Ancient Imperial Calendar Year 1809
"My academy life starts at five in the morning, I wake up early, put on my clothes immediately and go down to the training hall"
As Ricardo walks towards the training hall, the Academy students who see him bow their heads and greet Ricardo
"Good morning Young
"Good morning Young Lord"
"After killing my brothers, I took control of all the first years, this will help me a lot when fighting my brothers in the future"
The first year students lined up in the training ground, keeping a distance of two meters between them. Academy Master Kaldrion strengthened his voice with meaning and said with enough strength that the students in the back could hear
"TAK POSITION, 1000 PUSH-UPS WILL BE DONE IN MARCH"
"Master Kaldrion has been leading the Morning Training since the first day of the Academy and has them do 1000 push-ups, 1000 squats, 1000 pull-ups and run 100 kilometers around the school every morning.
Each class in the school trains in a different area and no one enters the other classes' areas, this is a strict rule and indicates that the classes are separated.
Morning Training ends at seven. After the training, the students feel pain in areas they have never felt before. As a true High Rank Warrior, I have never felt such pain.
A hearty, nutritious and delicious breakfast is served at seven. After breakfast, we take a break until nine. We start our normal classes from nine until two. We take classes in every subject including Mathematics, History, Literature, Geography, Chemistry, Physics, Theology, Philosophy, Politics, Economics, War Tactics, Land Management and more. Of course, my favorite class is History. I love hearing about the events of the last thousand years from different perspectives.
At nine o'clock, when recess was over, the academy students dispersed to their classrooms, everyone sat at their desks and waited for the Master in charge of their classes to arrive, the students who were too tired to talk were meditating to concentrate, everyone gathered their attention before the Academy Master arrived. When the Academy Master arrived, everyone stood up. The Master gestured with his hand for them to sit down. The first class was History.
"Open your books, young ones. Let's summarize our previous lessons. The Foundation Period of the Kislavein Dynasty. Almost all of the first 12 rulers were killed on the battlefield. Throne wars, rebellions, famines, epidemics. A century and a half had passed since its foundation. The Kislavein Dynasty was on the verge of collapse. A wise leader who changed this bad fate took over the Dynasty. The wise ruler Lord II Arlous."
When Ricardo heard the name of Lord II Arlous of the 13th Dynasty, he began to listen with full attention. He often heard the name of II Arlous in all the history books he read, he paid extra attention to this lesson. The Academy Master continued the lesson
"II Arlous became the head of the Kislavein Dynasty in the year 963 of the Ancient Imperial Calendar. II Arlous was a brilliant reformer and intellectual who knew the history of the Kislavein Dynasty by heart. He was determined to eliminate all the factors that prevented the rise of the Arlous Dynasty, so he decided to end the throne wars first
II Arlous killed all his brothers while his father was alive, masterfully planned these murders, established a small assassin organization that no one even knew the name of, taught all the plans of the palace to the assassins with the help of his mother, and carried out the assassinations by spreading his plans over a long period of time, poisoning some and directly killing others, and thus there was no bloody throne war in the 13th generation of the Kislavein Dynasty"
The name of the Assassin Organization caught Ricardo's attention
"I wonder if this organization is the same as the organization that assassinated me? They killed my mother and me years ago and my Master Richard "They killed him"
Ricardo noted this possibility in a corner of his mind, Academy Master Jonas continued the lesson.
"II Arlous extended the three rules to put an end to the throne wars in the following years. When each Young Lord of the House came of age, he would be given three options. This tradition has survived to this day"
Ricardo remembered his birthday before he came to the Academy
"This tradition is that old, so"
Jonas continued the lesson
"The throne wars in the House were now fought within the Academy, thus ending the wars that caused devastation throughout the House.
When Arlous II found a solution to the throne wars, he prepared a plan that he spread over a long period of time to conquer the Western Lands, he formed alliances by marrying his sisters to neighboring Dynasty Lords, then he made these Dynasty Lords fight and die in the front lines and took over their lands without a fight through the Kislavein Ladies who took over the administration, many of these dynasties' lineage continues to this day.
Arlous II successfully and without any reaction succeeded in his marriage strategy, as a result, the number of Dynasties that were affiliated with the Kislavein Dynasty during his reign was twice as many as the number of conquered Dynasties.
In addition to conquests, he brought the Kislavein Dynasty to its golden age with his reforms in the fields of economy, military and diplomacy, and wrote the first lines of the Kislavein Dynasty Epic that would last for hundreds of years in the Western Lands"
Master Jonas, interrupted by the sound of bells
"Our lesson is over, we will see you again tomorrow "
As the students stood up and went to recess, Ricardo, Marco and Marilinde decided to go to recess and clear their minds.
As they were leaving the classroom, three people approached them; Jacob Kislavein, Luna Eduvali and Jack Johanson, all three of them were the best in sword and magic in the first year. When Ricardo killed his two older brothers, they went to Ricardo's side.
Luna clasped her hands on her hips and bowed her head slightly
"Good day, my young lord, may we join you?"
Ricardo nodded
"Come if you wish"
Jack and Jacob also greeted Ricardo and joined them. All the first years they met along the way greeted Ricardo. Luna slowly tried to hug Ricardo's arm when Marilin intervened.
"Luna, do you know that sometimes I compare you to a leech"
With a cold and condescending tone, Luna could not help but be
"Says the BUG that haunts the seven twenty-four Young Lords"
Marilyn's veins felt like they were going to burst with anger. While she was buttoning the buttons on Luna's collar, she transferred her meaning from her hands to her throat. Luna felt like she was drowning.
"If you call me a bug again I will kill you whore"
Luna could not even react let alone protest but Ricardo saved her
"Girls come on break it will be over we are waiting for you to enjoy"
Marilin left Luna alone and looked at Ricardo with a big and cute smile on her face
"We are coming right now Young Lord"
As Marilin passed Luna she looked at her with a threatening expression from the corner of her eye Luna trembled with fear
"I will never mess with her again" she said
While the boys were a little ahead of the girls, Marco couldn't resist anymore when he saw the looks that many girls like Marilin and Luna were giving Ricardo, in a slightly sarcastic and humorous way
"My young lord, it must feel great to be desired by more than one woman"
Ricardo normally didn't tolerate insolence, but he liked this joke, he replied to Marco
"Well, considering that not a single girl has looked at you, it's great"
Jack and Jacob could hardly hold themselves back from laughing. Marco's pride was slightly hurt by the words he had just said, and with a momentary emotion
"Okay, if I don't find a girl in a week, I will too"
Just as he was about to finish his sentence, a girl pulled Marco's jacket
"Umm excuse me"
When Ricardo realized where the conversation was going, he looked at Jack and Jacob, closed his eyes, raised his eyebrows and slightly tilted his head to the left, giving the signal to leave them alone. When Jack and Jacob received the signal, they closed their eyes, slightly tilted their heads, and gave the signal to say yes, Young Lord, and walked away from the scene
When it was time for the next lesson, everyone gathered in the classroom. Marco entered the classroom with his nose in the air, holding his chest high. Ricardo, Jack and Jacob signaled Marco to come over to them. When Marco approached the desk, Ricardo asked the much-anticipated question
"So tell me"
Marco got to the point without further ado
"My lord, a week is too much, even a second was enough"
Jack and Jacob punched Marco lightly on the shoulder Jack smirked
"Marco, my real"
Jacop put his arm around Marco's neck and laughed
"Well done brother, tell me who the girl is from"
Marco got rid of Jacob's arm and started to explain
"The girl is also from our Dynasty"
Jack interrupted Marco
"It's obvious that she has blood red eyes and hair, that's what you can tell"
Marco frowned
"Don't interrupt me, I'm saying, my beautiful brother, anyway, the girl's name is Alia Kislavein, she is a descendant of Veron, the son of Lord I Cornan of the 50th Dynasty"
Ricardo stood up and patted Marco on the back
"Congratulations Marco you now have a lover Jacob, Jack you should find one for yourself"
Jack was hard pressed by this statement and immediately got defensive
"My young lord I don't remember you having a lover either"
After these words Marilin put her sword to Jack's throat it was obvious that she was angry
"What do you mean you don't remember Jack if you want I can remind you I exist I am the young lord's lover"
Ricardo put on a tired expression
"I don't remember either Marilin"
Marilin didn't hide her disappointment, she grabbed Luna's arm and went to the line. Luna's obedient behavior surprised the group of boys. Jacob blurted out his surprise.
"What did this girl do to make Luna so obedient?"
Luna's scared and timid behavior created curiosity in the group of boys, but before their curiosity could be satisfied, Theology Master Matherlous came to the class, he went in front of the board, the class became silent and everyone got ready for the lesson. Matherlous looked at the book in his hand for a while, then looked at his students.
"Open your books, today's lesson will tell the history of the Cult of the Ancestors, the dominant religion of the Western Lands and the Kislavein Dynasty.
Hundreds of years ago, in the early centuries of the Kislavein Dynasty, there were thousands of different religions and sects in the Five Lands. This situation allowed the kingdoms established after the collapse of the Ancient Empire to start Holy Wars by using religious differences as an excuse even if they did not have any excuses for war. The Kislavein Dynasty, on the other hand, believed in a monotheistic religion inherited from the Ancient Empire until an irreligious leader took the throne.
The 23rd Dynasty Lord Seth I was a heathen king who did not believe in God and waged war on all religious beliefs in the Western Lands. He burned and destroyed temples and places of worship, massacred the clergy and forcibly converted the people to atheism. The people who insisted on not abandoning their religion were enslaved and forced to work under harsh conditions. This oppressive regime lasted for 7 years. One of Seth I's guards, a devout guard named Beornas, killed his lord Seth I, whom he was supposed to protect, and as a result, it was thought that the oppressive period was over, but it did not end, only its intensity decreased.
I Kaldrion, son of Seth, the 24th Dynasty Lord, executed Beornas, his father's murderer, along with his entire family and relatives.
I Kaldrion did not follow his father's oppressive government, but adopted his father's ideas. He thought that religion was the only thing that stopped the development of humanity, and he thought that humanity should be saved from religion, and declared atheism the official religion, and made it a crime to belong to a religion. This continued until his grandson ascended to the throne.
I Ryas, the 26th Dynasty Lord, saw that the people were in great depression and despair due to the irreligious life, and decided to put an end to this situation, and decided to invent a new religion that all the people of the Westlands would follow, and this religion became the Ancestor Cult, which all the people of the Westlands follow today, and now praying to and worshipping the Spirits of the Ancestors had become the official religion. "
The bells rang and the lesson ended. Master Matherlous finished the lesson. The lessons followed one another and at two o'clock, after a short lunch break, the Practical Fighting lesson between the groups had begun. First, between two and four o'clock, there would be one-on-one duels, then between four and six o'clock, there would be team battles with groups of ten people, and at the end of the day, there would be square battles with groups of fifty people.
Ricardo's first opponent was Benjen Victorius. Benjen was a strong man with a slightly muscular body. He wasn't considered handsome. He was known as muscle-head among the girls, but such nicknames didn't stop him. There was excitement in his eyes. He was face to face with Ricardo, whom he had followed with admiration since the first day of the academy. Finally, I will finally be able to meet Young Lord Ricardo, he thought. Ricardo pointed his sword at his opponent and waited for the signal to begin.
The duel began when Duel Master Harloumen raised and lowered his sword. Ricardo quickly attacked. He could have ended the duel with a single move, but he hid his true power to hide his power from his rivals, his older brothers, and to teach the first-years a lesson. He struck hard with his sword. Benjen repelled the attack, but was pushed back by the blow he received. Then he attacked with all his might. Ricardo was impressed by Benjen's strength.
"You are strong but slow. Work on making fast and powerful strikes from now on."
It was priceless for Benjen to receive such praise from the Young Lord he admired. He was flattered, excited, he started to attack more ambitiously and faster, but he could not overcome Ricardo's defense. Ricardo was flawless in every field with his attacks and defenses, but his main purpose here was to teach lessons to those who followed him and to improve them. Ricardo noticed that Benjen was getting tired.
"You have endured well so far, or rather, you are the one who has endured my attacks the most after Marco, what is your name?"
Benjen straightened his waist, there was a proud expression on his face, he caught his breath and said in a manner befitting a noble person.
"Benjen Victorius Young Lord I am the descendant of Persepony Kislavein and Jerlman Victorius, the daughter of the 22nd Dynasty Leader Osiris"
Ricardo met another grandson, the lineage he started as Harloumen in his previous life, there were tens of thousands of people these days, if he could he would protect them all, but there were also those he had to kill, but Benjen would not be one of them Ricardo prepared for the final blow
"I will finish Benjen after the duel, one of my close men"
Benjen shouted with pride, excitement and joy
"I AM HONORABLE YOUNG LORD"
Ricardo attacked at the speed of light, he struck a very hard blow, so hard that Benjen flew meters away. As the first assistants of the academy rushed to Benjen, everyone shouted Ricardo's name. On the other hand, Benjen had changed the minds of some girls who looked at him as a muscle-head.
After Ricardo and Benjen, many duels followed each other, Marco, Marilin, Luna, Jack and Jacob respectively reaped the fruits of the training they received from Ricardo and successfully won their own duels.
After the duels were over, it was time for the ten-person team battles. The first team battle would start with Ricardo. Ricardo's team included Marco, Marilin, Luna, Jack, Jacob, Benjen. The other three players were Jonas Mors, Heinricht Fraus and Osiris Isman, who came to complete the number. Each of them was one of the best in the first class, descended from Kislavein. Ricardo studied them carefully. He thought, "They have potential, I should train them all well"
On the other side, there were ten people who were quite skilled in swordplay and magic. The instructor started the team fight. Ricardo pitted everyone against people who could compensate for their own shortcomings. Although everyone tried to win throughout the fight, they were not aware that they were playing a friendly match where they were mostly eliminating their own shortcomings. After a certain amount of time, Ricardo defeated his own opponent and then helped his friends defeat the others. Thus, they won the team fight with an overwhelming advantage without even losing a single man.
From six to seven in the evening, everyone rested for an hour and regained their energy. Next, there was a fifty-fifty pitched battle. The best of the first classes were responsible for leading their groups to victory with the least amount of casualties. At the end of the battles, the group with the most men standing would be the winner of the day. When Ricardo took over the leadership of the fifty men, his opponent was Marco, his closest friend. The two friends who always fought side by side would become enemies today.
The battle began with the signal of Academy Master Harloumen. Ricardo was repelling the attacks with his aura shields, making fast and hard attacks in the first open, while the magicians were making magic attacks from the back rows. On the other hand, Marco, who knew Ricardo's strategies best, was taking precautions accordingly, while his magicians were blocking the enemy's spells, the Warriors were deliberately encouraging the enemy to attack with open gaps, and then fighting with their true strength.
Ricardo realized Marco's strategy early on, in response, he caught the enemy off guard by pretending to be trapped. When Marco thought he would win, Ricardo and his warriors attacked with full force. Marco had not expected this. He thought he had trapped Ricardo, but he was the one who fell into the trap. Ricardo revealed his unused aura and some of his mana. He knocked out three or five opponents with a single swing, while he took out many opponents at the same time with fire bombs, and finally got to Marco's nose.
"It was a good strategy Marco, but if you want to fool me, you have to live 70 years"
Marco barely dodged Ricardo's attack
"You are wonderful, my young lord, isn't 70 years a bit too much? "
The duel between the two was short, Ricardo quickly finished the fight, then defeated all of his opponents who were left standing, and the battle ended with Ricardo's victory, while the other groups finished their battles.
After the battles, the first years had dinner and rested until nine o'clock, then read for an hour, then went to their rooms at ten o'clock and went to sleep, thus ending another day at the Blood Academy.