Chapter 25

Possibly due to arrogance or something else when Aleister noticed the fist barreling up his chest in an uppercut he almost couldn't react in time, and even though he thought he dodged the entire punch his nose was still clipped by a knuckle almost instantly creating a small bloody nose. In surprise Aleister wiped a line of blood trickling down his face, slowly the student changed his stance to a more traditional defense one and with both hands closer to his body.

Although surprised Aleister wouldn't make the same mistake again. Walking up to the defensive student Aleister faked a punch into a roundhouse kick, catching the student dodge the same way he did by bending back Aleister stopped his kick above him and kicked at his shins– with the student floating almost parallel to the ground he grabbed the students back and threw him to the ground.

Finishing with all of the students he bowed to the group on the ground, with around 20 of the teachers Aleister walked into a side building along with the guards, upon entering a room all of the teachers and Aleister sat down on mats.

"Although I'm impressed with the technical skill of the students, I feel as though that's the only thing that is trained, their egos were allowed to inflate, and only the last student was calm in the face of defeat".

"It looks like you have forgotten the struggles, has your stay at the peak rendered your memory dull?" one of the old men laughed.

"My memory is still strong my old master, however, I remember being beaten relentlessly for my fear; have you all gone soft in your training?" Aleister deftly replied eliciting a shocked response from the fact of the former crown prince being beaten before getting a response from the instructor that used duel swords during their fight "Haha, beating a student for a natural response is soo uncivil".

"Don't talk civility with me when you instruct Godremic, a sport so heavily entwined with death and pain" Aleister calmly said while looking at the man "I'm guessing your the one who is teaching the last student, what was his name?".

"His name is Boufin Dregor" Aleisters old master responded almost confirming Aleisters guess "However I'm not his teacher, he is here for a challenge while he usually is in a different academy on Vore".

"Really? Then who is his teacher".

"That I know not but I have a guess, being Ulysile Dremont a man of particular taste and training".

"Well whatever the way he created a monster nonetheless" Aleister acknowledged due to the fact that Boufin had the greatest aspect of a good fighter, he didn't care. With the use of 'dirty hands' in front of the most politically powerful man in the kingdom, it was easily seen that Boufin had a greater interest in winning rather than an image, something becoming rarer and rarer in Godremic.

"Maybe, however, will a monster such as yourself be born out of that boy?".

"I highly doubt it".

"Still the narcissistic I see".

"Maybe, Regardless I must go, It was excellent to see such a familiar face" Aleister stood and bowed to his former master before leaving. Because he didn't want the chore that was walking back with sore lungs and bruised knuckles Aleister called his personal transport which was always near him, and in a mere two minutes Aleister was on his way back to the palace.

After a long and very hot bath that made his skin wrinkly, Aleister was once again leaving the palace to the courthouse on his transport. Already in the compartments hundreds of new officials and hundreds of old ones, with the blitz of expansion and creation of new offices that were previously not required the building that was used for over 200 years was now becoming small and obsolete.

"It seems that the projects aren't getting completed very quickly, none of the ports have started construction, none of the power grids have started construction, the academy, military bases, and science districts are on schedule being almost completed in a week yet this was due to military oversight" Aleister announced in a very annoyed tone "must I have military oversight on all of the projects? I can't imagine that going very well for the companies bribing you all… Does anyone have anything to say?".

"Well, then we shall start on a worse foot than I wished!".

"Starting now any donations to a minister, general, or official will be considered bribery for the person donating and Treason for those who accept it" Aleister began before lifting a pile of documents "In my hand right now I have proof of 400 acts of what is now considered treason".

"But fret naught— for you will only be handing over those donations to the royal family, and for these companies- Ryothana engineering, Bolitarian craftsman corp, Gynor contracting company, and Fyo among 126 others will pay fines equal to their donations".

"Along with this new rule is another one, all sources of money, all deposits and any withdraw will be monitored by the government, this is simply to protect against any new Thimbles; additionally anyone who is embezzling money today is your one and only chance for redemption admit to it and I promise as your king that you will not be punished, treated worse, nor shall the information be released to the court or the public".

Waiting for any subtle movements higher level officials that have a greater trust from Aleister that would suggest discomfort Aleister looked around before genuinely beginning the court session."Starting with the new construction projects, Drisizius and The Fifth will occupy the construction sites and will have the authority to bring forward an indictment against a company or organization working on the project for an unfaithful disregard for the expediency of the construction project, I will review the indictment and if they are found guilty they will be fined and another company will take its place".

"Now that we have that catastrophic disaster out of the way, a new four trillion dollar bill will be implemented– 12.5% will be incentives for the creation of a civilian-owned shipyard, 1.25% will go to the creation of a new meeting hall, and a new secretariat building, 25% will go to the creation of a new civilian port system on every planet with more inhabitants than 45 million".