After training, both Xander and Dye took a bath and went to the office, where Aldith also joined them. He brought a few papers with him to write details.
Xander signaled both of them to sit. Dye and Aldith slide chairs backward and took a seat. Xander turned his face towards Dye " Dye, I discussed with Aldith to start the Recruitment process and we need to set criteria to choose soldiers for specific ranks. we have only you as commander and Reignald as one general, so I called you to fix a target to achieve for a particular rank." Dye nodded. Aldith picked up a quill pen and dipped it into the inkpot and was ready to write what Xander asked him to.
Xander discussed with Dye and Aldith and fixed a target.
Aldith wrote the criteria and important details on paper which was as follows:
Normal soldiers: Able to lift 100 kg and run 10 miles without stopping.
10 man commander: Able to lift 120 kg and run 12 miles without stopping.
100 man commander: Able to lift 150 kg and run 14 miles without stopping.
1000 man commander: Able to lift 170 kg and run 16 miles without stopping.
5000 man commander: Able to lift 180 kg and run 18 miles without stopping.
And In these soldiers will be picked by the merits of their performance. As for three generals, they will be chosen after they were taught tactics and most talented persons will be chosen for generals from 5000 man commanders. And there was one more position that was added that was of police which will maintain law and order in the kingdom.
Normal police (Constable): Able to lift 130 kg and run 13 miles without stopping.
Sub-inspector: Able to lift 150 kg and run 15 miles without stopping.
Inspector: Able to lift 180 kg and run 18 miles without stopping.
"Aldith, announce all the details in public and start recruitment on exactly after a week from now on and also announce posts related to any department made."
"Yes, your highness."
"Aldith, how many villages or towns are in our kingdom."
"There aren't many, most of them live around the palace. There are only a few villages."
"OK, make those villages to migrate over here, we will arrange for their housing."
"Then won't this will make our kingdom almost empty as the population will be only around the palace."
"Don't worry I will make four outposts. Each outpost will be under one general. Three outposts will be built on the borders of demonic beasts and one will be built on the border with the kingdom of Yabrella." As the Kingdom of Etherac had a good relationship with kingdom Ocawyth and some enmity with the kingdom of Yabrella.
Xander turned towards Dye " What do you say about my proposition?"
"I think it is a well-versed plan. It can protect from Demonic beasts and at the same time from human enemies. If we do like your plan of building a wall it will be easier to defend and attack and nobody can invade our kingdom."
"Yup, If our kingdom is safe. We can be bold in our actions. And also we have to slowly increase our population." then Xander asked Dye "Do you have any idea to increase our kingdom's population?"
Dye thought for some time, suddenly he spoke " I have an idea, why not we do this, we can give reward to the families who have two or more children."
"Hmm, we can do that, that's a good idea." Xander
After that Xander wrote full details to make cement and brick with some diagrams. and gave it to Aldith.
"Aldith, start the production with full force. We have a lot of work to do. And tomorrow me, Dye and Reignald will go to the Kingdom of Ocawyth arrange some soldiers to go with us, some papers and ink also. As for the price of papers do you have any suggestions?"
"Why not make 1 gold for a batch of 100 pages."
"Why did you set this price?
"Because your highness, 10 hides are sold for 1 gold, so 100 pages for 1 gold is a very good price and we make 1000 pages in a day so that gives us an income of 10 gold per day only from papers and if we built few more factories we can earn more. As for Inkpots, Hmm, let's make it for 50 silvers per pot, as 1 inkpot which is made by other kingdoms is sold for 1 gold and our ink is of good quality than those that are made in other countries."
"Hmm, good let's set this price. OK, tomorrow after breakfast we will set off to the Kingdom of Ocawyth."
After the meeting, all went to their respective rooms.
The next morning, as usual, the three of them trained. After eating breakfast they set off to the kingdom of Ocawyth.
In the North and East of Kingdom of Etherac, the domain of Demonic beasts lie.
In the South of the Kingdom of Etherac, there is the vast sea.
In the North-west, there is a forest called Dark forest in which usually Rank H and I Demonic beasts roams. To reach the Kingdom of Ocawyth you have to pass the forest.
In the South-west lies the Kingdom of Yabrella.
Excluding Xander, Dye and Reignald total of 20 Soldiers went to the Kingdom of Ocawyth. The distance is around 250 miles. In this world, Normal horses can run at a speed of 40 miles per hour for long distances. So the total journey was around 6 and a half hours. After they covered almost Two-Third of the distance they stopped for small rest and to drink water and eat food. One soldier came to Reignald "Sir we covered around 180 miles, we will reach in around 2 hours may be in less."
"OK, make sure there is no beast near us and stay active and keep your guard up."
"Yes, sir."
Just as Soldiers turned to walk away they heard few roars. The roars were very loud. Everyone became active and unsheathed their swords. Suddenly 9 shadows appeared from nowhere and surrounded them.
"Sir, there are 9 Demonic beasts. 7 of them are Rank I and.." Hesitatingly nervously Soldiers gulped and said "Two of them are... Rank H".
Everyone became stunned and slightly nervous. Suddenly they heard the sound of someone.
"Reignald can you kill one Rank H Demonic beast?" Xander asked Reignald. Reignald nodded as he was Level 12, he leveled one time while training with Xander. Xander turned towards Dye "Dye I will deal with another Rank H, you lead rest of the soldiers and kill Rank I." Dye nodded.
Suddenly a Rank H beast leaped towards the soldiers but Reignald blocked the beast. He horizontally slashed towards his neck but Beast dodged but still, Reignald managed to slightly cut the neck which started to bleed.
On the other hand, The soldiers grouped and made a team of 3 and surrounded the Rank I beasts. The average level of these Normal soldiers is Level 6. 2 Beasts were of Level 5, 3 were of level 6 and rest 2 were of Level of 7. Rank I was between Level 5-9 and Rank H was between 10-14. The beast which Reignald was facing was of level 13 while the beast which Xander was facing was of level 11.
All the beasts were of Wolf species.
Level 11 beast attacked Xander with his claw, Xander blocked with his sword and quickly sent a short slash towards his front left leg. Sword connected and Blood started to seep from beasts leg. Beast went into Rage, and attacked again with his right leg, It slightly grazed Xander's shoulder and started to bleed. Xander was facing beast for the first time after he transmigrates into this world. So he was not experienced in fighting against Beasts. So he was slightly slow at the start but as time went he started to get the hang of it. Xander started to divert the beast's attack and make some compact short slashes. Beast was covered with short slashes and was bleeding from everywhere. On the other hand, Xander's upper clothes were torn and holes were everywhere in his shirt. In these holes there were many cuts which were made by Beasts attacks, blood was flowing from the cuts. Both were heavily panting, Xander made his grip on handle tighten his beautiful cuts on forearm started to appear. He moved towards Beast very fast, Demonic beast also leaped towards Xander and attacked with his right leg towards his face. Xander slightly dodged but claw still made cut on his cheek, He made strong and fast thrust towards the neck of the Demonic beast and directly pierced the neck of the Demonic beast. Sword came out of the other side of the Demonic beast's neck. Beast directly fell over on the ground.
On the other hand, Reignald was also slightly struggling with the beast as it was two levels above Reignald. But Reignald was more experienced than Xander. He diverted all the beast's attacks. after some time He directly opened the beast's stomach with his powerful slash and killed the beast.
As for the Rank I Dye was strong and with the help of soldiers, they totally massacred beasts. Two of them distracted the beast in front and others directly sent a deadly attack from the side or back of beasts. Some soldiers were slightly injured but most of them were fine. Dye killed three of the seven beasts with just one attack. Reignald had some injuries and his clothes were ripped from many places. Most injured from all of them was Xander his wounds were bleeding.
Other soldiers went to find a pond or stream to clean their wounds and change their clothes. Fortunately, they found a small stream of fresh clean water. They went to the stream, cleaned their wounds. Deep wounds were bandaged by clean clothes while shallow wounds were just left open and applied medicine to heal faster. Xander's shoulder wound was slightly deep but rest were shallow. His face wound was shallow but will leave a slight scar. They all changed their clothes, drink water and rest for a while and then set off for the Kingdom of Ocawyth.
Xander, Dye, Reignald and all the soldiers leveled up one time. Xander became level 10 and Dye Level 9 and Reignald level 13.
After around 2 hours they reached the Kingdom of Ocawyth. At the border, they showed documents to the guards and went to their capital city Luuhmont. They traveled for around 1 hour to reach the outskirts of Luuhmont. They entered into the capital city after a short inspection at city gates and directly went towards King's palace.