A year later
"Ha! Ha! Ha!"
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
The sound of people shouting along with the collision of their swords rang around. However, compared to what it looks like a year ago, the recruits this time are much more experienced and serious with most of them already having fighting and killing experience
After a year, from the initial thousand recruits, Ryden and Clyde now has twenty thousand soldiers that are not official along with additional thirty thousand that are considered as 'official'
The unofficial ones are their private soldiers that are not recorded while the official ones are those that the Emperor is aware of
As the Lord of a fief that is constantly in the danger of being invaded, having soldiers is extremely important and the Emperor would not stop those at the borders from raising an army
In fact, the Emperor would even encourage it since in that way, he would not need to send his personal soldiers
