V: War
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Akshara was immediately outfitted for her own armor and given a short sword. Then her training began with Carimo as her sword fighting instructor.
The Army of the God Slayers conducted their training exercises in an underground compound that had taken them twenty years to build according to Carimo. The entrance was in the back room of a man named Ricio’s house. You had to move a rug out of the way to find the door, and then you had to pass through a long tunnel that had been dug all the way from Ricio’s house in the western part of the city to beneath the temple in the eastern section. It was far enough underground that the priestesses had no idea it was right beneath them. If the city’s ruling class had sent guards to investigate Ricio’s house, they would find it easily. But h
