Days passed.
In the city, Philip and the rest are having a somewhat semi-peaceful business.
The trouble-makers didn't dare to show up in the restaurant while business is going one because, in the first few days those that entered were so seriously injured that they wished they were crippled or even dead.
The psychotic punishments of the eighteen-year-old kid were circulated thoroughly within the candidates and also the troublemakers who work for money.
The most frightened of all are definitely the five noble kids, they didn't even dare to look towards the restaurant.
Their parents although angry didn't dare to make a move or instruct someone to do something as they were on a tight watch of Duke.
So, they could only grit their teeth and swallow the resentment. Their children though, didn't even want to think of a way to get revenge and that fear mainly stemmed from the thought of getting into the hands of Sam.
Even though, Philip and the rest are sometimes targeted, threatened and even ambushed outside the business hours, they still managed to pull through and after a month of hard work, they covered their losses and started to see some profits which is far more than they expected.
For the next few months, their lives are pretty much uneventful other than the cultivation breakthroughs. Philip entered the peak stage of Novice while Jack is in eight stage same as Watt.
Kelly though is only on verge of breaking though the middle stage Novice and entering the late stage.
Now there is only a month away from the shift change.
As the outside the camp is peaceful, inside the camp particularly Sam's battalion is full of battle spirit.
There is only a month for war and the main focus of this war is on the candidates and among the candidates Sam was even more special as he is a battalion commander.
His battalion soldiers are in completely high spirits compared to the other soldiers. Because, their training results made them full with confidence. They are quite sure that they can win the war as yesterday Sam explained to them that they are only responsible for defending a border town and their opponents are also only a battalion of soldiers.
When faced with equal opponents, these people are not afraid at all.
Every soldier was given uniform with their name embroidered on it along with their company number, squad number and a number indicating their position in the squad. They all have same type of uniform and the main difference laid in the colour.
Each company was given a different colour uniform.
And the ranks are separated by the stars on their shoulders. Their uniforms are mostly based on normal modern-day soldier's dress but the pockets are mostly reduced as there is minimum need for them. Every soldier uses a spatial ring so there is no need to worry about them at all.
Their uniforms are comfortable and stylish compared to their former uniforms. They felt a sense of pride and unity after wearing them.
Sam stood on the stage as he glanced at the soldiers who are assembled. He could feel their urge to battle from up there, he smirked and said in a loud voice.
"We are going to start out journey today towards the border town, since it is one of the closest borders to the southern star city.
The town we are going to guard is the Red rock canyon town. This town is separated from our enemy empire by a large red rock canyon. We are going to face our opponents head on as there is limited space for the strategies.
But still, I believe in the soldiers I trained. I want an overwhelming and clean victory. Even if there are a battalion of soldiers that we are going to face, I don't want to wait there for days.
Do you guys want to stay in a border towm?"
"No." There is a loud roar in unison.
"So, we are going there finishing the battle as soon as we can and occupy the enemy's town. Then all we have to do is handover it to the authorities and come back to the southern star city.
Now, Depart."
As he issued this command, all the soldiers moved in a systematic manner in seven files. Each company has seven files having seven soldiers each led by a company commander in the front.
Each company has a certain distance distinguishing themselves.
As the battalion started marching, Sam floated over on the Harbinger as he held the map and observing the route.
As the group is large, the transportation is a bit difficult as it would be quite difficult to rear the beasts to do this, Sam is thinking if he should make trucks to make some money off of it. He can even cut down in the speed part and all the requirements would only be the space and mobility. It just has to cut this journey of one month to ten days and they would gladly buy them.
But he needs a lot of materials and production process. He has a plan to settle down for a bit after this competition is over and open a factory to make his products in the empire and make some big bucks.
Before that, smaller business to earn enough money is good. Out of all titles he had Sam treasured his identity as a creator, that is why he obtained his artisan badge first as it is one closest to the creator's title.
And what does a creator need the most, his creations to be used for most appropriate purpose and be appreciated for their cause. If he can obtain money from satisfying this need, that is the best-case scenario.
So, for now he has to deal with this competition and then he can concentrate on the business.
The journey to the border town will take around twenty-seven days on foot. Even the remaining regiments are dispatching their troops to the respective camps. After these regiments moved to the camp only then would the existing border military will return to the main base.
But out of all troops, Sam's battalion made quite a scene as the five hundred soldiers moving an orderly manner is not something the people would see often. Their formation and the intimidating movements along with the uniforms and the uniform sound of footsteps in sync made people sweat from a far.
This all looked magnificent to the people as they watched the army passed by. Soon, the news spread. A special battalion marched in a formation towards the border town and their commander is floating over them.
The most surprised of all were the Duke and General Spark.
They didn't think that Sam would be able to train a battalion strong enough to deal with the enemy's troop.
That is the reason they dropped all kinds of people they don't want to deal with in Sam's battalion, simply put it is a battalion made of cannon fodder.
But the reality slapped them in the face in the hardest way possible.
As per the agreement they shouldn't copy Sam's training methods but that didn't stop them from observing them.
When the battalion of soldiers are kicking up a fuss by challenging the soldiers left and right, they finally understood that the situation is not exactly what they imagined.
Then only they started observing Sam's training.
All of his methods are unconventional. Particularly the drill training didn't even make any sense at all.
The rest of the training methods didn't seem that special even if they are unconventional.
But the results are saying otherwise. The squad battles are one of things that they hated the most. Because no squad in the army is a match for a squad from Sam's battalion.
At first, they at least have some wins, but after a few days, there are no wins to speak of and the worst part is, Sam's squad used only most basic of the moves and all the squad members didn't even attack at all.
This made the Duke regret the bet he made.
The main aim is that Sam has to die in this battle and if he does, then they would not have anything to worry about.
Even if Sam isn't dead, if he is defeated, he can make use of that point and pressure Sam is dissolving this grudge.
For the past few months, Jim is lying in the bed without any treatment. The Pharmaceutical tower head didn't even bother to listen to Duke and the latter doesn't have any right to pressure him. So, all they can do is hope that Sam lost or better died.
But the soldiers seemed to be quite well trained and a force to be reckoned with. This made things complicated and now he can only wish one thing and that is the army sent by enemy Duke is quite formidable and they can wipe the floor with Sam's battalion.
