Chapter 11: Rozag Horn

That's why, for now! I want to create a mercenary group, taking jobs all over the world, building my influence and power up the scale to challenge the empire in the end. Though, if I manage to get the city's ruler as one of my pawns it would not take that long to take over.

I would just need to take the state and separate it from the rest of the empire. After that, I will search for a few strong and loyal people to defend myself against the empire's attacks. But, this plan is unlikely since I've never met the City's ruler yet.

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We just arrived at the gymnasium and we found a lot of 'Blades' and waiting for us to open the door. I don't really what my father did to make them loyal but I think it has something to do with breaking them through training and creating another ego, I think?

I've never known that kind of thing since I have never trained someone. In my last life, I used to train myself and in this life including my father's training I also train myself to re-master the techniques I created, [1000 kicks] is one of them. Also, note that I have an awful sense of naming!

I took out the keys and opened the gate letting everyone go inside, then I went to take the day's world newspaper brought by 'Express'. 'Express' is the group that controls the media of this world through the newspapers they make. The leader of the group is a guy named Tonny and he is a S_Ranker, so we can easily say that he controls half of the world, the other half is controlled by the strong people.

Today's headline is pretty straight forward though, 'Rozag Horn declares war against the Elven empire'. I handed over the newspaper to my father and asked.

"What do you think?" He looked through the paper and laughed

"It's been a long time since a war last happened. Rozag is a bastard who loves fighting, we have shared battlefields multiple times and I can say that he loves war. Since he has taken over the dwarven kingdom recently, you know damn well he's going to wage war on their old enemies." I was shocked when he finished talking, I never knew that he was acquainted with Rozag Horn. I calmed myself down and asked

"What do you mean by shared battlefields?"

"That's a long time ago, we used to fight against each other a lot. Those were the times we had a lot of strong foes. Just remembering it makes my blood boil."

"Can you elaborate?" He looked at me and chuckled

"Forget about that! What do you want to do?"

"Well, I might be able to use this chance. If the Maltova empire is getting involved in this feud, I will have more time to prepare." I said while I sat down with my father in his office.

"You know that they are getting involved, the old man is allied with the Elven kingdom so Rozag might include him in his Hitlist!" he said reading through the rest of the news.

"We can also approach Rozag and ask for a collaboration to take over the kingdom, though I wouldn't want to be his puppet!" I said grimacing at the being his puppet part. I hate being ordered around and the same goes for my father, it took me almost six months to make him accept participating in the taking over the empire thing.

"Don't worry about that! Rozag is not smart when it doesn't involve fighting. Though, he may have a lot of guys that are good at scheming around to him."

"In other words, He is a battle junkie! And there are other people doing politics for him."

"Exactly!!!" My father nodded his head

"Two members of the big Four may have allied to face another member of the big four. Do you think that the other one will get involved in this feud?" I asked after thinking about the situation.

In this world, there are 12 empires and four of them are known as the strongest being way above the others. The Elven Empire, the Dwarven Empire, The Human Empire, and the Dragon Empire are respectively Afalind, Thelin, Maltova, and Vuclya.

"I don't know! Vuclya tends to not involve themselves in other people's feud. Though, if it gets bigger they may come and end it since they the strongest." my father stated

"Vuclya is controlled by dragons, is it true that they are born as B_rank creatures?"

"Yeah, this why the world is not fair. They have received the blessing of the almighty one, thus they all fear and love the almighty one. But, he has given other races advantages to be able to survive, and the advantage given to humans is the ability to be able to adapt to things faster than other people."

"Have you ever fought a Dragon?"

"I've already fought one! It was the hardest fight I've ever fought in my entire life. Also, I don't think if you've noticed but there are levels above S-rank!"

"Yeah, I know that" we continued discussing various things waiting for the others to come.

*** Two Hours Later ***

"Hey, did you read the newspaper? I think we will have to change plans!"

"Yeah, that's what we were discussing. What happened to your hand, though?" I noticed a big burned mark on his hand and questioned. He sighed and answered, it seems that I'm not the first one to notice it.

"I was training a new skill yesterday and burned my right hand, It's an A_rank skill so it's pretty normal to get hurt while training. I'm sure you know what I mean since you have that [Limit Breaker]"

"Never mind, I know what you mean! Also, it's the time! We will clean up the crew today. I've already ordered Lillith and Brad to start doing so, but I don't know them enough so I did not want to entirely leave it on their hands. Isaac after the meeting you go and supervise them." Isaac smiled and said

"I will join them later when we finish this meeting!" I nodded and started talking again

"You all know that I plan to create a mercenary group, right? At first, I thought of doing it and travel to different places, taking different types of jobs and make a name for ourselves before coming back and attack the empire. But now, we would not need to wait for that long with the war approaching.

With the announcement of the war, I'm sure that feuds will start to break out between small cities and then start to evolve to a greater scale until it reaches the Big four. So, Walter, you will be looking for any kind of feuds or skirmishes that are not too far away from us. You may report back to me if you find anything interesting.

Our objective is to make a name for ourselves through these feuds and somehow take hold of the saved cities and use them for our benefits." my father added to clear any doubts they might have about the last part.

"In other words, we are going to play the role of the heroes but in reality, we would just use them to gain more money and power" Isaac frowned and asked

"What will I do then?" I smiled

"You will take a few of our elites after the cleanup and go take over Reggie's territory." Adam looked at them and said

"I will be out with the blades clearing bandit's and monster's settlements, so you will take orders from my father! Also, before going I will contact Lenard and order him to come back."

"Don't worry, I'll only get involved when the main war starts."

"Oh! Alright then. I'm going to help Brad and Lillith with the cleanup." I nodded and saw Isaac walk through the door, then I looked at Walter.

"You can go back and train if you want. Though, you only have three days before the start of your mission."

"Alright!" He nodded and went out of the room to do his assigned work. I turned around and said to my father.

"I'm going back home, I need to do some preparations!"

"Alright! And don't forget to prepare lunch for me!"

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AN/: Yo, I'm sorry for the long hiatus, I'm currently pretty busy with school and I don't think that I will be able to write anything this school year. Though I will be able to do one chapter per week and post it every Saturday.

I hope you are liking the story and stay tuned for next Saturday, Insha Allah!