Chapter 13: Training-Final

After the level-up, Allen felt his strength and speed increased a lot.

Serina also came out of him after the level-up. She wanted to fight the robot rhino again. Allen could understand as he also wanted to check how much the level-up has improved his power.

He was able to defeat the mid-level rhino within ten minutes after the level-up. He found out from Bones that practising mana exercise while purifying his mana will increase the purity faster.

The second part of the training was completed and the third part started after four days.

By the end of the second part of training, Allen was able to defeat three mid-level private-stage robot monsters with some difficulty fighting them at the same time.

On the sixteenth day of the second month, they went to the training ground and found that the training rooms which were set temporarily for their training has been removed.

Now they will practice in the open ground since it will be a group battle to increase their ability in large-scale battles. They battled against a small group of robot monsters.

The number of robot monsters started from ten and increased in numbers. The monster level also increased from low level to mid-level and then to high level.

At first, it was difficult for them to coordinate their attack, but as the training progressed, their coordination improved.

"How are we supposed to fight these mid-level private stage monsters with just five members" Kriti asked in confusion.

"You have your orders trainee. You don't get to question those orders, so shut your mouth and follow it" said Bones.

By the looks of Bones and Emily, Allen could guess that this order was from above their ranks and they don't like it either.

Generally, the archer team has ten members and will not be split. But they were ordered to split this team into two.

The team was forced to do mana exercise every day which made everyone reach the thirteenth move. It also increased their strengths. Their team of ten is now the top-ranking team in the entire camp among the archers.

Arti who was second best, next to Allen is currently in the fifteenth move as she also started practising hell's exercise during training sessions.

One team has Allen, Sam, Abdul, Kriti and Kumar. The other team has Arti, Tamina, Sanjay, Kris and Joshi.

Allen's team designation was given as Team One while the other team was Team Two. After the teams were split, they went into the training ground which was split into two for the teams to train.

"Alright, what are we going to do now?" asked Kumar holding his bow.

"We do what we always do. I'll be the vanguard along with Sam. You three stand in the second line and start taking down the targets one at a time." replied Allen.

Since they were ten member team it was easy for them with four working as vanguards and the rest disabling the robot monsters. Now since the team is reduced to half, the pressure was doubled.

By the end of the third part of the training, both Team one and Team two were able to manage and reach the same level as they were before being split.

Team one was on top of the team performance board followed closely by Team two despite being reduced to half of the team size.

At the end of two months, they became the soldiers of their country "Solemn Empire".

All ten members of the original team were in the mid-level private stage and Allen and Arti started circulating the nineteenth move of the first set of mana exercise.

"Congratulations on becoming archers of the Solemn Empire. You are from today and will become the soldiers protecting our country and its people from monsters" said Emily with pride on her face.

"Since you are top in the team board, your teams will go to the Northern city and Central city to protect them" said Bones.

Team one consisting of Allen, Sam, Kumar, Abdul and Kriti will go to Northern city.

Team two consisting of Arti, Sanjay, Kris, Tamina and Joshi will go to Central city.

The northern city is at the extreme border of the Solemn Empire and consists of mountains and forest surrounding it while the Central city is the capital of the empire and is surrounded by forest mostly and three rivers

Both cities are attacked by monster hordes at least four times a year. These cities are surrounded by all stages of monsters that can kill a rookie soldier in seconds if they are not careful.

Later that day Allen met Kim and found she is also going to Central city. They spoke for one hour and promised each other that they will not get killed.

They also made a promise to meet during their two months' leave that will come in eight months. They planned to meet in their home town.

Allen currently had twenty-seven thousand credits in his account. Ten thousand credits are his one month's salary in the military since he is in the private stage. For two months, he got twenty thousand and the remaining was his savings from childhood.

He went to the camp's Hunter's Guild and purchased grade-1 mana and healing portions five of each. It cost him 1,000 credits for each mana portion and 1,500 credits for each healing portion. He also got a grade-1 vitality portion for 2,000 credits to be used at the time of levelling up.

He paid a total of 14,500 credits for the portions. He also bought another grade-1 quiver with 37 arrows for 10,000 credits.