The Imperial Scepter of Glory

Chapter 8 Military System

There are three very important options in the training system: troop training, commander training, and personal training.

Troop Training: This trains the army according to the system’s method, with a 100% success rate, turning soldiers into various troop types.

Pikeman Training: Soldiers equipped with short swords, pikes, wooden shields, and leather armor are excellent at direct combat. However, once the formation is broken, they can only fight with short swords. Training time: One month, cost: 2 energy per person.

Two-Handed Swordsman: Wielding a two-handed sword and wearing leather armor, this unit has balanced abilities and is a great light infantry. Training time: One month, cost: 1 energy per person.

Great Axe Warrior: Soldiers equipped with a long axe and chainmail, they have powerful impact and destructive power, excelling in close combat, but lack means to face tightly organized enemy defenses. Training time: Three months, cost: 10 energy per person.

In troop training, Lin Tan counted roughly dozens of different troop types. Using troop training consumes the "faith energy" mentioned earlier, and different types consume different amounts. For example, training a pikeman costs 2 energy points, while a great axe warrior costs 5! This doesn't even include the gold needed for the weapons. More advanced troops consume even more. Lin Tan also keenly noticed that there were many blank slots for other troop types, which seemed to suggest that more would be unlocked in the future.

Commander training, as the name suggests, provides unique training methods for commanders under one’s command. However, this training also requires faith energy, and the high prices made Lin Tan feel uneasy.

The personal training system is perhaps the most suitable for Lin Tan's current situation. This system allows for training personal strength, intelligence, and other aspects.

Lin Tan was very interested in the newly appeared 'Faction System' and 'Training System', and the two gray options, "Kingdom" and "Religion," made him especially happy. Didn’t that man long for a time of great feats, leading troops to victory in a world full of battles? As a time traveler, Lin Tan certainly didn’t want to fall behind.

However, even though Lin Tan was eager to explore the mysteries of the faction system, Galabron clearly didn’t have the will to help him. The young knight, who was being dragged by the middle-aged man to practice swordsmanship, didn’t dare to let his guard down. After all, even though they were using dull swords for training, getting hit was still very painful!

That evening, after a full day of sword training, Lin Tan returned to his room, sat at his desk, and spread out a sheet of white parchment. With a quill pen dipped in ink, he began writing rapidly until late into the night.

The next morning, Lin Tan handed a training manual to Galabron.

“What’s this?” Galabron flipped through it and discovered it was a training plan for a month. He glanced over it, quickly realizing that this training manual was different from anything he had seen before. Although he was an old soldier who had survived on the battlefield, he couldn’t immediately see the special benefits of this manual. “Where did you get this? Does this kind of training really work?”

“Of course,” Lin Tan said confidently. He trusted the system’s offerings, and what’s more, he had already tried the so-called personal training last night, and the effects were indeed impressive.

“Uncle Galabron, you can guide the mercenary group in training today. My personal training will be done separately,” Lin Tan explained when he saw Galabron’s suspicious expression. “We’re sure to continue mercenary missions; otherwise, we can’t support these people with the estate alone. I don’t want my father’s hard work to go to waste. Of course, don’t worry, I won’t neglect swordsmanship training, and you can check it later!”

Since Lin Tan had said so, Galabron didn’t ask any more questions. He took the training manual and began calling the mercenaries for training.

Lin Tan watched as Galabron’s figure faded. Once he was sure no one was paying attention to him, he activated the system to begin his training.

The personal training system provided many training options, though it came at a cost—faith energy.

Lin Tan had figured out how faith energy worked: it was very similar to divine faith. When someone felt respect or worship towards him, those emotions transformed into faith energy, which was absorbed by the system. However, unlike gods, worshiping one person didn’t interfere with the worship of another. At this point, Lin Tan’s faith energy generation speed was slow, which was to be expected, as he was still a nobody with few people holding respect for him.

After unlocking the faction system, Lin Tan had 100 faith energy points, but after using them for training pikemen and two-handed swordsmen, he had very little left.

He spent another 10 faith energy points on a full day of Qi training, and that drained his reserves completely. With the gold used for purchasing equipment and maintaining the mercenary group, Lin Tan was nearly bankrupt in both faith energy and personal assets. As he trained, he also pondered ways to earn money and increase his faith energy production.

At lunchtime, he sent a mercenary to the nearby town to see if there were any tasks they could take on in a month. He had already decided that, no matter what, a month later, he would leave Herco Town and head east on an adventure!

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, a month had gone by. The mercenaries of Lin Tan’s group had all undergone training under the system and were now recognized as pikemen and two-handed swordsmen. By this time, Lin Tan’s knight title had also been issued, along with the inheritance certificate from the noble council, which was based on lineage and proof from local gentry.

Lin Tan’s personal strength level had not improved and he remained a level-three knight, but he had acquired the ability to use “Sacred Qi,” which he had obviously exchanged with faith energy from the system. It had cost him 100 energy points. Now, when using his Qi, it no longer appeared as invisible raw energy but as sacred power glowing with a milky white flame, significantly improving his strength. If it came to a fight, no one in Herco Town could match him now—even Galabron.

He had also found an appropriate mercenary task. It was a simple escort mission: a merchant caravan was heading east into the Principality of Florence and needed a mercenary group of at least twenty people. The Fleg Mercenary Group had thirty members and had earned some fame in the Eastern Orc Battlefield, making them fully qualified for the job.

However, before embarking on the mission, Lin Tan and his group still needed to resolve a small issue...