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A few months passed
A soldier is walking towards the training ground; while on duty, his role was to inspect the perimeters of the tower castle, dressed in full-body leather armor, Young and wonderous. The soldier heard a clinking noise coming from their training ground. The soldier even heard cheering noises and shouts from inside the tower castle training ground. As his role in scanning the perimeter, the soldier did not sleep on one of the accommodated rooms inside the training ground; one benefited from being a manor soldier of the Lords.
He slept on the gondola observation tower yesterday. Therefore when he awoke from sleep, he did not go straight to the training ground; his duty was yet to finish. Thus he did not know what all the noise was is about.
"hmmm," He sounded; it piqued his interest. The soldier stopped and looked at the large gate that separated the soldier's training ground to the Lord's castle. The training ground is located beside the city lord's manor, and the sole purpose of the training ground is to equip the Lord of the city with soldiers and guards.
A place only for soldiers that guards the walls of the city lord, For many years now, this country named Kindom of Adan has been prosperous and safe. The soldier's appearance resembles a youth who is still in training. He has been protecting the gate and safety of the manor lord of the city for a few months; He hails as the third generation of his family to be trained to take the role of a postal guard.
Most of his family were all postal guards of this city. It was now considered the tradition to take the postal guard duty for the youth. Therefore, as a youth, he has taken his job with excitement and joy; his grandfather was a postal guard, and his father was too until he retired. His coming of age ceremony was already done last month. The young man has married and expects a child with his newlywed wife.
The youth hear the noise of cheers and shout coming from inside the training grounds. He peaked in closely to the closed gate and placed his ears to listen carefully. He thought maybe if he put his ear on the enormous entrance, he might understand what all the noise was. Alas, mumbles of noise are all he could hear.
"what's going on inside."
"Are they celebrating something"
Then his eyes wide and he thought some nonsense.
"Payday must be today; they are celebrating because of payday."
"NOOOOOOO" He flinched back and panicked; at his right is a large handle that pushes the large entrance gate inwards to open. He dropped his spear, grabbed the gate entrance handle, and quickly put some strength to try and open it. At most, the gate is only open from the inside and would take two soldiers. Yet the youth was in a state of panic and forgot that rule.
"wait" He paused mid-way.
"But Sir Lucas usually calls us all-round to hand us our monthly allowance."
"NO," he panicked again.
"They must have forgotten about me again" Close-looking tears are threatening to drop from his face. An eerie screeching noise could be heard as Kale tries his best to open the door.
Above the large gate was a stairway and leveled walkway; this is the watchtower walkway; it stretches out and connects to the eleven towers without getting down. There are two heavy armored guards stationed on top of the entrance today.
Typically, people who guard the entrance would have already noticed Kale as he was trying to open the large door; going unnoticed is a futile effort and wasted time, all most know that the manor lord is not the place to break in smoothly, most guards have these thoughts.
Yet today, these guards stationed at the entrance are not your usual leathered armed guards.
These guards are different as their plate describes,
Two armor sets have a rounded helm with a pointed, v-shaped opening leaving the eyes, nose, and mouth exposed. Attached to its side are two ornaments of close wings of a swan.
The shoulders are rounded, wide, and large in size. They're decorated with a wide piece of thick, colored cloth, draped over each shoulder plate and hanging over the edges. A monogram of the Van farrow insignia swan with two swords is imprinted on the back, displaying the power and influence of the Van farrow.
The upper arms are protected by squared, layered metal rerebraces, which sit nicely under the shoulder plates. The lower arms are covered by vambraces which have detailed gilded design patterns covering everything.
The breastplate is made from various layers of squared metal sheets. It covers everything from the neck down and ending at the groin, but the shoulder area is fairly exposed to allow for more movement space. The upper legs are covered by squared, fully covering cuisses. The lower legs are well protected.
These armored guards are the special units that the Lord of the city had hand-picked himself. There are twenty-five elites that have been hired recently by Alden Van Farrow.
Anyway, the two guards on duty today are just observing Kale trying to open the door down below; they watched the young youth give it his all without tiring himself out.
One of the guards finally spoke.