Chapter 68: In the army now.
The following months were the most extreme Lee experienced in all of his lives. Not only because of the intense exercises, although in some cases those were even worse compared to what Prides tried to enforce.
Physical practices, formation practices, spear practices and even marching practices was what Lee's days consisted from now on. His fears turned out to be correct – this was basically the army, except the soldiers were children.
One of the first things Lee learned was that there were actual days here.
Just as he guessed, the beginning of a new day was signaled by the blood moon rising, but he had no clue how anyone could tell when it was time to go to sleep. The sun never set, and besides the red one, there were a bunch of other moons that moved seemingly chaotically.
On the other hand, he simply didn't have the time to observe the sky to think of any reasonable explanation – just like the rest of the kids he was too busy and tired for that.
Everyone slurped the usual stew trice a day and spent the rest of the time training.
And, of course there was praying. Lee already learned that the passionate kowtowing was the key to success in this world and wasn't surprised that the kids here not only prayed when the blood moon rose, but before every meal as well.
In the very center of the fortress there was a twenty yard tall statue of a regular looking guy holding a red ball, probably the symbol of the blood moon, and everyone, even instructors and guards, prayed to it.
Lee had no clue that at first the cyclops was monitoring his behavior in order to judge whether he was sufficiently devoted, but fortunately he never had a thought of making it look otherwise. Lunax's statue was the most prominent spot in the fort and he happily came here along with the rest to do his back exercises.