Journey

Jason pulled his sword out of the dead body of a goblin and lightly swung it into the air to fling off the blood. He looked around carefully, the wolves were finishing up the goblins, while the green barrack members handled the stragglers in the goblin group.

Jason expected a leader ranked goblin to walk up, but after a few minutes of waiting. Nothing came up.

He swept his eyes to the village in front of them and the village militia that were holding their various hoes and axes as weapons.

There were about 30 villagers most of them being around level 15. A floating name caught Jason's attention.

Jason looked at the person underneath the name and saw a normal-looking guy about 20 years old with a spear in his hand and a stunned look on his face.

"A player huh" Jason muttered to himself as he walked up to the group of villagers with Charlie who had watched the entire battle without interfering.

He walked up to the biggest and strongest villager assuming that he was the one in charge.

That villager was watching the rose flag that rose from the platoon behind Charlie with a fascinated expression.

He looked back at Charlie who was approaching him and stood up as straight as he could in a panicking manner. He said in a loud nervous voice

"s-sir knight! thank you for saving this village!"

Charlie shook his head gently acting like a knight

"no, it was our duty, was anyone hurt?"

The villager shook his head

"no, sir knight, thanks to your help, none of us have even a scratch!"

Charlie smilled

"good"

He turned and walked back to his platoon. The villager widened his eyes as he saw Charlie walk back to the platoon. He hurried said to Charlie

"Sir knight! we would be honored to entertain you band your band for tonight!"

Charlie turned around and shook his head

"no, I'm afraid we are too pressed for time, to rest tonight I deeply apologize but we must leave now"

The villager reached out his hand as Charlie walked away, it was a chance to have the famous rose knights stay in their villages and he missed it.

But as Charlie was halfway to the waiting platoon he said in a voice that only the villager could hear

"Say hi to Harold for me"

The villager watched Charlie walk away with a stunned expression

"the village chief?" he said to himself quietly

Jason who had also gone with Charlie to the villagers singled out Rory the only player in the group. Jason pointed to him with a direct stare.

"you," he said with a smoldering grin "you should check out the sliver wings guild in Herdita it's the best guild (and the only one currently) and I think you can join it."

Rory pointed to himself and asked in a dumfounded voice

"me?"

Jason nodded

"yeah you"

After seeing that Rory wasn't responding Jason turned around and ran after Charlie who was walking to the waiting platoon.

Rory watched Jason run back, he didn't say anything but just watched Jason and his green name on top of his head, while carving the words "silver wing guild" and "Herdita" into his heart.

"silver wings guild huh?" he said to himself "perhaps I should check it out sometime"

Jason arrived at the platoon and said to Lyle who was tapping his foot impatiently

"Sorry I'm late"

Lyle replied in a hurried voice

"come on! Let's move, we are literally a day trip away from becoming rose knights!"

Charlie nodded, he too was excited about the ceremony. He turned to the platoon and ordered them to march double time.

So the rose knight trainee platoon set off.

Jason asked Mark while they were walking over the grassy plains they had traveled over before.

"So what's a platoon name? I keep on hearing it being mentioned but I have no idea what it means"

Mark lifted his head in thoughtfulness until he answered in an almost solemn manner

"the platoon name is something granted to a platoon after they pass their final trial, it's one of the things that makes a rose knight a rose knight and not a trainee knight. During a knighting ceremony at the end, after the titles are given, The leader of the rose household grants a name to the platoon, that name is unique to that platoon and the platoon will hold that name until they are disbanded or defeated in battle."

Mark tapped his sword scarab which had a rose knight emblem on it.

"the platoons emblem changes with the name and the platoon also gets a blessing from the protector of the rose household dependant on the name given"

Mark turned to Jason

"basically a platoon name is the event in which a trainee becomes a rose knight. It's a ceremony passed down ever since the beginning of rose knights that we all hold sacred."

Jason nodded in understanding

"I see, so how do they choose the platoon name?"

Mark replied

"something that that platoon specializes in or something that makes them unique like for instance one of the more famous platoons is known as the death roses because of their "kill all enemies" tactics their emblem is a black rose and a green stem with blood dripping off of the thorns on the stem. They are sometimes called the reapers of the battlefields and are currently one of the strongest platoons in active duty"

Jason nodded and thought about what the platoon he was in would be called. He couldn't think of anything special they did, I mean they did defend the city of Muno and take down lots of monsters. But that felt like something every platoon would do eventually. They all had excellent teamwork and with Charlie's ability to cast large-scale magic and a few other special powers like Lyle's Shunpo skill they were able to defeat bosses they would have probably been crushed by.

The group continued along going through more plains, Jason saw multiple green dots appear on his screen. He looked around, the surroundings seemed slightly familiar.

Jason quickly reported to Charlie saying that one of the wolves smelled people in front of them.

The platoon hurried over to spot Jamie and the refugees of the village Jason and the wolves had tried to save.

Jamie was nursing one of the sick refugees and seeing the rose knight trainee platoon march over he waved to them with a joyful expression on his face.

"Guys!" he said, "I'm guessing if you guys are here then you finished the trial?"

Charlie walked up to him and clasped his hand in a friendly manner

he said to Jamie

"yup, we are returning back to the training center. we are going to become rose knights!"

Jamie smilled but he turned around and as he looked at the injured and sick villagers his gleeful smile dropped from his face.

"I can't," he said "I need to take care of the injured first"

Charlie sighed and walked to the injured. Maybe it was because he was impatient with the goal of a few years just a day's worth of distance away from him. But he didn't hold back and he spread his arms out and started to chant. His eyes lighting up in a bright light and a glowing energy surrounding him until it seemed like he was an ethereal figure.

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Once he finished the chant a wave of light flew out of him, at the moment the wave of light hit a sick person a bit of light energy flew down and surrounded the villager until finally, the energy left the person as a completely healthy person, healed from all sickness or injuries.

Jamie watched the villagers standing up and jumping and cheering for joy with a big smile on his face.

He turned to Charlie and nodded his head as thanks.

Charlie responded with a nod of his own and started to organize ways to transport the remaining villagers back to Herdita.

After talking with the villagers, they all consented to leave the ruined village and try and find a new life somewhere in the city of Herdita.

The problem was that the villagers were slow compared to the rose knights who were hurrying to the training center for their platoon name and graduation into being rose knights.

Thankfully Jeffery and the wolves after hearing about the villager's plight quickly volunteered to give up their wagon and walk on the ground.

Jason asked them multiple times if they were sure and Jeffery heavily insisted constantly saying that his feet belonged on the ground and not on some "wooden bouncy thing"

So now after grabbing Jamie and the survivors the rose knight trainee platoon set off. For real this time, in a day's time they would reach the training platoon and become what they had always dreamed of.

Rose knights.