Chapter 3: You Can Go Hunt Later

Inside a room, four-person were seated in front of a young man around a rectangular table. The young man looked at the people in front of him with a serious face and without wasting time started talking.

"Carl, I'm waiting for your report!"

The man named Carl got up and bowed his head before picking up a pile of paper and giving it to the young man.

"Greetings, Lord Adam. As written in the pile of paper, we are currently controlling half of the economy of the city. The rice you have introduced to us are highly demanded even in the Inner Area of the city so I suggest that we increase the field from 2 to 4 hectare" Adam looked at the rest and asked

"What do you guys think?" Another young man with curly brown hair, brown pupils and tanned skin got up and spoke

"I think that it's a good idea since the Inner residents are demanding this new product we can build one or two of our shops in the inner area at the same time. I hope that Andres would be alright with working on that"

The middle-aged man named Andres had small black hair and blue eyes, he looked quite handsome and would be a lady killer if he was a little younger. He looked at the young man who just finished speaking and started.

"Sure, if Lord Adam wants me to build the shop there with my construction team we would gladly follow the orders. Just, we are currently working on the development of our territory of the Slums so there is no point in involving the Inner residents"

Adam looked at Andres and nodded his head. He did not want to attack the Inner city, yet. There are some people in the slums that he needs to take care of before having full control over it and advance.

"We'll talk about that later, Carl, you can continue." Carl nodded and started talking again

"About the development of the Slums, we can already say that it is more complete, beautiful, clean and safe that the Inner part of the city. For further explanation you can take a look at the report" Carl finished and sat back down.

Seeing him sitting down, Adam looked another middle-aged man who looked uninterested by the meeting. The man had light skin, black hair that came down to his neck, green eyes that looked like it could see through anything and most importantly this guy shares all of his features with Adam except their eye colors. He was Alexander, Adam's Father.

Alexander sensed Adam'gaze and raised his eyebrows "What do you want son?" Adam just looked at him and sighed. Then he asked him a question.

"How is the matter with that Reggie guy going?" At the mention of Reggie Alexander had an amused look.

"We haven't done anything, yet! I was waiting for you to take command and destroy him, just to see your leading skills in battle" He said

"So you just want to test my ability to lead in battle, right?" Alexander just smiled and re-started to look at the window

"Alright, what about the growth of our forces?" without looking at him Alexander started talking

"It's alright, the development is kind of slow but I can deal with it. Unless you plan to divide it into three camps and place each of them in secluded areas while leaving the main one here."

Adam was surprised, 'why didn't he think of that earlier!' he thought. It was a good idea, doing that would help them stay away from the nobles while they're still developing, plus doing that would let them occupy more lands and raid monster camps more easily than they used to.

"Andres, make arrangement and prepare to build those camps"

"Yes, sir"

"Carl you can start...

_____________________________ Some time later _____________________

"What's up, where are you going?"

A young man asked one of his friends, that young man is the guy with curly hair that was in the meeting room with Adam and the others. Currently, he is in the neighborhood of the slums with Adam and another friend of theirs, Isaac Lewis a tall, strong, buffed young man with blond hair and tattoos -made by Adam- on all of his left hand and his back.

"I planned to go hunt for some time but what do you guys want to do?" Adam looked at his other two friends waiting for an answer. Then the curly-haired guy, Walter, suggested.

"Well, how about we go to the tailor since we're gonna meet the nobles in the Inner city soon why not make some good clothes for ourselves." Adam and Isaac looked at him surprised and Adam asked him dejectedly. Isaac looked at Adam and said.

"You know what he means by hunting, right?" Walter looked at him and sighed

"Of course, I do"

'To hunt the bandits in the forest, y'all are some crazy people' Walter thought. If it was monsters they wanted to hunt he would be in but hunting other humans as if they were some kind of animals. Walter could imagine himself doing that.

"I know that it can improve your battle prowess but the thing that baffles me is the fact that you've been doing it for ages but still can't get enough of it" Adam shook his head and admitted

"It's kind of becoming boring, I have to admit. But it's all to the purpose of gathering more troops and increase my efficiency in a battle where your life is threatened" Isaac nodded and continued

"Plus we've never done large scale battles, so those guys in the inner part of the forest may help us in that department" Walter just shook his head and retorted

"You'll have the chance to do that when we raid Reggie and his band one week from today, plus they are all small fries so practicing against them would not be a problem" Adam looked at him and reprimanded

"That's not a large scale battle, Reggie's men only number to 300, dealing with them using only a hundred of our elites should sufficient. You need to fix that, you don't any knowledge about wars strategies, maybe you can improve on that for the future" Isaac just laughed and looked at Walter ridiculously. Walter seeing that said.

"What are you laughing at, it's still better than being a brainless guy who only thinks about fighting" Isaac just continued laughing

"I take pride in that, I like fighting. And meeting strong people willing to rumple is my guilty pleasure" Adam shook his head again and reprimanded Isaac

"You better stop doing that and think about various plans, this is one of the reasons I made you a personal guard instead of a general When we return to the base y'all better study some more battle strategies and practice through the illusion magic that Lenard created before departing to do his mission"

"Alright!!!"

Both of them said dejectedly but soon they all started laughing. After some time they all arrived at the gate of the inner sector of the city, they were headed to the tailor shop to command a lot of clothes for themselves and some great quality clothes that their man can wear for both training and in their daily lives. At the same time making others recognize them as part of the same group.

Of course, that would be after he 'takes over' the state. Until then, they will stay as low-key as they can.