Southern Great Mountain

"ahhg!, I feel like am having a headache" one of the beastmen said while the others groaned and held their hands to their head.

the group had already awoken minutes ago, they were all marching through the forest, some beastmen can even be seen swinging from branch to branch.

at the front of the group the general can be seen, and by his side their was nic and graygrash.

"sir, were we attacked or did something happen?" graygrash asked, as he to was knocked out by the generals power.

"I was just stretching for a bit" author said as he turned his head to nic, nic was back in his original form, and was hovering by authors side.

Charlotte on the other hand was being carried by the captain of the Hellhounds squad, she was still fast asleep, by her side was mion who was still carrying the large vase, a gorrilla beastman had asked to carry it for him but mion refused, when asked he simply said "I have to get stronger".

mion was told by nic what had happened and because of this he realized how weak he was, and that he still had far to go in order to be a knight.

"hmm, he have potential" graygrash said as he looked back at mion.

"if you like you can take him as your student" author said while looking at his second in command.

but graygrash simply shaked his head, "my techniques are to only be used by my tribe, and he have a physical type gift we are not compatible"

"hmm that would be a shame, someone so talented would not reach the clouds much less the peak of a mountain without someone to give him the direction"

"why dont I teach him" a tall moose suddenly appeared by Arthur's side, he appeared out of thin air, almost as if he was a ghost, he was 8 feet in height and had large horns on his head that made him seem like a giant, on his horns were many different animal mask, his face was not covered by any mask, he had the head of a moose, and the body of a human, he had no weapon on his body and he wore a smooth bright silver armor from the neck down, on the chest of the armor one can see a blue crown.

"ohh a royal guard, I never expected you to be following us" author said coldly.

"tch, funny" the tall moose beastman said, he to was affected by authors power, but the amount of aura that was directed to him made it obvious that author knew that he was their.

"anyway I would be taking the kid, he interest me" the royal guard said as he looked back at mion.

"you speak as though I can tell you otherwise" author said as he looked in the moose eyes.

"glad you know your place" suddenly the moose disappeared, he suddenly reappeared by mion's side.

"you would be one of my many students" he said as he looked down on mion, he then grabbed the chains that mion was using as a strap to carry the vase, with on hand he lifted mion along with the vase.

"hey!!!, what is the meaning of this?!, let me go!!" mion shouted but was soon meet with a blow behind his neck, "no need to fight child save your energy for training" the moose said as he suddenly vanished with the unconscious mion.

"who was he?, would he be ok?" nic asked author.

"that was a royal guard, they appear from time to time, they are only to be ordered by the queen, and they only report to the queen, most of the time they are by her side, but sometimes she send them on inspection task, no one knows how much their are, for they are mostly in the shadows, only the queen know details about them, I dont even know much about this one, but I see him from time to time, my best guest is that his task is to inspect the southern lands, I dont know what he would be doing with your friend though, I was thought once by a royal guard when I was younger, because of the pain of a training I went through am now as strong as I am today"

"so are they knights?" nic asked as he was intrigued by the royal guards.

"no" author said coldly, as nic heard these words he was confused, he could have sworn that that man was as strong as argus.

seeing nic in confusion author continued to speak, "the thing is most kingdoms have what we call unranked knights, they are people that choose to not be a knight even though they have the strength to become a knight, this is how some hide their kingdoms hide their strength, if all of these unranked knights decided to become ranked knights then the whole ranking system may change, those below the numbers of a thousand would just be kicked of the list"

nic was shocked, he thought that his only worries were knights, and becoming one would mean that he was powerful, now he felt as though he was nothing but a toad in a well, he knew nothing about the world but assumed that he was strong.

"cheer up my disciple, I promise that you would be a hundred times stronger than anyone in this kingdom when am done teaching you" author said as he looked at nic.

"I dont believe in words, only actions" nic commented.

"alright my disciple I will show you, but first welcome to your new home" Arthur said as they exited the dense forest, infront of them was a giant mountain, on the mountain many houses and buildings can be seen, and canons of different sizes were all over the mountain, the mountain went up into the clouds, when looking at the both sides of the mountain their was a giant wall that went as far as the eyes can see.

as nic looked at the mountain many beastmen can be seen looking out windows and on different parts of mountain.

nic smiled as for some reason the mountain was just beautiful to him, but soon he felt an immense pain in his chest.

"AWHH" nic cried out as the pain was to much, he then dropped to the floor unconscious, as many beastmen rushed towards him.

"get a healer here this instant!" author shouted, and a sheep beastman ran to his side and a red aura left her hands.

"nic was sweating and breathing heavily, his body looked pale as though he was losing blood.

"would he be fine?" author asked with concern.

"am not sure, I cannot find what the problem is sir" the beastman that was healing nic replied.