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Chapter 50: Future Plans for North-frontier town Part II.

Meanwhile, the folks in the town were continuously talking about the incidents John did which helped them previously.

One of the Villager spoke to one of his friends, "I believe John will be a better Baron for us at North-frontier town and since he is Grandma Melanie's Disciple I am sure he will improve and help our town just like how Grandma Melanie helped us at times of need when we were in need of Medicine but we were short of it."

Another guy added, "That's true, even my father was full of praise for John according to him John was the one who solved the problem of Barren lands in the town and a lot of work for this year. It was also confirmed by Chief Sam and all the representatives who attended the meeting last month for the problem of Farms."

A third guy added, "Plus he has also prioritized in hiring people of our village and this has solved the problems of unemployment in the town. My elder brother already works in his Rose soap factory and from what I know, the pay and incentives there are too good. When John recruits next month for his factory, I am already applying and join up with my brother. The unemployment over the years has caused many of our mates from the village to migrate to cities where they can find work and this is also one of the reasons why our town never populated after a certain point."

One of the guys added with a depressed tone, "Yeah many of them got slaved in cities due to high debts."

To console his buddy one of the guys added, "However his actions prove that he has the best of interests of our village, he has already reduced the taxes to the minimum in our kingdom, it will be very helpful to all the villagers and this might make all the villagers who left the village comeback. If anyone leaves the village for travel and meets an acquaintance from the past, they should be at least be made aware of the current situation in the village and we can help them free up from their slavery if we earn enough."

"However convincing them to come back will be hard since many don't like our borders as it is always unsafe against monsters. However, we can still try and to do our best and persuade them."

"It is still better than nothing when Baron never protected our village. It was always us who funded and defended the territory for our lives meanwhile he only squeezed us for our taxes."

"Your words hold true, its better than that baron defending us and since the village chief and other leaders are in support of John then there won't be any problems with others as well."

A lot of people heard the conversation between these young men and many could even relate themselves from the events they were speaking and hence they choose to believe the leaders of the village. Later on, the commotion in the village was settled.

After all the commotion was settled, everyone arrived at John's Mansion to discuss the future plans and on how to tackle future problems.

Arriving at the Mansion John was quite surprised to see Vlad's and Diana's. Eric then arrived and explained it to both Joseph and John who later understood the reason for their presence.

Eric was already waiting for them for a few days after he arrived at North-frontier town.

Today Tornwall was accompanied by Eric. Eric already had orders from Joseph previously to accompany Tornwall to John's Mansion because he would one of the main characters during the meeting after everyone gathered. Eric was already informed by Joseph that Tornwall would be one of the main engineers who will lead the industrial base of the North-frontier under John and hence the treatment.

Everyone first decided to head towards the biggest Hall in the mansion and have a meeting there.

John started the meeting with a short speech in the Hall, " As you might all know, I have already bought the North-frontier, however, our problems still remain and we will have to tackle them efficiently from now on. I first want to hear from you guys that how do we deal with Beast invasion which will be around the corner during this Winter"

It was Jay who first proposed, " Objectively speaking, we lack men and more importantly trained men, however, we still have 5 months before winter so buying more slaves and giving them basic training can at least help us better prepare against the invasion."

Mayor Sam proposed, "Why don't we hire Mercenaries for this one Job if we pay them high enough they would do any bidding for us"

Tornwall furrowed his brows when he heard the idea of hiring mercenaries because of his gruesome past, however, he still didn't object in front of John for now.

Joseph rejected this idea and gave his own opinion on the idea of hiring mercenaries, "I object, hiring those mercenaries is easy but getting rid of them is harder if they smell any money here. Additionally, many people in this room might not know of the relation of mercenaries to various nobles. There are even various Mercenary groups which are directly controlled by nobles so hiring them would be more riskier as it would practically invite a pack of wolves into our house which would be more problematic for us."

Meanwhile, Vlad and Diana were watching the whole commotion taking place from the sidelines. They had no plans to interfere in this meeting or give any suggestions to them as it was their internal matter and it would be very rude to doubt their abilities unless they choose to ask their help.

Eva said to John, "Maybe I can ask my friends from Imperial capital to help us this time, they could be very useful to us as there are a lot of magicians."

After hearing the opinions of everyone John concluded and said, "I know, what you all are thinking right now, I would have thought the same since I know we don't have enough soldiers to protect our borders so this time I wanted to show you guys one of my finest blueprints. This is a blueprint of a Ballista Cross and a catapult that I have personally designed and it can be started for production after the Forge is built in the town, so this time our main focus would be on building the forge and then produce Ballista crossbow. Meanwhile, we can already start the production of catapults. The main focus of you guys will be to train slaves and warriors in archery and Jay will be one of the main instructors of archery."

John continued as he gave out reasons for precaution, "For reasons of precaution, you won't be able to see the precise designs of these blueprints but a prototype will be made for a demonstration for all the people in this room and see for themselves later on."


Chapter 51: Future Plans for North-frontier town Part III.

John continued as he gave out reasons for precaution, "For reasons of precaution, you won't be able to see the precise designs of these blueprints but a prototype will be made for a demonstration for all the people in this room and see for themselves later on."

"Of all the suggestions, we will implement Jay's plan and buy more slaves whether it is for labor or for forming an army." Many here were unfamiliar with the term army.

John smiled a bit and said to Tornwall, "Tornwall. what do you think of these Blueprints? Can these be made with current materials available?"

Tornwall was very astonished after watching the Blueprints of Crossbow Ballista and Catapult, he never thought that a lever could be used in such a unique way in the form of catapults. He was even more surprised by the ballista however he didn't have time to be surprised and after checking out for a while he gave his honest opinion.

"I think these machines of war can be made from the forge provided by you and I am pretty certain that these weapons will change the landscape on how future wars would be strategized," Tornwall emphasized on these heavy words and said with a very serious tone to everyone present in the Hall.

Everyone in the room was surprised by Tornwall's use of these heavy words and his reaction.

However, from his reaction, they also understood the importance of these weapons and the importance of this matter. This also reaffirmed their thoughts that these weapons would be very useful in the future whether it was against the magic beasts or against other nobles.

Vlad was very surprised after hearing these words about those new weapons from Tornwall and he had quite a different reaction compared to others, he was very serious when heard it from him. He already knew about Tornwall's past but Tornwall's past was like a hornet's nest and that's why he never revealed it to anyone and poked on it unless it was required.

'As expected, he had a plan regarding the invasion of beasts, so it seems he wasn't as naive as I thought however he should still have kept these weapons a secret or maybe he is baiting others in this room' Vlad smiled and made some conclusions

'Anyways if he is that cunning then he sure is worthy enough to become my disciple.' Vlad smiled happily and made some notes and thoughts on John at this meeting.

From this encounter, everyone in this room also understood that Tornwall would be one of the main men of John and chief leading engineer of North-frontier town.

Tornwall also understood that John trusted him enough after their previous encounter on his loyalty and it seemed that John was moved enough to trust him after observing his resolve.

This was a very modern crossbow which was made by combining the knowledge of both the worlds of earth and Sarah's world. Meanwhile, the Catapult could be started for production already however it would not be accurate but it would still be very effective.

"Okay, so it is decided that Tornwall will be in charge of the industrial base of the town, you will report directly to me. Every day the warriors will be trained by Jay in archery. While Josephine and Alan from Marquis Ray's knight order would be responsible for training them in melee combat. I have already prepared for their Training techniques and herbs required for the men. You guys only need to train them in combat and it would be better if you guys can also master the training techniques. We will end this meeting for now and plan for other things from tomorrow."

Everyone later headed out and started preparing for the future events of the town.

Later on, Taylor was given the position of Head Butler of the mansion while Martha was the head Chef of the Mansion. They and all the slaves were allowed to keep their children near them from now on.

Next Day,

John visited Grandma Melanie as always, today she had a surprise for John as she formally introduced Vlad to John.

"John, let me introduce you to one of my past colleagues, you might already know him since you have met him earlier at Pearl City. he is one of my acquaintances from my past and as your master who expects you to be strong and safe in the future, I have previously decided that you will be training under him to improve all the aspects of your combat, you might not know him but few people can defeat him in hand to hand combat in this world. If someday you are able to defeat him then that would be the most glorifying day for your master" Melanie laughed and Joked as she said to John in the pharmacy hall.

Meanwhile, both John and Vlad didn't take it as a joke, John had the confidence in him to defeat Vlad in future as he knew he could use the AI to improve himself and his techniques while simulation would improve him every second in combat while Vlad's instincts rejected this idea as Joke and believed John could certainly him in near future but he still took it as a compliment from Melanie.

However, Melanie still stressed this as the main point while having a conversation with them.

"Of course your first priority would still be to learn under me and become the greatest Potioneer of all time in Arkon so you still can't slack off on herbology and learn about potioneering from me. From tomorrow on, some of your time will be allocated on combat training with Vlad and then, later on, you can play baron in the town."

"I don't have any problems with it since I would anyway get to learn more techniques and improve my techniques as well from a guy who is a veteran when it comes to combat and covert operations. However..."

After this time John paused for a bit added a suggestion after thinking for a while.,

"I would like one person from the group of slaves to train with me, is that ok with you guys?"

Melanie meanwhile had a thoughtful expression on her face as she wondered who was the guy that happened to get John's attention out of all the slaves.

Vlad already had an idea who the guy was but since that guy was John's slave he didn't bother as it would be rude to John. Slaves here in Arkon were treated as livestock and therefore people remained cautious when dealing with slaves of other people.

"who is the person that has caught your attention? I would like to meet him first before we decide."

Melanie asked and said to John.

"Well, I already have an idea on who that person is as I already met all the slaves before John and co arrived at North-frontier town, so I don't think there would be any problem if we have one more person in the training. Since he thinks he can become his asset we might as well try it. However, I will not be responsible for your injuries while we are training," Vlad said to them in a serious manner.

Vlad then looked in the direction of Melanie in a meaningful manner and said to her, "It will be your responsibility to provide medicine baths and pastes for both of them, the only thing I can provide is training and share some of my experiences, I have gone through the same training and so will John so we can't go in a roundabout way for this training. Anyway let's look at the guy since you are so interested in him"

"Well that guy's name is Jake, he seems most worthy for the future among all the slaves when it comes for combat. Additionally, he is young enough who can be trained for the future."

As aspected, it was Jake which Vlad already knew about since only Tornwall and Jake stood out among all the slaves however Jake had eyes of a wolf showing emotions full of determination and revenge deep inside them and hence Vlad's conclusion on Jake.


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