They Say Even the Military Feeds You Well These Days

Hari watched the Hunters brawling under the name of training—an utterly brutal affair—and couldn’t help feeling sorry for them.

"I-is this really okay? Is it all right to train like that?"

-Perfect in theory.

Well, in theory, yes. But could people really be expected to act according to theory alone? Leon acknowledged that there were limits.

"Yes, there are limits. But they should grow enough to reach a soldier’s level."

Leon had assumed that their growth would fall short of the royal guards he had once led.

It wasn’t that their actual stats couldn’t reach the level of the royal guards. If they aimed for the level of non-knightly royal guards or elite soldiers of the First Army, today’s Hunters could certainly get there.

'But the gap in experience is just too great.'

The royal guards were professional warriors who had fought in countless wars across the kingdom. Even without orders from a commander, they could act tactically in units of ten.

During the war against a horde of eight hundred thousand orcs, the battlefield grew so vast that the royal guards had to make their own decisions, defending ridgelines and reinforcing strategic positions...