Chapter 313 - A letter from the Empire (1/2)

Back at Avrion, the weekly meeting was taking place. The council seats now consisted of Slyvia as the head of the table and the other council members. Humfree the white mage, Sir K, Wilfred, and Von.

At the meeting table, there was also the four Master knights. Kyle, who was now in charge of the black sash knights since Monk had left. Harry who rose up the ranks and proved his loyalty for the Redwings after his father died and finally, Dan, who was put in charge of the red sash knights.

There was also an empty seat for the green sash knight master Martha, but she was currently away helping Ray.

If someone was to look at the meeting room from the outside, they would probably laugh at the fact that an entire city, and well-established knight academy was half being run by kids. They barely looked old enough to pass for 18.

But these were the strongest and most trusted knights Ray knew. He had left everything to Slyvia and only had one condition. Those that were put in seats of power must be loyal. This was what lead the leaders of Avrion to be mostly filled with Ray's old comrades.

Everyone the room knew that Ray was the real leader of the Redwings. At the same time, the knights at the academy and the Guild members who had recently joined believed it was an adventurer named Nes.

”How are the members doing sent over by Martha?” Slyvia asked.

Harry then stood up to give a reply.

”We have put them through the trials and assigned each one a sash. We have also given them each a set of soul-bound intermediate armour forged by Randin and has the crest of the Redwings as requested. Unfortunately, he has used up most of our supplies so we must either trade with other cities soon or go out for a hunt again.”

”Good to hear, if we are unable to get a fair trade with the other cities this time then don't bother. We will simply use the gold to increase the bounty of our own Quests and allow adventures and our own Guild members to do the work for us.��

As a newly established group, the other cities were giving unfair trades at the time. Either less building materials for beast cores, or less gold in general. At the time Avrion was in desperate need of support as it was being rebuilt, so they had no choice but to accept, but now Avrion were in a strong position.

Sir K was the next to give a report as he stood up.

”There are six months remaining before the confrontation with the shadow. There seems to be no movement from them so far. However, the scouts that we have sent to check on the armies size have not returned.”

”There is no need to send any more men to the shadow continent, it seems they really do plan to stick to this year agreement, and even if they don't, we will be ready,” Slyvia said.

Just then, a knock was heard on the door from outside.

”I'm sorry to disturb the council meeting, but there is an emergency!” The guard said.

”Come in!” Von shouted.

In came one of the black knights that worked directly under Von. In fact, there weren't many black knights at the academy or in the city anymore. It turned out that most of them worked for Pureblood apart from the ones under Von's command.

”Please read this!” The man said as he handed over a sealed letter to Slyvia and on the front, it had the mark of the Empire.