The Search

"Alright dear, would you be running another two more rounds of the Obstacle course later on? It would be dinner time soon and it seems from here I could see a lot of soldiers and also the Shadow units were literally practising around the whole course."

"Do not tire yourself too much or else you might not even be able to concentrate on other tasks that you may have later on."

"It looked like fun but I don't think it would be beneficial for me to go through the course because I'm a girl and I don't think I'm suited for this kind of activities. Hehehe."

Heather gleefully laughed to herself as she peered over the baluster of the balcony as she watched the countless soldiers and Shadow unit members running around and clearing the obstacles.

It seemed that once the Redesigned Combat Obstacle Course or affectionately known as RedCoc had nene officially opened to the soldiers and Shadow unit members to enhance their physical strength, there had been quite a number of people lining up to take their turns to complete the Obstacle course.

Since there was a lot of people at the Obstacle course, I dismissed the idea of going there and would be heading there once there are lesser people.

Of course, I don't want to shame myself of not being able to shave off some minutes from the current timing they were still within the 8-minute range.

"How about this, I will enter the realm and fetch the new uniforms for the soldiers and then had it over to Innes to distribute them."

"Besides, they all come in one standard size and I am sure Innes would be surprised that she won't be able to alter the clothing accordingly."

I spoke up and suggested to Heather and she simply nodded my head. She settled herself on the settee area after I had cleared some space since I would be bringing in 9 crates filled clothes.

"Woah...! That many clothes? Your machines in the realm are sure very resourceful...! How many sets and pairs do you make for the soldiers?"

"Oh... It is a standard pair of gugel, and the long sleeve tunic that was red and white with the black two-headed eagle at the front and the black pants."

" I had already infused the clothes with reinforced steel mesh and somehow it added up to +10 armour rating for each piece. I had made 750 pieces of those clothes and it would be a lot of spares to go round too as well."

"At least, the soldiers do not have to depend on a single set of soldier's uniform and have some change in case if one needs to be laundered et cetera."

I explained to Heather as we made the space around the settee area bigger for the arrival of those crates and I think that I would stack them before I bring them over to the real world.

"Alright, I'm going to begin meditating now and be right back shortly dear," I remarked and Heather made an approving sound as I sat cross-legged once more and closed my eyes to clear my mind and controlled my breathing.

Soon I had crossed over through the vortex and arrived in the realm. I saw that the pieces were all stacked neatly inside each respective crates and I effortlessly slid the crates over to one place and stacked them so that I could bring them back to the real world at one go.

After I had spent about 15 minutes arranging all the 9 creates filled with the soldier's uniform, I sat down and started to meditate off my current state of mind and return to the real world.

I was still in the final stages of drifting back to the real world from my meditative state of mind when I heard Heather exclaiming and were excited that she nearly shook my shoulder with joy.

If she did touch me during that time, I don't know what kind of dire consequences she had accidentally caused...!

No wonder Ceres had strongly suggested to me to have a peace and quiet environment to perform my meditation and I had no other choice but maybe move to my study in the next round.

I was wondering how my previous self had performed back then in the realm and also how they managed to bring the items back to the real world.

If only I would be able to converse with them in one way or another, I guessed I would have a much earlier time than this for sure.

When I opened up my eyes, the crates that I had arranged in the realm had finally arrived right before my eyes and there were exactly 9 crates altogether.

It would be a harrowing experience if one crate goes missing along the way...!

Stacks of clothes were neatly folded somehow and there were 250 pieces of clothing inside each crate. "Dear... Next time when something appears before you, please contain your excitement and refrain from touching me, alright?"

"It might not bring me back to the real world and even throw me off to another dimension. You might lose me totally and I would be in a vegetative state until help arrives."

I strongly advised Heather and she was shocked and had her hand to her mouth after discovering her blunder earlier.

She profusely begs for my forgiveness and told me that she would not do it the next time around.

Even when I'm in my meditative state, she would not be around me unless I had requested her to do so.

I comforted her since she was close to tears and I cooed to her saying that the more u meditate the more peaceful and sting my mind would become. Once my Mind is storing enough, I would be able to piggyback her to the realm.

She was close to tears but managed to smile despite being chided for her near foolishness.

"Alright, dear. You may get the domain helpers to bring these clothes to the New Clothing Store and inform Innes to start distributing to the soldiers concerned."

She had the name list and the quantity required and the present ones that she had would be turned into civilian clothes instead."

"Please inform the domain helpers to bring one set to Eagle so he could test and determine the quality of the strength of these reinforced steel mesh cloth armour for our soldiers."

I slowly raised myself up but I find that I was slightly lightheaded afterwards. Heather supported me at the sides and inquired worriedly if I need rest or not but I brushed it off since it was part of my old illness that kicked back if I'm a bit exhausted.

"Actually, you had depleted your mana since you had brought back a whole lot more items to the real world than usual. If you brought back 10 crates, you had totally spent your reserves of mana and the remaining items would be destroyed upon reaching the real world."

"I think I need to bring you to some realm where you would learn how to make full use of your meditations to greater effect."

"Your meditation is actually enough to send you to and fro the realm and perform a simple task. If it is the old self, then I think you could only last one hour in the realm before you are totally spent for the whole day...! "

Ceres gave me some tips and also a fair warning on the consequences of my attempts at meditation and also entering the realm and to start performing tasks, rather than to learn the basics of its fundamentals in the White Room instead.

"Thanks for the heads up, Ceres. Let me settle these matters first and then I will take some rest so that I can recover faster and be back to my current condition."

I wobbled to my feet and had to hang on to Heather as she brought me down to sit on the settee area. Seems that I had to forgo my rounds of Obstacle course today and have dinner here at the settee area instead.

Dinner was simple and we had the leftovers from what we had for lunch earlier. After the twins were fed by us as we ate together with them, the twins were oblivious about what had happened earlier and were holding on to pieces of plucked hard long beans in their hands as they chewed along with the mouthfuls of rice and fish.

After dinner, Innes came in to visit us at the settee area along with Eagle and she was complaining that her scissors were unable to cut through the new set of soldier's uniforms. We all laughed at her and told her that the soldier's uniforms were of standard size and I don't think there would be anyone who is fatter than the pair of uniforms.

Although a leather belt is an added accessory, at least it made the runic more snug and holds their pants up. Actually, there was a drawstring at the sides to actually make the waistline of the pants smaller so it would fit even the smallest waistline.

"This set of the new soldier's uniforms would really benefit the user, Your Majesty. Not only does it stop the blades of a knife, but it also stopped a field and bullet-shaped arrowhead."

"However, I guess the user would be black and blue if they were hit by these arrowheads since there are no other padded layers that they wear unless they wear a pair of gambeson underneath it."

I pondered on this for a while and welcomed the suggestion made by Eagle as Innes was wondering how the new pair of soldier's uniforms couldn't be altered in any way.

"Innes, you need to separate the new uniforms against the ones that the soldiers were currently wearing and also in your stock. Besides, we won't have them wearing an unarmoured set of uniform when they are on duty, am I right?"

Innes understood my meaning and she informed her sewers to separate the current stock at hand to the top floor of the Clothing store while the new uniforms would be announced to the soldiers by the following hour.

In that case, the soldiers would change from their current uniform and hands them over to Innes while the soldiers would be getting three pairs instead so that they could wash and wear.

"There's enough pairs of uniforms to go round, Innes? Let me know when the stock runs low so I could go and 'manufacture' some more for you to distribute. Remember, the lives of those men lie on you and perform it well then."

"Yes, Your Majesty. I am sure that the new set of uniform would be distributed to all the soldiers and new soldiers when they had finally been drafted into the military force."

Innes was a lady with little words but full of ideas as she excused herself, bringing the pair of uniforms with her and her crooked scissors and I think she would head to Old Jack's to mend the scissors back to health. Hahaha.

Eagle was satisfied with the outcome for the set of uniforms which would also serve as part of the light armour the soldiers would be wearing.

"What about shields and weapons, Your Majesty? Do you think you would be able to enhance the weapon as well since you had done with the pieces of armour?" Eagle asked an important question and I replied that I could do that as well but in the meantime, I need a stronger mind and body to help me sustain more work in the realm.

I narrated to him what Ceres had mentioned and he nodded his head in approval since he knew sustenance is important as to meditation for me to perform better in the realm.

Although he had never experienced it, he knew that I need to become stronger as days go by.

Right now, I've got to find the bald-headed guy to help me to attain a stronger mind and body through a series of proper forms of meditation.

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