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Two years after hearing what happened to my brother, and the birth of my younger brother Maximilian Max for short , I decided to speed up my plans. First I gathered all the beggar children and orphans in our territories it took a very long time to convince my father to allow me. I just told him it was better than them living on the streets without a future. He finally agreed after I used his only weakness puppy eyes. The amount of children we gathered were 10,000.
The amount of wealth and resources our family had this amount was nothing we could feed and house 100,000 more and our accounts would still be in the green I know I did them my self.
Even though our territory is one of the most prosperous in terms of civilian wealth and happiness, being on the borders of our an opposing nation scrimmages are not unheard of, and war orphans are a common occurrence.
After all of the children gathered and briefed on their current situation, they were split into groups. They were split into soldiers and none soldiers. The ones that didn't want to fight were made into ether blacksmith apprentices or intelligence workers. When my father heard about what I decided to do with the children he praised me for the first time because it seemed that I was getting ready for when I earned my place as the next head of the house.
I should probably explain right? Well it's a known fact that every noble house has it's own personal troops, even back in the old world this was a fact, this is so every house can protect its land. Our house is a little different every head of the house has its own personal army. The army is dissolved and drafted in the country's army after the old head steps down. The army size can not exceed 50,000 combatants this means actual fighters, as for support troops there isn't a limit only the amount you can afford to have.
In total I had 2,000 soldiers in training under my command, 5,000 spies in training, and 3,000 blacksmiths in training. To say the least when everything's said and done I will have a powerful war machine.
I plan to forge my brother Max into the perfect administrative for the three territories which are each the size of Texas and California combined least to say I don't want to deal with it. It's fairly common as of now the territories are being run via proxy by my aunts and uncles. The head or rather the prime minister of war position is held by the oldest or most talented in the field of combat in the family. This will obviously go to me especially since I've been filling my brothers head with I'm the sword of the people and he has to be one of the shields to protect them from the nobles.
In these two years I haven't just been building an army, I've also been working on enchanting. The first thing I've been working on creating was oath magic. It's basically an enchantment on one's own mana supply and since everything in this dimension is made of mana no one is immune to this magic.
If a person breaks their oath or lies while taking the oath their very own mana will catch aflame and will not stop until all the mana has been burned up. I tested this magic on death row criminals after they were shown what happens when one breaks or lies while taken the oath they all changed their ways and was released into the general public.
A total of twenty three released convicts burned in the streets as they were in the process of breaking their oath and because mana fire doesn't spread or hurt anything that wasn't made from the same mana source there wasn't any harm to other civilians.
Now that isn't to say fire made from mana is harmless it's just different types of magic fires behave differently, a fireball spell fuses the casters mana with world mana there for allowing the magic to hurt others but keeps the caster safe, the casters mana acts as an ID so the world mana will not harm the caster but too little or too much personal mana and the caster will be harmed.
That is to say if it was just the caster's own mana or just pure world mana the caster can be harmed just the difference between the two is that pure world mana damages everything while using only personal mana only harms the user.
These are the reasons mages are so sought after. The second this magic was completed my father employed immediately. All the nobles were forced to take an oath stating that they have never and will never betray the country, and will never use their power suppress the people.
Five nobles died after they stated that they have never betrayed the country, and two others tried to resist saying the oath, least to say they were forced to say it or risk family annihilation. Those two also died after saying that they have never betrayed the country. It was a good thing these nobles had relatively low positions in government and their betrayals were easy to find and remedy.
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I received a very large amount of gold and allowed two request. The first request was full control over everything and anything I created or discovered. The second request was saved until I needed it in the future.
Also to ensure the other nobles can't still and abuse the oath magic I made it so only I can make it. I achieved this by using different runes than what this world use for enchanting. I learned from the massive data base on enchanting that is my brain, that the runes themselves doesn't matter as long as it is a language that you yourself can understand it will work.
Knowing this I was tempted to just write in English ,but being a navy seal in my past life it was encouraged to master multiple languages. So then I was tempted to write in Arabic it's one of the most beautiful languages and arguably the most complex along with some other languages such as all of the asian languages.
But I wanted something even more complex, so I went with fantasy language for a fantasy like world. If you were a fan of J.R.R Tolkien's the hobbit or lord of the rings series you would recognize this language from the beautiful elves.
The language was so complex unless you had a translator's guide and years of practice you would never be able to decode it if you just saw some of the words.
My squad mates and I only learned it because we were bored and thought it was beautiful ,and it was a good way to write messages to squad mates without anyone else knowing what the hell it means.
Enchanting itself was a lot like basic coding. It mostly consisted of if than statements and function checks. For the oath magic it was a simple if blank is false then burn personal mana of blank and if blank turns false then burn personal mana. It was very simple and effective. There were more advanced ways of enchanting such as being very specific like how fast you want blank to move when X amount of mana is applied. I plan to use this type of enchanting latter on for future projects.
One of my favorite things to happen in these two years that was almost overshadowed by the birth of my brother and everything that happened so far, was Aluma started living in our home in the north every day I would play and teach her everything I knew I took it very slow so she wouldn't get overwhelmed seeing as she is a normal five year old child.
My plan is to make her see me as perfect and as her hero as little girls often develop crushes on those they admire especially since I'm the only one our age that she interacts with. Although I would never do anything or make any moves until she's fully developed and mature there's no harm in planting seeds for the future.
Just because I'm stuck in the body of a girl doesn't mean I have to love men, those who think that are either sexist or an idiot, because if that was the case then how does lesbians exist. I will live as a man till the day I no longer exist i can't because say till the day I die because I've already died once and come back I don't want to jinx it. And with the way these gods operate they can change your life because they felt like it.
Most of my next projects will have to wait till I'm older such as guns and cars. As stated earlier I will use the more advanced version of enchanting fore these. A project I can start now is the production of steel and because of the request I was granted I have full control of it and with oath magic the blacksmiths that I use can't speak a word of how it's made to anyone. I even made sure they can't right it down. All those years fighting terrorist and counterintelligence has made me very paranoid and for good reason, one of the blacksmiths tried to write down the method to sell to other countries or nobles.
I don't believe I have to say this but all 10,000 children were made to take oaths stating that they will never betray my house or the country we serve and it's people. This was also adopted in the country's main army and even the emperor was made to take an oath.
The great thing about the oath magic is that I only needed to make one eye of truth ( what I named the oath magic circle ) for each department of government this is to speed up the oath taking process. I even made one for the judicial branch for civilians ,but this one doesn't kill it just gives them a painful shock if they lie or break the oath to tell the truth and the whole truth.
All in all everything moving smoothly towards my secession as head of the house when I'm old enough.
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Authors note #2
Was the ending of this chapter too abrupt?