Today was the beginning of fortnightly two day training for the whole of Serothor's forces I began picking out my sergeant's and squad leaders from the permanent force who had good character and skill.
For the whole army there are 100 squad leaders and 10 sergeants which worked perfectly fine as most are reserve forces and that means 22 squad leaders and 2 sergeants in the attacking force.
I had a list written on a piece of paper and starting speaking.
"From today's onwards I'm enforcing 5 rules firstly no initiation rituals for any new recruits, second I require everyone to bathe once a fortnight at minimum, third no unregistered relationships within the army, fourth no sexual intercourse with enemies, prisoners, or people in other countries.
Lastly no harming your fellow soldiers outside of sparring matches at approved times, the consequences for breaching these rules depends on the severity of the breach, you can register your relationships with other soldiers today after practice"
I heard several mixed responses mostly gasps or shocked murmers they must have not expected any rules like this to be introduced so late into the army formation.
We did what we do everyday we ran laps around the city walls, did a city run then we had a mass sparring session but I also introduced a squad training exercise wherein individual squads introduced each other and did an activity.
The activity could be anything from hide and go seek or reading all the way to formation drills and spell casting it is mostly just so member can get to know each other and get used to the chain of command.
The first day passed and I looked over the register for relationships it only had 30 relationships all of which were married men and women I don't think my messaging got through this register is meant to act as protection.
Say an STI outbreak does happen? we need to know who is sleeping with who, what if something happens and suddenly someone is searching for their lover instead of following orders.
Knowing who is in a relationship is versatile important knowledge also through I still need to upgrade Serothor's laws I don't promote cheating and this register makes cheating way harder by giving people a sense of fear.
Wait fear? oh course! I don't know the norms here obviously I wouldn't know what people are afraid of socially I will have to brainstorm with Oz later about how to approach it.
Anyway now that some rules are in place I feel much more at mind and now just have to start preparing to journey to the city of fire.
It wouldn't take that long a week at most the army will travel through the Terra nullius between a few kingdoms to reach the city in about a week and two days on foot.
The journey requires food, water, people to transport the food and water, tents, warm blankets among other things we will also be transporting weapon schematics for the empire and prototype weapons to test.
This time I'll be taking Kyle not Elise she will stay here and train the armed forces and clair while I'm away in the battle.
The reason I am choosing kyle is because Elise has already gained more battle experience fighting monsters and bandits on the road I need kyle to get stronger as well especially with the leading of troops.
Ultimately I hope to avoid casualties altogether in this battle by utilising my knowledge and using several tricks but it is a large scale fight so I can't guarantee anyone's survival.
I went out and started to practice magic as I progressed I have started to be able to cast gust in ways that deviate further from the original like what I did to sergeant Vex.
And yet I can't cut or pierce with wind alone which is the point of intermediate magic which is basically when magic becomes viable as an option in a fight.
But despite that I am happy with my progress it had only been like half a year since I was summoned into Oz's body so the fact I have come so far is amazing.
I put my hand out and spoke.
"Gust"
A torrent of wind left my hand I was able to make a kind of barrier of wind infront of me by circulating the wind in a spiral or alternatively I can let out all my power to blow away things coming towards me.
This kind of spell casting isn't usually done until late Intermediate but I was able to figure out a few mediocre defensive applications that I'm happy with.
I practiced a bit more then decided to call it quits afterall I had a long day and will have several long days from now on.
I returned to my quarters spoke to Oz for a while then I got changed into nightwear and entered bed hoping tomorrow would not come for at least eight hours but knowing full well that I had to get up at six.
Days passed then weeks and soon it was time to set off 1100 of Serothor's soldiers and 900 imperial soldiers evenly divided into the squads temporarily.
Carriages full of weapons and resources one wagen filled with weapon schematics for the Empire and wood elf tribe of Fairwood.
It was going to be a long walk but because of our number no common bandits will attack and most monsters will stay away.
The most pressing problem is us how much walking can we endure and needing to make sure to conserve our resources while staying healthy enough to fight.
From this point on it is our job to arrive safely and ready to fight.