C38 Recruitment 2

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"Your Highness, it's an honor to have you in our prison!" A fat bearded man in dirty guards' clothes says. The rest of the prison guards kneeled except for him.

"It's actually my prison, as is everything else in the Duchy." I correct him and he starts sweating in fear.

"My humblest apologies, Your Highness. Please forgive my rudeness." He kneels on the spot.

"You're forgiven this once. Are you the warden of this prison?" I ask.

"Yes, Sir." He answers.

"Have you jailed all of the criminals from last night's excursion?" I ask.

"Yes, they're all imprisoned, as you've ordered, Your Highness." He replies practically licking my boots.

"Good, do you have papers with their information?" I ask.

"Umm, no Sir. We didn't think you'd need that." He says and I look at him like he's the biggest idiot I've ever seen.

"Why, pray tell, would I not need the information of my prisoners?" I ask with an annoyed expression.

"W-well, usually when we get prisoners they're just sent here to rot." The warden stutters.

"I'm not the usual sort of lord, so from now on when you get prisoners, I want their names and information filed away. This dereliction of your duties is forgiven, as It's likely no one enforced this earlier." I'm starting to lose my patience with this prison. "Souei!" I call and he appears from my shadow scaring the guards.

"Yes, Master?" He asks.

"Get me the information of every prisoner we took last night. Also, later on, get me the information of every person imprisoned here." I command.

"One moment." He says and a moment later a clone of his appeared next to him. He handed a stack of folders to his original and teleported away.

"Good, you always work quickly and I appreciate that." I complement Souei and he bows returning to my shadow. I turn my attention to the prison guards. "Do you have an office?" I ask.

"Umm... no, Sir" the fat balding Warden answers pathetically.

"*sigh* This prison is a huge disappointment." I mutter and turn to my Royal Guards. "Get me a table and chair, so I can go through these folders." I order and shortly after I'm sitting in the entrance hall of the prison, going through the prisoners' information. I would use my clones to speed this up, but explaining them would be annoying. Let's save the big boys from the auction for last. The big boys would be the three men that were decimating my forces last night. They each had their own folder, but they aren't in the prison, thank god. Souei is keeping them unconscious in his shadow. If they were imprisoned here, I'm sure they would've escaped already. Placing their folders to the side for later, I skim through the rest one at a time.

I've decided to make my own order of knights, so I'm going to take the highest ranking criminals for that. I'll have Souei mess with their minds, and make them good little subordinates. I'm sure they would rather have their minds rewritten and given a place in my guards, than rot in this horrible prison. Separating the folders into two pile, one for low-rank criminals that aren't worth my time, and anther for the candidates of my guard. I'll also give Souei a chance to pick some people that would fit into the order of assassins that he's been building for me. After separating all of the folders, I take a breath and turn my attention to the prison guards.

"Take this stack of folders, and familiarize yourselves with the prisoners listed in them. I want them taken to my manor by tomorrow morning." I push the stack of folders with my knight candidates in them towards the warden.

"Are you sure, Your Highness? These are dangerous criminals." He says after skimming the first folder.

"Yes, I'm sure." I stand up and take the three big boy folders.

"What about the rest of the folders?" He asks.

"I have no use for them, but store the files in case they're needed another day." I say and leave the prison. My guards escort me back to the manor, and I go straight to my study. It's time to read the files of the three men Souei captured.

The first folder I go through is of a 70-year-old man named Cole Bates. Although, he looks to be in his mid-twenties. He's a rank 81 fighter. Looking through the folder, I find that he's an accomplished leader of a bandit camp. The camp's location is also in the folder. Souei really works fast, huh. He was a former guard captain in one of the many cities in the Fortis Kingdom, but was suspected of taking bribes. When they found evidence against him, the city lord ordered his arrest, but he escaped capture. He slowly built up one of the largest bandit camps in the country, and has been committing various crimes ever since.

The next file is about an 80-year-old man named Oscar Pennington. Although, once again he looks to be in his upper twenties. He's a rank 83 mage with a lightning attribute. Oscar was a minor Noble from the Fortis Kingdom that was caught owning slaves. He was stripped of all of his titles but escaped capture with his family's wealth. The rest of his family wasn't so lucky, as most of them were imprisoned or executed based on the level of their involvement.

The last file is of a 90-year-old man named Floyd Holland. You guessed it, he looks younger than he actually is. About thirty I'd say. He's a rank 85 mage with the earth attribute. He was an adventurer that was caught killing and stealing from his fellow adventures. He would go into a dungeon, lure core beasts to other adventurers, and when they would go to fight the beasts off he would sneak attack them from behind. Truly an evil man, but at least he was efficient. I'm sure he ranked up very quickly from this. His access to any regulated dungeons was revoked, and he's been hunted by the adventurers guild ever since.

These are perfect candidates to be future elders in my knight order. Of course, I would have to tweak their minds a bit. Can't have them betraying me, or not following orders.

"Souei, bring out these men, so we can rework their minds." I say and he exits my shadow. Souei then expands his own shadow, and the three unconscious men faze out of his shadow and onto the floor.

"Would you like me to start, Master?" Souei asks.

"Yes, but make sure to only rewrite their personalities and memories. I want them to keep their skills and knowledge intact." I say.

One by one Souei walks up to each unconscious man and places a single finger on their foreheads. They each ytwitch a bit, but they don't seem to be in pain after a moment each of them wakes up and looks around the room. When their eyes land on me, they kneel instantly just like a knight would to his lord.

"Your Highness!" They say in unison.

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