Bright sun lights creep into John's windows and announce the start of a new. Our energic young man wakes up immediately and goes to freshen up then back to kitchen, the nannies already prepared his breakfast and after picking up thanking the nannies for always supporting him he sprints outside towards his job.
The town was quite active in the morning as well, many people were starting working from the first sun light to the last one. John reached the blacksmith a short time after and Rowan was giving him the task to temper 12 iron ingots until noon. Basically everything John had to do is hammer the metal until it had a decent degree of impurities of course John took his job seriously and always aimed to remove as much as possible. The day passed peacefully and after a little more sweat and hammering John completed his task by noon, Rowan inspected and satisfied tosses 12 cooper coins to John.
-You did a good job today as well John maybe you can aim to be blacksmith in the future.
Said Rowan laughing merely, but knew that the little young man would never abandon his goal
-Thank you very much Rowan you are also very kind as always maybe I can learn a thing or too in future who knows it may be useful.
A bright smile could be seen on John's mouth.
-Yeah sure maybe in another couple of month I can teach you how to do some simple metalworking.
-It would be my pleasure, see you tomorrow Rowan I'm going to train now said John after waving towards Rowan.
- Don't overdo it lad
After leaving the blacksmith John was on his way towards the back garden of the orphanage where he improvised a dummy and some training equipment. On his way trough the town John saw a dozen soldier moving towards the garrison they were carrying a couple hurt soldier and on the back the chief of the soldiers could be seen motionless the atmosphere turned instantly sober. All soldiers were wearing gloomy expressions and lifeless eyes scared and with no hope , people were gasping and losing hope as well . In the great Laskaya empire the political and military powers were separated and it was always custom to have a political leader and a military one.
The mayor of Behem could only manage the administration of the town like the financial situation of the town creating and improving the life condition of it's people and making laws to create order. The chief of the guards had all the military power and the responsibility to enforce the law also ensuring the safety of the town. What's so different about the twos ? The Mayor was an average soldier at the rank of a Initial knight on the other side the chief of guards was already a master knight which could manifest aura they were worlds apart. The master rank is a domain that only one in ten thousands can attain while an almost everybody can reach the status of a knight with enough training. Because the great Laskaya empire greatly focused on the security of it's people every town had at least a master rank and three advanced knights protecting it. An overkill if you think about it a single master knight it's enough to raze a ten thousands horde of beast, and an advanced knight can fight at least a thousand beasts horde.
But because of the protective spirit of the empire it can be seen flourishing even today. What did the death of the chief meant ? A monster or enemy strong enough to kill that superhuman was present in the appropriate zone.
-It's for sure the Bloody Skull gang the chief left this morning to vanquish this group after some groups of merchant came with less than a tenth of their people alive and begged for justice. A guy in the crowd screamed then everybody started murmuring.
-For sure it's them ,they are evil vicious killer ,they always let bloody heads without their skin on to show that it was their hand that put and end to others people life.
Panic assaulted every citizens of Behem until a strong voice resounded.
- Stop panicking we won't let our chief sacrifice not avenged those cowards used poison clouds and also had an advanced expert helping them, if our chief didn't focus on helping us escape he would not be dead right now . We will report this to the military council at least two experts at the master rank should be deployed and we will have our revenge.
Said the Vice-Chief of the guard Conrad Stel
-The bandits won't dare to attack the town as we have the numerical advantage I suggest limiting your activities for the next two weeks in the town's perimeter. After Conrad's announcement the soldiers continued marching towards their accommodations.
The hope bloomed again in people's hearts and after a couple more moments of thoughts they restarted their usual activities. The atmosphere was a little bit more tense than usual but nothing too serious. After hearing the news John was deep on thoughts
- I need to tell the people at the orphanage to never go outside the city gate I can't risk having any of them kidnapped or even worse killed , also I need to speed up my pace I need strength , strength so great that I can protect everybody.
John reached shortly after the orphanage ,as he needed to tell everybody the news.
After hearing the new about the chief of the guard the nannies gasped scared.
-How could that happen to the strong chief said Elisa while looking a little dispirited.
-Right? What chaotic times we live on the threat of the beast was not serious enough now even even bandits are appearing. said Angela the second nanny.
-Let's hope that nothing serious happens until we get reinforcement from the military council.
Said the third nanny Michaela.
The Military Council the behemoth that has the duty to administer all the soldiers in the empire ruled by twelve War Lords three Supremes and one Unyielding fallowed by countless Marshalls Generals and Commanders.
After helping out the nannies with the preparation of the ingredients for dinner and ensuring that everybody knew that it's dangerous outside the city gates John walked towards his improvised training grounds.
He started by putting some kind of metal bracers around his hands and feet then he put a heavy backpack on his back. After that he started doing some basic exercises like sit ups pull ups and squats then started running around the orphanage. After some time exercising John fell sweating on the ground.
-Good my stamina and endurance increased again now I can keep up for 3 hours straight. The special bracers and the backpack from master Rowan are helping me a lot I should put a lot more effort while working.
-Now I should start my sword practice.