuttling between 4 different groups.

Of course, out of the group of slaves and refugees that arrived, Landon allocated:

•1,000 Wood cutting

•1,200 to rubber production

•1,200 to pipe production

•6,000 towards building construction machines like excavators and trenchers

•800 towards building fuel based electrical systems for these heavy construction machines.

of course previously, he had already allocated 200 workers towards crude oil refining and added 300 workers to department 4.

As for the wood cutting group, he basically needed them to fall down trees and make different plank sizes and shapes.

Landon had noticed that when other companies needed wood, they would go and cut trees to get it... That wasted everybody's time.

Plus in the future, Landon would also need a lot of wood to make molds as a foundation foot for construction.

He needed wooden plank boards ready at all times, when any department wanted to build anything.

The first thing he did, was show the workers how to use the 2-man saw. He and Chris (The newly appointed supervisor) fell down a tree with the saw and used the other saw types, to cleanly cut the wood into several shapes and sizes.

From then on, he gave different sketches to Chris, showing the different measurements for different planks. As well as teach the workers how to use the measuring stick and other tools.

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As for the pipe making industry, Landon needed them to start producing them Asap, some of the pipes he needed were huge and ridiculously large.

Those pipes were typically the ones used in industries and all around the city.

Those pipes would carry water and sewage, all around Baymard. Of course he also needed to start making house pipes as well.

He needed; Industrial steel pipes, Cast Iron Pipes, PVC pipes, and so on.

During this period, Landon had also explained and aided another group of workers to create heavy construction machines.

He explained to them where each part went, and the importance and function of the parts.

Since he was basically an electrical engineer, he also taught a group of workers how to make cables and how to create an electric system for heavy construction machines and cars.

The first thing they succeeded in building was a trencher.

Once it was completed, Landon called over both the electrical, heavy machine building and rubber making teams, to witness and see how they were to install them.

He called the rubber team over, so they could see and understand why rubber was important. As well as witness their creation.

Tim and a few supervisors also came as well.

Everyone paid careful attention to what Landon was doing.

He hooked up the tires and connected the electrical cables to the trencher.

Then he explained were the fuel went, how water would be used to cool down the engine and every other thing involving the machine.

He then went poured fuel into the engine, inserted the key.

'Vrrmmmmm Vrmmmmm'

Everyone was shocked.

\"Its alive.. its alive\"

\"Hahaha did you see that?\"

\"Its moving without a horse\".

Honestly the workers admired Landkns creativity and vision. in their minds, not anyone could come up with such things.

He was simply a genius.

They were really thanking God that they chose to come to Baymard.

Landon drove forward and chose an empty spot for practice.

He pulled down a gear stick and the machine instantly dug the ground as it moved.

Trenchers were good for digging up the ground for installing underground pipes and electrical cables.

\"Ahhh... oh my god, did you see how it digs into the ground as it walks\"

\"Waht a Godly carriage\"

And just like that, the curtains were closed, and it was finally, the end of the day.

The night sky was dark and mysterious.

It's black beauty and mildness, crept through the world... engulfed with several fleets of stars.

It was the biggest indicator for sleep. The kind of rest that puts one, in a steady and peaceful state of mind.

Its tenderest and warmth engrossed Landon's mind, as he laid on his bed.

He needed some rest.

And just when Landon was about to fly into dreamland, this sweet and gentle warmth, was interrupted.

\"Intruder Alert... Intruder Alert.\"

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"Whatttt?..It was already 11:30 P.M... who could be coming here at this time of the night?.. .And how far away are they from the gates?"

"Answering host, the intruder seems to be carrying a lot of weapons and is filled with killing intent... He has just left his horse 2 km away from the gate and will arrive the perimeter of Baymard within 26 minutes"

"So its an assassin huh"

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Dumbo had been very annoyed this past few weeks.

As a top assassin, his assasination prey were always important ministers, nobles, blood gangs, knights and other noble figures...

But to send him to kill a weak and disowned child, who didn't even have up to 400 knights under his command...was the height of disrespect.

They even paid a hefty amount for the little brat's head. It's either they had too much money, or this was their first assassination request... At least that's what Dumbo thought.

Just who did they think he was?

He was the fifth best assassin in the empire. Out of millions of people, he was the fifth. He had been trained and properly brought up by a former assassin... ..He knew all the tricks and ways to kill, torture and people.

He had never failed at any mission assigned to him.

For a city lord of a tiny city to call him, and dare insult him like this? ... This was the highest form of disrespect he had ever gotten as an assassin.

It was a rule of thumb, that he would only accept challenging and dangerous missions..

Just how was this one of those missions?

He had used close to 2 months to rush down here, to get the job done.

He didn't even put Landon in his eyes, that was why he decided that he would kill a patrol guard, switch clothes, so as to sneak into Baymard.

But what Dumbo didn't know was that in the eyes of Baron Rogers, his mission was a deadly one. If the king gets whim of what he had done while in Baymard, only death awaited him and his family.

He had already made up his mind that after killing Landon, he would kill City Lord Shannon and Baron Rogers as well. This was their punishment, heavily insulted his dignity.

From the information they gave him and what what he had gathered, it was said that Baymard lacked any potential threat to him.

He had heard that all the soldiers were the worse in the empire, and that Landon was bedridden with illness.

Many people testified that when he left the Capital, his complexion was so pale and blue that one could death calling onto him.

From what he gathered, his only threat would be Commander Lucius.

Nobody really knew why the Commander had quite his position in the Capital... some claimed that he was Landon's biological father, while others said he was fired due to illicit actions with Landon's mother.

So overall, everything he knew about this mission really ticked him off... It seemed like a bore.

'What a waste of time', he thought.

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Dumbo was walking stealthily by the perimeter of the forest, as he didn't dare to move further into it.

It would be funny if, he was suddenly attacked by wild animals while on a mission.

Only 7 minutes left before he could reach the empty fields.

In truth, at the front of the gate was a large empty field that resembled a large football field. The forest only began after the field.

Since the night was pitch black, Dumbo had planned to crawl accross the field until he was close to one of the patrolling guards. Then, he would make his move.

Suddenly,

"Theh theh theh'

3 blades attacked him from behind.

With his training, he could easily sense the killing intent from the blades. He quickly dodged the first two, but the last one hit him on his left butt cheek.

'Ahhh'

He seriously regretted dodging the way he did. How was he going to sit down now? And who the hell attacked him?

Again, he heard no less than 50 weapons coming straight at him from all angles.

He was shocked.

Did the Banished prince have a powerful force backing him?

Dumbo tried to dodge them but it was to no avail, more than 12 of those knives pierced through his body violently.

"W...who are you?" Dumbo asked.

"Who I am, is not important... what's important is that your trying to take my prey".

Once Dumbo heard that, he was stunned, and became angry that those idiot nobles actually hired another person as well.

He closed his eyes and wished that he could strangle them to death.

He swore in his heart that if he finally left this place, he would kill them and dance on their graves.

Landon was talking through the system, as he laid down on his bed.

Dumbo tried to find the location of the voice.. and when he thought he had it, he threw knives towards the place, and Landon immediately pretended to be hurt.

"How dare you hit my knee and waist?" Landon said to him, while pretending to be wounded.

"Hahaha serves you right..."

"Dammn you...I will spare your life, and leave this mission to you then... I hope we never cross paths again.. or I will for sure take my revenge." Landon said while pretending to be heavily injured.

He almost wanted to give himself an oscar for his performance.

As Dumbo concentrated on the man in the shadows, he failed to feel the tree branches slowly moving around his boots.

When he wanted to finally move, he felt something tugging on his leg.

The more he pulled, the stronger the vines held unto him. And finally, his body was all covered by the vines.

After 45 minutes of struggling, he became fear crept into his heart and he decided to yell.

The rate at which the plant was chocking and binding him, was too scary.

It was better to die by the hands of any man whether weak or strong, than by a plant. How could he be content with that kind of death as an assassin?

At least if he got captured, there would be a chance that he might escape.

45 minutes later, Josh knocked on Landon's door

"My king, we caught an assassin"

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The reason Landon didn't go and fight with the assassin previously, was because it would be too troublesome for him to explain how he knew of the attack before hand.

So he decided to act out in the shadows, and let the guards accidentally catch the so-called assassin.

And if he was to use the system to teleport out of the gates, how was he supposed to explain how he had suddenly passed the guards. Who by the way, were guarding the gates all day and night?

It was just too bothersome.

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"Aren't you going to remove these vines from my body?" Dumbo asked with an annoyed and prideful tone.

Landon looked at him, and whispered something into Lucius' ear.

Lucius was confused, but still decided to do as he was told.

Dumbo couldn't care less about what kind of torture they gave him.. he wouldn't break that easy.

As assassin, when while training, he had been tortured by his teacher daily, just to get used to the idea of pain. What could a useless brat like Landon know, or so he thought.

Landon knew what he was thinking.

Not all torture had to involve whipping, boxing and so on. For a man like Dumbo, that kind of torture would only make him smile.

Once Lucius brought the stuff, Landon cut his clothes off carefully, avoiding the all vines roped around his ankle waste and upper arms.

He also threw oil on him, and poured salt all over Dumbo's body. He then soaked Dumbo's feet in salty water.

Lucius, Bari, the Major Generals and even Dumbo the assassin were confused.

Did he plan on cooking him? What kind of torture was this?

Back on earth, when Landon had been forced to take world history as a non-elective course in the university, he had come across an interesting fact.

In the 17th century, the tickle torture was invented and used in Europe, China, Egypt, Rome and other countries.

Later on, by world war II, people said they had witnessed the Natzi prison guards, using this methods to torture and kill people.

Landon wanted to test out the effectiveness of this method for himself.

3 minutes later, Captain Trey brought 4 goats into the room.

Once the goats came in, they immediately ran towards Dumbo and started licking him aggressively.

'Slurp Slurp slurp'

12 minutes into the torture, Dumbo was laughing his lungs out while crying.

Continuous laughter can cause the body to go into cardiac arrest or Asphyxia.

(*Cardiac arrest=sudden loss of blood flow

(*Asphyxia=Lack of sufficient oxygen to be body due to abnormal breathing)

As the torture went on, Dumbo felt it hard to breath and his body kept aching with pain all over.

"Please. haha. please.. Hahaha ..st..st.. Haha.. stop. I'll tell you.. Haha... whatever Haha.. you want to know" Dumbo begged while crying.

Everyone in the room was confused. Was it really that painful? He looked like he was laughing his life out.. when did Landon actually torture him?

Dumbo on the other hand, swore that if he had the chance, he would for kill Landon... this disgrace and humiliation was too much.

Landon felt his killing intent and smiled. He had the men hold the hungry goats, while he walked closer to Dumbo.

"Speak, who are they?"

"Free me first, then I'll tell you" Dumbo said, while struggling to breathe.

"Do you really think that I don't know who is trying to kill me?Wasn't it the Baron?"

In truth, Landon had no clue of who it could be. But after accessing the situation more, he had cancelled out his entire royal family.

After they had successfully poisoned him with a poison, there was no way that they would still hire an assassin all the way from the Capital, just so they could kill him...

His siblings would definitely feel that, it would be wasteful to use an assassin on him. They saw him as trash, dirt, vermin... to them, he wasn't even worthy of having their attention.

But the city lord and barons were a different matter.

He was sure that it was one of the barons because on his way here, he had heard that the king had ordered the city lord to move back to the Capital.

He knew that this assassination attempt could only stem from greed...Right now, Landon was just probing Dumbo, to see if he would show any reaction to it being a baron.

Dumbo was shocked and eyed Landon to see whether he was lying or not...After observing for a while, he realized that this little bastard actually knew his enemies.

"But you don't know who he is working with, from behind the shadows.. If you agree to untie me... I can tell you"

Everyone else in the room thought it was a bad idea.

Landon smiled, moved closer and freed him.

Once he was freed, he quickly tried snap Landon's neck, with his bare hands.

Landon pulled out his waist knife and immediately poked his acupuncture points.

Dumbo froze and Landon made a clean cut through his throat, instantly killing him.

(*Fatality... Landon wins!!)

All this happened in less than a minute. Everyone started at Landon, as they opened their eyes widely.

"My king, did you really know who it was?" Gary asked.

"No I didn't... but I could come up with a suspect based on our time in Baymard... My family is too conceited and will never stoop so low as to use an assassin on me... at least not presently.

But if they find out that I became strong, then for sure they would definitely send one... But presently they still think I'm still sick... And since the former City lord left for the Capital, only the Barons would do this".

"But why? we've never even met them my lord" Trey asked confusedly.

"Greed... My guess is, they still want to make money from the mines... maybe they were transferred to a terrible place or many they want more money to increase their power... who knows"

They all nodded their heads, as they listened to what Landon said.

"But the question is, which Baron?" Trey asked

"I think we should send some men to scout and find his horse and his belongings? It was unlikely that he walked all the way from wherever he came from." Lucius replied.

"Excellent... I couldn't have said it better myself...Tonight you all did great, now... free the goats, so they can keep feasting on their food. And when they are done, dispose of the body."

Everyone was stunned by what Landon said. He's already dead, why let his corpse suffer this sort of humiliation?

"Those that come after my life, family, friends and my people, shall never be forgiven... I will never let my enemies off.. even after death." Landon said with an intimidating aura.

The men couldn't help but fell sorry for the people who tried to provoke his highness Landon.. They almost wanted to make a short prayer to their ancestors for them. Their king was too scary towards people who attacked him and those that he loved.

But it was this method of taking action, that made them stand firm behind him. They looked at him proudly. His aura was that of a man who ruled several nations... This was their ruler.

This was their king

Previously, Landon had allocated all the new workers towards the construction industry.

He had made up his mind that, the next batch of slaves that Santa brought would be sent over to the other 2 industries.

But right now, he needed people who could build.

Today, he wanted to make Synthetic rubber.

Every week...Landon had to give first aid to treat the workers in the mines.

Although he had made them mine carts that were on rails, they still injured theirselves.

When they had to carry the stones and load the cart, some of them would accidentally drop them on their feet. This had been happening for a while now.

Even the working gloves in this era, was trash. It could only block 60% of the injuries they were getting on their palms.

The gloves were not effective.

They would wrap alot of clothes around their palms.. and then wear normal thin material gloves over them... What could that do?

That's why the first thing Landon had thought about was safety. Hence the manufacturing of rubber.

Back on earth 90% of products had rubber in them. From bicycle handles to housing and pipe insulation, school stamps.. heck, even toothbrushes were made from rubber.

There was no way that he would allow the scientist the lab to keep working without gloves or other protective gear.

For now, they hadn't touched any corrosive substances. But what about the future? Was he going to let their skin burn?

He needed to make thick rubber boots, rubber gloves, earmuffs, eye shields and even helmets.

Infact, Landon didn't believe that anyone could start building an advanced empire without any safety gear.

F* this shit!! this wasn't a wuxia novel. They were real people who could die at anytime.

Plus, previously, there was no doctor or nurse available. The people used to just wash the wounds with water and tie it with a piece of clothing.

Landon took up the duty as an Industry nurse and gave them first aid treatment whenever they were injured.

Due to the systems first reward about farming and crops, Landon knew what herbs were medicinal to their injuries.

Now, that there were 7 doctors and 14 nurses, Landon had assigned each doctor with 2 nurses.

He assigned each doctor to different stations. 3 for the 3 industries in the Lower region, 1 for the military, 1 for the school and 2 would remain at a new estate which Landon had given as a hospital.

While they were on duty, they read the chemistry and mathematics textbooks that his highness gave them.

Landon wanted them to start understanding things like matter, reactions and so on.

Chemistry and math were used in every profession.

They needed to know about ions, protons and so on.

The human body has over a hundred chemical reactions happening at once. They needed to know about reversible and irreversible reactions, metabolism and so on.

Even drug making and pharmaceuticals dealt with a lot of chemistry and math.

He wanted to prepare them for when he would finally teach them new techniques and give them biology textbooks. That would be once he got his reward from the system.

Even if he was rewarded today by the system, Landon wouldn't teach them anything unless they studied these ones first.

With other departments, they could learn on the job quickly... but this one dealt with human life and health. He wasn't going to teach them how to perform surgeries if they couldn't understand the basics.

The nurses also have to learn as well. They should be able to identify drugs and medicine. As well as administer the treatment with syringes and so on.

They could also do surgeries as well. They assisted the doctors within the surgery room, so they too had to know what was being done.

What if the doctor was a quack and was about to inject poison into someone's bloodstream? Where they just suppose to watch? Nahh!! It was their bound duty to know what ever is done to the patient.

In fact Landon had made up his mind that, when he finally taught them everything, they would have to make an oath towards their profession and Baymard.

He wasn't taking any chances.

Oaths in this era, were sacred and Holy. It was the highest form of loyalty one could place.

With the help of the doctors, Landon was able to let go of nursing duties for the lower region and around Baymard.

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"Tim, are all the equipments and vessels built?"

It had been a week and 3 days since Landon had asked Tim to create these vessels. On the same day that he had asked the system to get crude oil, he had asked Tim to start construction immediately.

"Yes your highness, Its completed".

"Good... Get 1200 people from the new workers in department 4 and let them fill the first tank with petroleum oil".

"No problem your highness", Tim replied and made his way out.

Once they had filled up the tank, Landon decided to start.

Landon and the assigned workers, refined a mixture of petroleum oil, coal and the solvent hexane.

They piped the ingredients through 3 columns, to boil off any residual water. Essentially purifying them.

Then, they combined and refined them with a catalyst. And after a while, synthetic rubber was produced.

Tim and the workers looked at the white milky product and wondered what could be made from them.

Once the first set was produced, Landon showed them how to store and handle the products.

"Tim, All 2,000 workers will stay here to make these products..."

Landon said as he handed over the a ton of papers to Tim.

"I will show you what to do and how to use the other equipments to produce the products."

Different rubber products needed different chemicals to be added to them.

There were 5 major chemicals needed for all different rubber products.

So Landon had the storage tank of the milky liquid rubber, connected to 5 outlet pipes as well.

The outlets would lead to different stations within the rubber department.

Landon decided to start with one of the most difficult products.. rubber tires.. preferably construction machine tires.

Landon manually opened the valve, for the pipeline between his station and the storage tank.

Soon, the creamy liquid rubber and headed towards the tank next to him. Once he felt like he had enough, he closed the valve.

Landon then added, Silica, bis (triethoxylypropyl) and carbon black to the creamy rubber.

Landon had built a 'Steam/water mixer tank', that would constantly mix any thing, provided water is used as its fuel.

He then added water to the mixer engine, and after a while, it started stirring the materials in the tank vigorously.

The mixer head resembled egg beaters.

These mixers should never be turned off, unless there was nothing in the tank. So Landon decided to have the men poor water every 3 hours.

Once the mixture was uniform, Landon opened another valve that allowed the creamy mixture, to flow towards another boiler tank. Where another solvent mixture and water were added.

As he boiled off the solvent, the rubber starting forming tiny balls that were the size of beans.

Once the solvent had completely evaporated, all that was left was water and bean size white balls.

He then sent the products to another vessel, which acted as a filter. And finally the rubber was sent to a steam compressor to completely dry down.

Now the rubber looked like soft rice balls.

Landon had the men form bales of tire synthetic rubber.

He then took out 1 of those bales, reheated it, and used polychloroprene and other chemicals, to completely vulcanize it.

After creating a mold for the tire, he poured the vulcanized rubber into mold and allowed it to cool down for 4 hours.

While it was cooling down, he showed them how to make other rubber materials.

And by the end of the day, Landon had made 4 pair of gloves, a pair of rubber boots and 1 gigantic tire.

He had also made a lot of dried bales for each rubber product.

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Now he could progress he could safely progress with his plans

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Cary took the letter from her most trusted knight, Killian, and opened it slowly.

The dark haired knight stood at her side, waiting for further instructions.

Cary looked at the document and smiled. Everything was going according to plan.

Cary was Eli's blood sister. She and her mom had been working hard to keep her brother as the crown prince.

She had been given a large estate in the Capital, with 5000 knights under her command.

Lately, her half-brothers had been trying to push their father, into choosing one of them in Eli's place.

She had also been fighting with her sister on the low.

That bitch was too cunning. Janette had been her biggest nemesis ever since she could remember.

The bitch would bad mouth her to her father, while using the whole white Lotus act to garner pity. Everyone always thought that she, was the one who always bullied Janette. That bitch had turned her into a villain in front of the entire empire.

Janette was her second mother's daughter.

She as the first wife's daughter, had more access and privileges than Janette. This led to a power struggle between the two.

And now, the bitch joined hands with her other half-siblings to kill Eli.

When her brother had informed her of the assassination attempt and the Janette's sudden visit, she was fuming mad.

How dare they?

Since they wanted to do things the hard way, then she would just have to play along with them.

Wasn't she a villain?...In that case, it was time for her to act her part, so as not to disappoint them.

"Killian!!"

"Yes princess"

"Let's go see our dear ministers, shall we?"

Cary followed her guards and stepped into her estate dungeon.

There were 2 badly bruised men, who where tied up and stretched wide with chains.

These men where the ministers supporting Connar and James Barn.

"Wake them up!" she said

Killian and another guard, took iron buckets of cold water and threw it on their faces.

'Splashh!!!'

The water hit their faces and instantly woke them up.

"Ahhhh" The men yelled.

The knights started boxing them violently, until blood spat out of their mouths.

"My dear ministers, do you know how much trouble you have caused me?... Do you know how much money I have lost trying to quite people down?.. Do you!!" She yelled while hitting them with a large iron rod.

'Peng! Peng!'

"Ahhh!! .. please sto..stop!!.. We won't do it aga..ain...!" One cried out.

The rod had accidentally hit his manhood, when she swung it at his waste.

That kind of pain was one that no man should face. F* the second prince, he was trying to live..

"You coward!!... just this much and your already giving up? Are you a man?" The another one said while catching his breath.

Cary looked at him and smiled... She gently put down her rod and walked over to him.

Then she held his chin with her palms and massaged it.

"Men like you are rare... your loyal, strong and so..so.. manly... Too bad you chose the wrong side!... Killian, bring the tools!!"

Cary walked to the other one and smiled.

"He's right you know, just this much and you want to give up on your prince?... (Tsk tsk tsk). ... You know,... What I hate the most are cowards!!."

The man's face was completely pale now, and he was shaking like a leaf.

"I'm going to enjoy killing you", she said with a seductive smile on her face.

When everything was brought, she started cutting their fingers and toes, one by one.

"Ahh... please...I'm begging you.. stop!!", the first man cried.

He had tears,snot and swear all over his face. Truly pathetic.

Honestly, Cary admired the second one. No matter what she did, he didn't even let out a sound... Too bad he was the enemy.

She later continued by dislocating their arms and legs.

At this point, the first man died. The pain was too unbearable for him and his heart gave out.

The only thing he thought about in his last moments, were his wife and son.

The second man was still alive, but barely holding on.

When Cary was finally about to cut his head off, he mustered up all the saliva left within him, and spat it on her eyes.

'Puhh!'

"Go to hell bitch"

She screamed and finally chopped off his head...

'That bastard', Cary thought.

Cary cleaned up herself and left the dungeon.

On her way back, a young knight ran towards her and gave her a salute.

"My princess, he's here"

"Good... Lead the way"

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Once Cary arrived her audience room, she was met with a hooded man, who wore a reddish mask. The red mask only covered his eyes, leaving the rest of his face visible for all to see.

The man was presently being entertained with food and wine.

"I appologise for my late arrivable Sir Death... I hope that sir Death will not hold it against me." Cary said as she bowed.

Death, as he was known in the empire, was the number one skilled assassin in Arcadina. His skills and fame were even known to those in other empires.

"Its no problem princess... Afterall, you were quite busy as well... Was it your first time?"

Cary was shocked... How did he know? Was he talking about her torturing the ministers?

She sized him up again and started to wonder if any information about the ministers was leaked.

He looked at her and immediately guessed what she was thinking.

"Your finger nails still carry traces of blood in them, your left ear and the sole of your shoes have tiny spots of blood on them as well... and your palms are still read from holding your torture device" He said while chewing on an apple.

"How are you sure it wasnt a sword?" she asked curiously.

"Seords leave a different, well balanced palm print. If it were a sword, then your entire palm would be red"

"What about the torture?"

"I figured that, it's either you were involved in a brutal fight, or you were torturing some poor bastards... but since you're in your own estate, the chances of the first one occurring are very slim" He concluded.

"I'm impressed Mr Death, your skills are as they say, legendary."

"You were right, I was torturing some bastards in there... But now I'm finally here, so let's get on with business shall we?" she said as she walked over to her seat.

"For the next 3 months, I need you to work strictly for me... and within that time, I need your absolute loyalty."

Death was stunned at first and then surprised. It had been a long time since someone had the guts to request for his loyalty.

"Princess, I hope you know that my services don't come cheap... And just so you know, I never accept boring jobs" he said with a charming smile on his face.

"Trust me, I know... Whatever your price is, or whatever you require... I guarantee that it shall be done... as for boring? hehehe... I assure you that you will have the thrill of you life".

Death looked at her and smiled.

'What an interesting little girl'

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And just like that, the month of May had finally come to an end.

May was a very fulfilling month to Landon. He had successfully made heavy machines, oil and also rubber...

Finally, he felt like he was going somewhere with his mission..

Today was the first day of June.

Although Santa didn't come personally, he had still sent his Subordinates to bring 4,619 people to Baymard.

Again, there were 254 children between ages 0-14, and 413 people who volunteered to be soldiers. There were also 16 senior citizens amongst the group.

Now, Landon was left with 3,936 able workers.

He then selected 536 people out of the group, and appointed them as cooks.

They were to be added, to all cooking sectors within Baymard. From the school to the industries, army,castle... in short, everywhere within Baymard.

Landon also sent 900 workers to the construction industry, 1500 to the Alchemy/Chemical industry, and another 1000 to the Food industry.

Landon received money for his mineral ores, and also bought more planting seeds.

Landon made 419,000 gold coins from Santa's Subordinates, minus the cost for the slaves and the seeds.

This time Landon was happy with the seeds he got.

There were cocoa beans and sugarcane seeds among the bags... Great... soon he would be able to make chocolate and granulated sugar.

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Now, it was time to make spices, seasonings, cooking oil and vinegar.

Out of the 1,000 workers given to the food industry, Landon allocated:

•Department 1 (Working on the farms): 300

•Department 2 (Storage Distribution): 100

•Department 3 (Spice making): 200

•Department 4 (Cooking oil): 200

•Department 5 (Vinegar): 200

For the 3 new departments, Lyore appointed 3 farmers from department 1 as the supervisors.

Today, Landon had decided to start making various kinds of spices.

Landon had the workers tie their hair with rubber bands and hair wraps. As well as wear gloves, safety shoes, mouth nose masks, eye goggles and clean aprons.

They started by cutting the peppers, garlics, gingers, onions, turmeric and so on, into tiny pieces.

When they were done, they opened up the kiln and filled all 20 layers, with 13 trays of the all cut pieces in each layer.

A kiln was just a giant industrial oven.

Since there were over 5 Kilns available, Landon asked the workers to continue cutting, until they fill the other kilns.

"Your highness, so one batch would take 2 days to dry on low heat?" Lyore asked while looking at all the papers that Landon had given him.

They showed the detailed procedures for making different spices. As well as how to mix and create the seasonings, vinegar and cooking oil.

"Correct... You and the workers would have to continue the process, 3 days later... As well as creating different seasonings, vinegar and cooking oil... If you come accross any issues, you can always look for me."

"Rest assured hour highness, it shall be done" Lyore said while nodding his head proudly.

"I trust your capabilities" Landon said with a smile.

Lyore pursed his lips and looked at Landon eagerly.

"Your highness, I just have one question" Lyore said.

Landon was also curious as to what could have brought about the immediate change to his personality.

"Chief Lyore... you can ask me anything... No matter what it is..." Landon said with a reassuring smile.

"Do you know how to build a house made entirely of food?"

Landon was taken aback and didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.

Actually, Lyore was a simple man.

At the age of 7, he had always been dedicated to helping his father out in the farms. He would always dream of building huts made of corn, bread, honey and other delicacies. He even dreamt about using wine as his daily water supply.

He was a farmer... and all he really thought about was how to make food grow and taste better... If he ever built a house of food, he could die happily.

Landon looked at his enlivened overseer and sighed.

Landon could literally see the happiness and rainbows all over him.

Why were all his overseers like this?

He smiled and shook his head... Better like this than greedy

He too couldn't wait to finally season his food.

The food in this era was disgusting to Landon. No spices.. nothing.. except pepper, some vegetable leaves and salt.

Cooking oil was also super expensive, so people usually boiled or roasted food over large fires.. It looked like a witche's concoction.

It was terrible... No ketchup, no mayonnaise, no dressings, no seasonings... what kind of life was this!!

Plus he really missed burgers, fries and a well grilled and seasoned juicy stake... As well as pizza...

Just thinking about it made him salivate.

'What a sad life', he thought.

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Landon sat across mother Kim, Lucy, Grace and Beri's mother Winnie and 6 other teachers.

Since mother Winnie already knew Mathematics like addition and subtraction, she volunteered to teach alongside with mother Kim.

During May, she tagged along Mother Kim and learned how the students were being taught in Baymard.

He had also given her a mathematics textbook and guidelines on how to test and teach the students effectively.

Today, she had her first class. She and Mother Kim both taught Math 2 in separate classes.

The other 6 teachers who came with Mother Winnie in May, also began teaching as well.

The first 2 teachers taught Pyron 1 (language class), the other 2 taught Math 1, while the rest taught Math 2.

Landon wanted to know their feedback from their first day of teaching. So he held a teacher conference meeting to discuss about the possible issues they might have faced today.

"Your highness, the timetable method is truly genius... On my first day, there was already a girl who could say the entire 2 timestable off by heart." One said.

"I agree... I this way, they should learn faster".

The conversations went on and everyone raised their opinions and points... Mother Winnie and the girls also gave their take on the matter.

Once the meeting was over, the 6 teachers left, leaving only Landon, Grace, Lucy, Mother Kim and Mother Winnie in the room.

"Aunty Winnie, did you like your first day?" Landon asked cheekily...

Winnie looked at the little cheeky brat and pinched his nose. In her eyes, Landon was still a baby. (naturally, he's just 15 years old)

"Of course I did silly... It was so exciting... and that chalkboard method was great as well... People right at the back of the class could see what I was doing... teaching is really exhilarating... There was even this one student who came late, and tried to sneak into the class...you should have seen the look on his face when I caught him.." Winnie replied excitedly.

"Hahaha" everyone laughed.

"Sister, I also faced some of them as well... The students are really funny sometimes." Mother Kim as she started recalling another funny incident in her class.

"Aunty Winnie, come on..tell us in detail what happened"..Lucy said while anxiously waiting for the story.

"Yeah yeah aunty.. tell us..".. Grace added.

Landon smiled as he watched and listened to Winnie's hilarious narration.

As he looked at all the women laughing and sharing their stories, he truly felt blessed. From an orphan to a man with a loving family.. Now he understood what Drake meant.

Started from the Bottom, now we're here.

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Currently, Baymard had a lot of heavy construction machines available.

With 6,000 workers making these machines on a daily basis, Baymard presently had 388 different machines ready for use.

Atleast for now, Landon was satisfied with the number they had made.

And as time went on, this number would surely increase by an even larger amount.

For construction and Mining , Baymard had:

•26 Bulldozers

•14 Track-Type Bulldozers

•43 Excavators Types (including Trenchers)

•40 Loading Trucks (dump trucks)

•14 Road Graders

•16 Scrappers

•11 Lowboys

•13 Forklifts

•37 Pipelayer Vehicles (Drain layer)

•29 Road Pavers

•8 Slipform Pavers

•8 Lift Cables

•2 Cranes

•7 Street Sweepers

•3 Reach Stackers

•6 Tunnel Boring Machines

For Wood cutting:

•12 Feller Buncher's

•7 Wheel forwarders

And finally, for Agriculture, Baymard had :

•11 Harvesters

•15 Farm Trucks

•10 Balers

•16 Reapers

•4 Agricultural Roller machines

•9 Planters

•9 Manure Spreaders

•8 Sprayers

•7 Swathers

•3 Grain trucks

•8 Farm loaders

•4 Telescopic handlers

Landon had created the farming machines because, he didn't want the workers to be out on the fields by winter time.

Back on earth, Farmers would use tractors and other machines to harvest and roll the soil, during winter.

The farmland in Baymard was too big and wide to cover up. It was bigger than most plantations back on earth.

During winter, he wanted the workers to sit in the machines and work.

He couldn't afford for them to go out in that weather and start picking up food or fruits with their hands... That was just wrong.

That's why he made harvesters, planters and so... Some of those machines could work on, up to 24 farm beds in one sweep.

The same thought process went for the miners.

Now that he had built these heavy machines, they could use the excavators and other machines, to dig out the ores from the mines.

He couldn't possibly allow them to continue using pickaxes during the winter.

And some of these equipment's could be shared with other departments.. like excavators, which is used for digging.

Some of these machines could also be used by both, the food and construction industry.

The Chemistry/Alchemy industry, also needed trucks, loaders and so on to move their products and chemicals from place to place.

These equipments were for everyone, that's also why he decided to use this month, to start driving lessons.

For the entire month of June, Landon had decided to make a schedule to teach 2 times a day.

Of course, they still had to attend their math and language classes daily... That's why he made 2 sessions a day.

Plus, it wasn't compulsory.. expect on their days off.

People could attend it once a week or twice a week if they liked.

Those who have evening shifts, can join any of the morning shift sessions. And vice versa, for those with morning schedules.

Those that have their off days, could come and spend an entire day learning and driving... It was really up to them.

Landon had decided to have 15 people for one session.. So in a day, he would be teaching 30 people.

He also decided that those who were proficient enough in driving, could come to class and teach new people as well.

This way, everyone would learn how to use the machines faster.

The overseers and the supervisors, would also join him in teaching the workers.

Landon didn't want all the overseers and supervisors to be out at once, so he created a teaching schedule for them.

Basically, 9 people including himself, would teach the workers how to drive, on a daily basis.

So a day, the workers would have access to 18 driving classes.

Once the first trencher was made last month, Landon had been teaching the overseers and supervisors how to use the machines, designated for their departments.

To make things easier, Landon decided that each of the overseers and supervisors, would only teach those within their departments.

He couldn't very well tell the alchemy supervisors, to teach the construction workers how to use a paver, could he?

As for him, he would teach all departments.

On day 1, he could teach the construction industry, Day 2 would be food industry.. and so on.

This way, he wouldn't have to move up and down the place a lot.

If today was the day for teaching the food industry workers, Landon would take the machines to the farms for an entire day. He would spend time there, showing them how it's done.

If he were teaching the construction workers, he would take them to a site, and show them how to use the machines fore digging and so on.

He also decided to give the mining and wood cutting departments separate days as well.

The same thought process went for the alchemy industry.

Today was his first driving lesson aimed at teaching the construction workers.

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Randy was a slave that had come from Carona, a while back.

Ever since he came to Baymard, he had been so shocked and impressed by how many things they had built.

He now got a better understanding of what chemistry was about and now new how to properly measure lengths and other dimensions.

Last month, their new king had assisted them in creating this gigantic carriages... no! no! no! They were not carriages but heavy machines.

All the machines were painted yellow and had a name printed on them.

All the machines started with the name Baymard.

Today, he was going to take driving classes for the Baymard Bulldozer A23, or B-Bull A23 for short.

After Landon had explained the basic safety functions involved with the machine, he showed them what each panel, wheel gears and buttons did.

Now, it was time to drive.

Randy jumped in the large wheel, just like Landon did previously, and opened the clear see-through glass door.

Once he strapped his waist seat belt, and inserted the key and turned the ignition key beyond the on position.

'Peep!'

A very low sound came from the interior of the car... Randy started getting really excited.

He remembered that Landon said that the engine would need time to start.

30 seconds later, he was good to go.

He looked out side his window and also saw all his driving classmates in their own bulldozers.

'How exciting', everyone thought.

He looked at his full fuel tank and nodded. His highness said that it was important to always make sure that it never went below 30% full.

There were 2 gear joysticks at each of his sides and one lever slightly at the back of his right gear. There were also a lot of buttons around him that had different labels on them.

All the machine cars were placed at a distance between each other. Landon had given them different areas to work on.

Landon had hoped that while they worked, they would get better at using the machines.

Randy used his right joystick to go forward gear.

'Vrmmmmmmm'

'Its moving... its moving', he thought.

He quickly moved around a barrel and started pushing a pile of dirt that Landon had previously placed. Randy's goal was to level the ground.

Randy was pumped up and ready to learn.

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The lessons went on for a while, and finally, it was time for the show to end.

The workers didnt eant to leave and kept sighing helplessly.

Landon could understand their plight. This was their first time driving or even using such machines to dig and what not.

For them, this experience was the same as using sports cars or a Lamborghini.

Who wouldn't want to atleast go for a test drive?

Randy looked at his machine, and decided that he would sign up for the next available class.

In his mind, he had already started calling the B-Bull A23 his baby.

'Ahhh!!!... I must register for the next class... My baby, wait for me.'

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A handsome man of 20, sat in his private quaters, as he read the letters sent by his Subordinates.

The man had blue eyes, black hair, and a finely chiseled jawline.

This man was William Barnstin A.K.A, 'the Ghostly prince'.

His mother, Mona Ferris, had been a caring and woman, who showered him with love daily.

Mona used to be was from the Nobel family of Ferris.

She was actually first engaged to King Barn's younger brother at the time.

She loved Oden Barn dearly. He was the 2nd prince at the time, and the chosen crown prince by his father. He truly cared about the people, and wasnt power hungry like his other brothers.

Kindness and empathy is a good trait, but can also have its downsides.

One day, Mona had come to visit her beloved, only to see him in a pool of blood.

There were 3 men in the room with daggers in their hands.

It was the now present King Barn (whose name is Alec), and his 2 Subordinates.

She immediately pushed them aside and ran towards Oden... Why? ... what kind of person kills their own blood? she couldn't wrap her head around it.

King Barn had always been lusting over her, so he asked his 2 guards to stand guard whole he tried to rape her.

She struggled and fought with all her might, and in the midst of her struggling, Alec Barn got angry and used his dagger to cut her face.

He gave her 2 long stripes in the form of an 'X' on her face.

Suddenly, the door burst open and her personal guards successfully rescued her from King Barn's grasps. They knocked Alec Barn unconscious and rushed to their lady's side.

Luckily, she wasn't raped. She looked at Oden's body and realised that he was still breathing... He was alive!!

The guards quickly carried his body and they all escape.

Once she got back at the Ferris estate, her parents quickly sent her, all her siblings and their families, as well as their knights, into hiding.

They escaped that very night and traveled for 4 and a half months to their secret base. At the same time, her parents freed all the slaves and maids, and sat alone in their Private quarters.

She knew that this would be the last time that she saw her parents.

The next day, the entire empire was in an uproar... It was said that Mona killed Oden and made was with his body in the dead of night.

What made people believe the rumours was the fact that Mona, her siblings and all the guards and servants, were no were to be found.

What surprised people the more was that the current King, Augustus Barn, had also passed away mysteriously that same night.

Mona's parents were tied up and burnt alive in front of the citizens... They were charged for both deaths and weren't even given a trial.

2 days later, Alec Barn took over the throne as ruled of Arcadina. And with this, the Ferris family was no more.

5 months later, Mona heard the news about her parents and her dear father in law King Augustus.

She swore that she would get her revenge for what that beast did to her love ones.

But for the past 2 months, she had been feeling sick and constant been throwing up. Her brothers wives had told her that it might be due to pregnancy, but she immediately rejected the thought.

Since concluded it was probably due to l the trauma she had faced.

She had Oden had only slept with each other once. How could a baby come out just from that one time?

But 7 months later, she looked at her petruding belly and felt helpless.. Oden was still receiving treatment and was still very weak.

She decided that she would try her best to raise her child with all the love in the world. She had to be strong for both the child and Oden.

When William was born, Mona looked at him and cried.

He resembled her late father.

And when he smiled or laughed, he also had the splitting image of her late father-in-law Augustus.

She named him William in remembrance of her loving father, and Barnstin, to remind him that he is came from a great Barn, and the 'stin' was for cover up... So that even if he walked about the town, no one would be curious about why his name was Barn.

Little William grew up in a loving him with his many uncles, his father, his mother and a few maids.

But as he grew up, curiosity got the best of him.

Who gave his mother those scars? Why did his mother often mention someone called Augustus? Why were they always in hiding? And more importantly, who was responsible for heavily injuring his father?

When he turned 12, he had overheard his uncles having conversations about their past, and he was able to put one and two together.

He now truly felt bad for his mother... and he swore to make that bastart uncle Alec of his pay.

He became more vigilant with his sword and more eager on learning military tactics.

When he was 15, he walked up to his father, mother and uncles, requesting for the truth.

Oden and Mona had given up on revenge long ago because of William. This kind of burden was too great for him to carry alone. This was the current king they were talking about. It wasn't going to be easy to kill him.

"Father, Mother, I will do this whether you all like it or not!! I want you all, and everyone to be free.

I want you all to be able to walk about without disguising or hiding yourselves.

I know that you all gave up on revenge because of me... But if I'm truly part of this family, then treat me like a man by allowing me to share your burdens... I will not fail!!"

Oden, Mona, her brothers and the knights were taken aback.

'Our young Prince had finally grown up', they thought.

Oden and Mona knew that they couldn't reject his offer... they never wanted him to go down the road of bloodshed... but they also knew that it wasnt a realistic dream at all.

No one could live out their entire life in hiding. It's either you bring the battle to your enemies or they bring the battle to you.

Although they had meant to give up on revenge, a tiny part of them wasn't willing to.

So they both trained in secret daily, in hopes that they would one day have the courage to kill that bastard without their sons knowledge.

But their little bundle of joy had also became a man, and wanted them to rely on him more. Everyone knew that his mind was made up.. and no one could change it.

Everyone waited for Oden's answer anxiously, especially Mona's brothers.

"I will tell you everything, and I will allow you to make your own decisions on the path that you want to choose...

But no matter what path it is, I hope that you will never do things recklessly or without a backup plan.

If you do choose to aid us in our quest, then I too have a request for you" Oden said

"What is it Father?"

"You must always cover your face whenever you leave the base, no matter who you are with...

You must always wear a mask."

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-- Secret Hideout--

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William's door opened and his father, mother and his uncles came in.

"How did it go little Willy?.. Where you hurt? Are you ok?.. Haven't I told you never to do anything reckless?" Mona said while frantically rushing over to him.

"Mona, William is a man now... He should have to face some challenges on his own" said uncle Murel.

"But the mission this time was difficult... What if... what if he got captured?" Mona said while sitting very closely to her son.

"He won't. Little Willy isn't easy to hunt... With his brains and prowess, it would be extremely difficult for anyone to find him or trap him". Said uncle Powin.

"Honey, the boy has grown.. there is no one who could defeat our son". Oden said while rubbing William's hair.

William looked at his overly protective mother and smiled.

"Mom, I'm fine... Have you forgotten who I am?.. It would take a miracle for them to find me".

"That's right little sister, since the boy has been trained by us, there's no way that anyone would be able to find him right now". Uncle Murel added.

Mona looked at her husband, her elder brothers and her son, who were anxiously trying to lighten her worries.

She knew that what they said was true... But she still wasn't comfortable letting her son go for such difficult missions.

Mona decided to calm down and focus on the situation at hand.

Over the past one months, Slytherin Cord had been targeting and trying out find out all her son's moves.

A while ago, he had attempted to find William, but for some reason, he decided to stop his search... Now, he resurfaced again with the same goal.

With her spies all over the empire, Mona was finally able to get facts about who he was and who he was actually working with.

Mona knew that William wanted to sit on the throne, so she and the family could finally be able to live freely... She knew that it would likely be her son, that took King Barn's head.

But the information she got about King Barn's children, were all shocking.

All of them wanted their father dead.

Hahaha.. Karma was a b*.

That's what he deserves for all the wrongs that he had done... The only person who didn't seem to care about the empire, was his last son Landon.

At first, Mona thought that maybe Landon hid pretty well. But after reading Landon's information properly, she could clearly understand the thought process of both Landon (the old Landon) and Mother Kim.

She had discovered that both individuals, seemed to want a quite and peaceful life far away from the Capital... They had been longing for a life filled with easiness and happiness.

Although they were treated poorly, they never truly had deep hate for the royal family. So they were likely not interested in taking up kingship.

Mona couldn't see Landon as a ruler at all. Throughout the years they were in the Capital, Mona had been sending her spies to integrate with those in the palace.

One was even a maid, who asked the old Landon what he truly wanted.. And Landon's only answer was a peaceful life far away from the capital. The child just wanted to take care of his mother in a safe place.

To make sure, She herself had disguised as a common cook and sneaked into the palace to observe all the children.

It was as they said. He didn't give a damn about any kingship, and he also didn't have much hate for anyone as well... When she saw mother Kim, she was also remind of her past self.

When she and her spies had stayed in the palace, they easily knew which children were viscious and which ones would pose a threat to William.

Finally, when Landon was 15, her spies had reported that he was poisoned by the Nolat Wisp.

She knew that the poor child would die, since there was no cure for that. So she stopped sending her knights to spy on him. She decided to let his remaining days or months in this world free and peaceful.

Plus it would be such a hassle to get her spies over to Baymard.

Although she had a lot of spies, most of them worked only in the South, West amd Central of the Arcadina... She had no spies towards the East or North.

Mona's base was in the West, while Baymard was in the East.

It would take 8 months in good weather and over 1 year in bad weather, for her or her people to get there from the West. It was such a hassle.. and they needed more men in the central region monitoring the royal family.

All the Cities given to the Prince's, were either around South or central Arcadina.

The south was closer to the Deiferus borders. So incase of any wars with those people, the Prince's could make their way over there and fight.

Now, she realized that prince Eli might have gotten information about William from Slytherin Cord.

Damn!!.

The funny thing was that Eli had not released any information on William... he had instead put a cap on William's identity.

After torturing one of Slytherin's men, Mona found out that the little prince planned to kill her son in silence, so on one would ever know about his existence.

He felt threatened by William.

Since he wanted to kill her son, there was no way that she would let him live.

But she didn't want to kill him just yet. Since he and his siblings had planned to kill each other and King Barn, she decided to watch the play unfold from her hiding place.

She knew that it was only a matter of time before that bastard of a king dies.. She truly wished that she would be there to watch him fall into despair.

She really wanted to watch the whole ordeal and spit on his face... For Augustus, her parents, her son, her brothers, her knights and herself.

But she also knew that one impulsive move from her side, would ruin the future for all her lov ones.

Right now, she was just waiting patiently, to see who could make it to the finish line. Whoever it was would die if they didn't concede the throne to William.

Oden was really hurt by his brother.

He had always loved his brother and thought that his brother loved him too... He never saw that betrayal coming. And to top it all off, Alec had the guts to kill their father too.

How could he kill their father? Their father had worked hard for the empire and was seen as a fair and just ruler to all...

Oden's revenge was for his father, his wife and her family, and most importantly his freedom.

The reason he demanded that William wore a mask was because William looked exactly like him... he looked like a Barn. Anyone who got a glimpse of him would be able to guess who he was.

But the funny thing was that those who saw him thought that he was Alec Barn's bastartd son.

Oden had always made sure that William had atleast 3 spare masks within his possessions, whenever he was on the move.

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"Has that bastard taken the bait?" Oden asked.

"Naturally... From what we gathered, this Slytherin fellow is making his way to Binkong City as we speak" uncle Powin replied with a smile on his face.

"Good... truly a little fish in a big pond."

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Now, it was time to head on over to the Chemistry Industry.

This was mid 2nd week of June.

On the first day of June, Landon had given the Alchemy department several tasks to complete on their own.

Today was the deadline for him to inspect the products.

Landon had created new departments that had a mixture of both new and old workers.

With the work experience of the old workers, Landon was sure that the new workers would easy learn and compete the projects given to them.

He had previously opened 3 departments within the alchemy industry:

• Plastic:

Manufacturing: 100

Plastic Molding: 400

•Ink:

Production: 100

Ink Weiting material production: 300

•Paper:

Manufacturing: 200

Exercise book making: 300

Up until now, Landon had always been there in every major production process.

Landon knew that for his overseers, supervisors and workers to grow, they needed to do things on their own.

This way, they could better their skills and increase their knowledge steadily.

If they made mistakes during the process, they could just try again later.

Landon had given them a detailed descriptions of the entire process, as well as all the safety hazards involved with the process.

He had also reminded them that no one was allowed to work without his or her safety equipments.

Of course he was going to tell them how to make all these products. What he wanted, was for them to make errors and see why they had failed.

For example, back on earth, even if someone gave Landon a detailed description on cake making, he was still sure that his first try, wouldn't come out okay.

Heck, he might even burn the entire cake while it was still in the oven. Some people even forget to add baking soda sometimes.

Only by practicing, would one perfect their skills.

No matter how many youtube video's one watches, it was no guarantee that anyone would be able to pull anything off, just by watching.

Landon remembered how he had watched countless hair tutorials on YouTube, back on earth. No matter what he did, his hair never came out like 'JB' from 'GOT7'. Life was just not fair.. sigh...

Anyway, It was the same with this case.

Hence he approved for them to finally have the go ahead to start all these projects without him.

Now, he wanted to see the products and get their feedbacks.

In front of him were 3 plastic cups, 8 pens and 3 exercise books.

He looked at the products and smiled.

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Since Landon advised him to start with plastic making first, he did just that.

On that very first day of June, that Landon gave Chief Wiggins the project, he had failed woefully.

The time when the Naptha was being cracked, Wiggins and the workers removed the Naptha a bit too early, which didn't allow the ethane to properly formed.

The chemical reaction became incomplete.

Other times, he forgot to add other catalysts to the production process.

And on the 3rd day, he began screaming like a maniac within the department. The workers also joined him, in the madness, as well.

They were finally successful. They felt like that day was the best day of their lives.

Ink on the other hand, was a different matter.

They learned the hard way that Ink had too many different types, that also had different uses.

•Aqueous (example: pictures from camaras)

•Paste ink (textile paper printing, ball pens)

•Liquid Inks (Also used for printing)

•UV Cured Inks (Electrical printers)

•Latex Ink (wallpapers, vehicle graphics)

The list goes on...

Each ink type could only work with certain chemicals, agents, resins and additives that were different from each other.

Once, they had accidentally used a solvent which was used for aqueous ink towards that used for paste-like ink.

It was a complete catastrophe... they truly felt like crying.. What sort of joke was this?

Chief Wiggins now understood why Landon had suggested for him to start with plastic first.

The casing for the 'pens', as his highness puts it, where made from plastic, the cork and the tiny inner tube.

Also, because there were no automatic ink filling machines available now, Landon had asked them to create needle syringes (which are made from plastic as well) and feed the ink to the tiny tube.

The needles of the syringes, were the only things that were tiny enough to fit in the tube. They were perfect for filling the pens.

Paper was by far their best to produce. The production process was cleaner and easier to accomplish than the rest.

Now was the 10th of June, time to show some results to their king.

Now that everything was good with the Alchemy department, Landon decided to check on the assignment he had given to Tim previously.

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"How was the experience to you all?" He asked the entire room, and chief Wiggins as well.

"Your highness, before, we didn't understand the reasons why you did things at high temperatures.." one worker said excitedly.

"or low temperatures..." another added.

".. but now we do."

"Your highness, we made so many mistakes these last few days..."

"One time, we used too much additives..."

"A...And that messed up the product big time!"

"Dont forget about the time that we added too much solvents to the ink."

"Ahhh!!.. that's so true"

"There were also times were we didn't put enough resins during the process"

"Everyday, we would have atleast 12 different trials.."

"Your highness... my brain is saturated right now... ahh!.. I correctly used the word saturated.. did you hear it?...I'm now a genius"

"Look at you!! Just saturation?.. I can now use the word homogenized.. in a sentence.."

"Hahahahha"... They laughed, as they recounted their experience to Landon.

Landon looked at his silly workers and smiled... They were truly happy over their accomplishments...Now, they too felt smart. Only like this, could people grow.

Infact, Wiggins had also understood how difficult it was to do the things without Landon's help.

When Landon did them, there were no mistakes or errors involved. He would do it perfectly in 1 go... Was he even human at this point?

Before, they thought it would be easy, since his highness could do it just like that... But when they started doing it... They literally started sweating everytime they messed up.

They had produced so many funny looking products that came as a result of their numerous errors.

One time, they poured the wrong chemicals into the process, and the products fizzled like soda, overflowing out of the tank.

Wiggins and the workers were intrigued by that reaction...Wiggins in particular made a mention note of it and decided that he would research that particular reaction later.

Some of the workers were now more diligent and started reading and asking more questions about the process.. they wanted to know the how's, the why's, the when's and the what's.

They were now cautious about how much they should put in as raw materials.

This was the effect that Landon was going for... He wanted them to think on their own.

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--Riverdale City--

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"What do we do now?" Baron Rogers asked nervously, while hysterically pacing around the room.

"Damn!!!.. how could this happen?.. Are there any strong forces around him?" City lord Shannon asked.

"Impossible!!" Baron Rogers yelled.

City lord Shannon nodded his head in agreement.

"Your right... I'm guessing that Commander Lucius killed Dumbo... He was afterall, one of the strongest men in the empire... With that much experience under his belt, it was no wonder that Dumbo wasn't his match." City lord Shannon said.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!! S*... didn't you guarantee me that this would work? ...F*"

"Calm down!! ...Do you really think that hiring Dumbo, was my only plan?". City Lord Shannon said, with a spine-chilling smile on his face.

Baron Rogers looked at City lord Shannon and also took 2 paces back.

The man's smile could make anyone shriek.

"This time, there will be no mistakes"

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Landon looked at the finely grey cement particles and was pleased... He had also noticed that there were over 2000 blocks of cement that were already made.

At the beginning of the month, Landon had created a cement making department, and allocated 900 workers towards it.

Landon broke them into 2 groups:

•Cement production:100

•Cement block Molding: 800

Landon was happy that everything was going according to plan.

For this month of June, he had given every department new tasks to complete.

The food industry made spices, vinegar and oil. While the Alchemist Industry made plastic, ink and paper.

And finally, the construction Industry focused on cement making.

Landon decided that for now, each industry should just focus on their given tasks.

\"Your highness... do you think we should start construction now?\" Tim asked curiously.

\"Not yet... at least until July... plus we need more people for that. And there are other things that I need you all to crdate before we can fully start.\"

Landon already knew he was lacking some basic needs for housing... so he decided to put it off, until he had more people... and until he made all that he needed.

For his mission to be complete, Landon needed to build houses for all the original 1500 people in Baymard... Once he housed them all, the he could finally pass this phase and unlock the medical rewards from the system.

He also knew that he needed to build these houses at most before mid-November (which was winter).

He had already made up his mind that before September, he would build a water/sewage treatment plant, electrical plant and central heating plant.

Since he was only supplying all these within Baymard, the plant size didn't need to be extremely large.

Back on earth, the plants that were large usually supplied water or electricity to more than 3 cities at once.

Landon was working with 1 city so he didn't need it to be extremely large.

As Landon kept talking with Tim, he spotted one of his soldiers running frantically towards him.

\"Your highness, a war messenger has arrived\"

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Landon had already been alerted by system of his arrival, but he choose to wait, since the system had notified him that only 1 person was riding towards Baymard.

Plus it was broad daylight... what could 1 man do during the day? Heck, it was only 11 A.M.

Landon had absolute trust that his men at the gates would would be able to handle the situation no matter what.

The men didn't allow the man to step into Baymard as per Landon's request.

For now, Landon didnt want anyone to see any changes that had taken place within Baymard so far.

So he had the men refuse access to anyone who wasn't in dire need of help from entering Baymard.

But Landon was really surprised by this sudden declaration of war.

In this era where there were knights and nobility, one would always get a notice of any incoming battles.. before they were fought.

Knights were very proud people. They believed in proving their strengths rather than sneaking around and killing people... it was just not honorable.

Gangs and assassins on the other hand were a different matter.

Those ones wouldn't give you any prior notices, and instantly attacked you in the dark.

Knights didn't believe in killing the women and children, when fighting over territory... That's why they sent the messengers tell their prey that if they dont surrender, their women and children may be killed in the process.

Landon knew that for their enemy to inform them, that would mean that it's either the attackers are entirely knights or are a group of knights and gangs...

Either way, no knight would fight without ensuring that a letter had been delivered to their enemies. As that was also the rules between most empires.

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Bowman had been standing there for over 30 minutes now and was getting f*ing pissed.

Who the heck did they think they were? Wasn't this place just some deserted area?.. To think that they would keep him, the 2nd official messenger of the great City Lord Shannon under the sun for so long... How dare they?

Bowman was now itching to tear them to shreds...

But something confused Bowman greatly.

When he left Riverdale, City lord Shannon had told him to go to Greengold city and take his assignment there.

Greengold city was the next city after Riverdale, in the direction of the Capital.

Why go to Greengold city, only to reverse and go towards Baymard?

It made no sense to him... couldn't he just have left Riverdale and rode his horse towards Baymard?

Bowman couldn't understand city lord Shannon's sneakiness, so he chose to forget about it... afterall, he was just a messenger and a soldier for the man.

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He sat on his horse and saw 3 men riding towards him. There wwere 2 knights riding at the back of a young boy, who looked no younger than 15.

The boy rode his black stallion majestically towards him.

Bowman scrutinized the young boy and a sense of displeasure arose in his heart.

'How dare this bastard make me wait?.. hmmp!!! Just you wait!!... my lord would surely make you drink your own blood later' Bowman thought as he grumbled inwardly.

Once Landon arrived, both he and Bowman got off their horses, and walked towards each other.

Bowman didn't even wait for him to speak before throwing a letter towards Landon rudely.

\"Here! Hurry up and read it... I don't have all day so I suggest you hurry up!!\" Bowman said as he sneered at Landon.

The knights who were watching around the gate were almost angered to death.

'How dare this nobody talk to their king like this?.. Damn!!'

\"What's there to read? Just surrender... Do you really think you have a Choice with just 330 knights... If you surrender, who knows.. you and your people could live happily as slaves for our city lord... no one can help you win this war... Hurry up!!!\"

Landon lifted his brow and immediately threw the piece of paper back.

\"Theres no need for me to look any further... I refuse\" Landon said with a cold tone.

Bowman was taken aback and looked at Landon as if he was a fool.

\"Heheheh... I had heard that the little banished prince of ours was a little foolish... but I didn't think that you would be stupid too... In 3 hours time, my lord will arrive and behead you all if you don't hurry up!!

Don't you care about that mother of yours?... If you want to save her, you better sign that paper quickly.. or else no one can blame us for what would happen to the whore.\"

'Thuhh!!'

Lucius who was standing by Landon's side, had wanted to kill the damn bastard... but before he could do anything, Landon had immediately punched Bowman throwing him to the ground.

Bowman held his jaw and was shocked. His lips quivered and he quickly got up from the ground, instantly turning into a mad dog.

\"You dare hit me?.. bastard!!!.. Am I lying?.. So what if you were once royalty?.. your just a piece of trash now.. And so is that whore mo...\"

'Thuhh!!!'

Landon had hit him again. Bowman was so mad that he almost fainted from anger.

Landon's eyes became colder and his frown deepened.

Bowman looked at Landon's eyes and became scared.

\"W...What are you trying to do?... you can't kill the messenger... it's against the empire's laws..\" Bowman said while taking 2 paces back.

Landon smiled coldly.

\"I would like to remind you that Baymard isn't part of the empire... is it?\" Landon said while closing in on him.

\"You... you.. you better not be rash... better sign that paper fast before lord Shannon gets here... no one can help you...\"

Landon's killing intent increased.. and Bowman started sweating heavily.

\"So you want me to allow my people to become your lord's slaves?.. Haha Haha... I wasn't betting on anyone helping me.Tell your lord that I refuse... My 330 men will win this war against you all... Now... get out!!!!\"

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'Gong! Gong! Gong!'

The bells within the army fort rang loudly.

All the soldiers knew the meaning of the continuous bell sounds.

During their training, they had learnt that if the bell was rang for more than 5 minutes, it would be a signal for every soldier to assemble in front of the gate posts.

Those who were training instantly dropped their iron weights and ran towards the central region.

Those that were sleeping immediately opened their eyes and jumped out of their beds... Those that were reading, closed their books and hurriedly put them in their locker space.

The giant iron bell rang very loudly, and everyone could here it.

Everyone ran quickly towards the city gates.

It was time for war.

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Everybody gathered around the gate post, waiting for the urgent news.

Landon looked at his men, and was impressed. They had all assembled quietly, in lines of 30... If a pin dropped at this moment, Landon was sure that everyone would here it.

"Today, an enemy is trying to attack Baymard. I don't know if I should call them brave, or just plain stupid.

You all have been training both night and day, to became exemplary soldiers. Your all stronger than many soldiers in this world, and I'm confident in your skills so far...

No matter how many knights the enemy has under its regime, they would still loose today's battle!!

I will show you all the true difference between knights and soldiers... I will show you why you can be confident and why you are better than knights..

Today, I will show you the might of Baymard's army!!

Now... Its time to win our first battle...

For Baymard!!"

"For Baymard" the soldiers yelled back.

Landon had planned that for this war, he would only use his original 330 soldiers to win. He would assign them to all the cannons on the walls and have then deal with the enemies.

Some of the men were excited while others were curious about how they were going to win the war...

The rest of the men decoded to watch the battle unfold from the city walls.

Last time that Landon did a cannon test, 90% of the new recruits weren't present. Also they had seen some of the Warrant soldiers practice, they still weren't sure if a cannon could actually cause heavy damage to their enemies.

Landon wanted to use this opportunity to prove the strength and damage cannons could cause.

While they were waiting, Landon had the men bring out sacs of gunpowder and place by the sides of every canon.

Landon also explained the battle formation and tactics they were going to use for the war.

He showed them were each cannon should be pointed to, and where their focus should be on.

He didn't want to men to just fire aimlessly at their enemies.

That's why cannon battle formations were very important.

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City lord Shannon had gathered 11,500 knights from his territory, as his plan B.

With 11,500 knights, there was no way that they would loose to a mere 330 knights. No matter whether Commander Lucius intervened or not.

Everyone knew how many knights Landon had under his command. To Shannon, this war was nothing more than a one sided slaughter.

Even if Landon surrendered peacefully, he would still kill him. He had also planned on killing all the people within the town.

He was sure that if Tim Mayer knew about the mines, then the workers would definitely know as well.

It was better to deal with problems from the roots. Kill them all. Dead men could never tell any tales.

As the city lord, he was only entitled to 6,000 knights... But over the past few years, he had been poaching knights from the Barons in his territory.

And now, he secretly had 12,000 knights under his command.

He had kept 500 men back at Riverdale city and informed the rest that they were heading out towards the Capital.

The 500 men, the barons and everyone else, didn't know where the 11,500 were going to.

Most people thought that maybe the city lord had received an urgent message from the Capital.

A month ago, he had gotten a letter from King Barn, about an upcoming war with the empire of Deiferus.

He was tasked with bringing his troops towards the capital, for the assignment briefing.

He decided that he would use this opportunity to strike Landon, so that no one would be suspicious of him.

It was the perfect plan.

How could anyone suspect him for Landon's demise, if he was already on his way to the capital?

It was now or never.

When the 11,500 knights were leaving the city, they were extremely confused as well.

They left towards the direction of Greengold city, but had to sneak back towards Baymard by passing through the swamps.

Once they were closer to Baymard, they quickly moved back on the road and continued their journey.

At this point, the men were sure that their lord wanted to keep everything under wraps.

So this was for sure a secret mission.

City lord Shannon had them swear oaths, that said that if they were to release any information about this war, their families would be burnt alive.

When the men finished swearing, they had cold sweat on their backs... most of them already had daughters, sons of wives.. and don't want to risk their families lives...

Those that weren't married, were still threatened with their parents, siblings and other loved ones.

They knew how cruel their lord could be, so they had already vowed to keep everything a secret.

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City lord Shannon, Baron Roger's and the knights, saw a badly bruised Bowman riding towards them and stopped.

"My lord, my lord.. you must seek justice for me..." Bowman cried out and he approached them.

Everyone looked at his purpulish cheeks and could guess what he had gone through.

"Tell me what happened in detail" City lord Shannon said.

"My lord, they were totally not putting you in their eyes... that brat refused to sign anything!... it looks like they would rather die than be your slaves my lord." Bowman exclaimed.

As Bowman narrated his own made up version of the story, the knights now had the will to fight.

As knights, they wouldn't have lifted their swords up, without Bowman's story.

They needed to make sure that the city they were attacking, knew of their attack.. that way they could fight with all their mights.

The empire's rules were strict. No knight was willing to bear the consequences for not following the rules.

This was exactly the reason why city lord Shannon had sent Bowman over, so he could convince the men to fight.

Once they won, it would make the perfect excuse to kill everyone within the city.

Afterall, he had given Landon a choice of saving both the women and children.. but Landon refused... This was perfect for city lord Shannon.

"He's a fool... Since he wants to do things the hard way, we will play along with him"

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As City Lord Shannon looked at his knights, a murderous smile formed on his face.

Just with one glance, anyone could tell that these knights had years of experience and training under their belts.

Their muscles were massive and their appearance seemed like they had just crawled out of the pits of hell.

They were prepared for battle.

City Lord Shannon had fought several battles with his men. They had expanded the city of Riverdale, and had also fought several border battles throughout the years.

His knights were strong, proud, very sturdy and most of all, extremely loyal and fearful towards him.

They knew what their lord could do, and never ever thought of crossing their lord for one second. Their lord was a brutal and frightening man, who ruled Riverdale with iron hands.

30% of his men were as good as the top knights within the Capital.

He had secretely spent most of his resources and time, training these men to be one of the best in the empire.

Of course he did all these away from the watchful eyes of King Barn.

Everytime that he went to the capital, he would take only 40% of his men with him. He would mix both the weakest and the strongest in the group, so as to hide any suspicions towards him.

As he looked at his knights, he was confident that his indestructible team, would easily conquer Baymard.

How could a lion compare to an ant?

The knights carried hard iron shields and long sharp swords, as they steadily made their way towards Baymard.

\"My lord, we should be arriving Baymard in an hours time, should we make camp and attack first thing tomorrow morning?\" Asked his second in command.

\"Do we have to sleep outside to defeat such a puny city? We will be arriving at 2 P.M... Once we arrive, get the men will rest for 30 minutes, before we start!!... tonight, I want to lay in my bed back in Riverdale. \" City Lord Shannon commanded.

\"I think we should be extra careful just in case that brat has more tricks up his sleeves.\" Baron Rogers advised.

\"Hmmp!! No matter how many tricks he has, there is no way that he can win against my men... He had just 330 knights... how is that even a possibility?\" City lord Shannon sneered.

Baron Rogers also thought that what city lord Shannon said made sense. Indeed, it was not a possibility.

\"From here, are you heading back to the Capital?\"

\"With the border wars getting more and more fierce, the king had called me in to assist in the wars this time... After, I finish up here, I will leave half of my men with you in Baymard. Do what you mustto keep anyone out of Baymard for the time being... After the border battle, I will come back to further assist you.\" City Lord Shannon said.

The message he had received did not mention the progress of the war, but described the need for extra hands at some of the border posts. Deiferus was getting more and more daring with their actions.

The empire of Arcadina was the largest empire within the continent.

One could say that it was almost double the size of Deiferus.

Greed, jealousy and envy had led to this never ending war.

But for King Barn to send more troops as backup, meant that the war was probably not going as he planned.

King Barn could never allow a tiny empire to insult him by taking part of his land... It would have to be over his dead body.

Even if he had to use all the men in his empire, he would gladly make that sacrifice... provided no part his land got reduced.

There was another reason why city lord Shannon was excited about participating in the border war.

If he did extremely well, the king would reward him with anything that he required.

He himself had always wanted to control the entire West region of the empire... It was perfect.

Non of the prince's were located in the West. And with no major power constantly breathing down his throat he would easily become a mini king within the empire.

Who knows... maybe he could get enough forces to be break the West region away from the empire itself.

City Lord Shannon had been King Barn's trusted friend ever since his days within the knight academy.

He had always been a lackey for King Barn and had always despised the fact that King Barn could have everything he wanted.

He had been gathering his forces for years in hopes that he would one day break the West region away from the capital.

The West region had more than 12 cities and other villages within it.

He had planned that when he performed exceptionally well, he would ask for just 2 more cities to control.

Once he successfully conquered the Barons of those cities, he would further move on the shadows to conquer the entire West region.

Who didn't like power?

Originally, Riverdale was just a tiny city. But as time went on, city lord Shannon had attacked the villages around the territory, making the city grow... But he was still not satisfied.

He had watched King Barn shine for too long... Even if he couldn't fulfill his dream, he hoped that one of his sons would do what he always dreamt of accomplishing.

He wanted his family to have a noble blood line.

That was also why he kept pushing his sons towards the royal princesses.

Right now, his sons were studying in the knight academy in the Capital.

He had made up his mind that even if this plan failed, he would get the king to atleast bethrow one of his sons to any of the princesses fast.

As he thought about his plans, he couldn't help but smile happily he rode on ahead.

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Once they exited the forest, they saw several hazy figures standing on the city walls.

The soldiers tensed up, as they stood om the enormous clear fields.

The second in command had the men rest, while observing Baymard.

\"My lord, it seems that they were waiting for our arrival... But there's something strange about this...Why aren't they standing outside the city gates, but instead observing from the city walls?... are they already prepared to surrender?\" His second in command asked.

Everyone looked at the situation and couldn't make heads or tails over what these Baymard Knights were Planning.

\"I have always heard that this bastard prince was a fool... better I never thought that it would be this bad... What sort of battle tactic is this?... Even if the prince had never experienced war before, isn't this just plain stupidity?.. Why didn't his knights advise him on what to do?\" Another knight asked confusedly.

\"Who knows... maybe he's just arrogant, and didn't want to heed to their advice.\"

\"Do you think that they plan to trap up when we succeed in getting into Baymard?\" Baron Roger's asked.

City lord Shannon looked at the hazy silhouettes and frowned.

\"What difference would it make?.. you go tell the prince that this is his last chance... he either surrenders to me now, or all the citizens would die with him after the battle.\"

Once the messenger left, the men started assembling in formation, as they waited for the messengers return.

City lord Shannon sent the messenger, so that the knights would again be reassured that Landon indeed had no thoughts of surrendering Baymard to them.

He too wanted to make sure, as he was thoroughly confused by whatever stunt Landon was pulling.

As they saw the messenger coming back, City lord Shannon sneered as he looked at Landon's silhouette.

It was finally show time.

\"Men... leave no one alive!!!! ... kill all!! Even the women and children... Now, charge!!!!!!!\"

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Abraham was one of the Warrant soldiers who came with Landon to Baymard.

As Abraham listened to Landon's battle speech, his blood became hot.

When he was in the Capital, he would get humiliated on a daily basis by stronger knights... he had always thought that he was inferior to everyone else.

But coming to Baymard made him feel like he was wrong... He wasn't inferior, he just lacked the proper guidance to become one of the best.

Ever since he came here, he had gotten a lot stronger and had somehow become smarter. Even though he had never experienced any war before, he now understood war tactics and several fighting techniques.

He also realized that his king was unlike all the other nobles.

Ever since they came to Baymard, the people had a lot of food, and were now independent on their own.

He could easily see the joy in all their hearts.

He clearly remembered that when he got here, the people were no different from street beggars in the Capital. They looked haggard and worned out.

When he remembered that scene, something tugged in his heart, as he didn't want Baymard to go back to the way it used to be.

Abraham had come with his sister and his father on his journey to Baymard.

His father used to be a chimney cleaner in the Capital, but now he worked at the Food industry and earns a lot more than what he used to get in the Capital.

His sister who used to stay at home all day cleaning and cooking, now worked as a caretaker for the children. She too was happy with her job and her income.

With everyone satisfied, how could Abraham not be angry with this so called threat?

Baymard was their paradise their home and their happiness.

Buy now, some scheming noble wanted to take all this away because of greed.

Abraham knew that once that noble took over, all that they had worked for would be lost.

There was no way that these nobles cared about the people or the soldiers.

That's why Abraham decided to fight... to fight for his King, his sister, his father, his friends, his self, the people and the land, Baymard.

Infact not only Abraham, all the soldiers felt that way. Some had come with their families, while others had made friends and found their happiness within the city.

There was no way that they would give it up.

As Abraham looked at the messenger ride away from Baymard for the second time, he knew that the show was about to begin.

He could feel his hands getting sweatier as he held onto the large cannon.

He began fo feel agitated, and honestly felt like his heart was going to fly out of his chest anytime soon.

This feeling... was this how war felt like?

It was frightening, nerve wrecking... but at the same time exciting... It felt like he had the whole weight of Baymard on his shoulders. This was what responsibility felt like.

Once their enemies were 900 meters within the fields, Landon began to give his commands.

\"Steady... steady... fire!!\"

'Boom!!! Boom!!'

Several cannons were shot and now the men began to reload them for their next shots.

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On the battle field, the enemy was thoroughly confused.

'Wasn't that the sound of thunder? How could the sky make that sound on a hot sunny day? And why was the sky lighting up?'

They saw several flashes of flames go off, and they couldn't understand what the gods of their ancestors were thinking.

City lord Shannon frowned at the scene before him, just what was going on?

As a rule of thumb, the fighters would first charge forward before the archers.

So City lord Shannon had let the warriors run forward with their horses.

But before they could make heads or tails of what was going on, the horses started panicking and running frantically.

They doubled their speeds as if running for their lives... where they also excited about the war?

Suddenly, something flew past some of the horses and instantly hit the floor.

'Boom!'

The floor scattered and the next thing the knights knew, the ground shook violently.

'Rumbe! Rumble!'

Then, dirt and some stones flew about the place haphazardly.

Those ahead turned their heads to look at the situation, while those behind were in constant shock.

There were no less than 100 men lying on the ground with their horses. Some men had blood coming out of their ears and nostrils, others lost body parts, some fell from their horses and were badly trampled... while others just stayed there, with no signs of waking up.

Instantly, panic spread throughout the battlefield.

Although these men were experienced in battles, human beings would always fear what they didn't understand.

Some even thought that the gods of their ancestors were truly angry with them.

They had never heard or seen such attacks in their lives.

Where the heavens were truly angry at them? Just what was happening here?

But before they could beg their ancestors for mercy, they were bombarded again with rains of cannon balls.

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Although Lucius and the Warrant soldiers had seen the cannon ball effects during practice, seeing it work on an actual human being was completely frightening.

As for the new recruits on the city walls, they were shocked silly at what they were witnessing.

So this was the destructive impact of a cannon?

Beri had his eyes and mouth wide open. This.. this .. just how were people suppose to fight against this?

The scene was indeed gruesome.

In some cases, the cannon balls would directly hit the animals legs, instantly cutting all 4 limbs at once. Let's not even talk about the rider... his body parts were instantly opened up as if he were a flower.

Was this the shock wave effect that they had learnt in class? The cannon ball clearly didn't hit all the men, but they still had injuries, while others lost their lives.

In some cases, the riders inner organs were scattered around.. making the scene truly horrifying.

So this was what their king meant when he said that he didn't know if the enemy was brave or just plain stupid.

They had to admit that what their king said was true.

But they knew that, this was necessary for Baymard to remain safe.. Weren't these people talking about murdering them and taking the women and children as slaves?

Although they felt pity for the men, they knew that if the situation was reversed, they would loose their lives and their family member as well... Such is war.

Everyone in Baymard had worked hard for peace and happiness. No one wanted to see that peace ruined.

To keep Baymard safe, they would have to give it their all.

Plus Baymard was truly one of a kind.

When they were in the military, they felt truly accomplished and their mindsets began to change.

They had also seen new and exciting things that made them want to spend the rest of their lives here.

Their pay was generous, the people were good and the lifestyle was comfortable. And now someone wanted to take it all away?

As their king always says:

'Hasta la Vista'

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City lord Shannon on the other hand, had different ideas.

Wasn't this the sort of weapon he needed to conquer the western territories, and maybe even the whole Arcadina?

He had never seen anything like it before.

The more he thought, the more greed filled his heart.

No matter what, he had to get his hands on those weapons.

He turned to his men who were already retreating and frowned.

\"I will kill the families of those who desert this war...Its either you fight, or your family dies.\"

He looked at Baymard and a sharp light glistened in his eyes.

Soon, it will be all mine.

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As the battle progressed, city lord Shannon became more and more obsessed.

'I must have them!!', he thought.

He looked at the city walls and his eyes lit up.

'I'm sure these are thick metal arrow tubes', he thought.

At this point, he was losing his mind.

As a war veteran, he thought that his guess was probably right. So he had his archers run up on the scene and try to hit the flying objects with their tiny metal arrows.

'Boom!!!'

It was safe to say that his idea was a total flop.

"No!!!... you morons.. cant you do anything right?"

As he looked at the scene, the color on his face slowly drained out.

His archers had been blown away by the strange flying objects.

After a moment of silence, he began pulling his hair out of his head while laughing.

"Hahahahha... brilliant!!! I must have them", he yelled like a mad man.

At this point, it was hard for his knights to keep watching him... He looked like a murderous lunatic in their eyes. He honestly looked like he had been possessed by a demon from hell.

Was this still their lord that they swore allegiance to?

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It had been a little over 2 hours now.

The new recruits were really amazed by how the war was going.

They felt that their king had ushered in a new age of war. This kind of power was indeed terrifying, as they felt that no one could ever successfully conquer Baymard so easily.

85% of their enemies had died, while 5% suffered from heavy injuries. As for the other 10%, they were still seriously fighting for their lives.

Back on the battlefield, the enemy's formation was completely destroyed. And the knights running around, were even more pathetic.

They screamed and yelled, as they became even more confused.

'Boom!!!'

Another cannon had just landed very close to Baron Rogers.

"Ahhh!!.. I can't hear... I can't hear... help me.. please, help me... what is happening?" Baron Rogers cried as he ran around in circles.

The shock force from the cannon, had led to his current situation. As blood constantly oozed out of his ears, Baron Rogers tried to turn around and retreat.

But when City lord Shannon saw this, he rushed over and quickly shoved his sword into Baron Rogers.

"Uhh!!! ...You!!!!!...y..you...uhhh"

Brain Roger's vould not believe that he had been killed by city lord Shannon.

Although he couldn't hear, he knew that city lord Shannon had said something spiteful to him.. He finally closed his eyes, as he slowly lost consciousness.

And just like that, Baron Rogers had died.

"Coward" City lord Shannon said, while spitting over the Baron Rogers body.

The knights who were still alive shivered, as they looked upon the scene. In their minds, they were very clear that death was their only way out.

The soldiers who saw this from the walls, felt disgusted by the city lord.

Now they understood why it was important to have a 'one for all' mindset.

'Has the world always been like this?', they wondered.

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As Landon looked at the mad crazed City lord Shannon, he decided to change his stratergy.

At this point, it was clear that these enemy knights had wanted to retreat, but couldn't.

They were no different from hostages.

They had to fight, or else if city lord Shannon successful escaped, their families would definitely die.

Landon decided to aim most of the cannons towards city lord Shannon .

It was time to end this.

Previously while the war had been going on, Landon had wanted to change his stratergy, but couldn't.

He had asked the system about erasing their memories and had found out that he didn't have enough points to buy memory erase spells for that many knights.

It was important that he removed all information concerning this battle.

Landon's fear was that once they left this place, they would spill the beans about Baymard and being more trouble over here.

Looking at City Lord Shannons crazed look, Landon realised that these greedy nobles would definitly want to have these weapons under their control, if they found out.

He couldn't allow the knowledge of his weapons to get out, unless he was sure that he could completely protect Baymard.

For now, Baymard was still weak... Hence, he needed build his territory safely and quietly.

Although he felt pity for these knights, at least 98% of them had to die, for Baymard ro remain safe.

It was either they died, or Landon and his people die.

Since Landon was only willing to use at most 10% of his points to erase their memories, he needed their numbers to completely dwindle down.

As Landon looked at the horses, his heart also went out.

These creatures were even more innocent than the knights, yet they had to be killed and dissected because of war.

Some horses had their brains splattered out, while others had their tummies opened up.

Sigh... it was truly sad.

But animals had sharper senses than humans.

Landon had seen when the animals would throw their riders away and run into hiding, before the attacks had landed.

Presently, there were over 4000 horses that survived without any injuries, as compared to the 200 knights that survived.

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City lord Shannon was in a state of bewilderment.

Group by group, his men began to fall down like flies.

"Why?.. why?... why can't I win? I don't believe that I will loose to this brat!!!"

As he raved like a deranged dog, he felt something approaching him very fast. He looked up and anger filled his heart.

"Come!!.. let me see how tough this thing is...I am the king of the Western territory... no one can..."

'Boom!'

Before he finished his speech, 2 cannon ball had already hit his chest and his legs, instantly scattering his body parts around the area.

Immediately all attacks ceased, and the remaining 86 men felt like crying.

"We're saved!!", they cried out, as they tried to support each other.

They had long wanted to leave the battlefield, so now that City lord Shannon was dead, they truly felt that, their prayers to their ancestors were not in vain.

Those that were fine, supported those that were badly injured and decided to escape for their lives.

As they ran away, Landon erased their memories with fake ones.

In their minds, their lord had an urgent matter to attend to in the Capital, and on their way there, 15,000 mercenaries attacked them, killing their lord.

Before city lord Shannon died, Landon had requested for the system to search his body for any useful information that could assist Landon.

The system had discovered the letter that the king had sent, requesting for them to go to the Capital.

For their new memories, the men were to say that they were attacked 3 cities ahead of Riverdale.

Baymard was in the opposite direction to the capital, so no one would even consider the possibility that Landon attacked City Lord Shannon.. Plus were would he get the money to pay 15,000 mercenaries?.. No one would ever believe that he was that rich him.

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As the war came to an end, Landon looked at the reddish fields, that used to give off a vibrant greenish color.

This was his first time experiencing war.

'What a cruel world... Was this what war veterans meant by painting the fields red?'

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While the soldiers of Baymard were celebrating their first victory, things went a little down hill for Santa.

-Keyden City, the Empire of Carona-

\"Young master, are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prince's still asking you to pick a side?\"

Santa looked at the 3 opened letters on his desk and smirked.

The present King of Carona wished to step down from his throne and appoint one of his sons as the new king.

In Carona, there was no such thing as crown prince. All the prince's had a somewhat fair shot a being king... Provided they had enough support from the nobles and knights.

It was just the male nobles and all knights within the empire that were allowed to vote.

Ordinary folks and peasants were not allowed to vote, talk less of women.

There were 3 parts to the process: Voting, Court Trials and Oaths.

After the standard voting period, all male nobles above the age of 15 were to go to court on a particular day, and sit behind the prince that chose to support.

Once seated, all the prince's would try to win over more people with there speeches and what not.

If anyone felt moved by another prince, they could go and sit on the chairs under that prince's side.

During the trials, the king would ask the prince's questions like what they would do for Carona, how they would handle threats from other empires, and so on.

As for the knights, since they voted the first time, they wouldn't need to do it again.

After the trials, all the prince's were to swear an oath, ensuring that everything they had said and promised, would be made possible if they were to be king.

At the end, the total number of people seated under each prince would be summed up and recorded down again.

Within the next 2 days, the king would discuss the result with his ministers.

The king would look at the potential and morality of all his sons, as well as the number of votes that they had gotten.

All the questions asked during the trails were to test their potentials and their hearts.

The king didn't want anyone who didn't have the interest of the people to rule, irrespective of how many votes they got. He also needed someone who could also be somewhat cruel to their enemies.

Their potential could also be evaluated from how many people they had gathered from their speeches.

To make people change their minds was not an easy feat... So the king wanted to see how many nobles left, or added onto each prince's side.

Being a leader is knowing how to sway and control the opinions of the masses... A weak willed king could easily lead to a revolt from the people or worse.

There were always nobles who secretly opposed the idea of having 1 family rule forever.

A weak willed king would give these people the opportunity to rally up the masses against he royals.

The king had to also make sure that the future king was not cowardly, greedy or short sighted.

He definitely didn't need a prince who would sell out his empire because of greed, or one that would run away cowardly in the face of anger.

He needed a prince that would die for the empire, even if the enemy had successfully invaded the empire.

Infact, within these 2 days, the king would evaluate all his sons, and the best candidate would be chosen.

And on the 3rd day, the new ruler of Carona would be announced.

Even though the previous kings and the present king had Carona at heart, Santa knew that none of the present candidates were up to the task.

They were all proud, greedy and selfish.

Although the trails and votings all seemed like a fair deal, it was actually still filled with a lot of bloodshed and violence.

Nobles were bribed or threatened to vote by these prince's.

Most noble families would vote for all the prince's, just to be safe.

The father would vote for the 1st prince, one of his sons would vote for the 2nd prince, and so on.

Those with only daughters, could only pray and wish that they made the same choice. Or else... sigh...

What if the prince they had chosen didn't win, then wouldn't their entire families face the consequences forever?

Santa didn't want to vote because his father and brothers had already covered all the princes... So he was good for now.

But for some reason, these prince's wouldn't let him go.

For over a month now, they had been harassing him and other nobles here and there, to show their support to one of them.

If Santa really saw someone that was capable, he would definitely vote for them... But it was too bad that non of the prince's had the taken after their father.

These stupid prince's started hiring people to cause trouble for his stores and businesses over Carona.

Over the past 2 weeks, 3 of his shops had caught fire, while some were either robbed clean or had their workers harassed daily.

Since his stores were made of stone externally, these people knocked out the guards and burnt the goods, wooden structures and other items within the store.

Luckily, 95% of his goods were kept in his estates. He would only supply enough provisions to each store, that would last for no more than a week.

This was to prevent theft and other minor issues... Even if people broke in, they wouldn't be able to steal much from him.

And at the end of every business day, the money made was recorded and brought back to his estates.

His 12 chief assistants each had an office in his estates, and were the primary accountant's for all his stores.

Santa had over 9 estates all around Carona.

He made sure that the workers came to the estates to get paid, and so in.

The streets of Carona were not safe, even during the day.

When Santa first started business way back, he had been robbed of all his money and goods in broad daylight.

If not for his mother secretly loaning him money to restart again, Santa was sure that he would still be crying over all the money he had lost.

His mother had actually been daring enough to 'steal' money from her father's estate and give it to him.

He had eventually paid back the entire debt without his father even knowing... mothers were truly a blessing.

That experience taught him that just because the sun was shining brightly, didn't mean that it couldn't rain all day.

Since then, he became more vigilant and observing.

These prince's might have thought that they had crippled his businesses, but they were so wrong.

How would a puny fire outbreak, robbery or business disturbances harm him?.. please!!!

He was an proper business man.

He had traveled and traded with the other empires within the Pyno continent.

He also had various stores all over the continent as well... Carona only gave him 20 % of his wealth, so he was sure that he would still be somewhat rich.

Although these disturbances still affected his cash flow, he knew that they would only be temporal.

Once a king was selected and crowned, all these childish stunts would stop... But recently, these prince's have really been getting out of hand with him.

He needed to deal with all these issues, before leaving Carona.

This was the reason why he didn't travel to see Landon or his other customers, this time. He could only send his subordinates to the high seas in his place.

There were only 5 days left before the trail started... Although he wasnt attending, the sooner it ended the better for everyone in Carona.

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\"How bad was the damage this time?\" Santa asked

\"Young master, they had gotten some gang members to cause trouble and beat up our staff!!\" His most trusted assistant, Wayne answered with a panicked tone.

\"Have you sent the injured men to the apothecary?\"

\"I did young master... but there might be some other problems as well\"

\"Go on... what exactly happened\".

\"Young master...(woo woo).. Three young men came over saying that they wanted to see what products we had...

Then one paid for something and ate it.

He later started coughing and acting as if he was dying... A lot of people crowded around him, while trying to help him up.

Then out of no where, people from the Juba gang came and said that we were selling poisonous products to the people.

From there, they took it upon themselves to beat up our staff.

Now, people think that we are selling poisonous products!! Are reputation is almost ruined now!!..(woo woo)...

Young master, we need to address the issue immediately.\" Wayne exclaimed.

Santa looked at the overdramatic Wayne and couldn't help giggling.

\"Young master... this isn't funny... what do we do?\"

'Why can't the young master be serious for once?', Wayne thought as he looked at Santa helplessly.

\"Hahahah... Wayne calm down\" Santa said while trying to hold in his laughter.

The site of an anxious Wayne always made him laugh.

Wayne would always panic over any major or minor issues Santa had... Sometimes, Wayne would even go as far as losing sleep over these problems... Santa just didn't like to worry over things that he couldn't change, or things that had already happened... He only cared about moving forward.

Santa was the kind of person that was always one step ahead of his enemies.

\"Wayne, how long have you known me?.. Do you think that these trivial issues would affect me?\"

\"But...\"

Wayne paused and his eyes immediately lit up.

\"Young Master, do you have a plan?\"

\"What do you think\"

--The royal Barn Palace, Arcadina--

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Alec Barn looked at his ministers, and was truly disappointed in them.

He knew that they had been bribed by his 2nd and 3rd sons to do this. But how dare they disregard his orders?

He himself was a scheming and conniving person, so he could easily spot the craftiness in those 2 sons of his.

In his mind, his only good son was Eli.

No matter what troubles Connor and James caused for him, Eli had never responded to them.

Eli was always calm, kind and looked rather innocent in Alec's eyes.

But what Alec didn't know was that, his supposedly innocent son, was just too good at hiding his emotions and his schemes... Eli was no doubt the worst of his brothers.

Eli was the male version of a female white lotus.

Alec was also sure that since Eli was already the crown prince, he wouldn't need to go about looking for trouble aimlessly. Hence he trusted Eli more than his other 2 sons.

Deep down, Alec was truly happy that his younger sons had openly challenged his authority, rather than trying to assassinate their brother.

They were still his sons, so he still wanted them to live in harmony.

He believed that none of his children would be as daring as he was back in his days... He was sure that none of them would ever try to assassinate the other.

Did he regret what he did to his family?... Absolutely not!!

As the 1st prince, it was his given rights to be the crown prince of Arcadina. But his father gave the position to his younger brother, Oden.

How could he take this?

He despised Oden ever since they were little. Why was Oden so intelligent?... Where the gods of his ancestors really against him that much?

Oden excelled in both academics and knighthood.

To make matters worse, all the people loved him like crazy... Alec thought that Oden was a fool.

Oden would often go about in the market area, helping those disgusting peasants in doing manual labor.

Sometimes, Oden would also go to the healers mansions and help out in treating ordinary peoples injuries.

F*ing disgusting.

How can a prince touch the wounds of a low life dog?

How was he fit to be the crown prince?

Alec knew that even till now, his people only feared him and never truly approved of him as ruler. ... Even till this day, his brother had still won their hearts.

Why couldn't his brother's memory just die and fade away?.. if he was so smart, how come he died so easily?

Alec didn't regret anything at all.

The strong had always prevailed. That was the way of the world.

Who asked Oden to be so weak hearted?.. Tsk.. Serves him right.

Alec still remembered the day that he killed his father and Oden.

He had slipped poison in Augustus' wine, just before he headed out to kill Oden.

After killing oden, he headed back home to see his dying father.

He looked at his father's dying face and spat on it.

He confessed to the old man and even offered to ease the old fool's pain, by stabbing a knife in his throat.

Augustus was so shocked that he became speechless.

Once he heard Alec say that he had just killed Oden, Agustus closed his teary eyes and died with regret.

Alec sneered as he looked at his father's face. In the end, he had won. He would be the new ruler of Arcadina.

What gods of his ancestors?... If they were truly against him, they would have protected Oden and Augustus from dying.

But since they let his father and brother die so easily, that meant that it was the will of his ancestors for him to rule Arcadina.

And with that mindset, he began his killing spree.

Ever since that day, he had killed all the nobles that opposed him and firmly ruled over Arcadina as a true dictator.

His words were always the law, and no one dared to question them.

But now, his ministers were trying to make him change his mind about Eli? Dream on!!

So to say, they were disagreeing with his choice on who was to be the next ruler?.. hehehe..

He had to say, they had really gotten a lot ballsy over the last month.

He had a nagging feeling that his 2nd and 3rd wives, as well as his sons, had a hand in this mess.

He had to really applaud his 1st wife for her calm attitude about the whole charade.

Although his love for her had died ages ago, she was still Eli's mother. Hence he decided to show her support, because of Eli.

Now that king Barn had aged, he had also added 3 young harlots in his palace.

In this era, prostitution was allowed, because it was believed that it helped prevent the greater evils of rape, sodomy and masturbation.

Since these girls were too low in class to be taken in as wives of a king, he had the apothecary make drugs that would make them baren with time... Of course these women were ignorant of King Brans schemes.

So of them even dreamed of having a son doe the king, but who would have thought that King barn would be 1 stepahead of them?

King Barn would often ask the stewards and cooks to place these drugs in their foods and drinks.

How could he, the all powerful King Barn have a child with a mere harlot?

Tsk, it would be an even bigger disgrace than what he faced with Landon's mom.

Because of their young and seductive looks, king Barn had been disgusted with the appearances of his first and second wives.

As for the third wife, she was still very slim and very sexy. So she was the only one that still enjoyed love making with King Barn.

After giving birth to their children, his 1st and 2nd wives had lost their flat bellies and their slender figures.

They became larger, and had added lot of weight on their buttocks.

Where was the thin and slender women that he had married?

Actually, his wives weren't fat, they were just curvier.. But in this era, being thin was in vogue, and curvier, heavier women were seen as unattractive.

When he compared the slim harlots to his wives, he began to wonder what he ever saw in them.

A womans place was in her husband's kitchen, house and bedroom.

As his wives, since they never worked a day in their lives, what was the point of keeping them if they became repulsive in his eyes.

'Puiii!!'

He couldn't even stand talking to them, that was why he had given them courtyards far away from his.

He'd rather never make love again than to sleep with those fat pigs.

'So disgusting'

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\"My king, I truly think that Prince Connor is the best choice for the throne.\" One of his ministers said.

\"He's right your highness!! Prince Connor is an excellent choice\"

\"Nonsense!! Everyone knows that Prince James is the best choice for kingship\"

\"That's right!! He might be young, but he has proven himself time and time again!!!\"

\"No its prince Connor...\"

\"Prince James...\"

Alec sat in his chair and held the urge to jump up and smack all his ministers in the head.

'Proven themselves time and time again?.. How come he never witnessed these miracles of his other sons?'

\"So no one is supporting my son Eli?\"

King Barn asked coldly, as looked at his ministers who had their faces towards the ground.

\"Your majesty, Its n..not that we don't want to support prince Eli... B..but the people want another prince as the crown prince.\"

\"That's right your highness... the other day there were thousands of people gathered in the black market who wanted prince Eli removed as crown prince\".

\"Your highness, prince James in particular cares about the people very much... He gave them gave food and money, for them to take care of themselves\"

\"Your highness, prince Connor also visited the hospitals and and the poor around the Capital... I think it would be good to give him a chance...\"

'Bang!!!'

Alec hit his hand on the arm of his chair, violently.

\"So you all are telling me that the prince that I, King Alec Barn chose, is not good enough to rule?\" Alec said with a bone-chilling tone.

The ministers shivered with fear at the sight of their angry king.

\"No matter what you all say, my choice will always be prince Eli!! ... So I suggest you all think things through thoroughly...hehehe... Anyone who doesn't agree, can hand over his life to me!!!\".

Everyone quickly shivering while bowing their heads in fear.

Their king was truly scary when he was angry.

Alec looked at his ministers and sneered.

A bunch of cowards...Fear was, and had always been the only way that he could control them.

\"Now, let's talk about the upcoming assignments... How do you all plan to divide the work?\"

\"M... my lord... So far, we have lost 5 cities around the border... So we propose that since there are 3 prince's, let each prince head over to each city and try to take them back.\" A brave minister answered instantly.

\"Yes my lord... As for the other 2 cities, we had already sent letters to City Lord Shannon of the West, and City lord Barrang of the South, telling them about their mission.\" Another minister added.

Actually, the ministers did this so that if 1 of the other prince's did well in the battle, their king would be impressed and willingly change Eli as the crown prince.

This was their plan B.

\"Good... Let each prince and the 2 city lords be the main leaders in charge of securing the cities.

But it still won't be enough.

Have 4 other city lords and their armies aid each leader to take back the cities.

But let me be clear, If they can't succeed in taking back our territories,... they should just die there and never come back.

I will not allow useless men to live and thrive in my empire!!!\"

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