Expedition

Don't forget to comment and add it to your library if you find this novel interesting...

#######

After completing the survey then Arga and his soldiers Return to the village of Wijaya, it takes about 5 minutes to ride a horse from the river to the village of Wijaya, and when Arga arrives at the village of Wijaya he is immediately greeted by Mada who has been waiting for Arga at the in front of the village gate.

"Welcome back sir" said Madame.

"Okay, Mada, what about the royal envoy?" Arga asked how he treated the envoy, and what news the royal envoy brought to him.

"Master can rest easy, from what I found that the royal envoy brought quite good news, in my view" replied Mada.

"Ohhh...is that so?? I'm curious ....okay, let's meet the messenger" said Arga back to Mada.

So then after handing over his horse to the soldiers on guard, Arga was then brought by the leadership from Mada to the village head's office, more precisely to the meeting room where the envoy was waiting for Arga.

"Greetings sir," said the envoy to Arga.

"Okay, you can sit," Arga said back.

"Sir, let me convey the decree given by the kingdom on behalf of Viscount Adam," said the envoy explaining his purpose of coming to Arga.

"Ohh...ok you can convey what you mean," said Arga again waiting for the news brought by the envoy.

"Dear Arga Wijaya as the village head of Wijaya, hereby ordered on behalf of the queen of the green kingdom represented by viscount Adam, ordering Arga Wijaya to prepare 100 complete troops to participate in the strong forest expedition which will be led by Viscount Adam, the troops will gather in two weeks, from this letter will be read," said the messenger, reading out the contents of the letter he had brought.

On the other hand, Arga immediately answered the contents of the letter, according to the knowledge instilled in him, "I am Arga Wijaya, the ruler of Wijaya village, hereby receiving a call from the Green Kingdom, represented by Viscount Adam, to send 100 complete troops to participate in the expedition strong forest led by Viscount Adam" replied Arga.

After hearing Arga's answer, the envoy was relieved that the burden he had carried for more than two days had now been released from him, and on the other hand, he just had to return to report the answer given by Arga back to viscount Adam by letter officially entrusted to him.

"Mada you can arrange accommodation for the envoy, and treat the envoy well as long as he is in our village," said Arga giving orders to Mada.

"Okay sir" Mada replied to Arga and then he immediately showed the accommodation that had been prepared for the envoy, while he was staying in Wijaya Village.

"Interesting..... It seems that if my guess is not wrong, the 1-month exam said by that mysterious person seems to be an expedition to the strong forest, because if you look at the time it will coincide and on the other hand, after thinking more about it, Arga also feels that This expedition didn't seem easy due to the reminder given by the mysterious voice.

That this time's test will most likely cause death for those who are power token owners, so in this case, Arga feels the need to increase his current strength, on the other hand, Hasn't he received the affinity of his magic ability so then it becomes appropriate for him to train for improve it.

"Well it's been decided tomorrow while surveying back in the forest area around the village, Arga will try to use the magic power he has, and he also asks Mada to practice his martial skills, especially at this time to improve his physique to become much stronger.

Because for some reason he always felt that he would not go through this expedition easily, so of course, he needed to prepare better.

When Arga finished making his decision he then realized one fact that he had forgotten, that the letter required him to bring 100 complete soldiers in other words if he brought 100 complete soldiers to viscount Adam then the question was what about the soldiers guarding the village?

So then, in this case, Arga immediately realized that he was short of soldiers, and just as he felt that he needed to add soldiers Mada re-entered the room, "Sir everything has been done well, is there anything else I need to prepare?" Madame asked Arga.

"There is one more thing Mada that you need to prepare," said Arga then.

"If I may ask, what is it, sir?" Mada asked confusedly.

"As you heard in the letter explaining that I need to bring 100 complete soldiers to join the expedition, so then the question is what about the security of the Village when I go on an expedition and in the village, there are no soldiers there to guard?" Arga asked Mada, while he explained what made him confused and asked.

"In that case, sir you can buy soldiers in the market, only this time we need more numbers, and I suggest taking soldiers with veteran qualifications," said Mada again answering Arga's question.

"Why veterans?" Asked Arga again.

"Why should you be a veteran, because you need to train the soldiers yourself, because there are no slave contracts that can buy soldiers, in other words only cooperation contracts are sold in the market, meaning they are mercenaries who serve for money," Mada replied as you might expect, mercenaries in terms of loyalty won't be very good, not to mention there are some things that need to be kept secret so that only soldiers who come from slaves can guarantee your loyalty" Mada replied again.

"Ok I understand, but for now as you know we have no other soldiers, other than the one given to me," said Arga again.

"Master can choose from the slaves we buy, for now, I suggest you add about 200 soldiers to the village defense, although in terms of quality they are inferior to your elite soldiers, in terms of quantity they are sufficient to secure the entire village, plus veteran soldiers we hired" Mada again gave good advice to Arga.

"Okay, I agree you can finish it quickly and for the special funding for this soldier, I will give you 10,000 gold coins," said Arga approving and also the budget for Mada.

"Guaranteed to complete the task sir" replied Mada again.