During this period, Alash met with the future General Lembu, at that time, he was still a Vice General. Vice General Lembu offered Alash to join the military.
Alash rejected the idea, with his status and cultivation level, he would easily achieve higher position on the army. Other than that, the army itself would provide extra care for his safety, it would worked in opposite of what he wanted to experiences.
Vice General Lembu then made a suggestion that changed Alash's live forever. He asked Alash to forgone his status as the prince and started as normal soldier. His identity would also be kept secret and only the vice general and above would know the truth.
Alash made counter suggestion that he did not want any personal guard or anyone in the shadow protect him. He wanted to felt the real thrill of life and death situation. Lembu agreed and promised to Alash that he would fulfill his wishes.
Thus since then the army life of the future King started.
Alash lived an ordinary soldier life for almost 5 years once he finally promoted and transferred to the border town between Woodforest and Rivermountain. During his time with the Army, off course he did not used the name 'Alash', he used another identity named 'Kayu'.
He was an army captain with around 100 soldiers under him. For a 22 years old young man, such position in the army would make them proud of them self, Alash included.
Alash or known as Captain Kayu, was sent to led the guard team on the border town right on the main road between both kingdoms. The border town was called Roadwood Town. It was under Rivermountain's governance.
The borderline between Woodforest and Rivermountain was not identified clearly with some walls or distinct lines. It was actually a forest, a giant massive forest. So basically when someone traveled in between the kingdoms, they would not notice whether they were still on the Woodforest or already entering Rivermountain's area.
This was similar case to any other kingdoms on entire Northwood Empire.
Traveler from Woodforest would only know that they arrived in the Rivermountain when they reached the Roadwood Town. In the Roadwood town, similar with many other border towns, an army would be stationed to maintained orders and enforced law of the Kingdom.
The army would also be responsible to repel bandit attacks or beast attacks to the town, if any. Thus it was a familiar sight to saw group of soldiers ran around the border town.
The army garrisoned in the Roadwood Town was led by Second Commander Lodok. A team led by a second rank commander would consist of minimum a thousand soldiers. It was normal to had only such small team on the Roadwood Town, since the neighboring kingdom was a friendly one. The main road connected to both capital cities was also a heavy traffic road. The bandit's attack record was minuscule.
In some other border town with slightly hostile relationship or with high potential of beast attack, the army could possibly station a team led by first rank commander or even a chief commander. Although they were separated only by one rank, a first rank commander led 10x soldiers of the second rank commander. The chief commander would also lead 10 x numbers of soldiers led by a first rank commander. Thus a chief commander would lead a staggering 100 thousand soldiers.
A rank higher than chief commander would be vice general, but a vice general would only be deployed by the army headquarter during war time or important missions. They would not be stationed in the border town to watch the bordering kingdoms.
When Commander Lodok received the appointment letter from the army headquarter, he was confused. In the letter it was clearly mentioned that the head quarter would send a captain to the Roadwood Town. It was mentioned that this Captain was from commoner background but due to his talent in cultivation he was able to attend the academy in Capital City and later on joined with the army headquarter for 5 years prior current appointment to the Roadwood.
Lodok might never attended the academy before, but he was one of the talent cultivated by the military system from the beginning, he surely knew that a graduate from advanced academy would normally appointed directly as a high rank officer and would not require additional 5 years to build his career on the army just to reach captain position.
Although he might have some doubts, he threw it back out of his mind. He was cultivated by the military and believed that what the big guys did up there where always right. He would just follow and executed the order.
Lodok was such typical military men.
After Alash met with Vice General Lembu, he spent 5 years on the army headquarter to learn and start his career on the army. Lembu tasked him to do some secret mission on the Capital, mostly eliminating the spy from other hostile kingdoms.
Alash himself never expected that there were actually such hidden conditions on the peaceful capital city. As a prince, he was never involved with that kind of missions. Maybe only the King himself would be provided with all information related to it.
The training and many life-death experiences made Alash changed totally. He was no longer a proud and ignorant prince with many admirers. He was able to further utilize his cultivation and technique into real application on the battlefield.
Five years of assassination tasks on the Capital City sharpened Alash's personal combat strength. According to Lembu, it was now the right time for Alash to enhance his commanding skill by sent him to the border town.
Lembu promoted Alash to become a 100 men captain to hone his leadership ability. In the letter to Commander Lodok, Vice General Lembu had mentioned that Kayu was actually an elite from the army trained as shadow soldier for 5 years mainly worked on covert assassinations, thus Lembu highlighted that Lodok might assisted and trained Kayu to led his team.