Chapter 270: Sudden Shift
Reivyn was particularly pleased with himself. He knew that he had come up with something special and was in a good mood over it all week. Kefira knew all about his plans and she couldn’t help but giggle to herself whenever she thought about it as well, and Kayzor was happy with the entire arrangement as well. The mercenary captains noticed the lift in Reivyn’s mood, and know what was coming, they were actually sweating and bearing down double on their assignments. They had all witnessed the crazy lengths he and Refix routinely went to train, and they could only imagine what he had in store for them.
He had promised to give his captains a bit of a surprise during their evaluations, and he had done so in spades.
The real issue here was that Reivyn wasn’t coming up with a training plan for them. He had left that to his officers. He noted that his own buoyed mood had an effect on the officers, though, and he made a mental note to make use of it in the future. The training plans devised by the captains hadn’t even been submitted, yet, and he could already see a marked improvement in the way the companies conducted their exercises.
Reivyn wasn’t giddy with a training plan that he had come up with, and it wasn’t even the surprises in the field he had come up with that put him in a good mood. That was a part of it, for sure, but he was really pleased with something else.
Reivyn had teamed up with Kayzor and used Kefira’s connections in the Magic Academy to create the scenario. Reivyn and Kayzor had gone over the maps of the Wispan Region and selected a location with varied terrain over a week’s March away from the capital.
The Magic Academy students, and some of the instructors, would arrive at the location ahead of time and use their magic to slightly alter some of the terrain and environments to simulate different biomes. The captains were going to have to deal with scorching deserts, lush jungles, steep cliffs, and freezing tundras all in the same week.
That wasn’t even the end of it. That was just the basics of the assignment he had given the captains.
Another surprise he had in store for his captains was that they weren’t going to be the only military units out there. Kayzor had selected four companies from the regular Imperial Army to participate as well, and they were going to March into the combat zone from different directions and times.
Reivyn’s mercenary captains were going to be surprised to find considerably more hostile troops stomping around the combat zone than they expected.