34 New Instructor

-One month later-

"It is decided then, both Jack from the Mist household and Natalia from the Sacred Fire household will be confined to the city for the next two years. They are able to go anywhere they wish within the city, but if they leave, their actions would be taken as them disobeying the alliance's orders."

"Furthermore, it has been decided that Leo will officially be accepted into the alliance due to the approval of each household within the alliance. Leo will be confined to the city for the next year. Due to him not having any direct affiliation within the alliance until now, his punishment will be lighter. He will also be like a commoner who has joined our alliance and no household can accept him officially for the next five years due to the age restriction."

"The council understands that Leo is already very formidable given his age, but it is up to us to keep the rules concerning commoners active regardless of talents. Leo will be placed under Noah's care and trained properly." One of the councilmen told every representative of the alliance who showed themselves for the trial.

The trial started only two weeks after Leo's squad was escorted back to the city. The Moon household chose not to put up too much pressure because both the Mist household and Sacred Flames households used all their backing to support the squad during the trial and even had some warriors return to plead the council on their behalf as well.

If it were not for the threat of the orc factions close to the city openly declaring full out war onto the city, the council would have given a much harsher sentencing. Due to all three members of Leo's squad showing so much potential, the council wanted them to silently train within the safety of the city's walls. Both Jack and Natalia's household however, only wanted their members to be safe which is why Leo received less confinement.

"We can all agree that now more than ever, our alliance needs to help support those under our banner. After the orcs declared war on the city, we have lost two executive level experts which really hurt our overall foundation as our own faction within these city walls." Another council member reported once those who reacted to the sentencing calmed down.

"Remember everyone, if we continue to lose even lower tier warriors, our foundation will be at risk of collapsing. The Moon household's Patriarch has been kind enough to request assistance from a foreign human power and they should be arriving soon. For the messengers they had sent out to the foreign human power, it should take them about one year to reach them and another year for their return. Let us wish them luck and in exchange, let us help support the Moon household." Another member of the council requested every representative.

Soon after finalizing the paperwork associated with the city arrest of the squad, everyone made their way back to their respective households and factions within the city.

-The next day-

"And here I was starting to become relaxed from remaining inside all day and night!" Leo told the group of guards in front of him while a big grin was left on his face. Leo within this past month has become much calmer around the guards because they were made up of all commoners that the Crimson household recruited over the years.

Leo in his past life was in a very poor family and so he found himself joking around and connecting with these guards more than he had anyone else. Each guard had families of their own and were lucky enough to always have food on their tables. However, if anything were to happen to these guards, they knew that their families would be put in a not so good situation.

"I am glad that you are so optimistic, but you do know that the real training starts this afternoon, right Leo?" walking up to the group of guards who finally started to disband themselves, Noah was seen walking up.

"I've heard that you are very strong for your age. If that is the case, I will be pushing you much harder than anyone else. Oh, and I have been assigned to train you personally, so we will get to know each other very well over this next year. Keep in mind, I have a reputation to uphold so if you do not perform at your best capacity, you will pay the price!" laughing and taunting Leo, Noah actually felt rather relieved.

The request of the Mist and Sacred Flames households were to allow Leo to be trained by Noah personally. This was part of the bargain they made with the alliance so that Jack and Natalia would have a strong squad leader once their sentencing was over. To Noah, this made it so that he could concentrate all his energy in training a single warrior.

Only needing to train a single warrior that held so much potential was a dream come true to Noah. This meant that he would not need to take on any missions from the alliance, and he would not be overwhelmed with pressure training too many warriors!

Hearing himself being mocked, Leo drew his sword and dashed towards Noah with all his might. To his surprise, Noah already seemed to have predicted that he would respond to his taunting in this way.

Spinning like a tornado in the air, Leo unleashed a new technique he learned from purchasing a technique book in the marketplace.

"Heavenly Torment!" Leo shouted as his movements seemed to have kicked up a dust of wind that circled around his sword as he stabbed it towards Noah!

"Thump!"

Without wasting more energy than he needed to, Noah blocked Leo's sword with only his hand that was covered in a leather glove. Noah then used the same technique Leo unleashed, but instead of a weapon, he used his other hand!

"Wait, how the hell?" unable to pull his sword out from Noah's hand, Leo had to let go of his sword and tried to retreat backwards. Unfortunately, this was enough to save him from Noah's attack!

"Crack!"

Noah's hand pierced through the iron chest plate that Leo was now wearing, and the wind started to rip parts of his skin off before he was flown back by the momentum.

"For you to execute that technique, it shows that you do have some potential. It looks like you have no control over your strength and you are extremely sloppy in battle. Maybe against weaker opponents or monsters with no intelligence, you could survive, but in a real battle, you would die pretty quickly." Walking over to Leo who was now laying on the ground with his back up against the home he had been living in for the past month, Noah quickly picked him up and brought him into the home.

"This is going to be one hell of a year." Noah thought as he sighed to himself. He knew that training Leo would help him bring out his true potential, but hearing the reports, he had no choice but to overwhelm him in one on one combat to earn his respect as his new instructor.