The Army and Mission (1)

"Captain! Please wait, how do I join the army?" Pan yelled towards the departing back of the captain who was now smiling, and then turned around with the same serious face as before.

"Just put your hand here and if you have the appropriate abilities then you'll be allowed to join." The captain said seriously while taking out a crystal ball.

Putting her hand onto the crystal ball nervously a bright flash of light over took the whole room and in front of pan there appeared words floating from the crystal ball.

Name: Pan Orfey

Peak Rank 0

"You're qualified to join, now stand to the side." The captain said calmly moving the crystal towards Chaos and just like when Pan put her hand onto the crystal he too put his paw onto the crystal and an even more astonishing light come around.

Name: Chaos

Low Rank 1

"You're quite the powerful one." The captain said looking towards Chaos with some happiness in his eyes.

"Now each of you drip some blood onto these dog tags, this is the last step." The captain said pulling out two dog tags from his armor, the moment that the two dog tags had blood dripped onto them a small light flashed over them and the information from before appeared again as well as an extra line saying 'Soul Bound to Chaos/Pan' On each of their tags as well as the image on the back of the tags with what looked like Chaos howling at the moon on a cliff with Pan on his back looking like a stone cold beauty, great ax on her back.

"You are assigned to the Mounted unit of the army! I didn't realize you two were soul bound, what a good surprise, you will be our first mounted troops!" The captain said clearly much more open and friendly now that they had joined officially.

"Now that we've joined could you give a bit of information on this place and the surroundings and what 'soul bound means?" Asked Pan curiously.

"Sure, this is called Rayla Kingdom, the strongest person here is me, when two entities are soul bound like you and Chaos it means that the two of you are now inseparable, in other words, one cannot live without the other as for the surrounding kingdoms, they are currently unknown, this leads nicely into your first mission." He said finishing with a serious tone at the mention of a mission, straightening his back.

Feeling the atmosphere both Chaos and Pan did the same, adopting a serious expression and listening carefully.

Seeing this the captain felt happy inside that these two were such good new recruits.

"You're mission is to patrol the area on which we are based and map it using this it automatically traces the geography of where you've walked within a hundred kilometers of here," The captain said giving Pan a large scroll of mapping paper. " as for any beasts that you find, exterminate them their cores are yours or you can exchange them here for currency," He said pointing towards a building near the walls with a pile of gems as the sign hanging above the door. "and if you find cubs or infant beasts of any kind you can also bring them back here for rewards." The captain said taking off his helmet revealing bear ears on his head.

"Secondly, If you find any people trespassing into our territory bring them back here, and be especially careful if they have animal features as all people of that race have special abilities from birth making them very dangerous." He said putting his helmet back on and heading away, his voice drifting into their ears "You can get more information and better equipment as well as resources the more points you get with us." His voice already faraway by the end of it.

Outside.

'We ought to explore the town don't you think?' Chaos said excitedly to which Pan jumped onto his back striking a generals pose with her ax facing to the town 'ONWARD!' telepathically screaming at Chaos.

With the dog tags around their necks the people no longer look at them with hostility but they also didn't look at them friendly, more like how people in big cities look at weird people, with momentary curiosity but overall disregard.

The city itself is split up into five districts, four outs districts and one inner district.

The four districts are the Slum district, Commerce District, Housing District and the Red light district, South, East, West, and North respectively.

The fifth district is where the Military are trained and where the royal family lives, directly in the center of the city, this is also where the high nobles live, the lower nobles or fallen houses live in the housing district like everyone else albeit with bigger houses.

Outside the walls of the Western commerce district is the newly up and running farming area.

Chaos and Pan entered into the city from the Slum district in the south of the city.

Walking through the district the houses were mostly broken down with a few ok looking houses with not so broken down housing, originally this was apparently connected to the main housing district but fell to poverty when the kingdom executed the head noble in that area for treason.

This is also the place where the military enforces 'laws' the most, in reality they just come here to look for illegal dealings to get hush money from them as a sort of side pay for their 'hard work'.

Leaving the slum district next came the commerce district, with a few steps it was a completely different city as here the sounds of people was rife, peopling yelling out advertising their wares, the streets filled with people moving through.

When Pan appeared from the alley no one really took notice, but then Chaos moved into the light and instantly the entire area went silent for a moment before they saw the dog tags around his neck, visibly relieved the crowd went back to their own business, the shop keepers yelling and everyone moving about.

Though after today a rumor started going around about a barbarian women with a massive wolf mount joining the cities army spreading around the city like wildfire.