712 Selecting Generals And Officials
Just the size of materials he sent over for the next half a day was enough to build an entire continent from the ground!
I just asked him to send the materials to the same place he was sending races and humans to.
As for dealing with all this, I left it for Lily to handle.
Now my operation to replenish the losses in both people and armies started. I left this task over to Silverlining, who promised me tons of races and humans each day.
I told him to save the place of my capital. By this, he had three spot saves, two at my second Earth and one here.
The only problem left was in Angelica. She was the most experienced one in dealing with new races and humans.
But she was now at the forefront, fighting with everyone else at the frontline here.
“I need to find more capable generals,” this became a must right now. I had to ask for Angelica to leave, and also ask Isac and Lily to keep themselves busy doing other tasks.
Not to mention I’d need a supreme general to lead all my scattered forces, ones to lead the western borders, and leaders to rule over different regions in my kingdom.
Leading everything alone was feasible now thanks to the low number of people living in my kingdom. But this would change soon enough.
I believed in less than a week, the number of people of different races living under my kingdom banner would grow to reach a fierce number.
The best to rule over my citizens would be Alex. But I demoted her for now. So I had to look for other capable talents to use.
I needed more capable and trusted subordinates. [Have you selected promising talents from your people?] As I reached this decision, I sent over many messages to everyone.
[I’m busy fighting!]
[Do you want them now?!!]
[Can’t we wait for a couple more days? The fight is very hot here!]
Such messages came from everyone. Only Angelica and Sara selected a few of their people as I asked.
[There is no time! I need to select generals and send them to train with their armies] this was part of the reason. Of course the real reason would be to relieve Angelica now.
[I heard you promised Angelica that cosmic relic, is that true?]
Out of the blue, Hilary sent this message over to me. I gulped, feeling the threat hidden in her calm looking question.
[Dire situations require innovative decisions, right?]
[Screw you! I hate you! You knew I wanted this place and let her have it in the end!]
[As if we won’t find more relic sites of its type out there]
[I still hate you!]
[Just get over it] I knew no words could explain myself here. I had to improvise, give Angelica such a motive or else the eastern frontier would be lost by now. [Just select capable people. She already selected hers]
[What does this even mean? I don’t care about selecting anyone! I’m quite mad at you right now!]
[Selecting talents that will fruit into future generals will help in expanding one’s dominance and authority in my kingdom] I rolled my eyes. This girl would lose all reason when she’d turn mad.
I didn’t add anything. It was up to her to decide what to do. In fact this was a chance for anyone wanting to build up his future reign and power in my kingdom.
What did having generals who served under you meant? Of course such a selection process wouldn’t be the last! I’d keep selecting people. If the generals I’d select here came from just two names, then these two would have the most influence in my kingdom later on.
They only knew I wanted generals. But in fact I was going to select even officials from them. My kingdom was built in times of war. So having officials with military experience was a must.
It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Those who would fail to seize it would have to exert much more effort later on, and wouldn’t even get closer to the ones who seized it first.
[I’m sending few over]
The weirdest message came from the jumper. That dude… How come he selected people when his armies were raised to the ground twice and had mostly monsters there?
[What? Will you send me a batch of monsters to become generals?]
[Funny! I’ve keen eyes and a vision in the people I meet. So I’ve selected a few capable people who will satisfy your needs]
This bastard! He already saw through what was going on here. Don’t tell me he just selected random people?
[You do know I’m going to test them, right?]
[Test them as much as you like. I have complete confidence in this one hundred group of prodigies]
Damn! He didn’t even select ten or a dozen, he selected a hundred! Damn! Did he walk through his army and selected those he liked?
[Send them over to the capital] I didn’t express my disapproval over his actions. I also sent such an order to everyone else.
I intended to not hurriedly select all of them. I’d first deliver them to Lily, asking her to start a hellish round of training for them.
Whoever would succeed would become generals. Whoever would fail would become officials. This was the best way to do it.
I decided to wait for them near my pocket world. I went there and waited for a few hours before they appeared from afar.
“Damn! The jumper wasn’t the only crazy one then!” I saw a group of a few thousands coming in my direction. I even mistook them for a group sent to deliver some orders or ask for assistance.
“Lord! We are the people sent by Lady Hilary!”
“Lord! We are the people sent by the spearhead general!”
They started to salute me in groups, each speaking in the same breath, saying the same line. I watched all them in puzzlement before sending the same message over to their generals.