In the same day Max put all the people in the gaming capsules and got them all in the simulation. He asked the system: 'System do if I give them potion for knight training will it last for a month in the simulation or a month in the real life?'
The system answered: 'You will need to give them those potions in their small dimensional rings so they will drink it inside the simulation. Otherwise it will not work.'
Max was disappointed. If he could give them one potion that would work years in the simulation it would be a super cheat. But life is unfair. Max had huge amount of potions stored. As for the mage potions. He needed to make them now and give help to the cultivation of the mages. Max gave all the people their potions for training and after a short instruction the people entered the simulation. Everyone got the best techniques suited for them and started to cultivate like crazy. With the peak level potions that worked for a whole month the cultivation technique was 64 times faster. In this 5 to 7 days of the outside world they potentially had they could train for 5 to 7 years with 64 times the speed. it would be like cultivating for 300 plus years in normal speed. Even a total retard will get to a level of a knight with such boost. Max was needed to do the same shit for the mages to give them the minimal amount of boost to achieve the first level of mage apprentice. The potion for mages was harder to make. They needed a base of magic energy. Max had no problem with magic energy but he soon understood that it was very volatile compared to the life force. When his control would slip he would even die. He got his head blown away while concentrating, closely infusing his magic power into the potion. When he would revive he would curse: "1ffsR#R3!" and then continue his work. Max was now working full time at the simulation to supply everyone the right potions.
Max achieved high level potions pretty quickly despite all the times it blew up and tore some part of his body. He did not need to change the preparation type by much but he struggled with the mana control. It was something new he needed to work on. Max did not want to get to peak level because he will lose his mind in the process.
Max made enough potions for everyone in around of half a year of non stop alchemy experiments. Most of the rest of the time he got updates from Peter and Alisher and trained himself. There was not much he could do now. He told the people what they were fighting for. It was already things they knew. If they lost the war people will die. Their relatives may be slaughtered, their houses may get burned, their women raped and their children killed. Max told them all this anyways and it had a good affect. He saw that the people were working hard in the simulation. Max wanted them to get to a knight level and than train in fighting. He needed the numbers now with the right power level and not quality. It should be fine even with people that can't beat the level one bot. Max told the system to impart to their head's the knowledge of the swordsmanship technique. He had no time to make tests. He needed power. He made the system only do it once.
On the other side of Alexander's country there was a big force of the two countries that attacked Alexander's country before - Valeria and Eldoria.
The combined force of those two countries was a lot bigger than before. They were fully invested in taking over this country. The humiliation they suffered from before gave them a big desire to concur the country and to kill Max in one go. Because of that they mobilized a force of 30000 people combined with around 100 knights and around 40 mage apprentices. This was a big force. Close to what top tier two level countries could get.
This army was making a steady progression towards the capital. This army could get to the capital in a little more than a week. The two countries did not hurry. They wanted the troops to be in top condition when the fight starts. They were sure that they will just walk over Alexandria and gain huge amount of land. Alexander's country was a level one country but had relatively big territory with an exit to a few rivers and a sea. It was a very good strategic location. Both countries already agreed how they will divide the country between themselves. Commander Vic of Valeria country was waiting to detain Max and rape Valeria just before him and than kill them both for the humiliation he suffered from this man. The troops were chatting and laughing. Looking at the land that soon will be theirs. They had only the capital to capture. They did not think it would be something hard. The other cities were concurred relatively easily. The distraction that they caused was huge. Those soldiers were mad at what happened before. Because of that a lot more atrocities happened to the common people of Alexander's country. A lot more man, women, children and elderly were killed. Women and girls were raped. Some of the soldiers even spoke of how they did their did and it caused the others to laugh. For those people every day could be last so they took everything they could. A lot of them did not care about the lives of other people. Their fun was more important than a life a whole family.
In Alexandria people were working hard. The commoners helped a lot. A lot of people were not sure if they wanted to stay or leave before what Max said about the cultivation techniques. After his declaration a lot of people decided to stay and take a risk. If Max will die they will not have a technique that they could get through generations and insure that their kids will live a better life than what they had. It was worth the risk. A lot of times in this world people just died for nothing. Now they had a lot of inspiration and hope. The soldiers also made training drills with the guards of the city. Everyone slowly were preparing for battle.