Pokemon - A Mystical Journey 141 chapter 23 - Ranks of the Army

This may be the true test. The higher officials knew about the supremacy of the league and scumbling to their desire, but not the common middle class and other people. They think that the world is a shade of white and black.

They think the world center around them and that it is the league's duty to protect all of them and provide the daily necessities.

But they have forgotten what the initial job of the league really was.

In ancient times, instead of regions like Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh etc. , there were kingdoms. Every region has tons of kingdom in them each waging war on another for supremacy, territory, people and resources.

And at their time, Pokemon tide existed too. And many kingdoms perished over the course of time, because of them. So the kings at that timel decided to band together and create an alliance of some sort to deal with them.

This was the foundation of the league. The first such alliance happened in Kanto and because of this historical importance, the Headquarters of the league was stationed here.

The Kanto HQ was located near the indigo plateau while the true HQ of the entire pokemon alliance was at Mt. Silver.

The initial alliance gained support over time and slowly with its power, it managed to take control of the lost areas, gaining land and prestige.

Over the course of thousands of years, the league managed to reach its current position. With it's growing power, it became a behemoth which everyone looked up to.

The league after becoming a ruling body has still retained the original objective of preserving mankind but multiple deaths over time made them numb to deaths of people.

Now, these deaths are just a number which they try to reduce . This is cruel but it is the reality. Unless the pokemon are completely subdued or turned extinct, the invasion won't stop.

And both cases are almost impossible to accomplish. Humans have become too depended on the pokemons to allow their extinction. Everything in the daily life of man has one way or the other depended on the pokemons.

As for subjugating them, that's even more improbable. According to him, whatever machine or tech we use to do it would be destroyed by the Legendary pokemons. They will track it down and find everything and everyone participating in its construction.

Then Celebi or even Dialga would send words about the test in the past before it's the creation and then they all will be annihilated uner the wrath of the Legendary. There wouldn't be anything left.

The multiple ancient weapons which the humans developed in the past were just for protection under the image of a Pokemon and they are considered powerful. Their attacking powers was very high yet the Legendary didn't involve themselves because they can't completely destroy the world and it was to protect themselves from external threats.

Pokemons doing so is highly unlikely. They may beat and kill, but cause a complete extinction is not something they will do.

So, the only way left is to slowly domesticate them and with the passage of time, you may be able to get rid of the riots. But it is way too far now.

He followed the second lieutenant to the base camp in the north. There he was guided to his office. Then the second lieutenant then stopped in front of the office and said," I have been tasked with providing you with all the information about our personnel and supplies but it cannot to be touched by anyone except for the zone commander.

And all these are placed inside the office and safely kept there with a password only known to the zone commander. So we would have to wait until a new Zone commander is selected."

Alex after hearing headed inside and switch on to the desktop placed himself on the head chair. The lieutenant on seeing this headed forward to stop him but Alex released the now healed up Espeon and asked her to hold him in a spot and prevent him from making any noise.

She used her psychic and levitated him off the ground while also making sure his mouth remained shut. Alex then diverted his complete attention on the desktop and started to search for the files pertaining to the defense of the town. After opening it, a notice appeared requesting him to enter the password.

The mayor has handed him a piece of paper which had the passwaord. The second Lieutenant saw that Alex was doing something on the desktop and tried to free himself. His attempt to shout for help was the only voice which could be heard other than the typing of the keyboard by Alex.

When he typed the password and the folder opened and he saw the number of people under him, their powers, Pokemons, and even their attack proficiency and what tactics they specialize in.

There were about thirty thousand intermediate trainer under his command. And these soldiers were divided into low, medium, advanced and peak trainers.

He has two(2) second lieutenants, who has four(4) officer cadet each under them and each officer cadet has five (5) warrant officers. There are eight (8) officer cadet and forty (40) warrant officers in total.

These all constitute fifty(50) and all fifty of them are at peak intermediate level with minute chances of reaching advance trainer.

Each warrant officers command forty sergeants, ie, there are one thousand six hundred (1600) sergeants.

Then there is three corporal who follows the sergeants. These corporals are at mid-intermediate level and have a total population of four thousand eight hundred (4800) trainers.

And each corporal leads five (5) low intermediate troopers or private. The total number of private in the Corp is twenty-four thousand (24000).

All these people under his command made him feel afraid. And then there will be trainers who will be joining the corps to deal with the tide.

Alex felt curious about the ranks of the armed forces. He spent much of his times browsing through the Pokemon books, scientific researches, and league news. He completely ignored the armed forces.

So he also searched in the poke-net about the ranks of the armed forces.

The conscription age of armed forces is twenty years. The army doesn't accept anyone below twenty years except for some special cases.

The armed forces of Pokemon league are divided into the following levels and need corresponding minimum requirements of strength, service years along with qualifications:

1) Field Marshal - active only in times of war

2) General - king level trainer mostly weaker than elite four as some of them are at pseudo champion level. All elite four members get this rank on their inauguration.

3) Lieutenant General - high to peak pseudo-king trainer with thirty years of service in armed forces.

4) Major General - low to the mid-pseudo-king trainer with twenty-five years of service in armed forces.

5) Brigadier General - peak master trainer with twenty years of service.

6) Colonel - advanced master trainer with twenty years of service

7) Lieutenant Colonel - mid master trainer with twenty years of service

8) Major - Low master trainer with twenty years of service

9)Captain - peak or high advanced trainer ( 15 years of service)

10) lieutenant - mid-advanced trainer (15 years of service)

11) Second lieutenant - low advanced ( 10 years )

12) officer cadet

13) warrant officer

14) sergeant

15) corporal

16) troopers - foot soldiers and their minimum requirements is an intermediate trainer

These are average requirements for the rank and if they perform great services they can be awarded rank up to Colonel. But for above higher ranks, he needs to prove his loyalty to the league.

After seeing the description, Alex felt that armed forces weren't weak and are quite strong, if this was the normal qualifications of the troops.

Then looking at the floating Lieutenant, he rose from his seat and walked towards him.

" I am sorry, second lieutenant for holding you like that but I want to see the details about the troops to prepare a plan for the North corps to withstand the tide and then destroy them.

Let me introduce myself. I am Alex Bart, your new north zone commander. "

How will the Lieutenant react and how will the other sub ordinates react? Stay tuned

to be continued.....

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