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Chapter 6
In the morning Antonio awoke to the light from the sun entering the room. As he looked to his left and his right there were two beautiful women laying on his chest. Both were sleeping soundly and there was no way for him to awaken without waking them.
This life doesn’t seem so bad so far. After freeing everyone and organizing a new community I guess I earned the right to sleep in today.
Another hour or so past by and the two ladies woke up. They got up out of the bed and Antonio woke up to see their naked bodies walk away and begin to put on their clothes. After they got dressed Jazmine kissed Elizabeth passionately.
“You were right I do like you a lot more now”, Jazmine said smiling
“I told you so”, replied Elizabeth.
“Hey where is mine?” asked Antonio.
The two ladies smiled and jumped into the bed and both kissed him.
“You have a busy day today leader. You need to go through the town and assign duties for people”, said Elizabeth.
“Can you go with me? I don’t know any of the people in the community so your input would be greatly beneficial.”
“I think I can do that”, said Elizabeth
“You better or I may have to give you a spanking”, said Antonio as he gently smacked her round, firm behind.
“That wouldn’t be much of a punishment because as you learned last night I like that", she said with a devilish grin. "But I will go with you to help”, said Elizabeth.
“I want in on that action”, said Jazmine as she turned her back to Antonio and stuck out her rear end.
Antonio smacked her on the rear as well and she giggled in delight.
“Alright it’s time to go to work”, said Antonio as he put on his clothes.
The group went downstairs where there was food prepared. The trio ate until they were full and thanked the cooks. Once
they were outside, Elizabeth went up to a large bell that was located at the front of the main house.
“What are you doing?”, asked Antonio
“This bell is a signal for everyone to meet here at the main house. We would ring this in case of impending danger. This should bring everyone here so you can talk to them all at once.”
“Smart and beautiful, you are definitely the total package”, said Antonio.
“I second that” said Jazmine.
Elizabeth began ringing the bell. After a few moments the entire community gathered in front of the main house.
“Alright everyone it is time to organize our community. We will need some specialized workers like a tailor, blacksmith, chef, carpenters, and doctor. We will also need some people to do labor jobs like lumberjacks, farmers, and cattle herders.
Lastly, we will need people train as an armed force.”
“I’m already the blacksmith”, said Bruce
“I’m already the doctor”
“I’m sorry I never got your name.”
“Oh, my name is Eli”
“Ok Eli is the doctor and Bruce is the blacksmith. Does anyone have the Chef or cook jobs”
“Yes I do. My name is Kyle. I have the chef job.”
“Ok does anyone have the tailor job?”
“Yes I do. My name is Karen”
“Does anyone have the carpenter or woodworker job?”
“I do”, said an older man
“So do I”, said a man about Antonio’s age
“Ok who would like to be the cattle herder?”
“Oh Magnus and I can take care of that”, said Cid
“Now who would like to be lumberjacks?”
5 men stepped forward and volunteered.
“Up next are the farmers. Who would like that job?”
3 men and 5 women stepped forward.
“Alright who would like to be part of the armed force?”
11 people stepped forward, Elizabeth was one of them.
Antonio smiled and said, “Wow that many? With some training we will be able to move on and free more people who are being enslaved. Alright now that everyone has their jobs please begin working on them, all except the soldiers."
“Before we go what will we call our new town, Antonio?”, asked Bruce
“I have the perfect name, Avalon after the last great human city.”
The people cheered!
The would-be soldiers moved forward and gathered in a semi-circle around Antonio. He began to address them.
“I am going to train you in the art of war. You will begin each day with daily body weight exercises. Once we finish with that then you will begin weapon training. Each of you will choose a weapon that feels best for you. It will take some time to get each of you weapons as we don’t have very many materials.
I will save the weapons I have in the cart for those that show real progress.
“Once you complete your weapon training then you then having sparring sessions to give you real combat practice. Since we don’t have any weapons at the moment we will work on hand-to-hand combat skills. Alright everyone go to the plains area behind the main house.”
Everyone ran behind Antonio to the back of the house.
“This will be our main training area. Does anyone have any combat experience besides myself and Jazmine?”
No one responded.
Dammit, I have an army of complete amateurs. This is going to be difficult.
Antonio looked over the entire group and saw that all of them were level 1 and none of them had a combat class. Most of them had good strength and endurance.
I guess the strength and endurance came from being a slave.
“Everyone down on the ground. Put your hands under your chest. These are called pushups. "
Antonio demonstrated the pushup by beginning in the start position then raised himself up by extending his arms. He then lowered his body back to start postion.
"Now you guys do it!"
The group as many pushups as they could. As the group kept going some people fell off and could no longer continue. The people fell off one by one until only 3 remained, Antonio and 2 other younger men.
Not bad. With their strength these guys maybe capable of using those greatswords.
You gained +1 to your strength
The pushups continued until they reached nearly 200 then both of the younger men fell out in exhaustion. The next exercise was jumping jacks. Antonio taught them how to do them and the group began. After about 200 jumping jacks the group was breathing heavily. Once they took a chance to catch their breath.
“Alright now we are going to run to build up our endurance. Follow me and try to keep up.”
The group took off running. Because of her high agility Jazmine was out front even ahead of Antonio. The continued running and the pace began to pick up. As several of the people in the group were recently being crucified their stamina was very low. They fell off after only a few moments. The group continued running until no one could continue.
You gained +1 to your endurance
To Antonio’s surprise one of the ones who lasted the longest was Elizabeth.
I guess that would explain her stamina last night.
“Alright now we are going to do the same circuit again and again and again until we can do it 5 times.”
Several members of the group groaned but they continued diligently. Each time the group was able to do more of each exercise until they finished. Antonio checked his stat increases.
You have gained 4 points to strength
You have gained 6 points to endurance
I bet they are gaining stats just like I am. Let me check.
“Is anyone gaining any stats while we are working out?”, asked Antonio
“I got some strength points while we were doing pushups and some endurance while we were running”, said Elizabeth.
Several other members nodded their heads showing their agreement.
“Good that means our training is working”, said Antonio. “Now we are going to move on to combat training.”
The group paired off into groups of two. Antonio demonstrated how to get into a basic fighting stance with his chin tucked behind his shoulders. His feet were shoulder’s width apart. His right hand was tucked so that it protected his chin and his left hand was out a little past his shoulder so that he could quickly attack his opponent.”
“Alright now the first thing you need to know about combat is how to move. You need to move so that your feet do not cross and you don’t want your feet to get too close or too far apart. So watch and then follow.”
He moved forward, back, left, and right. The group followed in kind. Some of them crossed their feet moving sideways.
Antonio corrected any mistakes that he saw.
You have gained the job tutor
With this job those who you teach will learn jobs faster and their skills will increase faster.
That is great that will mean that these guys will get better a lot faster.
“Next is the first basic attack move is a jab.”
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Antonio demonstrated by throwing several jabs. His jabs were quick and compact.
“Now you do it 100 times to my count 1.”
Each time they threw a jab he walked and observed their movements.
“Remember to bring it back after throwing it because, you never want leave your chin exposed.”
He taught them to more offensive moves the front kick and the right straight. He also had them practice each of those 500 times. Many of the people were struggling to complete all of his training but they stuck with and made it through.
“Last thing for today you will learn to dodge. This will be one of the most important skills on the battle field. You must be able to avoid attacks to stay alive.”
He demonstrated how to dodge to the right and left to avoid an attack and move into a more advantageous position. They practiced with their partners until Antonio was satisfied. Once he was satisfied.
“Now I want you to practice the skills I taught at a slow speed. I don’t want anyone injured. One partner practices throwing all of the attacks you learned. The other partner will practice dodging the blows. Be careful not to injure your partner.”
The group nodded and took their positions. Antonio stood in front of Jazmine. She began throwing punches and kicks at him. He watched her as the blows came one after the other. He dodged them little by little.
You have gained the skill unarmed combat.
You have gained the skill dodge.
After a little while went by he told the partners to switch places. The group switched and the roles reversed. He began attacking Jazmine with punches and front kicks as she avoided them.
“This is a little slow for me I am not a novice like these other people. Can you please speed up some?”, asked Jazmine.
“I can speed up just be careful.”
Antonio began speeding up and he began throwing the attacks and he varied which attacks came and the order that they came in. Jazmine was able to keep up for a little while but soon the attacks began to be too fast for her to dodge all of them. Suddenly, Antonio had to stop one of the punches just before it hit her square in the face.
“Well I guess that was a little too fast for me”, said Jazmine
“Yeah we could all use some training especially in the basics”, replied Antonio
They resumed the attack and defense training for a few more moments before Antonio dismissed the group for the day. Once everyone left Antonio asked the 2 ladies to go do to jobs before they met up for dinner.
“Jazmine go to Bruce and ask him to start making arrow heads because some of the people I saw are not suited for hand to hand combat. Their endurance is far below the normal so I will make them into archers.”
“I understand”, said Jazmine as she walked off towards the blacksmith shop.
“Elizabeth, is there any place we can get leather?”
“Yes there are some wild animals in the forest not far from here but they are kind of dangerous so we do not challenge them”, replied Elizabeth
“Hmmm…. I believe we will need to increase our skills before we can take those on. For the time being I would like you to ask the woodworker to make some practice weapons for us. The weapons should be some small daggers, shortswords, longswords, greatswords, and shields. After that could they begin making some arrows.”
“I can do that.”
“Before you leave can you tell me where I can find Karen?”
“She is probably working at her loom which is on the first floor of the master’s house.”
“Thanks I’m going to head there now.”
“I will meet you back at the main house after I finish”, said Elizabeth as she began walking away.
Antonio then went to the tailor to get some cloth.
can use it to make some training dummies for everyone to practice with.
He quickly headed towards the main house and found Karen just as Elizabeth said. He entered the room. There he saw a middle aged woman with long black hair working diligently at a loom. She was making blankets from cotton.
I guess she felt the first thing was to keep people warm at night. Not a bad idea.
“Hello, we haven’t been formally introduced but I am Antonio.”
“Everyone knows you in this community now and my name is Karen. How may I help you?”
“I would like a couple of torso sized pieces of fabric so that I can make training dummies for the soldiers. It will allow them to practice weapon techniques without hurting each other.”
“I think I can do that. It will take men about 3 days as I am currently making blankets for everyone. Many of the people have been sleeping on the ground and in the evening it gets very cold. We need to keep everyone healthy so our community stays strong right?”
“I agree 100%. Just let me know when you finish with them there is no rush.”
“Ok. I will work on them as soon as I finish the blankets.”
“Do you mind telling what level your tailoring job is?”
“Oh it’s level 60. I have been doing this for a long time.”
“Do you know what level is the maximum?”
“I believe at level 100 your skill ranks up and you get to choose a specialization.”
“Oh that is good to know. Well thank you for all of your help.”
“No thank you for setting me free.”
“You’re welcome”, said Antonio as he left the room.
Everything is going smoothly so far. We have to get some defenses set up though. That means building a wall around this place. What could we build it from? Bricks? Wood? We will need to cut down some trees in the forest in order to get more wood. Ok the first priority should be getting our defenses solidified and building homes for all of our people. Once those tasks are done we can go out hunting for animals.
Antonio made his way to the dining room where his two lovely ladies were waiting.
“How did things go?”, asked Antonio.
“The two carpenters said that they were focusing on building homes for the people but they would do it after everyone had a place to call home. They said it would take about a month”, said Elizabeth.
“Yeah and Bruce said He would get on making the arrow heads right away but he does not have much ore left so he won’t be able to make many”, said Jazmine
“Hmm… A blacksmith not having another ore is definitely a problem. Is there a mine anywhere near here?”
“Yes it is about 3 days ride on horseback from here but I believe it is home to some monsters called goblins. They are not
very strong but there are usually a lot of them so most people don’t go near them”, replied Elizabeth.
“Well I guess we will have no choice. We will need to push our group of soldiers to improve so that we can go and mine some ore. Alright we have about a month before we can do that because that is when the carpenters will make our weapons so we need to train as hard as we can then help the labor jobs when we finish”, said Antonio.
“Ok I will help the chef because I already have the cooking skill”, said Elizabeth
“I don’t have any trade skills but I think the best use of extra time would be in helping the carpenters”, said Jazmine.
“I agree. That is where I will be spending time. Oh by the way do you know if anyone here can use magic?”
“Magic? It has been hundreds of years since the knowledge of magic has been lost to humans. All of those who could use it were killed because the captors didn’t want them to use it”, said Elizabeth.
“So magic is almost non-existent among humans?”, asked Antonio
“Didn’t you hear her? The knowledge to use magic has been lost to humans hundreds of years ago”, said Jazmine.
“I just asked because I can use magic.”
“What?!?!”, They said in unison
Antonio pointed his hand at the wall near them and said, “Freeze!”
Immediately, part of the wall became covered with ice.
“You are full of surprises Antonio”, said Jazmine
“How? What? Who are you? How do you know magic?” asked Elizabeth.
“To be honest I was given a book by this old man and it explained how to gather and manipulate mana using the 4 basic elements of wind, water, fire, and earth”, explained Antonio.
“You can read too?” asked Elizabeth.
“Yes and I will teach all of you and if anyone else can learn to use magic that would greatly increase our chances of survival”, said Antonio.
The trio ate the food they were given and then thanked the chef before they returned to their bedroom for the night. The group disrobed and got into the large bed. Both ladies placed their heads on opposite sides of Antonio’s chest. They all kissed each other. There was no wild sex this night as they all were exhausted from the day’s training.
Status
Antonio Meridius
Level: 4
Race: Human
Titles: Freedom Fighter
Class: Warrior Level 4
Job: Slave level 9, Farmer level 5, Beast tamer level 6, Guardian level 1, Tutor level 8, Carpentry level 11
Health: 140/140
Mana: 100/100
Strength: 90
Dexterity: 65
Agility: 35
Endurance: 86
Wisdom: 35
Intelligence: 37
Luck: 10
Charisma: 25
Attack: 78
Defense: 61
Abilities:
Tame Beast, crop growing
Skills:
Bow Mastery Beginner level 1
Shield Mastery Beginner level 4
Sword Mastery Beginner level 5
Unarmed Combat Mastery Beginner level 7
Woodworking Mastery Beginner level 6
Fireball level 1
Wind sprint level 1
Earth armor level 1
Ice blast level 1
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* In the upcoming chapters:
Training
Hunting
Town building
Forest Exploration
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Hiro's Journey