Chapter 9: Introduction!!!

Ax kick, roundhouse kick, Joint kick, knee strike, tornado kick etcetera. And the crazy part is that all of the kicks were blocked and, I, wanting to at least hit my father one time, tried to sweep him but he jumped and when he did I got up and did another tornado kick.

This time he did not show pity and caught my leg before I blacked out. I did not know what happened after he caught my leg but I hope he wakes me up before 9 am.

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I'm happy that I was able to wake up before the promised time, no, I'm happy that my father woke me up even though the process was painful. I swear he always finds some way to torment me. When I think that smile he gave me before I blacked out earlier it makes me wonder what he hit me with.

I'm currently with my two boys and we're heading towards the gymnasium, my dad already left after he woke me up. We're discussing various things and the more serious question we are reflecting on during our walk is 'How can I control the city without alerting the State and the Empire?'

We tried to give answers but every time there seem to be loopholes that would permit the enemy to destroy us, thus making the plans unusable. "Let's think about this later. We need to go to the gymnasium before meeting that blacksmith you told us about yesterday" I said as we sped up toward the gymnasium.

When we arrived it was already packed with people, the gymnasium is divided between three sections. The first section is for the normal soldiers, be it swordsman, mage, martial artist, you name it. If you're not above D-rank, you're staying here. That's also a way to make some kind of idea I had back then when we started to stimulate the newcomers into working harder.

The second section is for the C-rankers, my dad calls them the {Blades} since in the future they would be the ones to come along with me when would be traveling long distances or go to important meetings and such. In other words my Guards.

The last one is for us, being my dad, Walter, Isaac, and Lenard who is currently away. We use it as our training ground and only by becoming a B-ranker would you have the chance to train inside of it. Currently, I don't have that many high rankers, the only one above B-rank is my dad so I think I'm going to go out of town and recruit soon.

It would also serve as some kind of adventure for us, but we would need Lenard to come back from his mission first. I think we would be able to take over the City before that happens, and when I say take over, I don't mean forcing my way in and kill everybody to take control of everything. No, we would not even survive for a week if we do that. For sure the Empire would send some of its elites to eliminate us, and if that happens only my dad would be able to survive.

That's why I came up with different plans, but I'm going to need the others to check it out first. I'm going to tell to you anyway, I hope you won't snitch on us though.

So, first, we would divide ourselves into two parties. The first one is going to play the role of a mercenary group while the second one would come as a merchant group. We would divide our forces to all the cities in this State and start gaining influence bit by bit while still training and recruiting strong allies. When we acquire enough power and influence around the Land, we take over the State and rebel against the empire.

It is a long plan, but at least it is kind of safe compared to the other ones I've thought of. While I was lost in my mind we were quickly escorted to my father's office, when I arrived I saw three people, I could only recognize two of them. The black-haired girl, whose name is Lillith and the blue-haired kid who could be easily remembered due to his hair color. I did not recognize the bald guy, though.

When we entered the room they all kneeled and said in unison "Good morning, my Lord" I told them to get up and looked at my dad.

"What's going on?" I asked not understanding what was going on and looked at Walter and Isaac and saw both of them have the same confused look as to what was going on.

"I called you here to meet these three people. Introduce yourselves" he said looking at them. The bald guy was the first guy who got up. He placed his right hand on his chest and his left hand behind him.

"My name is Brad Otso, sir! I'm twenty-three years old and I'm from Dorlyn State, sir!" My father looked nodded his head in approval and said "next!"

The blue-haired guy got up, did the same salute and started introducing himself

"My name is Amon Bullock, sir! I'm eighteen years old and I'm from Amaryllis State, sir!" Then it was the ladies turn, she got up and did the same salute before starting to introduce herself with an enchanting voice

"My name is Lilith Baltimore, sir! I'm 17 years old and I'm from Amaryllis State, sir!"

They were all standing, I looked at my father with a questioning look. First of all, I did not teach them any salute so it must have been him who did it. Plus, this is the AOT salute where did he learn it? He noticed my gaze and grinned looking the other way. 'Did this guy spy on me, again?'.

I clicked my tongue out of annoyance and the three people in front of me flinched thinking they were the ones who annoyed me. Really, why can't they all be like Walter and Isaac? Just relax and talk to me normally, I'm not gonna eat you.

"Don't worry, it's not your fault!" I tried to appease them and that worked. I looked at my father again this time frowning, he stared back at me and sighed before starting.

"These are the three strongest people among the {Blades}, from now on they are going to follow you around everywhere you go since they are your guards. Walter, after you'll have to choose three people among the trainee to be your guards, after their training of course. And Isaac, the rest would be handed to you! You're the {Blades} captain and the second general of Adam's army and you're gonna have work to do from now on."

Why is he giving us orders, aren't I supposed to be the lord here? Damn it! Let me just follow along.

"Also, dad! It's almost time to clean up the moles and reorganize the group. I have new plans, we'll talk about it at the next meeting." When I was saying that I looked at the three people in front of me, they did not show any reaction so they mustn't be moles from other groups. If they showed any kind of reaction I would have taken some measures, but better be safe.

"Do you have anything to say?" I asked Walter and Isaac, who were behind me. They nodded and Walter was the first one to talk.

"When will my magic troops be ready, Alexander-san?" My father looked at him and smirked

"I'm currently choosing the three people who would be with Adam, you don't have to worry about that." I was confused but did not want to show it, mage troops? Controlled by Walter? Why didn't I know of that? Why are you messing up my plans? I wanted to make him my prime minister, not the captain of the mage troops. Hell, I did not even know that we had a special troop for magicians.

Nah, calm down! Just act as if you're the one who set it up. Having an idea to not look like a strayed cat in front of my new guards I said.

"When both of them finish their training choose the top 50 of each promotion and create a special team called {Team Alpha}. That would be under me and would only listen to my orders"

When I said that I caught three types of look from the listeners, a look of admiration from the three recruited guards, a look of confusion from Isacc because he did not know what was going on, and a dejected look from Walter and my father because they wanted to take me off guard. You ain't gonna do that boy!!!