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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It had been 3 days after that unpleasant war at Baymard.

The soldiers now took their military lessons more seriously.

They wanted to further understand all the side effects and injuries one could get from cannons, should incase they were one day attacked with these kinds of weapons.

They also started taking their first aid classes more seriously as well.

When they remembered the gruesome sight of their enemies, they couldn't help but shudder a bit.

It was better to be prepared, than to be sorry.

After that battle, the soldiers had gathered all the swords and armor together and sent them to the construction company.

The weapons were to be melted and used anyway that deemed fit.

Landon thought that, It was better to completely destroy all the evidence of war at once.

In this era, shields and other weapons were marked depending on their territories.

If the men one day left with these weapon's, people would start wondering how they got access to Riverdale weapons.

Within these 3 days, Landon and the soldiers went out to the fields and clean up all the dead body parts lying around.

They had picked up ears, eyes and other body parts... Even an entire leg was seen lying about on the fields.

Landon had the men pile up all the body parts and burn them in a huge bonfire.

Since they were enemy knights, it was a taboo for them to be buried here.

In this era people believed that burying your enemy on your land would curse and bring bad fortune to the land.

Since they believed in the the fact that their ancestors were gods, they also believed that the dead men would one day turn in to powerful ancestors that would hinder Baymard's growth.

It was also believed if they were buried here, these men would even have the power to block their wives from childbirth, give their families terrible illnesses, and so on.

Afterall, this men were their enemies, so they would never spare their children and families for many generations to come.

Of course Landon didn't believe in all that hocus pocus, but since his men believed in it, he had no choice but to burn all the enemy knights.

Once they were burnt, their ashes were gathered and taken far away from Baymard by carriage and dumped closer to Riverdale city.

The men had secretly dug out a large hole in the forest closest to Riverdale, and buried the ashes into the ground.

Before leaving, they also burnt the wagon, and also buried the ashes of the wagon in the ground.

This was done because they were afraid that someone might actually use this wagon, to enter Baymard one day.

Also, since some traces of the dead knights ashes were still on the wagon, the only choice was to burn down the motherf*er.

They had buried the ashes, because they were afraid that the wind might successfully blow these ashes miles away back to Baymard.

The men had said that it was better for the dead knights to haunt Riverdale, than Baymard.

Landon was speechless.

His soldiers had really pulled a James bond stunt just because of this?.. Can't they use their skills for something better?

The funny thing was that when they came back, they looked so proud of themselves, and even went as far as saying mission accomplished.

Who the heck gave you that kind of mission?

Did I tell you guys to go about sneakily into the enemies forest region?.. And how the heck would the wind blow ashes 2 and a half hours away from Baymard?.. Aren't you guys being a little too paranoid?

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As he looked at the proud expressions on their faces, he didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.

All this because of the ancestors? Really?

His soldiers didn't even want to throw the ashes into the sea, because they feared that the waves would bring the ashes back to the surface.

And there was another ridiculous story about enemy ashes that touch the sea, which Landon was fed up with.

At this point, Landon couldn't even be bothered with them anymore.

Once the dead bodies had been successfully removed, the areas on the field that that holes, were filled with ground, crushed stones and grass.

As for the blood, Landon had mixed a lot of luminol chemicals, with some water and sprayed the mixture all over the fields.

Luminol was always used back on earth for crime investigations.

It was the perfect chemical to remove all blood stains thoroughly.

The thick reddish fields that once looked like some one sprayed a giant bottle of ketchup on them, were now looking green again.

All the evidence of war had been successfully removed.

Luckily, no one ever visited Baymard, so they easily completed all the work without the fear of being caught.

During the clean up process, the men had recovered a lot of coins from the pockets of the knights and the ground.

The coins came up to the equivalent of 21,000 gold coins.

Landon distributed the coins between those Warrant soldiers who participated in the war, and those that assisted in clean up duties.

Landon felt like that was for the best. The money was theirs to begin with, as they did all the work in the end.

As for the horses, those that were dead, were sent to the food industry to be cleaned up and sold as meat to the citizens.

Of course, he sent some meat to the military and the schools for free, on account of the war that the soldiers had just fought... and heck.. why should children have to pay for anything?

They had also recovered 4,319 horses, which they quickly sent to the stables in the upper region.

Landon had already made a mental note to add more stable boys or animal caretakers in future.

These caretakers would take care of other animals other than horses, so it was a good idea to increase their numbers.

Right now, since there were just 12 stable boys, they were really understaffed.

With the addition of 4319 horses, Baymard now had 6890 horses.

Landon told the stable boys to hang on until the next month, before he added more people to aid them.

'Just 1 more week', the stable boys thought.

Since he was gone with cleanup, Landon decided to go prepare for his date.

He was suppose to have a date with Lucy 3 days ago, but this damn war ruined his plans.

When Lucy found out about the war that day, she was so shocked that she forgot about the date.

When did the war happen? How come she didn't know anything about it?

Normally, the citizens in the central regions, would hear the cannon shots regularly, so they thought that it was just for practice reasons.

Those in the lower regions couldn't even hear a single thing, so they were fine.

As or Lucy who was in the upper region, normally, the knights would practice in the upper regions, but since the war happenedat the gate on the central region, she almost couldn't hear a single thing.

She had spent her day teaching peacefully, so how would she know about any war.

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Lucy began to feel uneasy, would the enemies come back for revenge? Would they want to destroy her happiness just like that?.. what should she do? What if those men that Landon let go come back with reinforcements?

Landon had painstakingly explained the situation to her explaining over and over again that Baymard would be fine.

It was only after being reassured for at least 10 times, did Lucy calm down.

Normally, Landon would see Lucy at breakfast or when he got back at night.

They would spend 2-3 hours daily, talking and laughing merrily.

There are also times were he would see her around Baymard as well.

Landon understood that she too had a job to do.

Sometimes, when he was free, she would be busy with lectures.

He felt like he was getting married to a university lecturer.

She would come to school early, teach, do research, read, and sometimes stay till 8 or 9 P.M in school.

Even when Landon asked if Lucy wanted her classes reduced, she strongly refused.. saying that she would feel empty without it.

It had become a part and parcel of her now.

Her students looked up to her, and when they saw her around Baymard, they would greet her and tell her how much they appreciated her classes.

There was no way she would give up this feeling of accomplishment.

Furthermore, it's not like teachers teach all year round. The school break was coming up, so Lucy knew that she would be somewhat free during that time.

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Since it was already 8:30 P.M, Landon was sure that Lucy was done with her lectures.

He waited outside her classroom with a bunch of tulips, which he stole from his own castle garden.

Landon meant 'stole' because, every time he wanted to pluck any flower from the garden, the 3 musketeers, old man Willow and his friends, would harass him here and there.

They kept saying that he had no right to touch the flowers without their permission.

Landon was really helpless against those 3 old grandpa's.

How could he not not have the right to touch flowers in his own garden? Did that make any sense?

Funny enough, they had stopped calling him brat, and started calling him 'sonny boy'.

Landon as waited for her class to finish, he peeked at her and smiled.

Finally, the class was over.

Once Landon was sure that there were no more students in her classroom, he walked in while holding the bouquet of tulips, instantly taking her by suprise.

"Ahh! Brother Landon when did you get here?"

"Does it matter?" He replied, while handing the flowers over to her.

"These are lovely...How did you know that they are my favourite?".

"Its my duty to know, wify" Landon said while smiling lovingly at her.

As usual, her face was flushed as a tomatoe again.

Sigh... young love.

"Let's go... I have a suprise for you.."

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This was the last week of June, it was time for the end of the first school semester.

This meant Exams.

The students were already used to their notebooks and pens. It was way better and cleaner than using slateboards and chalk.

Landon had given all the children below ages 15: 4 empty notebooks, 3 eraser pencils and 7 pens (2 blue, 2 black, 2 red and 1 green).

If they needed more, their parents were to buy it for them. And those who were orphans, could take them free of charge from the school canteen.

The adults who took classes were required to buy their own textbooks as well. Afterall, they all worked and the books and pens were cheap.

9 pens cost 5 copper coins, 9 pencils cost 5 copper, while 1 book cost 3 copper coins.

The teachers still used chalk of course.

With these books, the students could go home and revise their lessons.

For those that came to school in the middle of the semester, they would only be given tests on what they know so far.

But within the 1 month break, it was compulsory for them to take make up classes, so as to catch up with the rest for the next semester.

Those that couldn't catch up would repeat their classes on the next semester. While those that passed would move on ahead to the next phase.

All they had been learning so far were language and math. Now, it was time to introduce them into the world of Chemistry.

Of course it wasnt intense chemistry, just the basics.

With the basics, they could go about and have assignments like science projects and so on.

Those that passed and did well, would advance and take Math 3, Language 2 and Chemistry 1.

Today, the little princess Linda, from Yodan empire was taking the final exam for the semester.

Back at Yodan, 9 year old Linda was ignored and bullied most of the time.

Since she wasn't a favoured princess, the maids, servants and even her teachers looked down on her. The only people who cared for her, were her mother Winnie and brother Beri.

She would cry daily and sometimes even feel like she was trapped, with no where to go.

But ever since she came to Baymard, the people were nice and she could finally go to school with other children who were very humble.

And for some reason, the food tasted better here as well.

Landon would come to her school and read amazing stories to her and the other children. She even played on the metal swing and something called a slide.

The little princess was very happy.

She loved everyone, even the funny grandpa Willow. He would always put flowers on her hair and push her on the garden swing (yet, he gave trouble to Landon for plucking Tulips).

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Linda sat in the large classroom nervously.

Although she had math teachers and language teachers back in Yodan, she had realized that Baymard's educational system was different.

It was way better and more detailed. Plus she loved her rainbow painted exercise books, pencils and pens, which were much better and simpler to use.

For the tests, she liked that they were evenly spaced throughout the week, giving her more time to read at home.

The moment of truth had come.

The teacher placed a sheet of paper face-down in front of her.

Today, she was taking her first exam... Math 1.

Once all the papers were shared, Grace signaled for them to start.

Somewhere in another classroom, Linda's mother Winnie, Kim and Lucy, were also giving out the same exam.

Today was meant for math 1. So even if they weren't teaching it, they had to help supervise the exams as well.

All tests had different sections within them. Some of the sections in Math 1 and math 2 were similar to one another, but not actually the same.

Math 1 had 7 seven sections:

•15%: Additions

•15%: Subtractions

•15%: Playing with operations (using or -)

•10%: Number writing

•15%: Word problems (using only or -)

•15%: Measuring Length (using only or -)

•15%: Measuring Time(using only or -)

Linda looked through the section titled 'Addition' and began.

First question: 145 74 =? (show rough work)

She immediately started using her fingers and even showed the carry over process on the paper.

The more she answered, the more confident she became.

Time went on and she arrived at the 'Playing with operations (using only or -)' part.

Question: Achieve the result 20, by using the numbers: 2, 6 and 4, as many times as you like.

He looked at the question and her eyes lit up.

'6 plus 4 is 10, 10 plus 4 is 15...no no no!! its 14..' she thought.

Just like that, she completed that section.

Now, it was time for 'word problems'.

Question: There are 67 bird families living near the mountain. If 32 bird families flew away for winter, how many are left near the mountain?

She immediately started writing the main points, as she was taught in class.

'67 bird families... flew away... 32 bird families... ahhh!! this is a subtraction.. this is taking away' she exclaimed inwardly as she immediately did the subtractions.

When she was at the last section, Grace kindly reminded them to drop their pens, pencils and papers.

She was currently in the last section and had 3 questions left to answer. She couldn't help but curse the 6th section for slowing her down.

All in all, she felt like she was going to do very well in the exam.

After the exam, she discussed her answer with some of her friends.

"Did you guys succeed in finishing the exam?"

"Ahh!!! I only had 1 question left, and then they took away for paper"

"Woo woo... I'm not sure I did well"

"Don't cry, who can say that we will all pass?"

"Yeah plus there's still make up classes during the break."

"Don't forget that if you do well in Math 2 and Pyron 1, you will still advance."

"We have to study hard for the next tests"

"Ahh!!! Question 5 in section 4 was very confusing"

"It was definitely a trap"

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And just like that, the Math 1 exam had officially come to an end.

Two days later, the exam for Math 2 began.

The Exam had 8 sections:

•12%: Multiplication tables

•12%: Multiplication

•12%: Divisions

•12%: Playing with operations (using or )

•10%: Number writing

•14%: Measuring length (using only or )

•14%: Measuring Weight (using only or )

•14%: Measuring Time. (using only or )

Under, the section titled: Multiplication tables, Linda moved like lighting.

Question: 3 7 = ?

And under the Multiplication section, Linda still felt it was easy.

Question: 727 4= ?

Moving forward, Linda realised that she had spend too much time with the Section 'number writing'.

Question: Write Nine thousand four hundred and sixty-one, in numbers.

'Thousand..thousand... Ahhh!!.. its 1000.. but since its 9, then its 9000...'

She also spent time doing the measuring length, weight and time sections.

Question: 2 m = ? cm

Question: 20 kg = ? g

Question: 9 hrs 45 min = ? min

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Once again, she was unable to finish her exam on time.

Was it a curse for her to never to finish on time?

She quickly went home and started practicing her pre-tenses, present tenses and so on, for her Pyron exam.

All the people in Pyno spoke 1 language, so the language spoken in Yodan was the same as that in Arcadina.

Another 2 days passed and it was time for her final exam.

Pyron 1 was divided into sections:

•18%: Nouns, verbs, adjectives and pronouns

•18%: All Tenses: Present, past, simple.. etc

•9%: Writing numbers into words

•15%: Prepositions

•20%: Choose correct/ Incorrect sentences

•20%: Choose complete/Incomplete sentences.

Linda kept seeing questions like;

Question: choose whether the following sentence is a simple or compound sentence.

Question: Which sentence shows the proper use of a noun?

Question: Write 109 in words.

Question: Which is not a complete sentence?

Question: Identify the adverb in the sentence

For her, language was easy compared to math. So for the first time ever, she had successfully finished all the questions for the exam. She even had 10 minutes to spare, so she decided to go over her work once more.

Once the exam papers were collected, she truly felt free as a bird. She had never had this type of feeling before.

She began discussing with her friend on what they would do with this 1 month vacation.

She had been told that the exams would be posted on the 12th day of July.

Also, the next semester was going to start in August.

So for the entire month of July, she would hopefully have no school.

To be honest, she didn't want to spend the entire July doing makeup classes. That's why she earnestly prayed that her results would be atleast alright to take her to the next stage.

She had been so stressed during this exam period, that she didn't even care how her hair looked like when she left the house early this morning.

Her mom wanted to fix it, but she refused as she needed to use all her time for studying.

She looked at her mom as if saying: 'Mom, my holiday is at stake here and your worried about my hair?'

Right now, she didn't even want to see a single book, atleast until august.

'Finally, No more exams'

-Keyden City, the Empire of Carona-was

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Over at Carona, there were celebratory banners everywhere.

The food stalls were crowded and busy, while the inns were also full to the brim.

Children were running about happily with their parents, while making their way to the side of the palace.

Santa stood with his family outside the palace, facing a giant terrace, while waiting for the king to appear.

All the citizens were waiting as well.

Today was the day that they had all been waiting for.

Who would be king?

The 3 prince's who were already standing on the terrace, displayed arrogant demeanors as they watched the people beneath them.

The only princess were also there as well.

Suddenly the trumpets were played and the royal message relayer, walked on to the giant terrace.

Then the royal announcer, rushed out to the terrace and took out an iron funnel like object, which was called a speaking trumpet (also called a loudhailer or megaphone).

In this era, the speeches from royalty were made by the a royal announcer.

These announcers worked like how the white rabbit in 'Alice in wonderland' worked.

Their biggest asset was ther voice.

Since a king was beneath yelling, the royal announcer would use these instruments and read out any document or announcements from the king.

The king was just present to indicate that whatever was read out, was true.

"Announcing, his royal majesty King Carmelo, the first queen, Queen Megara and the 2nd queen, Queen Othena.

Following them is King Adrian and Duchess Veronica... Duke Samuel and Duchess Kate... and finally, Duchess Mina and Duke Ruchard." The royal announcer yelled out.

12 knights first went ahead and stationed themselves along every main corner of the terrace.

Then, king Carmelo stepped out with 2 knights in front of him, and his 2 wives: Queen Megara and Queen Othena by his sides.

Behind him where the former king Adrian (Carmelo's father), his own queen, Duchess Veronica (Carmelo's mother), Duke Samuel (Carmelo's brother)and his own wife duchess Kate.

Following them were, Duchess Mina (Carmelo's sister) and her own husband Duke Richard, as well as another 12 other guards behind them.

The children of King Carmelo's siblings were also on the terrace as well.

Duke Adrian, had only married one woman his entire life. This woman was duchess Veronica who gave birth to Carmelo and his younger siblings.

The siblings really didn't have any issues with each other since they were blood siblings.

Plus, they kind of liked pushing all the work for Carmelo to do.

Duke Samuel used to say that he would rather have Carmelo do all the work, while he just sat there and ate all the money.

He was really lazy, and didn't like work at all.. He just enjoyed having knight battles.

Who had time to do all the paper works and maintaining all the peace and order within the empire? It was such a drag.

Back in their days, when it was time for their own trial, Samuel had faked illness just so that he could miss out on the trials.

But King Adrian wasn't having it, and rescheduled another trial session.

Then Samuel knelt and begged Adrian to pass it over to Carmelo.

Samuel had seen all the work his father had put into Carona. Who would like to have such responsibilities?

Although he was a good person at heart, he knew that he didn't like ruling the empire.

When he was younger, all the royal tutors had headaches because of him. He would skip out on classes and always complain about some illness that didn't exist.

In fact the entire empire knew of Samuel's antics... But they also knew that he was a good person as well, he was, sadly... just too lazy to be king.

Because of this, Carmelo had won without even fighting for the position.

In all honesty, Carmelo also didn't care who took over the throne.

The royal family had money, so he got the same pay as his siblings.. even till this day.

So in essence he was just doing all the work, while they still got their pay.

Now he began to understand Damuels point... It really was a drag..

Carona's way of ruling and allocating funds, was completely different from most parts in the continent.

You couldn't just take money just because you were king. And if you insulted, bullied or stole from the people, you would be removed feom the throne immediately.

But what people feared was that the next kings, would change these rules.

Rules were made by people and could also be broken by people. That's why one needed to be careful over who they gave the throne to.

All the citizens cheered, clapped and waved their hands at the sight of their king, whom they deeply respected.

Once the king had gotten to his normal position on the terrace, he began waving at them with a smile on his face. The queens and the other royals, also began waving as well.

The people even cheered more loudly, and some people even raised their children in the air, to have a better look at the king.

"Look! Look!... he waved at us!!"

"Ahhh!!!... did he just wink at us?"

"The king has a very warm smile.. he is still charming after all these years"

"I couldn't agree with you more"

"Look look, king Carmelo waved at my son just now!!"

"Daddy daddy, king Adrian also looked at me."

As the people talked and smiled, some people even began crying at the sight of their king.

He had done a lot of humanitarian jobs for the people and everyone knew of his boundless kindness within his heart.

Such a king was definitely the best within the entire Pyno continent.

The people had heard of the ridiculous things that other kings did, and were truly shocked.

They knew how fortunate they were to have such a king. Even the previous king was the same as their present king.

The people knew that it was due to their practice of choosing an heir to the throne that made them feel safe.

But now, they couldn't help but feel that their happy days were coming to an end.

Who didn't know the real nature of these prince's.

They had been going about bullying and treating people like garbage because their father was king.

They felt that they deserved everything just because they were royalty.

Left to the people, they would rather have their present king stay on the throne till he died.

After a while, the king raised his right hand straight up to the sky, and the tune of the trumpets changed, indicating that the citizens should quiet down.

Now, it was time to get down the business.

King Carmelo handed over a parchment letter to the royal announcer in the presence of everyone, and the royal announcer knelt down and accepted it.

This was to tell everyone that the message or paper had not switched hands and had indeed been from King Carmelo.

The royal announcer opened it and was stunned.

Just what was going on?

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The royal announcer opened the letter and reread it again... he then looked at King Carmelo and was lost for words.

The people were also wondering what was so shocking about the message.

The royal announcer cleared his throat loudly.

Wasn't their king being too daring right now? Although he approved of what was written down, it didn't change the fact that it was still ground breaking.

Was their king trying to give him a heart attack?

The hearts of the citizens started beating loudly, as they waited for the results anxiously.

'Mr announcer, can you hurry up? Do you want to kill us with anxiety?'

The announcer took in a big gulp of air and exhaled loudly.

It was better to get it over with.

"From today onwards, King Carmelo has willing stepped down the throne as the ruler of Carona.

Within these years, he has enjoyed fulfilling his numerous duties as ruler of Carona, as well as spending time with his people.

Because he was close to you all, he has decided to leave the best parting gift as a former ruler of Carona.

He decided to leave the empire with someone whom you all can wholeheartedly rely on.

But don't worry, just as King Adrian, he too will look over the ruling party as a counselor for the empire.

Although he has left the throne, he will still he here as you all move towards the future.

Today, we are all here to welcome a new king to the empire.

From today onwards, Pincess Penelope will be the next ruler of Carona!!

The coronation day will be scheduled on the 5th of July.

This is the final Verdict of King Carmelo!!"

Everyone was stunned.

Did they just here correctly? Princess Penelope? Hahahha... She was the most perfect one to take on the job.

Very quickly the citizens all cheered.

Unlike her brothers, she was very kind, smart and knew how to make wise decisions.

She had also proven herself time and time again within the empire.

At the age of 7, the first time that she saw her brother train with the sword, she would sneak out and hide in the pushes to listen to his trainers.

At night, she would then sneak back out of her courtyard with a stolen sword in her hand, as she made her way to the practice field.

For over a month, no one noticed her movements.

But one day, her grandfather, king Adrian noticed her sneaking away and followed.

At first he was fuming mad at the fact that she wanted to learn sword fighting.

How could a woman have the aptitude for battle?

When he was about to stop her, she perfectly executed a move that would take a regular page atleast 6 months to learn.

His eyes lit up.

She clearly had talent for the sword.

From then on, he began observing her quietly every night.

After a while, her father king Carmelo and her uncle Duke Samuel, discovered it as well.

The 3 men started sneaking about at night to observe her movements... they were all utterly stunned by her quick reflexes, and aptitude.

Then 4 months later, they saw her sneaking into the royal library, where she would read a ton of books on different subjects.

They looked at her and decided that they would assist this little cute bunny.

Once she was found out, she didn't even flinch under her father, grandfather and uncles aura's.

They had realised their terrifying aura's when questioning her because they wanted to see what she would do.

She stood there, steady as the water and smiled at them.

The reason why she wasnt afraid was because, to her, they were her family. She had spent enough time with them, for her to believe that they would hurt her.

Their powerful auras in her eyes were the same as how the 3 musketeers kept disturbing Landon.

She found it extremely cute.

But what she didn't know was that, these cute auras had made a lot of people wet the pants before. These men were war veterans for heaven's sake.

She was just a curious child and didn't understand why women couldn't do certain things.

They had told her that she couldn't wield a sword, but didn't she successfully do it?... Doesn't that mean that everyone was lying to her?

She really didn't get what the big deal was.

She hated doing needle work and all those other things, so what she was doing right now, was trying to find things that she loved doing.

She had also seen her father read a book, so she thought that maybe reading was also fun. Hence she started making her way towards the royal library at night.

When she took the first manual on war tactics, she was intrigued and completely lost herself in it.

Reading seemed to be something that she liked as well. Plus she also realised that she could remember and understand things a little better than others.

Once Carmelo and the rest understood her reasoning, they realised that this child of theirs was a gifted one.

From them on, she became the only woman accepted as a knight page, as well as the only one who would go on missions and aid the poor.

Maybe it was because she was a woman, but most people noticed that she would give it her all to help those in need.

She never did anything half heartedly. If she said she would do it, she would either do it perfectly, or die trying.

She also helped in state affairs and aided her father, uncle and grandfather whenever she could.

To them, her ideas were genius.

At the age of 14, she was already going on missions with her father to fight pirates and bandits that came to Carona.

No one wanted her to go, but this little woman snuck into the supply wagon, and when they were already 6 hours away from the Capital, they finally discovered her.

Or rather, she revealed herself. She was pressed and wanted to relief herself, so she popped out of the wagon and shocked everyone silly.

Princess, can you not do this? Do you think that we are here for fun? The knights all thought.

Everyone took her as their little sister, so they were worried for the little bunny.

Even after her father reprimanded her, she still didn't know what she did wrong.

As a knight wasn't it her duty to fight for Carona?

It was then and there that Carmelo and the others realised that although the princess was the smartest person they knew, she was really dense in personal relationships.

At this point in time, she was already daddy's girl, so could he not panic after finding out that she had come over on his mission.

But what surprised him was that when they were on their way to save a village from bandits, the little princess came up with a clever plan, which was even better than his original one.

She also fought bravely and rescued 2 of his knights from the bandits.

When they got back to the capital, grandpa Adrian and Samuel who had been looking for her for over 2 months, became excited.

Her mother queen Megara, who was on the verge of collapse came back to life and cried while hugging her.

Why was mummy crying? Did someone bully her mother while she was away? She didn't get it as well.

Without even knowing it, these everyone, including the knights, had taken her as their precious treasures.

They all reprimanded her, but it was no use. Nothing got into that head of hers.

When they heard of her bravery, they hosted a feast in her honor as the savior of the village.

The little princess thought it was bothersome.

All she wanted to do was sleep and train. What was the point if this?

After that, she had been unexpectedly groomed for the position of King... Or should we say Queen.

Of course at that time, none of the men thought that they were grooming her for that position. They just thought that since their little bunny was good at all these things, she should do them.

So what if she was a woman?

What was wrong with that?

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Because of Penelope, over the years, Carona had accepted over 200 female knights into their ranks.

It wasnt a lot, but it was still progress for women all around the empire.

She was a heroine to all.

Actually anyone from earth would say that she looked like 'Akame' in 'Akame ga kill'.

She was extremely beautiful, and her dark black hair made her look like a moon goddess.

She was brave, loyal and the most shocking thing was that her sword skills could put 90% of the knights to shame.

The funny thing about her was that, she didn't get relationships between men and women at all.

Once, a knight told her that when they look at her, they have a love heartache.

All she understood in that sentence was 'look' and 'heartache'.

Since then, she would carry the knight to any healers mansion everytime she saw him.

She would carry him princess style while requesting for the healer to check his pulse.

Hahahha.. all the other knights in training would always laugh at the scene.

For them, she was a total baddass.

It was at this point that most knights started realizing that they were attracted to strong women.

Who liked all those girls who always waited for you to rescue them?

They realised that a women doesn't necessary had to fight, but she needed to have standards. She needed to be able to use her brain and not depend on a man to always use his brain for her.

Penelope had really changed the game in Carona... Women wanted to do other jobs now because of her.

And now, she had become the first female ruler in the history of the world, Hertfilia.

If princess Jenette Barn knew about this, she would definitely want to split Penelope's head from her neck.

How dare Penelope take her dream as the first female ruler, and her shine?

Penelope was deeply respected by the knights and was considered as their little princess as well.

She had a whole knight fanclub, and if any boy even tried to ask her out again, those knights would send eye daggars towards their way.

The funny thing was that she was completely unaware of these occurrences.

Seeing the people cheer even louder, Carmelo was sure that he had made the right choice.

After the trials were done, Carmelo, Adrian, Samuel and some other ministers, had gathered around and review all the answers his sons had given them.

Also, prior to the noble trials, he had requested for his secret guards to monitor their actions.

What pained him the most was that they went about threatening the citizens and nobles go vote for them.

How could he give all his hard work to those arrogant brats? They would just crumble down all his and Adrian's hardwork over the years.

And their answers to his questions, were also infuriating.

Their answers all showed that they were either too greedy, selfish or too arrogant.

That same day, he called Penelope to come over.

She answered the questions excellently in front of them all and even swore an oath on it.

She herself was clueless as to why they would ask her such obvious questions.

Wasn't it the duty of a knight to fight for their empire? Wasn't it the duty of a knight to give their heart and soul for the people?

As the men listened to her explanation for an obvious answer, they almost puked blood.

Can you not continue to disgrace your brothers even further? It might be easy to you, but they all failed woefully.

In fact, even if an examiner multiplied any number to their scores, the result wouldn't change. Zero, times anything would still give you zero.

What an utter disgrace!!

Actually, Penelope didn't know about the trials, as she simply didn't pay attention to anything else other than her duties.

Before she left the room, they had told her that she would be ruler, which shocked her for the first time in her life.

But after 10 seconds, so he shrugged it off and went on about her duties.

As everyone cheered on, the 3 prince's were fuming inside.

Weren't they prince's? Wasn't the throne supposed to go to them? How was this fair?

Penelope came forward with her sword on her hips and knelt down In front of her father.

"You may rise", Carmelo said.

He then stepped to the side and allowed her to take his place on the terrace. She took the megaphone from the royal announcer, which stunned everyone as well.

'Princess, speaking is the announcers job alright?'

They were truly helpless against her, but they didn't really mind. They all knew that their princess was the densest of them all.

"I am honored to be appointed as the new ruler of Carona.

I promise that I will give my all in ruling Carona fairly, and with the same competence, strength and will power that I have when training with my sword.

I will protect you all, and will continue to ensure that peace and prosperity reign within the empire.

With my father, uncle and grandfather guiding me through, I know that I will be able to fulfill my duties as your Queen."

As she spoke, she knelt down like a knight, and gave them her solemn oath.

The people were deeply touched by her speech, one needed to know that she took her sword training far more seriously, than her life.

For her to say that she would put them at the same level as her training, truly touching.

"Hail Queen Penelope"

"Hail Queen Penelope"

As the people cheered, the ministers and nobles who had previously voted for the prince's, were truly happy.

After all the threats and warnings they had gotten from those troublemakers, they felt like justice had been served.

Those that only had daughters, had been worried sick that they had not made the right choice.

Who knew if one of these prince's would come for revenge.

They had heard of all the cruel things that royals of other empires did, so who could say that these prince's, who threatened them wouldn't do the same?

They had watched these prince's grow up and knew their bad personalities.

As nobles, thei children could attend the same knight classes as the princes, so how could they not know?

Some of their sons had been beaten up blue-black because they disagreed with any of the princes.

But now, they could finally put their minds to rest.

It was truly a good day in Carona.

Santa smiled as he looked at the turn of events.

The winds of change were blowing in Carona, and now, he could finally begin travelling again after the coronation next month.

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It was finally July 2nd, and Santa's subordinates had brought 6,800 people to Baymard, as well as 1,000 cows, 600 sheep, 400 chickens, 100 goats and 400 Angora goats. As well as several planting seeds for sale.

Previously, Landon had requested for these animals, because he didn't want his people to go around buying them from the neighbouring cities.

With all the craziness going on in the empire, it would be better to lessen people's suspicions about, what was really happening in Baymard.

People still thought that the place was extremely poor, and that the people still looked like street beggars.

They still had this ridiculous imagination that the people here could fight, and kill tourists over a single loaf of bread.

Back in the Capital, the old Landon had heard numerous ridiculous tales about Baymard. But the present him, knew that there was no logic to them.

If the people were really that viscious, how come they never formed gangs and attacked different cities or even other tiny villages?

They would have resulted into thievery, if they really had no way out.

Plus there were wild animals in the forest and fish in the sea.

Although they were starving, since their population wasn't much to begin with, they could still manage to pull through.

There were probably a handful of people who tried robbery, but Landon couldn't put all the citizens into 1 category and call them thieves.

But in this era, everything idea or story became reality by word of mouth.

So in the eyes of most people in the empire, the people of Baymard were wild carnivores that could even eat your entire leg out, due to extreme hunger.

I mean, Landon really couldn't blame them for thinking that way too.

Back on earth, Landon had heard of different cultures and rules that scared the sh* out of him... He didn't even want to go to those countries and verify if those stories were true or not.

Better safe than sorry.

Another reason why no traders, merchants, or even people came over, was mainly because Baymard had been exiled from the empire.

Who wanted to risk getting king Barn's wrath by coming over here?

And why would people travel over for hours, just to witness the sight of extreme poverty?

This wasn't a theme park attraction. This was an abandoned territory... It wasn't a wise move for merchants and traders.

Even ordinary citizens wouldn't leave their towns, villages and cities miles away, just to come here. Except they were running or hiding from someone.

That's why if anyone ever came towards the city gates, Landon had a 99% hunch that it was an enemy.

Although he knew all this, Landon still had no desire to change the empire's misconception about Baymard.

Lastly, Landon didn't want the citizens to be killed while venturing out, by either assassins or knights who planned to kill him and seize his land.

One could never be sure if more people were coming to get him anytime soon... hell!, they could be on their way right at this very moment.

Looking at the animals leave the boat, like how they did in the Bible, Landon became thrilled.

He needed milk from the cows, sheep and goats to make butter.

In addition, he also needed to teach the food industry workers how to raise the animals, and how to incubate the eggs while waiting for them to hatch.

He decided that 50% of the eggs would be sold, and the other half would be hatched to chicks.

Infact for all the animals, he would adapt that same philosophy.

Yes, killing animals was cruel... but bruhhh...people had to eat... these were dark times, alright?

Since the people needed meat, he would only kill 5% of each animal type for now.

There were no fridges to store the meat, so it was better to start with a low percentage. And if the people needed more, then he would gradualy increase the percentage steadily.

But he would never go above 50% of each animal type.

Of course he would never kill baby animals as well...

He also needed the wool from the sheep's for making blankets, carpets and several clothing items.

Sheep had very fast wool growth, so Landon needed to teach the men how to take care of these animals.

It was very essential for their wool to be cut, because if it over grew, the sheep would have several complications.

Excess wool would impede the sheep's ability to regulate their body temperatures, making them die from overheat.

The urine and faeces would also get trapped on the wool, attracting flies... which in turn causes infections, and hence endangering their health.

They would also have difficulty moving or seeing.

As for Angora goats, their fur was needed for making Mohair (yarn).

Angora goats looked exactly like sheep, but their fur was very stringy compared to that of sheep.

Mohair (yarn) was needed to make good winter scarves, coats, hats, suits, socks, carpets, sweaters and other clothing items as well.

Funny enough, because its texture resembled fine human hair, it was also used to make doll wings and so on.

Of course for now, he didn't want to go into textile just yet... He wanted to first use his time to breed the animals properly.

He had noticed that Baymard really lacked a lot of pasture around.

Sure... there were a few goats and rabbits within the territory, but it wasn't enough.

For farming seeds, this time Landon bought Cotton seeds and all the other seeds that he had previously gotten.

Landon also sold several ores to Santa's subordinate at his normal discounted price of course.

At the end, Landon only made 275,000 coins this time.

This was his lowest amount so far. He really couldn't help but fell that he had really gone overboard with his spending this time.

He had really lost a lot of coins paying for all those animals, seeds and slaves from Santa.

Although he knew that they were all essential to Baymard, it still hurt spending that huge sum of money at once.

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Landon became curious as to why Santa hadn't showed up in Baymard for the past 2 months now.

Was he sick? Did any impending crises befall him?

"Your highness, the young master is fine. Actually, King Carmelo of Carona should have stepped down from the throne by now... that's why the young master wasn't here personally."

Landon was shocked. He willingly stepped down from the throne in this era?

Landon couldn't help but give 2 thumbs up to the old man.

After finding out about the traditions and customs of Carona from Santa's subordinate, he had to admit that it was way better than what his bastard father was doing.

Landon could also somehow understand why Santa's father would be disappointed in his son not wanting to serve as a knight.

Who wouldn't want to serve such a king?

But to some extent, he also understood Santa's own way of thinking.

Santa just hated rules, and from the looks of it, Santa's own father was even stricter than King Carmelo when it came to rules.

If King Carmelo helped the poor out, they would say it's an act of charity... But when Santa worked in the bakery, he became a laughing stock in his city.

From what Landon understood, no one really laughed at Santa in a mocking way. They were just teasing him... But in Santa's father's eyes, it seemed like real insult.

So the problem only lied in Santa's family.

He was also curious to know which son would take over the thrown from king Carmelo.

But too bad that Santa's subordinate had no clue as well, since he left 2 weeks before the trials had even begun.

Once the ships headed out to sea, Landon decided to settle all the newly arrived citizens.

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Amongst the group of people, there were 312 children, 183 seniors, and 527 people who volunteered for the army.

Again, Landon had received 7 eccentric senior citizens that also wanted to prove their worth to him.

As soon as Landon saw them walking hurriedly towards him, he knew... he just knew that they were cousins to the 3 musketeers.

After spending more time with the 3 old men, how could he not recognize their cousins the Fantastic 7.

Before they even got closer to him, Landon immediately ordered the knights to carry all sorrounding stones around the area and dump far away from the beach.

And his guess was right.

As soon as they arrived, they stared yelling out very loudly.

"Where are you taking those stones to?"

"Hey!! Didn't you hear us?"

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Among the 7, were 2 women who kept telling Landon about how they use to wrestle men in their cities.

According to their story, they had even wrestled and won against their city lord and all his knights.

Of course he believed that women could actually win if they trained hard as well, but for some reason, he felt that these particular women were lying to him.

He would rather believe that human beings can chew molten larva, than to believe their stories.

They also bragged about having enough strength to take down his entire army in a single day.

Bravo Hercules, bravo!!

Landon kept trying to stop himself from rolling his eyes at them.

Did they really think that he was foolish enough to believe their tales? Sure he looked like a 15 year old kid, but still.. come on!!

He also succeded in convincing them to join the 3 musketeers in gardening... It was better to let the 2 groups compete with each other on who was stronger than whom.

Actually, he was looking forward to it as well.

He might have to buy popcorn from the system and watch through his system monitors.

If he was being honest, Granpa Willow and his friends made for a hilarious reality tv show.

He had been watching them whenever he got bored... Truly entertaining.

It looked like the palace would be even rowdier than before.

There were also 11 senior citizens who couldn't walk well due to either leg injuries or other health problems.

Immediately, Landon requested for 5 open-roof loading trucks to come to the coastline region.

He needed 5, because he figured that since he was going to carry the injured people in them, might as well carry all the other seniors too.

Once the trucks arrived, the new citizens were shocked.

What was this? Why was this carriage so cool? The children were also excited, as their eyes shot wide open.

The Fantastic 7, started bothering Landon about the trucks.

"Brat!!..better speak up now, are we going to have our own carriages in future?"

"If you give me 1, I will immediately engage you and my daughter together... Sure, she's 42, a widow and older than you, but what matters is love... and that carriage!!"

"Puiiiii!!, don't listen to him. I have a younger daughter who is 39 years old, way younger than 42..."

"Don't try to cheat us!!.. will we really have one?"

"Hmmp!!... I'll tell you what, I used to ride these types of carriages when I was younger...I'm not that easy to impress."

Landon could really feel a headache coming on.

'Why would I want your daughters? Do I look like a man who's into women older than my mother?'

Landon quickly looked at the soldiers who were gently aiding the other senior citizens board the trucks.

As they were boarding, Landon told the driver to go slow and steady when on the roads.

There were several stones on the roads, so it was better to go at a pace that wouldn't bother those injured seniors.

Landon also made sure that each truck had at least 5 soldiers on them, just incase of any accidents happened along the way.

As the trucks started moving again, the seniors on the truck, kept shouting, pointing and commenting, as they observed their surroundings.

"Ahh!!, look over there, what is the structure?"

"Look at those beautiful flowers"

"Do you think that we will see wild animals on our way?"

As Landon heard their comments, he almost lost his balance.

Do you guys think that you're on a safari trip in Africa? What wild animals?... sigh... forget it.

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Once the group containing the Fantastic 7 left, Landon continued on with his duties.

He assigned 20 more caretakers to look after the children, and 158 stable workers for the horses.

Now, Landon had 5,600 people available for work.

He decided to send 300 workers to the food Industry, another 300 as caretakers for all the animals, 300 to the Alchemy Industry, as well as 700 to the construction Industry.

The remaining 4,000 would work in actual construction.

The animals were placed in the stables of the food Industry.

One should know that before the industries existed, those estates were used for as residents for the barons.

Each Baron had at least 4500 knights under their care, and these knights in turn had their own horses.

So there were a lot of in-door house stables at the back of every estate.

Landon decided to have all the animals stay in those in door stables for now.

Since he was expecting these animals, he had previously requested for the department 6 of the construction company, to build metal bars, for each animal shed. He had also brought in a lot of hay and metal trays for the chickens.

For the food Industry, Landon gave them the task of creating butter and taking care of all the animals as per his instructions. For the entire month, this was their only task.

The Alchemy industry on the other hand, needed to focus on soap making for the entire month.

The construction industry would also focus on furniture making and, Porcelain and marble making.

Although Landon wouldn't build a gigantic villa as a house, he still wanted the houses to capture the modern essence of beauty.

That's why Landon had decided to make Porcelain and marble.

He needed porcelain floor tiles, as well as marble ones.

These materials could also be used in making breakable plates, teacups, teapots and so on.

Both marble and Porcelain could also be added to furniture, house pillars, and wall papers to create beautiful designs.

Marble in particular could also be used as aggregates for making cement blocks, so Landon thought it was the perfect time to make them.

Since the raw materials were available, why not start now?

He carefully explained the process, as he handed over an exercise book containing a detailed description on the manufacturing process to Tim.

Feldspar ore, clay mineral ore and sand were used to create porcelain.

The raw materials were to be crushed, mixed, and passed through a screen or filter to remove any over-size particle.

From there, water would be added and a clay like product formed.

The clay should resemble all those Clay's in sculpting classes.

The workers were to then mold different cups, plates and so on.

The floor tiles were to be spread flatly, using only very thin layers of clay.

Once molded, everything would besent to the fire.

And at the end of the day, Landon expected them to also paint and create their own designs on the cups and plates.

Who knows, they could make a teacup saying: 'Father of the year' on it.

Landon wanted the workers to use their creative imaginations, so he set up a competition.

At the end of the next month, the top 3 designs would win several prizes from him.

He wanted to stimulate their minds and encourage their own personal growth within Baymard.

As for those in charge of furniture making, they were to get the already cut planks and wooden boards, from the wood cutting department and start making bed frames, chairs, tables and so on.

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Finally, he was left with his 4,000 construction workers.

His thinking was simple.

When building a house, it was essential to hook up the water, electricity and heating before construction.

He could do it later, but that would result in more work.

If Landon did it after building the houses, he would need to break down the house walls and floors later on, just to install underground pipes and sewage systems.

That was just double work.

Before constructing houses for the citizens, he had to make sure that these 3 Industries existed: Water Sewer treatment plant, Thermal power plant (electricity) and central heating plant.

Previously, Landon had 6000 workers that created heavy machines like tractors.

Now that Baymard had over 800 different types of heavy machines, Landon decided to withdraw 4500 out of those 6000, and add to them with the new recruits. Leaving only 1,500 to continue making the machines.

Now, he had a total of 8,500 workers ready for construction.

The old workers were now considered as veterans.

They knew how to use all the tools and machines, as well as perform quick calculations.

They also understood the concept of inches, yards and so on.

It would be easier for them to teach the new recruits while on the job.

That's why Landon had put them together.

Each old worker would guide and help atleast 1 new worker, since they were almost even in number.

Previously, when Landon was teaching the construction workers how to use the machines, they had practiced, and already leveled and prepared all the construction sites for building.

They used the excavators to dig up and clear all trees and leaves within the area.

The construction site that was filled with trees and bushes, was now 'bald'.

They also made trenches for pipelines around the perimeter of the sites. As well as trenches, that would connect all industry pipelines together.

The 3 meter wide gigantic pipes had been wheeled in to the construction site, by the use of Lowboy machines.

They were basically like those trailers you see in airports, that carry luggage to the plane. Except, this one was for construction purposes. It had no walls, no roofs, just a floor on wheels.

Of course it had several chains, to prevent the pipes from falling.

They were also good for transporting giant trees from one place to another.

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With everything organized, it was finally time to start building actual structures

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Landon chose to begin with the water and sewage treatment plant.

This plant would have 2 main functions; purifying sea water and treating sewage.

Landon was sick and tired of using buckets and pit toilets to do his business.

As a modern man, how could it not bother him?

It was really annoying to have the young butlers in his castle carry the buckets out everyday.

Honesty, Landon thought that this was human abuse. But the people didn't seem to mind, as if it was nothing at all.

Once, he wanted to take out his own bucket of sh, and 1 of the young butler's started crying, thinking that Landon wanted to fire him.

What the f*?... Dude, I'm trying to help you, alright?

He had already made up his mind that next month, he would definitely make pulp and paper.

In this era, people washed their asses with either a communal sponge on a stick, reusable rags, corn cobs, old ropes, or their hands.

It was so disgusting.

Every household would share the same rags or sponges with each other after going to the toilet.

As for Royalty, after using the sponge on a stick, the butler would clean it up and the next royal family member could use that same sponge... the same thought process went for reusable rags.

Infact there were really few sponges around, that Landon was sure that somebody else had used his sponge.

He just chose not to think about because the last time he did, he kept puking all through the night.

To make matters worse, the system was a scammer when it came to toilet paper.

How could 3 squares of toilet paper cost 20 Development points? Was he using gold to wipe his ass?

Landon really thought that the system was intentionally making things difficult for him this time.

At this point he couldn't help but blame truck-kun for seriously killing him back on earth.

If the truck hadn't ran over the red light hurriedly, he would still be alive up till this day.

Before dying, he had seen the shocked look on the drivers face, so he knew that it was an accident.

Since he didn't want to really blame driver-kun, the truck was at fault.

Sigh... truck-kun.

In this era, the people weren't too big on hygiene, so they didn't mind sharing the same toilet rag or sponge with each other.

He had been painstakingly waiting for the time when he would succeed in toilet paper making.

On that day, he would probably dance 'gangnam style' in his bedroom.

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For the water and sewage treatment plant, Landon needed several buildings and pipes in place.

Since he decided to treat sea water, Landon needed 3 gigantic pipelines, to be placed underground from the sea in the coastline region, to the plant in the lower region.

2 of those pipelines would be used daily, while the other one would be there as backup, should incase the other 2 needed maintenance or fixing.

All the water would pass through the pipes and head toward a 300 sq foot building, which should have different filtering equipments used for filtering out any sand particles or hard rocks from the water.

After filtering, the water would still go through several buildings that would focus on filtration and chemical addition, until the water is entirely clean.

All the tanks needed, would be the same size as a regular swimming pool, except for the chemical storage tanks.

Landon planned to build these tanks like how one would build an aquarium seal show or a regular swimming pool.

There would be safety bars and waist high iron fences around each pool, that wouldn't allow people to come close or touch the tanks carelessly.

For water and sewage treatment, it was industrially better for everything to be eye level.

Several chemicals would also be added to the water treatment process.

Chlorine for example would be used for disinfecting the water. And lime for raising the water's pH level, hence reducing corrosion in the pipes.

As for the sewage treatment, Landon realized that he needed 11 more buildings within the plant.

Waste water would be collected from toilets, drainage pipes, homes, schools, industries.. in fact from everywhere.

So of course they needed their own buildings and treatment tanks.

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Landon also realised that he needed more buildings that would host, the workers daily necessities.

Landon decided to adopt the standard industry setup for a power plant, back on earth. Hence the industry would have 2 sectors.

Before anyone could pass through the main gate, security would check if they were authorized or not.

The 1st sector would immediately follow after the main gate.

This sector would have: 6 buildings for staff and office personnels, 1 infirmary building and 1 security building.

These 6 buildings would have; staff and meeting rooms, large locker rooms for both male and females, a large kitchen, a large cafeteria, bathrooms and showers around the buildings and equipment rooms.

Some of the buildings would be 4 stories high, while some would be less.

There would also be a wall and a gate dividing the 1st and the 2nd sectors.

Only authorized personnel, workers or engineers will be able to go to the 2nd sector.

The 2nd sector would have the fire department building, control tower, chemical laboratory building, engineering office building, the production vessels, chemical storage building and another security building at the gate of the second sector.

Landon wanted the plant to be professional.

He couldn't allow people to just walk in and out as they liked.

The security had to be tight.

Only those with badges, access cards or passes could move in and out of the plant. ... And even those who worked in sector 1, couldn't pass through sector 2 as they liked.

That's how it was done on earth, and that's how he was going to so it here. No room for errors.

One had to be like Tom Cruise in 'Mission Impossible', to get into the plant unauthorized.

Heck, what if someone wanted to steal important documents in the Offices? Or blow up the plant from within?

What if an enemy wanted to steal his technology? Or poison the workers?.

Security was a must.

He also needed a car park that would be the same size as that for Walmart or any large shopping center.

The car park should also have reserved spaces for the company buses, assigned for picking and dropping workers to home or any where within the various bus routes.

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He wore his safety gear and headed out to the construction site.

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It was 9 A.M, time to work.

Since the workers came to work already wearing their new safety gears, he had them offload the trucks that contained sand, cement blocks, cement bags, aggregates, steel rods, ladders and all other equipments and materials needed for construction.

Before Landon could explain the first step to them, the old workers had already taken out their jotters, as well as their pens.

Landon smiled while nodding agreeably.

They learned so fast.

Within this time, the old recruits had learnt to write down important information in their jotters.

Since Landon wasn't there to do everything for them any more, they started writing down important information, so that they didn't have to go through several experiments again.

The new recruits were confused about what those stick things (pens) were... And did they just see their colleagues take out tiny manuals?

The new recruits started wondering if Baymard was actually super rich for normal workers to afford manuals.

Mind you, people didn't have exercise books in this era since paper was seen as a national treasure.

Paper was only used to make manuals (textbooks) or important historical records or empire rules.. ... But to allow someone to waste paper just like that, was really something else.

How could ordinary workers afford paper, talk less of manuals?

Landon amplified his voice using the system, and also demonstrated several times on how the foundation of buildings were to be done.

He spent 1 hour, repeatedly showing then what to do.

And when they finally got it, he broke them up into groups and assigned them to each building and each large tank on the site.

Since those tanks were the size of regular swimming pools, their base needed to be made out of concrete as well.

The workers first made wooden boards to the sides of the trenches, and added crushed stones (gravel) into the trenches.

The wooden boards acted as walls, surrounding the gravel and forming what construction workers call 'the Foot'.

The gravel was also spread around the entire ground floor of the building with the help of wheelbarrows.

As for the base, they placed long steel bars which were also held together by steel rods into the gravel.

Once the steel rods were placed, the trenches were completely filling with concrete. As well as the building ground floor of the building.

Finally, they used the screeds to smoothen the cement on the building floor, making it look even.

With 8500 workers doing this, after 2 and a half hours, they had completely layed down the foundation for the entire Industry.

With this many people, they should have been done in 1 hour. But since it was their first time, it was expected for them to be slow.

Now they had to wait for 2 days for the cement to cure and harden, before removing those wooden walls, and beams around the cement.

Tsk... time was money.

There was no way that he would let the workers do nothing within these 2 days.

Might as well start constructing the other industries.

Landon needed them to go to the other construction sites, to also place the foundation for their buildings and tanks.

Just as he was about to leave, he spotted 2 loading trucks heading their way.

It was probably 12:30, lunch time.

The men removed their gloves and aided in offloading the cooking pots from the trucks.

There were 20 pots and 20 cooks waiting to serve the dishes to them. There were also 20 other cooks, who were tasked in handing out plastic plates and cups to the men.

The cooks looked very professional.

They had white elastic hair wraps on their heads, transparent gloves on their hands and wore clean white plastic aprons.

They were also several drums filled with water that were offloaded as well.

The drums had 4 outlet taps at their bottoms, so that the men could easy get themselves water if they were thirsty.

Break time was 1 hour long, so the men had to manage their time wisely.

It was better to eat fast, so as to relief yourself if one needed to.

The men formed 20 lines, as they hurriedly took their food as sat on the grass.

Landon didn't want them to eat on the construction site, so the trucks gathered just by the side of the construction site markings.

Of course as King, Landon didn't need to wait online as his food was automatically brought over to him.

The privileges of power.. hehehe

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1:30 P.M, lunch time was over.

The men to loaded all the bags of cement, and other materials and equipment into different trucks. Once they were done, they headed out to the second construction site.

By 2:15 P.M, they arrived, and only used 1 hour 15 minutes to completely layer the foundation for all buildings and tanks on the site.

They packed up again and were on their way to the final construction site.

By 5:10 P.M, they were done with layering the doundation for all buildings and tanks on site.

All the workers were working in the day shift, and had spent 8 hours on the job, so by 5:30 P.M, they were required to call it quits for the day.

With only 20 more minutes left before closing time, Landon had the men gather up all the tools and drive back to the construction company.

Tomorrow, he would focus on installing the iron net-like fences around the sites, since they had to wait for 2 days before the cement completely hardened.

For the fences, Landon wanted them to be like regular Prison fences that had barbed wires at the top.

In future, the barbed wires would definitly be able to electrocute those who try to sneak in.

Landon wasn't taking any chances with anybody.

In future, without your badge, access card or pass, don't even dream of seeing the inside of the Industry.

If someone lost their access cards or pass, someone would immediately come over and verify if they worked there or not.

All spies would be electrocuted, period.

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--Royal Palace, The Capital of Arcadina--

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"My king, right now the first prince and 7 other city lords are the only ones to arrive the capital to take their assignments.

The 2nd and 3rd princes should get back here in a week or 2.

And by the second week of August, all the other city lords from far away should arrive as well.

Once everyone arrives, they will all move out together towards the different cities under attack." Minister Tawney said.

"Good... has city lord Shannon arrived yet?" King Barn asked.

"My esteem king, he should arrive in August."

"Hahaha.. When he arrives, make sure that he sees me before going out on the mission. I need to give him a personal assignment on my behalf."

"Yes my king"

King Barn looked at his trusted knight and signaled for him to come forward.

"Summon Princess Jenette and Captain Anthony here"

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--Eli's old courtyard, the Capital of Arcadina--

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"My lord, I think those old ministers are trying to use this war to the advantage of your brothers... My lord, should we get secret guards to protect you?" Zarius asked.

Right now, Eli had made his way into the Capital so as to receive his assignments.

Eli stood in his old courtyard and smiled.

"Why worry about those tiny insects so such?"

"But my lord, I think that they will try to assassinate you again if you don't go prepared" Zarius replied.

"Who says that we wouldn't be prepared?... Do I need to use my brain to deal with these baffoons?.. The biggest set back is that we cant besiege Baymard. "

Zarius' eyes lit up.

Because of this border war, Eli might not be able to get that Baymard under his control until next year.

The official date to head out to the border, is on the 15th of August.

It will take 2 months to go down south to the border.

And once he completed his mission, his father would probably request that he stay there for at least 4 months, so as to make sure that those pesky Deiferus knights dont bring more reinforcements to take back the land.

After 4 months he would have to take another 2 months to head back to the Capital, so as to receive his rewards and have a parade as the crown prince of Arcadina.

Aftrr the whole ordeal, he would need another 3 weeks to go back to his territory, before attempting to attack Baymard again.

And one should not forget that Baymard is 4 months away from his territory.

That's almost 11 months by horse travel, before he could successfully attack Baymard.

At most, he could only start his operations by July next year.

"Apart from Baymard, that damn Ghostly prince keeps giving me sleepless nights...The fact that I don't really know his next moves really irks me." Eli exclaimed will squeezing the life out of the orange in his hand.

"My lord, do you think that while we are away, he would finally make his move?" Zarius asked inquuisitively.

Just before he was about to answer, someone knocked on his door.

After 2 minutes, a thick, curvy beautiful woman walked in and sat on a chair beside Eli.

This woman was his mother.

"Little Eli... Once you head out, make sure nothing fails.. the sooner you get back, the earlier we can officially start with our plans." Said queen Sera.

"Mom, everything is ready... Don't worry... Although this trip was a little unexpected, it won't stop our plans."

"Good... the sooner we kill that bastard, the sooner I will be at peace". Queen Sera said with an evil glint in her eyes.

At this point, she too hated King Barn.

Hell has no Fury like a woman's scorn.

When she was still young, she was officially engaged to him and was deeply infatuated with him.

He said that he would love her till they grew old together.

Granted, she would always kill and torture those women that claimed to love him too.. but did that really make her a bad person?

She loved him like crazy and would sometimes ask her father, who was a minister within the court, to find out his schedule so she could 'accidentally' bump into him her and there.

If he ever showed interest to any girl other than her, for sure that girl wouldn't last a week.

And if the girl came from a wealthy family, she would hire gangs to rape the girl and destroy her public image.

Didn't she do it all for love? Wasn't that what love was?

Not even 3 months after his marital vow of evaluating love for her, he cheated on her and married another woman.

He said that she seduced him and was the one who did all the work in the bedroom... Of course she believed him.

How could her love be interested in that slut?

But a few months before she was to go in to labor, that slut had the nerve become pregnant as well.

And 2 days before her labor date, another slut had married into the royal family.

And another year after that, a cheap common maid had taken advantage of her drunk husband and gotten pregnant with a bastard child.

Why were all these women coming for her man?

But she quickly realised that the first 2 harlots were much wiser than the last one.

So she decided to first eliminate the last slut.

But who would have thought that chief Commander Lucius would always protect that b*ch.

All these damn b*es made her sick.

To make matters worse, it had been 6 whole years since he last touched her.

She tried everything, from the latest plum makeup, to hiring street harlots to teach her the game of seduction, to acting like a pampered princess.

What else was she to do?

And to top it all off, she as a woman that needed and craved for satisfaction as well.

She wasn't asking for to much... Even once a year was a good deal to her at this point.

Her husband could have many women, but she couldn't?

If she ever found pleasure from any other man, she was sure that she would be locked up in a prison-like courtyard for all eternity.

Over the years, the bastard had gotten ordinary street harlots to please him in bed, yet he refused to even look at her?

Sometimes, she could here their screams of pleasures all the way from her courtyard.

It felt like torture... 9 whole years of loneliness.

She just wanted to be touched... she had been dying inside for ages now.

Everytime she tried to talk to him about it, he would make up an excuse and run away from her... there were times that he would ask her if she was a dog... because according to him, only dogs went in heat.

Out of those 9 lonely years, she had spent 3 years begging for his attention daily.

But on the 4th year, her love for him had completely died.

She had overheard him talk to a young maid, promising her love and riches if she could sleep with him.

He even said that he couldn't stand her because she was fat!... her fat!!.. hahaha... it was on that day that she finally realised how stupid she had been.

To think that this was the man that she killed countless women for.

Since then, all her love for him instantly turned to hate.

And as years went by, her murderous side began to take over her mind.

He had to die.

--Royal Palace, Capital of Arcadina--

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Jenette Barn walked around the royal garden with her maids, while waiting for her father to summon her.

She had been waiting for the past 1 hour now, and her father was still in a meeting with the ministers.

As she walked further into the garden, she immediately spotted her dear little sister.

Cary Barn was walking towards a large fish pond, a few feet away from her... There were also several knights, and even some Barons in the gardens.

People usually stayed in the royal garden when they were waiting for their turn to see King Barn.

"Little sister, your here too?... let's walk along together okay?"

Speak of the devil.

Cary Barn turned around and saw Jenette running towards her... Her face immediately scrunched up, and she looked like someone who just ate dog poop.

Jenette sneered, as she hurriedly made her way towards Cary.

This little sister of hers already had a bad reputation in the Capital, thanks to her.

Her white lotus act had always made everyone side with her, while they in turn despised Cary.

"What do you want?" Cary asked with a frown on her face.

Jenette stopped in her tracks and immediately started acting as if she was sobbing, while choking on her fake tears.

She really looked pitiful.

What man wouldn't feel touched while seeing a gentle angel crying?

All the knights around the area, immediately felt pain seeing her like this.

"Little sister, how.. how can you talk to me like that?.. If I did something to anger you please forgive me... I...I...I just want wanted to spend more time with you little sis.."

The scene was really heartbreaking.

The moronic knights who had seen this, immediately looked at Cary with disapproving gazes, while rushing over to Jenette's side.

"Princess Cary, must you be so heartless?"

"Yeah, why must you make her cry?"

"_"

The knights spoke out as they saw their goddess, Princess Jenette in tears.

They even forgot that they were reprimanding another princess who could order for their deaths.

'Come on little sister, your almost making it too easy for me now... heheheh..', Jenette thought.

As the men comforted her, Janette continued to sob even more loudly.

"Please.. please everyone.. don't misunderstand my little sister... she was just having a bad day, that's why she talked to me in that manner... she... she's really a good person and not arrogant and rude like what you all think."

All the men looked at princess Jenette as if she were some divine being...They all thought that the princess had a heart of gold... To them Princess Jenette was pure, saintly, kind and innocent. She looked like someone whom anyone could easily bully.

"Little sister please!! don't punish or kill the knights for talking back at you... if.. If you want to hurt someone, hurt me instead... I will willingly offer up my life for any of them." Jenette said, as she fell to her knees.

The knights felt touched, and started defending the princess even more.

Cary was almost at her boiling point.

When did she say that she would kill them?

What bullsh*!!! ..Jenette? offer her life for them?.. What a joke!

She knew that if she made a move against these knights, the entire empire would go in an uproar. She would become the most viscious woman of all time.

It's not liked she cared or anything, but before her and Eli's plans went through, she couldn't afford to affect his position as the crown prince.

For now, most of the citizens wanted Eli to step down from his position as the crown prince... But they were scared to take action.

If a large scale revolt really happened, the citizens would carry fire torches and march up to the palace, demanding for Eli's removal.

The Capital alone had 37 million people living in it... Sure, there were knights, gangs and assassins mixed in the group. But the peasants were still quite large in number.

No matter what, all the nobles and knights under her and Eli, couldn't possibly protect themselves if a large scale revolt actually happened.

Imagine millions of people standing outside the palace walls with torches and other weapons.

Even if their father assisted, if still wouldn't count as much.

Fortunately for Cary and Eli, the citizens had not realized the power that they held.

What would happen if they decided to team up against them? No one would stand a chance then.

For now, they only did small protests in the market areas, but who could really predict the future?

These people still feared the nobles, especially King Barn.

Their king had killed people when he was displeased, as well as when anyone wanted to go against him. Their king ruled like a tyrant... He was a dictator.

They reason why they even had the courage to protest in the market places was because, prince Connor and James promised that they would protect them from King Barn's wrath.

King Barn could easily send out his men to make things difficult for them, or murder their families.

Most of them were just ordinary peasants who had never fought a day in their lives. But since Connor and James were their king's sons, the gullible citizens easily believed them.

They wholeheartedly entrusted their safeties to them, and started protesting against Eli's position.

Because of Connor and James' heroic acts, the people were even more convinced with their choice and actions.

Previously they liked Eli, as he always seemed sweet and kind. And he also looked somewhat innocent.

But lately, they had been hearing all sorts of rumours about him.

It was said that he enjoyed killing and raping women during his free time.

Apparently, Eli had murdered multiple women after he was done sleeping with them.

It was also said that he had always been jealous of his brothers, and had tried to assassinate them several times.

Obviously, these rumours were spread by Connor and James, but the people were like sheep.. They just followed a Shepard.

Once something had circulated for a while, it would become a fact in their hearts.

They truly believed these rumors because Eli had never bothered to prove his innocence.. So it must definitely be true.

And to top it all off, Cary as the most viscious woman in the empire, was Eli's sister.

The people now believed that the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

How could such a cruel man be their king?

Cary looked at her white lotus sister coldly... What a b*ch!!

And just before she was about to defend herself, a guard came over informing Jenette that their father wanted to see her.

Jenette hurriedly left, giving Cary no time to make an explanation.

As Cary watched her white lotus sister leave, she knew that what had happened here would definitely spread throughout the entire Capital.

'I'll get you back for this slut!!... Just you wait!!'

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Jenette walked into the large throne room and immediately spotted Captain Anthony Martinez, standing in front of her father.

As she looked at him, her heart couldn't help but shiver.

8 months ago, she had come across Anthony's stunning sword skills in the annual knightly tournament.

He was so handsome, strong and had a heroic charm about him.

What a dangerous man.

Just looking at him, she was sure that he had successfully impregnated her eyes.

wasn't it a crime for someone to look that good?

Anthony was the son of Minister Golem Martinez, so she knew that marrying him wouldn't be a problem.. since he was a noble... Hence she schemed her way into his life and into his heart.

4 months ago, they had officially started dating. And today, her father had called them over to announce that they would be officially engaged, and their wedding would take place before the end of the year.

Although she hadn't known him for a long time, Jennette was sure that he was the one.

Thats why she had begged and pleaded with her father to rush along the marriage.

She was 19 years old, and in this era, people married about this age.

They would get engaged at 10 or 11 and get married at 17 or maximum 23... Above 23, you were considered as a problematic woman who no one wanted... men would be very wary of you, and might use you as a side chick...

Most women above 23 became desperate and ended up marrying as second wives to elderly rich men.

For some reason, her mother had been against all the suitors that previously wanted to be engaged with her.

Her mother had said that she would only accept the best of the best for Jenette... That's why Anthony was the only one that got an approval.

He was a Noble, young, had outstanding achievements in the army, and was soughted after by almost all girls in the Capital.

After their father had dismissed both of them, she decided to see him off, as they walked hand in hand with each other.

"Are you happy?"

Note from author-san: Hehehe... Thank you all for you love and corrections you have all made so far...

Thanks to you all, my english had really been picking up.

There are so many people who commented.. and most of it is love.

From now one, every chapter will have a mini shout out to the ' first commenter' and the ' best correction commenter'.. . Thanks guys.

Especially ' Tonyorobosky ' for his comment... I have edited the population of the empire to be 250 thousand people.. thanks

Also a big shout out to ' PotatoeKeeper ' for being the first person to comment and like the chapter.

Now, let's get the show on the road.

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2 days had already passed, and the concrete had successfully hardened.

Within these 2 days, the men had been installing those iron-net prison fences around the site.

So far, they had only succeeded in completely fencing the back, and the sides of the water and sewage treatment plant.

Landon kept the front open, so that the trucks could move in and out of the site freely.

9 A.M

Landon had the men remove all the wooden boards, molds and rails that were previously placed around each would-be building on the construction site.

Today, they had to focus on constructing the first floors of every building on the construction site.

Landon again, demonstrated what they were supposed to do. And once they had grasped the concept, he decided to have them start on their own.

He also tasked 500 workers with mixing the cement to form concrete, and wheeling them over towards each building on the site.

The rest of the 8000 workers crowded around all the buildings sites, ready for work.

The concrete had hardened and had successfully glued the steel rods firmly to the building floors.

And although these steel rods already indicated all corners and rooms on the first floor, it was still important to make sure that the walls were straight and not bent.

That's why Landon had the men tie ropes between each rod, so as to accurately form straight lines within the buildings.

Landon listened to the workers, as they went about trying the outline the buildings.

"The rope is slanted, I think we should connect these 2 rods"

"I don't think that we need to tie the rope between these to rods, it should be between the other 2"

"Ahh!!...Your right!!...The floor plan given by his highness shows that this space between the rods is a door"

"We need to tie the ropes only between the rods that would be turned into walls."

"What about the parts were his highness wrote 'hallway'?"

"I remember that his highness said that the hallway is also like a passageway or corridor"

"That's true, I remember that I wrote it down on my notes... thanks for the reminder"

"Yeah, thanks.. To think that I actually forgot about it.. I need to go home and revise more on it".

"Thank you for explaining these things to me, I just got here 4 days ago... so I have no idea what most of this stuff means... But now, I believe that I have a little more understanding towards this."

"Don't worry, once you keep working and attending your school lectures, you too will get it... Its actually not that hard."

"_"

The men continued to chat and learn from each other, as the work progressed on.

When they were done, it was finally time to start creating the interior and exterior walls.

The men used those ropes as their rulers, and started stacking up the cement blocks.

The men layed out the concrete on the floors along the ropes, and placed the cement blocks on the concrete.

Just like that, they kept stacking up the blocks on one another, with the use of concrete.

Landon thought that the men looked extremely funny.

Imagine a long line of people waiting to have access into a club.

That's how they looked as they worked around and inside each building. .. They were packed like tiny sardines, as they went about their work.

Each person just had 1 foot of working space in front of them.

Most plants back on earth, for example power plants, provided energy for an entire province or atleast 3 or 4 cities at once... Hence their sizes were bigger.

For example, the Parlo Verde plant in Arizona U.S.A, provided energy to Los Angeles, San Diego, Tuscon and many more Californian metropolitan areas.

The same could be said for 80% of Industrial plants back on earth.

For Landon's case, he was just providing for Baymard alone... That's why Baymard's Industrial plants didn't need to be so massive.

Hence, although he made 500 men mix the concrete, he still felt like 8000 workers were really alot for a normal size plant.

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Once the men had stacked up to 1 meter high, the men used the iron bridge ladders to continue on.

The first floor was going to be a high ceiling floor, so Landon needed it to reach at least 3 meters tall.

The iron bridge ladders could hold up to 3 people at once, and resembled those ladders that window cleaners used back on earth.

Landon then divided the men into groups of 6.

3 people would stand on the ladders, while the other 3 would be on the ground.

2 out of the 3 men on the ground, would aid in giving those on the ladders cement blocks and buckets filled with concrete... While the 3rd person, would keep an eye on the ladder footing, so as to ensure the safety of those on top.

Again, 2 out of 3 workers on the ladders would continue stacking the walls, while the other one be in charge of collecting the buckets of cement and blocks from those on the ground.

The work went steady. And by closing time, the first floor of 75% of the buildings, had been successfully done.

Now, they had to wait for 2 days again, for the concrete to completely harden before they could successfully form the second floors.

Of course for the next 2 days, once the men completed the first floor of the buildings left, Landon had them start constructing the first floor walls for the other 2 sites.

Honestly, Landon was getting ticked off with this damn cement hardening stuff.

Like why couldn't it just dry down after several hours? Why wait for days?... he needed this industries built fast..

Chop! Chop!.. Time was money.

But since he was doing all the plant sites at once, his irritation about the matter lessened.

And just like that, Landon spent most of his days with the construction team.

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--Empire of Arcadina, Secret Hideout--

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William wore his boots, tied his hair, and placed his sword in his sheath.

Mona rushed up to him, and gently held his checks with her palms, as she fought back the urge to cry.

Her son was a man now, so it was really inappropriate for her to always cry or hold him back... He had responsibilities, and a duty to fulfill.

"Little William, make sure to stay safe... And if you are ever trapped or discovered, make a run for it and don't try to be heroic.. Heroes usually die faster. "

Oden walked up behind Mona, and placed his right hand on William's shoulder.

"Its been almost 2 months now, and that Slytherin Bastard should be making his way over to Sangria city.

And In another 3 weeks, he should be arriving.

You need to make sure that you get to Sangria before he does.

Once you successfully get through the city undetected, Captain Remlock would be waiting for you at the Quinzy Inn.

And like your mother said... If anything goes wrong, RUN!!

Your mother and I can live our lives without having to fulfill our desire for revenge... But without you, there would be no point living for us to live on.

Be safe!!"

"Dad, mom, Aren't I the ghostly Prince? Since when did I ever loose to anyone?.. Rest assured, I will return back to you all safe... And besides... I'm no hero. "

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Sorry guys, the reaso for the late posts is because of exams... once this week passes.. we wi have early posts again

Anyway... I want to give a big shout out to "Merifu" who was the first to comment yesterday, and ...heheheh... ding!.. ding! Ding!!.. we have a tie.. "Joshk' and 'Woofromearth' for their comments

Thanks for all the love guys... hope you enjoy..

Now as always, let's get the show on the road.

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The soldiers were sleeping and snoring peacefully within their sleeping units.

Every military dormitory had 4 long vertical stacks of straw: 2 on the left side of the room and 2 on the right side of the room.

There where also several iron lockers that were placed all around the each wall in the room.

The lockers resembled the gym lockers back on earth...but each locker was 2 meters tall and 1 meter wide.

All of the lockers had locks on them, and also had number tags placed on them.

The center of the rooms were kept straw-free, creating a large corridor space for morning roll call.

The stacks of straw on the each side were separated by a 2 meter gap, leaving the center space to 4 meters wide.

Some rooms had less stacks, while others had more... it basically depended on the dimensions of the rooms.

In this era, most peasants slept on straws, grass, leaves, and other plants that were deemed comfortable.

Previously, Landon had wanted to place the straws in fabrics to make mattresses.

But the men complained that loose heaps where more comfortable to sleep on, compared to compact ones.

When straws were forced and pressed in to clothe, they ended up poking people when they slept.

Some of the straws might even poke out of the fabric, giving the straw mattresses a spike-like feeling to them.

Hence Landon placed long vertical stacks of straw in every room.

The straw was changed every 3 weeks by all the soldiers in each room, as per the room roster.

In future, there would be bunk beds for them. But for now, the straw was their best alternative.

Afterall, that was what they were used to anyway.

And as for the blankets, each soldier had a 2 meter piece of clothe, to cover themselves up at night...

For now, there were no pillows, since the men preferred so sleep without stone pillows... And Landon didn't blame them...

Who would want to sleep on rocks or pebbles?

In this era, if peasants were really keen on pillows, they would place several pebbles and dried seaweeds into a piece of fabric and call it a pillow.

More like a torturing device.

Would that give you serious neck injuries?

Anyway, each room had a minimum of 30 soldiers residing in them.

Since no one was in the rank of drill sergeant, Landon had the Warrant officers look after the new recruits.

Drill Sergeants were those ranked in the 'Enlisted ranks' between Sergeants and Master sergrants.

Everyone in the military fort was either overqualified (warrant soldiers and above) or underqualified (new recruits).

That's why the warrant soldiers were the best options for now.

Each room had a warrant officer that would be in charge of waking up the new recruits and supervising their morning training.

It was 6:00 A.M.

In Kersten's room, there were 40 soldiers sound asleep as they waited for a new day to begin.

Each vertical stack had 10 soldiers on them.

'Phiiiiip'

The whistle blower.

"Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up!... you all have 5 minutes to be fully dressed and assembled at the center of the rooms!" Warrant officer Justin yelled out.

Kersten immediately jumped up and rushed towards his locker.

Kersten had just arrived this July, and was still not use to all the new routines that were done in Baymard.

He had always wanted to be a knight growing up. And when he was 7, he started training as a page in his home town.

By the age if 13, his town was attacked by a fierce blood gang and his grandparents died while protecting him and his sister.

His grandparents and all the other adults, tried to stall the gang, while him, his sister and all the other children and some adults fled for their lives.

His mother died during childbirth, and his father died while he was out hunting in the forest.

All he had were his sister and his grandparents... But when he fled with his 6 year old sister at the time, he knew that he would never see his grandparents again.

He had lived the next 3 years of his life begging, doing petty thievery to feed his little sister and working as a loader in a shipping dock in Fringa city, within the empire of Terique.

It was there that fate finally decided to smile on him.

While he was loading items unto a ship, he had overheard a man, presumably the owner of the ship, ask about where he could get refugees and buy slaves within the city.

Several days later, the man brought a lot of people by the dock and started reassuring them that where they were going would be a happy place with equal pay and good times.

Although he was intrigued, he still felt that it was a scam.

Ever since he had fled with his sister, people had bullied him and treated him like a piece of horse sh*.

He would get beaten up by the sailors on board most of the ships while he was loading items, or even have dirty moped water, thrown on his face when his colleagues were having a bad day.

He had preserved through all the torture because of his sister... She was all he had, and he would atleast try to make her life as comfortable as possible.

But now, he had heard that there was such a place that would treat him with respect, and apparently even catered to the poor?

Bulsh*!!

Wasnt this just a typical slavery scam?

But then again, something in his heart kept saying 'what if'.

What if, what the man said was true?.. what if he could really become a knight and earn enough money for his sister and him?.. and even if it was a scam, was he not already treated like shit were he was?

Although it was risky, he finally gathered enough courage and begged the man to add him and his little sister to the list.

And the rest was history.

Once he arrived he immediately noticed that this city in particular, had soldiers and not knights.

As he was already 16, he immediately volunteered for the army since that had always been a life longg dream of his.

Within these 2 weeks, he had also realised that everything that his highness Landon promised them, was true.

He made new friends, attended lectures, had enough food to eat and passed his days in peace.

His sister was also happy with her life, and lived in the estate with all the other slaves and refugees.

Since he was in the army and couldn't live in the refugee/slave estate, his 9 year old sister had to live with 1 other child and 1 caretaker in single large room.

So she was fine and well taken care of daily.

Plus, during his free time, he would make stops to her estate to check up on her regularly.

He loved his time here in Baymard,especially the army experience... Tsk! To think that he actually hesitated on giving up this golden opportunity.

He also made up his mind that he would never betray Baymard, because they had given back his dignity as a man back, taken care of his only sister, and fulfilled his dream to be a knight.. or should he say soldier... Plus he had already made an oath and signed documents of confidentiality and loyalty towards Baymard.

"Times up!"

Everybody lined up in straight vertical lines at the center of the room.

Some of the men had only 1 leg of boots on, while others didn't even have their shirts on, just their pants.

Over the past 2 weeks, the new recruits had learned that if anyone was even a second late to line up, the entire group would face punishment.

For example if someone from the left corner of the room lined up late, all those who slept in that corner would have to do pushups and frog jumps as punishment.

Landon did this to encourage team work.

If you get up and see the person next to you sleeping, wake their ass up!

No one could win a fight or a battle alone. Afterall, the slogan of the fort is 'All for one, one for all'.

"What did I tell you all about looking forward?... keep your heads straight!!"

Karsten's heart started beating faster... he knew that he had f*ked up today.

Warrant officer Justin came so close to him, that if someone accidentally pushed him forward, they would definitely kiss each other.

But he couldn't be fooled.. he had been here long enough to know that when the Warrant officers got close to anyone like this, it was nothing good to write about.

'Sh*!!!', he thought.

"Private!! Where's your shirt?... Do you think that you look sexy?... Do you want us to admire you? Is that it?!!"

"No sir!!"

"Then why is your shirt not on your body?"

Kersten felt like crying... why did he lock his locker last night?... He usually kept it open, so as not to slow down his pace in the mornings.

Luckily, Warrant officer Justin quickly left him and picked on the guy who had only his left boot on.

2 minutes of Warrant officer Justin's yells passed, and it was now 6:10 A.M.

"Everone, it's time to head on out. By 6:20, you should all be in the fields.

Those who aren't fully dressed, should get dressed, and meet us on the field.

From there, You will receive your punishments!

Now, everybody else... Move Out!!."

Kersten's heart sank even further... Damn his forgetfulness.

He had been doing good since he got here... And now, this one slip-up caused him punishment. ..he truly felt like crying, but he also knew that there was nothing he could do about it.

It was indeed his slip-up, and he had to take full responsibility for his actions.

As everyone else left, Kersten wore his shirt and dashed out like lightning towards the field... He quickly arrived a few seconds before go time, and stood in line.

'Safe', he thought.

All the recruits trained together, hence all the Warrant officers in charge of them were on the field too.

"Everybody drop down and give me 20."

Kersten immediately dropped down and started doing his pushup's...

As he continued on, another warrant officer came over and inspected his form.

"Arms apart Private, you will not get results by doing it that way"

He immediately adjusted his stance and persisted on.

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"Listen up!!... it's time to begin the 'Jog'...You will all follow the person in front of you!!... you will all keep up and not slack off...Now everyone, begin the 'Jog'!!"

Kersten followed the recruit in front of him, and jogged around the field 6 times.

As they jogged, they also sang number songs, that surprisingly keep them motivated.. plus it was kinda like they were doing math at the same time.

Although they didn't know intense math, they had all dealt with money before so it wasn't that hard to count... 3 silver coins plus 10 silver coins.. gave 13 silver coins.. duhhh.

"1,2,3"

"10"

"1,2,3"

"11"

"1,2,3"

"12"

That kept them moving forward, and they finally ended up jogging back to their original positions.

From there they did pull ups, sit-ups, leg lounges, high kicks, squats, frog walks and finally frog jumps.

By 7:30 A.M, they were done.

Off course those who previously didn't completely dress up, or came late to the general assembly on the fields or in their dormitories, stayed back to receive their punishments.

Kersten ran another 2 runs rounds around the field, and did 10 more push-ups.

"No slacking off Private!.. Keep up!!"

He was worn out as hell.

The pain he felt through out his body was really exhausting... He swore to never do the same mistake he did again... Never!!

By 7:50 A.M, he was done and quickly dashed away to get his bath.

Bath time was from 7:40 - 8:20 A.M, so he was already 10 minutes late.

He quickly freshened up and still came 5 minutes late for breakfast.

Breakfast was also from 8:30-9:10 A.M, while classes started at 9:30 A.M.

He first attended his military lectures on strategies, cannon operations and safety measures, as well as a device called a 'gun'.

And after his 12:30 Lunch, he made his way at 1:20 P.M to the Baymard public school.

Today he just had Math 1 and Pyno 1 in his schedule, while tomorrow he had only math 2.

At 3:50, he was back to the military fort, and had 1 hour and 10 minutes to rest before going for his gun firing session.

In May, Landon had asked Tim to create the semi-automatic pistols for the military... And in June, only the Warrant officers, the Captains, Major generals and of course Lucius practiced with them.

Now that the older soldiers understood how to use them, this July, Landon had the officers train and teach these new recruits how to fire the weapons.

Of course Landon labeled the guns as well. This first gun was called a Baymard M.A 1.

In Kersten's schedule, he had gun firing practice on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. As well as his obstacle courses.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, he also had classes, sword fighting sessions and close combat sessions.

On Saturdays, he only had rock climbing lessons in the lower region... while on Sundays, he had nothing at all, and was basically free as a bird.

Of course everyday, he would have morning training routines with the warrant officers, just as he did today.

He rested, chatted with his friends and when it was 5 PM, he got to the field and held his gun, like he had been doing for the past few days.

So far, no one was allowed to keep the guns. After training, all the guns were counted, collected, and stored back in the fort.

"Aim for the eyes... Go!!!"

Kersten looked at the large pieces of paper 50 feet away and fired his shots.

The paper had an outline of a man drawn on it... There were also several marked lines within the image.

Their task was to aim for the inner outline on the man drawn on the paper.

'Paow! Paow! Paow!'

When all the recruits had finished shooting, they unarmed themselves by placing the guns on the ground.

Only then, did the warrant officers on duty reach forward towards their shot papers.

Kersten looked at his large sheet of paper and was disappointed in him self.

Although he got the man's nipples, he was still far away from the mans head.

They did several other shots and by 6:20 P.M, they were done.

"Wahh!!.. Your so lucky...at least you got the nipples.. I got the man's belly."

"Damm!! I got his right arm... would that really do any damage?"

"Sigh... I got his junk... I think the man must be in serious pain."

"Hahahhahaha"

They all laughed out as they made their way to their 6:30 class.

Next up obstacle courses.

Kersten and his friends ran and jumped on thin logs of wood, that were surrounded by mud.

The logs were inclined upwards and attached to an even larger logs of wood.

Kersten jumped on the log and nearly slipped.

'Crap!'

He steadied himself and continued forward on the inclined logs and finally arrived on several larger logs of wood suspended 2 meters in the air by iron bars.

As he was about to move, the person in front of him slipped and fell into the mud.

'Plop!!'

A warrant officer quickly told the recruit who fell to go back at the end of the line and start all over again.

Kersten focused, passed through several log bridges and arrived back at ground level.

He quickly crawled through several large pipes and made his way to another set of inclined logs suspended 3 meters high, which led to a tall wooden post.

Once at the top, he quickly used the ropes on the sides to slide down.

Once on ground level, he quickly ran towards another 3 meter tall iron bar wall, which looked like the doors of a giant medieval prison cell.

He put his legs and hands in the holes on the wall and climbed over the wall making his way over the fall wall.

As he progressed, he became more fatigued and stressed...he crawled in sand, under several wooden logs... jumped through tires and almost fell into mud several times.

He was now at the final stage of the obstacle course.

He crawled on ropes trying to get from one wooden post to another.

And when he reached the end, he let go of the rope, and lost his footing.

'Plop!!'

"Get to the back of the line and start over again"

Kersten wanted to cry.

"Why did I suddenly loose my footing?.. I'm now covered in mud!!.. my hands and shoes are all slippery... There's no way that I wouldn't fall back again.'

He really cursed his luck.

By 7:20 P.M, the session was over and he quickly headed with his friends to take his bath.

"Hehehe.. I saw your fall man.. truly tragic"

"Don't mock me alright?"

By 8:30 everyone had dinner.. and by 9:30 P.M, he went around the fort with his friends while talking about their day.

And by 11 P.M, it was lights out... Time to sleep.

He was really exhausted... But at the same time happy... he only hoped that tomorrow would be just as exciting as today was.

This was his experience.

The shout outs are below guys

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It had been 2 weeks now, and Landon had been aiding the construction workers at the sites.

Today, Landon left the workers early, because he had a meeting to attend.

At 3 P.M, Landon headed over to the Alchemy Industry, to have his weekly meetings with all the supervisors and overseers.

Every week, Landon would use any room in any of the industries, for the meetings.

He would rotate between all industries, so as to be fair.

Last week, the meeting took place at the Food industry... The week before that, it was held at the Construction Industry. And now, it was at the Alchemy Industry.

All the overseers and supervisors were suppose to bring in their weekly reports indicating their progress compared to the prior week. And a pie chart which showed their results, as well as how many products were currently in stock.

They were also supposed to present all the problems and difficulties the workers faced, within each industry.

So far, Baymard had several sections within each Industry:

•Food Industry:

Department F1 (Actual farming)

Dep F2 (storage and distribution)

Dep F3 (Seasoning and spice making)

Dep F4 (Cooking oil)

Dep F5 (Vinegar)

Dep F6 (Butter)

Dep F7 (Taking care of goats, chickens, etc)

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• Alchemy/Chemistry Industry:

Dep A1 (gunpowder)

Dep A2 (Paint)

Dep A3 (Chalk making)

Dep A4 (chemical products like chlorine, etc)

Dep A5 (Storage and distribution of goods)

Dep A6 (oil production)

Dep A7 (Ink making)

Dep A8 (Soap making)

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•Construction Industry:

Dep C1 (Mining)

Dep C2 (glass making)

Dep C3 (Warefare weapons..guns, cannons)

Dep C4 (Storage and distribution of goods)

Dep C5 (Everything Rubber)

Dep C6 (in charge of building and fixing all construction equipment, creating electrical gadgets and heavey industrial machines, as well as other building fixtures.

Dep C7 (Cement making)

Dep C8 (Wood Cutting)

Dep C9 (Everything Plastic)

Dep C10 (Pipe making)

Dep C11 (Paper making)

Dep C12 (Everything Porcelain and marble)

Dep C13 (Furniture making like bed frames)

Dep C14 (Construction Workers)

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The room was set up like a lecture hall, with all the supervisors and overseers facing a podium at the front.

Everyone quieted down, and the meeting began.

"Chief Wiggins, since we are at your industry this time, we will start with you.. the floor is yours"

Chief Wiggins and the 16 supervisors within his industry, came forward with samples of all the products created within the week...excluding chemicals, guns and gunpowder of course.

For today, everything else basically looks and has the same texture and results, as last weeks products.. all except the soap.

Landon and everyone else nodded, as they listened to chief Wiggins.

Last week, the soap was still effective ..but it really didn't lather up as much as Landon expected.

Apparently, they didn't add enough 'Sodium Laureth Sulfate' into their products.

But this week, it looked like they had successfully done the corrections and came prepared.

As Wiggins spoke, the supervisors placed several bowls of water on 3 large tables.

"I would like everyone to come up and wash their hands in these separate bowls of water, using the soaps."

Those seated rushed to the tables, and started washing their hands.

There were different colored bars of soap, placed by the side of each basin.

"WOW! This is what his highness mean't by 'lathering up'?... I have to agree, it makes me feel like my hands are really dirt-free"

"Each bar even has a name and number carved on it."

"Ahh!!!!, it smells like lavender.. my wife would surely like this one."

"Mine smells very manly."

"Can it be used for doing laundry and bathing?"

"Of course!!.. That's what chief Wiggins said in his last week report... I think the 'B3-Soap' is the one used for doing laundry".

"It really is an improvement, compared to last week's soaps."

"_"

Once everyone sat down, Chief Wiggins continued his presentation.

As he spoke, the supervisors got all the bowls of water and threw them outside the windows... They also gathered up all the soap bars and cleaned the tables with rags.

Chief Wiggins spoke about the overall success rate within his industry, as well as the few issues and problems encountered within the manufacruring processes.

Later on, the supervisors spoke about the issues all the workers faced at work.

At the end of their presentation, everyone rose up, and clapped for them.

Brilliant!!... they had really tried their best compared to last week.

Those from the Alchemy industry all blushed and smiled, as they saw the positive response from everyone... And to top it off, his highness rose up too.

Last week, his highness didnt rise up but still clapped for them... this week, they saw him standing, smiling, clapping and even nodding several times to them.

All their hard work had paid off.

Now it was time for the Construction industry take over the presentation.

Everything all the products were same compared to last week, except the new: tables, Porcelain plates, marble cups, pens, pencils, plastic rulers, and paper.

"Wow, I didn't know that paper could be colored blue... Overseer Tim really outdid himself this time"

"Check out this pen. The ones before had clear casings, but this one has a greyish casing and looks very cool.. Look!!! When I press on the top, the pen head shoots out at the bottom.. This is the best invention so far!!"

"Puii!!!... What do you know? Can't you see that slick glass table over there?.. the table legs are made out of wood..but the top part is made of glass.. glass!!!.. do you think that a pen can compare to that?"

"I agree... the table is the best.. I can't wait for these products to be sold in the stores.."

"They won't be sold now..his highness said that once house construction starts, then they would be sold... so for now, they can only be stored in big warehouses."

"But did you see that porcelain plate?.. its so artistic and funny... it says: Go away! Opening hours are closed."

"Hahaha .. I need that plate in my life... That should be my new slogan.. Everytime someone wants to talk to me when I'm eating, I'll just tell them: Go away! Opening hours are closed."

"_"

The construction industry rounded up and it was finally time for the food industry to shine.

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Once Tim was done, overseer Lyore from the food industry came over with bread and other foods, so that his audience could feel the effectiveness of his spices, seasonings, butter and so on.

Of course everyone fell in love with them.

The just looking at the dried spices and seasonings, made their tongues salivate.

The men sprinkled the different seasonings and spices on their meat, and felt like they were in heaven.

The juiciness... the tenderness... how could food taste so good?

The meat was well cooked... It had an earthy color and a stringy feel to it.

As they savored the meat, they began to eat like pigs without even knowing it.

Some of the meat was also deep fried, and had a crisp feel to them... they were either sprinkled with salt and pepper, or garlic.

The single men only had one thought right now.

Who cooked this meat? Can they marry them?

They had to admit, the spiciness and seasonings, had improved compared to last week's results.

They were still eating the horse meat from the previous attack on Baymard.

And it was at this time, that they truly felt grateful to their enemies... They sincerely thanked their enemies for dropping them several stacks of meat in Baymard.

Once the chicken was done, they started licking their fingers.

Delicious!!

There were also several fried rice and vegetable dishes that were done with oil, powdered ginger, garlic and vinegar.

The butter on the other hand, was a real treat.

The rich soft feel of the butter on the bread, made them feel like they were floating on clouds.

The food Industry had produced 2 types of butter: salted and non-salted.

Was this how food was supposed to taste? They couldn't help but feel that they had been eating dog sh* all through their lives.

They began to wonder how they had ever coped all through the years.

How could they go back to eating those awful dishes? No way!!..they'd rather starve.

Right now, their taste buds had been upgraded, and they had already started forgetting what the good they used to cook tasted like.

Since they discovered that food was supposed to taste like this, most of the men had gone to the market, to buy the products that were supplied by the food company to these stores.

These products were now seen as essentials in their homes.

Chief Wiggins and Tim, were seriously having multiple food orgasms in their mouths... It was truly mouthwatering.

They couldn't help but give 2 thumbs up to Overseer Lyore.

On the other hand, overseer Lyore who was being praised, kept thinking about what kind of food house he should build in future... With these new delicacies, wasn't his world not complete?

Hell yeah!!!... It was more than complete.

For now, he decided to put a stop to his food house construction.. What if his highness made more food stuff? This situation was indeed tricky.

Landon who was oblivious to overseer Lyore's food madness, continued tasting all the different dishes placed in front of him.

Overall, Landon was utterly impressed as well.

All the industries had heeded to his advice, and really improved their products compared to last week.

Once all the presentations were done, they started discussing all the issues within their industries and how to further improve their results.

"Your highness, now that we have pens, what do we do with the excess chalk in stock?" A supervisor asked.

Landon thought for a while.

Chalk itself has several uses.

It was good for raising soil acidity, hence increasing the agricultural yield of the farms.

There were svearal types of chalks, like calcium carbonate, magnesium calcium and so on.

In addition, it aids in removing perspiration and reduces slipping, hence it was already used by the military for weightlifting, tug of war, rock climbing and other gynastics.

Chalk was also used in house construction, and served as mild abrasives for several other industries, like toothpaste.

That's why it was very important for them to continue producing chalk.

"For now, still produce the same amount of chalk powder, but limit the amount that is molded into chalk sticks." Landon replied.

All the men, irrespective of which department or industry they were from, asked Landon multiple questions.

And when Landon answered them, they would immediately jotted down everything, so as not to forget Landon's instructions.

Afterall, next week, they were to show how they implemented his highnesses instructions and advice to their industries... No one wanted to let Landon down.

Once Landon was done with the group, he headed towards the estate which was presently known as the hospital.

Today, he had a meeting with all the doctors and some nurses there.

Not all the nurses could come as they couldn't close down the hospital, school, military and industry clinics for the meeting.

Today, Landon just wanted to know the results about his sanitation advise, and first aid methods were working on the patients.

Landon had been teaching them basic first aid since May.

With the help of hydrogen peroxide, wounds were cleaned up properly.

The first time hydrogen peroxide was used, the doctors, nurse, and even the patients were shocked.

How come the injured area was foaming up, yet it didn't hurt at all? And how can the dried blood on the wound come out with just a few swipes with a clean clothe?

Anyway, they were thoroughly impressed with the hydrogen peroxide.

The medicated alcohol on the other hand, had the patients screaming out loud... Although they hated it, they knew that alcohol was normally needed in treating wounds.

Landon also taught them the importance of using Aloe Vera as an anesthetic, after treating the wounds.

With the help of the thin medical rubber gloves and other hospital wear, the doctors and nurses worked properly without spreading blood here and there, or further contaminating the patients.

soap was also used to clean the floors, and other surfaces within the hospital, leaving the air with a fresh clean smell.

When Landon got to the hospital, he was somewhat shocked at the alarming situation in there... well.. it was alarming to him anyway.

He had forgotten that children could still have such illnesses.

"Your highness, this week, we have admitted over 100 children in the hospital.

They were all infected with the 'Scourge Creeper' (Chicken pox)."

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While Landon was busy dealing with the sick, Slytherin Cord had made his way to the city of Sangria.

Finally, he was going to catch that bastard, who called himself the Ghostly Prince.

It was finally time

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--Sangria City--

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Standing in front of Slytherin, were one of his trusted aids and 4 other soldiers under his command.

So as not to draw too much attention onto himself, he had left thousands of his men back at his base, in Engril City. And had come to sangria city with just 150 men.

His men had all blended in with the peasants, and actually looked like servants and farmers.

Today, Slytherin had already received word that the ghostly prince would leave the Quinzy Inn, and head towards the 'Haunted Plane' of Sangria.

The Haunted Plane was a cemetery located in the outskirts of Sangria, that was believed to be cursed.

People didn't go there during the night time, due to the frightening folk takes that were said about the cemetery.

That's why all burials were only done during the day.

Those who were brave enough to go there at night, never came back to their families.

It was believed that the ancestors of their enemies haunted the cemetery, and were thirsty for blood.

It was also believed that once the ancestors got a hold of a living person, they would suck out all the blood from that person's body, leaving only a dried out corpse at the end.

\"Boss, we had observed that place every night for the past 4 days... The masked man would go there with his men for a few hours, before coming back to the Quinzy Inn.\" One of Slytherin's subordinates said.

\"Did he meet anyone there?\"

\"Boss...Except for the hooded woman that he met on the first day, he hasn't met anyone else.\"

\"If that's the case, then he might be using that place as a way to send messages to his subordinates.\"

\"How many men does he have with them each time he goes to the cemetery?\"

\"Boss, he always takes 15 men with him to the cemetery.\"

Slytherin nodded as he listened.

\"Tonight, I will only take 30 men for the mission. Tell the rest of the men to wait outside the gates of Sangria.

Once this mission is over, we will be heading out immediately.\" Slytherin commanded.

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The night was dark, cold and somewhat foggy. All around, sounds of frogs could be heard, croaking away. As well as the loud chirps of crickets.

'Criek!... Criek!... Criek!'

The rain that fell during the day had finally stopped, leaving most of the foot paths muddy.

Slytherin and his men moved stealthily, as they followed their enemies towards the cemetery.

Today, they wore all-black clothing, leaving only their eyes visible for all to see.

They indeed looked like assassins.

Even with the pale moonlight cast on them, one would have to struggle just to make them out.

Once the ghostly prince and his entourage passed through the cemetery gate, Slytherin signaled for his men to stop.

The cemetery was also shrouded with fog, and gave off an eerie feeling to it.

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From what his subordinates had found out, there was a secret base, located at the back of the back of the cemetary. It was hidden away by the bushes and trees.

During the day, his men had been able to pinpoint where exactly the entrance to the base was.

Amongst the 30 subordinates that had followed him, 10 were tasked with surrounding the enemies base. While the other 20 would follow him quietly, into the base.

There were 2 enemy guards standing at the door of the base.

Slytherin needed a distraction.

One of his men shot 2 arrows a little further from the enemy base.

'Thup!..Thup!'

\"Did you hear that?\" One of the guards asked.

\"Yeah I did... ... I'll go check it out..\"

The noise was coming towards a grave that stood a little farther away from the base's entrance.

Once that guard left, 2 other arrows were shot again.

'Thup!. Thup!'

The last guard standing by the entrance, heard sounds coming from a different direction, and decided to check it out as well.

The fog within the cemetary didn't help much, because he couldn't see anything from where he was.

Once the man left, Slytherin signaled for those 10 men who were suppose to surround the base, to deal with the guards, while he made his way with the rest towards the base.

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Very quickly, they entered the base and spotted 5 more guards patrolling another hallway.

\"Boss what do we do now?\"

Slytherin bit his lips and thought for a while.

He needed this operation to be done quietly, and without a hitch.

He couldn't allow that bastard to get a chance at escaping.

At the start, when Eli tasked him on getting information on the ghostly prince, he really didn't have a any personal vendetta with the bastard.

But for the first time in his life, he had failed a mission.

Who would believe that he, Slytherin Cord, the master of the empire's best intelligence organization, would fail a mission?

He, a person whom even the king wanted to hire but couldn't... At his level, he could be working for several empires if he wanted to.

Infact, the first time Slytherin had told Prince Eli that he had failed the mission over dinner, Eli looked at the bottles close to Slytherin, and concluded that Slytherin was drunk.

It was too unbelievable.

Even if people had heard that he had failed a mission, no one would believe it... that was how good his success rate was.

And at that point, Slytherin became more and more determined to catch this mysterious ghostly prince.

It became an obsession to him.

He had even started calling the ghostly prince as his little white rabbit.

He called him little white rabbit, because rabbit stew was his best dish... And little because he truly felt like no one could outsmart him.

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He honestly couldn't wait to slit the throat of the man who gave him so much pain, throughout these few months.

He would spend sleepless nights stalking and tracking down the ghostly prince's movements, but he could never really pinpoint where his little white rabbit's hideout was.

But the third time he took over the mission, he had more than 80 % of the men who followed him on the mission, killed at once.

At this point, he had changed the ghostly prince's name from 'little white rabbit' to 'bastard'.

F* getting rabbit stew. Right now, he wanted to eat the rabbit's flesh raw.

It was then, that he had developed bad blood with the bastard.

This time, he wanted to skin the bastard's face and place it on his wall at home.

Anyway, right now Slytherin had to make sure that their actions didn't alert the 5 guards ahead of them.

He looked up, at the wooden frames on the ceilings and his eyes lit up.

\"Follow my lead\"

Slytherin placed his hands and legs on the walls, as if he were doing a side-way leg split.

He looked like 'Jean-Claude Van Damme', as he climbed up the narrow walls.

The hallway they were in, had extremely narrow walls, as it was closer to the entrance.

Once they had all gotten onto the wooden ceiling frames, they quietly moved on the frames, towards an even bigger hallway.

This hallway was the one that had 5 guards patrolling on it.

As they moved, they began to listen to the conversation of all the patrolling guards.

They had learned that the ghostly prince was still having his meeting in a room 2 hallways away from them.

They continued in ahead and finally arrived at the last hallway.

Slytherin signalled for his men to move.

6 men quickly dropped from above, landing on the 3 guards guarding a large wooden door.

Before the enemy guards could react, the men quickly placed their hands on their enemies mouths, and used their blades to silence them.

Once that was done, they quickly moved the bodies to the sides.

As they dragged the bodies, Slytherin and the rest of the men on the ceiling dropped down.

\"Be careful... This bastard is tricky!!.\" Slytherin warned, as he stood in front of the large wooden door with a victory smile on his face.

'Bamm!'

The door was kicked down, and the men quickly rushed in.

But to their suprise, there was no one in site.

Forget no one, there was absolutely nothing in the room... No tables, no chairs... nothing.

Why was this room guarded if no one was in there?

At this point, they all became solemn.

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\"Looking for me?\"

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2 groups of men faced each other as they prepared for battle.

Slytherin was really pissed off now.

After all his planning, traveling and scheming, he still ended up in this bastard's trap.

Wasn't this the greatest disgrace to his name?...It was all this bastards fault!!

Why couldn't he just die?

Damn!!

William had entered the room with 10 men, so slytherin thought that this was all the people he had.

Slytherin's reports stated that William usually came here with 15 people. And since they had taken care of the 5 guards so far, so Slytherin thought it was logical for William to only have 10 men right now.

So either way, Slytherin still had his victory smile on.

"So what if I'm looking for you?.. Even if you succeeded in trapping me and men here, do you really think that you are enough to stop me

Hmmp!!... Enough chit-chat... Hand over your life, and I might just let you go!!" Slytherin said coldly.

William smiled.

"Silly me, did you think that these were all my men?"

Immediately 5 more came out.Just where did those men come from?, Slytherin couldn't help but wonder.

Right now it was 15 men to 15 men, excluding him and the bastard... So now, the battle was even.

But so what? He was still going to kill the weasel.

"Like I said, hand over your life, and I might spare you" Slytherin repeated again coldly.

Everyone on William's side was utterly confused with what Slytherin had said.

Hand over your life? Aren't you the one who is trapped now? Just where did you get your confidence from?

William looked at the delusional Slytherin, and knew that this man was conceited.

It was clear that Slytherin had always thought that he was far better than everyone else.

Confidence was a good thing, but it could sometimes lead one to underestimate their enemies.

Right now, William's 50 hidden knights had taken care of Slytherin's subordinates that were suppose to surround the perimeter.

William didn't want to use his hidden guards to fight with Slytherin, so he used the other men who usually followed him during the day time, to fight this battle.

"Your right, let's cut the bullsh* and get down to business, shall we?"

Immediately, William swung his sharp iron sword at the men who were acting as shields.

Slytherin's men had formed a circle around him, in an attempt to shield him from the enemy.

The battle had finally begun.

'Clink!'

The enemy blocked William's attack.

As his veins bulged through his arms, William swung his sword again, and ended his attack with a kick on his enemies chest.

Their formation was broken.

The enemy quickly got up from the ground and yelled angrily.

"Bastard!!...Die..!!"

The enemy swung his sword horizontally at full swing, as he aimed for William's neck.

William immediately fell backwards towards the ground, as a way of ducking.

He quickly used his back and hands to kick off from the ground, and used his legs to punch the chin and face of his enemy.

"Ahhh", the enemy cried.

Blood was oozing out of his enemy's nostrils.

Once he was up from the ground, he swung his sword with all his might, and instantly cut his enemy's head off cleanly.

'Phouh'

The head rolled on the floor, as blood oozed out through the dead man's neck. The body shook like a chicken, who's head had been cut off.

Just as William was about to look at the situation in the room, another enemy approached him.

'Clink'

As the battle in the room went on, Slytherin's eyes opened wide as 3 of his men dropped to the floor like flies, while his enemies side didn't even loose a single man.

Why did it turn out like this?

At this point, he had to look for a way to escape.

He looked around the room, and when he saw a window at the corner, his eyes lit up.

William's men fought and kept pushing on, as they tried to get to Slytherin, who was now making his escape through the window.

Slytherin quickly smashed the wooden window frames, and jumped out.

He quickly escaped with 4 of his men, as he passed through the bushes in the cemetery.

William who had seen Slytherin escape, told 4 of his men to follow them.

As Slytherin ran, he was shocked to see William's men on his tail.

Damn!!

"Boss, I'll hold them off"

With that, 2 of his subordinates stopped and drew their swords from the sheath that was strapped behind their backs.

They steadied themselves in preparation for the fight.

'Clink, Clink, Clink'

As Slytherin ran, he kept hearing the sounds of swords hitting one another.

He knew that his men would definitely die tonight.

It was not that Slytherin cared for their lives, or had any deep affection for them... It was just that training new staff or knights would take years to do, and was already a hassle to him.

Why would he feel bad if they died for him?

Wasn't he their boss? Weren't they supposed to fight for him?

Men like him only really cared about raising their armies and conquering new territories, people or objects.

Death was an everyday occurrence here, so why would Slytherin feel bad?.. It was his men's duty to die for him, and they had successfully fulfilled it. What more could he say?

Once they were closer to their horses, the other 2 men who were left with Slytherine, stayed behind in order to stall the enemies from getting to Slytherin.

Slytherin quickly got on his horse and made his way towards the gates of Sangria.

He needed to leave quickly with the rest of his men, who were already waiting for him outside the gates.

As he left, he couldn't help but curse that bastard ghostly prince.

He swore that he would eat the bastard's flesh and drink his blood when he succeeded.

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William stood in the cemetery, as he faced all 66 of his men who were standing by his side and waiting for the rest to arrive.

Right now, they were waiting for the 4 who were sent to deal with Slytherin's fleeing group.

For tonight's show, William had come here with 70 men.

He had kept 50 men as secret guards around the cemetery, 10 guarding the base, and 10 around him.

The first 2 men guarding the base weren't injured by Slytherin's men, as the hidden guards easily took care of the enemies once Slytherin successfully went into the base.

It was only the 3 men guarding the large wooden door that got injured.

Some were stabbed on their backs, and others in their bellies.

But so far no one had died.Once the 4 men were back, they gave their report to William.

"My lord we have completed the mission" they said as they knelt down in front of him.

"Is Slytherin Cord dead?"

"No my lord"

"What about his men who were fleeing with him?"

"All dead my lord!"

"And his men outside the gates?"

"All dead my lord!"

"Good!!"

Actually, William's plan was never kill Slytherin.

Slytherin was a key chess piece, in Eli's rise to power.

With Slytherin's help, Eli could easily take care of his siblings.

William didn't want to start attacking any of them until a Winner emerged from the group.

Why go through all that stress when he could just kill the winner?

William was clear on his thoughts.

If the winner didn't step down from the throne, then the winner had to die, simple.

Slytherin was part of Eli's backbone and it wasn't necessary to have him killed just yet.

He did all this just to send a message to his little cousin Eli and Slytherin.

William had left the message in Slytherin's hideout outside the city gates.

He was sure that right about now, Slytherin should have gotten the message.

And he was right.

Slytherin reached his hideout and was shocked silly.

His men were all dead, and all their horses had magically disappeared.

The funny part was that all their belongings and clothes had been stolen.

There were just naked dead bodies lying around.

He quickly rushed towards his room, and pushed the door wide open.

Everything was gone.

All his gold, his silver and a few documents that he had within his care, were gone.

They were really gone with the wind.

Luckily, Slytherin had always kept his most important documents with him, he couldn't imagine what would happen if his enemies had gotten them.

He had to admit that he had really underestimated that bastard.

This was the last time that he would ever make that mistake again.

There was a note on his table with a knife stabbed on it.

The knife had a unique craftsmanship, and had the initials 'G.P' on it's handle.

Slytherin immediately knew who the culprit was.

As he read the letter, his blood boiled and he couldn't help but crumble the letter in his hands.

He swore that he would for sure kill the bastard, even if he had to die trying.

The bastard had to die.After reading the letter, Slytherin placed it in his pocket and went outside his room.

He quickly burnt down the base and took off.

He had come to Sangria with 150 men excluding the 50 that usually stayed in Sangria to keep an eye on things.

All 200 men had died, with only him being the sole survivor.

"The humiliation you have given me today, I will remember it".

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--Baymard--

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While Slytherin was steaming away like a glazed doughnut, Landon had been educating the doctors, nurses and caretakers on how to handle chickenpox patients.

The children were all infected with the 'Scourge Creeper' (Chickenpox).

Since this time was school break, the children would run around the estate playing with each other all day long.

Apparently, 1 of the children had it... but it wasn't really visible at the time.

It just looked like breakouts or bad allergies, so no one thought anything of it.

Then that child spread it to the other children, who had never had chickenpox before in the estate.Since chickenpox is an air borne disease, all those children were easily infected.

It was only a few days ago, that the head doctor in the clinic realised what it was.

In this world...since they didn't have any cure for chickenpox, all they did was let the virus go away on its own, while isolating the victims and treating them like leprosy patients.

Landon walked into the room and saw the children itching and scratching themselves aggressively.

That was the worst thing to do in such situations.

"Woo woo... its itchy"

"Will I remain like this forever?"

"I feel like my throat is dry."

Landon came into the room and ensured the patients that they would be fine...It wasn't easy.

Some children were crying and screaming in the room, while others were violently scratching themselves against the walls.

Finally, Landon decided to quiet them down with a short story.

And after the story, he began briefing all the doctors on what the disease actually was, and how they could further treat and cure it.

He also wanted the doctors educate the citizens, and the caretakers, ensuring them that this illness was literally not a big deal.

There was no reason to not visit the patients, if the citizens had already gotten chickenpox when they were younger.

It rarely affected those that had already gotten it.

He realised that he also needed the citizens to come to the hospital within this month, and register all the symptoms and diseases that they had ever gotten before.

Although these illnesses had strange names in this world, they all had common symptoms to those that Landon remembered back on earth.

He wanted to know if they had gotten or survived attacks from diseases like measles, mumps and so on.

He also realised that people in this era, could not differentiate between smallpox and chickenpox. For them, both were one and the same.

Also, there was presently no cure for most of these diseases.

That's why thousands of people died yearly within the Pyno continent from them.

To think that people could actually die from something like malaria, yellow fever and Typhoid.

They also died from Measles as well.

For chickenpox to be fully cured, Landon gave the doctors a detailed description for the treatment process.

The children were to soak in cold water that had sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) added to it...They were to do this at least 2 times a day.

After soaking, they were to bathe with soap, so as to keep their skin clean... The caretakers and nurses were only supposed to pat, and not rub their skin when giving the children their bath.

They were also to keep the children hydrated by allowing them to drink lots of water and milk throughout the day.

The children needed to fight off their fever, and the viruses within their bodies. That's why their bodies needed hydration regularly.

Heat and sweat would also make their skin itchy, so the caretakers were to wipe their bodies with wet cold rags every after 3 hours, so as to calm their skin.

Since there were no pills, Landon decided to go old school.

He decided to go towards the direction of Chinese medicine.

He had the doctors, nurses and some caretakers, boil the leaves of the 'Iplomoea' and 'Ocimum basilian' plant.

The children were to drink the liquid from the boiled leaves at least 3 times a day.

Landon had previously gotten all knowledge in farming.

Part of that knowledge included identifying all plants, vegetables, dairy farming, food and all other types of farming that existed in the world.

He knew how to grow a farm filled with medical plants as well.

Hence he could tell how beneficial each plant was to the human body.

Landon speculated that within a week and a half, the chickenpox crises should pass for most of the children.

Of course some might require more time to completely get rid of the virus.

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It's been a few days since the whole Chickenpox fiasco.

Doctor Gerson looked at the reports from the nurses and nodded.

His highness' treatment procedures had worked.

When Gerson first came to Baymard, he wasn't really sure about how his life would turn out.

He came in May due to the multiple attacks that were taking place in his city, at the empire of Yodan.

When he boarded the ship with his family, he kept on praying that Baymard was as good as the ship owner had said.

He was scared silly because he didn't want his wife, his children, his brother and his sister's families to end up as slaves.

But when he got here, he knew that all his worries were for nothing.

This new king of theirs seemed to know everything.

From what he gathered, their king was the one who came up with all the ideas in Baymard.

At first he didn't believe it, but when their king started teaching them first aid, and the medicinal importance of several plants, he was really taken aback.

Their king seemed to be a super genius.

He didn't know if he should call the current King of Arcadina foolish of stupid.

How could he banish such a treasure? Was he sick in the head?

At this point, he had given up on trying to understand royalty.

For him, he really enjoyed talking with his highness.

He had observed that Landon didn't put on airs with him, and also admitted to his faults when he felt like he was wrong.

Like the other day, Landon apologised for not telling them to register every ones illness earlier on.

Although it really wasn't his fault, their king felt solely responsible for the chickenpox incident.

This king of theirs was weird... but they liked him.Landon had told them that they should call themselves doctors, and not healers or apothecaries.

He had to admit that the word doctor, had a better ring to it.

Doctor... Doctor Gerson... Yup.. it was way better than the other names.

In this world, nurses were also called 'helpers'...So of course Landon also changed their names to nurses.

The hospital nurses always had their hair placed in a bun, or tied away with clothing while at work.

Both doctors and nurses had to put on their gloves when treating injuries, as well as their clinical rubber shoes.

For the doctors and nurses, Landon didn't want to bother the women around Baymard to sew lab coats, so he had given the hospital staff transparent plastic coats for them to wear at work.

The coats looked exactly like transparent raincoats, and were also the same ones used by the alchemy Industry while they were in the labs.

The coats had buttons and 2 large pockets at the front waist region.

The nurses also had to wear pants while at work.

Actually, all the women in the Industries, also wore pants.

How could they work with those long skirts and gowns that kept dragging on the floor and collecting dirt and mud?

When the women moved, they usually had to gather up their gowns as they walked.

Several of them had fallen down on the first day, during their jobs.

How could they carry anything and climb the stairs, or move at work with what they were wearing?

Some women had broken some glass items already.

It wasn't a big deal to break these items, but having the workers injure themselves was really frightening.

Landon had removed several pieces of glass from their skin, and given them first aid multiple times.

That's why Landon made the rule way back in May, that all women were to wear pants at work.

What if they fell onto the broken glass pieces and lost an eye?

There was a reason why all industries back on earth required people to wear pants, and that was mainly for safety reasons...Even women in the hospitals wore pants.

Of course the military women as well wore pants... but for different reasons.

Who could complete the obstacle courses or do rock climbing and so on with those ridiculously long gowns or skirts?

Plus Landon was pretty sure that their underwear would show when they were doing all those military stunts.

The women also found that they could do their jobs more efficiently in pants compared to skirts.

They were also happy that they had stopped breaking things here and there... They were really grateful that his highness didn't fire them from their jobs.

For them, the things they broke were really expensive, but their king didn't pay any mind to it and worried about their safety instead.

Hence pants was the way forward in Baymard.

Each doctor and nurse also had a name tag that they had pinned to their uniforms, so that all the patients could remember their names.

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Right now, the caretakers that Landon had assigned around the hospital were looking after the patients.

While the only doctor and 2 nurses in the main hospital, were having a short but brief meeting.

Nurse Shanell had just come for her shift, while nurse Laura was about to end her own shift.

The hospital was open 24 hours, so for sure, nurse Laura would come again late at night after Shanell closed from work.

Landon had told them to persevere till the end of the month, before he would assign more people to work as nurses.

By that time, he would task training the new people to the present hospital staff.

For now, the hospital was really understaffed.

"Doctor Gerson, so far we have seen a remarkable Improvement with the Chickenpox patients... From the tests, in the next few days 90% of them should be free to leave." Nurse Laura said, as she handed over all patient reports to him.

"We have also started recording all the citizen's health statuses and diseases that they had gotten before." Nurse Shanell added.

Actually, Doctor Gerson was really impressed with Landon's was of thinking.

Landon had placed several wooden shelves in one of the largest rooms in the hospital, and called it the 'Archives'.

Each shelf case had a letter carved onto it from A, B... through Z.

It was kind of like a filing system.

Every citizen's name would be written on the corner and top of the books, and placed on the shelves.

The doctors and nurses would be the only ones with access to the room, hence only they would get the keys.

The books would show the patient's name, place of birth, date of birth, occupation, all visits to the hospital, illnesses, doctor's prescriptions, recommendations, doctor's signature, and so on.

The patients were required to buy another hospital book from the hospital.

This book was the one that they could take home.

This hospital book would also show them the drugs, treatment recommended by the doctor, and what they should do to relieve themselves from their illnesses.

This book would also be used anywhere in any clinic within Baymard... Afterall, all the hospitals and clinics in Baymard were considered as one.

Since there were no computers yet, Landon needed a way to make sure that everyone's information got recorded properly.

The patient was supposed to keep the note in his hospital book when he or she gets home.

And the doctors in the clinics were tasked with heading over to the main hospital and recording all the information in the patient's book stored in the archives.

That way even if the patient lost the note, or his personal hospital book, the doctors can still look up his files from the archives.

This was to be done, at least until computers got invented... which would be way tar ahead...even in the next few years, Landon was sure that he wouldn't be able to do it.

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"What about grandma Patricia? is she getting any better?" Doctor Gerson asked.

Nurse Shanell took over and presented him grandma Patricia's hospital book.

"Doctor Gerson quickly grazed through it and nodded as a sign of agreement to what was written in it.

"It looks like the swelling on her waist has gone down drastically...So his highness was right.. For now, continue all her treatments as planned.

Since she has improved, I will meet his highness to see if we should adjust anything in her treatment or diet."

Grandma Patricia was one of the elderly women who came to Baymard as a refugee in June, with her family.

She had fallen down while farming, and had rolled down a hill that was covered in stones and dirt.

Elderly people have soft tissue bones, and any sort of fall could lead them to hospitalization.

When she fell, she had fractured her hip bone, which led to the swelling around her waist.

Her entire body felt completely alien to her at that point, the pain was truly unbearable.

Her family had gotten a healer, who had advised them to keep her lying in bed all day long. She had been lying in bed for the past 3 months now.

When she wanted to relieve herself or take a bath, her daughter or daughter-in-laws would help her.

But that healer's advice was actually a bad move.

Since then, walking had been too stressful for her as well.

When injured, the elderly needed constant massages and light exercises to strengthen their bones... They needed good physical therapy.

A healthy strong body, could better fight off infection and make recovery from injuries way faster than a weak one.

Exercising could also delay or even prevent diseases like diabetes, cancer, strokes, and many more...just to name a few.

The most important thing was that, exercising could definitely improve their quality of life and life expectancy.

Just lying on the bed for so long, had led her to develop back pains and other body pains.

Landon had given them instructions on what her diet should be like, and how they were supposed to aid her through her healing process.

It had been a month and a few weeks now, and there was already a massive improvement with her body and her attitude towards life.

When she arrived, she acted like she wanted to die early... But now, she smiled everyday, and also spent her time gisting away with the other seniors in the hospital.

Her family was so happy seeing her walk, that they started crying. They had really thought that she would live the rest of her life laying in bed.

What Doctor Gerson really appreciated the most was what his highness called a 'medical walker'.

The Walker had 4 legs and was made of iron, and had rubber tubes as the shoe of the iron legs.

Rubber was also placed around the side handles, and acted as a soft cushion between the iron and the palms of the senior citizens.

The Walker really aided Grandma Patricia when she walked around the hospital, during her rehabilitation exercises.

As Gerson looked at the report, he couldn't help but smile.

"Good...good... you all have done a great job as nurses."

Nurse Laura and Shanell were blushing at Gersons praises,as they smiled from ear to ear.

They too felt that this is how a hospital should operate.

"Now, let's go do our rounds, and see how all the patients are doing."

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They arrived at a room with a name tag by the side of the room.

The name 'Ward G-1' was painted on the name tag, and showed that this was the first Ward on the ground floor of the hospital.

As they walked in, the children were chatting and drawing on their pieces of paper.

Some of the children's families who were not scheduled for work, were also in the ward visiting their children.

Now that they had been better educated and had spent time with their children, they quickly realised that the whole empire had a wrong idea about chickenpox.

They even started feeling guilty towards their children for treating them like leprosy patients.

Thank the ancestors that their king had been given the wisdom of the heavens to enlighten them.

Once they saw the group come in, the children started smiling and waving happily.

"Hey, its Doctor Gerson"

"Doctor Gerson?..where?"

"Nurse Laura.."

"Nurse Shanell"

The families of the children come forward to say their thanks.

"Doctor, thank you for taking care of my little Bibbles...My wife and I would like to invite you to our home to convey our thanks"

"Nurse Laura, thank you for doing your best... My boy tells me that because of your care, he had started getting better..."

"Nurse Shanell, my daughter sings your praise daily, and says that you have the healing hands from the heavens"

"Doctor"

"Nurse"

"_"

Everyone was happy as they offered their honest gratitude towards the hospital staff.

Honestly, the nurses and Doctor Gerson were really happy with the recognition they were getting from the citizens.

The nurses almost became emotional, but they knew right now wasn't the time to cry. They had to be strong and keep doing their jobs.

For the first time since they started their profession, they felt like they were doing something right.

It wasn't all about the money.

They quickly realised that saving lives and treating Illnesses, gave them great joy and a sense of fulfillment.

As they checked all the patients, the nurses took down notes of any patient who had developed any other complications or problems with the medicine given to them.

Landon had told them to always do this because people could be allergic to certain drugs. Even the water from the boiled leaves could cause allergies or rashes to some people.

Once they were done, they visited all the other Wards with Chickenpox patients and finally headed over to the other patients in the Ward.

They stepped into Ward G-23, and saw some senior citizens, and their families who came to visit them.

"Ahh! Doctor Gerson..hehehe... I was just talking about you"

"Nurse Laura welcome!!"

"Child Shanell come over to granny"

The patients welcomed the group and even teased them here and there.

"Child Laura, I have a grandson who isn't married..hehe. I think you would be a good match for him. That way I can have you as my grand daughter-in-law."

"I want nurse Shanell as my grand daughter-in-law."

"Do you know, I heard that Doctor Gerson's wife is as beautiful as a flower."

"Of course she is beautiful!!..do you think that just anyone can be with my new son Doctor Gerson."

Concerning this group of seniors, the hospital staff had already given up on them.

When these seniors were together, they could really tease someone.

Gerson had already been adopted without him even knowing, while the nurses were already grand daughter-in-law's to several senior citizens in the hospital.

This was the everyday life of the hospital staff.

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Only 3 days were left before July could finally come to an end.

Baymard had gone through a lot of changes throughout the month.

So far, the first construction site was 80% completed, the second site is 72% completed, and the third site is 60% completed.

When building, Landon utilized all his time effectively.

When they were waiting for the concrete to harden, they went to the other industries and repeated the same procedures there.

And with the help of 8500 workers, the job got by quickly.

Overall, Landon was happy with the overall construction progress.

Within this month, the industries had also flourished and thrived on their own.

All of them had accomplished their tasks for July by creating new products. And the hospital staff, had also improved their skills as well.

On the other hand, school would reopen on the 2nd day of August... So Landon wanted to know how prepared the teachers were.

As a king, it was necessary to have regular meetings with all parts of life in Baymard.

Landon still remembered the day that he went over to the school for the end of semester results.

Some children were crying so hard, as they held their report card books. Their families were on the side trying to cheer them up.

Others smiled and jumped around as they were truly happy to advance to the next stage.

Mother Winnie, mother Kim and Grace were also there, as they congratulated Linda and little Momo for also advancing to the next stage.

Some parents held their children's report cards and exclaimed proudly.

\"That's my girl!!..I knew you could do it!!\"

\"My boy is so smart... when we get back home, I'll buy meat and those delicious spices, and make you a feast!!\"

Those who failed were really sad, but when Landon made his encouraging speech, they quickly regained their confidence.

They vowed to work hard and make their parents proud in the next semester.

Before, they had really never taken school all that seriously, but when they looked at the happy faces of the other students and parents, and compared it to their families sad faces, they truly felt pain in their heart.

Why didn't they try their best? Deep down, they knew that they didn't give it their all.

They vowed. Next time, they would make they parents smile, like others.

The results for this semester were actually pretty good... More than 70% of the students had advanced to the next class.

Presently all the teachers were now gathered and ready for their meeting with Landon.

At the beginning of July, Landon had given a detailed outline of what everyone would be teaching, but today, he was here to give them their schedules for the semester.

Landon quickly distributed the papers to the teachers.

There were also 4 new teachers from the group, that came at the beginning of July. Making a total of 14 teachers in Baymard.

•Chemistry 1: mother Kim and mother Winnie

•Math 3: Two teachers from the group

•Math 2: Grace and two other teachers

•Math 1: Two new teachers that came in July

•Pyno 2: Lucy and one other teacher.

•Pyno 1: Two new teachers that came in July.

Math 3 would incorporate everything from Math 2, but would also start teaching the students about fractions and decimals.

This holiday break was used by all the teachers to get familiar with their new courses.

During this holiday month, Landon had been teaching his mother Kim and Winnie basic chemistry.

He had even given them access to the alchemy industry during the day time.

They had learnt a lot from chief Wiggins, and had also understood how to use the periodic table and what reactions were.

In Landon's mind, these women were smart. Landon didn't want them to know everything, he just wanted them to know the basics.

Afterall, even chief Wiggins was still learning, so how could they know everything in one go?

What they knew right now was enough to teach chemistry 1, and that was good enough.

They had gone to the alchemy lab and tested out a lot of things with several chemicals and the glass beakers.

They wanted to test most of the reactions in the chemistry textbook which Landon had given them.

They had done several experiments and had observed the real meaning behind the different chemical reactions.

They started by writing down the equations like chief Wiggins advised, and coming out with the products that was to be formed at the end.

They almost lost their cool when they were experimenting with reversible reactions.

They placed water in glass beaker and added glucose to the water.

After swirling the beaker for a while, the white powdery glucose substance dissolved, as if they didn't add anything to the liquid.

They then added potassium hydroxide into the beaker, to act as a catalyst for the reaction.

They then added a few drops of methylene blue into the beaker and swirled... At the end, the liquid in the beaker had sky blue.

At this point, they paused and wrote down their observations in their little notebooks.

As they wrote, they realised that the blue was vanishing, and the water was becoming clearer.

What sort of magic was this? They were so shocked that they nearly broke the beaker from excitement.

But when they swirled that same liquid again, it turned blue.

Was this what a reversible reaction looked like?They opened their Chemistry textbooks and observed that these were the characteristics of reversible reactions.

From then on, apart from teaching their morning holiday catch-up classes, they would go the the alchemy Industry and continue their experiments.

Speaking of which, they really found it cool to wear those plastic lab coats, goggles and so on... They felt that it made them look very professional.

Everyone's teaching schedule was evenly spread out throughout the semester.

The schedule gave them ample time to go about their lives... They were just happy that after this coming semester, they would have 4 months of complete freedom to themselves.

The next semester started in August and ended on the last day of November.

From there, they would have December till March as a holiday period... And the best part of it all was that would be no makeup classes during that period.

Classes would depend on the teachers.

If they felt like teaching for a month during their holiday, they could do so.

Of course after the holiday, school would start in April.

His highness had said that since the Winter was bad, there was no point in having the children and citizens run here and there for classes.

He had also told them that after the next 1 or 2 years, he would adjust the school periods so that summer was fred for the teachers and the students... But for now, their king felt that this was the best arrangement.

And they couldn't agree more with him.

They all knew how bad and cold winter got.

It was better to stay indoors and rest...plus they really didn't want to wake up early in the morning during the winter season.

They didn't know how their king was going to make the place warm... But since he had promised that he would do so, they had decided to wait and see.

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After meeting with the teachers, Landon headed over to the military fort.

So far, Baymard started increasing their military in May.

Although a handful of the original citizens of Baymard were recruited in the last week of April, Landon had already decided to add them to the group of those slaves and refugees that came in May.

For those who were grouped as the new recruits that came in May, this month would be the end of their 1st three month period within their ranks.

Landon had said that every 3 months, they would have an exam to test their skills and knowledge on what they had learned so far.

And after 6 months, there would still be another exam.

Those with good combined scores for both exams, would move up a rank.Landon also discussed about the details of their exams, and what he wanted to see from the recruits.

At the end of the day, Landon took his tired hungry body back to the castle. It was finally time for dinner.

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-- Royal Palace, Capital of Yodan--

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\"Did you find them?\"

Queen Ivy asked.She had been looking for clues or hints about that sl* Winnie and her bastard children.

\"My queen, we found a clue... Apparently, they were headed on a ship that came from the empire of Carona.\" A middle aged mercenary answered as he kneeled in front of her.

\"Good... get your spies to head on out towards Carona... I want no errors this time\"

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"Your highness, my young master sends his regards to you... He's currently on his way to the empire of Terique, so he sent us here to deliver the goods that you had previously ordered." Santa's subordinate said.

Today was the first day of August and once again, Santa wasn't here.

Landon thought that it was very reasonable for Santa to first visit the customers that he knew way before Landon.

Speaking of which, Santa had over 27 ships constantly moving about the continent of Pyno.

There was no doubt that all this must have cost Santa a fortune, when he probably started his business.

He probably began with maybe 3 ships, and grew his way from there.

Landon had previously heard from Santa that when he started his business, he got some of his rich clients to reward him with a ships instead of money.

For Santa to have done that exchange, that meant that he had taken all this into account his capital at hand.

Landon really thought that he must have really had a lot of capital to pull those stunts.

His workers needed to be paid, and he was not running his business on love, so how that much was his capital to exchange his goods for ships?

But little did Landon know, that Santa was using his father's stolen money.

Santa currently owned the largest merchant organization in Carona, and also had several shops in every empire within the Pyno continent.

So of course he would have his ships constantly sailing all year round.

Santa's absence today was totally within Landon's expectations.

Santa did his business by carrying unique goods from one empire and bring it to the next... Obviously, his goods were selling like hot cakes in these empires, hence his popularity.

For this month's goods, Landon had gotten all the animals and planting seeds that he had previously gotten in July.

And once again, Baymard had welcomed quite a lot of people this time around.

Landon settled the elderly, children and the new military volunteers, as well as assigning people to work as caretakers.

Once he was done, Landon was left with 5,400 new recruits.

He sent 200 people to the hospital in the upper region, were they would undergo intensive training by all the nurses.

Once they were done with their training, some of them would then be assigned to work in all the different clinics around Baymard.

Landon also sent 500 people to the food industry, 500 to the Alchemy industry, 1500 to the construction industry, and kept the remaining 2700 as construction workers at the sites.

Landon gathered all the supervisors and gave them their assignments for the month.

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"Chief Wiggins, there isn't any new product that I want your industry to focus on for now... Currently, 500 new workers have been assigned to your Industry.

I'll leave you the task of allocating each worker, to any of the Alchemy departments."

"No problem your highness" Chief Wiggins replied.

Actually, during Chief Wiggins meeting with his supervisors, he had listened to their complaints and had also realised that some departments were really understaffed compared to the others.

Now that he had 500 new workers, he would certainly try his best to settle them down.

"I've also made some corrections to the report that you gave me last week... If you follow it thoroughly, the problem with the alkyl group spearation should be fixed...

Overall, the report you gave me was still very impressive... Well done!!" Landon said as he handed over a notebook to Chief Wiggins.

"Thank you, your highness"

Landon took another file on his table and looked at Lyore.

"Chief Lyore... For this month, your industry also doesn't need to make any new products as well. I have also assigned 500 new workers to your industry.

And like the case with the chief Wiggins, I equally expect you to allocate them to each department within the food industry.

I'm also impressed with your report, and have also made a few minor corrections as well."

"Thank you, your highness." Chief Lyore said as he took his report from Landon.

Infact, Lyore also had the same problem as Chief Wiggins.

The supervisors within the food industry had also requested for more workers within their departments... especially the farming department, which Lyore thought was very reasonable.

Lyore thought that the supervisors within the food industry were hilarious... they literally fought over the number people who were to be assigned within the food industry.

Before he had come to this meeting, each and everyone of them had tried to sweet talk him, and even went as far as offering him food...hehehe.

Although he took their food, he was still going to distribute the new recruits were he deemed fit.

Why did he take the food then?

Because he was a pure food lover.. was it the food's fault that they had tried to sweet talk him?

NO it wasn't!!

Since the food was innocent, there was no reason why he should deprive himself of eating.

All he told them was that he would try his best... he didn't make any promises to anyone.

Hmmmp!! Serves them right!!

Who sent them to try and bribe him with food?Funny enough, all the supervisors were super tight with each other, and liked to tease one another daily.

But when it came to getting new recruits in their departments, they didn't mind cooking delicious meals for Chief Lyore.

Landon looked at Tim and smiled.

"Chief Tim, unlike other industries, this month I would require your industry to create a new department, and produce a new product called Toilet paper.

I also need the Porcelain and marble department to mold out 'sinks' and 'toilet bowls'.

And finally, I will also work very closely with those electrical engineers in training to create something called a 'fluorescent light bulb'."

Tim already knew that there was no way that he would be free... not that he minded anyway.

Toilet paper was essentially made from wood, so the toilet paper department would definitely have to be as close as possible to the wood cutting department.

Landon also specifically requested that most of the new recruits assigned to the construction industry, should be placed in department 6.

Department 6 alone had 4 buildings assigned to it... They basically did everything.

From fixing and creating industrial equipment like wheelbarrows, saws, rods, nails, and so on.. to creating metal house features like lockers, locks, door knobs, pots, pans, spoons... To creating fuel driven heavy machines... To building any metal feature that Landon required.

These people were the most active within all the entire construction industry.

Department 6 had about 8 different sub-sectors all sharing 4 buildings within the industry.

The only sector that didn't share a building with the rest, was the one that created the fuel-based heavy machines.

All these buildings were 3 to 5 floors high, and all covered massive floor spaces.

The first floor of each building had really high ceilings as well.

When building build estates in this era, nobles always tried their best to make it look as Grand, as those within the royal palaces.

It sort of resembled the scene in 'Beauty and the Beast' were Bell was having a dance with the Beast... The distance from the first floor to the ceiling, was that high.

Landon had destroyed 2/3 of the front walls to create a massive door for these heavy machines, so that they could pass out of the building once built.

Once successfully built, they would be driven and parked at the back of the estate in straight columns and rows.

Anyway, since the new industries would almost be completed, Landon needed to make sure that there enough door knobs, door hinges, taps, and so on.. that where created.

Department 6 also consisted of those workers who Landon had spent time teaching energy systems to. Those who learned were referred to as 'electrical engineers in training'.

These engineers in training, had worked very closely with the other workers within department 6 and created the heavy machines.

They had placed and connected all the wires for the escavators, trucks and so on.

With the second construction site being the power plant, it would only make sense to start creating the bulbs in advance.

So far, that was all that Landon required department 6 to do.

Landon further gave detailed instructions to Tim concerning the porcelain and marble department, on how they were to mold the sinks and toilet bowls.

Once construction was completed, these fixtures needed to be connected to the pipes and placed all around the buildings.

So far, there were already so many Porcelain and marble floor tiles ready for installation. Hence Landon just needed them to focus on the sinks and toilet bowls for now.

"But your highness, what is this strange board thing that you want department 13 to create?" Tim asked, as he looked at the notes in his hands.

"Its a game... it's called 'Chess'..."

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Right now, combined with the 2700 new recruits, Landon now had a total of 11,200 construction workers.

He wanted all 2700 recruits to start working on the sites, so that they could learn from the current workers there.

After settling them in, Landon withdrew 6000 workers from the construction site for his next projects.

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Winter was coming, and Landon was sure that most of the medicinal plants would die from the harsh weather, if not properly cared for.

These plants were used by the doctors, to heal and treat their patients daily.

Hence, what Baymard needed right now was a Large greenhouse to continue growing these plants during the winter.

With that, Landon assigned 1,000 people from the group of 6000, to start greenhouse construction within the food industry.

These workers had previously worked on the sites, and had a ton of building experience... So when Landon gave them the building plan, they immediately understood every single detail on it.

But what puzzled them was that this building would have no concrete floors or walls... just 4 meter thick glass walls, as well as a glass roof.

The ground of the building was to be completely exposed.

What sort building was this? Who would live there? They even asked Landon several times if he was certain.

And when Landom gave his approval, they found that they suddenly didn't understand their king anymore.

Forget it... If their king said it was so, then it was so.

And from all indications, this building was going to be a very massive single floored one.

Generally, greenhouses over 3.5 meters normally allowed warm air to rise away from the plant's leaves, ensuring that the floor temperature would remain relatively balanced.

Hence a good height allowed for good temperature control and airflow around the plants.

That was why Landon decided to make his greenhouse 4 meters high.

The only parts within the greenhouse that would be cemented were: all footpaths, and 12 other rooms used for storing manure, garden tools, and so on.

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Now that he had settled the greenhouse issue, Landon was left with 5000 workers for his other project.

Previously all Landon had been doing was focusing on the construction sites.

He had started making building fixtures like doors, floor tiles, and so on, just for the industries.

None of these products were for the resident homes.

These industries would be completed soon, so the floor tiles needed to be placed, the sinks and the light bulbs installed...duhhh.

Landon had planned that when the 3 sites began operating, they would only share water, electricity and heating amongst themselves.

This was to help the workers who would operate these plants, have a better understanding of these new industries.

During that time, he would personally train them on how to operate these industries.

One doesn't just become an operating engineer without proper training... That's why Landon had already made up his mind that the month of September would be used for training these operating engineers.

So now that these industries were nearing completion, he could finally begin with city Planning for the entire Baymard.

A while back, Landon had spent the entire 3 months (May to July) creating a detailed city plan for Baymard.

He divided the city like so:

•Upper Region

District A: Royal palace only.

District B: Military forces, Marine Academy, Navy and Coast guard Academy, Air force Academy, and Police academy.

District C: Main Police station, Schools, Courts, Main office for Baymard Bank, Education Bureau offices, Government policy Offices, School for nursery, primary, secondary, Medical and other important schools, Fire fighting Station, and so on.

District D: Side branches for the Baymard Bank, Luxury hotels, amusement parks, Zoo, Sea world, Car stores, Malls, Main Bus station and so on.

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•Central Region:

District E: Residential region for the original citizens of Baymard.

District F: Residential region for the refugees and slaves

District G: Regular hotels for visitors, bank branches, Baymard national park, Bars, stores, and so on.

District H (closer to the Entrance/exit of Baymard): Police station, Military branch, branch office for checking and issuing Identity cards, and other important outposts.

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•Lower Region: For this region, Landon didn't want to divide it up into different sectors, as only industries would be set up here.

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•Coastal region: Landon decided to divide this region horizontally from the beach... Hence each sector here, would have it's own mini-beach in front of it.

District I: Shipping dock and ports, Merchant stores and so on.

District J: Luxury beach hotels, and beach entertainment

District K: Space which Landon just wanted to keep, between the other districts and District L. This space was to create ample distance between regular the other sectors and military posts in district L.

District L: Baymard Marine, Coast guard and Navy stations and posts.

All these regions within Baymard would have police stations for safety, gas stations, and other important posts needed.

Also, some of the districts would have bank side branches, and clinics as well.

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After the month of May, Landon had basically allowed the construction workers to practice their driving skills and use the excavators to clear up the roads in the lower region, as well as some parts of the coastline region.

The workers had used these two regions as their practice zones.

How else where they to practice?

Even till this day, these driving classes were still going on, and were currently taught by those who had already mastered the classes.

For Landon, the workers could make mistakes in the lower region and maybe some parts of the coastal region.

But the upper and central regions were another story.

Those regions needed to be superb, leaving no room for errors... Afterall in future, these were the areas were guests or visitors would see the most.

Currently, if one observed the lower region carefully, they would be able to see that some parts of the roads were crooked, while others were done carelessly.

Landon was just grateful that they hadn't started tarring the roads yet.

All that they did was clear up all grass and level the surface of the roads, in accordance with the road plan for those regions.

This problem could be fixed later on, but right now, Landon didn't want to do so because he knew that they would eventually fix it themselves when the time came for tarring the roads.

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Presently, Landon had finally finished mapping out every road, administration building, residential house, and so on for the upper and central regions.

The workers were to start with District E, which would be the region were all the original citizens of Baymard would stay.

For Landon to complete the system's mission, he needed to successfully house all the original citizens of Baymard... not the slaves or the refugees.

That's why he wanted to start with District E.

Although the men were only to start road construction, they couldn't help but applaud his highness when they looked at the road plan.

There were more than 200 roads, that were constantly intertwined with each other, just within the District alone.

Landon had already given these roads, either street or highway names.

The roads that would be placed around every block within the residences were all single lane roads, with ample space for side parking.

For the major roads within District E, Landon had decided that they would have 2 lanes for driving.

And finally, the highways that connected District E to District D (upper region) and district F in the (central region), where to have 6 lanes.

4 lanes for forward driving, and the other 2 for left and right hand turns. ... Of course, he also made enough space for bicycle and pedestrian walking.

And at some distance from the highway road, the train tracks would be placed there as well.

Starting road construction now would definitely help the workers know where and how, to place the pipes and cables for water and electricity.

Once District E was done, they were to move to other districts... And after the entire central region is marked, the upper region would be next, followed by the coastal region.

Landon had also completed the city building plans for Baymard, in preparation for when they were to actually started house construction.

These plans included markings for luxury villa's, future skyscraper resident buildings, large parking lots, and other important buildings within some District.

Although he knew that some of these wouldn't be built in the next 2 to 4 years, he still liked to map them out now.

Just looking at the map, gave Landon a clear idea of his future goals.

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The sun was at it's lowest and the day had finally come to an end.

It was time to go home.

Tomorrow, he would assist the men with road construction.

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Author-san here, thank you guys for all the love and comments ...but please can some of you guys stop comparing my work to R.T.W? ...

Honestly, I just started reading it 3 weeks ago, and I can cleay see many reasons why my work can be compared with it or others...

But you have to know that my world had no magic in it.

Heck, R.T.W has witches that can even create picture I.D's, and so on... Baymard doesn't have a printer yet. (Which is obviously coming soon).

But right now, Landon is waiting for printing services before he could finalize a lot of Government issues.

Everything takes time with humans, so please be patient.

If there isn't anything that you think should have popped up already, you can suggest it to me and if I really haven't thought of it, I would always reply and thank you all... like food, military weapons and so on. (P.S some of you give me the dopest ideas )

But if it concerns city development like trains, roads, policies.. and so on.. trust me... I've already thought of it...if I haven't put it out yet, then there is a good reason for that.

Other novels have help with magic, while Landon needs people to get stuff done.

Landon will only build what he sees is currently lacking for him to move forward.

At the same time, he can only do so much within every month... so even if he needs more things, he would push and overwork the few people that he gets from Santa.

The workers couldn't rush their progress, they needed time to learn, and time to adapt by experimenting every month.

Plus unlike other fantasy novels, in real life, people needed to be trained in order to work or create stuff...

Landon needed a hundred right now, but so what?

In real life people are normally educated by going to universities and having internships... these people in Baymard were literally learning on the job.. so they needed time to adapt.

And although this world is similar to earth, at the end of the day... It is Hertfelia and not earth.

Landon had seen people with naturally born blue hair and pinkish eyes... bruh...

This is a fantasy world in a different Galaxy from earth's galaxy.

I believe that no one wants to read exactly what other novels offer.

So as a Writer, I would really appreciate it of people don't expect, that my way would be exactly what read in other novels.

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I have to say, there was a certain person who kept bombarding me with R.T.W messages almost every hour of the day... because of him, I starting looking up on what R.T.W was...

I have to say that it's an outstanding novel... but if you want to read that kind of novel, please go back and it read it again...

Leave Baymard out of this.. because everything in that novel was made possible because of the witches.

From melting iron to make cannons, to making laboratory glass beakers, to having a witch that can print and photocopy, to movie filming, ...bruhhh...

And yet someone recommended that novel to me for a more realistic approach... Sigh...

For the user who keeps messaging me daily about R.T.W... please let me rest

Of course for all my Baymard fans, your welcome to stay.

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8:25 A.M

Landon had told the workers to come to the lower region earlier than usual.

He wanted them to load up the tools for land mapping into the loading trucks, and head out to District E..

Within this week, Landon wanted all 5000 men to learn everything about road construction.

Hence, he decided to use this week as training time for the men.

And although they were usually given 2 days off within a week, Landon wanted them to work all 7 days straight... just for this time frame... Of course they would definitely be paid extra for their overtime.

After their training week, Landon would then divide them into different groups based on the different jobs within road construction.

Some would be in charge of land excavation, leveling the land, digging up trenches for road water drainage, gravel adding, tarring, and so on.

For now, this week would be used to familiarize the workers with every part of road construction.

He also decided to start with the street roads around the residences, instead of the highways/major roads.

Firstly, the main highway road in Baymard Is currently used very often.

The soldiers and horses use on them daily to leave from the upper region to their posts by the gates, and other areas within Baymard.

Carriages, wagons and other supply trucks also use these roads to supply bags of food to the stores, military, schools and so on.

Hence there was no point in starting with them now.

Plus highway roads were really stressful to create.

There might be a possibility that Baymard would be overpopulated, and filled with numerous cars in the future.

Hence, Landon would also need to make 'highway road bridges' within the city.

Back on earth, all cities had road bridges.

If one wanted to head over to the mall, downtown or any congested area, there were lanes on Bridges that took one around traffic and so on.

These bridges were usually supported by large pillars, and were a must in lessening car accidents, aiding in traffic control and so on.

And although most of the highway roads would be on ground level, Landon couldn't deny the amount of stress Highway bridges would cause him.

Therefore, anything highway, would definitely be done last.

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Once they were in the District E, Landon and the men began to offload the trucks.

They had brought paint, several 2 meter long Iron rods, ropes, measuring tapes and so on.

Today, they were going to focus on mapping out the roads.

The topography for the central and upper regions were really superb for construction.

Both had what geography would call, a 'Plain topography'.

Plains were flat sweeping landmasses, that generally didn't change much in elevation.

They usually occurred at the doorstep of mountains, or by any coastal region.

And one should know that at the back of Landon's castle in the upper region, was a huge unexplored mountain range... And the coastal region was also very close to the central region.

Hence both the upper and the central regions were basically plains.

These regions were like clear green football fields, or clear safari fields were animals grazed openly in Africa.

One could say that they looked like parks for kite flying... clear, green and perfect for construction.

The grass in these regions were only ankle level, and really less stressful compared to the lower region that was filled with rocks and trees.

Of course there were trees in these regions as well, but they spread wide apart...as opposed to a densely packed jungle.

Imagine several football fields that had only 1 or 5 trees on each field...That's how these regions looked like.

But having this kind of topography wasn't always a blessing.

Landon realised that if he wanted to make a National park in future, he would need to plant several trees within District G.

What a drag.

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Landon placed a 2 meter iron rod in the ground, at the left side of the entrance/exit from the upper region.

This rod would indicate the starting point for District E.

"Alright.. So far, all of you have your road map plan for this district, in your hands.

For the next 2 days, we will all map out some of the roads using this rod, and the carriage road as our reference points."

Landon and the men immediately got to work.

"His Highness said that every after 168 meters (550 feet), we need to make roads that leave the main Carriage highway and lead to the the residential roads within the District."

"Your right, I think his highness said that these spaces were called 'City blocks'."

"So what we need to do now is mark up all the roads, as well as block areas...right?"

"Correct"

The men discussed amongst themselves as the work progressed.

Generally, city blocks shouldn't be too long or too short.

If it was too long, the pedestrians wouldn't feel safe, and when they were walking, they would feel like they weren't making any progress at all towards their destinations.

That's why back on earth, people didn't really approve of the block sizes of several places like Manhattan, that had a block size with length 246 feet, and a width of 900 feet.

The people felt like it was too long and not safe.. plus there were really no shortcuts around the blocks.

On the other hand, smaller blocks, weren't always better either.

Portland City in the U.S.A, was the darling of road blocks.. And had a block length of 200 feet, as well as a width of 200 feet.

That city offered short blocks, and had alot of shortcuts for those without cars.

But on the downside, those with cars were constantly annoyed by these short blocks.

The smaller the blocks, the more time those driving spend on traffic lights... Which in turn makes them late for important engagements.

Plus on an economical point of view, as block size shrinks, more street roads would be made.

Street roads cost money to maintain, as opposed to a retail occupied land which generated tax revenue yearly from electrical bill's and so on.

Hence, Landon decided to make his own blocks to be an average of the 2 comparisons.

For the residential areas, Landon decided to that the city blocks should have a length of 223 feet (68 meters), and a width of 550 feet (168 m).

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After lunch, Landon felt like they had marked more than enough blocks along the Carriage highway... So he divided the men into 3 groups.

2000 of them were to continue marking the roads along the carriage road.

Another 2000 were to take each marked road and start marking their way across the fields, and further into the District.

And finally, 1000 of them were to start marking the spaces along the already marked roads, for rain water drainage pipes. As well as water supply pipes and sewage drainage pipes.

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As the work progressed, Landon was happy with how much work these 5000 men had accomplished.

Landon knew that he wouldn't be here the next day, so he instructed the workers on what areas he wanted marked while he was away.

Tomorrow, he needed to supervise the first official Military exam for the May recruits.

But for now, it was 3:00 P.M... And he had a date with Department C6.

Time to teach the electrical engineers in training about how to make light bulbs.

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When Landon got to the lower region, he immediately went to the Department C2 (glass) and loaded a truck with already cut glass tubes and bulbs... As well as 7 oven like-kilns for heating.

There were several shapes presently made: large long tubes, small long tubes, short spiral tubes, and so on.

Prior to this month, Landon had already known that he would make light bulbs for the new industries. Hence he requested for the glass department to make tons of these tubes.

Flourescent lights are generally long lasting, and best for schools, industries, homes, hospitals and so on.

Although Incandescent light bulbs were way more inefficient and short lasting than fluorescent bulbs, they could still be used in residential houses.

Since they wouldn't last long, it was clear to see that they would be cheaper than fluorescent bulbs.. Although not by a lot.

People always choose cheaper items first, even if the difference between the 2 items was by a penny... Hence Landon still had to make these bulbs for those who wanted to valued quantity over quality.

One Incandescent light bulb could last for only 1,500 hours... but the latter could last for more than 10,000 hours.

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Once Landon reached Department C6, he realized that this department needed more buildings.

Department C6 alone occupied 4 buildings.. but right now, Landon decided to add another building for the department.

Which would be designated for the creation of light bulbs.

Speaking of which, Landon realised that the construction industry was quickly running out of space.

Previously, there were 13 departments that already occupied 16 buildings within the Construction Industry.

But now, he added a new department for tissue paper and a new building towards department C6.

With those out of the way, the construction Industry had no more massive unused buildings left.

There were just 7 wide, one-story buildings that were previously used as sleeping quarters for the maids, slaves and servants.

Off the bat, those 7 slave buildings could only be used as storage units.

So if Landon wanted more space, he would just have to construct more buildings, or create a new industry for whatever he wanted to create.

Looking at the electrical engineers in Training, Landon realized that he couldn't just pull them all out... As they were still needed in creating heavy machines, at building 4 of department C6.

Hence he decided to break the men into 2 groups, and alternate teaching them daily.

Today, he would teach group 1... While the other group would carry on with their usual duties... And the next day, he would focus group 2.

In addition by the end of the week, Landon would assign specific people amongst them to continue light bulb production.

He just wanted to teach them all, as it was beneficial for their education as electrical engineers.

Plus, some of them might even end up as repair men when maintenance is needed... So it was best for them to understand everything as much as possible.

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The men offloaded the tubes from the trucks gently, lest they broke... and carried them into their new building.

Landon had the men set up the room as a lecture hall, and also placed all the materials in front of them.

"Today, we'll create long fluorescent light tubes, and the day after that, I'll show you all how to make compact fluorescent bulbs... And later on, we'll make incandescent bulbs as well.

In addition next month, I will continue on by teaching you all how to create Halogen and LED light bulbs.

But for this month, let's concentrate on the first 3: Fluorsecent tubes, fluorescent bulbs, and Incandescent bulbs."

Speaking of which, Landon couldn't wait to make LED lights... those ones could last for more than 50,000 hours, and were widely used back on earth by 80% of all the industries, schools and so on.

Those ones took time to make, hence Landon postponed them for next month.

The men wore their safety wear, and they sat in the classroom quietly.

"Question!!... For electricity to work, what do we need?"

Immediately, several hands were raised at once.

Landon smiled.

For the past 3 months, every Saturday was used as lecture day.

Landon would teach them for 3 hours and give them weekly assignments to complete.

"Yes, Christopher."

A young man in his early 20's got up instantly.

"There needs to be a supply of electric charges, some form of push to move the charges, and a pathway to carry the charges."

"Correct"

Everyone clapped

"Usually what push system is used in electricity?"

"Cathode-anode push system.. the cathode is positively charged and the anode is negatively charged.. making the electrons flow freely between 2 points". Another answered.

"What are the types of Current flow?"

"Static?" Someone answered.

"Good guess... But no... .. That is a type of electricity... What I asked for, was the 'Current Flow'...who else?"

"A.C and D.C.. that's Alternating and Direct Current flow"

"Correct... Now hold the larger glass tube in front of you all and let's begin."

Each person held the large glass tube in front of them, and followed Landon's lead.

Landon took out his own glass tube and passed white phosphor liquid through the clear transparent tube, instantly coating it white.

Phosphor was a chemical that could cause the bulbs to basically glow brightly. This kind of glow could be green, pink, white, blue and so on.

After the workers had their own tubes coated, they immediately started taking notes on the importance of phosphor coating.

Landon then went on to the next phase.

It was time to start with the internal workings of the bulbs, specifically the electrical components.

Landon took coiled tungsten wires, and placed them at both ends of a smaller glass tube that was on his table.

The mouth of smaller tube was heated, so as to melt to glass around the Tungsten wire... Hence forming a glass mold around the wire.

As the lecture progressed, the men began to note the importance of other coating chemicals like Barium, that was used along the wire.

At the end, tubes were filled with mercury, argon, and nitrogen gases, as well as other important tube components.

These gases all had different uses.. Like argon that is useful for extending the life-slan of the light tubes.

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At the end of the day, Baymard had successfully created their first batch of Fluorescent tubes.

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8:45 A.M

The morning dew could be seen dancing on the grass, as the bright golden rays of sun shone on the fields.

Within the military grounds, several men stood at attention on the fields, as they anxiously waited for the examinations to begin.

The Military examination was a week long one.

•Day 1: Separate theory exams on military rules, weapons, Safety and Pyno Grammar.

•Day 2: Physical exam on physical combat and gun firing.

•Day 3: Theory on scenario questions which were still based on war tactics, Code of ethics and military sign language.

•Day 4: Separate theory exams on Geography, Land Mapping, First aid and Mathematics.

•Day 5: Obstacle course, Push ups, frog jumps and so on

•Day 6: Sword fighting and cannon firing

•Day 7: Rock climbing

Generally, the theory exam was 50% of the final exam, and the Physical was also 50%.

Today was the 2nd day for the exams, and also the only day that Landon had to supervise the examination.

All physical exam marking sheets graded the recruits based on: bravery, task completion, perseverance, Knowledge, strength, flexibility and so on.

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Mustafa was standing nervously on the exam ground with his friends.

Although he was sure that he was ready, a part of him couldn't calm down.

He felt butterflies all over his tummy, and couldn't help but tap his boots as he waited.

He looked at his friend, who in turn m kept staring at the ground while being lost in thought.

Everyone was nervous.

Once Mustafa saw his highness Landon, he knew that it was finally time.

Landon, Lucius, the Major generals, Captains, and the rest of the Warrant soldiers who were also supervising the exam, walked towards the field.

Once the recruits saw Landon, they knelt down and gave him their.

"You may all rise!

Today is your 2nd Examination day, and I'm sure that a lot of you are nervous... But there is no need to be.

I, alongside the other soldiers, have seen you train and grow daily.

Today, we will be testing your combat and gun firing skills.

Both exams will go on at the same time, for the entire day... Hence, we will divide you all into groups of 2.

Once you finish taking one exam, go and line up for the other.

All of you have taken the first 4 written exams, and can already gauge how much effort you need to put towards your next exams.

Work hard!!... And, I wish all the best"

As Mustafa heard Landon speak, he became even more determined to pass today's exams.

Out of the 4 theory exams yesterday, he was sure that he would pass only 3 of them...Hence he began to feel an invisible weight on his shoulders.

He had to make sure that he successfully passed the rest of his exams...And with a good grade too.

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Mustafa was placed in the first group, physical Combat.

There were 20 stages set on the fields, and more than 60 Warrant officers, as well as Captain Trey, Major General Josh and Gary, were supervising this particular exam.

From what Musyafa understood, his highness would be shuttling back and forth between both exam grounds for the entire day.

Mustafa and his comrades formed 2 lines along each battle stage.

As he waited, he began to observe the people fighting on all 20 stages.

"Bro, your up next after this fight... Are you ready?" His friend asked.

Truth be told, his heart was pounding vigorously, and his palms became sweatier.

"Bro.. I'm not too sure, now that I'm next"

"Breathe in and take your time... you'll be fine."

As they finalized their conversation, they heard people clapping.

The match on the stage had ended, and it was finally his turn.

The rules of the battle were simple, successfully kick the other person off the stage before 7 minutes elapsed.

Of course if both participants were still on stage after that time frame, then it would be considered a tie... And both participants would get a pass grade for the exam.

Mustafa rubbed his sweaty hands with powdered chalk that was placed in large bowls by stage, and proceeded up.

He and his opponent saluted each other, took their battle stances, and waited for the start signal.

"Begin" an invigilator yelled.

Instantly, both of them ran towards each other as they began their attacks.

His opponent immediately slid on the floor expectantly, and tripped him down.

'Bang!!'

As he fell, his opponent quickly rolled away, stood up.

Feeling the impending crisis, he too got up as well.

His opponent then ran and jumped towards him, with both legs flying in the air, and aimed towards his upper chest region.

'Sh*!!'

His opponent was going to do a 'Dropkick' on him.

To counter the attack, he quickly pushed his opponents floating legs upwards, and circled his left hand around his opponents waist.

He was going to do the 'Backbreaker'

He instantly dropped to the floor in a kneeling position, and hit his opponents back against his knees.

'Ahh!!', his opponent cried.

The fight went on... And when it was almost 7 minutes straight, he was literally rolled out of the stage by his opponent.

He felt like crying... He had really lost.

Just a few seconds more, and he would have qualified for a tie with his opponent.

Why was he so unlucky?

Although he lost, he didn't hold any grudge towards his opponent.

He was actually surprised that he had held on that long with a fighting monster like that.

His opponent had far superior fighting skills than he did. Hence loosing to him, didn't take his dignity away as a soldier.

"Hi, I'm George... honestly, you gave me a hard time up there...I think that we are pretty much even in strength."

Mustafa turned around and saw his opponent whom he had lost to. He smiled.

He knew that George was just saying all this, so as to cheer him up...After all, he had lost.

"Nahhh.. I think you have better battle sense, and know more fighting moves than I do... Speaking of which, how come your 'Brainbuster' move is better than mine?"

They chatted as they made their way towards the other examination ground.

Mustafa thought that he had failed that particular exam.

But what he didn't know, was that most of the examiners had given him a good score... Afterall, completing the task was just one of the criterias.

He had executed a lot of moves, as well as fought with all his might.

And although his stances for most of the moves needed more work, he had definitely been able to get all the moves at least 60% right.

The recruits didn't know how they were graded, so those that lost, thought that they had definitely failed this particular exam.

It was done this way, so that Landon and the invigilators could see the true colors of the men.

Passing was important, but how you passed mattered as well.

If there were people who deliberately went overboard with the fights just so they could win, those people would fail the course whether they finished the fight or not.

All the moves that the men were taught, had their safety zones.

When using these moves on comrades, the men were to attack the body zones that wouldn't leave any permanent or serious injury to their opponents.

If anyone intentionally broke his/her comrades spine, neck or body parts, they would be expelled from the military A.S.A.P

But if it was accidental, then they only get a probation period to reflect on their actions.

Everything in the world was dangerous had its safety zones.

Working in a chemical lab, hospital, or even driving was dangerous... But if done safely, then there would be nothing to worry about.

But if someone intentionally blinded a coworker with chemicals, or gave the wrong drug prescription, or even killed someone while driving, then they had to take accountability for their actions.

Even if it was a mistake, they would still be held responsible to some degree.

In boxing, karate or even wrestling... If a person broke another's jaw, spinal cord, or shattered his opponent's ribs... They might be suspended or even banned for life.

Every profession had its safety zones.

And the military was no exception.

All the men had been taught on safety right from the get go, so Landon wasn't going to pardon anyone.

It's either expulsion or probation.

But when the men were attacking enemies, Tsk...they could do whatever they wanted.

At that point, even if they broke their enemies nostrils, neck or even fingers...Landon wouldn't give 2 F's about the whole scenario.

That was the only time that he would allow them to run rampant.

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The exam progressed and finally, it was the end of another beautiful day for Landon... And the end of another hellish examination day for the recruits.

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On the previous day that Landon had supervised the military exam, the construction workers had continued on marking the roads, and had also marked each residential home on the blocks.

Today was dedicated towards excavating the marked roads, digging up space for rainwater drainage, water supply, central heating, and sewage pipes.

If rainwater or melted snow wasn't drained, the roads and sidewalk pavements would become flooded.

When that happened, the pavement grade would definitely decrease. As well as the lifespan of the pavement.

The central heating pipeline on the other hand, ensured that all buildings and houses were properly heated during the winter. It would also provide ventilation and air conditioning, to all buildings within Baymard.

All 4 pipelines: Rain, sewage, clean water, and Central heating, would be placed under the roads.

Underneath the left lane of the road would be the sewer pipeline, as well as the water supply pipeline.

And below the right lane of the road would be the rainwater drainage pipeline.

As for the central heating pipeline, it would be placed underneath the center of the road.

Just like how it was done back on earth, all 4 pipelines were placed underneath the road and buried at different depths.

In the case of a single lane road, all pipelines would still be placed underground... But their pipe sizes would be much smaller compared to that of a 2, or even a 6 lane road.

For rainwater drainage, the sidewalks along the roads would have what was usually called a 'catch basin'.

These basins would be placed periodically on both sides of the road, underneath the sidewalks.

Every after a certain distance, a catch basin would be seen draining the water away from the roads.

Their job was to gather all the water on the sides of the road, and pipe it to the main pipeline directly underneath the roads.

All street rainwater pipelines, would lead to all highway pipelines, and travel down towards the coastal region... particularly District K.

At this point, Landon had realised that he needed to build a mini-estate that would focus on filtering out dirt from the water before it went to the ocean.

Roadside water drains could sometimes catch cans, plastic wraps, banana peelings, oil spills from cars, coins and so on.

With all this happening, the ecosystem and marine life had to be protected... Plus he didn't want all those bottles, plastic wraps and cans to wash up the shores of Baymard.

It was just not beach sexy.

Hence before the water went into the ocean, it needed to pass through a filtering plant.

District K was a great location for the filtration plant. It was between District J (Beach resorts), and District L (Navy and other armed forces).

Who would like to turn up to a beach resort that had bottles and cans floating in the ocean?

On the other hand, the Sewage pipelines would also be directly underneath the left lane of all roads.

Sewage was a tricky one.

90% of sewage systems worked with the help of gravity.

Meaning that the pipes had to slope downwards from their source (sinks, toilets.. etc), to the wastewater treatment plant.

Luckily for Baymard, the treatment plant was in the lower region.

The upper region generally had a high elevation point to the central region... And the central region in turn had a slightly higher elevation point than the coastal region.

But the lower region had the lowest elevation point in Baymard, which was what Landon needed... In this way, all the waste would flow downhill with ease.

Gravity was needed because waste water generally had a lot of solids in it, which made pumping a plain in the butt.

There was tissue paper, bones from the sink, seeds from fruits, that would end up in the pipes... Making it very hard to pump.

But although pumping was stressful for sewage, it was still very much possible.

If there were areas that needed poop to travel over hills, grinded pumps or lift stations would be used to pressurize the poop.

The lift stations literally pushed the sewage up the hills, to a needed height where they could gravity-flow downwards again.

So in the ideal situation, pipes from each house would connect to a main sewer pipe underneath the road, and flow downhill by gravity.

And now that the men had marked out each residential unit around the blocks, they now knew how many residential sewage pipelines would branch out from the main sewage pipeline underneath the road.

There would also be manholes placed periodically along the pipes.

These manholes would act as access points, should incase a problem arises in the sewer pipeline.

For example if a toddler had a bad habit of frequently flushing down his toys in the toilet, there might be a clog over time with the sewer pipelines.

When that happened, the workers would have to use these manholes and unclog the area.

And aside from sewers, rainwater pipelines would also have manholes as well.

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Once Landon and the men arrived at the road site, they immediately got on the heavy machines and began work.

When they had their driving classes months ago, they had been thoroughly taught how to install all these piping units... And had also done so when they were constructing the other 3 industrial sites.

With months of experience under their belt, they immediately knew what to do when they looked at the piping plan.

And for the next 3 days, some people used excavators to dig up the ground, others placed the pipes with the hell of Draglines and other heavy machines.

Some leveled the ground with bulldozers, while others compacted the ground with compactors, rollers .

And since there were not enough machines for 5000 people, those that weren't driving, either jumped down into the trench and guided those who were on the machines placing the pipes, screwed the pipes together, continued marking the land, and so on...

At the end of the day, there was a job for everyone on site.

On the 6th and 7th day of the week, they completely tarred the roads using the pavers, spreaders, and other heavy machines.

Finally, they were done... well, almost done.

Although training week was over, Landon still added 2 more days for teaching.

The tar on the road would only take a day at most to dry, so while it was drying... the men did the sidewalks.

And once it was finally dried, road marking heavy machines were used to paint the roads.

The white painted lines usually differentiated each lane, bicycle paths, traffic lines, pedestrian crossing lines, and so on.

When everything was done, Landon could finally close his lessons on road construction.

Of course he had made up his mind that at least 2 days a week, he would come over to assist them... As well as check up on their work.

Before Landon left, he divided the men into 2 main groups.

The 1st group would continue working on the residential roads within District E... While group 2 would start installing the main highway pipelines, and connecting them to the coastal or lower regions.

Unlike the others, the main highway pipelines were not going to be placed beneath any highway road.

They would be placed at the sides, hence the men didn't need to necessary touch the roads.

They just had to place the pipes alongside all highway roads, and connect them to the coastal region, or the plants in the lower region... depending on what pipeline it was.

On the city plan, there were 3 main highway roads within the district... Two had 3 lanes, while the last one had 6 lanes.

Landon needed the men to start working on those pipelines now...

At the end of the day... even if house or road construction within the District was done, if these pipelines weren't connected to the coastal or lower regions yet, then nothing would be supplied or drained.

No clean water, no heating, no sewage drainage, no rainwater drainage...nothing!!

Landon really wanted to get things done before it started snowing.

In Baymard... Snow usually started in the early days of December, and sometimes in the later days of November.

Landon's plan was to get the original Baymard citizens all housed up before then.

And at that time, all these features needed to be fully installed and working within in their homes.

Right now, Landon really wanted to finish this housing mission... but he also knew that Baymard's housing plans couldn't be rushed either.

For the system's mission to be completed, he needed to successfully house all the original Citizens of Baymard... sigh...

Long story short... Time was money, and he needed the citizens to be safe for the winter.

Hence, those pipelines needed to be installed A.S.A.P.

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While Landon jumped from one industry to the other, the royals and nobles in the Capital were perplexed over the lateness of one particular noble.

Everyone just had one question in mind...

Where the hell was City lord Shannon?

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(Author-san here : Rubber is in Chapter 51 and Heavy machines are in Chapter 54. ...so rubber was made before the heavy machines... don't get confused guys.. )

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--Royal Palace, Capital of Arcadina--

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Over the past week, all those involved with the border war had finally arrived at the Capital.

All except one.

Everyone was puzzled about what could have delayed the mighty war God.

King Barn, his 3 sons, some court ministers, and the City lords that would participate in the upcoming the border war, were gathered around the throne room.

In 4 more days, all the men would be heading out towards the border cities that had been conquered by the Deiferus Knights.

There were currently 5 groups dedicated for taking back each border city... And each group had 1 commander and 3 generals for the war.

In some groups, the prince's would act as commanders and have the other city lords within their group act as generals... And in others, a city lord was appointed to act as Commander.

The men had positive attitudes towards this war... they felt that they were more in number, compared to their enemies.

With each man having at least 5000 knights under his command, victory was definitely assured.

All through the day, they had been going over their battle plans and strategy.

And now that their meeting was coming to an end, something had to be said about City lord Shannon.

"Your sure that you had previously sent out my orders?"

"My king.. I am most certain...perhaps something happened along the way that caused his delay?"

"My king...We can't continue to wait for him any further..."

"He's right my king... Our cities are being stolen by those animals".

"My king... May I suggest that we replace City lord Shannon with someone else who's currently residing within the Capital?"

Alec Barn fell silent for a while.

The whole charade made him feel uncomfortable.

Whenever there was an important battle taking place, it was usually Shannon who arrived earlier than others.

This was really puzzling... Why hadn't he shown up yet?

As City lord Shannon was popularly known within the Capital, many young knights looked up to him for his strength.

They had heard of his amazing battle skills, and the amazing wars that he had fought alongside King Barn back in the days.

Although the people in the Capital feared King Barn, they had loads of respect for City lord Shannon... In their mind, he should have been their king instead of Alec.

Actually, the people were simple minded... And would generally prefer anyone who was kinder to them, and better than Alec Barn.

In addition, because of the way the people thought of Shannon, Shannon himself had been planning to dethrone Alec ages ago... That was until he died at Landon's hands.

He had planned the whole scenario with his eldest son Marder.

Marder was to get close to the royal princesses, as well as gradually gain the support of the people.

He himself was to gather his forces slowly, and even buy some of the knights in the royal castle.

He had planned to make a deal with Alec's personal guards, who in turn were to poison or aid him in killing Alec.

Everything was going as planned... up until he met Landon.

He had ended up dying at the hands of his enemy's bastard son... And as he died, he couldn't help but feel resentful.

Couldn't he have at least died at the hands of Alec, the crown prince, or someone important?

As a person of great status, wasn't it a stain to his name if people heard that he was defeated by sickly bastard?

People went down in history as war heroes, but no!!!!!... He just had to end up being a stepping stone for the bastard.

Alec Barn had always known of the people's thoughts about Shannon.

Ever since they were still knights training at the Knight Academy, Shannon had always had a better image in the Capital compared to him.

Shannon was very charismatic, gentle and kind to all the ladies and nobles around...

The stupid people in the Capital actually believed that bullshit acting of his.

Alec didn't blame Shannon at all for his acting... power play was indeed about keeping up appearances.

In this day and age, those who acted like white lotus, heroes and so on, easily won the hearts of the people.

The people were sheep, that needed a shepherd to guide them.

They only listened, and obeyed.

And if anyone could convince them, then they could even give up their lives for that particular shepherd.

Truly a stupid bunch.

Alec himself used to pretend while he was in the Academy... But after he killed his family, who would stand in his way again?

He had become king and was the law maker... who did he need to keep on airs with?

Alec knew that Shannon wasn't as pure as he would like the people in the Capital to believe.

In the Western regions, Shannon was known as 'Blood Knight'.

Over there, the people were completely frightened by Shannon... He acted like a bandit and did whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted to.

He killed sometimes for fun, and tortured innocent people when things didn't go his way... This was a man who had reportedly killed 3 of his wives once.

He had burned villages down, just because he missed the site of blood or whenever he was enraged.

Shannon also had one of the largest Harems in the entire empire.

He had kidnapped and raped countless women ever since he became City lord.

Some of these women were stolen from their husbands and families.

The sad part of it all was that, some had their husbands and children burnt or buried alive, since Shannon didn't want his new wives to miss their old families.

The thought of another man having anything to do with his wives completely irked him.

Hence he went after their families, towns or villages.

When Alec was King, he immediately shipped Shannon out to the Western regions, which had the worst conditions within the empire.

He also stationed several nobles around the Western region to monitor Shannon's movements...

If Shannon was seen making his way to the Capital, secret messengers would be sent to deliver messages to Alec.

But after 15 years, nothing had happened... Hence Alec dropped his guard down.

But for some reason over the recent years, he had been getting overly suspicious of Shannon.

Shannon would now frequently make trips to the Capital, and would also do things that garnered support from the peasants.

He had decided to use this war as an opportunity to kill Shannon.

The other city lords within Shannon's team, were supposed to team up, and kill him after they had won the border war.

But now, Shannon hadn't showed up yet.

Did he know of their plans way before hand? Was he planning a revolt?

Alec's mind was racing back and forth.

It was indeed the perfect time to revolt.

The prince's were all leaving, and most of his strongest city lords would join them as well.

Did Shannon build up his forces in secret? And if so, how many men did he really have under his command?

Although there were still Barons and ministers in the Capital who had their own armies, how could Alec be sure that they wouldn't stab him in the back as well?

None of them really cared for him, and would even be pleased if he actually died.

Plus even with his personal army, he couldn't guarantee his win since he didn't know how many men his enemy had.

For the first time in his life, he began to regret his decision of ruling the people with fear.

'Shannon, Ohhh Shannon...hehehe... Are you really going to bite the hand that fed you?'

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Alec raised his right hand up in the air, and the room became silent.

They had been talking and arguing about who would be the new Commander for Shannon's team.

"Since City lord Shannon isn't here right now, City Lord Campbell will take over his position as Commander... Also, Baron Unisy within the Capital will join the group, so as to even out the members between each group."

Alec then turned to 2 of the guards at his side, and issued out a command.

"Get Shannon's son, Marder...to see me at once!!"

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The day for the first official Master Chef Competition, had finally come.

So far, only 8 cooks had applied to participate in the competition.

In preparation for today, Landon had requested for the Furniture making department to make several large wooden bleachers for the citizens to sit on.

The competition was taking place on the fields located just beside Landon's castle in the upper region.

The area was arranged like a how basketball matches were set up back on earth... The bleachers were positioned around a large empty space, which would be used by the contestants for cooking.

As for the judges, their seats were closest to the contestants.

One could imagine them being seated were basketball hoops were usually placed on a basketball court.

The seats would be raised high up, so as to enable them to see everything in front of them.

This was also beneficial for the citizens, as they would also be able to see the judges, as well as their reactions and facial expressions when they ate and judged.

Landon also got wooden scoreboards that looked like table tennis rackets, and had numbers painted red on each and everyone of them.

If a judge scored somebody a 5/10, then the judge would simply hold up the racket with the number 5 on it.

From there, the person who was in charge of hosting the show would tell the audience the score.

Hence those who were seated far at the back, could know the scores as well.

Today was Saturday, the children were out of school, and those that weren't working came to watch the show with their kids.

The rules of the competition were simple.

•The chefs had 30 minutes for preparation time, where they would lay out and prepare all their ingredients for the competition... this prep time would be done before the competition officially began.

•The competition had 1 hour of cooking time, where they were to make an appetizer, entree and a Dessert.

•Serving the citizens would also be done in 2 hours time.

•And each chef's work station would be given: 3 large Kiln ovens, 3 working tables, 7 large pots, 5 large frying pans, knives, cooking spoons, wooden chopping boards, 4 large iron cook stands and 4 large steel griddles.

Since there were no gas cookers invented yet, hence Landon had come up with steel griddles and iron cook stands.

Back on earth, these inventions were popularly used by people who didn't live on electricity... And even at barbecues or hunting trips sometimes.

Steel griddles looked like large metal cupboards, that had a single chimney pipe at one end of the cupboard.

With these griddles, wood would be placed inside the cupboard area and lit.

Once the wood started burning, the cupboard doors would be locked and the smoke inside the cupboard would go out of a 1 meter tall chimney pipe.

At the top of the 1 meter chimney pipe, was another half meter pipe that extended sideways.

This was done so that if one placed this griddle inside a home, he sideways pipe could extend outside a window and send the smoke within the cupboard space outside the home.

And as the wood burned within the steel cupboard, the upper outer surface of the cupboard would heat up gradually.

This surface would basically be used as a frying pan... eggs could be fried on the hot surface, even about 20 meat buns for burgers could be placed and cooked on the top surface.

Since the material used is stainless steel, the food would not carry any metallic tastes.

And just so people didn't accidentally burn their bodies, Landon had made the upper part of the cupboard to be very large when compared to the lower part that had the firewood placed in it.

If one really wanted to imagine it, Landon would best describe the situation as that of a fancy glass table that had one leg at its center.

The rectangular or circular table top would be used as a cooking surface... While the only table leg at the center, would be used as the compartment for burning firewood.

The chimney part could be visualized as a 1 meter stick being placed at the side of the table top.

With this setup, the large table top would definitely gave the chefs some distance between the firewood chamber and themselves.

Again, these griddles could only be used for frying and needed no frying pan for cooking.

As for the iron cook stands, although they were very similar to the griddles in appearance, their upper surfaces had several holes on them.

These holes ensured that the cooking pots had direct contact with the fire within the chamber below.

This iron cook stand could be used for everything... boiling, frying (with frying pan) and so on.

They literally served as a gas cookers...except instead of gas, wood was used.

These cook stands could take up to 6 medium sized pots at once... And If the pots were larger in size, then they could just be placed over 2 holes on the cooker.

Within Baymard, both of these inventions were already widely used as they were better than what the people were used to.

With these inventions, the people could now cook without constant exposure to fire.

Previously, they made all their meals outside or under a grass hut that didn't have any walls... And even when they cooked indoors, the rooms would be full of smoke... and there was always constant fear of their homes being burnt down from the open in door fires.

But now, they could cook inside their homes without the fear of the fire spreading around.

The cupboard idea was really genius to them, as the long and bent chimney pipe at the top literally took the smoke out their windows.

It really changed cooking for them.

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For the competition, once the contestants were done cooking, they would be judged and later scored.

For the first part of the competition, the judges would score them based on several factors.

These scores only make 60% of their total marks... The other 40% would come from the audience.

After the judges gave out their reviews, the citizens would come down from the bleachers and taste of all the dishes.

At that time, 20 Sous-chefs would assist each candidate in serving the citizens.

Sous-chefs were basically second-in-command chefs, who were to listen and follow the instructions of each contestant, so as make numerous dishes for the audience.

For the second part of the competition, these sous-chefs would follow strict rules when working under the contestants.

They were not supposed to convince the audience to eat the food, or show favouritism towards any body.

They just had to assist the contestants make several dishes for the audience.

At the end, the chef with the most dirty or used plastic plates, would have the highest score.

The plastic plates for each chef would be distinguished by color: red, green, yellow and so on.

So if there were more dirty green dishes at the end, then the contestant who had served his meals on those dishes, would win.

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The citizens had gathered, the chefs were ready, the judges were seated, and it was time to get the show on the road.

"Ladies and gentlemen!!... Welcome to Baymard's first Master Chef Competition!!!"

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Dominic was in charge of hosting today's competition.

For over a week now, he had been practicing and rehearsing his manner of speech for the competition.

His highness Landon had written down a script for him, and had also assisted him during rehearsals.

The crowd clapped enthusiastically as they listened to him... he even cracked a few jokes here and there to make them happy and relaxed.

"Ladies and gentlemen... let's welcome our judges for today's competition...

Our first judge is someone that most of you have heard of.

He is the overseer of the food industry, and the one responsible for producing all the amazing ingredients that exist in Baymard.

He is the famous, the one and only Chief Lyore!!!"

The people continued clapping eagerly amongst themselves.

Who didn't know Chief Lyore?

In fact all the overseers in Baymard were very popular, and well known amongst the people.

They were seen like celebrities.

Right now in the eyes of the people, all the overseers were seen like how 'Bill Gates' was viewed back on earth.

They earned the biggest paycheck, made some of the biggest moves and decisions within the industries.

Plus they were quiet, humble and took their jobs very seriously.

Everytime someone would talk about any of the industries, the names of the overseers would sometimes slip into the conversation as well.

Back on earth people would say phrases like: 'Do you think that I'm as rich as Bill Gates to afford a Ferrari?'

But in Baymard they would say: 'Do you think that I'm as rich as Chief Lyore to buy several bags of food at once?'

It was usually sentences like that... Of course Chief Tim and Chief Wiggins were also made reference to, everytime people wanted to buy excess goods from their industries.

Chief Lyore waved and smiled at the crowd as they cheered.

'This feeling is good', he thought.

"Up next, we have the 2 most famous Chefs within Baymard seating here today.

Over the past month, their cooking skills and dishes have become popular with everyone, and have even earned them his highness' approval.

They are Chef Blake and Chef Benita."

Once again, the people clapped enthusiastically and discussed amongst themselves.

Those who had eaten their meals could vouch for its tastiness... It was as if these chefs were born to cook.

Some people even went back home to try and recreate the dishes from these chefs, but it was all for not.

Even when they got the exact recipe, they still couldn't get their meals to taste the same as Blake and Benita.

These chefs were as his highness had said, 3 star chefs.

Landon didn't want to give them higher stars because for now, Baymard didn't have enough ingredients for him to gauge their true potentials.

Ordinary people were usually 1 star chefs or no star at all... but these chefs had talent.

Just by tasting anything, they could tell Landon all the ingredients that was used to cook the meal.

They could also properly estimate and create their own way of cooking different dishes... Plus their taste buds were more alive than most people.

As these chefs waved, the people cheered for them as well.

"Lastly, he is our beloved king and Baymard's personal savior... As well as the creator for all the delicious food recipes that you all have eaten over the past month.

Today, he will be acting as a guest judge for the competition.

He is highness Landon Barn."

Landon who was seated at the center of the judges panel, waved his hand Queen Elizabeth style.

"Oh my heavens!! He just waved at me!!"

"No no no... it was at my daughter!"

"I wonder who's food chief Loyre would like the most?...I heard that he himself is a foodie"

"Chef Blake and Benita are the ones that I really want to look out for... they would not spare these contestants if the food isn't up to their standards... Remember, his highness had said that they both had godly tongues."

"I can't wait to see who's dish would please his highness Landon."

"If I had known that his highness was going to be a judge, then I would have personally applied... Just imagine if I had my food eaten by the king?..Ahhh!!!"

"_"

Everyone discussed amongst themselves as they listened to Dominic.

For the competition, the judges would give points for:

•Appearance/ Plate presentation: maximum points of 4

•Execution: Max Points anyone can get is10

•Texture: Max points of 5

•Creativity: Max points of 5

•Taste: Max points of 10.

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The contestants were also expected to make full course meals that consisted of:

•An appetizer

•Entree

•And a Dessert

Most importantly, the theme for their dishes was: Adventure.

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And for the prizes:

•1st Place got: 1 and a half month of cooking lessons with Chef Blake, and 250 silver coins (25,000 copper coins or 2.5 gold coins)

•2nd Place: 1 month of cooking lessons with chef Benita, and 180 silver coins (18,000 copper coins or 1.8 gold coin)

•3rd Place: 2 weeks of Cooking lessons with Chef Benita, as well as 100 silver coins (10,000 copper coins or 1 gold coin)

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100 copper coins=1 silver coin... 100 silver coins=1 gold coin*

Since the citizens usually made a minimum of 650 copper coins a month, the reward money for the competition was really jaw dropping.

In the empire of Arcadina, the minimum wage was 350 copper coins.

Landon had first made Baymard's minimum wage to be 450 copper coins... but when he later accessed all the dangerous things that these people did daily, that money was just too little in his eyes.

Hence he decided to raise the minimum wage to 650 copper coins... the knights also had their salaries raised to 750 copper coins per month.

Well the overseers and supervisors obviously made more money, as well as the upper military ranks, head chefs and Doctors.

Firstly, Baymard was a self-sufficient city.

The resources like ores were all found within the territory...and Landon made a ton of money monthly from Santa... so Baymard could actually afford to raise the wages for the workers.

Of course every month, Landon had taken out a certain percentage from each person's salary that would be used for healthcare insurance and taxes.

Last month immediately after the whole chickenpox fiasco, Landon had told the people about the benefits of healthcare, and had also told them how their taxes would be reduced from now on.

Since the taxes weren't high and their salaries were increased, the people immediately accepted Landon's methods.

Who wouldn't? Even when the tax and healthcare was reduced, their salaries were still higher than what they had been paid previously.

Landon had adopted the method done back on earth.

Everything one wanted to buy had tax on it, and even their salaries would be tax reduced well... That tax would be used for future development and so on.

To make it easier for the people, Landon had written several sheets of paper that explained how much would be deducted and also put out different formulas for each reduction.

Landon had planned that once printers came out, he would officially address all policies and Government related issues then.

He needed to print them identity cards, Law books that had ALL policies printed onto them, and so on.

Infact, nothing could really be done without Printers... even dictionaries for schools needed printing services.. sigh...

The people here also got paid bi-weekly, so as to encourage them to work harder.

But still, even with the raise in their salaries, the prize money for today's competition, still had them shook.

Back on earth, it was the same feeling as someone who had just seen 10,000 or even 20,000 dollars as prize money.

It really excited the audience.

Plus who wouldn't want to receive skills from famous people?

Those who were on their journey to being chefs, really wanted to punch themselves in the face.

Why hadn't they applied for the competition previously?

This was a chance to learn Chef Benita and Chef Blake's godly cooking arts... yet they had just let such a golden opportunity slip by.

They had invisible tears in their eyes as they looked towards the stage.

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Once the judges and contestants had been introduced, Landon have a short brief speech and the competition resumed.

Cooking Time.

The competition had already begun, and everyone tensed up as they watched the contestants hurriedly cook.

As time passed by, the audience continued to discuss and observe the competitors.

"Heavens look at those knife cutting skills... Senior Vegara is amazing"

"Just looking at senior Winston cook, makes me hungry"

"What kind of smell is this?... why is it so fragrant?... looking at them cook, has made me realise how far back my cooking skills are"

"Look!!!.. she's already placing her dessert in the kiln."

"Senior Yorick is extremely fast and well... just look at the way he's beating the eggs."

"--"

Dominic saw the signal from Landon, and knew that it was finally time to stop the contestants.

Time for the judges to give their reviews.

Up first was contestant Milton.

He placed his dishes on a metal wheeled trolley, and brought them closer to the judges.

Once he had placed all the dishes on their table, he immediately stood a little distance in front of them and waited nervously for their comments.

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The judges had their own metal megaphones, so they began their assessments.

"Before we the judges eat, let's talk about your plate presentation and appearance.

The theme of the meal was, adventure.. And your dish screams hunting in the Forest... Am I correct?" Chef Benita asked

The place was dead silent.

"YES!"

The audience held their breaths as they listened to the judges...

'So far so good', they thought.

The judges on the panel smiled.

"And what would you call this dish?" Landon asked

"A hunter's victory" Milton said anxiously.

"It certainly does look like forest.

The rice was sculpted like a mountain and placed at the upper most corner of the plate.. I can also see that you added a yellow colored sauce around the mountains top as well." Landon said.

"Around your mountain of rice, you mixed that same sauce with your meat, and placed at the doorstep of the mountain... I'm guessing that this signifies the ground itself..." Chief Lyore commented.

"Your leafy vegetables were then placed between each meat stack, creating the illusion of trees." Chef Blake said.

"And finally, you rolled your brown fried eggs, cut them into several pieces and stationed them at different points on your plate.. which made them seem like large rocks or logs of wood placed around the forest." Chef Benita added as she used her fork to poke the eggs.

"And for your dessert, I see that you also neatly placed star shaped cakes on a different plate... which probably signifies the stars at night..

So your adventure happens at night time... interesting..." Landon said.

"And finally for your appetizer, I'm guessing the fish sticks in the sauce signified a water body and life somewhere in your forest" Chief Lyore concluded.

Everyone in the audience couldn't help but give 2 thumbs up to Milton... He had done so much preparation, and showed off his skills as a chef.

He was telling his own adventure story through his cooking.

Now, it was time for the judges to eat the meal.

As the judges ate, they all had different looks on their faces.

The audience couldn't help themselves from guessing what the final outcome would be.

"Do you think chef Blake is impressed?"

"Look!!!...Chef Benita is still continuing to eat the fish sticks."

The judges looked at each other and finally decided to give their review.

The audience quieted down and the air was filled with anxiety.

The people felt like they couldn't breathe.

"For your meat, you cut them up into rectangular pieces, spiced them up, covered the outer surfaces with flour and eggs, and later fried them... making the exterior of the meat crispy, and the interior juicy and tender...It has great taste.." Chef Benita said.

'Meat could be cooked this way?', the people thought.

The people eased up when they heard the review.

The other judges went on to give their own comments as well.

"I can tell that the sauce that you made was made of milk, butter, salt, eggs and pepper.

The butter was heated up and mixed into the milk to make heavy cream... Then you added all the other ingredients, as well as curry to make the sauce look yellowish."

"Your vegetable pieces were fried and coated with spices, which also made them firm and crispy... And your cakes were soft and sweet as well"

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As the judges kept giving positive reviews, everyone thought that Milton had done a marvelous job... But the next comments made them realise that life was really too unpredictable.

"Separately... your dessert, entree and appetizers were Fantastic.. they were really great... but together... they were utter TRASH!!" Chef Blake commented.

Everyone gasped for air, as they heard what was said.

What was this situation?... Did they just hear it right?

How brutal!!!... but also somehow entertaining to watch.

Milton on the other hand, felt like someone had poured cold water on him.

"When I ate your appetizer, entree and dessert together, I felt like I was at the jungle loosing a fight against a wild boar." Chief Lyore said.

"I agree... It feels like I'm being torn into shreds by dangerous animals." Landon added.

"Your meal's name is a 'Hunter's Victory Day'... but it feels like a 'Hunter's Death Day..." Chef Benita stated.

The other contestants couldn't help but sweat as they looked at their own dishes in front of them.

They had completely lost their confidence as they listened to the judges.

Was it possible for them to have a do-over?

"The peppery taste on your food, clashes with your overly sweet cakes... The combination is just awful."

"Also, the milk you had us drink as a beverage, didn't enhance the taste of your dish at all... Instead, drastically destroyed it."

After the judges had pinpointed all his errors, they ended their remarks with encouragement.

"But I must say, you've got what it takes to be a master chef."

"All you need is more time, experience and practice... Never give up!!"

"Nothing in life comes easy... .. Take all the criticisms we give you today, work on your skills and make us proud."

"Contestant Milton... I await the day that you cook alongside me as a 3 star chef!!!"

Tears flowed from Milton's eyes as he heard the last comments.

"Thank you!!"

The audience got emotional as well.

"We believe in you senior Milton"

"Never give up!!"

"That's right... all you need is time and experience.."

"Your way better than me in cooking senior Milton"

Milton truly felt touched as he listened to the crowd.

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The competition went on with the audience hanging on a tiny thread of life again.

Their emotions were all over the place because of the judges.

Once the judges were done with their assessment, they awarded points to all the contestants.

For this part of the competition, Yorick came first, Vegara was second and Milton was third... of course there were 5 other contestants behind Milton as well.

Now it was time for stage 2 of the contest.

The audience quickly came down to eat their fill, as they themselves were hungry from watching all these juicy meals being prepared.

With 20 Sous-chefs helping each contestant, the dishes were served very fast to the citizens.

And finally by the end of the competition, the plates were gathered and counted.

Surprisingly, every contestant still had the same rank as before.

Which meant that the audience still found Yorick's food to be the tastiest, followed by Vegara and then Milton.

Of course Landon gave a closing speech for the event, and awarded the winners with their rewards.

With this, the competition had come to an end.

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"Daddy..Daddy, you won"

"Daddy congratulations"

Milton turned around and looked at his wife, his 9 year old son and his 6 year old daughter running towards him.

They immediately hugged him as they felt immensely proud of him.

"I can't believe that Chef Benita would be teaching you for 2 weeks... hahaha... I'm so happy...Wahhh!!... look at all the money in the bag" his wife jumped about happily.

Milton smiled as he looked at his family.

Today had truly shown him that his road to being a chef wasn't going to be easy...but there was no way in hell that he would give up without a fight.

Just as the judges had said, he needed to properly hone his skills in order to advance in the culinary world.

He needed to do this for his family, and for his future.

He had already swore that he would do his best and get Chef Blake and Benita's recognition.

His new dream was not to be a 3 star chef like them, but to be a 5 star one.

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--Knighhood Academy, Capital of Arcadina--

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A young gentleman sat on a chair in his dorm room, with his personal guard standing beside him.

Suddenly, his window opened and someone in a cloak jumped in.

"Any news?"

"No young master"

"Keep searching"

"Yes young master"

And just like that, the cloaked person had left, as quickly as he had arrived.

Marder Shannon's personal guard was worried as well.

"Young master Marder... What do we do about lord Shannon's disappearance?"

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-Lord Shannon's Estate, Capital of Arcadina-

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"Young Master, all preparations are complete." Said one of Marder's subordinates.

"Good"

Marder was presently in his father's estate in the Capital.

Although he mostly slept in the Academy dormitory, when important matters arose, he would come to his father's estate to handle them.

Marder was sure that the Walls of the Academy had ears, hence it wasn't safe to talk about his plans at school.

A few days back, he had met with King Barn at the royal palace.

From the looks of it, King Barn was also probing him to see if he knew anything about his father's whereabouts.

But since he was innocent on the matter, standing his ground was a lot easier to do.

King Barn thought that either Marder truly didn't know where his father was, or... he was a really good actor.

The king couldn't find any loop hole in his story, or any strange behavior from him.

Hence King Barn had decided to send Marder down to Riverdale city, with 4 Captain's from his personal army.

The knight Captain's were to stay in Riverdale for 2 months, before returning back to the Capital.

If they didn't return, then King barn would assume and prepare for a full scale war against Shannon.

The feeling of having an enemy, who might be secretly planning an attack, had really made him feel unedge lately.

Hence he decided Marder was to leave at the end of August for Riverdale, along with his Captain's... or should he say spies.

Marder on the other hand, was really concerned about his father's whereabouts.

He knew more than anyone else, that his father didn't plan any sudden attacks yet.

Plus his father had written him a letter a while ago, stating that he would be coming to the Capital...

Marder also knew that if there was really something big happening, his father would definitely not write it down on paper, for fear that someone might intercept the letter.

If Marder wasn't in the Capital, then his father would definitely send letters of that nature to him.

But since he was in King Barns region, anything could happen... It was better to be safe than sorry.

But what was so big that his father didn't even show for his mission in the Capital?

Marder was at his wits end with the matter.

Although people in the West called his father a tyrant and a villain, he truthfully loved the old man.

He believed that, that was how a future king should live.

Ever since he was little, he had been doing the same things that his father did.

When his father went to torture, burn or capture people, he was there as well.

He had his first taste of a woman, or should he say a girl at age 11.

He had chained her hands and legs to his bed, and kept her in his room every time he made love to her.

After the session, she would be taken to the slave chambers or healers for treatment.

Too bad that just after 9 love making sessions, the 8 year old died on his bed.

He didn't feel any emotions or remorse towards her... He tossed her body down his bed, and took another girl from the dungeons.

Those children were captured by his father, and only knew poverty.

So shouldn't they be happy that he had at least given them the opportunity to grace his bed?

Who was he?... He was Marder Shannon... future prince of Arcadina.

He was the third and favorite son of his old man.

When he was 12, he had heard that King Barn had killed his older brothers while they were sent to war sometime back.

At the time City lord Shannon was 15, he became city lord. And since then, he had been raping women here and there... hence before Marder was born, Shannon already had 2 sons and 7 daughters.

Shannon didn't care for his daughters, so he married them off to wealthy nobles in the Capital. How they would be treated didn't matter to him.

What good could come out of women?

When Shannon had Marder, he realised that he didn't want any more children... So, he started giving all the women in his harem drugs that would damage their wombs permanently.

With the death of his first 2 sons, Shannon realised that he needed to teach Marder everything about power struggles, so that he didn't end up like his brothers.

Hence from the age of 5, Marder began his lessons with Shannon.

They planned and strategized on how to make the villain, King Barn, pay for killing their blood.

Because of their closeness, Marder held his father in high regard, and knew every step that his father took.

That was why his father's disappearance was strange to him.

He personally didn't believe that king Barn was innocent on the matter.

Was king Barn really sending people with him to Riverdale, just to check the situation?

What if King Barn had already hired mercenaries to deal with his father, and then pretended like he wasn't aware of his father's disappearance?

Or was it City lord Cain of Hawk City, that attacked his father?

City lord Cain and his father, had been at a power struggle within the western territories for years now.

His father's army was large in number, so he knew that the enemy would either be a noble with a powerful backer, or King Barn.

There were so many reasons why King Alec Barn looked suspicious in his eyes... If he left the Capital, wouldn't it be easier for King Barn to kill him.

Or maybe King Barn just wanted to lure him into a false sense of security, before making his move.

Either way, he didn't trust City lord Cain... and he sure as hell didn't trust that snake, King Barn.

That was why he began to make preparations for the journey to Riverdale city.

Whatever the enemy's plans were, Marder was sure that he would be fully prepared.

He was just praying that the uneasiness he felt towards his father's whereabouts, was all for naught.

Otherwise... hehehehe... He didn't even want to imagine what he would do to the poor soul who dared to touch his father.

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While Marder was busy making preparations, Royal families all over the Pyno Continent, were becoming more and more unstable due to the whirl of change that took place in June.

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--Royal Palace, Capital of Yodan--

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King Maclaine looked at his daughters whom for the first time ever, had requested for an audience with him... In fact at this point, they were demanding for an audience with him.

Ever since the news that Carona had gotten themselves a female ruler spread throughout the empire, all the women had become crazy over night.

They now demanded equal pay as men, and also wanted to get similar jobs to that of men.

They had also formed cliques around each of king Maclaine's daughters, and demanded for women to choose when to pleasure their husbands.

It had even gotten to the point where it couldn't be ignored anymore.

These women requested to participate in court Meetings, and also requested that men should do some household chores daily.

Of course, the men were strongly against the idea.

They had been firmly rejecting it, and even said that they would never go to war with a woman by their sides.

At the end, every man agreed to keep their wives and daughters on a leash.

For now, their plan was working.. but Maclaine knew that down the line, these plans would crumble down and fall... hence he decided to give into one of their demands.

He had allowed them to do daily jobs for men, excluding knighthood.

But no!!!... Apparently, this wasn't enough for these bloody blood sucking demons?.. they wanted everything.

Maclaine had already made up his mind that he wouldn't entertain them anymore.

Let them do their worse!!!

And now out of nowhere, all 11 his daughters had joined in and demanded for an audience with him.

He looked at his daughters from the youngest (6 years old), to the oldest (19 years old).

He didn't even know 2/3's of them personally, yet here they were.

And what was a 6 year old doing there as well? ...sigh... Forget it..

"Father, there is something that we would like to request of you", the oldest daughter said.

"So you all are requesting, was it?... if I didn't know any better, I would have thought that you all were giving me orders!!"

As he raised his voice, his daughters began to shiver and tremble with fear... But they quickly took in big gulps of air, and calmed themselves down.

It was now or never.

"Father... we would like to be allowed to participate in the battle for kingship."

"Father, I want to be queen."

"Father... it's only fair that you pick me to be queen since I'm the oldest in the family."

"Father, I promise to do a good job as well"

When the princesses realised that their father wasn't saying anything, they quieted down, and the room instantly turned dead silent.

"Hahahahahah... this must be the biggest joke that I have heard all year!!

What makes you think that, you all can rule an empire?

For the fact that you all didn't even think things through, shows me how stupid and naive you all are!!

You think that you all can compare to Queen Penelope?.. Hahaha what a joke!!!

At age 7, she began sword practice... since then, she had been practicing her skills for 11 years now..

She had also been studying the art of war throughout those years, as well as participating in several battles for her empire.

In addition, she aided in trades, and all monetary deals and positions in Carona..

Did you all think that she was given that position because of favouritism?

Hahahah

I've met her before, and I can assure every one of you that she is more outstanding than most men.

But you all!!... what do you know? looking at boys, doing needlework, gossiping?

Can any of you tell me how to run an empire?

Do you even know all the cities, towns and villages within the Yodan?

Can any of you go to battle, and come back alive?

Hehehehe... I had heard previously that some of you faint whenever you see little traces of blood, or even things like spiders...

Do you all know how to handle government positions?...

Before this matter came out, where any of you ever interested in the empire itself?

I remember that I used to order and force your mothers to allow you all to study.

And you stand there to tell me to allow you all to rule my empire?

As what?... As jesters?

Do you want to ruin it for me?

You all coming here without thinking, shows me that you all would make stupid rulers whom anyone can control.

Without even knowing or verifying all details from the news you heard, you immediately started causing havoc around my empire.

Ask yourselves, could you all do what queen Penelope did?

Get back to our rooms and pray for brains!!!!"

Once Maclaine finished speaking, the girls all burst out into tears and ran off.

As he looked at them running, he couldn't help but feel immense disappointment.

There was no bravery, no courage, no qualities that could even make them 1/3 of Queen Penelope's attributes.. yet they dared to compare with her.

Maclaine decided that he would address this matter publicly.

He had to let these women know that it wasn't by favouritism that Penelope became ruler.

He would not allow any woman to feel entitled to anything, unless they were truly capable of doing the job required.

Should he just give them government positions, when most of them didn't even know how to read or write? Bullsh*.

Maclaine was sure that if 80% of these women were actually tortured, they would confess all the secrets that they had learned in these government positions.

Even after giving them equal jobs, they still couldn't perform the same as men, hence their pay was still less.

Many women started working at building sites and had found out the hard way that a man's inmate strength, was generally stronger than that of women.

If the men there could carry 40 large stones a day, those women carried could only about 20 or 23 large stones a day.

And because of this, they immediately shut their traps about equal pay.

They decided to let the equal pay matter go, but they still wanted every other benefit without having the right qualifications.

This why Maclaine decided to address the matter publicly, as well as to explain Penelope's success story to them.

How dare they think that they all were as good as Penelope.

Penelope's brain from an early age was quick witted and fast.. she absorbed knowledge like a sponge.. she was rare a genius..

Please!!!... He would rather believe that the world was round, than to believe that all the women were like Penelope.

Truth be told when he first saw Penelope, she was 10 years old and had greatly impressed him.

He immediately rushed back to Yodan, and wanted his own daughters to learn as well.

But the heavens were truly cruel to him.

Most of his daughters only learned when forced, and weren't even interested in any physical exercises.

Only his 9th daughter and the other one that was banished from Yodan, were able to use their brains to some extent.

And although he didn't spend time with his daughters, his personal guards and knights had been reporting their every move to him.

In his opinion, they where just too disappointing to look at.

King Carmelo, that old dog was really too damn lucky to have such a daughter.

Other people were having daughters like Penelope, and here he was with 11 daughters that all had coconut brains.

He was sure that the fault lay in their mothers... there was no way that he would agree that his seed could produce such fools.

Otherwise how come his sons were brilliant, but his daughters were fools?

The fault clearly didn't belong to him.. his wives and concubines must have done, or eaten something during their pregnancy.

In the case for his daughters, he had to constantly force them to study.. while in the case of his sons, he didn't even need to lift a muscle.

And out of nowhere, his daughters now wanted to rule his empire with those fish brains of theirs.

Maclaine would rather kill himself than to let any of his daughters succeed him.

Just as he was going through his own problems with the women, the other rulers were also facing similar situations.

But since those rulers governed their empires with fear, the women in these areas didn't even dare to voice out their complaints.

Hence those empires were still somewhat peaceful... but the women in their palaces, were a different matter all together.

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--Royal Palace, Capital of Arcadina--

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"Father, I would like to be the first queen of Arcadina!!" Jenette Barn said

"Get out!!!!"

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--Royal Palace, Capital of Deiferus--

"Father if you do not make me Queen, then I'll kill myself."

"Go ahead!"

Days went by and it was finally time for the military results to be released.

Landon had decided that there would be no classes today, for those who took the exams previously.

At 9 A.M, the test papers, evaluation papers for each physical test, as well as a midterm report card for each individual, would be tied together with rubber bands and handed to the recruits.

The recruits were to go to the training field and wait for their papers there.

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Today... Mustafa, Micheal and their friends were lost in thought as their did their early morning training routine.

Ever since Michael won Mustafa during the physical combat exam, they had become close.

Since Michael's dormitory room was just 2 dorms away from Mustafa, they would gist in each others dormitories before lights out.

At 8:40 A.M, they had already hurriedly eaten their breakfast, and were currently making their way back to the training fields.

Once they got there, they saw several other students waiting anxiously as well.

Someone waved at them from the front of the field, and they made their way towards the person.

"Good thing you guys came now rather than later... or else even if I had called you guys by over, there would have been no space for you all to pass through to the front." Solomon said.

(*Solomon was also one of their many new friends.)

Everyone around them started speaking to them as they waited.

"I'm so nervous... I can't wait for the results... what if I fail this midterm?"

"When I remember the exam, I feel like crying..there were some questions that I truly didn't feel confident about."

"Bro.. your not the only one.. I lost a match in the combat examination." Mustafa said.

"Me too!!"

"Ahh!! For me it was the gun shooting examination... I couldn't run and shoot properly."

"So at 9 A.M we'll receive all the papers for the exams?"

"Yes!! All the written papers, as well as different papers on the physical examinations... I think it'll also let us to know how we were graded in each physical exam."

"Yeah... I want to know how they gave us our scores, so I can prepare for the next exam as well."

"Didn't you remember that his highness said that no two exams would be the same?"

"Look!! Look!.. The warrant officers have arrived!!"

There were at least 4 warrant officers handing out exam papers for each letter of the alphabet.

Mustafa stood around the warrant officers that were handing out papers to those whose names started with 'M'.

"Mustafa Kanan!!"

"Present!!"

He quickly dashed through the crowd and took his papers from the officer.

All his exam papers were already arranged, and joined together with 4 rubber bands.

As he was too nervous to take a look, he decided to wait for Solomon and Michael to get their papers first.

The first paper on the stack in his hand, just had their names and military matriculation numbers written boldly with Pen, hence he hadn't been able to guess what scores they had gotten so far.

The first paper was more like a Cover page for the other exam papers.

For Mustafa, the cover page just had:

•Military Midterm Examination Results

•Mustafa Kanan

•Matriculation number: 00000514

•Authorized by his Majesty Landon Barn and General of the Army Lucius Fullbuster

•Landon's and Lucius' Signatures

•August 17th, Year 1024.

Speaking of dates, ever since Landon had come to this world a lot of things shocked him... especially the fact that these people somehow called months, the same way he did back on earth.

Right now, calendars already existed... but they were just not put down on paper.

Every city, town or village, had a group of people that were in charge of dates.

There were buildings that were built just for date recording... Stone buildings, stone tablets or stones, where generally preferred.

For example in Baymard, every morning, someone would come up to the abandoned stone building at the entrance of the upper region, and use a sharp stone, to place a straight stroke under the month name on the building wall.

The first floor of the entire building had already been completely marked, as they had been using this building throughout the years.

It was kind of cool... it looked like those ancient Egyptian markings in the pyramids.

In places without stone buildings, large stone rocks would be cleaned and smoothed out to form stone tablets.

The people would then place several strokes on the tablets as the days went by.

These stone tablets were always placed in a safe public area, were all could see.

Back on earth, Europeans came up with the calendars in the 10th century as well... But the Egyptians were different.

The Egyptians had already come up with calendars ages before the Europeans.

The Egyptians were just too advanced for the world... In fact, they had left the Europeans in the dust.

Infact Egyptians and Asians were also advanced as well, especially the chinese... They were one of the first people to use sundials, to tell the time and so on.

Like earth, Hertfelia had different continents that probably had different cultures as well..

Who knows if there was already another continent right now that had already advanced in development like the Egyptians or the Chinese?

Although he had compared Hertfilia with earth here and there, Hertfilia had some areas that were more advanced when compared to earth in the 10th century.

Some things were similar to earth, but not all things.

This was a brand new world with its own practices and its own traditions.

For some reason, their ship making game was on point... it was more sturdier than that of earth in the 10th century.

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Once Mustafa and his friends had collected their papers, they sat on the grass and looked at their results.

The warrant officers had said that the only thing that they were allowed to keep was their report card paper.

When they were done checking their papers, they where to return them back... No one was allowed to take the other papers away.

"Okay guys, let's open them together.. 1... 2...3" Solomon said.

They immediately took off the rubber bands and removed the cover pages.

The first sheet after the cover page was a report card, that showed them all their results.

"Ahhh!! I passed..."

"Me too!!!"

"Hahaha me three!!"

They continued looking through all the other papers, so as to understand how they were graded.

Mustafa looked at his Physical Combat score, and was shocked.

He opened his eyeballs widely, and even thought that his mind was playing tricks on him.

"Ehhh... I passed the combat exam?"

Micheal and Solomon were shocked.

"What you did you say?"

"Quickly, let's look at how our Combat papers were graded"

"Ahh I see!!, I scored higher for perseverance, bravery and combat knowledge... hehehe.. but of course I had a 2/10 for task completion."

"So they check several things when accessing us?"

"It looks like it"

"Oh?.. they even told me how to correct my stand for the Backward kick move."

"So they also give advice on these evaluation papers?"

"Hahaha.. I don't care.. I'm so happy right now... lets go buy food at the market square."

"I second that"

They quickly binded all their papers back with the rubber bands, excluding their report card paper, and handed them back to the warrant officers.

Celebration time.

Today was the 19th of August, and only 12 days were left before the month ended.

Right now, there where currently 5200 men who were assigned to construct these sites, 1000 men who were building the greenhouse, and 6000 workers who were doing road construction in the District E.

So far only the Water Sewage plant, as well as the power plant have been completed.

While the central heating heating plant was only 98% done, as the workers were still installing essential fixtures like sinks, to all buildings on the site.

Since the first 2 plants were done, Landon decided to start teaching the men how to operate both plants, as well as assign some workers to start placing underground electrical wires from the power plant to District E.

For the 5,200 men who were previously assigned at the construction sites, Landon divided them up like so:

•1000 workers to complete construction on the Central heating Plant.

•700 workers to operate the water Sewage Plant.

•500 workers to operate the Power plant.

•And 3,000 workers to place electrical cables alongside the roads.

These new industries basically needed chemical engineers, alchemists, electrical engineers and so on.

Hence Landon requested that some of the electrical engineers in training, should be placed in each site.

As well as some of the Alchemists, who would be trained to chemical engineers.

On the other hand, the mechanical and civil engineers would definitely come from the construction workers whom he had assigned to the plants.

Chief Tim and Chief Wiggins, were also to appoint supervisors for every sector within these plants.

For example in the water sewage plant, after the water leaves the sea and travels through the pipes, it would go to a 300 sq foot building.

This building has different equipments used for filtering out any sand particles, or hard rocks from the water... As well fishes that made their way to the building.

In that stage of water processing, Landon wanted 2 supervisors in charge of all mechanical and chemical processes involved within the building.

They were to supervise all activities taking place in that building before the water leaves and goes to the next processing stage.

Although Landon needed guards and cooks within these plants, he didn't want to assign any just yet, at least until September... For now, the men would still have their food brought into sector 1 by trucks.

Landed decided that for these first 4 days, he would alternate between both plants.

Today, he would only be teaching the workers in the Power plant how to operate the plant... and the next day, he would do the same for those assigned to the Water Sewage Treatment Plant.

Landon decided to use this 4 days to give them an intense theoretical lecture on both plants.

And for the remaining 8 days, all the workers from both plants would officially start their training.

Within this 8 day period, Landon had decided that he would spend his mornings in the Power plant... And for the afternoons, he would spend it within the Water sewage treatment plant.

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Early in the morning, the selected workers jumped into the trucks and headed out to their new work sites.

Today was their first theory class in the plant.

Once the workers who had never been to the construction site before stepped onto the first sector, they were utterly shocked.

They felt like they had just stepped into another world.

At the front of the sector was a large cemented block that had different words carved on it... The words read: 'Baymard Power Plant'.

The block was standing on another platform that was surrounded by a massive pond... And around the pond, was a small field of grass

Basically, the large words were on a fountain.

The beautiful, smooth and black roads, made the fountain look like a roundabout with several roads going towards different locations within the first sector.

In this sector, there weren't many buildings since most plant activity happens in the second sector.

This sector would mostly be used for the business side of the plant, as well as house the plant clinic, security offices and so on.

The buildings here were fully cemented, and went as high as 4 or 5 stories... With the exception of 2 large ones that were both 3 stories high, and covered with only blueish glass walls.

These 2 glass wall buildings were connected together on their second floors, by what looked like a glass bridge.

As the trucks drove by, the workers looked around excitedly like tourists.

"Wahh!.. look at that building!!"

"Oh my heavens!! Buildings can be built like this?"

"Look at that large glass door at its entrance!!"

The workers weren't the only ones stunned silly.

Chief Wiggins was really having a hard time believing what he saw... Once again, the way he looked at Landon had completely changed.

In his mind, Landon's title had now been changed from 'messenger of God', to 'God of knowledge'.

Although Chief Tim had seen the plant during construction, he couldn't help but be amazed when looking at the end result.

As both overseers looked around, they couldn't help but wonder when their own estates would be renovated.

The workers really wanted to have a tour of the first sector... but sadly, Landon had the drivers drive straight to the next sector.

Landon had promised them that once all 3 sites were up and running, he would give them a grand official tour.

For now, all these buildings were locked, and their keys were placed on Landons desks, as well as Chief Tim's desk.

The only buildings that were open right now, were those in sector 2.

These few days left, as well as the entire month of September, was their training period... Hence only by completing their training, would they truly belong to the plant.

Plus by the end of September, they would all get their badges and work Identity cards for access within the plants.

Once the men arrived at the 2nd sector, Landon began his lecture.

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7 days had gone by, and both plants now shared electricity and water between them.

At this point, the Central heating plant was completed.. hence Landon kept 500 workers to operate the plant, and sent the other 500 to aid in installing underground cables along the roads.

And just like that, the last day of August had arrived.

As for the workers, they now felt a little more confident in their plant operation skills and knowledge.

Granted, they made a lot of errors on their first few days, but Landon had expected as much.

Hence he wasn't worried about their learning pace, after all they still had the whole September to learn brush up their skills.

When it concerned learning, no matter how many years one spent in school, nothing could compare to actually doing the procedures.

One could spend 4 years studying chemical engineering... but that didn't mean that if that same person went to an oil plant, that person would automatically know what to do.

Knowledge without practice was useless on the field.

Back on earth, there were people who had never gone to school before, but they could fix any machine, car or engine, just because they had been taught on the job.

And even those who had spent 10 years working on oil plants, didn't know everything about their jobs.

While on the job, new problems would definitely arise daily, making everyday different from the next..

It was impossible to know everything at once.

In schools, people would sometimes cram a lot of information, just so that they could graduate.

That was why practice was important, as well as schooling... both went hand in hand.

So he had first spent his time teaching them the theory, before showing them how the plant actually operated.

Right now, Landon didn't need them to know everything... he just needed them to learn at their own pace, and safely operate the plant.

The more they did, the more they would remember.

I mean.. he couldn't possibly put them through 4 years of schooling, before finally allowing them to work on the plants could he?

The only way was to learn on the job.

As for the workers, they truly liked their new work environment... especially because they could use the 'toilet', soap and tissue paper.

And don't get them started on the magical light tubes that shines brightly at night, when they pulled the tiny switch upwards.

These plant sites were like heaven to them...

Right now, they all had one question in mind:

When was their king going to start residential construction?

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September was here and once again, Santa had sent his subordinates to Baymard as usual.

Landon bought several seeds and animals, as well as sold his ores to Santa's subordinates.

After he had sorted out the children, new military recruits, caretakers, and the elderly, Landon was left with 5970 new workers, 100 hospital recruits, and 23 people who had professions prior to being slaves or refugees.

Amongst those 23 people were: 7 teachers, 10 healers (nurses), and 6 new doctors.

Of course Landon immediately assigned the doctors to start training under Doctor Gerson.

As for the nurses, they were to join the new 100 hospital recruits and start training under nurses Shanelle and Laura.

Last month, Landon had added 100 trainees in the hospital... And this month, he had also added another 100 as well.

The hospitals ran for 24 hours every day of the week, so more people were needed for different shifts.

As for the teachers, Landon would use this September to train them.

Although this was the last semester before the long holiday, Landon hoped that by October, these new teachers would begin teaching.

It would be wise for them to use the remaining half of the semester as part of their training... Hence, Landon decided to let them teach courses like Pyno 1 and Math 1.

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This month, there were a lot of things that Baymard needed.

Firstly, Landon wanted to start making printing presses... he chose to make lithography steam engine rotatory printing presses.

These steam engine printing presses, were deemed the fastest that could work without electricity throughout ancient times.

These ones could print both sides of a page in a single operation, at an incredible speed as well.

One steam press alone could print over two hundred book pages a day, provided water was constantly fed to the engine, as well as a constant supply of ink.

Since he couldn't make digital printers right now, rotary printing presses would have to do.

Once the printing press could run, I.D cards, Government documents and Calenders were a must.

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Up next, Landon wanted to focus on mattress making.

He wanted to make 2 types of mattresses, polyurethane foam mattresses and memory foam mattresses.

Memory foam mattresses were actually made from the polyurethane ones... the only difference between the 2, were the additives used for making memory foam.

Both foams could be made to feel hard, flexible, or even super soft... depending on whether they would be used in mattresses, pillows, wheelchair seats, bench and couch cushions, car seats, dish washing sponges, gym mats, and so on.

Polyurethane foam is generally formed when a polyol, and an Isocyanate are combined.

Once combined, the foam starts forming and rising on it's own at standard atmosphere pressure.

The foam starts rising like how yeast would rise in dough, and quickly solidifies itself... Hence making the soft, flexible, and comfortable material used for mattresses and other cushions.

For memory foam, both chemicals used for polyurethane foam are added, along with water and a variety of catalyst and additives.

Also depending on the different chemicals used, these foams could have different colors as well.. like the yellow foam used for dish washing sponges, or the white foam used for mattresses.

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Finally, Landon wanted to focus on textile making.

He knew that during this period, he would focus on all textile materials... except cotton.

Since June, Landon had been buying cotton seeds from Santa's subordinates.

Generally, cotton grew as a shrub.. with the plant taking 5 to 6 months to fully grow and produce cotton.

Since he couldn't wait for that long, he decided to focus on wool, yarn and all other textile materials.

For the past 2 months, the workers had been cutting and storing the fur from the animals which he had been purchasing.

And now, it was finally time to create thread used in making different clothing items such as blankets, winter jackets, winter hats, socks, curtains and so on.

Hence with everything needed this September, Landon divided the 5970 new workers like so:

•Alchemy industry:

Foam department: 570

The other existing departments: 500

•Food industry: 500

•Textile Industry:500

•Construction Industry:

Printing Press: 400

Other existing departments: 600

•Actual construction workers:2900

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Since there were no available buildings within the construction industry, Landon decided to have the paper making department, share their 4 story building with the printing press.

As for the textile industry... since the animals and their fur were being stored within the food industry, Landon thought that it would be wise to allow them to occupy 4 buildings within the food industry as well... at least until their own facility was built.

Hence he had also decided that since those 1000 workers assigned to build the greenhouse were done, they might as well start constructing the textile industry now.

For this new textile industry, Landon just wanted 8 buildings within it.

And while construction is underway, those assigned towards textile making would do their jobs within the food industry.

In this era, the people already knew how to spin and form textile thread for clothing.. the difference was that all their clothing was hand made.

So for this first week of September, Landon wanted those assigned to the textile industry, to start making thread from all animal fur previously collected and stored.

And while they were focusing on that, Department C6 of the construction industry, was to make mechanical wheeler sewing machines and spinning wheels.

Instead of using electricity, these machines used several pulley mechanisms and leg paddles to spin the threads and sew fabrics.

With these machines, the workers would be more efficient when compared to hand sewing and stitching.

And once the first week of September was over, Landon would then divide the workers into 2 groups... one group would focus on making thread, while the other would be focus on fabric making.

For this textile industry, Landon decided to appoint, Mrs. Sophia as overseer of the industry.

Sophia was the wife of Chief Lyore, and since both industries were basically sharing the same state, Landon decided to appoint her as overseer.

Plus, she was the one who had previously aided Landon in sewing badges for the military recruits.

So from now on, she would be known throughout Baymard as Chief or Overseer Sophia.

And for the food industry, since the greenhouse was already constructed, Landon wanted the new workers to start planting and transferring several medical herbs from the farms to the greenhouse.

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With the addition of 2900 construction workers, Landon now had 12,900 workers all together.

It was finally time to focus on building residential homes for the citizens.

Landon divided the group up like so:

•2000 were to focus on installing electric cables alongside the roads.

•4000 where to focus on tarring the roads.. as well as installing all sewage, water, rainwater drainage, and central heating pipes underneath the ground.

•900 would also focus on using heavy machines to level the space for the residential buildings.

•And finally 7000 workers would focus on constructing homes for the citizens.

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Back on earth, the only reason building homes took over 6 months, was because of land surveying, getting land permits, getting architects to make blueprints, hiring contractors, lawyers and so on.

The actual construction process doesn't take that long at all.. depending on the desired house size.

Typically 3 men could build a 2,900sq foot house within 11 weeks (3 months and 2 weeks)... that's without working on Saturdays and sundays.

In Landon's case, he wanted to build a 2,400 square foot home using 27 men in each group. This would by far slim down the building time, and in about 1 and a half weeks, 27 men would finish one residential building.

And since there were 7000 workers assigned to building the homes, there would be 259 groups made up of 27 workers.

Hence after 1 and a half weeks, Landon expected to see at least 259 homes already constructed.

Landon wanted them to do what they had previously done when they constructed all 3 industries at once.

Once the workers had to wait for cement to harden during the foundation, floor and wall stages, Landon expected them to start construction for other residential homes.

So in that way by the end of the 1 and a half week time frame, each team would actually complete, or at least start 2 or more homes at once.

Of course Landon had made up his mind to also assist all these industries within this month.. especially the textile industry.

Once the day came to an end, Landon looked at his schedule for September and truly felt like crying.

He was busy as hell!

He had to supervise another military exam for the recruits that came during the month of June.

It had been 3 months for those recruits, and now was the period for their first official exam...Hence his presence as King, was a must.

Apart from aiding the industries and making his presence known in the military, Landon also had to visit the hospitals, nurseries, as well as the school.

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As he lay on his bed, Landon quickly tried his best to fall asleep fast... for he knew that tomorrow would be a long weary day.

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Previously during the month of August, Landon had allocated a large estate within the upper region to the medical volunteers.

He decided to let the estate be a Medical Healthcare Academy.

Medical care emphasized on disease treatment and care... While healthcare looked at signs, prevention of diseases, and health promotion and awareness.

Generally, medical and Healthcare had more than hundreds of different professions within it.

From pharmacists to medical assistants, emergency medical technicians, cardiac surgeons, nutritionists, radiation therapists, and so on.

In future, these students would have to specialize in particular areas and perform several operations and jobs within the hospital and clinics.

For now, Landon had given them schedules which they had to follow strictly.

They also had to attend the math, Chemistry and Pyno classes being taught within Baymard.

Chemistry was basically a main course for them... understanding matter, chemical reactions that occur within the body, and chemical compositions within medical drugs was a necessity.

Right now, 100 volunteers had also joined the Academy within this month.. making a total of 200 students.

For their schedules, aside from math, Pyno and Chemistry, the students also took:

•First aid classes

•Wound care treatment classes

•Medical rules ethics classes

•Medical massage therapy classes

•Patient care, management and recording classes

•Patient communication classes

•Disease management treatment classes

•And finally... 'Hospital time', where different groups of students would spend 3.5 hours in the hospital aiding the nurses and doctors.

With the schedule that Landon had made, on a daily basis the hospital had students who came over and took care of the patients... under the supervision of the nurses and doctors.

The students also did hospital rounds, comforted the patients and did other medical tasks.

In this way, they were learning and practicing at the same time.

Today, Nurse Shanelle had 2 groups to supervise during her 8 hour shift.

The first group of 15 students, would come for 3 and a half hours...While the other group would come after her lunch break.

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Once all the students from the first group had arrived at the front of the hospital, she began her roll call.

"Kenneth Carby!"

"Present!"

"Quebo Jones"

"Present!"

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As she called out their names, she used a blue pen to tick their names on the list that she was holding.

Once roll call was done, she led them to the locker room that had spare lab coats, gloves, rubber shoes, hair caps, face masks and so on.

The students quickly wore the lab coats and shoes provided, as well as put their gloves and face masks in their lab coat pockets.

Once everyone was done, they followed nurse Shanelle to her office for a 30 minute meeting.

It was now 8:30 A.M, and Shanelle's shift started at 9 A.M... the students were told to always come at least 35 minutes earlier.

"2 days ago, your group came to the hospital and worked under me...We have been working together since the start of August... So you all know the drill."

The seated students immediately took out their notebooks and pens, as they waited for her questions.

"Patient Julianna in Ward B-2, says that her tummy is constantly upset, her stomach feels like it's full of water (bloated), she vomits a lot, and her tummy aches as well.

She also says that she always feels like going to relief herself, she has a fever, and she passes out a lot of gas frequently.

She also has trouble swallowing, always feels nauseous, and her stool is loose and watery... . Causes.. Go!!"

The students raised their hands in attempt to give their hypotheses.

"It could be due to indigestion.. she might have been used to eating food without drinking water... After all from the lectures, indigestion is known to cause bloating, gas release, and deep aches and pains around the belly."

"Hmm... your answer could have been correct... but how do you explain the other symptoms?"

"It could have also been diarrhea!!.. all the symptoms match it well"

Nurse Shanelle smiled.

"Correct, the patient is indeed suffering from diarrhea... so what causes diarrhea?"

"Allergies"

"Lactose intolerance"

"Food poisoning"

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All the possibilities listed down were in fact correct.

But for this case, food poisoning was the main cause of the issue.

In this era, people didn't have fridges and better ways to store food... Hence, they didn't know the meaning of expiration dates.

For them, food was edible unless it was visibly rotten.

These people would cook food and leave it outside for days, while eating it.

In fact a lot of them died from food poisoning, and had tummy aches frequently.

For these people, it was normal to eat and have tummy aches.. provided fever and sickness didn't take their lives.

Even when their meat, bread and other food items were molded, they would scrape away the molded parts and continue eating the foods.

At least with the existence of plastic bags and containers in Baymard, the people could successfully cover their food from flies.

But that still didn't change the fact that all food items would expire.

Landon had taken his time to write books on basic hygiene, and the causes, symptoms and treatments of common problems that almost everyone back on earth knew.

He wrote about lactose intolerance, malaria, fever, the common flu or cold, rash treatments, sore throat pain, the importance of washing hands and so on.

Although he hadn't received the medical reward from the system, he wrote about these everyday illnesses based on what he knew.

Landon was sure that everyone on earth had gotten sore throat, fever, flu, headaches, tummy aches, and all the other 'easy' illnesses at some point of their lives.

"Good!!!... so since her diarrhea was caused by food poisoning, how do we solve it?"

"Have her go on a clear liquid diet for 1 day, so that her upset stomach can settle down."

"Have her hydrate by drinking a lot of water regularly"

"Letting her avoid milk and spicy foods"

"Having her drink a mixture of boiled ginger and water... this could reduce inflammation along the throat, as well as strengthen her stomach"

"Plus ginger would also act as a good antibiotic."

"For her fever, nausea and headache... we could also add 'featherfew', milkvetch root, and white peony root to the ginger-water mixture"

Nurse Shanelle and the students discussed amongst themselves, and came up with the perfect treatment for Patient Julianna.. As well as several other patients in the other Wards.

They had used 5 minutes to talk about each patient on Shanelle's patient checklist.

And after 30 minutes, it was time finally for her shift to begin.

Shanelle gave each person in the team specific duties for the day.

Some were in charge of preparing and boiling all the medicines for all the patients on the roster, as per Shanelle's instructions.

Others were in charge of communicating with the patients about their illnesses, medication and prevention of their sicknesses.

Some also did therapy massages, wound treatments and and so on.

Of course, before any medication was administered, Shanelle was present to supervise the students... she was also the one that wrote in the patient's medical book as well.

Each time the group came over to the hospital, their duties would change... this was done so that they would gain experience and understanding towards all medical procedures within the hospital.

And just like that by the end of the group's shift, Shanelle had a 10 minute meeting with them on what they did right today, as well as their individual mistakes.

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As the group made their way out of the hospital, they kept discussing the events of the day amongst themselves excitedly.

They loved the comments that they had gotten from the patients, as well as those from their supervisor Nurse Shanelle.

Treating people's illnesses, also made them have a sense of accomplishment.

In their opinion, volunteering and choosing to be medical / healthcare students was the best decision that they had made throughout their entire lives.

They had everything.. money, food, housing and job satisfaction... ... what more could they want?

They were proud to be seen as future doctors and nurses of Baymard.

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Today, Landon had a meeting with the 3 government officials that previously came from the empire of Yodan in May.

Every week, Landon and the 3 men would write and revise all acts, policies and regulations in Baymard.

They had been writing these laws since May, and had only successfully finished writing them around mid-August.

Back on earth, all countries had more than hundreds of written policies for the citizens to follow.

Landon and the 3 Government officials: Nicolas, Craig and Benazir, sat around a table and went through the several piles of papers.

All the documents were categorized alphabetically from A to Z, and were also arranged according to their sectors.

There were sectors like: Agriculture, Beverages, Fishery, Citizenship Immigration, Transportation, Food Preservation, Schools, Labour rights, Minimum wages, Construction, and Environmental.

As well as other sectors like: Natural resources, Medical, Engineering, Law, Military, Parks, Foreign Affairs, Trade, Water bodies like ocean and streams, Baymard Treasury, Justice, Tax, Energy resources, public safety, and so on.

In general, there were over 50 different sectors which had their own individual acts, policies and regulations.

It was impossible to write all these policies over a short period of time, hence Landon didn't want to address any government issues until they were done.

Take for example, the sector called Agriculture.

This sector had rules, policies, acts and regulations for everything Agriculture.

Within the sector, every grain, fruit, herb, Dairy, meat, livestock, spices, seasonings, vegetables, processed goods like butter, and so on... had their own policies.

These policies focused on marketing, health hazards standards, the selling price range for all goods, imports, exports, offenses and punishments for not following the law, and the list went on.

For example there were documents written on all laws involving apples.

So each food item like tomatoes, had their own separate documents and policies.

That was how it was done on earth, and that was how Landon wanted to do it here.

Each fruit or food had their individual expiration dates, so it was only right to write their policies separately.

There were also label requirements and regulations that had to be followed strictly for each food item.

Landon had written documents on how long each food item could last, with and without chemical preservatives added to them.

Anything that went to the market had to have an expiration date on it that showed when it was produced, and when it would expire.

He wanted the citizens to start getting health conscious as well.

Right from July, the food industry had been adding chemical preservatives to most of the foods that they had produced.

This drastically decreased the rate at which the foods turned bad... which was also a good thing.

But still, without the aid of fridges or freezers, these food items still rotted away fast, as compared to if they were refrigerated.

For now, the expiration labels would only show the expiration dates for all foods if they were not refrigerated... but once fridges came out, Landon would also revise the expiratory dates as well.

Food labels also had to show what chemical preservative was added into the food. As well as safety hazards and signs like if it should be kept away from the eyes and so on.

Also under this Agriculture sector, there were policies on farm income protection, dept mediation policies, insurance acts, and agricultural loans for people who wanted to start their own farming businesses.

It also spoke about farming practices for land preservation and water.

In fact, there were a ton of things that had been written under each sector alone.

Even looking at the Environmental sector, Landon had written policies on littering, deforestation, pollution, recycling and waste management.

He had quickly realized that he needed, a waste and garbage management industry that would recycle containers and destroy all the garbage around Baymard.

This industry would also be in charge of collecting all garbage from the garbage around Baymard.

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Generally, each sector would have a board, Parliament or council, that discussed all topics and problems involved within that particular sector.

Like having a Supreme court, Engineering, Research Natural science council, medical board, Citizenship Immigration board, Labour rights board, Public safety board, Sports board, Statistics board and so on.

For example, the statistics board would basically collect, compile, analyze and publish all statistics information related to commercial, industrial, financial, social, and economical actitities in Baymard.

They were also in charge of taking population consensus of the citizens, as well as doing several other government jobs.

Also, Landon wanted to make a health safety Inspection board which would be in charge of inspecting all industries and goods in Baymard.

They would go to the industries and ensure that the goods that are marketed out to the citizens, are not poisonous, expired or harmful to consumers.

They had to ensure that all industries had safety equipments and needs like ladders... As well as check restaurant cleanliness and so on.

In future, Landon would also have them check all the drugs that were being kept in the hospitals and clinics.

After all, they would be the main inspection team in Baymard.

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Landon and the men then proceeded to talk about the sector called 'Benefits', which tackled public pensions, employment insurance benefits like maternity leaves, family benefits, education planning student aid, Disability benefits, housing benefits, Payment plans and so on.

Overall, all 3 government officials were happy with the Benefit sector.

It showed them that when they themselves retired, they would not need to worry about food and other basic necessities.

The important thing was that they wouldn't be seen as a burden to their children or grandchildren.

They truly felt grateful to Landon for thinking about them in their old age.

Back in Yodan, they had been working as Government officials for several years now... and this was the first time that they had seen this type of policy.

There was no other place within the Pyno continent that gave such benefits.

All of them came to Baymard with their families... So as they read through the policies, they began to put themselves in the shoes of those in need.

If the ones in need were their own children or family members, wouldn't that be great?

No one could predict the future, so having plans that tackled health and finance would be seen as heavenly to a lot of citizens, slaves, and refugees.

Their king had taken everyone into account.. even disable people, as well as orphans and basically anyone who couldn't help themselves.

They felt proud and blessed to be working under him.

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Once they were done with the Benefit sector, they began talking about 'Citizenship Immigration.

"Your majesty... Under the sector called 'Citizenship and Immigration', I think that we should reduce the number of days that visitors were allowed to stay in Baymard." Nicolas said.

"I agree your majesty... Instead of 3 months (90 days), let's make it 2 months." Benazir suggested.

"I propose that we make it 1 month" Craig said.

Under the citizenship Immigration sector, Landon had made different rules for citizens, permanent residences, international students, visitors, and refugees.

He had also detailly explained how those who weren't citizens, could become one.

In future, Landon would allow people to come and study in Baymard.. but they wouldn't be allowed to work here at all.

He would only provide education, and once they were done.. they had to leave the Baymard.

These were dark times, empires were at war with each other, and everyone wanted power... how could he give his future enemies the chance to attack him?

Tsk!!, wasn't that stupidity?

If it were back on earth, Landon would have no problem letting international students work in his industries, hospitals or even join his military... but the times were different.

He could only give them education, and that was it!!... And during the long holidays, they were to go back home to their empire.

After all knowledge was, and will always be a human necessity for development.

Back on earth, Landon had been taught that basic knowledge should be free for all... Of course, being free doesnt mean that they wont pay their tuition.

He could educate them, but it was what they did with all the acquired knowledge that made a difference.

If Landon didn't give a detailed description of all industry processes to the men in Baymard, he was sure that they would still be experimenting each production process for each product for at least 5 years.

Back on earth, even when the first printing press was invented, it took another 40 years for mankind to improve that same printing press..bruhhh.

So with education, he would let the international students get basic and intermediary knowledge.

But the deep descriptions taught in the academies, and industries were strictly off limits to them.

He would teach and show them that chemical 'x' is poisonous and chemical 'y' is toxic...but if they wanted to create their own goods like ink, they had to go back to their empires and combine what they thought were the raw materials, with chemicals that they felt would aid in creating ink.

It was their job to experiment back in their own empires.

There was no way that they would get everything right without a detail description.

There were different reactions, catalysts, additives, and chemicals that did several things during production.

And some of the main raw materials and components had to be taken from refined crude oil and other separate chemicals.

So Landon was very sure that even if they mastered the entire periodic table and knew about reactions and Isotopes, they would still need several years to get to where Baymard was presently at.

Of course in their Chemistry classes, they would do basic laboratory experiments, but nothing that would reveal Baymard's industrial secrets.

Please!!... if it were that easy, then all undergraduate students back on earth would have their own mini industries on the side, as well as cosmetic and other brand companies.

If were that easy, then everyone would also be able to produce medical drugs and other goods.

Without the detailed description, one would need to research for several years.

Back on earth, companies would usually send their workers to other companies... They had exchange programs and intenships, so that their workers could learn the industry secrets from their conpetitors...it was generally allowed because earth was somewhat peaceful.

But in these times, Nahhhh!!.. for safety reasons, Landon didn't want them to work at the industries at all.

In future maybe, but right now it was a definite NO.

Back to the matter of stays, the international students would get study permits while they studied in Baymard.

If they really wanted to work, then they were only allowed to do so at stores, restaurants or hotels during their short breaks. (Of course during the 4 month long break they had to leave).

In fact they would only work in places that didn't have industry or work secrets..

So basically, they couldn't work in the military and lower region.

They could work within the coastal and central districts, as well as some parts of the upper region.

But Landon could allow them to tour the industries with an tour access pass.

They would be led by a tour guide of course, and their tours would only take at most a few hours.

On the other hand, 'Visitors' were those that would come for trade, enjoyment, or even those who came to treat their illnesses.

Landon wanted the maximum stay for visitors to be 3 months.

If they had a serious illness that needed surgery and 2 months of constant medical care, then they would get 3 months stamped on their tiny Visa booklets.

But if they came for a 1 week Vacation, Landon would give them 2 weeks on their Visa.

At the end of their stay if they were still within Baymard, they would be caught and banned from ever entering Baymard again.

And if anyone needed an extension, they had to go to the main office and state their reasons... As well as bring evidence to support their claim.

If the officers in charge deemed the evidence to be tangible, then their request would be approved.

After Landon explained his reasons for having a maximum duration of 3 month for visitation, the 3 officials thoroughly understood and agreed on Landon's point.

After all, it wasn't fair to let the sick or those in need of medical attention suffer just because of their policies.

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Up next, they looked at the criminal justice sector.

This sector aimed at victim rights, women rights, family violence, criminal conviction, human trafficking, rape, cannibalism, fraud and so on.

They also addressed the marital sector, which looked at the minimum marriage age, child support, abuse neglect, spousal support, divorce, and separation laws.

From the written laws, it was a crime to not provide food, schooling, housing and clothing to children under the age of 15... After all 15, in this era was already considered to be an adult.

If a family couldn't provide for their children, then they could apply for student loans, health loans, and so on.

Also hitting a child, emotionally harming children, forcing marriage on children, sexually abusing them were all major crimes.

Although 10 year old children were abused and used as sex slaves in this era, Landon was thoroughly disgusted with the idea.

Those citizens or refugees that were caught doing these would be locked up in prison for at least 10 years.

And if it were visitors or international students, then they would be beaten up and permanently refused access into Baymard for the rest of their lives.

Obviously, in the future once the roads were all done and cars were made available, Landon would also add traffic and driving laws.

As they looked at the court and justice rules and systems, Landon quickly realised that he needed to build an impenetrable prison for criminals.

Any spy, enemy or even criminal within the society, needed to be kept in this prison.

In future, he would also need to make prisoner rights and so on.

Yes the prisoners had rights too.. like their visitation rights, phone call rights, basic food rights, lawyer rights and so on...

Sigh.. they was just to much to improve on.

As the meeting progressed, they successfully went through several different sectors like federal land acquisition for businesses, sports, and medical policies.

And finally, concluded with Taxes... Which involved: income taxes, payroll and many more.

8 hours had gone by, with them taking two 10 minute breaks and a 40 minute lunch break within the meeting.

Once Chief Tim successfully created the printing Press, they would start making Identity cards for the citizens.

Hence at the end of their meeting, Landon quickly reminded them to start collecting all information about the citizens such as age, date of birth, marriage status and so on.

As well as to also get a population census done as soon as possible.

They had also agreed that every year, they would improve and update the policies as time went on.

Plus if the people gave feedback on Baymard's rules, policies and regulations, then they would reflect on them and might even add them to the policies.

But they would not approve rules that promoted violence, went against morality, or the peoples needsand income. As well as the development of Baymard.

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It was only 5 P.M, so Landon decided to head on over to the food industry and aid in planting and transportating medicinal herbs from the farms, to the greenhouse.

As a king, his work never stopped.

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"Host, Snow powder has made its way to the continent of Pyno, and will be revealed tonight at the Teenal auction house within the Capital.

Does host wishes to attend, or watch through the system's monitors?

Since the auction is not being held at the host's territory, then viewing through the monitor would cost host 45 Development points, 80 Technology points, or 15 Bonus Points.

Likewise, attending the auction with a warping spell, would also cost host 85 Development points, 120 Technology points, or 23 Bonus points for 2 trips back and forth.

And If host chooses to go, the system also offers a disguise package for 20 Development points, 50 Technology points, or 5 Bonus points.

Which option does host choose?" the system said.

Landon had been telling the system to alert him on any major developments that were happening around the Pyno continent.

It would be a shame to have an almighty system and not use it.

Speaking of which, Landon found that his system was somewhat of a rude introvert... It would only talk to him if it was absolutely necessary.

Occasionally, he would interact with the system before going to bed... or when he wanted to use the time capsules.

And on a weekly basis, the system would nag him about completing his mission.

Back to the matter of the auction, although Landon could use the system monitors, he had still decided to attend the auction instead.

He had been cooped up in Baymard, and felt that he should use this opportunity to observe the changes within Arcadina.

"I'll attend the auction with the disguise package... so use my Development points for payment."

"As you wish host"

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Jenette walked into the auction house with her guards by side.

As she walked, she couldn't help but remember the conversations that she had been having with her father and her mother, within these past few weeks.

Her dream of becoming the first queen in the continent was ruined by that strong man b*ch Penelope.

How dare she snatch her dreams of becoming the first female ruler within the Pyno continent?

And to make matters worse, when she had proposed the idea of her being Queen, her father literally told her to get out!!.

Why was Penelope's case different from hers?

Wasn't she smart, cunning and beautiful as well?

Wasn't she royalty, and a good manipulator as well?

Jenette had heard the tales of Penelope, and had instantly called it bullsh*.

Who would go out of their way to help peasants if they didn't want something from them in return?

Hmmp!!.. For her, Penelope was a grand manipulator.

A person that could make all the men around her favour her, was something that a seductress was good at... And she wholeheartedly believed that Penelope was such as person.

Jenette being a master in the act of 'White Lotusing', how could she believe that Penelope was that pure and innocent?

When she asked her mother for help, her mother had immediately told her to get rid of what she called 'silly dreams'.

Her mother had been preparing her her blood brother James, to take the throne from Eli... So how could she entertain her daughter's fantasy dreams?

Jenette was utterly disappointed in her mother.

Why did it seem like her mother loved her younger brother more than she did for her?... Anyway, she had already made up her mind.

Now that all 3 of her brothers had gone to fight at the borders, she would use this period to kill her father and sit on the throne... with or without her mother's help.

The good thing was that she had a whole 8 months to get the job done.

Her brothers had just left 2 weeks ago, and it would take them a little over 2 months to arrive at the borders.

Plus another 4 months, in which they had to fight and stay within those border cities, until they were sure that the Terique knights wouldn't attack the cities anymore or call for reinforcements.

And after that period, her brothers would use another 2 months to head back to the Capital on horse.

All this left Jenette with enough time to plan her father's downfall..she could attack anytime with the 8 month period.

Hence she decided that after her wedding in November, she would attack the old dog and take her place as Queen of Arcadina.

Hehehehe.. just thinking about it made her smile.

That was why she had been looking for ways to improve her forces, as well as increase their numbers.

A few days ago, she had heard that 2 new products had arrived from the continent of Morgany.

In this world called Hertfilia, there were 9 continents... but the people from the Pyno continent only knew of 4.

These 4 were the ones that they would sometimes do trades with.

From these trades, the people on the Pyno continent, had realised that 3 of those continents were somewhat backwards in development.

But the continent called Morgany, was more or less the same as them in terms of civilization.

Travelling ships would usual take several months to move from one continent to another, hence trade opportunities and goods from there were seen as treasures.

Who didn't like international goods?

She had come today because of two products.

One was a liquid beauty potion that was rumored to make any woman's skin glow.

And the final item was something called 'Snow' powder.

The merchants from Morgany, had said that snow powder was only discovered within the last year.

Apparently some alchemist called Endo, discovered it by accident. As well as received some injuries from it from the accident.

Isn't this what she had been looking for?

If she could get some of this snow powder, wouldn't she be able to deal with her father instantly?

No matter how much it costs, she had to get her hands on these godly products.

As she walked in, she immediately spotted one of her nemesis.

Angelina Dwight!!

The b*ch that had always tried to seduce her fiance.

Why was she here? Did she come here to buy the beauty potion as well?

No!!!... There was no way in hell that she would let this sl* get the potion.

Although she had finally gotten engaged, she was still insecure when it came to her man.

What man wouldn't want a beauty?

Men were allowed to take as many wives as they wanted, so she was afraid that he would eventually take that b*ch as a concubine.

No matter what, she had to get her hands on that beauty potion before Angelina did.

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The guests all came in and took their seats... of course some were V.I.P members who had their own private booths as well.

Some guests wore masks, while others came with no disguises.

As for Landon, he had gotten a V.I.P booth by altering the memories of the auction house managers.

To them, Landon was a renowned merchant from the northern part of the empire.

Speaking of snow powder, it was basically the watered-down version of gunpowder.

Landon wasn't surprised that it was invented around this period.

Back on earth, China was the first to invent snow powder in the late 8th century.

And between the 10th to 13th century, Chinese goods made their way to other Asian countries, Europe, the Middle East and other parts of the world.

Alchemists tried their best to copy and make their own explosives... as well as take several trips to China, so as to further study these explosives.

What Landon wanted to know was the strength of powder's explosive power.

Once the host came on stage, the room instantly quieted down.

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"Welcome Esteemed guests... today's auction only entails goods from the continent of Morgany.

Up first, let's start with what the Morgany continent calls 'Horseshoes'.."

The entire audience was shocked... why would horses need shoes?... Was it some sort of fashion statement?

"I know what you all are thinking... but these shoes could allow the horses to travel for long distances, without their feet getting injured."

Once the men heard the host's explanation, their eyes instantly lit up.

It might seem like a trivial matter... But in actuality, it was not.

All these men were either nobility like the Barons, knights, merchants and so on.

Some of them had gone on secret missions, that made them take tricky roads, and even paths around the forests.

On their journey, short dried up stalks of grass, would sometimes prick their horses feet.

And even on the roads, they would be pieces of wood or sharp rocks that could cause splinters for the horses.

No matter how tough the feet (hooves) of a horse were, if they stepped on something that was similar to a needle, then they would feel immense pain.

So basically, horseshoes protected their feet the same way shoes protected human feet.

Without shoes, it would be very painful and stressful for human beings to run or even walk on rocks or other terrains for long distances.

Generally, if a horse was domesticated, and only stayed within a stable or estate, then they didn't really need horseshoes.

But if the people were going to use them in pulling carriages for hours, and taking something like a continuous 2 month journey, then they definitely needed them.

And in this era, nobody kept horses just for the sake of pampering... horses were treated like cars since they pulled carriages.

They were also seen as war necessities, since they also pulled wagons filled with war supplies and equipments... Plus they also carried the knights on their backs constantly.

Merchants and travellers also used horses on a daily basis... so everyone was somewhat interested in these 'horseshoes'.

Some of the men seated within the audience, had paused their journey for several days whenever their horses were injured.

At times, it could thoroughly disrupt a mission or even supply of goods.

But now with the help of these horseshoes, they could finally go about their journey without the fear of delaying their schedules.

As the host spoke on the importance of the horseshoes, an auction worker came to the stage and handed him several parchment papers.

"The design sketches (blueprints) for horseshoe production and fitting, will be auctioned out today... And they buyer will also receive 2 samples of these horseshoes.

Now, let's start bidding shall we?"

"10,000 silver coins for everything."

"13,000 silver coins"

"50,000 silver coins"

"_"

Several men fought to win the bid.

And at the end, it was finally sold to an influential merchant, who probably wanted to capitalize on the horseshoes and make profits from it.

As for Landon, he didn't really need horseshoes because all his wars, would probably be fought around Baymard's city walls.

Plus in the future, he would use things like machine guns, military altanks and so on... Hence his horses would probably end up being domesticated.

But if he really needed to leave Baymard with his knights, he would probably make these horseshoes and keep up appearances by using the horses.

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"Up next is a beauty potion that would make any woman look 10 years younger.

This potion was made by the renowned Alchemist, Lupio.

I'm sure you all have heard of his fame and deeds within the continent of Morgany."

As the host spoke, the women in the audience became more and more excited.

Who didn't know the renowned Alchemist Lupio?

His products had been marketed within the Pyno continent for the past few years now.

From charcoal eyeliners on sticks, to thick liquidy paste substances that reduced eye puffiness once the women woke up to other products.

In short, Alchemist Lupio's products were focused on the needs and necessities of women.

Once the bidding war began, the women looked at each other as if they were enemies on a battlefield.

"15,000 silver coins", someone yelled

"18000 silver coins"

"23000"

"_"

"50,000 silver coins!!!" A servant from Jenette's booth said.

"55,000 silver coins!!" Angelina's servant seconded.

Jenette immediately looked at Angelina's booth with rage.

The booths were kind of like high balcony seats at an opera show.

Every V.I.P had a mini balcony and could also see the other V.I.P members on their balconies.

They also had Megaphones so that they, or their servants, could yell out their price.

Angelina smirked as she looked at Jenette, who was just a balcony away from her... In fact they were so close to each other that they could literally have a conversation amongst themselves.

"70,000 silver coins" Jenette's servant yelled out.

"75,000 silver coins" Angelina's servant seconded again.

Jenette was fuming mad.

"B*ch, your doing it on purpose."

"Whatever do you mean? Isn't this an auction house? Don't I have the right to bid as well?..or do you think that just because your a princess, I should stop bidding?" Angelina responded.

Jenette face started to twist as she tried very hard to control her emotions.

She immediately made up her mind that once she became queen, this sl* would be the first one to go.

Swore swore that she would definitely burn the b*ch down, and pee on her grave.

"I suggest you cut the crap!!.. since I as a royal princess is bidding, then you should at least give me some face!!"

Normally, Jenette could easily deal with anyone and keep her white lotus act intact...but when she was dealing with Angelina, a white lotus Grandmaster... she as an ordinary master, lost tragically.

When ever she met with Angelina, her true self would always show.

Angelina felt the same way as well... she was always seen as weak and helpless... but when she clashed with Jenette, she became to a tigress.

Angelina smirked as she looked at Jenette's scrunched up face.

"Face?.. why didn't u give me some face as well? My aunt is the official wife of your father.. so technically, I too am part of royalty... so why should I give you face when you clearly don't care about mine?

And by the way, why are you here bidding for this beauty potion?

Have you finally come to terms with the fact that your appearance is hideous?

Tsk Tsk Tsk.. I'm actually surprised that it took you so long to grow a brain.

I hope that now you've finally realised that your ugly face and body, doesn't deserve to be tied up with brother Anthony" Angelina said.

Hideous?.. her, Jenette Barn, hideous?... she knew that this slut Angelina had plans of using this beauty potion to take her man.

Over her dead body!!!!

Landon and a few people who had their V.I.P balconies around both women, leaned in and began watching their cat fight.

Landon really wished that he had brought popcorn for the show... He had to admit... this Angelina had a sharp tongue.

"Can't you at least show some respect?!!!" Jenette yelled.

Angelina tilted her head and slowly looked at Jenette from head to toe.

"Show some respect?.. To who?

In my eyes, you are nothing but a royal, irresponsible and senseless harlot.

Your just a dog in heat!!!"

Those around them almost coughed out blood... this girl was indeed savage.

At this point, Landon R.I.P'ed Jenette as he looked at her red raging face.

Rest in peace elder sister.

"You're too much!!!!... Aren't you just jealous of me?"

"Hahaha.. I, Angelina, jealous of you?...

My dear royal harlot... Jealousy is an unsightly and ugly thing... And so are you in that dress."

"_"

The bidding ended with Jenette finally winning.. But before she could rejoice, demoness Angelina spoiled her victory.

"Can I give you some advice?" Angelina asked.

Since Jenette had won, all her previous anger had long dissipated... So she decided to listen to whatever bullsh* Angelina had to say.

"Advice?, Yeah sure, go ahead" Jenette said while gloating.

"An ugly person will always be an ugly person... So when you use the beauty potion, don't await a miracle."

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As the auction progressed, Landon continued observing all the items displayed.

So far, all the items weren't really impressive to him.. but to these people, these goods were mind blowing.

There were a lot of pottery items that showed the art style of the people of Morgany, as well as new goods like horse saddles, unique clothing items and so on.

Finally, it was time for the last item on the list to be auctioned off.

This item that had brought everyone out today.

Even spies and assassins were seated within the crowd...including those from the Ghostly Prince's side.

It was finally time for the big reveal.

"Esteemed guests, for our final item... we have what is popularly known within the Morgany Continent as snow powder.

For better understanding, we decided to show you all what it could do."

Immediately, an auction worker came up to the stage with a wooden boards, some tubes, ropes, sticks, snow powder, arrows and bows.

For the first setup, several sticks were tied together in the shape of triangles, and mounted to the ground.

The auction worker made 2 triangular stick-stands, and placed a long large stick above both triangular mounts.

It was kinda like 2 camera tripod stands, that had a stick placed on top of them... this long stick connected both Tripods.

Each tripod stick-stand, had 3 legs that formed formed a triangle, and stood mounted to the ground...

One end of a large long stick was placed on top of the first tripod stick stand, while the other end of the stick was placed on the second stand.

Once that setup was done, the worker then filled a tiny tube with snow powder, placed the tube on one end of the long stick, and aimed at a wooden board a little distance away from the setup.

The tube had about the same size as hand-held dynamite sticks back on earth.

When everything was ready, another worker quickly brought a fire torch and lit the tube.

Once it was shot, white smoke instantly began to fill the stage.

'Boom!!'

One-fourth of the board was shattered into pieces.

Everyone was shocked.

Even the calm and collected spies and assassins almost stood up from their seats.

What kind of weapon was this?

This was groundbreaking technology that would definitely help them in their quest for power.

Jenette was brimming with joy.. this was exactly what she was looking for... With this, her victory was definitely guaranteed.

She would kill her old man, as well as that b*ch Angelina.

As for Landon, he had realised that the explosive power was not even up to 20% of his gunpowder back in Baymard.

It was understandable, since the people didn't necessarily understand science.

For these people, if they combined several stones with charcoal, then gunpowder would be formed.

But that wasn't necessarily the right way to go about it.

For example most of these rocks only contain maybe 30-50% sulphur within them, and the other components were seen as impurities.

So since these people didn't understand chemistry, or even knew what sulphur was, how could they succeed in creating any powerful explosions?

If they wanted to have a good explosive power, then they needed to use at least 98% pure sulphur.. . And the same thought process went out for the other raw materials.

That was why chemical extraction and preparation was necessary.

Another important factor was that they didn't know the ratio in which they should mix the raw materials.

Back in Baymard, Landon had made several potion cups, containers and glass dishes which were used by the people to estimate the ratio.

The correct ratio was 2 parts pure sulphur, 3 parts charcoal and 13 parts pure saltpeter.

These cups and containers were now used even in cooking.

People could say things like: add 3 parts rice, 4 parts water and so on.

Once the right ratios were properly mixed, Landon had the men fill sacs of gunpowder and place in the storage rooms.

Apart from the people in Baymard, the rest of the world didn't know the ratio, and just went with what they thought was right.

In fact, there were so many reasons why their explosive power was weak... Heck, it sounded more like a loud fart, than a thunderous clap.

And from the looks of it, those around the shots weren't even affected by the explosive force form the shot.

Well... this was definitely good for Baymard.

Back on earth, hand-held cannons were generally made between the 12 and 14th centuries.

And even at that time period, gunpowder still had a weak explosive power.

But when the era of science and all the geniuses like Albert Einstein came about, people started understanding were they went wrong with gunpowder.

The era of science mainly happened between the late 16th to 20th century.

People started building large gigantic cannons, war machines, and gunpowder guns.

But presently, sticks were used to launch the gunpowder filled tubes at an inclined angle.

As well as attached some of these gunpowder filled tubes onto metal arrows, and use their bows to launch their attacks.

These kind of weapons would never be enough to destroy Baymard's walls, that's why Landon could sigh from relief.

Within the audience, King Barn had also disguised himself as a V.I.P merchant.

This snow powder was what he needed to prepare himself against City Lord Shannon's attack on him.

He had been having several sleeplessn nights since the disappearance of City lord Shannon.

If the fool really planned on attacking him, then he would use this gunpowder to completely destroy Shannon.

For now once he got the powder, he would get his alchemists to study and create large scale batches.

And if anyone got in his way of obtaining this powder, hehehehe... thet person would wish that they had never been born.

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"My esteem guests... we have only 50 large sacs of snow powder being auctioned off today."

One had to know that this powder was extremely expensive, so the merchants couldn't bring a lot back from the Continent of Morgany.

"These sacks would be sold in groups of 5 ... So let's start the bidding for the first group shall we?"

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Once everyone had seen the effectiveness of snow powder, they started bidding like crazy.

"40,000 silver coins"

"70,000 silver coins"

"100, 000 silver coins"

"_"

Landon also decided to bid as well.

It wasn't that he needed the powder, but he was basically targeting those that had bullied the old Landon.

Back in the days, several nobles and their children, would laugh at him, trip him over and even pour water or food over his head... They basically treated him like a clown for their own amusement.

And other times, they would beat him up badly, all in the name of practice.

Presently, most of these nobles had come to the auction with their sons.

So once petty Landon saw the boys who used to bully him, he immediately started making things difficult for them.

"120,000 silver coins"

"120,001 silver coins"

Minister Frederick and his son Moham, looked at the mysterious man who seemed to be making things difficult for them.

From the man's height and body structure, Minister Frederick could somewhat guess that this stranger should be around the same age as his son Moham.

But when had he offended the stranger?... Why was this man hell bent on annoying him?

Hmmp!!! ... It didn't matter what the stranger thought... Today, no one could stop him from getting this snow powder.

Since this stranger wanted to make a fool out of him, then he would just raise the price to a ridiculous amount.

'At the end, Let's see who will have the last laugh', he thought.

"This booth will bid 700,000 silver coins"

Those who had smaller budgets, almost began crying... how did the bidding move from 200,000 silver coins to 700,000 in a blink of an eye?

'Minister Frederick, aren't you just bragging about your wealth at this point?... What was the point in having such a huge price jump?

Won't the prices eventually go up with time?... At least give some of us the opportunity to have hope.'

Minister Frederick smiled provocatively as he looked at Landon.

'Boy... your years too young and inexperienced to make me suffer a loss.'

All those nobles that were in the upper echelon of nobility, understood that Minister Frederick was having a battle with the mysterious stranger.

It would definitely be better to sit this one out.

Even if they wanted to continue bidding, they were sure that Minister Frederick would most likely bid to the very end.

As for the other nobles, they could only sigh as they knew that they wouldn't be getting this first batch of snow powder.

Some of these nobles weren't as rich or popular like Minister Frederick.

Even within nobility, there were different groups of classes.

There were noble families people whose names were once a symbol of power... but as the years went by, these families had lost their power and support within the empire.

There were also nobles that had once angered the king, and of course, had their forces cut down by half.

But then again, there were nobles like minister Frederick, who were filthy rich and could easily get anything that they desired.

It was definitely better to let the super rich Frederick take this first batch... In that way, the other nobles wouldn't need to worry about him bidding later on.

"We have a bid of 700,000 silver coins going once... going.."

As the host spoke, Moham looked at Landon and snorted.

"One should know their own limits...Hmmp!!...Truly a toad that claims to be a pheonix"

Everyone looked at the calm and collected stranger, and thought that he had given up.

And just when the host was about to close the bidding, Landon interrupted.

"Going twice... going thrice..."

"700,001 silver coins"

"_"

The audience immediately quieted down.

Minister Frederick and his son shot death stares at Landon.

Such a bid was an obvious insult.

What was the aim of adding the extra silver coin at the end?... For heaven's sake, what would the auction house do with that extra 1 silver coin?

If Landon had known their thoughts, he would simply retort back and tell them that: for one to become a millionaire, every single coin mattered.

Even if one had 999,999 coins, without the extra 1 coin, it could never be a million bucks... or so Bill Gates said back on earth.

Minister Frederick was so angry that he seized the Megaphone from his servant and continued bidding.

"800,000 silver coins"

"800,001 silver coins"

"850,000 silver coins"

"850,001 silver coins"

"_"

Since the amount wasn't enough to allow him to withdraw from the bidding, Frederick calmed himself down and continued on.

"Since our young mysterious friend here is truly generous by adding one silver to his bids... then I would like to bid 1.3 million silver coins!!!!"

Frederick and Moham lifted their proud chins and sneered at Landon.

But of course, their victory was indeed short lasted.

"1.3 million and 5 silver coins"

Immediately, the smiles on the faces of the father-and-son duo instantly dropped.

What sort of troublesome person was this?

In fact, everyone had the same idea as well.

'Fine!!... You want to bid, that's naturally alright.

But you increased the price by only 5 silver coins?

Are you really normal?

Previously, you had added 1 silver coin, and now its 5... do you really think that we should acknowledge you just because you added a few more silver coins?

Don't you have any shame?'

Dammit!!!!!

Both father and son got up from his seat angrily and faced Landon.

Moham's was so angry, that his face became as red as a tomatoe.

How dare this scoundrel compete with his father?

"2 million silver coins"

"2 million and 5 silver coins"

"2.2 million silver coins"

"2.2 million and 5 silver coins"

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As they continued bidding, several nobles couldn't help but think.

'As expected, Minister Frederick is indeed a wealthy man.'

At the end, Frederick had used 3.7 million silver coins to buy the first 5 bags of snow powder.

Although the father and son duo had won, their ego's had been wounded by the mysterious stranger.

Who didn't know their family status and situation within the Empire? They were one of the top richest and powerful families in Arcadina.

Frederick's sister had married King Barn and was the first and official wife of the King. His nephew was also the crown prince,Eli.

Hence he had gained a lot of finance and power all through the years.

For someone to go against him meant that they also went against his sister, the Queen.

And to make matters worse, both father and son felt that the stranger had simply been playing with them all along.

Their hearts were burning with a strong desire to kill the bastard.

So as the auction continued, they began to quickly devise a plan for their new found friend... they had decided that once the stranger stepped out of the auction house, they and their men would immediatley slice him into several pieces.

Frederick knew that if he didn't kill this bastard, people would be laughing and making fun of him from the shadows.

He had to admit, this stranger had really made him eat dog shit today.

In fact, most of the people within the audience knew that this stranger wouldn't last another day, since he had offended the great Minister Frederick.

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Once the auction was over, Minister Frederick and his men followed the mysterious stranger to a dark alley.

But once they got there, they soon realised that the stranger was nowhere to be found.

It was like he had just vanished into thin air.

They immediately went back to the auction house and asked about the man's identity... But sadly, even the managers there didn't know who he was, or where he stayed.

This...This was really too strange...

Just who could that mysterious stranger be?

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A week and a half had gone by, and Chief Sophia was thoroughly impressed with the new tools that had been made for the Textile industry.

There were 4 departments within the industry: Inspection Storage, Thread making, Fabric making, and Sewing.

Of course the Sewing department was also divided into several sectors: Beddings, House Daily needs, clothing and Size tags.

The bedding department, focused on making bed sheets, pillow cases, blankets, mattress quilts, and every other thing involved with sleep.

For the 'House Daily Needs' department, they had to focus on curtains, table cloths, towels and so on.

Of course for the clothing department, his majesty had given them a list of necessities like: Baymard National flags, winter jackets, sweaters, socks, winter gloves, winter hats, scarfs, hoodies and military uniforms.

As well as, industry overalls, lab coats, chef uniforms and aprons, thick shirts (modern style), T-shirts, Turtle neck long sleeve tops, thick pants, singlets and underwear.

For the size tag department, they had to create and sew tiny labels that would be placed at the back of every sewn product.. be it bedsheets, shirts, and even winter hats.

For now, these were all the clothing items required.. but Landon had told them that at the start of every month, new items would be added to the list.

And finally, the inspection storage department was in charge of checking the quality of the goods, as well as storing and recording the quantity in stock.

Today was the 12th of September, and it was time for Sophia to have her weekly inspection.

She decided to start with the thread making department first.

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"Welcome chief" everybody within the department greeted.

The workers all wore thick rubber boots (should in case something dropped on their legs)... nose masks, and gloves for when they had to dye the threads to different colors, as well as when they were handling animal fur.

Sophia decided to go over to those in charge of washing and combing out the fur.

These animal furs had dirt, and even poop traces on them... so of course they had to be cleaned with soap.

Sophia inspected inspected their washing process, as well as if the workers were wearing their safety wears or not.

Those who washed and combed the fur, were required to wear gloves, aprons, face masks and rubber boots.

Landon didn't want any animal faces to touch the workers... And since he also didn't want any fur flying up into their nostrils or mouths, they definitely had to wear their face masks while they worked.

It took the workers at least 4 washes and rinses with soap, before the fur looked somewhat clean.

And from there, the workers did 2 more washes before drying the fur on the drying lines.

There were at least 60 long clothing lines at the back of all 4 buildings that were given to the Textile industry... so Landon had then dry these furs there.

Once the fur was dry, another group of people started combing out the fur.

At this point it was basically treated like human hair.. the workers combed it out leaving no knots that would hinder the production phase.

From there, another group of people fed the fur to several steam powered rolling machines, that basically stretched them out.

Of course after this stage, another group used spinning wheels to spin the fur forming single fur strands... that were then twisted with other stands to form 'thread'.

Fur strands were as tiny as human hair strands... So of course they had to be combined and twisted together to form thread.

One could say that these 'twists' were done as braids.. A few fur strands were placed on a spinning wheel...and at the end, they were braided to form thread.

And once the thread was formed, another set of workers filled several basins with water and dye, that was gotten from the Alchemy lab.

The basins were roughly the size of 2 bath tubs, which allowed several strands to be dyed at once... and after dying, the thread was dried for 24 hours.

Finally once the thread was dried, another group carefully placed them into a steam powered mechanical thread winding machine.

Back on earth during the 17th to 19th century, several versions of the steam winding machine were produced.

Right now, no one had the time to take a single strand of thread and wrap around a wooden frame... that would just take forever.

So Landon basically took the best version of the steam winding machine and implemented it here.

In this way, all the workers had to do was spread the thread on the machines and the rest was history.

Of course they also had to feed wooden frames to the machines, as well as water.

And at the end of the day, hundreds of wooden frames with thread wrapped around them were produced.

The machine's framework was enclosed within a metal frame, hence people couldn't really see the inner workings within.

All they could see was a place to feed the water, wooden frames, threads and also the parts that winded the threads onto the wooden frames.

Landon enclosed the pulley systems and other mechanical parts for safety reasons.

The workers greatly appreciated this machine.

One had to know that they people usually hired thousands of slaves just to wrap the threads around these wooden frames.

Infact, when they were assigned to this sector within the department, they had initially felt like crying.

But when they realized that the machine basically did 80% of the work, they couldn't help but gaze at Landon with thankful eyes each time he came over to their department.

No one liked winding the threads... it was just so damn boring, time consuming and stressful.

When they handled the threads, they were required to wear gloves at all times...so that if their hands were dirty, they wouldn't stain the thread.. and vice versa.

Once the threads were completed, the workers would then send their products to the 'Inspection Storage' department, were the products would be checked and stored in the storage rooms.

The threads were essentially stored based on types, as well as color and size.

For example, there were 3 rooms dedicated to wool from sheep... the first room was for small sized thread wraps, the 2nd was for medium, and the 3rd was for large and above.

And within each room, there were metal framed shelves, which separated each color from the next.

These shelves were ceiling high, and each color had at least 2 rows within the rooms.

Sophia carefully inspected the products within the storage rooms, and after confirming that there hadn't been issues or complaints from the workers, she headed over to the next department.

Fabric Making.

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For this department, the workers used steam weaving machines called a 'Loom', to produce fabric.

Sophia also thought that this was one of the most ingenious inventions ever.

Presently, hand weaving devices already existed, and basically looked like large rectangular harps.

The threads would pass through the strings of the harps, as if they were weaving a basket.

And once they were done weaving, they would remove the stick that was placed at the bottom of their harp-like device and gently slide their woven fabric out.

The problem with this was that it was too time consuming... Hence Landon decided to make steam powered weaving machines.

Once again back on earth in the 17th century, someone had successfully modified the Loom and made it to work mechanically on steam.

All the workers had to do was feed water to the machines, as well as thread... And from there, the machine would weave and create fabric on its own.

This machine was 1.4 meters in width, and could obviously sew fabrics around the same width measurements

So this machine could make fabrics as wide as large carpets.

With this machine, several thread rolls of different colors could be placed at once, so as to create different patterns.

Like for example, the middle of the fabric could be blue, which the outer corners could be white...

This was also good in making striped bed sheets.

Landon had given this department several design specifications for the fabrics... All they had to do was follow the written instructions, and the fabric would be produced.

For example: they could put light grey in thread feeder 1, black in thread feeder 2, and so on.

And once the fabrics were made, the Inspection Storage department would take it from there.

1 out of the 4 Textile industry buildings was used just for storage of all materials, be it socks, fabrics or even blankets.

5 rooms were assigned for fabric storage.

The first 3 were used to store all single-colored fabric materials.. while the last 2 stored those that were either multicolored or had patterns on them.

After Sophia was done with her Inspection, she headed over to the Sewing department.

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The Sewing Department

Sophia had to admit that the sewing machines were by far her favorite.

As a woman, she had always taken a lot of time to hand-sewn her husband's clothes, as well as her children's clothes.

But with the help of sewing machines, the time spent sewing had reduced drastically.

The black colored sewing machines, where attached to tables that had leg paddles at the bottom.

Again, the workers couldn't see or understand the interior workings of the machine, since it was shielded with the black metallic casing.

So it basically looked like the portable sewing machines back on earth.. the only difference was that this one was attached to a table.

All the workers could see was the table, the sewing machine attached to the table, the place for putting the thread and needles... as well as the leg paddle at the bottom of the table.

At the center of the table just beneath the sewing machine, there was a rectangular metal slab attached to the table.

This slab was put there, so that the needle head wouldn't dig into the wooden table when sewing.

The table itself looked like an office table, having drawers on it's right and left ends side.

The right side drawers were used by the workers to place their measuring tapes, rulers, needles, threads, pins, chalk, scissors, size charts, and other necessary tools and guidelines needed for sewing.

As for the left side drawer, the pulley system which connected the sewing machine to the leg paddle was also enclosed within it.

Of course, this particular drawer would always be kept locked, and the keys were placed at Chief Sophia's office.

These particular drawers could only be opened if the pulley system needed maintenance, or repairs.

On the sewing machine, there was also a switch that said 'On' and 'Off' on it.

To turn the machine on, the workers simply had to flip the switch upwards... And for turning off the machine, the switch would be flipped downwards.

Within the machine, there was a latch mechanism that stopped the pulleys from working when the machine was off.

In this way even if the workers pressed the leg paddles a hundred times without flipping the switch, it would never work.

As for the workers, all they knew was that once they flipped the switch and moved the paddle, the sewing machine would start working.

Again, everyone was impressed by the size charts that their king had come up with.

Right now in this era, sewing was really frustrating.

One could sew a pair of pants for their loved ones, and only later realise that the thigh region was too tight, or the waist was too big.. and sometimes, even the butt region got too tight as well.

It was really infuriating because these people had to sew and redo the same things over and over again without any guidelines... that's why people that made clothing items were scared of mass production.

So normally, tailors would visit their clients over 10 times, just to measure the items again.

The only clothing items that were mass produced generally had big sizes, and rarely fitted people's bodies well.

But with the size charts, things were now several times easier for them.

For clothing, there were 3 main size charts that catered to different genders and needs... These size charts were for men, women and children.

Back on earth, Extra large had their own Size charts, but Landon had decided that he didn't want to separate them from the masses.

For example if an extra large man wanted to find their size, it would still be seen under the men's size chart.

Instead of the size chart ending at Extra large Landon had made it end at Triple extra large.

Although in this era, the largest Landon had ever seen was a Double extra large person.. and they were very few.

With people constantly, farming, working and fighting... only the spoiled nobles, and a few peasants really got fat.

These people burned a ton of calories a day from work or from knighthood... and little things like illnesses and constant health issues, wouldn't even let them get fat.

On all size charts, there were general sizes like extra small, medium, Double extra large and many more.

As well as specific sizes like size 'BM 00' (Baymard size 00)... BM 0... BM 3, and so on.

On the size guide, the workers could easily see the connection between the general and specific sizes.

For example, they could easily see that BM 0 up to BM 1, fell under the 'XS' (Extra small) category.

Again on the size chart, each size had bust, waist and hip measurements... As well as different sections like: Tops, Bottoms, Jackets and so on there.

There were also specifications for sleeve and pants length.

Also for other items like beddings, there were size charts which showed measurements for queen, king, Twin, Twin XL, baby Cribs and full size beds.

In fact even towels, table cloths and so on, had their own size charts... that's why Sophia had divided the workers into several groups.

Only those that made beddings like pillow cases, would use the size charts for beddings.

And those that were in charge of clothing, would only access the size charts for clothing.

Within the Sewing departments, there was also a specific group that was in charge of making size tags that would be placed at the back of all clothing items.

For now, the Size tags showed: the size (king size), material (example wool), item name (shirt), and the words 'Made in Baymard' on them.

Of course the words at the back of the label depended on whether the item was a pillowcase, blanket, jacket or even a table cloth.

These words were stitched on the price tags.. and once they were made, they were distributed to those in charge of sewing clothes, bedsheets and so on.

The sewing department was by far the busiest department within the Textile industry, so Sophia assigned more people here.

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Again within the sewing department, there was also a sector that focused on beddings.

Using the size chart for the mattresses (king size, etc), this department was able to make items like bed sheets and mattress quilts that would be used to cover the mattress foam.

Of course when making the quilts, they sized up a bit so as to give room for fitting and sewing.

To make any side of the quilt, the workers placed thin layers of foam between 2 thick fabrics and sewed them together.

Of course on each side of the quilt, they would sew criss-cross designs which kept the thin foam layer within the quilt from moving around.

If any one had ever seen a mattress back on earth, they would quickly notice these designs as the many lines that ran across the mattresses surface from all directions.

Since Mattresses were generally rectangular in shape... the top, bottom and sides of the quilt were done separately.

And at the end, the quilt parts were then sewn together... making the rectangular shaped quilt, look like an extremely thick gigantic pillow case... that had only one section opened (unsewn).

And once the mattress foam was brought in from the Alchemy Industry, the workers fitted the foam into the quilts, and used pins to close the opened section.

They also folded all the excess loss fabric on the mattress, and pinned it towards the edges.

For the next phase, the workers left the table size sewing machines, and used the big guns.

Since there was no way that those tiny tables could contain those large mattresses, Landon had made steam powered sewing machines.

Once more, 17th century earth had done it again.

And at this point, Landon had already concluded that the 17th century was the birth era for Steam engines.

Those people used steam for almost everything.

In fact in the 18th century, these people went as far as to create steam cannons and guns...bruhhh Landon was done with them.

I mean...he understood the reasons such as metal being expensive... but for war, that wasn't a good strategy.

What if some people had drank all the water, or their enemies destroyed your water tank? Even something as basic evaporation could lower the water levels..

It was good that they thought about saving cost and energy, but with some of their steam inventions, Landon couldn't help but feel that they had gone a little too far.

Anyway, the steam powered sewing machines could only be used on big items like couch cushions, mattresses and so on.

It was better to imagine the machine as an airport metal detector door.

There were 2 thick needles placed at the top and bottom of both sides of the door.

These needles could be adjusted to any height that was required for the items.. As well as the width of the door.

For the case of the mattresses, once they passed through the narrow doors, the needles would start sewing their corners.

At this point, only the top and the bottom would have been stitched.

So the height of needles were adjusted and the mattress passed through the machine again.

This time, the other sides of the mattress were stitched up properly.

And at the end, the pins that were used to grip the mattress were carefully removed.

Of course with the mattresses successfully made, the 'inspection and storage' department also ensure that no pins were left on them.

Presently, mattresses alone had 12 storage rooms which all differed depending on the bed size.

So after inspection, they would be stored away neatly according to their sizes.

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Since all the sectors within the sewing department had no issues or reported injuries, Sophia went on with her Inspection.

She began by inspecting the National flag.

The flag had a green background.. And at its center stood, a circle that had several stars surrounding it.

The left side of the circle was blue, while the right side of the circle was red... And of course, the stars surrounding the circle were white as well.

His majesty Landon had told her that:

•The green symbolized Agricultural prosperity and fertility

•The Red stood for power, vibrancy, courage, War and domination

•The Blue symbolized liberation, alertness and good fortune

•And the white symbolized Peace, Purity and Harmony.

Once she had heard the meaning of all those colors, she was very impressed and pleased with the flag... who wouldn't want to be identified with those qualities?

Right now, she was inspecting all the different types and sizes for the national flag.

There were 3 main types that were made presently:

•The civil flags: which was basically a version of the national flag that could be used by civilians..they could put in their homes or offices... the sizes ranged from double extra small to large.

•State flags: which would be flown in Government buildings

•And War/Military flags: which would be flown in the military, coast guard, police station and other fighting units within Baymard.

Once she was done with inspection, she immediately went to her office to write her report.

On the 3rd week of September, all her products would officially be marketed off to the citizens.

And With only a week and some days left, she began checking the amount of products needed for her to meet her goal.

In her entire life, she had never had such a huge responsibility before.

Before Landon came to Baymard, her life goal was to sit at home, feed her husband, do all the housework, sew, wait at home all day for her husband, take care of her children..and that was it.

Truthfully, she had been bored with that repetitive lifestyle for the past 15 years now

But ever since his majesty Landon had come to Baymard, her boredom immediately flew out the window.

And now that she was Chief, she had a lot of people that looked up to her... so she didn't want to disappoint them.

It felt strangely satisfying and fulfilling to have a different targets every day, week and month.. it felt like she was contributing to the society.

If someone had told her that she would one day do this kind of job, she would hit their heads with a cooking cauldron... but look at her now...

Whenever she went home, she and her husband Lyore would gist about their work... and how far behind, or ahead they were on their target schedules.

She felt very motivated to do her job... the salaries were good, the food was good... and more importantly, she now felt like she had an important purpose in life.

A day in the life of Sophia.

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