Kingdom Rashtrakuta was famous for two things. One was Maurya and another was for the academy it had.
The academy was present for decades there. But Maurya had made the academy a heaven for young people to learn more about their abilities by spending a fortune for it.
He had hired excellent teachers from every race, provided it with the best in everything. He wanted to nurture the young people to become stronger to help him in the war. It was free of cost for anyone meeting it's standards. He didn't restrict anyone who wished to learn there. Many from other human kingdoms too were coming there to study. A handful of other races were too can be seen there.
90% of it consists human students while the remaining belonged to different races.
The ones with strong potential were directly recruited by Maurya's people in the academy. No one was forced to join Maurya. This was what made it more famous for the freedom of choice. If one joined Maurya's side they were given extra attention. No one voiced out against this treatment because it was natural for the ones to side with him to get extra resources.
The academy standards were quite high and many couldn't achieve it. The number of rejected ones were huge when counted every year.
Maurya as a variant himself, he knew that when everyone started to awaken abilities majority of them have a defensive type. And attack type were numbered in thousands. Whereas others like control, pshysic, space type were in hundreds. While variants were only in tens and twenties of number. And this numbers would never increase since death is inevitable, even if they possess magical abilities they could only extend their life by a small part. And the numbers once again would just be replaced by other new borns.
This numbers were distributed between all the human kingdom. Kingdom Rashtrakuta had majority number of them.
Although Maurya got young people under him from the academy. It would always be less than thousand in a year. Although they were the best this was not sufficient combat power for him.
His eyes then fell on the rejected ones of the academy. Having the best in everything is not the solution for everything, even good ones are required. He realised after the initial strength of his army he possessed.
He created a camp along side the soldiers in the border. He made these rejected young ones to train along side them. Since they had weaker abilities than the others he particularly made them learn more about combat techniques.
Maurya didn't expect much gain from it. He just needed to fill the numbers for the army. But something else happened. Those training in the border camp grew stronger than what Maurya had expected. Some became even stronger than the people in the academy because of the atmosphere present there from killing beasts everyday.
Maurya started spending more and more money, resources to this border camp. Only those along side him knew the amount which he invested for the border camp surpassed the academy budget by two or three folds every year.
At present Maurya's military strength from academy with less than ten thousand in number was 40%.
The remaining 60% military strength was from those in the border camp who got recruited to the army directly. Thier number were close to forty to fifty thousand.
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Royal palace
Amogha had returned to the palace with Maya using her space ability to teleport. She had come to take Ruhi to the academy.
" Mama I have prepared everything. But I didn't get to say goodbye for papa and Mahi'' Ruhi said while checking her storage ring.
" Your father went with Mahi to leave him at the border camp. Since he is a cripple now, he just has to learn some combat techniques in the camp" , Amogha said nicely to Ruhi since she couldn't scold her for asking about Mahi.
Ruhi became a little sad thinking about Mahi
' If Mahi was born into a normal family having no ability, he could still learn in the border camp to become strong.
But Mahi is born in the royal family , he is provided the best so he has to be the best. Even if he becomes strong in the camp, he will always be looked down. Then I should become strong to stop anyone from looking down on my Mahi.", Ruhi resolved herself.
Maya opened a portal using her ability. Three of them went inside going directly to the academy.
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In the sky
A luxurious carriage was seen flying towards the border camp.
It had more than ten people inside it. Although the carriage may look small to hold that many people looking at it's size. Sir Chidam had worked with people of other races to create this invention.
The carriage inside had a application of space ability to create a seperate small dimension. So the inside of the carriage had more than ten rooms enough to hold even more people.
In one of the room Maurya sipping wine, sitting on a chair with Mahi still unconscious on the bed. Chanakya was talking to someone on the communication device.
The rest were five generals and some guards in separate rooms.
" My king I have told the academy head to increase the standards for princess Ruhi in the academy as you wished. She'll have to work ten times harder in the academy than the rest" Chanakya said after finishing talk in the communication device.
Maurya nodded and looked towards Mahi, " Ruhi has to work hard too. Mahi will work even harder than Ruhi. Because Mahi will be the sword and Ruhi will be the sheild of my future kingdom. "
A smile appeared on Maurya's face.
The carriage went in the sky so fast reaching the border camp which was thousands of kilometres away from the palace in hours.
Maurya stepped out of the carriage , " Let's take things to the next level"
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This was a short and spicy chapter.
With this Volume 1 has been finished.
Volume 2 begins next getting bigger , better and bolder with the narration of the story.