15 First Day of Bloodthorn City

Various people arrived, walking out from the large portals. Some rode on horses, walked on foot and sat on caravans. Most of the people invited are poor, being a citizen in a new city is a massive opportunity to gain enough money to sustain themselves. The first wave of people are from poor villages that Gusion built a teleportation gate at. Their overall abilities are quite good according to Gusion.

When the number of caravans and villagers that emerged started to dwindle, mercenaries with leather armor marched out of the gates in legions of 100. Ten legions emerged from the gates and walked towards the city's gate with the villagers. After 15 minutes, most of the estimated 150,000 people had arrived and gathered in front of the city gate. A large stone platform started emerging from the ground, shaking the nearby area.

The villagers are amazed while the mercenaries are on guard as this might be a monster's doing. The shaking stopped and a handsome youth in black attire donning a black, high collared cape appeared on the stone, standing. Looking at his handsome face, most of the girls were attracted to him immediately, some moving to the front of the crowd just to get a better look at his perfect features.

As the girls stared at him like they had just met their Mr. Perfect, he welcomed them with a warm tone, "Welcome new citizens of Bloodthorn City. My name is Sebastian Adrian Cain, a marquis and the ruler of this city. All of you are chosen to be here and will all have fair competition. In here, your background will not determine your rank in the city, but instead your hardwork, talent and perseverance will make you succeed here. As for the rules and other affairs, I will leave them to my subordinates."

The audience, mostly the villagers and the poor rejoiced at this promise of fair competition, clapping and cheering. Even though they don't know whether the young man is telling the truth or not, they'd rather to cling on any hope they can find as they are quite desperate. However, some of the invited lesser nobles are not quite happy with that statement as they are spoiled brats who only relied on their status to get whatever they want.

Sebastian turned away from the crowd and walked down from the stone platform. After a few seconds, 3 figures appeared on stage. One man and two women. The man is wearing a black leather trenchcoat, but due to their technology and fashion not reaching near modern, they saw it as an odd attire. However, the man appears around the youth's age and is almost as handsome as the young marquis that had welcomed them. The woman on the right drew their attention as she wore a foreign golden battle armor and also had 3 pairs of white, angel wings sprouting from her back.

Pious men and women in the crowd praised the Lord for being given the chance to be in the presence of a angel. Her stunning wings also attracted the eyes of the non pious people who gained more respect and admiration for the young marquis as recruiting or taming angels as servants are feats that are unheard of even in empires. The third person appeared very holy, beautiful and innocence, the people felt a great feeling of calm around her. After a few seconds of looking at the trio, the young man spoke and explained them the rules of the city.

The rules are basically the same as other cities but a rule is added where in only nobles of the earl rank and above can use money to avoid arrest, as to prevent the more numerous lower nobles from taking advantage of the common folk. Another rule is added that states that the salaries of all servants must not be lower than a certain amount and a last rule is added that states that servants that receive injuries from their masters can report it as a crime of abuse.

These rules have been added to prevent nobles from exploiting the common folk and has caused the majority of the crowd to rejoice even more. Next, the young man explains that the city's extra plots of land can be purchased by anyone as long as they possessed enough money. The first person to pay will be the owner of the plot of land. He also told them of the facilities and jobs present and instructed them to go to the city hall after the orientation immediately to get their chosen jobs. First come first serve, the slots may empty if they did not get ready.

Next, the saintly figure spoke about the legal religions that are allowed to be practiced within the city. She also spoke about a place where the children can learn, it is called a school. Schools in that world are a secret only nobles of the count rank and above know of. These nobles are allowed to enroll their children into schools for nobles where they can learn to become whatever they want. Since the nobles present are only viscounts and below, they are not aware of what a school is but plans to enroll their children in immediately to gain an edge.

After she explains more about the curriculums and the city's religious affairs, she gestured towards the valkyrie to start explaining her part. Skadia told them of the training facilities she will provide to those who apply in the barracks as the city's sworn protectors. She explains to them that they will be given field trips to different locations to increase their rank and to learn different ways of defeating different types of monsters. The mercenaries are excited on this because they never had the chance to fight monsters to increase their rank. They considered that a luxury as they had trained rigorously since childhood just to increase their power and rank, while they just needed to slay a monster of choice and absorb its core to become stronger.

As she finished explaining, she announced that the orientation had ended and the three stepped down from the stone platform before it sinks down into the ground. The people immediately rushed to the city gates only a few hundred yards away. Using Skadia's skill, they teleported to the town hall and began doing their own assignments. Gusion went inside the city hall to handle the job slots and anyone who would like to buy the plots in the city.

Theresa used her own teleportation ability to teleport to a large building made of wood and stone, this is the school she built and she will act as the headmistress of that school. It's the most elite school in the city, the number one of the ten schools that are in the city. She will be overseeing all of the education for the city's citizens. The fee for each school is only a few gold coins per year which is around fifty times cheaper than noble schools but the curriculum is comparable to that of the noble schools.

Skadia flew away from the town hall square towards the barracks. She will be awaiting the mercenaries and will train them to protect the city. Hailyn then went to one of the very large plots that remained to construct a teleportation gate towards different areas filled with monsters. When she was dismissed yesterday, she used her passive ability to teleport around the different areas around the Agareth empire. She had managed to mark around 257 out of 382 areas within the kingdom's border with neutral territories.

The sentient races of the world divided areas throughout the world in ranks based on the strongest monster within the area. Coordinated areas may be raised to a higher rank by a power estimate of the coordination between monsters. There are a total of 6 levels known to the public. The lowest level are known as common lands, these areas have no monsters that reach the Bronze I rank. Common lands are rare due to the large amount of powerful monsters that exist. These powerful monsters would usually quickly claim common lands as their territoryas they will have no problems defeating their alphas.

Next are known as Common Wildlands, these areas have no monsters that reach the Silver I rank. Common Wildlands are more abundant than common lands due to having stronger alphas and possibly a chieftain monster. Powerful monsters would usually take more time taking these places to judge its advantages and disadvantages of claiming territory instead of immediately sending subordinates to attack as these areas are usually far from the territories of powerful monsters.

A level higher would be the Intermediate Wildlands, these areas have no Gold ranked monsters. These areas are same in abundance as Common Wildlands but have slightly smaller areas. These wildlands are usually the neutral areas or the outer territories of powerful monsters. Intermediate Wildlands are usually abundant in materials and is a gold mine for materials. Monsters of these areas get replenished by creation gates once the monster count is below 500.

Next is the Advanced Wildlands. These strongest monsters of these areas are of the Perfected Gold rank. Double mutated monsters may spawn or live in these areas and mutated monsters become more common compared to previous wildlands. These areas are usually either the middle or the inner territories of powerful monsters. Chieftain monsters number more than 3 in these areas and a general being present is not too unlikely. Creation gates replenish these areas with monsters once a few centuries or when the monster count reaches below 1000. These areas are the most abundant but are the third largest in area.

The other two levels have not been entered in by Hailyn except for Regarus forest which is classified as the 6th level but the major nobles know that the forest is actually a 7th level area due to the monster emperor at its central region that was repelled back into the forest by a joint attack with the neighboring kingdoms around 300 years in the past. Of the 257 areas she explored and marked, 38 of the are common lands, 53 of them are common wildlands, 68 of them are intermediate wildlands while the remaining 99 are advanced wildlands. Thanks to her being a servant, Sebastian knew everything that she knew.

Servants cannot hide anything from their masters unless their master chooses to ignore it or if a greater being erases or blocks certain memories from the master through the servant. Sebastian limits his knowledge of them only towards information as he doesn't want to get involved in their personal life. He simply gives them orders and as long as they are obeyed, he would be fine if they were to have fun or do their other interests.

Lilith melded with the shadows and went to a rendezvous point where she would meet her daughters and assign them to become the castle's maids or to remain in the city. As they all rushed to do their activities, Sebastian just strolled around the town, finding that once people received a job, they would immediately come to work.

The city quickly turned from the quiet ghost like town into a lively city within a few hours since dawn. More people have traveled through the teleportation gates especially merchants who traveled to the nearest villages with these gates upon hearing the news of the portals. The portals reduced their spendings by around 70% as they do not need to hire mercenaries to protect them from monsters or raiders.

The city quickly crowded and development started at a relatively fast rate. The job slots declined steadily which will soon make opportunities for new jobs to appear and allow a higher amount of development to occur. After a long day of lazing around and sightseeing throughout the city, he went towards the brothel to get a meal. The brothel is run by Lilith's daughters, they possess demon blood which will sustain him for 3 days instead of the usual one day when he consumed human blood. They also brought him a fantastic experience, but he did not use his sword as he planned to find the perfect girl to use it on and lose his virginity.

As he had nothing better to do, he decided to rest in his coffin. As the lid closed, darkness overtook his vision as he closed his eyes and entered the realm of sleep. An endless, short dark void.