After Sylvie disappeared, most likely she teleported out, I sorted out the information I got from the tower.
I can set on how many people can enter my tower, I can't take out the monster inside the tower to have a 'walk' outside for 1.5 years … what years? Years from Planet Ishval or Planet Mitsu? I should have asked Sylvie before she disappeared.
It also doesn't say that I can't go out on my own, right? In that case I could scout ahead or do some *ahem* stuff and lure them into my tower hehehehe. If that's the case I need jigsaw mask hehehehe.
Ahem since everything is being manage by me right now and everything is in default settings there is nothing for me to do. Might as well go home for now since as far as I know it's currently world's championship now I need to watch if NA can get any score today since they lost both of their games yesterday.
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Several days prior to the completion of the tower, in a military encampment near the current border of the Bestille Empire.
"Run! Run! Run you filthy bastards! While you guys may just be reserved forces of the army you still need to earn the food you want to eat!"
Near the running field is a 2 meter tall man, bulging muscles and a moustache that looks like straight from a porn star. He is wearing a white linen cloth that has smudges of dirt and mud on it. Before him are hundreds of youth that can be seen running through the oval.
Some these youths are drafted from villages near the border of the empire while the others are volunteers that joined the military to escape the mundane life of being a farmer and wanted to live life on edge as a military man.
"Look at the captain, drilling again those youths till they can't stand anymore, most of them vomited till they passed out last week. While I do know that those youths have no proper knowledge about war, military and has no foundation what-so-ever I still thinks it's too tough of a training that he's giving them." Said by a man in uniform and from what can be seen from his attire he is a Corporal.
"Hmp! Those are nothing compared to what we guys have to endure during our training with him! We started from 4 in the morning till 10 in the evening and all we have to eat is dry rations for 6 months! This training is still a mercy for them they're having good food and a nice place to sleep while we on the other hand had to sleep on the ground during the winter and made all of us to sleep together. He said 'I'm training an army not just soldiers! Soldiers are individuals in the army while the army are consist of soldiers and no good army if there's no good soldiers! The training that you guys are going through right now is only a taste on what can happen in war!'. While I do believe him in that regard that we need good reserve force just in case but aren't the capital wasting his talents on training them?" Said by the man beside him in a uniform with a logo of Sergeant
Not far from the said muscular man are two officers talking to each other in low voices lest they be heard by the said man and get dragged into the training.
"True, from what I heard during the meeting earlier, we are still searching for any beast-race in our territory lest we get stabbed from behind, we do know that the Feline race has sent some spies to our borders just 2 months ago and after that the avian race has sent a platoon of soldiers to harass our food supplies. While they may not be attacking us directly we are getting a lot of headache due to the constant threat that our supply caravan are facing. They said that they're doing this to buy some time and set up defenses in the northern thundra. With that I heard that the capital will send more soldiers to guard the caravan while we will sent some of our soldiers too to meet them half-way to make sure of the safety of the said caravan but from what I'm seeing is most likely that these reserve forces we have is gonna be the said soldiers. "
"So basically what you're saying is that the captain is training them to be the guard caravan? Well aren't that convenient, the army is sending more guard for the caravan to ensure its safety while we on the other hand are sending some green horns for them to experience what they'll mostly do for the meantime, killing two bird with one stone."
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*Pant Pant*
"That damned old man is making us run again through this wretched race track again for a 100 laps! It was fine when we we're doing just 10 laps a week ago but now this a torture." A youth with green hair and blue eyes are talking while running through the field. From the looks of it he's going to collapse already.
"Hey you we're the one who wanted to try your luck in the military in the first place, you said that since you're a second son and will not inherit your father's farm might as well try your mettle in other things aside from farming." A youth with red hair and blue eyes can be seen talking while running through the track. He's running while maintaining the pace of his breathing so he would not be exhausted faster.
"I told you that we could try to be adventurers. We could go in to dungeons, jungles and forest to slay some monsters and maybe just maybe be good looking while at it." Said by the green haired youth.
"Well we could but we have no experience or what-so-ever with those kind of things. You don't expect that the monsters that we will encounter would willingly go to our blades right? Besides with this we are training in the military to get experience while we may not be getting paid atleast we are getting free food while doing it. If you ask me it's much better than going in blindly." Reply of the red haired youth.
"True! In our village it's already a miracle if we could eat meat a month! But with the army we can have a slice of meat every dinner!" Said by the green haired youth.
"Hey! What the fuck are you two slowing down for! Hurry up or there will be dinner for the both of you!" Shouted the tall, muscular man.
"Yikes! He must've heard us!" Whispered the green haired youth as he started to run faster and the red haired youth follow after him.
"After the run you will have 15 minute break, after that head into the arena where you will be sparring with each other in a tournament base system. The winner of the said tournament can choose not to join the run tomorrow or have meat in his lunch tomorrow!" Shouted the moustached man.
After the sparring during the night, inside the captain's tent. The captain could be seen checking documents on his table.
"Men!! Get Roman in here! Tell him I've got assignment for him." Shouted the captain.
"Yes sir!" The night guard then hurriedly run off to the distance.
"Hmmm out of the thousand reserve personnel there are only about 200 at most that have talent to be a soldier the others are doomed to be cannon fodders. Especially this one, reflex of a soldier, sharp mind and if needed savagery of a barbarian." He is currently looking at the file of a red haired youth.
"Too bad he came from an ordinary family if he we're born into nobility I'm sure he would be a good seed for a general in the making." Said the man while stroking his moustache.
From the outside the tent there came a man in uniform.
"Captain! Roman reporting for duty." This is the same man from corporal from earlier.
"Good timing!! We are sending 200 green horns to meet the supply caravan. Coordinate with the armory and give them standard equipment. This is the list of the personnel we are sending tomorrow and I want you to have special attention to this one." After saying that he gave a file to Roman.
"Captain isn't this the winner of the tournament earlier? I did hear amazing things regarding the battles earlier but since I was doing other work I wasn't able to watch." Asked Roman.
"What a shame! If I put it into comparison he will be on the same level as you maybe even better if I trained him for another 6 months and I'm already being generous about this. I know that you rose through the ranks being a pencil pusher but the reality is you also trained like them and it took you 2 years to be at that state." Boasted the captain.
"Fuck, He's that good?" Whispered Roman.
"The worst part of it is he's under fed, no prior training before this and he's still young, just imagine on what could happen if we recruit him right here, right now. Too bad though since he's only in the reserved forces to train with that green haired monkey." Lamented the captain.
"Don't worry sir! I will pay special attention to him and give him excellent weapons in the armory" Replied by Roman and left.
"And oh by the way make him the leader of the guards tomorrow so we could gauge his commanding capabilities." Added by the captain.
"Okay sir!" And roman left.
"Now how far will you go Brendir." Asks the captain while the captain is stroking his moustache and looking at the night sky.
In the morning.
"Okay guys! We will be sending 200 from reserved forces to meet the supply caravan from the capital, for those 200 that have been chosen this will be a great learning experience. Meanwhile for those who won't be going, you lot will still do the training regimen imposed by the captain. Okay now these people will be included in those 200 ..." Shouted by Roman in front of the new recruits who are standing in line before him. This is the time where the recruits usually gets up in the morning ... 4am.
"... Jonathan!"
"... Vega!"
"... Mark!"
After calling out the names of the lucky 200, the remaining green horns dispersed to eat their breakfast.
"Jonathan! You will be the leader of the group even though this is just guard duty and you will just meet the supply caravan there still is a certain danger to his assignment. Your job will be how you will properly organize your team to do the guarding. There are 300 wagons worth of supply they'll be bringing this time and there are about 2 thousand soldiers guarding it. So basically you will be just guiding them here." Roman tells Jonathan.
"I already talked to the armory regarding the gear that you guys will wear and you lot just need to pick up the rations in the logistics. Although we've estimated that the assignment will most likely take 3 weeks, we've allocated you guys with 4 weeks worth of ration. Now go get ready in 2 hours and I will see you off from the south gate." Roman seriously said at Jonathan and left.
"Hey that's awesome! You will be our leader!" Said by the green haired youth as he slap the back of Jonathan.
"Fuck! That hurts! I still have muscle pain from the sparring session yesterday I believe my back has a lot of bruise right now so please don't do it again." Begged Jonathan.
"Now guys! You heard the corporal we have 2 hours to get ready better go and eat lest those guys leave us with dog food!" Shouted Jonathan.
By this point everybody already left the field.
2 hours later they set off to meet the supply caravan.
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-Present day-
After John left the tower.
A flock of birds can be seen flying in the distance.
"Huh? That's odd I don't remember seeing that when we surveyed this area a few days ago. But from the looks of it, it must be quite old seeing that the vines has already been growing on its outer walls." Said by an Avian person.
"Yeah, do you think it was concealed by a mirage? Since when we mapped out this place there was no trace of it." Said by another Avian person.
"Well we're just scouting from the skies and never really went down to check every nook and cranny of this place, something might have trigger it to reveal itself." Added by a third Avian person.
"So what do we do? The caravan is still not at the ambush point that we have coordinated with the Feline spies. We could check it out for the time being and make a report regarding this tower that looks like an erect phallus." Added by the fourth Avian person.
"Well might as well since the caravan will arrive at the designated area tomorrow afternoon." Said by the first Avian person.
With that they've decided to go to the tower.
As they landed on the entrance of the tower, they could see the huge golems guarding the entrance.
"Look at the design of the tower, from the looks of it, it maybe an ancient magus tower. Even though I'm not a mage myself I've seen these things from the books in the library." Said by the first Avian person.
"So maybe that's why we didn't saw it the first time since it was concealed? And if that's the case there maybe treasures waiting for us inside!" Urge the second Avian person and hurriedly went to the entrance.
Inside the tower, They immediately saw the the podium at the middle, standing at the podium is a tablet.
'Mahaba Ratbu'
'Welcome to my beloved tower! Those who yearns for treasure and adventure are welcome to test their mettle inside but beware the more life is given to the tower the more life will be taken by the tower' Can be read in generic language from the tablet.
'The only safe zone in the levels of the tower is the entrance and exit of the said level aside from the buffer zone in the first floor that is'
"We are really lucky this time! We are probably the first group to enter the tower after it revealed itself." Joyfully said by the third Avian person.
"Well we also be the first group to die in the tower" Said by the fourth Avian person negatively.
"Well either way we are the first for now and might as well go all out so we won't have regrets. Who's willing to join me and go on an adventure inside this tower?" Asked by the first Avian person.
""Me!"" Said in unison by the second and third Avian person.
"You guys go while I guard the place and survey the area around just to be sure." Said by the fourth Avian person.
"Sure! And thanks! By the way if we don't come out by tomorrow morning go ahead to the ambush point with the other groups and report our findings here to them." Said by the first Avian person and left with the rest of the group further inside.
"What a bunch of idiots. Going on a adventure while on a mission is a foolhardy endeavor." Sighed by the fourth Avian person and flew towards the exit.
"Why is he with us anyways?" Asked by the third Avian person to the first Avian person.
"While he may be negative and harsh at times but he doesn't mean anything bad. He's my childhood friend and I'm used to it by now, beside with our group of hot-headed people he is here to try to rationalize things." Said by the first Avian person while smiling
"Now that you mention it he was specially assigned to our group by the command unit right? Now that you mentioned it, it does make sense." Said by the second Avian person.
"Hmp! Well I still don't like him either way." Said by the third person.
While walking they got into the buffer zone and before they set foot into the level itself they've crash into a barrier.
"What the!?" Said by the third Avian person.
"An invisible barrier? You guys could be right with this tower being a magus tower, but why would the mage who owns this place want people to go inside his tower?" Asked the second Avian person.
"Remember the words from the tablet? The more the lives is given to the tower the more will be taken by the tower." Said by first Avian person solemnly.
And they try touching the barrier, after that the wall near them glowed and words form from the wall.
'The tower is not yet open for those who wish to enter. The tower will remove all the restrictions by midnight and from then on it will be opened 'till someone conquer it.'
'Beware the tower mimics the outside weather and day/night cycle.' Could be seen from the wall.
"We really are the first!!" Shouted the third Avian person while jumping around excitedly.
"Yes it seems that way." Said by the second Avian person while smiling.
"It's troubling that we have to wait and it will mimic the outside weather and day/night cycle. Well for now let's check every nook and cranny of this place while we wait for midnight" Said by the first Avian person.
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*Ring Ring*
"Huh that's odd.. What is it this time?" I asked myself regarding the sudden alarm.
-First tower visitors have arrived-
Could be seen from the transparent screen before me.