Two years part 4

Max was getting ready for the problems that were heading his way from the day he got into his second "seclusion" from the world. After a lot of thinking he decided to teach his trusted soldiers that sweared heavy oaths to him the shadow step skill so they will be very unpredictable in short clashes with the enemy and he worked very hard on enchanting the people with the highest talents to the path of a knight to the grand knight level. The first one to hit this level was Valeria with her complete talent. She would get there even faster but with Max's potions she got there a lot faster. It took her around 6 years of training in the simulation from the 10 Max was in to get to this level. The only useful skill Max found for her that could save her a lot of problems was the taunt skill. It caused the enemy to be forced to trade a blow with her if the enemy was affected by this skill. It was a good skill for her to taunt someone and the mages just to blow this person up while he would be confused or start charging at her. The other knights that had very high talent levels got to the level of a grand knight after around 9 years of the simulation with huge help from Max. Max saw that making the potions for knight level figures was not much more difficult than for apprentices so he was making enough to support a force of one grand knight and one fire mage per city and a force of 10 grand knights in the capital with 3 mages of wind and fire and two mages of water and earth. Max was surprised that the mages with the higher talents were getting up in levels fairly quickly. The main problem was the magic crystals needed to be spent to buy the materials for the potions for mage apprentices and to let the mages train in the simulation that costed a few magic crystals each hour. In the end after a pretty short amount of time those elite forces were dispatched to the different cities of the country. They became the commanders of the city. The fire mage figure commanded the apprentice mages and the grand knight commanded the knights of the city. Those people did not leave the simulation until they got their levels. Valeria was training only at night but even with that amount of time to train she was faster than the others by 3 years of simulation time when she was training only third of the amount of time that they were putting in every day. It emphasized how much talent for cultivating make the life of the knights and mages easier. All the grand knights learned the taunt skill and the shadow step skill. After those powers were dispatched the knights of the cities were called back to learn the shadow step skill to increase their suitability. Max was predicting stronger powers from more prominent countries to come and cause trouble. Because of that he made sure his troops had what they needed to kick ass. His order was simple. To uphold the law. If someone breaks it is not some minor thing they will be deported. If they resist the soldiers were authorized to act to detain or kill those people. Max did not play games. Max was sure his troops will not played around because they sweared a magic oath to uphold the law. If they try to do some shady stuff they will die or become a vegetable. Both things already happened to some people that thought they are above the law of the country and they got punished heavily for that. A lot of the people knew about this and because of that they did not play around. They did just what was right. It was simple for most people because not a long time ago most of them were just commoners and they knew what it is to feel powerless against nobles and life generally. Now they held the power, but Max also held them accountable all the time so they could not do what they wanted. It was a good hierarchy.

After that time continued to pass slowly. More and more people from other countries of the Ruth empire were coming to the newly formed Yin Yang country. In the beginning it were the nobles from the two neighbors Valeria and Eldoria. They heard the news first from their spies in Max's country and hurried over to take the best things they could afford. It was not even the question about price. Some products like health, mana and life force or stamina potions as Max liked to call them were something most people did not even had access to. Even the nobles. Time continued to pass. Max put an agriculture representative of the country that put more representatives that all of them learned agriculture from the system. Those people created a big amount of jobs from the commoners to make use of the lands of the country to produce different types of food. The main goal was to be independent in term of food production. The Yin Yang country had all the capabilities to achieve this goal. Big amount of people started to work the fields. When the first crops grew and were collected the prices on a lot of products went down by a lot. People could buy a lot more with the same amount of resources. It alleviated the situation in the country and more people could afford to live their lives without starving for food. With some of them already breaking into the knight apprentice level the work force became a lot more efficient. A lot of the commoners went to the capital to get the archery skills just to be able to hunt for food at the days they did not work in. Maybe the people that were nobles in the past did not felt the changes much but the average citizen lived his life a lot better. Each citizen had a chance for growth and with enough hard work it was something a lot of people could achieve. The commoner citizens loved the changes and they were totally on the side of their ruler that most of them did not see, but most of them really loved and respected. The average citizen was at the first or the second level of knight apprentice if they had any talent for knight training when the time for the different countries of the Ruth empire to gather finally came.