A smile appeared on Daneel's face as he saw that things were slowly falling into place one by one.
Teleporting back to his room, he sat on his bed and started analyzing the information on the parchment. Although information collected over the years had given him a rough idea about the structure of the army, getting concrete details from such a reliable source was the best option.
Even if Laravel only gave the information he knew, it would still be useful. Besides, Daneel's plan never included peting against the army directly anyway. With the current strength of his faction, it was, of course, impossible to do so.
The army of Lanthanor was split into 2 major sections: the fighter army and the mage army.
The Fighter Army was majorly posed of citizens who were tested to have low talent. The criteria to get in was quite simple; many men and women could directly sign up and be selected, granted that there was an open spot and that they passed the fitness test.
The reasons behind the threshold being so low were the constant border conflicts that threatened the Kingdom, and also the sheer size of the border walls which needed to be patrolled. The number of regular soldiers in the army reached a maximum of 200,000, with almost all of them having reached at most the level of a 1st Grade Human Fighter. This was the number that could be maintained with the budget allocated to the army.
Only with a few months of training, they would be sent to the border to man the walls. If they were lucky, they would seldom get involved in conflicts and spend most of their military life patrolling the walls, after which they could fortably retire to the countryside with a handsome pension. If not, they could get involved in a conflict on the first day and die. Still, many signed up due to the guaranteed food and pay.
As for those with medium or high potential, they would be given more resources and time to gain skills that might save them on the battlefield before being deployed as squad leaders. If they earned enough merits and advanced in level, they could rise through the ranks and mand more and more soldiers.
The soldiers that Daneel had seen during the procession wearing the grey epaulets were the elites that were picked out from those who earned top merits in the border struggles. These soldiers would be trained to be the force that would be sent out in case a conflict exceeded the level which a platoon of regular soldiers could handle. The minimum requirement to be part of this force was to reach the level of an Eminent Human Fighter, like Daneel. The number of soldiers in this troop fluctuated around 3000. Considering that the total population in the Kingdom numbered in the millions, this was quite a low number. After all, the rarity of being born with medium or high potential was quite high.
Finally, the soldiers who had worn red epaulets were the elites among elites. One at least had to reach the level of a 6th Grade Eminent Human Fighter before they could join this force. With the best resources in hand, their goal was to protect the Kingdom in case any deadly force threatened to wipe it out. Also, they were the ones who also acted as the spies and infiltrators who gathered information from enemy nations.
The former two groups were simply called as "soldiers" and "elite soldiers
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