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Oceanic Legion

The marine brigade was officially declared the Oceanic Legion, Freiyar, became the commander of the Oceanic Legion. Originally, Lorist wanted to call them “the navy,” but after considering the fact that such a concept didn't exist on Grindia, and given the rather underdeveloped state of naval warfare, he chose a name that was simpler to comprehend.

Uncle Torin, Tok's father, and he's quite capable with logistics. He was made the marine brigade's supervisor.

The marine brigade at Bullhorn Bay was to be their reserve troops. Senbaud helped Freiyar arrange the ships Lorist expropriated into two armed fleets. One of them would focus on speed and have patrol, reconnaissance and interception duties. The other will be relatively slow and focus on transporting manpower and resources, and fight in direct confrontations.

Nors was considered by Lorist to be rather reliable and was assigned the position of the leader of the Second Navy Marine Brigade and would be in charge of recruiting more sailors on the island.

Silver-ranked knight and vice leader of the Oceanic Legion, Nors, had died in battle on the ocean as well. Seventeen silver-ranked knights of the first and second fleets of the Oceanic Legion, Captain Rolin, Bose, Telok, Hwaleit, Moog, and the rest all perished in battle. The total number of sailors and marines that were either dead, missing, or captured, was around 3700, with 38 ships lost. The Oceanic Legion forces stationed at Silowas, which numbered around 6000 men, had lost more than half of their forces, a staggering loss indeed.

They were left with eleven ships, still in good condition. Thirteen others required some repairs. Eight of them were only slightly damaged, but the other five would need more time. Senbaud's second fleet had 29 ships originally. During the rescue operation, he lost seven ships but managed to take two of the enemy's, making the current count 24. The Oceanic Legion had suffered heavy losses, more than half of their forces. The numbers of the marines were incredibly low.

After the extermination of the Hanayabarta kingdom, the Oceanic Legion numbered around 45 thousand men, with more than 400 ships spread out across the seas. Lorist ordered the Oceanic Legion's commander, Gold-ranked Knight Senbaud, to reorganize the legion following the completion of the transport process in hopes of forming two armed patrol fleets with cannons as their main armament to defend the coasts of The Northlands as well as Silowas. Not only that, he intended for three transportation merchant fleets to be formed, as well as release around 200 ships that he had commandeered before his campaign and compensate the losses of the owners to ship some of the slaves who wished to go back to their homes on the continent of Grindia.
Garrison Legion

Freiyar's three garrison legions escorted the immigrants to their settlements and each village was to be defended by a company of troops with each town also being defended by a regiment.

Lorist ordered Belnick to replace Malek as Freiyar’s second-in-command taking over his garrison legion. While Malek trained to break through the gold rank.
Princess Carey

Princess Carey, the sole daughter of the late First Highness. Princess Carey is 25 years old this year and she possesses incredible beauty and is said to be one of the most beautiful women within the whole kingdom. However, she is extremely promiscuous and she has countless admirers. It's said that she believes in the Goddess of Desires and Pleasure, Mishla and even organizes a little orgy participated by many other noble men and women who believe in the same faith. Every month, she would organize that orgy and one would get to experience the greatest pleasure should one be a part of it.

## Appearance

Compared to Princess Sylvia, Princess Carey was like a ripe, delicious fruit that was sexy and enchanting. Every gesture and smile of hers riled up the temptation of anyone who saw it. Her body was as polished and smooth as white jade with curves at the right places and her ivory-like legs only served to add to her charm. Just like the other women, she donned a translucent white veil and proudly showed off her body, especially the peaks on her chest that drew many eyes to her.

The princess's face wasn't covered and instead, her white fox mask was tied to the side of her hair, revealing her blushing and pretty face. Lorist couldn't help but praise the princess for her irresistible looks. Thinking back at the beauties he's met, apart from Princess Sylvia's fairy-like looks, nobody else could compete against Princess Carey in terms of seductive sexyness.
Hector

Hector, the main secretary of Whitebird Town.

## Appearance

A pale-faced youth who should be around five to six years older than Lorist.

## Background

He graduated from the Krissen Empire's Mobor Academy,

## Story

Hector, was rather lucky as his captors had noticed his talents during the voyage. Upon knowing that he was the chief secretary of Silowas and graduate of the Krissen Empire's Mobor Academy, the slavers did not treat Hector as they did the other slaves. Instead, they had him become a bookkeeper to handle the miscellaneous matters of a company at Nupite.

Lorist also gave out six honorary titles. The first was Governor of Hanayabarta Archipelago, awarded to Hector.
House Fisablen

House Fisablen, the Lion of the Northern Grasslands.

## Military

In terms of unit type, their cavalry forces were standard cavalrymen akin to the Nortons' light cavalry scouts. They specialized in mobility and deftness. They could only be countered with heavy-armored units.

Duke Fisablen had absorbed the captured barbarians into his forces. Thanks to their uptake, he had largely recouped his losses from the campaign. The grassland barbarians were practically born and lived in the saddle, so they required minimal training to be effective.
Anderwoff Province

Anderwoff was the main military center for the Redlis kingdom's nobles. The joint forces of around 30 noble houses were nothing to scoff at. Together, they had the same standing as the first prince himself. They had always been at odds with him, much to his misfortune. When he asked for aid, he received only mockery.
Grandmaster Ciroba

Grandmaster Ciroba is the most accomplished architect in the Iblia Kingdom.

## Personality

Given his arrogant temperament, he even dared to not show any respect to dukes and marquises of the Second Prince’s royal court.

## Appearance

The grand architect is a man in his forties.

## Background

Two years ago, the Rose Palace which he designed had received critical acclaim and that project had caused the grandmaster’s name to soar to fame.

He was a treasured talent of the Second Prince. The Kenmays family head spent quite a lot of money to hire Grandmaster Ciroba to plan the construction of their city.

## Story

He claimed credit for the design of the castle without even being asked. However, he refused to answer some of Lorist’s question about the castle and even cursed Lorist for cowardly assaulting and taking over the construction site when their side was unprepared. He demanded for Lorist to leave the area or face the consequences. He was tied up on the flagpole and given 50 canes to make sure he knows his place.

Grandmaster Ciroba, had ruined Lorist's plan before it was put into motion. Before the ambush, the metal armor equipped soldiers had all forgotten about Grandmaster Ciroba after being told to find a place to hide from sight. That was why he had managed to sneak out to alert the Feathersoar Mercenary Crew on that day.

Right after the battle that day, a few guards wanted to look for this cursed old guy to give him a good beating. But when they found him, he was crouched on the ground muttering something about seeing a demon. It was not long after that they understood that he was referring to Lorist. After giving him a sound thrashing, they tossed him back into his cell. He had severe nightmares that caused him to spring awake screaming about demons in the middle of the night while also begging for Lorist's forgiveness so that he wouldn't eat him alive. After that, some of the guards used his name to frighten him when they had nothing better to do and every single time it caused him to cry nonstop.

He was brought to Telesti, the Grandmaster Ciroba was to become her subordinate.

 Lorist gave out six honorary titles. One was given to Grandmaster Ciroba. the genius architect forced by Lorist to serve the house had already taken charge of all of the house's construction projects. He was currently neck deep in projects and had a rather fervent tendency of naming all the projects after himself, for example, Great Ciroba Dam, Ciroba Citadel, Ciroba Highway, and many others. While most of the names were later amended, it didn't change the old architect's habit. Just recently, he had named cannon station and lighthouse at Bullhorn Bay Ciroba Battery and Ciroba Lighthouse. In the end, Lorist changed the Ciroba Battery to Bullhorn Bay Battery, but he allowed the lighthouse to keep its original name.
Karitoke (Norton Knight)

During the Hanayabarta Kingdom's invasion of Silowas, Freiyar's fleet used up all their weapons and had to board the enemy ships to fight in close-quarters. At first, they were able to take two ships, but the enemy sent out a blademaster which Freiyar went up to receive. After a few bouts, Freiyar got struck on his chest by the blademaster's sword, causing him to spit out blood and faint. Karitoke hauled Freiyar back. Karitoke later ordered them to break the encirclement. But right as they were about to leave, Karitoke was struck down by the enemy blademaster.
Duke Loggins

## Personality

Beneath the duke's facade of a person of average ability who had many vices hid a heart filled to the brim with ambition. Being a devious person, even though the duke might forgive one's errors on the surface, he might secretly take several methods to ensure one's demise and won't stop until one's life has been broken apart.

## Background

During the formation of the Iblia Kingdom, the Second Prince has agreed to make Duke Loggins the overlord of the nobles of the Northlands to gain his support. This is the main reason why the Norton Family was subordinate to the him. However, the Second Prince also granted more than 90 titles to some new nobles, among which more than 40 of them had been enfeoffed land in the Northlands. Viscount Kenmays was also one such noble.

The sudden entitlement of so many nobles was because the Second Prince had hoped that the Northlands would develop faster with the new nobles in charge. But, it has caused quite a bit of trouble for Duke Loggins. After gaining their titles, the nobles have been involved in countless conflicts for territory and 3 newly-entitled noble families and 1 old noble family have already perished. The duke had since changed his plan on taking the whole of the Northlands by force and is instead secretly fanned the flames of war among the nobles to reduce their power and force them to rely on him. Therefore, the situation of the Northlands was incredibly volatile and no noble was safe from it.

## Story

During the time, Josk guarded Firmrock Castle, the allied noble army formed by the duke wasn't able to penetrate it at all and ultimately suffered a defeat from the arrival of the convoy's main force.

The house Norton convoy had defeated the allied noble army which had Duke Loggins as its leader and were completely victorious. To pay the duke back for what he did, the Norton Family even robbed the duke's dominion clean, which was one of the most prosperous areas of the Northlands, and even forcefully migrated the population away from there to their own dominion. Currently, there was no central power within the Northlands and it was in an anarchic state.

That situation was practically a godsend for the Second Prince's predicament and he sent his soldiers towards the Hendliff Suspension Bridge immediately. Without even sparing any effort, they managed to conquer the two strategic locations including the bridge and Freist Castle and proceeded to occupy Gildusk City. Duke Loggins was unconscious from vomiting too much blood from his anger.

The Second Prince waved his hands and ordered for the duke to be moved to Windbury City with the excuse that he would receive better treatment for his illness there. Everyone else understood that there was no way that the duke would be able to make it back to the Northlands during the rest of his lifetime.
Davey Copperfield

Davey Copperfield, the only son of the Second Highness's Blademaster, Davey Climonto.The Second Highness trusts him greatly and he's the vice leader of the guards. At the time of his introduction, he was 30 years old and a One Star Gold rank. As the vice captain of the Second Highness's personal guard, he would follow his lord along every time there was an excursion.

## Appearance

Davey Copperfield has staggering height. He is almost 2 meters tall and has a well-built figure that is even more impressive than those of greek statues from Lorist's previous life. He is a rather good-looking man, with a finely chiseled nose and chin.

## Story

He gave Davey the role of eradicating House Aslan because the kingdom's treasury was in a financial pinch and is unable to provide funds to replenish the Second Legion that Count Aslan has irrevocably crippled. After carrying out his mission, he was to take Count Aslan's place as commander of the legion and reorganize it. He was sent more men and horses from the reserve legion to make up for the ones they lost.
Rose Palace

The Rose Palace located at the capital city of the Iblia Kingdom, Windbury City.

The Rose Palace, formally known as the Rose Provisional Palace, was called as such because the Second Prince felt that a true palace fitting for a descendant of the Krissen Imperial Family like him should be built at the imperial capital. That's why he called the palace he built at Windbury City a provisional one to symbolize his ambition to one day retake the imperial capital and return there.
Norton Helias

He was five when Lorist returned to the family dominion. Lorist had Pesha relieve custody of Helias and returned him to his mother, Pajik's wife.

## Background

Pajik's wife was previously the maidservant of the First Young Master, Norton Abelyde, and had birthed him a son, Norton Helias, whom Pesha took to be raised as her own son, forcing Helias to be parted from Pajik's wife.
Baron Krimando

Baron Krimando, the first prince's illegitimate son.

## Background

Baron Krimando was the first prince's illegitimate son.

The valley near Greatsnow Mountain was Baron Krimando's dominion. The baron had never shown up at the royal court before, which was why almost nobody knew of him. The valley was the last resort the first prince left for himself should he ever require it.

## Story

The Second Highness decided that Baron Krimando's dominion would be the best place for us to rest. If they had someone defend the valley's entrance and prevent anybody from getting in or out, nobody would discover what was going on inside. They headed for the valley and conquered the small castle near it in a night assault. Once they occupied the castle, His Highness instructed someone to advise Baron Krimando to surrender. Bowen Ketty volunteered and marched over proudly to carry out the task. Nobody expected his decapitated head would be hung above the walls of the baron's castle a few minutes later.

They were almost driven crazy by anger, no sane noble would do something as egregious as murdering a messenger. His Highness instantly ordered his men to continue pressing their attack and avenge Knight Bowen. After two months of bloody battles passed, they incurred more than five thousand casualties; even Knight Sisreid died on the walls. Of the 13 gold-ranked knights that left Frederika with His Highness, only Glacia, Ripleid, and Karitoke were left. One of the two blademasters protecting His Highness also perished. The other was heavily injured.

The valley was the last resort the first prince left for himself should he ever require it. Within the valley were three thousand of the first prince's most elite troops. He had been hiding within ever since he escaped from Frederika and watched as the nobles of Redlis kingdom struggled against the forces of the Andinaq Kingdom, waiting for the opportunity to strike and rebuild his kingdom. He do not think he'd have to use his trump card early to deal with the Second Highness, who were about to lock him within his little dominion.

They killed and killed. His Highness almost broke down as well. They never dreamt of clashing head-on against the first prince there and casualties piled up on both sides. In a fit of rage, His Highness ordered them to kill all the captives and citizens they came across. After all, they were the enemy's families. His Highness also managed to behead the first prince and his illegitimate son personally before he coughed up blood and fainted.
Viscount Aslan

## Story

The Second Highness's suggested way of handling the viscount was not to their satisfaction, hence, Lorist could only settle this according to the House Norton's own regulations. Lorist made a cutthroat gesture and Freiyar then drew his sword and gave a light swing, separating Viscount Aslan's head from his body.
First Highness

## Story

When he was put under house arrest, he suddenly spit out a huge mouthful of blood and stopped breathing within an hour after that. It was said to be a sudden manifestation of the symptom of his disease, but many suspect the Second Highness had played a part in the First Highness's death. However, that's only speculation and nobody really knew the truth.
Newmoon War

Hundreds of years ago, an artifact was excavated from one of the ancient ruins. It was a Silvermoon-shaped stone that was said to be filled with magical power. That stone had caused Krissen IV to go to war for it against 7 other noble families and it was termed the Newmoon War or the Newmoon Chaos. In the end, Krissen IV won a hard-fought victory and eradicated the other 7 families. However, the magical stone had disappeared and was never seen by anyone else ever since. Having ruined half of his empire and gaining nothing, Krissen IV was often ridiculed for expending so much effort on something he did not get his hands on in the end.
House Dina

The castle of the Dina barony was not huge. It was at most around 15 meters tall, built of stone boulders secured with clay pasted between the seams. With time, the walls had turned dark-colored. Even thought it was cleaned often with limewater, there were still traces of moss in some corners of the building, with most of the rocks at the base of the structure covered in a mossy-green coat.

There was a small courtyard past the bridge and entrance. Most noble castles used this kind of architectural layout.

## Family Members

* Dina Brother
* Dina Arriotoli
* Dina Fennazali
* Dina Dilianna

## Knights

* silver-ranked knight Massa
* Dina Arriotoli
Norton Wellickson

Norton Wellickson, two-star-silver-ranked household knight and regiment leader of the third regiment of the light cavalry scouts division. His bravery and courage in battle has allowed him to stand your ground to defend his station despite your injury and eventually led to his victory.

## Background

When the Kenmays Family surrounded Maplewood Bastide with their troops, the 7th illegitimate son of Lorist's father, Wellickson, had shown his bravery and performed very well in fending off the enemy. He had quite a lot of support from the elderly within the castle.

## Story

As one of Norton Lorist's elder brothers sharing the blood of their father, he has performed incredibly well. Lorist was incredibly appreciative of him and allowed him to wear the surname of the family.

When the house took the Hanayabarta archipelago as its overseas territory. Lorist intended to form a garrison division for the archipelago comprising five brigades. Norton Molocinque, was made the division commander with Norton Wellickson acting as his aide. Both Molocinque and Wellickson were shocked. It was already incredibly magnanimous of Lorist to see them as equals, given their illegitimate heritage. But never did they expect to be given a chance like this to prove themselves. In other noble households, illegitimate children were usually oppressed and looked down upon.

## Abilities

Lorist gave him a high-ranked metal attribute Battle Force manual.
Loco Motion

Loco Motion is sung in a Louie and Friends video "Carrie's Birthday!"

Lyrics:

Louie: (ahem) "Carrie, we have to do the Loco Motion now,"

Carrie: (smilnig) "OK! Louie, here it goes, Chugga Chugga Chugga."

Kids: (WOO WOOing)

Carrie:

Everybody’s doin’
A brand new dance now

Yolanda Yellsalot, Susie and Melanie:
Come on baby
Do the loco-motion

Carrie:
I know you’ll get to like it
If you give it a chance, now

Yolanda Yellsalot, Susie and Melanie:
Come on baby
Do the loco-motion

Carrie:
My little sister, Becca
Can do it with ease
It’s easier than learnin’ your ABC’s
So come on, come on
Do the loco-motion with me…

Louie Lumpfield, Susie and Kyle (the Chorus Kidz):
You gotta swing
Your hips now
Come on baby
Jump up
Jump back
Oh, well, I think
You got the knack

Carrie:

Now that you can do it,
Let’s make a chain now

Yolanda Yellsalot, Susie and Melanie:

Come on baby
Do the loco-motion
Carrie:

A chugga, chugga motion
Like a railroad train, now
Yolanda Yellsalot, Susie and Melanie:

Come on baby
Do the loco-motion

Carrie:

Do it nice and easy now
Don’t lose control
A little bit of rhythm
And a lot of soul
So come one, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me

Repeat chorus (by Louie Lumpfield, Susie and Kyle

Carrie:

Move around the floor
In a loco-motion

Yolanda Yellsalot, Melanie and Susie:

Come on baby
Do the loco-motion
Carrie:

Do it holdin’ hands
If you get the notion
Come on baby
Do the loco-motion

Carrie:

There’s never been a dance
That’s so easy to do
It even makes you happy
When you’re feelin’ blue
So come on, come on
Do the loco-motion with me

Repeat chorus (by Louie Lumpfield, Susie and Kyle)
Jades

Two-star-gold-ranked Jades used to be a slave. Originally a wandering knight, he had been captured and enslaved by a Hanayabartan slaver band and forced to fight for his masters’ entertainment. He was eventually rescued when Lorist exterminated the kingdom and pledged his allegiance to his house.

Jades, vice-commander of the Local Defense Legion.

## Background

Jades was someone from the former Krissen Empire. In fact, he used to be a knight of the imperial family. However, his ill fate caused him to faint from an injury during his maiden battle and he was looted by scavengers on the battlefield.

Fortunately, he was rescued by a person of good heart. Only to be captured later by slavers and sold to a mining establishment where he mined copper for four years. By the time he managed to recover from his injuries unbeknownst to his captors, he lashed out in frenzied murder to exact revenge. However, he was unfortunate enough to encounter King Lud III and a rank 3 blademaster, Locksy Kabia, who had come to check on the mines. He was defeated in moments and was sent to the dueling grounds.

## Story

Jades wished to return to his home first for a time. If he found family, he would bring them along.
Shadekampf

## Background

Shadekampf was Lorist’s personal attendant.

## Abilities

Shadekampf was a citizen of the Krissen Empire and practiced the standard middle-ranked Battle Force technique taught in the Krissen Imperial Army. It was a technique that allowed one to train to the Silver rank and allowed the practitioners to train further in any other higher-ranked Battle Force regardless of attributes. However, it was much more complicated than most normal Battle Force techniques and even had higher requirements if used to awaken one’s Battle Force.

Shadekampf kept forgetting the major blood circulation paths he learned, it was already quite a stroke of luck for him to have been able to awaken his Battle Force back in the day.

Lorist gave him a much simpler Battle Force manual, whose major circulation paths are much easier to remember. As long as he trained hard for two to three years, it wasn’t a problem for him to reach the Iron rank. If he didn’t at least train to the Iron rank Lorist threatened to sack him. He was given a test every three months and every time he saw no improvement in his Bronze Battle Force he would decrease his salary. If his salary got decreased until there wasn’t any left, then he would be sacked.

While he wasn’t the most talented person when it came to Battle Force training, Shadekampf was quite well-informed of the status of the dominion and understood what type of resources would be most beneficial to the family given his prowess in management taught to him by Butler Gleis.

## Relationships

Knowing that he was the confidant of the new family head, the three supervisors tried their best to get on his good side.
Excavated Small Ruin

It was said to be a
tower that used to be a magus’s residence. The colossal tower that reached out
beyond the clouds described in books was no longer standing.

Large, smooth walls
made from stainless steel shone like a mirror, seemingly unworn from the
passing of time. Lines stretched across the floor up to the walls and
intersected to form a complicated, three-dimensional magical formation diagram
and chunks of neatly-arranged rocks with archaic fairy script could be seen in
the vicinity. These could be the cornerstones that served as the foundation of
the magical formation.
Benack

## Background

The reason Benack, a relative of the king, was stationed at the dueling grounds, was that the king wanted him to use this chance to train his swordsmanship with the slaves so that he could be of some actual use. It was a shame that the king's effort was wasted. During Benack's first duel with a two-star-gold-ranked slave fighter, while he did manage to wound his opponent heavily, he had his ear bitten off when the slave finally managed to lock him down in close combat.

In the end, the gold-ranked slave was cut into mincemeat and fed to the magic beasts. However, Blademaster Benack, who had barely escaped with his life, never dared to use gold-ranked slaves for training ever again. He only sparred against silver or iron ranks to bolster his confidence. Jiluet had warned him before that training against someone of vastly inferior abilities was of no aid to one's swordsmanship, but Benack did not care about his advice at all and tortured the low-ranked slave fighters to death to satisfy his twisted desires.

## Abilities

Blademaster Benack was a rank 1 blademaster who had relied on precious medicines and supplements to attain his current strength. It is understandable that he might not be able to fight against a desperate gold-ranked fighter.

Benack' relied on outside sources to improve. Usually, it meant that the person in question would not be able to improve much further. Benack would stay a rank 1 blademaster for the rest of his life and would always be inferior to those of the same rank that broke through naturally.
Recruit Brigade

Lorist set up a recruit brigade at Maplewoods Bastide for those aged between 20 to 25 with Battle Force beneath the Iron rank. There, they would continue to train until they meet the conditions to join the other units of their forces. In the future, they would no longer have to recruit soldiers from their citizens. The men they need could be sourced from this brigade.

Other than that, every male citizen below the age of 18 would be required to join the recruit brigade to accept training to awaken their Battle Force. This will be optional for female citizens of the same age range. Each course will last three months and those who haven't awakened their Battle Force can attend these courses three times in succession. In the future, the candidates for recruitment will be chosen from these people who pass the course. The main force of the family will be required to have at least Iron ranked Battle Force with the garrison troops having the Bronze rank as the base requirement. When they had enough soldiers in each unit, they could begin expanding. He left this recruit brigade for Belnick to manage.
Krissen IV

Kristen IV was one of the longest ruling emperors of the Krissen Empire and during his 70th birthday, he put to death 7 of his sons, 4 of his daughters, over 20 of his grandchildren as well as more than 4000 others he imprisoned for attempting to usurp the throne. At that time, more than 100 noble families were involved in that incident.

That was one of the most well-known incidents in the history of the Krissen Empire that caused Krissen IV to henceforth be known as the Ironheart Emperor. The reason it happened was simple: Krissen IV had been on the throne for far too long and had a ruling term of a staggering 84 years. Even the three sons of his that were made crown prince didn't live as long as he did. In the end, the few remaining sons of his who yearned to be emperor decided to send their father on a premature journey from the world, but they were exposed and dealt with in the end.
Kobo City

Kobo City, the City of Forged Iron.

Even though Kobo City is under the direct control of Duke Madras, it is both a military base as well as a warehouse area and usually doesn't allow guests within it. Usually, the garrison is not allowed to provide any food without the authorization of the duke.

Kobo City has two walls. The first one is around 10 meters high while the second wall is roughly 20 meters from the first wall and standing at a height of 12 meters. There are a few sentry towers on the two walls, but no visible defensive machines of any kind. Those are probably protected within the towers. At the middle of the city is a 5-storey castle too. Even if the walls outside were breached, the soldiers can still retreat into the castle to put up resistance. Additionally, Kobo City had a 6-meter-broad moat.

It is 5 kilometers from Count Kelock's bastide.
Carroballista Division

Dulles was left with the 12 carroballistas. He had to assemble some people to operate them.

Dulles's carroballista unit which totaled around 65 people with 60 assigned to the 12 ballistas and the remaining five including Dulles acting as messenger troops which were in charge of relaying orders within the group for them to be able to effectively function as a unit. Even though each only required three men to operate, Dulles had up to five people on one and cited that the larger chariots allowed for more people to be on board and the extra two could help with shielding the rest from enemy fire or stabbing enemies with halberds, thus effectively increasing the defensive and close combat capabilities of each unit. The extra people also allowed for the injured to switch out with someone else to retain the core functionality of the carroballistas, ensuring that their assault wouldn't be stopped halfway just because one or two men got injured from enemy resistance.

The heavily-armored infantry division would only be able to show their best performance when acting in concert with the carroballista division, defending as the latter attacked.

The problem was that each carroballista required two horses to move it around swiftly so they could be stationed around the battlefield with ease. Without war horses, the steel ballistae couldn't be moved around the battlefield and stationing them would be quite troublesome. The ballistae wouldn't be able to fire at short notice in that case.

Dulles's carroballista division was restructured by Lorist into three brigades of 9000 men. The steel ballistas had replaced the longbow troops as the main ranged attacking force of the family and Lorist didn't intend to change that.

Lorist prepared a division's worth of wheelbarrow ballistae for Dulles. That fellow was getting impatient to be a division commander. Malek was to arrange for half the troops of the carroballista division to join Dulles's new wheelbarrow-ballista division. Having the new recruits fill up the vacancies.'
Tempest Sword Saint

## Physical description

### Vital Status

*Unknown*

The
Kalia’s Kingdom Sword Saint, According to rumors, he revealed his
power once when he was still only a Blademaster: when the rain
poured, he could pierce every single raindrop with his sword and
after the shower, an area of three meters from the spot where he
danced with his sword was completely dry, causing his name to
instantly soar to fame.

Sandoz
Hirda has become one of his disciples.
Tok

Tok, the vice captain of the marine assault vanguard. Son of Torin. He's also quite capable in naval battles. Tok is a huge, burly man with two-star-silver-ranked battleforce. He seemed even more like a pirate than uncle Torin.

Tok, one of marine assault guard's squad leaders had been confirmed captured.
Silas

Baron Silas

## Personality

The baron is quite lacking in academic and martial disciplines. His only redeeming point is his generosity and eagerness to help to others.

## Appearance

Baron Silas wore the golden-threaded extravagant plate armor that Lorist had gifted him when they met. The insignia of Baron Silas's family was engraved upon it: a rhombus-shaped icon of a gemstone could be seen in the center of the armor.

Half a year after he met Lorist, the baron had gotten a little fatter: originally, the plate armor was a little too big for the baron. However, some fatty meat could be seen protruding from the opening at his waist.

## Background

Back when he was studying at the imperial capital, he and his friends would leave the academy after class and mess around all over the place to hook up with beauties.

## Story

Viscount Darwof sent his men to the Baron’s dominion to demand him to share half of the transport fee for the ferries to him and threatened that he would seal off the banks from the other side if he didn't. However, the viscount only occupied half the area of the opposite bank and the baron could easily move his port to another spot. Naturally, he refused his demand and changed where his ferries docked. It would only take the passengers a little more time to reach the main road. After noticing the baron ignored his demands, the viscount commissioned for someone to build him two new boats to set up a new ferry port to compete with the baron’s business. However, when the ships were complete, he realized that more than 50 kilometers along the western bank of the river was within the baron’s dominion and he had no place to dock his ferries. In the end, he sent someone to negotiate for him to have a share in the profits of the dock in exchange for investing the two ferries with him. Even so, the baron didn't give him the slightest damn and in the end, he had no choice but to gift the ferries to him so that he would move the port back to the original location. That way, he can also profit a little from collecting a toll at his newly-formed customs point.

Hearing his plight, he decided to accept his ferries and move his port back to the old spot. However, many merchant convoys came to complain to him that the viscount was getting more overboard with the toll. The baron had long worried about something like that happening as it would deter merchants from using my ferry service. Just as I was about to send someone to warn them, Lorist came over and taught them a lesson.

The baron didn't allow the soldiers of the Norton Family to build the floating bridges and said that a hundred kilometers within the range of the crossing point was his territory and that we had to pay if we wanted to cross the river. Angered, Yuriy and Loze hung him up right away and occupied his bastide. Since Baron Silas was considered to be a subordinate of Duke Madras, he was considered to be an enemy and Yuriy and Loze didn't have the slightest reservation about sending him to the gallows.

Lorist had him taken down from there and buried. Since they knew each other, it wouldn't be right to leave him hanging so unsightly like that.
Lormo Duchy

Duke Lormo, of the Lormo Duchy, had been interested in joining the trade union ever since the dissolution of the Krissen Empire. The trade union gave him a chance this time around, on the condition that he revoked his dominion's independence, and his own sovereignty, and put the two provinces, the Yiwas and Puljas Provinces, under the trade union's jurisdiction. Only after that would Duke Lormo be made a duke of the trade union with Yiwas Province as his enfeoffed land.
Shyarsia Kingdom

During the 9th month of 1776, Senbaud's Oceanic Legion was deployed against a Shyarsian fleet. But, after only a single volley of cannon fire, the kingdom raised the white flag immediately. They were apparently so terrified by the human-head pyramid that lost all will to fight. Even King Lud III's cousin, the queen regent and heir to the kingdom, was poisoned by her royal uncle. She was decapitated and her head presented to Senbaud as an apology for their misconduct. The group that delivered the head also brought two million gold Fordes' worth of treasures and the king's seven-year-old younger brother from another mother, who was to serve as a political hostage.

There was been no precedent for such a thing, a kingdom swearing fealty to a single independent noble house, a mere count no less. Others might not acknowledge it. However, given that Shyarsia was located on an isolated island, away from the continent, perhaps they had never seemed to be much in the eyes of the continental nobles in the first place. Add that that the Chikdor Merchant Guild had offered up their trade routes to Shyarsia, it was only natural for the kingdom to fall under the Nortons' rule.

The island kingdom was controlled mainly by the young king's royal uncle, Saham. The king was young and likely controlled by his uncle, a mere figurehead. Lorist had no interest in Shyarsia's internal politics. He cared only for their spices. The Norton people lived a high quality of life, the common man had meat as his staple food. This was true for most of The Northlands as well. If they could obtain their spices, the profits would be immeasurable. Lorist was prepared to form another maritime trading fleet to establish trade routes to Shyarsia as well as make it another market for the dominion's produce. The fleet would ship their products to the kingdom and bring back their spice. As for their internal power struggles, the house would not interfere if the kingdom could continue to supply spice.
Baron Omador

## Personality & Background

Among the landed nobles in the area, Baron Omador was considered to be an eccentric person. First, he was extremely devoted and never had any illegitimate children nor affairs with his maidservants and has remained single after his wife passed away and lived with his precious daughter ever since. Additionally, the baron also had a great relationship with the citizens of his dominion and rarely punished them for no good reason and usually laughed it off when anyone committed a simple mistake. He would even distribute food and clothing to his citizens during festivities, earning him the reputation of the most benevolent noble in the area.
Puddle Books Theme Song

The **Puddle Books Theme Song** is the title song for every Puddle Books story starring P.J. Puddles.

## Lyrics

Jump into a Puddle Book

Make a big splash and take a look

Wonderful stories to explore

Music and magic and a whole lot more

Jump into a Puddle Book

Make a big splash and take a look

Songs to sing and games to play

You can change the story a look away

Puddle Books, Puddle Books

Let's jump into a Puddle Book!
Dina Dilianna

Chessy

Anna

## Appearance

A petite woman wearing a spotted deer mask.

After two years, the young aunt looked like she lost some weight over the years, but that only helped make her prominent chests seem more apparent. As Anna was only 30, only one or two years younger than Lorist, she was in her prime of beauty. Only idiots would not desire her.

## Background

Her cursed husband joined the Third Prince's army one week after their wedding and died in the battle at Kobo City, causing her to be a widow for 9 whole years. After the first time Arriotoli participated the Paradise Gathering, she brought her along with me the next few times in hopes that I would find another person for her to marry, but it's a shame she didn't find one she liked.

## Story

She had attended the paradise gathering with Arriotoli as Chessy and Daisy. It was only during the end of the gathering that the girl told Lorist her real name. However, her aunt had long passed out from the sheer exhaustion of pleasure making with Lorist and did not get to tell him her real name.

## Relationships

* Norton Lorist: She looked at Lorist with a gaze filled with burning passion.
Dulles

One-star gold rank Dulles. Being of common birth, he had joined up with Lorist when he was still at Dawn Academy because he admired Lorist's swordsmanship. Dulles was utilized extensively and was the one who founded the carroballista unit so monumental to the northbound convoy’s success. He was also one of Lorist's favorite subordinates.

## Story

Dulles was one of the Dawn Academy students who had willingly followed Charade to join the northbound convoy.

He was appointed by Lorist to fill an important role and was made into the captain of the carroballista unit. He had traveled and weathered through the hardships with the rest of the convoy from the 2nd month to the 9th month, 7 whole months.

Dulles, had been traveling with Lorist ever since the days of Dawn Academy. Being the founder of the carroballista unit and its commander, he had gained many achievements over the last decade. However, his silver rank battleforce had caused him to stand out in a bad light even more among the commanders of his army. Now that he had broken through to the gold rank, he had become one of the gold-ranked knights of the household. Being another person Lorist deeply trusted, he would definitely be utilized more often.
Whitebird Town Garrison

When the Hanayabarta Kingdom invaded Silowas Island, after receiving Freiyar's message, Charade quickly notified the Whitebird Town garrison to make preparations for battle and instructed the third local defense brigade to come over to the town quickly to reinforce them. The hundreds of  foes who arrived on shore on the first few ships were successfully intercepted by the garrison force, but there were many more ships behind them. More and more enemy troops began to swarm them. The hundreds of  foes who arrived on shore on the first few ships were successfully intercepted by the garrison force, but there were many more ships behind them. More and more enemy troops began to swarm them. Then a blademaster appeared all of a sudden. He cut Victor down right away, lopping his head off. Only 4 of the 500 Whitebird Town garrison soldiers managed to escape alive, the unit was utterly demolished as well.
Duke Kenmays

## Personality

He is as calculating as people can get. As expected of the descendant of a merchant family.

## Appearance

He is a person of slightly shorter height that Lorist and the length of his blonde hair reaches his shoulders. He looks rather handsome and his face is cleanly-shaven with a rather pointy chin. His face bore a bright and graceful smile which gave him an elegant bearing which fit his image of a good-looking guy well.

## Background

His father was given a title, if only honorary, in the last days of the empire. He was educated in the ways of nobility. It would explain his effortless integration into the society of proper nobility when he was given a fief.

## Abilities

Naturally, Viscount Kenmays was also a Two Star Silver ranked fighter and he could go into battle himself. However, he understood his own temperament and abilities as the reason he so painstakingly raised his Battle Force rank was not because he wanted to compete against others but rather to put on airs to seduce women into bed with him. While he could still command his troops on the battlefield, there was no way he would be willing to lead a charge.

## Relationships

* Maidservants: Count Kenmays originally had two new beautiful maidservants. They got pregnant and had to get married off to others. He had to pay out quite a sizable dowry for them too. This was a better option then keeping them as his concubines. Letting them stay after they had a child would cause them to have unhealthy ambitions. It would bring him nothing but unrest. For their own sake as well, marrying them off was still the best course of action. He also gave them a yearly allowance as well. When the children were older, he would adopt them and begin cultivating their talents.
Karman

Karman, was a slave with a three-star iron battleforce rank. Lorist saw him as a trustworthy one and had Hector make him the leader of the slave patrol squads after they were formed. Karmen also informed him that if he manages to break through to the silver rank, Lorist would take him in as a household knight.

## Background

He used to be an apprentice attendant to Count Bilop, of the Romon Empire. The count angered the prime minister and was stripped of his dominion and attacked by the empire's army. After the attendants and guards were captured, of which he was one, they were sold off as slaves. He was just 15 at the time.

He was a slave for 19 years. It was only because of his battleforce that he was considered in a much better light and even allowed to bear two children.

## Story

When the Norton forces invaded the Hanayabarta Kingdom, ten of the royal family's patrol ships were sunk by House Norton’s ship Windstorm in mere moments. The remaining ones didn’t dare to engage it. So, one of the people in charge came up with a ploy to dump flaming piles on the speedboats and have them sail towards their ship. They wanted the slaves to paddle the boats in exchange for the safety of their families.