Chương 2: Ranking System

Next morning, Xander got up while rubbing his eyes he went to the window. He looked towards surrounding through the window. The king's palace was quite big not as grand as he imagined but still, it was big. Around the palace, there were many small houses lined up. Many people were wandering in the streets wearing medieval clothes.

Suddenly Xander heard a knock on the door.

"Come in"

4 Maids came in the room "It's time for a bath, Your highness."

"What, maids will wash me?' Xander became slightly nervous as he was virgin in his life, but his morals were high. He quickly calmed himself, he slightly cleared his throat "OK, I will bathe myself"

Maids slightly hesitating refused "Your highness, it's our duty to help you wash and change."

Xander hesitatingly obliged. Maids led him to the bathroom, Xander looked around, It wasn't a bathroom, It was bath hall, there was a big bath pool. Maids cleaned him and changed his clothes in front of the mirror. Xander hasn't looked at his new body, He was white-haired 6.2 ft tall, had fair skin and Handsome look. He had a lean body which was full of muscle, he even had 8 packs. Many women will drool on his looks and body.

After changing his clothes he went to his administrative office. His office was a large room, there was one chair in front and two on the other side of the table. There was a big window behind his chair.

Xander went and sit on his chair, it was very comfortable and fluffy. He adjusted and looked towards Aldith "Aldith summon Dye."

Aldith bowed towards Xander and went to summon Dye.

After 10 minutes, Dye came with Aldith.

"How are you feeling, Xander?"

"I'm fine Dye.'

Everyone in the palace knows that Dye is the childhood friend of Xander and never use customary words like your highness or your majesty.

"Aldith, How many soldiers are in our kingdom?

"Your highness, we have 5000 soldiers including castle guards and others."

"Only 5000! this is difficult, OK Aldith what about funds?"

"We have 10,000 gold coins."

In this world, the currency has 4 types of coins which are Platinum, Gold, Silver, Copper.

1 Silver- 100 Coppers

1 Gold - 100 Silvers

1 Platinum- 100 Golds

From the value of items, It seems like 1 USD is equal to 1 Silver

"What is the total expense of our kingdom monthly?"

"It's approximately 500 Gold including the salary of all servants and soldiers."

"For now, it seems to be sufficient but it will be gone before we know. What is the main income of our kingdom."

"Our main income comes from the export of crops, Raw materials from mines and Material obtained from demonic beasts of Rank I and Rank J. Above Rank J we can not kill. Total income is around 1000 Gold from which around 400 Silvers are used to purchase items and materials of basic needs." After explaining Aldith became slightly depressed.

"It's too low, well we have to increase our income."

Aldith looked towards Dye, he was standing on the left side of Xander and curiously listening."Dye, How's your training going?"

"Good."

"I am planning to recruit soldiers and training them in a large amount. What do you say?"

"It's a good idea, as we are very short on soldiers. we don't have soldiers for just guarding our kingdom. So, How many are you planning to recruit?"

"Roughly around 100,000."

Aldith almost choked on his saliva upon hearing this absurd amount."Y...Your highness, we don't have such funds for Recruitment."

"I know Aldith, I am planning to increase our income before recruitment. I have a few ideas, don't worry."

"O...OK, your highness."

"Dye, will you become commander of Etherac's Army?"

Dye was shocked upon hearing Xander "W..What, really Are you sure?"

"Yes, you are my childhood friend so, there is not a chance that you will betray me. Your talent in fighting and battle tactics is best in our kingdom. So who will be better than you?"

Upon hearing Xander, Dye became excited, he confidently agreed with Xander "OK, I will be the commander of Ehterac Kingdom's Army. So what shall we do."

"First What is the criterion to chose soldiers strength and their level?"

"Currently there is nothing like that. Soldiers strength is only known by sparring."

Xander placed his chin on his right hand, started to think "so, there are no criteria, hmm.. why not use the system's Ranking system." Xander signalled Dye to sit on chair " How about making a Ranking System."

"hmm... Ranking system, What will be it?' Dye asked after sitting on a chair.

"How about this, We will differentiate one's strength in levels. One who lifts 20 kg will be Level 1, 40 Kg will be Level 2 and so on."

"It's good we can differentiate easily and recruitment of soldiers will be easy. We can set a Particular requirement and one's who passed will join the army." Dye excitedly started to make plans.

"It's very easy to talk with smart people. Oh and Dye how about making Military Ranks?"

"OK, If the number of soldiers increased it will be difficult to manage without Military Ranks. So what will be?"

"Let's set 1 commander which is you, you will directly report to me.

4 Generals, they will control 25000 soldiers and will directly report to you.

20 5000 man commander, as name shows they will control 5000 soldiers and they report to Generals.

100 1000 man commanders, will command 1000 soldiers and report to 5000 man commander.

1000 100 man commanders, will command 100 soldiers and report to 1000 man commander.

10000 10 man commander, which will be called corporal will command 10 soldiers and report to 100 man commander.

All soldiers will work in a team of 10 soldiers. There will be another division of cavalry and archers. So, Dye what do you say?"

"Whoa, what happened to you, you completely changed you were an innocent boy and now you became complete general and you even thought of this. Well, this is great, but how will we chose the ability and ranking of soldiers."

"For the physical aspect, we will set a particular weight to lift for a particular Rank. Like starting soldiers should be Level 5 means Have to lift 100 Kg, Corporal should be Level 8 and so on. As for battle tactics, we will start Military school. First, we will recruit soldiers and choose a few selected talents and teach them battle tactics."

After thinking some time Dye nodded " OK, so when will we start recruitment?"

"We will start soon, just spread the rumour of recruitment of soldiers will be in about month, they will start to prepare. And yes, Dye from now on you will start training with me daily! Firstly we will increase our strength and make our funds slightly better. "

"Huh, OK"

Xander Turned towards Aldith"How are our weapons and armours quality and conditions?"

"We have roughly 6000 swords and 1000 shields of which 500 swords are in slightly worse condition." Aldith paused for a moment and slightly said in low voice "We have only 50 armour"

"What, only 50 and we don't have even complete weapons" Xander stood up from his seat in shock He sat on the chair and became slightly depressed "why are we short on weapons and armours?"

"We don't have many blacksmiths in our kingdom, we mostly import all the weapons from the Kingdom of Ocawyth."

"Hmm" Xander started to ponder to find a solution, after some time he asked Aldith " Is there any clan or village who have some blacksmith and are near our kingdom."

After some thinking Aldith's eyes lit up like 100-watt bulb "Your highness, there are dwarves near our kingdom, they are not only great blacksmiths but some are good construction workers, they are mainly good at any production job. Currently, they are fed up with the continuous invasion of Demonic beasts, if we contact them and give them good living conditions maybe they will agree."

Xander's eyes lit up. Every manga and anime fan heard of Dwarves and Elf's, upon hearing Dwarves he nodded "OK, send an ambassador and give them a land and good conditions, in return, they just have to work for me and we will also give them a good salary. And are there any Elf's near our kingdom?"

"Yes, your highness They live in forest slightly north to our kingdom. we had a great relationship with them. During the reign of our previous king, we helped them few times in repelling Demonic beasts. they are exceptionally great archers and doctors and they have more age life than humans. Us humans live for around 200 years and Elf's live for around 500 years"

"Are they also fed up with Demonic beasts? Will they join us?"

"Yes, your highness many Elf's died during the war with Demonic beasts, They will definitely join our kingdom."

"OK, send our ambassador to them and invite their leader to our kingdom for negotiations."

"As you wish, your highness."

"And Aldith we will go on a round of our kingdom after lunch and then discuss ways to improve our income. We also required talented personnel. Let's discuss then, now I will go to rest wake me up before lunchtime"

Xander got up from his chair, went towards his room.

After Xander went outside administration office Dye turned towards Aldith "Old man what happened to Xander, he completely changed into another person but for good reasons."

"Yes, looks like our kingdom will become core during the battle with demons. We have to just to support your highness with anything he wants."

"That's for sure."

Then they parted with themselves Dye went to his room and Aldith went to discuss the migration of Dwarves and Elf's with Ambassadors.