One by one the Faunus began to leave the mine, he had to admit he was proud of himself, granted more than a few men had lost a limb or two, but he didn't care to remember if it was because of the mine or because of how injured they were when he fight brought them here.

He can't help but raise an eyebrow when he sees that several of the men have dust crystals coming out of their bodies.

"Gentlemen, I'm afraid that I'll have to change what I said earlier." he says as he grabs one of the men's hands and lifts it high for everyone to see.

"Everyone that is infected with dust, will be joining the military immediately, as you have proven your worth and are now considered weapons of Aincrad you won't have to take part in the year's trial."

"However I recommend that you do it anyway for your own good, everone else feel free to do whatever you want." he says to his pets.

He watches as the men separate themselves before he lets go of his pet's hand.

Dusk sickness is something that should be fatal, but Aincrads health potions make it possible for people to survive having dust crystals growing inside of them.

He would have the men in front of him leave with the others if it wasn't for the fact that they could use the powers of whatever crystal or combination of crystals that are growing inside of them.

Meaning that the men in front of him are nothing more than living weapons. They aren't any different from the monsters that live in the castle as equals with the players.

"Gentlemen your time in the military as untested will be more brutal than the time that you spent as prisoners in the mines, but I am confident that you will survive."

"I can see the hate that you have towards me, use it, make yourselves stronger and maybe one day you have a chance to kill me."

"Now go join the untested and earn your freedom." he says to them.

"Why should we, you said that we were free, or was that all talk?' one of the troublemakers says to him in a tone that makes him want to discipline the bugman, but the man is now a citizen so he won't react to the man's lack of respect

"Fine I wanted to be kind to a fellow citizen, but if you want the truth here it is."

'Those crystals growing inside of you are dangerous, for you and the people around you, so you need to train to use them and to stop them from activating."

"What better place than the military, you will have no choice but to learn to control those things or die in the process." he says to them before he lowers the tone of his voice and abandons any of the joy that he had before.

"No one will stop you if you leave, but you can't blame anyone other than yourselves if you kill people because you can't control those things."

"After all, we are giving you a way to learn how to use them before that happens."

He waits for someone to say or do something and he starts to smile again when he sees that even the troublemakers of the group all look as if believe him, good they won't ask any more questions.

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Asuna listened to the crowd cheer as the gladiators one another, She couldn't help but join them, the men and women that were down there had only one talent to them and that was fighting.

So they used to and used it well.

Unlike most jobs in Aincrad Gladiators earn a lot.

There are three reasons for this, the first is that anyone who isn't a part of the military has spent years training the second is that the men and women are part of the military and this is how they earn some extra money.

The last reason is that everyone no matter who it is, likes to see the people that they hate being hurt.

She looks down as Yui hands her the soda that she was drinking earlier before the boy with wolf ears points at the bear faunus that is being pushed back by the panther faunus.

As the panther knocked the bear unconscious, and the crowd cheered Asuna couldn't help but feel happy about the state things were in, everything was so peaceful.

Sure there were things that Aincrad was doing that she didn't like, but for the most part, everything was okay.

They had already cleared the one hundred floors of the castle and the kingdom was growing, if things kept going this way in a few years the council would agree to her guild's petition to end the collar system for the faunus that didn't commit any crimes.

"Asuna sorry to call you on your day off but there's something that you have to see." She hears Thinker's voice inside her head before her help screen appears in front of her.

As she reads the information that Thinker sent to her, she can't help but think that this is going to cause a lot of unnecessary problems.

'A guild, not a team is being asked to go to Vale and see what the kingdom is like, and a second guild was being asked to go to the kingdom of the Faunus to make sure that nothing happened to the people that would be building the embassy.