Mamelukes

A banner fluttered over an enormous square building of white stone. A black crescent moon was depicted on this banner, exuding a somber aura of extreme cruelty. Anyone who saw it would feel an inexplicable sense of dread.

*"Eternal slaughter, conquest is king!"* This was the motto of the Mamelukes.

In Arabia, all the Mamelukes start training at the age of seven or eight. From the very beginning, they are made to fight amongst themselves, with only the fiercest and most savage of the children being able to survive. As these children grow, they receive the harshest military training, maturing through actual battle and blood until they become true Mamelukes. At that time, each of them will have become the most lethal weapon, imbued with rich experience in killing and battle.

the Mamluks are an elite army of soldiers trained from an early age ... and one of the strongest and most powerful armies of the Arabian Empire ...

the Commander of the Mamluks and ***Commander Aybak***

the army of the Mamluks and a ruthless and cruel army, whose soldiers always and only think about war, are employed by the Arab empire, to stifle revolts and unleash entire massacres, are feared in the battlefields, to be a very formidable army

As an army that existed purely for battle, the Mamelukes were callously trained from a very young age. Thousands of Mameluke youths would battle with each other in a training camp, with only the last one standing able to become a true Mameluke.

This cruel training and filtering method had allowed the Mamelukes to develop a reputation as the strongest fighting force in the Arabian Empire.

In this world, there were very few opponents worthy of battling the Mamelukes. Countless so-called elites, claiming to be the most powerful soldiers, had eventually fallen under the hooves of the Mamelukes. It was over their corpses that the Mamelukes had developed their reputation for invincibility. (Ch.1017)

the first founder and first military commander of the Mamluks is called ***Qutuz***

Within the Mamelukes and throughout Arabia, this founding commander Qutuz from several hundred years ago still enjoyed a magnificent reputation. Even now, many people attempted to imitate him, and he was hailed as a hero of Arabia. No one could shake his status. There were many legends as to why Qutuz had created the Mamelukes.

But amongst these legends, there was one that was most widely accepted and believed.

It was said that Qutuz was a mercenary of the Arabian Empire who ended up being imprisoned and enslaved after a defeat in battle. By pure coincidence, he caught the eye of a certain person who took him out of the prison and restored his status. At the same time, this person taught him a formation, the same formation that the Mamelukes used now.

In the legend, it was said that Qutuz had also created the first generation of Mamelukes with the help of this person. Out of gratitude, Qutuz had a special token forged. The golden sun on this token represented Qutuz’s agreement with that person. This token was the Founder’s Token of the Mamelukes, but not longer after it appeared, it disappeared. No one knew where it had gone. Aybak had never expected it to appear now. (Ch.1017)