The Golden Throne

"You are absolutely right, Your Majesty. But I had very little time to build my city, and to do so, I had no other choice but to rely on money, and that made the hierarchy of the city very clear. Of course, it is not nearly as horrible as the rest of the human cities, but it is present nonetheless.", Liu Feng conceded. He sighed because deep down, he knew that he was not even keeping up to his own standards properly.

"You humans are the weight that drags this continent down.", the king sighed and he walked past Liu Feng to leave the tent.

Liu Feng was still sitting down, sipping tea. He did not say a thing in response. His eyes fluttered left and right as thoughts flashed by his eyes. 

"What am I going to do about the ministers? I do not know how powerful they will actually be, and I certainly cannot make sure that this nuclear weapon will be able to kill them all. And god what happened here for the king to say that humans are the worst? I should talk to father about making sure that nobles are kept on a tight leash.. Else, they will offend the wrong people and put me in a pinch.", he thought to himself.

Arad came inside and looked at Liu Feng. Liu Feng did not immediately respond to Arad, but he acknowledged his presence with a nod.

"Master, what was the reason for His Majesty to meet with you with such urgency? I have never seen him so serious."

"That? It means that we have to wait for the final battle to see whether Dicain will survive, and how we will be able to fight a war that everyone expects us to lose."

"What do you mean by that?", Arad asked him, his brow tightly knit.

"It means that there will be a demon minister with a defensive artefact and a demon minister with an offensive artefact. Apparently together they are comparable to a demon lord. We are officially screwed.", he sighed.

"Two, Two demon ministers?!", Arad stuttered as he fell back in shock. "This was supposed to be a small recon team. The south is not prepared for such a devastating army. We will have to request reinforcements from the north to supplement our army.", Arad muttered.

Liu Feng looked at Arad curiously. Reinforcements from the North? That meant that the situation in the north was not as bad as the situation here. It also meant that Arad believed that the north was capable of fighting back against the demon ministers. 

Liu Feng got up left the tent to look outside at the air. There were shouts popping up, and Liu Feng looked around. It looked like everyone was going somewhere. Liu Feng popped his head back into the tent. "Come on Arad, it looks like we have to go somewhere."

Arad nodded, and he trailed behind Liu Feng as they followed a cluster of recruits who were going somewhere. They got to the city centre, where a lot of high command officers were standing. Liu Feng could recognize quite a few of them, and was pleasantly surprised to see Samiel, the court mage, and Davis, the swordsman that taught him how to use the sword when he was very young. Ofcourse, none of them could recognize Liu Feng in the massive crowd, and they were not intending to look for him, so Liu Feng stayed hidden.

The soldiers next to the crowd shouted instructions at the new recruits, and helped them get into a proper array. Once the recruits were all standing in the right positions, the senior officers at the forefront of them all started talking to themselves about something. They kept glancing at the recruits from time to time. After a while of fervent talking between them, they faced the recruits. One of the senior officers stepped forward.

"Lines one through five will follow me."

The first five lines of people followed the man as he led them somewhere that Liu Feng was not familiar with. Slowly, the rest of the senior officers took charge of part of the recruits. Liu Feng breathed a sigh of relief when his former teachers picked recruits other than him. Soon after, the sole woman of the senior officers picked Liu Feng's lines. She was a fair elf, and all the men near him were shaking with excitement. He could hear some of them mutter,  "God is helping us. Look at that woman, he really favors us."

Liu Feng shook his head, and he followed the woman. He was in the middle of the pack, and was fairly unnoticeable, so he did not need to follow anything perfectly. The woman led them to a huge ground outside the city. Liu Feng could see the other groups of people a distance away from them. The woman looked at the recruits and started speaking. The group was silent, and her melodious voice reached the other end of the line with ease.

"I am your captain, for all intents and purposes. My goal will be to train you enough so that you will not die immediately when you get to the battlefield. Now, I have already worked with you horny idiots once before, so don't think that I don't know how to handle you humans. For the remainder of my time with you, if I see even one of you talking about me behind my back, there will be consequences. I suggest you take as many cold showers as you can and suppress all those thoughts within yourself, because this… training, if you would call it, will get very difficult if you don't. I see that there are quite a few here that are already in need of a lesson. Come on now, all of you start by running a few rounds around this ground. You will follow my lead."

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