Preparations Complete, Transitioning To The Second Step
60 years passed since the Vrida Region became the Forbloffende Traes Sect's territory overall. Everything in that abandoned, island Region went into Heian Ciemnosc's hands. Time has really passed, and ever since that momentous event, it has rained. What was once the 'deserted' south changed. As a matter of fact, everything was revolutionized in less than a century.
For starters, the collection of resources Region-wide never stopped. As it naturally increased, with the previous organizations all gone, the new ‘slaves’ were put to good use. However, after a decade, the first batch of ‘slaves’ were given the choice to either kill themselves or join the Sect.
Their treatment hadn’t been bad. Those who were citizens and didn’t off themselves first or fled somewhere and got killed by nature in the wild lived and ate accordingly while being slaved to the machinery or mines. It wasn’t comfortable nor heinous, but they could do with it.
The cultivators had it worse, as they had to work for at least 2 days without stopping if they were in the initial realms, and up to 2 weeks if they were in the later realms. This wasn’t a problem, but it was pitiful to watch the older generation that the younger generation once wanted to become act like slaves in machinery that civilians could use or transporting resources.
Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands of new Servants were recruited into the Forbloffende Traes Sect after a decade. This added well to the stable and fluent member increase every year, which was already greater than before, and didn’t even need to be regulated or something similar. The days went by like this.
When the slave to Servants new members joined the Sect, they were relieved and startled to see that besides mockery and a hazing, they weren’t targeted by others. Their seniors, of which many were civilians or had too low of a cultivation base, treated them like disposable trash.
Even then, when they realized the knowledge they had at their disposal, without trickery or hidden traps to lure them and make them suffer, they felt like their lungs breathed for the first time in their lives. The time when knowledge was publicly spread seemed just around the corner after who knows how long…
Thus, decade after decade, more and more ‘slaves’ turned into Servants. However, ever since the 14 organizations were uprooted, the Forbloffende Traes Sect’s promoting requirements became quirky. However, that was for outsiders. Anyone who joined the Sect and knew the why’s and how’s would immediately understand.
Now, to become a Servant, one only needed to pass the testing grounds. Their cultivation base could range from the Spiritual Ligament realm to even the Spirit Rebirth realm if it was possible. Naturally, that was only in theory. The thing is, it didn’t matter what one’s cultivation was before becoming an Outer Disciple.
The reason was pretty simple. To become an Outer Disciple, one needed to achieve the peak of a profession in First Step Craftsmaking. That much was shocking enough to bring most people who wished to join an organization down. In the same manner, no other organizations were allowed to rise for now. The Sect didn’t give any explanation, but such were things.
Thus, whether they wanted it or not, after a few examples shown to the public, everyone had to go to the Forbloffende Traes Sect. There, they’d suffer through the years as they spared no effort to achieve the one most important requirement to become a ‘mere’ Outer Disciple.
This was possible after 40 years of solidified systems where the Forbloffende Traes Sect no longer needed daily recruitment schedules nor to thirst for more resources. They had long become self-sufficient way before they occupied the entire Vrida Region, let alone now.
With such a stable foundation, the overall Sect members were already up to par if not above the new Sect’s restrictions and requirements. Thus, by the time the first decade after the Region war was won, the military college had their classes filled with every instructor and assistant. Naturally, the Servants were also filling those audience seats.
The military college now became rudimentary to the point that it takes away some rest time for cultivators in the initial realms. Citizens and engineers didn’t have this problem and could move through their schedule more easily, although they were taught meditation at the very least.
All in all, the Sect had arrived to the point where Heian Ciemnosc felt pleased with his efforts. Furthermore, as the requirements to become an Inner and Core Disciple were still only 1 peak Craftsmaking profession and their respective realms, one needed to master an additional profession to become an Acting Elder.
The realms required to promote hadn’t changed in the slightest, but the profession requirements did. This last reform, however, brought relief to those who worked hard enough and finally became disciples of the Sect. They could use their new monthly income to focus on their cultivation, while diverting some of their attention to serious Craftsmaking study and practice.
And so, the requirements for every position in the Forbloffende Traes Sect became well-known throughout the Region after a few more decades.
To become a Servant, one needed to pass the testing grounds. They could use their clothes however they wanted, and had until 80 years old to either become a disciple or graduate from the military college as a citizen or engineer.
To become an Outer Disciple, one must achieve 1 peak First Step profession in Craftsmaking. Afterwards, they must have restarted their cultivation path with the [Chronicles of Life and Death] Art. Only then would one become the Sect’s disciple and soldier unit.
Because of this, some Servants chose not to start cultivating and wait until they had enough mastery of their Craftsmaking with the many tools’ aid and the Stones they receive monthly or acquire through tasks. It was difficult, but these people were usually those who had incredible talent for Craftsmaking, so only they could embark in such difficult Craftsmaking without cultivation base. Their options were also very limited and could at most choose alchemy, forging, or caretaking.
The Outer Disciple’s cultivation base ranged from the Spiritual Ligament realm to the Phrenic realm. The Inner Disciple had similar profession requirements, with their cultivation base ranging from Spirit Gathering realm to Conflagrate realm. It was the same for the Core Disciples, whose cultivation base ranged from the Obsidiafying realm to the Ashes Apperception realm.
Once they had mastered another profession while at the Ashes Apperception realm, they could promote to become an Acting Elder. As for the Elder position, an Acting Elder must achieve peak First Step in 2 Craftsmaking professions and achieve the Spirit Birth realm.
To become an Ancestor, an Elder must achieve 3 peak First Step professions and break into the Ashes Soul realm. To become a Grand Elder, an Ancestor must achieve 4 peak First Step professions and break into the Crabstynian realm.
Finally, to become a Grand Ancestor, or even the rumored Vice sect master position, one must achieve 5 peak First Step professions and break into the Spirit Formation realm, at the very least.
A Servant can wear whatever they wish to dress themselves with but must use one of the mantles or cloaks of dull, obscure or strong colors left in their low status bedrooms’ wardrobes. On the other hand, Outer and Inner Disciples are given lavish black clothing and black strong armor.
A Core Disciple is given magnificent black clothing with great, smooth decorations like folds everywhere around their uniform and robes. They are also given a resplendent black armor. When they become an Acting Elder, they are given pitch-black clothing with a severe aura, and a slightly imposing black armor.
An Elder’s clothing is pitch-black with a tenebrous aura, and imposing black armor. An Ancestor’s clothing is pitch-black with a somber aura, and imposing black armor. A Grand Elder’s clothing is pitch-black with a pressuring aura, and a very imposing black armor. At last, a Grand Ancestor or Vice sect master’s clothing is pitch-black, with a fearsome aura, and overly imposing black armor.
The bedrooms have always remained the same, but with the arrival of so many higher-ups and upper echelons promoting from discipleship, they became a typical daily conversation topic.
The lower status bedrooms remained the same, with those living on the upper floors not having a natural garden, enclosed by other bedroom walls. With a well, several barrels to store things, and boxes inside to store one’s belongings. 2 desks, a praying mat, a drawer, and their bed. With a door for the main entrance and another for a mini garden on the back.
Those bedrooms belonged to Servants and Outer and Inner Disciples. On the other hand, Core Disciples and Acting Elders received the middle status bedrooms.
They had much more space. This time, these middle status bedrooms had only one door leading to the bedroom and no other to the outside. In retrospective, even those living in tall buildings had their own semi-natural garden.
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The lower status bedrooms had trees around their bedroom perimeter, but the middle status bedrooms had many, and they were all in their garden, surrounding the bedroom walls for about a meter and a half. There was a well and several barrels for different storing purposes if desired.
There were a couple of bonfires that could be lit up and quelled constantly, and a larger bonfire if someone had visits. The interior was shaped in a fat ‘L’ facing west, with its upper section much thicker than the lower section. To the left was the actual bedroom, while the right side had 2 round tables. One somewhat small and the other regularly big.
A chimney was built to their right, in the wall, in the middle of both tables, and there was a wide drawer on the northern wall with 2 desks at its sides, encompassing the right section’s width.
The actual bedroom was about a fourth of the interiors’ size. It had a bookshelf to the lower right, followed by a smaller drawer further north, and a desk facing the north against the corner. To the desk’s left, 2 small boxes for storing, and the bed up at the left corner. Below the bed, 2 large boxes sided a large chest. The large box to the chest’s right was up against the southern wall.
The praying mat was between the bed’s left lower corner and the drawer on the right wall. It was simple, but it wasn’t designed to remain that way. Anyone could move their furniture, but had to place it back to their original places before they were promoted.
On the other hand, the high status residences, belonging to the Elders, Ancestors, Grand Elders, and Grand Ancestors were something entirely else.
There were 2 floors for these, at last. Although they still shared a section of enormous, wide buildings per residence, they were simply superior in every sense.
The ‘main’ entrance was more like a living room, where 2 small, circular tables were in the middle. The door was at the northern wall, some carpets here and there, a chimney at the center on the left and right walls, and large barrels at the corners.
Behind the tables and between the barrels on the southern corners of this small entrance, there was a staircase leading downstairs. This was a basement for those on the main floor, and a second, lower floor for those above the former.
The basement/lower floor had 2 bedrooms, one for guests and the other for oneself. The main bedroom had a large bed, 3 praying mats, 3 desks, 1 bookshelf, a large chimney. It also had a few small boxes, and some medium-sized chests.
The guest bedroom was just down the stairs, to the right, with 3 of its walls unattached to any of the basement/lower floor’s main walls. It had a single bed, a few carpets before the bed in the middle with its headrest against the opposite wall to the entrance. 3 desks, a chimney, some boxes, a praying mat, a drawer, and a small bookshelf.
The corridors leading to these 2 bedrooms weren’t long or complicated, just a square-shaped set of corridors with its lower side missing, where the guest room was attached to the southern wall. There were some tables with flora pots on them and 2 small wells.
Either way, things like this balanced the daily lives of the Sect members. Furthermore, most of the civilian districts were brimming with life and energy, be it at night or during the day. The inner territory had become bustling after a century of hard work. Of course, it also helped that millions of disciples and even more Servants had joined the Sect.
But that’s only regarding the inner territory, which had only begun its expansion preparations and hadn’t started building outside its current perimeter. For starters, some settlements would be taken in and turned into population within the new inner territory. It was unavoidable. However, the civilians weren’t forced, and one of those settlements was Saon’s town.
Furthermore, the previous illusory array formation from before was no longer active. Anyone with enough distance to stare into the sky and see the enormous tree, which had grown even more during these last few decades, could see the Forbloffende Traes Sect’s landmark.
Yet, that was the least insurmountable changes that occurred during the ‘revolutionizing’ of the Vrida Region.
While the tree at the Sect inner territory had grown in height and diameter, reaching higher into the skies, never seen before the mini tournament. The forests in the Vrida Region were tripled. Before, at the center and slightly north, the 2 forests that had been there before the new Change had developed well, but not to Heian Ciemnosc’s standards.
They had expanded and became a well-sized forest in the Region, but that was only for 1* miserable Regions. Compared to a larger-than-most 1* Region, those 2 forests weren’t even a tenth of its land altogether. Thus, transformation was necessary in the darkest eyes’ mind.
The western and eastern forests were trimmed down a little, thinning their previous volume as they formed a strange ‘path’ leading to the inner territory. Meanwhile, the Sect also began building new forests from scratch. The forests remained the same, more or less, but were now slightly moving towards the center and even the south than remaining in the center.
But now, a southern trail of trees led into the new 2 southern forests. This was originally meant to be 1 forest but became divided by nature and afterwards by the disciples who accepted the change. The division led to 2 also thin forests which separated when hearing the southern shores to shape in reverse ‘v’ shapes, still belonging to the same forest that was previously divided.
Naturally, the north also had 2 new forests. These also divided, but didn’t further separate when nearing the northern shores. Instead, they simply stopped there and showed the north what the south also wasn’t familiar with— pure nature.
Of course, that wouldn’t be the only thing Heian Ciemnosc would do when he finally had so many subordinates with at least a peak First Step profession to employ. This would already be a lot in the Crimsonbreaking Faction, and only a procedure to the Second Step Wrath Nihility Academy, but it wasn’t the same for a First Step organization to achieve it.
The reconstruction and building of the Vrida Region had commenced!
During these years, the auxiliary units had been overjoyed. They didn’t lack tasks to go out and help build the rest of the Region. First, it started with the planning of the Region’s core cities, towns, and villages. Then, the rest of the space, where any other civilian could begin their settlement or continue developing them.
Like this, the Vrida Region, which was imaginably divided by the lines of trees of forests, gained peace and crazily progressed. In the southwest, southeast, northeast, northwest, and between these in the middle, cities were surrounded by supreme towns, with supreme villages located here and there between the towns and cities and among the towns.
Then, the rest of the Regions had all kinds of settlements everywhere. Only those that were planned to bring each zone in the Vrida Region’s richness and development were what took the longest to build. The rest, not so much. With their numbers, although it didn’t seem much compared to the previous operations Heian Ciemnosc led, it was more than enough for a 1* Region. Besides, a Divine Kingdom’s resources were nothing Heian Ciemnosc had ever witnessed previously.
He had to build several extra storage so as to not make it seem he had endless Covert Space bags. However, even with all this being considered, that wasn’t everything Heian Ciemnosc did with his auxiliary units. As for the soldier units, they had to look for a way to earn enough to keep their monthly charges not bringing them down.
As peak First Step Craftspeople in at least 1 profession, they had at least dozens of methods to gain silver coins from the outside, so they had no excuse. The auxiliary units, on the other hand, were the backbone of the Sect’s always growing, future powerhouse.
If they needed help in their Craftsmaking, they would get it. During these 60 years, they had ample time to build from settlements, more arsenal, and vehicles, to watchtowers, forts, and ports.
Indeed. Now that so many soldier units were restarting or beginning their cultivation path after achieving 1 peak First Step profession, it was time the navy was built. The citizens also needed to form part of this, along with the engineers.
The next job the auxiliary members became engrossed with was building several watchtowers around the Vrida Region’s shores. With at least a fort between each 2 watchtowers. They were to defend the Region from anything. Its radars and detectors could even detect a Disaster forming nearby, enough to break apart their little island Region.
While it wouldn’t be such a simple matter, this meant they were prepared.
Thus, 3 ports were built, fortified as forts, of which their navy was trained for decades as the number of ‘free’ Servants declined, but that’s what the increasing number of new members was for. Every day, the Vrida Region could see the warships navigating the Vrida Region’s water, peacefully patrolling the waters. It was a calming, proud feeling dwelling in the civilians’ hearts.
Although they knew the difference between a regular organization and a generational organization, they couldn’t help but feel like their heart and Soul belonged to the Vrida Region and the Forbloffende Traes Sect.
After all, there was no oppression or brutal changes to the Vrida Region after the Forbloffende Traes Sect crushed the 14 organizations. In the end, not even a tenth of the time the 14 organizations had been in the ‘thrones’, to the Sect, it was enough to build the most advanced prosperity these past few generations had seen.
There was 1 port for the east, south, and west. There were none for the north, and only 1 Fleet per port due to the currently lacking personnel. The Sect couldn’t send all its Servants, citizens, and civilians to the navy, it still needed to be attended.
Thus, only those warships patrolling the Region’s water were seen… or that seemed to be the case. Similarly, the Sect didn’t just have motorized and armored vehicles, but the soldier units and auxiliary units only used these during the war against the organizations. Many wondered why, but it didn’t matter. That was the past. The future was today, and it was spectacular.
Furthermore, while the armored vehicles already proved more warrior-like and destructive than the top-notch bunch, the navy was even more so blatant. The Frigates were more or less the same size, slightly larger. However, they had much more arsenal, with several thrusters and even smallish engines.
Meanwhile, the Destroyers and Cruisers were about 2 to 3 times the size of top-notch Destroyers and Cruisers. The Sect’s Battleship was only one, and it was already much larger than the top-notch Supreme Battleships. As for the Carriers, these were simply incomparable.
The Sect’s Carrier is ginormous. If top-notch Carriers can sum up to 15,000 Fighters and some weapons, mainly relying on their rocket launchers, the Sect’s Carrier can hold over 150,000 Fighters, with only 50,000 belonging to the air forces. Yet, still maintains more lethality than Low Battleships.
Besides that, the Small Fleets were the regular Fleets in the world, with the Fleets and Grand Fleets used several smaller-sized Fleets to comprise them. Things could only get more ridiculous, as a Mothership Fleet was even below a Grand Fleet, but navies didn’t have Motherships. Either way, the Sect had 3 Fleets, which consisted of several Small Fleets surrounding the main force in the middle.
Anyone who watched these Fleets depart together to begin patrolling would salivate from stupidity. They were so many, so monstrous, and so deadly. Who and how could someone ever build something like this? The answers were simple.
Only Heian Ciemnosc, and only in a 1* Region of a Divine Kingdom, where all its resources are his to allocate.
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