Khione POV

Waking up from my slumber I crawled out of bed and went to the wardrobe in the bed room. Opening its twin doors I found my self staring at exquisite silk dresses,skirts, blouses, and finely worked shoes made of leather with gold trim. There where even varieties in the gold: white, black, blue... then there where purple and red flowing gowns with white mink fur lining. I reached my hands out and stroked the soft beautiful clothes before I selected a pure white silk dress and a minks fur scarf. I then selected an ideal pair of boots made of white leather and finished with a pair of fur lined evening gloves.

When I had finished dressing I walked to the lift and went down to the library floor then took the stairs down to the throne room. Then proceeded down the long hall and out the doors.

Walking down the path I spotted my recruits hard at training paired off and practicing new techniques on each other with their blunted swords. Strangely enough I saw Terror training along with them. I walked passed them and towards master Rhazin who was stood a little ways away and correcting their forms.

Walking up to him.

“master Rhazin excuse me for a moment”

Rhazin

“yes my lady what my I help you with ?”

me

“i need you to hasten their training and make it much more difficult”

“i will need them very shortly so they most complete their basic training within a couple of days”

Rhazin

“my lady I will see it done, however I’m not sure how you want me to go about this ?”

me

“shorten their sleeping time, give them five minutes to eat three times a day, no free time, no breaks,

constant physical training, also keep them well hydrated...”

“they will get six hours of sleep, however this isn't to be consecutive”

“you will have both night training and day”

“anyone who doesn't cooperate with this new training you will beat into submission and add an extra amount of training onto their squad.”

“for the squads it is lucky I ended with 169 recruits so we can just divide them into thirteen groups of thirteen.”

“the one who excels the most in each squad will lead it”

Rhazin

“yes my lady”

watching him walk away I nodded to my self. And walked to the smithy and entered it spotting a very relaxed scene of lazing around apprentices and a snoring black smith. I clapped my hands together loudly waking them up. Speaking to the half asleep black smith.

Me

“i wont 169 full suits of plate armor in less than a week see that its done with any flexing parts of the bodies are to be made with chain-mail. The inside of the armor most have a cotton and leather padding.

(cotton is know to stop arrows and crossbow bolts completely)

Yorick

“ye-yes ma'am ill see that its done”

leaving the shop with a grin on my face at the now scurrying blacksmith and apprentices I walked into the tailors to get him working on the leather and cotton padding. Strangely they weren't lazing about so it took much less time.

Once finished with my business at the keep I walked back into the city. I still needed to find an alchemist. Who would be vital to my survival. The poisons and restorative potions where necessary for what I had in mind.

I also wanted an enchanter and my own identifier. But I wasn't about to settle for one who came from trolls. Anyway after a couple of hours wondering the city and asking around I found that the trolls lacked alchemists. It would seem that I would have to hurry up my plans even more.

Returning to the keep I watched some recruits now full out sprinting laps around the top of the walls.

Others where in the yard fighting much harder than before. Those who where hit by the blunted weapons now usually had bad bruising.

Walking back into my keep I went up into the library and asked Esha to find me all the books that I had on alchemy. Sitting down on a nearby bench I laid down and took a nap.

I woke up to Esha's hand on my shoulder. She had placed a couple books on the small table in front of the bench. Thanking her I reached for the one on top and read the title “An introduction to basic alchemy Royal addition”

Taking this book I leaned back onto the bench and opened the book. It listed a lot of ingredients and their affects and where to get them. It also gave me an explanation on how to use a mortar and pestle to mix the ingredients.

Posted a different page for the Ingredients....