29 The Search For Capable People (1/2)

”Enough!!”

Suddenly, a loud voice echoed to the surrounding and encompassing the swarms of people. The people immediately quieten down as they lock their gaze to the source of the voice.

There, a gray-haired middle age muscled man was standing tall as he was the one that caused the loud voice. As Sir Gareth was a 3rd Rank Knight Apprentice, he could already amplificated his sound to be louder than normal human beings.

”The Lord's here! Did you commoner doesn't have any manner and discipline?” Gareth shouted angrily as he stomps his leg to the ground.

The people below the stage were showing uncertain expression and lower their gaze in shame as they seem to not know what to say in rebuttal. Even if they know, they would have needed a thousand more courage than the most courageous people there as they feared the general.

”Had you guys didn't have shame? I wi..”

”That's enough, step back!” I interjected Gareth with an elegant posture and hand movement, that I had learned while searching Wyne's memory before.

”Yes!” Gareth nods his head and submissively steps back.

Seeing the scary general that had scared them before act so submissively to me, the people start to see me in a revered look on their face as if seeing a mighty King.

Looking at the people that had calm down and had a fearful look in their eyes, I smiled in satisfaction while reflecting in my mind,

'This set up does indeed make a quite satisfaction result!'

Just then, I take a deep breath and exhaled to calm myself that wasn't used to be the focus attention of people. As if having calmed myself down, I drive my qi around my mouth to amplify my sound and spoke,

”Just as the information that I had told my officials before, I will conduct a search of capable people to be selected and train!” I announce with a quite loud voice that encompassed the crowd.

As I was a 2nd Rank Knight Apprentice that had open the head acupoint, I was also capable to amplify my voice by driving my qi around my mouth. There was no need to use a speaker and sound amplifier from the robot.

Hearing what I announce, the people were having a mixed look on their faces. The majority of them were excited and seems to be anticipating for it to begin, quite a lot of them seems to be receptive of it, while a small part of them was having an uncertain look on their face and seems not to be sure on how to react to this.

”First, I will need to document all of you in this paper!” As I see their mix reaction, I take out a white parchment that was quite rare in this world.

The paper had been produced by the Synthesize Chamber just recently since I had been making way to the Sanchez County and expanding to the east, there had been a lot of unused cut trees.

As I show the white parchment to the people below, they were shocked by how white the paper was and start murmuring among themselves.

”Hey, isn't that white paper?” Someone blurts out in shock after seeing the white parchment in my hand.

”A very expensive commodity that only a wealthy merchant and noble could use but even then, the paper wasn't as white as that!” Another person replied doubtfully.

Just then, a group of officials come from the side with guards bringing tables, chairs, and a stack of papers for the officials to use.

After setting up the tables and chairs below the stage, I explain from above in an amplified voice.

”I want you, my subject, to line up and fill the paper that the officials bring with your name, profession, and describe what you are capable of!”

Afterward, the people start lining up orderly under Sir Gareth is watch. Every person that snatch the line was whip by the guard at the side.

As time passed, I became impatient by the ineffective way the people were registering the paper. Only around 1 out of ten people were literate and even then, a lot of them weren't quite that good at writing.

The officials were doing almost all the writing while the people were rambling non-stop of, the capability in their respective professions.

A look of tired and drowsiness begin to appear on their face as they are trying desperately to hold their posture and hear the people's nonsense.

Although I and Lily had been sitting on a fancy chair above the stage that had been prepared beforehand. Even then, I start to get bored waiting.

There were like 20 officials doing the interview and 20 lines were stretch long into outside of the plaza with hundreds of people at each line.

'If every person takes around a minute to finished and let us just say that there are around 2000 or more people lining up. Then, it will take at least around 2 hours to finished!' My face suddenly became impatient to waste my time.

Looking at Lily at the side that put her forefinger at her mouth in curiosity. I was starting to think that gazing at the cute Lily was effective at healing my boredom.

As Lily seems to realize I was observing her from the side, her milky white cheek seems to blush in red. She was stealing her glance at me times to times.

Suddenly as if to stop me from gazing at her too much, she opens her little mouth and said,

”Wyne, I'm hungry, let's eat something!”

”Ahh… I guess it's the right time to had lunch, isn't it?” I answered after realizing that I had glanced at her for way too long.

Then, I take Lily with me before telling Sir Gareth to dispatch some guards to escort us as I want to travel by walking and not by carriage.