Welcome to the party

[Ding…Identified 50 people swore their loyalty to you and are above 50% loyal]

[Add 50 people to the party? Y/N]

After taking a deep breath and looking at everyone I selected and said under the breath 'Yes'.

[Congratulations My Lord. 50 members are added to the party.]

'Mina add Ser Harrion Snow as a captain.'

[Successfully added 'Ser Harrion Snow' as a Party captain]

I quickly dismissed the notification and looked at the 50 men who are neatly arranged.

"There will be a touney in a moon's time. I intend to participate in it and get some gold. You are welcome to participate in the tourney. Your entry fee will be handled by me." I looked at everyone as my declaration brought smiles on everyones faces and continued "All I ask is from today on wards everyone will train your swordmanship in the morning, horseriding and joust 3 hours after lunch and archery 2 hours before ending your day. This will be your daily schedule for the next moon. You will have no other duties. Ser Harrion you will take the lead and make sure everyone will follow what I said. The person with greatest progress will be gifted by me after tourney with 100 Dragons."

After I said that I nodded at them and left with my mother and siblings. After spending sometime again with my family I went back to my room in a hurry to check my status.

"Mina open status"

<-- STATUS -->

NAME: Aethan Valaryon

AGE: 16 years

BODY: Black panther Level MAGIC: -- locked--

LORD'S TALENT: Life Drain(Black Iron)

SKILLS: Swordsmanship(Silver), Archery(Black Iron), Horse Riding(Black Iron), Sea faring(Bronze)

PARTY-

PARTY MEMBERS: Members[49], Captains[1]

PARTY SKILL SLOT – (0/3)

INVENTORY: 1 diamond enhancement ticket

<-- -- >

'There is a change in status screen. Lord's talent had been added now. Now I understood the feeling that I got when I was sparring in the morning with Ser Elon. My Swordsmanship had an improvement. Now that I have added party members I don't have to really work on my skills myself. With the 50% of improvement of skills from everyones effort for the next month I would have 4 years of experience in Swordsmanship, Archery and Joust. I am now a hands-off-shopkeeper, all I must do now is assign the skills to the [PARTY SKILL SLOT] so that every party member including myself will have the benefit.'

With that I asked the system to assign the 3 skills to 3 skill slots.

For the next month all I have to do is put up appearances that I am learning fast due to my hardwork. With that I made my way towards the library to have some light read on some history books.

<Rhaenys POV>

'Queen who never was.' That what I am called when the lords of the Realm chose a male heir instead of me. Me and my dear Husband were wroth with the decision. Years passed since then and I have made my peace. I have a very blessed life. Loving husband, adorable children. That's all I need.

My husband stays most of the time in Kingslanding as he is part of the small council as Master of ships. We were invited by my cousin Viserys for the touney he is arranging in the honour of soon to be born son. Not sure how he is certain that the newborn will be a boy. I rode from driftmark on Meleys following the ship that took half a day's journey carrying my 3 children.

After approaching the port I saw My husband personally came and arranged carriages to ride for our children. With a smile I rode past them to send meleys to dragonpit. Red Queen is a moody dragon she doesn't like to be in dragonpit so I had to personally send her. We are bonded for 25 years and we understand each other very well. Because of our strong bond Meleys understands my mood and intentions mentally.

After sending the Red Queen to dragon pit I came back and rested after the supper with my family. Next day I woke up as usual. After getting ready myself I went to my daughters room and made her ready for the day. My second sone Laenor wakes up early to catch up with his daily training and to impress his father.

I am least concerned is about my eldest son Aethan. I has always been the obedient one of the all three siblings. He was similar to them to some extent when he was a child but got mature after his 10 th Nameday. He always performs his duties and studies very well. Maester and Ser Elon all have praises for him.

Today as usual I was with septa teaching Laena when my eldest came into the room. After dismissing the septa we spend some time together like we do daily. Then he told me what happened in the morning. I was a bit skeptical about what he told me. But Laenor coming after his morning training and exaggerating the details I am convinced. Post lunch all of us made our way to wards the yard and Aethen selected his 50 men as promised by my husband.

After assigning them to practice Swordsmanship,Archery & joust he left Ser Harrion Incharge and left after we spent some time together.

"Mother, did you see any change in Aethen? He looks the same but feels different." Laena asked. She is as usual smart and quick to notice small things.

"You are right my dear. Men get their confidence from strength. And you brother managed to defeat ser Elon in the morning, which has boosted his confidence." I concluded

"Hmm.."my little girl just nodded and continued her stitching class.

Evening my husband returned back after supper we went back to our rooms when we spoke about what happened during the day in our lives.

When I spoke about Aethan he just smiled and said let him do what he wats with those men." As long as he doesn't kill someone in the capital or send his men to death I will not intervene. It is time for him to learn about taking responsibility of peoples lives. He will inherit the Seat of Hightide. It is always better to learn early."

The smile soon turned into a pensive look. I asked with concern "What happened My husband. You seem more worried."

"The triarchy is getting stronger and the pirates are gathering now under one banner. The crab feeder is not stopping anytime soon. I tried many times to bring this up in the small council meeting. But all the hand said is that the crown will take my report under advisement. King doesn't seem to want to discuss about this. He is more worried about the tourney. I don't blame him as the queen had several miscarriages before and he is under stress. But the lack of any interest on the matter is concerning."

"Take your time and bring this up in the next small council meeting. I will also speak with my cousin when I meet him."

"Hmm.." he nodded.

And so the day ended.