Vol. 2 Chapter 28 - Free-Time

/The next day on the main-training grounds of the Unsullied's headquarters, Our Main-Character is currently having a meeting with his ten female mech-pilots. Samantha and Uhtred are currently placing ten separate piles or stacks or papers on a table, set-up dead-center of the training-grounds./

/Location: Cloudy-Curtain, Unsullied Headquarters/

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"Shiva, Blizzara, Mist, Ice, you are taller while still being more on the slim side. You four will receive the same sort of manuals, except for their information which pertains to more of a damage-dealer build. Your guides will teach you how to dodge your enemies' attacks or redirect them into harmlessness, whilst your attacks turn fatal and pierce the vitals of your enemies." Uhtred Larkinson said, as he signaled the four girls, whose names he had called to step up and take their piles of papers.

"Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, you are shorter and more petite than the others. These stacks of papers are for you, they will be your training and development manual or guides. They are individualized for each of you, they all revolve around an assassin or scout-type build, or style of warfare I plan for you to specialize in." He said, to the next four he picked to take their training-manuals.

"Last but most certainly not least, let it be said here and now, each and every one of you are very dear or important to me. Shimmer and Shine here are your guides, You will be our heavy-knights or main-tanks so to say. You will be in charge of protecting your fellow sisters, they will be in charge of the rest." Uhtred told the last two taller and more sturdy-looking of the girls, who then took their development-guides.

"Now, let me speak a little on body-cultivation, the medicinal-baths you all take after your day of exercise, are jumpstarting you all into what is known as the skin-refining stage of body-cultivation. Much like the breathing and meditation-methods in these guides cultivate and temper your minds making that process known as mind-cultivation." The bearded young man said, to all of them as they looked through the papers they were given.

"It is too early for us to touch on spiritual-cultivation, it would do more harm than good to your defenseless minds. You are all now a family, from this day forward until the day we are all dead and long gone from this world, onto our next life and chapter of our own stories… I want you to look at each other and burn each other's faces and names into your memories, you are family now and family is the only thing you can believe in nowadays. We might not share the same blood or birth-parents, but we now share the same soul, we are now one. Rest of the day is a free-day. Feel free to look over your guides and make the most of this free-time, we have real work to do. I want each and every one of you to be ready for your personal-mechs, by the time they are built ten-days from now." The young man said, finishing his meeting. Leaving the rest up to his Minister of Finance, Samantha, his current second-in-command.

/During the week and a half spent training and teaching his personal forces, Uhtred had Samantha laying the ground-works for an intelligence-network, starting with planet Cloudy-Curtain with plans to expand off-world as well. They already owned all the brothels and casinos in almost all the major cities on the planet, whilst focusing on the cities of Freslin and Orinoco./

/Uhtred named his ten female

Mech-Pilots personally, he had them either studying or refining their bodies and minds. If they were not resting or doing these things, the girls would help do chores on the farm, the land that supplies the mercenary group with all the food supplies needed by the group, also the land grows the cash crops Uhtred is now selling to fund his personal forces. Cannabis, Coffee, Cocoa, Mulberry trees for silk-worms to nest in and produce silk, and all sorts of fruit trees grow on the farm-land surrounding the headquarters of the small armed forces. More and more livestock and poultry, amongst other farm-animals arrive by the day, as Uhtred ask Samantha to order more and more of them each day that goes by./

/During one of the Art of War lessons, taught to the young pilots by Uhtred./

/Location: Unsullied Headquarters/

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I am the eldest of my newly found siblings, Shiva Larkinson, I do not wish to ever mention what I was known by before finding my family. The man who found us, Uhtred Larkinson who prefers to be called simply the Messiah, has called for a lesson on the art of war. As I lead my sisters into our liege lord's war-room, I first notice his smile then his bright eyes, that are truly shining as if he is really happy to see each and every one of us.

"Come girls, firstly let's speak of what war is… Shiva, you are the eldest of the girls, you will be expected to lead them, what do you think war is?" Uhtred Larkinson said, as he ushered us to be seated to begin the lesson. Then he asked me what I thought war was…

"War is death, it is two groups of people causing death upon one another…" I replied to our teacher or as he likes to be called our sensei, after thinking about the question.

"It is. that is correct, now ask me what I think war is…" our sensei replied, then told me to ask him the same question.

"Sensei, what do you think war is?" I ask him, without even questioning why he asked me to ask him something instead of him just telling me what he thought war was.

"Hmm, that is an excellent question Shiva. Exactly the kind of question I expect to hear, from the eldest and leader of my disciples. War is watching my enemy slowly exhaust, starve, weaken, divide, then bleed to death slowly before my eyes and ears, due solely to my actions and use of my personal studies and the research of my ancestors into the art of war." He said whilst running his fingers through his beard, almost as if he was combing his beard hair with them.

"If you know yourself and you know your enemy, if you apply what I will teach you, you will never be defeated in warfare. In warfare knowledge is power, the knowledge of your environment, the knowledge of your enemies' forces and the knowledge of their locations or sizes of their armies are all power you can use in the art of conducting warfare." Uhtred said, before stopping to clear his throat after drinking from a glass of water.