Inferno

Chapter 4

After an hour in the air, they began to decent upon a large building. Andy looked out of the window in awe at its size.

When the helicopter landed in what seemed like an airport section of the base, Lukas opened the door and stepped out with Andy following him.

"Just follow me, and I'll take you to get signed up. Stay close though, this place is big, and for a newcomer, it's easy to get lost."

They walk through what indeed seemed like a labyrinth of halls and rooms until they came into a room that looked very much like a doctor office.

He walked up to the desk and handed the woman at the desk an ID. "Lukas Kuhl, I'm here to get Andy signed up. I'll be his Warlord."

He turned to Andy and said, "A Warlord is someone who looks after new recruits and makes sure that they get the training that they need to become useful to the Order."

He felt a stack of papers hit his hand and lifted his hand up and grabbed it. "Let's go fill out some paperwork."

They sat down and within twenty minutes were done. They walked backed up to the desk, and the same woman took the paperwork and put it into a machine to get it put into the system. She looked at Andy and said "You lucked out young man. You're going to be taught by one of our best. Lukas here has the largest Warlord success rate at ninety percent, that's more than any other in the Final Order."

Lukas laughed at her and said "Ma'am that just means I turn them into something useful quicker than anyone else. It doesn't really mean anything. Who you should look at is Mike Wire, he has the highest survival rate out of the Order. That means he makes people who aren't just useful but war changing."

He turned to Andy and said "I intend to turn you into someone like that. I watched some of the security info that we intercepted during the attack, as well as footage from your Tournament. You've got potential. Now then let's get down the training room so I can see you in person. Just follow me, keep quiet, listen, and you'll do fine. After today everything I say will make sense. The Order has been doing this for a long time and knows what they are doing."

With that, they left the room, and he'd to the elevator and went down to the bottom floor.

The door opened to a room full of weapons. The first rack on the left was full of pole weapons, axes, and hammers. The first rack on the right was full of one-handed weapons: Swords of all varieties, maces, axes, daggers.

On the left rack in the back of the room was a large array of firearms ranging from pistols, assault rifles and shotguns to sniper rifles, grenade launchers, and explosives. The right-back rack had long distance weapons from ancient times. There was every type of bow imaginable, crossbows, javelins, and slings. It also shared a rack with body armor and helmets.

Lukas said "Welcome to the weapons room. Here we will select our weapons for sparring matches. If you'll notice, there is a door on the other side of the hallway. That leads to a room with Mark Wood in it. Mark has the power to create dream worlds and put people into those dream worlds. We use those worlds as training areas. In them, we can fight to our fullest extent without having to fear damaging people in the real world."

They walked through the hall and Lukas grabbed a sheathed longsword with a belt from the racks. "I watched you use one of these during the tournament. Unless I'm mistaken, this is what you're most familiar with. This sword is made with what we call Gecroedian Steel. It's a much stronger steel and the edge with never dull." He tossed it to Andy who caught it. "We are going to get you the equipment you'll be using at first. If you recall, there were some guys in armor at the airport. That's where you'll start since that's where everyone starts at. However, the faster you learn your powers, the faster you'll climb the ladders."