Herick waited patiently, the butler, soon a middle-aged man arrived, dressed well, he had a noble air, but when he arrived he bowed and said:
"Master"
Herick seeing this he said:
"No need to bow down, and you can call me Herick"
The man remembered what the maid said and saw that it wasn't a lie, so he said:
"Okay, Master Herick"
Herick didn't want to spend any more saliva, he knew that this guy was an excellent professional, and no matter what he said he would continue calling Herick a master, even remembering those funny novels that Herick read in his previous life.
Herick then kindly asked him to take him to the place where breakfast was served, and the butler took him, Herick sat alone at the table, apparently he was the first of the royalty to get up.
So Herick asked the butler to take him to the soldiers' training place.
At breakfast, and on the way, Herick played the "game".
Arriving there, Herick saw that none of his soldiers were present, he was frowning, and asked the butler to call a soldier, and the butler called, and he said to the soldier:
"Why aren't my soldiers here yet?"
The soldier broke into a cold sweat and said:
"His Highness's brother, the King, ordered that his soldiers not be allowed to train here"
Herick got mad, he knew he was going to find some imbecile, but he didn't expect it to be so fast, in everyone's eyes he's just a smarter kid, but many actually thought there was someone behind him.
Then he would be targeted, he spoke to the soldier calmly:
"Do you realize you're looking at the prince, and saying that a former loser in the race for the throne has more voice than I do?"
The butler was sounding cold for the soldier, now he understood that although Herick looked and acted like a nice guy, and maybe he really was, but when he was serious he was worse than the King and his brothers put together, at least he had never seen anyone referring to the ancient princes, as losers.
The soldier was also at an impasse, but even so he was loyal and said:
"I'm sorry prince, it's not up to me to judge the hierarchy in royalty, I'm just here following orders"
Herick saw this guy's fearlessness and thought he was a good soldier, Herick looked at him and said:
"Okay, one day you will be under my command, and I will make you a great soldier, for now, help me pack and carry five large pillars of pure steel, fifty meters from the castle, and tell my soldiers to gather there"
The butler, and the soldier sounded cold because of the training the others were going to undergo, but he made the request and Herick went ahead to the agreed place.
Soon the fifty-one soldiers arrived, with them came a hundred more, carrying the large pillars, they did what Herick ordered, they struggled to leave the pillars standing.
Then Herick dismissed them and spoke to the remaining fifty-one soldiers:
"You will be beating these steels, all afternoon, without rest, butler, would you please alert the palace about medical and food issues, already ask other butlers to come and bring water, we don't want the future strongest soldiers in the kingdom to die of dehydration , the test of survival has not yet arrived, nor the test of resistance."
And gave a smirk, the butler with a chill on his back nodded, he didn't doubt that in this guy's hand, these soldiers would become the strongest in the kingdom.
Of course those who survived.
After the butler left, Herick said:
"There's still time to give up, does anyone want to?"
The youngest of the soldiers hesitated, looked at the steel and said:
"Your Highness, I want to leave."
Herick approached him, gave a smile, and exclaimed:
"ohhh, a brave quitter warrior"
When he approached the soldier he said:
"Do you know what the penalty is for a soldier who quits a war, do you still want to leave?"
The soldier despaired and said:
"Not Your Highness"
Herick gave an even bigger smile and said:
"Did you know that a man's greatest value is his word?"
He grabbed the soldier by the collar and shouted:
"Ask to leave"
And he slapped the soldier across the face, the others seeing this craned their necks.
The soldier replied:
"No!"
Herick repeated the same action and said:
"You didn't want to leave, you piece of shit, now ask to leave."
The soldier continued with his:
"No"
This was repeated seven times, the soldier was already saying "No" with a crying tone. Herick wasn't convinced he was an elite soldier, not an idiot who dropped out of the first test.
Eric said to him:
"You are being forgiven"
And Herick threw him on the ground and said:
"Stand up bastard, all of you will be codenamed from one to fifty"
Everyone wondered if Herick didn't know how to count since there were fifty-one there, not fifty, but Herick soon justified himself:
"all of you are recruits, I don't care about your ranks before this, and this will be the only recruit with a different codename, until he has enough merits he will be called a bastard recruit"
The soldiers sounded, herick went in front of a steel, and began to punch, without mercy, the butlers had arrived at that moment, all were paralyzed with this vision, then herick stopped a little and shouted:
"What are you looking at? Go train soon! Especially you bastard, know that your clothes will have your number or title"
All the soldiers began to punch the steel too, afraid of such a dishonor, including the "bastard" so that this title was withdrawn, during training, Herick played the "game" and picked the strawberries and grapes, and half an hour passed, the soldiers had their fists bleeding and exhausted, Herick too, Herick took a lot of strawberries and grapes from his backpack, and ate three of each and realized that the fatigue was gone, and the fists were regenerating.
He gave himself and the soldiers a rest, and gave each a strawberry and a grape.