TDG Fanfic: The Golden Throne - Chapter 45

Once Danny made it to the doors of Glory Stronghold. A newcomer guard who saw him approach called the current lords of the City, Ye Ren, Akuma, Falcon, the Twins and Scarlet Rising came to meet Danny with the rest of the 3000 Soul Guard members. although Danny was tan and a bit leaner than before no one made a comment as it was normal considering the time spent under the blazing sun.

“Everyone report to me everything that has been going on in the stronghold, then tell me about glory city.” Danny ordered calmly.

“The stronghold is going really well after returning the members of the refining, rune, and formation department. They finished the city and we needed materials to build the formation around the entire mountain so we let them slowly return.

As you asked we tasked every member to recruit 100 people each into there respective departments. Currently 4000 members have been added around 7 months ago to each department that are above the silver rank.

The previous 300 members of each department left and started living in the stronghold leaving around 30 blackgold rank experts to supervise the recruits. They moved in 2 months ago and already started building the outer layer of the formation….”Ye Ren was the first to speak and was cut off before he can finish by Danny.

“Tell them to stop and come back as I want to place an improved formation as well as change the one in the city. Also how are the level of the soul guards, I hope you didn’t disappoint men.” Once danny finished Ye Ren sent someone from his group to call back the people from the research division and then the entire soul guards released their energies.

“Amazing all of you have broken through to the legend rank and Ye Ren as well as Akuma what a surprise both of you as already at the 3rd rank. Remind me to test your strengths out later. Ye Ren continue from where you left off” danny turned towards Ye Ren waiting for him to speak.

“Boss we also placed the new classification system you made. For fighters and spiritualists the stages are pretty much the same with the exception that spiritualists have the earth realm added. The fighters as you suggested that they will be call copper body, silver body, gold body, black gold body, finally Body of Legend. Thanks to the improvements in body type skills even normal people without dantians or soul realm can fight a beast of equal lvl if they cultivate their bodies.

The second classification is that spiritualist have been organized based on there elements. None, red (fire), blue(water), gray(wind), brown(earth), green(wood or forest). Weapon skills have been organized as initial mastery, expert mastery, master, extension realm, Terrain Control realm. Weapon grades have been ranked as you stated with the realm and materials used have been graded by purity. Poor, low, middle, high grade, and top grade respectively. The materials were also organized based on the cultivation realm they can support.

All research type professions such as refining, formation, rune and alchemy have been organized by grades with grade one having a cultivation of copper rank and able to refine low quality pills that are useful for people without cultivation. The higher the realm and pill refining ability the greater the grade one would be given. Currently the alchemist ȧssociation had 1 grade 5 and 10 grade four alchemists. Pills were also separated based on cultivation realms like the weapons.

The rune tools like the illuminating orb or the self heating pot have also made peoples lives much easier. Also thanks to an increase in physicians and improved medical skills most diseases and sickness can be cured. The sanitary control that you made was fully implemented by Ye Zhong making the streets much cleaner than before. Many plants were planted across the city making it more pleasant than before. Due to the increase in comfort and security deaths have decreased dramatically and the total life expectancy in Glory city is on the rise.

It was recommended by the “Commoner’s Union”(referring to Danny)to increase the population. Ye Zhong also supported this clause saying he will support the families who have more kids with 1000 purple profound coins a year. This caused an influx in births the past couple of years.

We also spread the rumor to members of the commoner’s union that any black gold rank can leave glory city to continue cultivation in you training abode. We gather 50,000 black gold realm experts from different factions except the dark faction(Sacred fam and vassal forces, dark guild, pavilion). Each member had the restriction seal you specifically design to prevent any betrayals and can be used as a pass to enter the strong hold.” Ye Ren finished his speech and Danny responded, “Was the ranking systems I made, made public?” Ye Ren nodded in affirmation.

Akuma stepped forward and said,” I haven’t been in Glory city so I leave the reports to Scarlet who has been visiting her dad. I have gathered our 2000 brother of the soul guard and 15,000 black gold rank experts and will go out to find and gather any humans in hiding. As you ordered we have started training and should be ready to move out in 3 months.”

“Excellent if I didn’t have many things to do I would have joined. Dam large scale renovations. Seriously if it wasn’t for me wanting to protect this place and remainder of humanity, I would love to go and kill beasts with you.” Everyone laughed at their bosses antics as they knew he enjoyed fighting way more than administration work.

“Scarlet what does your father and Ye Zhong have for us.” Danny looked towards scarlet and asked which shut the laughing crowd.

“Well boss a couple of things changed in Glory city. The black gold rank experts are becoming common, silver and gold ranks are like ants all over the place and mainly the younger generation are copper rank or unranked. Glory city is split into 3 main factions without including the Commoner’s Union.

The first is the group against you which we called which is lead by the Sacred Family in the open and dark guild well in the dark. Then the second is the Snow Wind Family group which support you. The last faction is made up of the majority of noble and aristocrat families which are Takeuchi a neutral stance.

The dark guild also took the bait as you said and are becoming active in the open. I honestly thought you said their leader was smart. We can take them out any day and their hide out is like you said star restaurant of Sacred Family. The Night Scouts (secret elites of the scout department) also found a portal leading to another realm and from what the legend rank dark guild members said it should be the hell realm. This is probably why Glory city previously couldn’t get rid of these scum.

All 3 major groups have hidden legend ranks your faction being the strongest. If you want we take them out at any moment.”

“Hmm Interesting So a lot happen. I don’t think the dark guild thought a kid could devise such a plan. What hell realm it’s merely a realm of fire and that’s what we will call it. Now where is the fun in that if I take them out right now. I will toy with them first and make them force me to kill them. That way I won’t scare the rest of the people that I’m some senseless murder. What else you got?” Danny asked waiting for scarlet to speak. She seemed to have something but wasn’t sure if it was really a big deal.

“Ye Zhong did tell me some thing. Although I don’t think it’s a big deal, he said their was a shady group who call themselves the Chosen Ones and they are the only S-class group in the Adventure Department. They keep mostly to themselves.” Scarlet finished as she waited fo Danny to respond.

“Hmm Interesting!” Was all Danny said then he dismissed the rest of the group.the next day Danny called the 1200 people of the research department and began to explain the changes he wanted in the formation around the mountain. Although they didn’t understand and they decided to follow his orders. After Danny ordered them and sent them to work on the formation he began to upgrade the current formation of the stronghold.

Around a month passed and Danny finally finished upgrading the stronghold. The number of people who entered the stronghold reached 60,000. Danny didn’t bother resting and instantly headed to the bottom of the mountain to help finish his the formation.

Falcon yelled,” Boss you didn’t need to kill yourself! I would have shared the burden.”

Before he could even break into tears he heard,” What are you idiots standing around for once I finish the core of the formation I’ll beat the hell out of you. You think mere lava can hurt me.”

Everyone stared at Danny with there jaws dropped. Danny remembered the scene when he was a kid and laughed. “Hey stay away from me if you got that jaw dropping disease. I’ve seen it going around when I was younger.”

Not waiting for their reply Danny dives into the volcano. He pulls out a high quality spirit stone and began to condense runes engraving them on the inner wall of the mountain. Thanks to the stronghold formation, the volcano won’t erupt as its energy is being converted into soul energy making it easier to absorb for people in the stronghold.

It took Danny a lot of energy to make a formation that connects both the stronghold and the mountain formations and make the Origin crystal the core. With 3 self sufficient superimposing in one another, strengthening each other, made Danny feel it was worth it to waste an entire piece high grade spirit stones. Also thanks to the origin stone the elements are now equal instead of the previous condition where fire attributed spiritualists would benefit more from training in the stronghold.

It only took Danny an entire day to finish the last part of the formation. After leaving the lava pit Danny helped the blacksmiths build a stronger furnace on top of the lava pit. Then he gathered everyone of his soul guards for “training”.

Scarlet not wanting to get hurt told Danny that an auction is being organized and man rare products will be sold there. Danny saw that as his chance to get his things done. When he asked about the date she told him in 3 months. As Danny calculated the date it was 2 days before Nie li reincarnated. This came at a perfect moment.

“Hey Ay….”