"Oh, disciple… between Earthling and Natives, which do you think better?"
"Hmm… it should be the Earthling, right?"
"Indeed, however, do you think an earthling would follow you at once when they're still don't know how scary the worlds are? Just like a country, you can't say that there won't be any terrorist and revolutionist once you regain peace…"
"I don't know about that teach… I'm not really interested in that sort of… oh! So that's why you only watch the situation all this time!"
"As expected of my disciple! What did you realizing out of my course of action, all this time following me?"
"The best way to rule isn't to be their leader, but their savior! Once you do, even if you tell them to die, they'd obliged to do so!"
"Hahaha! What a villain you're my disciple Alphonse!"
"Wahahaha! Not as much as you do, my Master Edwin!"
So the Master-Disciple couple said while looking at the gruesome sight, where a shelter being decimated by hordes of zombies and ghoul with the weakest being 5th Grade.
Cry of sadness and misery, the tragedy happen in before them didn't make them flinch or having though to save the person being massacred.
They laugh sinisterly while looking at the gruesome sight and spat on the ground.
"serve you right! Do you think that hordes of zombie are something you can use to control the mass? Hahaha" Alphonse laugh maniacally.
Controlling the crowd using a threat, it's something common in apocalypse-like movies. In fact, in this barely normal life, aside from the Grade of their own, which they still do not know yet. The human still believes they're a normal human living in the zombie apocalypse.
The natives that live here, mostly comprised of zombies and ghoul, aside from the demon kin.
"Still, why do you know about Grade-concept, master? You're a human, right?"
In his past life, it took no time for the Earthling to realize the leveling system using grade as the basis and cultivation with training as the concept to gain higher Grade.
In fact, not only Vanguards being graded. Everything in the job options is graded…
"Because I'm awesome?"
Lucas said shamelessly.
While the 10 years old Alphonse pouted at him.
"Grade is a concept all Natives know, and what makes you believe it's a heavily secretive thing? Just catch some Native, and you'd know about this… although the Vanguards already realize this fact, they just don't really understand what's the power within them do, and don't realize the way to cultivate and level up their own power."
"Still, reaching 8th grade in 3 years… what kind of monster are you, master? It took me this much to reach 4th Grade…"
"Let's just say, I'm awesome!"
Lucas said while slashed the cane in his hand towards the demon kin in front of him.
"Damn… it… you bastards…" said the demon kin, Melee vanguards type which he preyed upon since long ago…
"Alright, with this, we've successfully acquired the shelter!"
"Yay! Master is awesome!"
Although it seems anti-climatic and there are many stories skipped…
"Well, this damn tiny shelter is the only one in this island after all, and the fact there's no 9th Grade saint on the island is a blessing…"
The worlds of Anvil are divided by a vast sea that laid even more prominent than Earth, a little island within the sea of Anvil is as big Australia, by all means, that's not a small island.
However, the fact there's no 9th grade in the island meant…
"It's fairly dangerous…"
"why so, teacher?"
"Do you know, aside from authority, having a high grade ruling the area meant that there'd be no small fry that dares to intrude upon the land… meanwhile, if the area only filled with small fry, won't the small fry haughtily play around the place?"
"But, the demon kin can live here safely, after all, there shouldn't be any monster that can threaten them in the area… wouldn't it safer to say, this place is too barren to have a powerhouse in here?"
"Indeed… well, let's wait for our spy to gather the information first before deciding what should we do…"
Within 3 years living in Anvil, Lucas didn't dally around.
He spent times to journey around the island, seeing where the border and deciding where his location is.
Aside from increasing his own power an imbued weapon, and training Alphonse at the side. He taught another group of people, which became his eyes and ears on the island, collecting information and creating a bigger network within the island.
There's grade within the shelter, his cave before is the lowest one, which is a 0th-grade shelter that can only use appraisal on the weapon and the target.
The same grading system used on shelter, with 9th grade as the highest Lucas ever heard, while the shelter he owned this time is a 5th Grade shelter, the highest grade shelter there are on the island.
"As expected of a high-grade shelter… this place is cool!" Alphonse excitedly roams the place.
Unlike his previous cave, the place is full of furniture, there are many buildings inside the shelter.
Blood and gory still filled the place though, since they massacred the residence not long before they acquire the shelter.
"Commence 'take over' apply the one before you, as the rightful master of the shelter."
[Welcome master, from now on the Grade 5 Shelter, shall be yours to command. As the proper master, do you want to take over the A.I processing point?]
"Yes"
[Abolishing the processing point… please apply the Ruler for the shelter]
"Me"
[Ruler appointed, welcome… Ruler]
Laboring as a Ruler in Zhield, he's more than enough to take control of the processing ability a mere Grade 5 Shelter can provide, furthermore, the fact that the citizen will be less than the citizen in Zhield gave him easier time.
"Well, my slavery day in Zhield bear its fruit I guess…"
Lucas awkwardly scratches his cheek and type the structuring code to create a new processing system.
Processing system is a way the A.I programmed to do its task, the higher the shelter grade, the A.I will have a more flexible way of doing things.
It's still unknown what's the difference between the Shelter in Zhield and Anvil. However, they share the same function.
"This is the starting point of creating a country."
The shelter is a starting point to create a country. However, not all shelter can do so. Although there's no prohibition against establishing a country without a shelter, the countries like those are brittle…
"Each and everything in this world has a purpose, for a shelter, it's needed to have Grade 4 or higher to create a country… a country without shelter can be usurped by the traitor and revolutionist, but holding a shelter is like having an invincible halo that enables someone to rule without afraid of being usurped…"
Although it can prevent the user from being usurped, Invasion can happen.
No matter how many grades a shelter had, as long as they don't want to clear the region surrounding the shelter and barricade them. They'd not have any territory to rule, and the same doesn't happen to the shelter which is 4th or below, as the region taking is activated by the 5th or above grades shelter only, it's not possible to know the option.
"However, this option which not known by others…"
[Applying the code… Shelter's self-control abated… A.I control abated… The shelter protection system was shut down… Goodnight, Ruler…]
At the end of the system line, the Shelter destroyed, and from the central computer, light shines the region.
"Alright Alphonse, we're done here! Let's go to the other place!"
"Okay, master!"