17 Chapter 17: Intense training (1/2)
After swallowing the fifteenth beast core Caesar had finally gained 1% towards the evolution progress. Caesar sat down and his bed and pondered ”It seems that I need to get purer beast cores, but how? the king's resources are too limited”
Caesar walked over to the chest filled with beast cores and stashed them inside of his spatial ring, ”I can use these for the knights I am training” he thought inwardly as he got in bed and closed his eyes.
Caesar opened his eyes and saw darkness everywhere, he stood up and looked around but saw nothing. ”Is this a dream?” He wondered, suddenly in front of him four roads appeared. They were red, black, white, and grey respectively. In front of each road was a stone tablet that had words etched on to it.
The red tablet said ”I am the noblest, but most feared”
The black tablet said ”I hold the most authority, but am the weakest”
The white tablet said ”I am the most loved, but the darkest”
The grey tabled said ”I am only second to one, but my emotions rule me”
Caesar rubbed his chin in contemplation, ”what is the meaning of the four different paths? Could they be tied into the physique evolution? If so this is the first time it has given me a hint at what the evolutions are”
Suddenly the words on the tablets disappeared and four different whispers invaded Caesar's ears.
”Choose one” a noble voice
”Choose wisely” an old voice
”Choose me” a sweet voice
”Choose the one” a ragged voice
Caesar's wanted to move but his body would not listen, the blood in his body was boiling in excitement. Suddenly Caesar opened his eyelids and saw a familiar ceiling, he sat up from his bed and held his forehead with his hand.
”Sigh”
Caesar let out a long sigh and got up to get dressed. Caesar choose to wear a suit that had a white button-up shirt under a grey suit jacket that had black buttons on both sides, grey and thin formal trousers and a red bow tie along with tall black boots. he didn't want to look casual when training his knights. Caesar walked out of his room and headed towards the dining room.
Caesar was the first one to the dining table so he decided to sit down and wait for the others, ”I wonder what I could do to enhance the defenses of this kingdom” Caesar contemplated while waiting for his family to arrive.
About 10 minutes later Sebastian walked through the door with plates of food in his hand, seeing Caesar already sitting at the table Sebastian's eyes flashed with surprise ”It is unusual for you to be up so early young master”
”I had trouble sleeping last night” Caesar replied smiling wryly
”Ah, I see. Your father should be back tomorrow” Sebastian said as he started placing the plates of food at the dining table.
”That's good news, will he be back tomorrow night or in the morning?”
”I don't know the specifics but it should be around evening”
Sebastian finished setting the table and walked upstairs to wake everyone else up, soon the rest came down the stairs and sat at the dinner table. They all enjoyed a grand breakfast, once Caesar was done eating he stood up and headed towards the door.
”I will be back in the evening, I have important things to do”
Sebastian called out from behind him ”make sure you wear a coat, it's getting quite cold as of late”
Caesar nodded and put on a crimson coat, he was quite fond of the crimson color lately.
”Creak”
Caesar walked out the manor and headed towards his carriage. After stepping in his carriage Caesar opened the front window ”Head towards the training grounds” The carriage driver nodded his head and the carriage started moving forward.
Inside the Carriage, Caesar looked outside the window and took note of the foggy atmosphere ”how strange, yesterday it was very clear” Caesar thought silently.Caesar didn't think too much of it and rested while in the carriage.
About thirty minutes later the carriage arrived at the training grounds, The knights that had already arrived and begun training stopped moving and looked over… The knights seeing that same looking carriage all felt as though their souls fell out of their bodies.
Caesar stepped out of the carriage and yelled ”LINE UP!” The knights scrambled towards Caesars location and lined up. After the last person lined up, Caesar opened his mouth ”Today we are going to form 5 different groups with equal numbers, after each day the groups will compete with each other and the winner will get a reward from me”
The knights looked at each other with excitement in their eyes ”A reward from the marshall? It has got to be amazing right?” The knights immediately started forming groups. In about 10 minutes all five of the groups were created, seeing this Caesar smiled and said: ”I want each group to elect one leader, that person will arrange your positions”
The knight's once again bustled about and finally, a leader for each group was chosen, Caesar smiled slyly. ”Great, we will now start training, we will start with endurance training and end the day with sword/spear practice”
”To start off, I want you to run 21 laps…. With your armor of course”
The knight's hearing this felt as though the sky was falling down and begrudgingly started running, after about 10 laps some knights were falling behind. Seeing this Caesar stepped forward and roared ”The last 10 knights will get a punishment from me personally”
As if those in the last place gained 2 more legs they started running extraordinarily fast, once they caught up with those that were ahead of them, they started running faster as well. This continued until everyone was running with their life on the line.
About 45 minutes later all of the knights dropped down to the ground dead tired… Caesar approached them and applauded, ”wow! You guys nearly all finished in a tie.” Caesar than showed a sad expression ”too bad I didn't get to punish anyone this time, hopefully, next time”
All of the knights showed determined expressions and thought: ”we will never let you!”
”You guys managed to finish the 21 laps twice as fast compared to last time, I'm shocked… now we will start sparring, I want all five groups to split up and have a mock battle against each other. This is just a test, the real battle will be later tonight”
”Yes sir!” the knight's roared in response