Behind The Scenes, #4.

Roland was pacing between his office desk and chair meanwhile Johan just blankly stared at the anxious Master, sighing he spoke up.

"Roland, while i understand your fears, we dont really have a choice in the matter now, due to the incident which happened a week ago this situation was inevitable." He tried comforting his old fried but it was all for naught, roland shook his head and sat down on his chair.

"You dont understand Johan, the other noble houses will put the blame on me so that the Royal house will have a reason to take away my title and land, its very likely they will try to also mend the relationship between the giants and the empire by blaming me for the death of their kin, who would have thought that the giant who died in our territory was the damn heir of the Mountain Giant Tribe." Roland let out a small roar at the end of the sentence before slamming his fist onto the desk ripping the whole thing into shreds.

"Maids, clean up, tip top !" Johan was already at the door calling in the maids.

"Sigh, i dont have a choice, i have to visit the capital." Clearly frustrated he grit his teeth and let out another saddened sigh before opening his mouth.

"Worst of all, i have to cancel the vacation to the eastern kingdoms until everything is dealt with, what do you think, should we send Rodin to his Aunt ?" Johan almost choked hearing the utter incredulity his Master just spouted.

"Cough, roland, do you know what youre implying now." Johan asked while staring at Roland who just simply rubbed his temple and slowly nodded, each nod confirming that the situation was worse than he imagined.

"If the situation is as bad as youre saying, then we have no choice but to send Young Master to her, who knows, this might be a good for him in the long run." Johan nodded while trying to ignore the alarm sounds going off in his head each time a word left his mouth.

"We should make preparations for him, ill let you deal with that, i will go and tell Rodin the bad news." Roland stood up and with half hearted steps, took towards his son's room, disappointment oozing off of him as his expression was sour and full of anger.

Meanwhile Johan disappeared within the shadows, doing what he was told.

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20 minutes later inside The Library of Lazar.

roland entered and sat down on a chair, his expression crestfallen, he called out towards Lazar who appeared with a small Popping sound next to him.

"i wont accompany your son, that wicked woman is too much to deal with, and your son has forgotten even the basics of magic, it would be a pain to deal with the both of them." Lazar outright stated as if he was already aware of the situation, roland shook his head and replied.

"Im not here for that, if by any chance the schemes of the other nobles will work out and get rid of me you will have to move elsewhere, sorry Lazar, this situation is a bit unpredictable." Roland apologized to which Lazar sighed and sat down on empty space while conjuring a bottle of wine and two cups.

"In the years i have known you Roland, you never showed any doubt in any problem you have faced, and i would bet my middle kidney you havent changed, tell me, whats really going on with the estate and the empire, some measly giants and empire politics do not scare you like that."Lazar questioned while pouring some wine for the both of them.

"The spawns of corruption have taken control of more than 80% of the empire councilmen, only the royal Family, Dukes and Viscounts are left untouched, but they arent invincible, sooner or later the spawns reach the viscounts and then the dukes, we have to deal with them before they take control of the citizens in the empire.." Roland drank the whole cup in one swing,

Lazar stopped his second swing and became deathly pale.

"If what youre saying is true, the fact that the Barrier has weakened can mean many things, one of the biggest culprits is the malfunctions or stopping of the Magic Towers..." Lazar was lost in thought, roland just watched as the Space Dwarf muttered inaudible gibberish, finally after half an hour he stopped and looked at Roland.

"I will go with your son, the wicked woman might be annoying but she's second to none when it comes to the corruption." Lazar Stated with determination before kicking out roland with a simple wave of his hand, all of a sudden the door to the library morphed and Roland smiled, successful in his endeavor he whistled and went towards his office before reality kicked in and was reminded by the fact that he wont be able to spend a lot of time with his son, once again.

sighing he simply shook his head and with determined steps took towards his own office, with reinvigorated will he was ready to rake on the challenge the Spawns brought.

"The faster i destroy them and bring order to the empire, the sooner i can go on a vacation with rodin, i was excited to see a few of the exotic places and explore the desert with him." He looked a bit nostalgic as he was thinking out loud, slowly he arrived at his office and entered.

*Click, clamp, Thump*

The door closed behind him and the night passed with the songs of trees singing lullabies.

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How are the Troops, did anyone get a promotion, how strong are we compared to the imperial Guards Military Might.

Roland questioned Johan who was reading through a list of documents pertaining to their manor's Military might.

As of this month, they have recruited 100 more veteran Adventurers and Veteran Soldiers, most of them have gotten tired of adventure and the other ones are looking for more gold, our total amount of Soldiers are around 1.5k, approximately.

Out of the lot half of them have been promoted to intermediate Knights, 20% of them turned into Advanced Knights, then 5% of those turned into Ultimate Knights and only one has reached the level of Supreme Knight, he isnt only the strongest, his skills in tactics and strategy are remarkable.

By splitting the work up into a Pyramid Format, we managed to lessen the workload on him by making him order around the 5% of Ultimate Knights, then those took rule over the 20% of Advanced Knights who each got themselves a Squadron of Intermediate knights, the Intermediate Knights each got one Novice Knight who they have to help learn and in exchange the Novices would be training by carrying luggage or other miscellaneous things.

Roland agreed to the arrangements, slowly he got up and approached his window which was overlooking the entire estate, solemnly he was lost in thoughts until he saw his son running with some heavy looking rocks inside a basket that was strapped to his back.

Surprise overtook him as Rodin, instead of showing any exhaustion was smiling widely, in an instant mid run he disappeared and reappeared 10 meters ahead, as if teleportation, his eyes bulged and quickly glanced at Johan who shrugged.

"It seems the loss of his memories also created a few side effects, its likely him remembering his martial arts wrong, or else this doesnt make any sense to me either, either way he might have also created a whole new Movement technique, which i doubt." Johan replied to the inquiring eyes with a few of his theories.

Raising an eyebrow Roland continued to stare at his son circling the entire training camp within seconds without a sweat.

Squinting he shook his head and deemed any of his current thoughts irrelevant, he had to protect his son, and the safest place currently, was at Roland's Sister, she was after all, a crazy bastard when it came to safety and hygiene.