Chapter 5: Seeing Her Again

"Absolutely sir. It is my great honor." Zian answered.

"Very well. Jump in." Eleander invited Zian to sit at the back of his horse. 

Zian hopped on the horse and fastened himself.

"Hyaa!" Eleander shouted.

The horse neighed and ran towards a camp south of them.

They arrived at the camp and the barricade to enter the camp opened.

Many warriors were doing things but when they saw the general, all of them saluted by putting their fist on their chest.

""Greetings General!"" The warriors yelled.

Eleander smilingly nodded at them. He continued riding his horse until they got near the stable.

At the gate of the stable, a sixteen year old boy ran towards them: "Greetings General! Let me help you."

Eleander nodded. He got off the horse with Zian and the boy grabbed the leash of the horse and guided it inside the stable.

"Over there is the army camp enlistment. Go there and join the army" Eleander pointed at a booth not too far away from them. The booth was filled with men who wanted to join the army.

"Okay." Zian said. He walked towards the booth, but not even a second later, he turned around and asked Eleander: "How is Leilin?"

Eleander was first looking at him like a general looking at his meritorious man, but, when he heard the next thing Zian told him, he looked at Zian with suspicion: "How did you know Leilin?"

Of course Eleander will react like that. Leilin is his wife. His childhood sweetheart. Although he is a powerful and famous general under Bain, Leilin doesn't want to be known to others, except for Eleander, Bain, and their other friends, no one knows who Leilin is.

Zian shrugged and murmured: "How can I not know the friend that I thought how to survive in the wilds for twenty years?"

"What did you say?" Eleander asked.

"Oh, nothing, nothing." Zian waved both of his hands.

"Hmph."

Eleander walked away. Zian turned back and walked to the booth. After arriving in front of the booth, he queued in line and waited for him to be called. 

After a while, the man behind the booth called him: "You over there, come."

Zian walked straight to him and saluted him by putting his fist on his chest: "Yes sir." (Author: Salutes in the World of Idris are like that.)

The man inspected him and nodded approvingly: "Hmm, good body, great. You even know your stuff."

"Yes sir." Zian replied.

"Okay. Name?" The man asked.

"Zian Solt."

"Clan?"

"I'm a vagabond sir."

"Vagabond? That's quite rare. A vagabond joining the army huh. Well, your power level?" The man looked at him.

"Uhh…." Zian was alarmed at the question. He was from a world where cultivation doesn't exist. So he cannot cultivate. After a second of jittering, the system talked.

[Because you have no cultivation or any power, the system automatically sets you at the middle rank Baron.]

"Middle rank Baron." Zian told the man.

The man looked at Zian with amazement: "You're already a Baron despite your young age!? Huh. With that power, you could have dominated Eastern Idris Continent and later on be a huge individual, but you still chose to be under the empire."

Zian looked at him resolutely and said: "Eastern Idris Continent is considered as the most powerful continent behind the Central Lands. But even though that is the case, I want to live a life higher than the citizens of the Eastern Idris."

"Good resolve. Because of that, you are assigned as a 10-man captain. Lead your team and do well! Return here tomorrow to meet your assigned team members." The man puts up his fist to Zian.

"Yes sir!" Zian saluted.

After that, Zian walked away from the booth.

After Zian walked far away, a man came to the booth and walked directly to the man inside the booth.

When the man in the booth saw the incoming man, he stood up and saluted: "Royal General!"

The man slightly nodded. This man is Eleander Flame, the man that invited Zian to join the army.

"What position did you register the man named Zian in?" Eleander asked.

"The one from before general? I registered him as a 10-man captain general." The man answered.

"Hmm. Set his direct superior to be Armain Thrail."

"Armain Thrail sir!? As in General Thrail, your right hand?" The man was startled. He didn't expect the man that he just examined was helped by the highest general of the empire. He wondered who that young man was and who's his backer to be noticed by a high ranked individual.

"Uh-huh." Eleander cut his response short and directly left the place.

'Who are you really, Zian Solt? How did you know such secret knowledge about us?' Eleander thought.

A minute after Zian left the registration booth, he walked around the camp while immersing himself on memories of his past.

He arrived at the largest tent in the camp. He looked at it while reminiscing the days of his life as a man who wished to build a glorious empire.

The tent was red in color, at the top of the tent, a symbol of an archaic sun was displayed. At the entrance of the tent were two banners with the same archaic sun from the top of the tent as its symbol. Two guards were standing in front of them, guarding the tent.

Zian remembers this tent not because of its designs or size but because this same tent accompanied him through every adventure and war he participated. This tent was stained with countless blood of assassins who once wanted to kill him. This tent protected him from rain, blizzards, and storms.

"Kid, back off. This place is not allowed for you to do sightseeing." One of the guards said.

Zian backed off and turned away. As he turned away, he spotted a carriage being pulled by two white horses stopped in front of the tent. The coach jumped down from the front of the carriage and opened the carriage door. After doing so, a slender, white foot landed on the ground. The owner of the foot got down from the carriage before the coach closed the door. 

The woman who got down from the carriage was seen. Her porcelain white skin accentuated her beauty, her rosy lips glowed from being shone by the sun, her brown eyes looked gentle and accompanied her beauty, and her long, black hair waved with the wind. Her white dress was long without touching the ground.

She looked at the tent with a smile on her face. She looked like she was expecting to see someone she held dear to her heart.

Unknowingly, tears flowed from Zian's eyes. He looked at the beauty with longing and gentleness. If he didn't know that this was just a quest world made by the system, Zian could have pounced at the beauty and hugged her tightly, unwilling to let go.

"..Little Sister, it's good to see you again." Zian murmured. After doing that, he ran so fast, not wanting to look back again.

When he ran, the woman looked at the running figure and looked at him with shock: "B-brother?"

After saying that, he shook her head and thought to herself: "That's impossible. Brother is here at the tent."

She looked at the figure again and back to the tent. All of a sudden, the entrance to the tent opened. A man wearing an armor with a sun in its crest was seen walking out. 

He looked at her with shock and was quickly replaced with joy: "Jian! Why are you here?" The man said

"Brother!" She smiled sweetly. She walked towards her brother and hugged him.

"Why are you hugging me while I'm wearing armor? You'll just be hurt." He affectionately stroked her hair.

"Why? Just because I want to" she said while pouting.

"Oh you girl." The man patted her head.

Back to Zian, as he was running away, he unintentionally remembered all the pain that he had suffered for ten thousand years of war. Losing his sister was very painful for him. She was his reverse scale, losing her made him go mad and wage war on the empire that made everything happen. 

His memories of her laughing, smiling, and playing was his comfort and pain. He was comforted because he raised the girl with all his love and in return, she grew up elegantly and loved him so much in return. He was in pain because he can't protect the girl whom he is comfortable with.

"Brother look, a dove!"

"I love you so much, Brother!"

"Let me massage you, Brother."

"Can you let me protect you, Brother?"

"Brother, I found someone I can spend my time with!"

"Brother, can I request your blessing for our wedding"

"Really Brother? Yay! I love you!"

Countless happy moments emerged deep from his memories. He was happy and sad at the same time.

He ran beneath a tree outside the camp and cried so much while remembering the smiles of his kind and beautiful little sister. 

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