In this family, he only cared a little or maybe more about Cassana, and maybe possibly Stannis if Drake saw he could benefit from him. But if they were to be used against him, Drake didn't mind sacrificing them, not to mention the others.
Five years after Stannis's birth, Renly was born. Without even waiting for him to grow up, Drake deemed him an idiot as he didn't like Renly's character from the show either. But now it doesn't matter. He was going to kill Renly himself in the future so why would he care about him or befriend him in the first place?
We eight-year-old Drake entered his father's study to have a conversation with him. as he looked at his father
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Pov Drake.
I'm eight years old; I was officially unbeatable with any weapon, I was the best in any category, the master of arms was shocked to see how good I was, saying this level of skill was ridiculous for a kid.
And as for my strength well let's just say I brawl with huge bears tigers lions elephants wolves and I can just lift them and throw them away.
Now no mortal can stand in my way as I'm mastering my control over all my elements for now I'm only mastering The most commonly used elements in fiction are the four classical elements - , Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. And their sub-parts such as Water - Ice and Steam, Fire - Heat, Magma, Earth - Metal, Air- Gas, Smoke…
And they are just basic once I still have to mast a ton's of it such as Clay, Crystal, Dust, Earth, Glass, Mineral, Sand, Acid, Ink, Mercury, Neon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Pressure, Sound, Vapor, Plasmas, Electricity, Thunder, Ionic, Microwave, Pulse, Organic, Disease, Oil, Poison, Plant, Wood, Paper, Rubber...
And they are just the normal ones as the strong, and complicated ones are like Chemical, Cosmic, Elementling, Energy, Chemical Energy, Thermal, Ethereal, Aether, Mana, Mimima, Nether, Gravity, Health, Laser, Magic/Magic, Nature, Slime, Space-Time, Spatial, Time, Terrain, Light, Darkness, Void, Twilight, Vacuum… And looking at all these elements I'm sure it would take hunters of years to master them…
Then there's one more complex and very complicated thing In the MCU Marvel comics particularly, there are many concepts that equal the concept of elements which are the Infinity Gems (Power, Mind, Soul, Time, Space, Reality). So if they count as elements can I manipulate them after all if time, light, and space is something I could manipulate then how far fetch is Power and Mind…
This is something that I really want to know… But aside from that, I have discovered many of my new powers like flight, transformation, telekinesis, telepathy and so on and I'm working on mastering them…
My Mind Control, and Hypnosis we're a great help in the past few years as I just had to have anyone look into my eyes and they become my puppets, and with this, I developed a great part of my lands.
Even though I didn't have my first blood, I did have my first kill, and to tell the truth I felt nothing killing those people, nor did I feel anything when I took them as my slaves, and it's not like all of them were adults some of them were even children of age five to fifteen and I felt nothing as if they didn't matter… and seeing and smelling their blood definitely attract me greatly I do able to control myself from drying their bodies out of blood…
I gained some new senses such as Blood Flow Vision, Blood Sense, Echolocation, Highlighting, and Night Vision making my nightlife walk in the park...
Even though I'm freaking strong and with every passing year I'm multiplying my strength by an unknown amount of numbers I know I'm far far far very far from done...
Even though I feel like I'm cheating... which is good, I like cheating makes things easier, only when it's necessary though, means all time, to avoid any certain death. My Death…
But aside from that it was time, it was time to exude the plan and see the fruits of my labor of years. But even after this I have to wait but as a great man once said "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.' So let's do this.
I don't want him to say no as I don't want to do this by controlling him using my vampire trick on him, but if I am not able to convince him then I would definitely use it since I will have what I want even if it means using my powers. But I hope the situation doesn't come to this, not after I've done so much.
"Good morning, father." I greeted him as I entered the room and walked near him.
"Son." He didn't take his eyes off the letter he was reading.
"I need your help with something," I explained to him.
My Father looked up into my eyes and ushered me to sit down.
"What do you want?" asked Steffon with his goofy voice. It was the first time after three years that his son, me, Drake, asked for his help, unlike his other brat-like sons that gave him trouble.
"Well, I need your help in recruiting two hundred and fifty guards that will train with me and will be under my direct order. Can you help with that? I know it is hard but that would help me greatly." I Requested him while giving my perfect innocent looks and puppy dog eyes.
Steffon looked at me weirdly. What could possibly make an eight old year's child need two hundred and fifty guards? Not to mention that number, even a hundred would still be too much. and I knew all this that's why I even used my looks as weapons.
"And why the fuck do you need so many men? Are you looking for trouble?" He asked me in a loud and clear voice with doubt in his eyes.
"First, I need to learn how to lead troops to battles, so I decided to build my own unit. I want to familiarize myself with leading a unit. Also, time generates loyalty the more time they spend with me, the more loyal they are in the future." I explained while trying to hide my ambitions.
Steffon looked strangely at me. How could he be so mature for his age? Steffon and Cassana were always paying special attention to their sons. Among them, Drake got the greatest attention from his parents as they wanted to groom him to be the next Lord of Storm's End. Steffon was about to refuse for multiple reasons.
First, How could any man accept to obey the commands of a nine-year-old child? Second, the other Lords of Storm's Land would oppose this decision. Third, What if Drake got himself in a bad situation?
Fourth, his wife would kill him if he allowed that. maybe not as he had seen his son do some stupid things in front of his mother and she let him do it just from some hugs he was somehow able to convince her although she knew his excellence, she would not allow him to hurt himself.
But before he told him his decision, he had a great idea. Since he wanted to groom him, it was an excellent opportunity. So he decided to give in to some conditions and ask a few questions...
"Son this could be possible but what about the training ground, trainers, training cost, food cost, you have to at least pay them something. What about the weapons they will use, it costs a large sum of money to buy and maintain. And because you are taking them as soldiers you have to pay them something, and they just need all high quality and in big quantities. You know well that even though we are the fourth richest house in all seven kingdoms I can't waste money on a project that could fail very well." Asked my father as a smile spared on my face.
"Father you don't need to worry about any of this I will handle that all and I won't ask you a single coin I won't even ask you anything else," I said which shocked him very much and by looking at his face I know he wants to know how but he also knew I would not tell him as he moved on...
"Well, I'll allow only a hundred for now, but I will add some of my men as your advisor. If they thought your decisions were not correct, they had the authority to stop you. If I did not receive any complaints, I would increase them to the number you asked." Answered a very curious Steffon after giving the matter some thought.
Steffon decided to issue a notice in Stormsland in the next few days when he noticed that Drake was still there in his study.
"Anything else?" asked Steffon while raising his brows.
"Well, that was half of my request. I still need you to recruit one thousand and fifty children between the ages of six and ten. and Most of them if not all should be orphans and those who had seen hardships, and those who had no one in the world that they could call family. or come from a very poor family. All I want is for them to train with me and grow loyal to me. Those could wait. No need to recruit them at once." I explained to him.
Steffon put his hands under his chin and started thinking about his son's request. It didn't matter much. As he could recruit them for the next two years. Although the unit would be large for a small child, orphans were not rare in the world nor the poor as a big mass of the world lives in grass tents they call home and are ready to sell even their child for a few gold coins. Drake was still in his test period. If he fucked up, he would stop recruiting.
"Fine, You knew your brothers will request some things like you when they see this like they did when you requested the land." Inquired, Steffon.
"Well, you are the Lord here. If you deem them fit for such responsibility, it is your decision. and what they did with their lands they didn't do the shit. I just need you to inform me when the recruitment is done." I said, to him
"HAHAHA hahahhaha true, but So what, we also don't know if you did any shit, besides the mountains getting mined I don't know how you did Son, as no men from outside were ever able to enter that easily since you started to build the wall... but if you ever get bored and wanted to flatten more mountains remember your old man is here and he had many mountains that needed to flatten"
"..."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
'Like hell, Even if that idiot Robert had ten thousand soldiers, all he knows is charge or attack. Although his intuition is good sometimes, due to his arrogance, he wastes everything. As for Stannis, he might be good at war arts, but he's still young and naive for him to lead an army. As for Renly, he has no hopes.' I thought while shaking my head.
Now I have everything, a place to train them with the best food to feed them. After all, you can't create monsters without giving them monster food, as I do plan to enhance their metabolism system and growth hormones first… But I don't plan to create people like Mountains…
What they only had is size and strength and any flexible and agile opponent can have tested the dirt. No, I will make my soldier's bones and muscles denser skin with so many layers that it will be as hard as iron yet as flexible as plastic… And I plan to give them many enhancements over the years…
And for any of this to even remotely work they need astronomical amounts of food in the best quality there is, as the human body can't generate the energy to do all this out of their ass this is not some kind of Wuxia novel…
That's one of the reasons I built that place. It is heaven and hell for them, it is a steroid bank for them…
I have such great food that itself can enhance a person if he ate long enough and I have every time of food available in this world even those fruits that only grow in a special time or monsoon or weather such as Apple with my weather control I have their supply for 24 hours 365 days. Means all times…
And I already have a very large quantity of these foods stored in warehouses and because all animals, mammals, and bugs follow my command they are safe there, and with only cold weather around there creating a neutral cold storage… and there is continuous supply still going on…
In fact, even if we forget about the food quality, I have so much food that if I sell it for even half of the price in the market I can still become the richest house and man there is…
But no the food was not for the marker as I'm sure second people got the idea of the quality and potential of this food. All eyes will be on me… and people like Tywin do not waste any time hiring people like Faceless men to know more about the place and trying to know its secrets… No, I can't take that chance…
I'm not afraid of him or anyone in this world. It doesn't mean I shouldn't be careful as he is a smart man. He could have the king look inside or have the king order my mother and father to look inside for the good of all Kingdom…
I don't want to kill them with my own hands, especially my mother, if I do it will have all I plan to go into a gutter.. And messed up the timeline.. So I have to keep every step in mind. As even a single slip could have grave consequences. That could mess up the timeline, costing me the lives of my future lovers…
That's the sole reason I even sent my Raven friends to keep an eye on my targets just to assure myself…
But aside from that, I have people that will prepare that food to make it more nutritious and delicious and people who keep all these farms running smoothly… With weather and bugs under my command, all showed great results…
And I have blacksmiths weapon forgers to prepare weapons for them to work on… instructors, educators, trainers, to keep all my soldiers running all the time not only by the body but also mind…
But what I don't have is gold… And I need lots of it to run all this smoothly as no matter how self-sufficient I want that place to be, as still it is just 80% self-sufficient. I still need many things from outside such as metals, minerals, tents, wood, maps, some animals that I still need to import, and many small things like that that could take years to produce inside. And for all this I need gold as I can't go around using mind control on people sooner or later I will be caught!!
So I have to keep this in mind…
Plus again consequences of such action, as Newton said every action has an equal and opposite reaction, every action has consequences…
So after a thorough comparison with my old coin, aka the dollar, and the prices I remembered, off the top of my head, I had some understanding of how this coin worked.
The coins this world has been.
••Copper Coins
Halfpenny (Lowest possible denomination)
Penny equals 2 Halfpennies.
Half Groat, equals 2 pennies.
Groat, equals 4 pennies.
Star, equals 2 Groats or 8 pennies.
••Silver Coins
Stag, equals 7 stars or 56 pennies.
Moon, equals 49 stars or 392 pennies.
••Gold Coins
Dragons, equals 30 Moons, 210 Stags or 11,760 pennies.
Now after finding the prices of stuff like bread and water.
For example, a piece of bread is one penny, and water is half a penny.
I came to the conclusion one penny was equal to one dollar.
Which in turn, meant one gold dragon was equal to 11.760 dollars.
This accurate conclusion only made me sadder, as I don't even have a gold dragon after changing so much, and I even bought all things at the market price without offering any profit to the seller of goods… and I did this using my charms that do wonders…
So, now how do I get money, the gold, selling food is out of the options, I could possibly send my Raven, Eagles, and Hawks to snatch any god they see outside of pockets and pouches… But the gold will not be enough, and death will be spared in numbers, as they most likely snatch money from the poor, as even when I say only take from the rich while also setting the above criteria for the rich, how are they gonna determine who is rich and the rich will always have guards and few of them will have archers. And even fewer will be able to hit my pets…
So by the probability, the birds will die in hundreds for only the first wave, and before the second or third wave these rich people will hire more and better archers and the number of deaths go up to thousands…
Even though I don't care about the deaths of the poor, this is still A grave loss for a few gold coins and smart people will start to suspect something is going on...
I don't care about deaths but deaths in numbers do concern me as it has the power and potential to influence the timeline which I'm trying to prevent here.
So what do I do, think Drake, think, there must be a way to get the money without creating chaos or mind controlling people…
As thousands of ideas flow in my mind on how to make gold faster, after all, this is a Medieval Times so I can do many things such as creating a guild or organizations of sorts, that will work for normal people for money but I lack the helping hand and manpower for it here…
Creating my own brand for shorts for milk or catch-up, tomato sauce, mayonnaise, mustard soy sauce, bbq sauce, pesto, chimichurri, mustard grains, and pomegranate are easiest to make that can have a very big value in return.
More than even wine and other alcohols possibly… and even easier to mess produce…
But the King is again a big problem here as even though he holds no more on me, it can't be denied he has the power and now currently out of his mind, and the hand of the King Tywin would like to have those recipes, and even King heats him, Tywin still is able to manipulate him in the way or another.
And even when he doesn't have power over me, he does definitely have power over my mother and father. And they are very loyal to him, as he is after all, a part of the family…, and I could easily convince my mother…
She will hear out her favourite son but not my father and I will lose a big chunk of money and my secrets and if it goes to fight or rebellion then I could possibly lose my future wives…
Again a dead end… For all these ideas to work, I need to be Lord of the Storm's End, fuck this shit is getting harder and harder to think…
As I was lost in my deep thoughts while walking around on the castle grounds, and no one try or dared to disturb me, as they knew I was in deep thoughts and disturbing me could have grave consequences. Their heads could not be over their shoulders…
As I continue to walk around thinking about every possibility that brings me gold its asset and
liability… But most ideas either have too much cost or I need to be the lord… as I continue to walk around finding nothing that could be useful at the current time…
Then I saw a body of water / a very small pond and then it snapped. After many hours a great idea came into my mind, Ocean…
Ocean… Yes, Ocean is the Key
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