The transport ship landed on a massive suspended platform that had three other ships of the same design on it.
A few moments after the transport landed the door opened and everyone started to move out of the transport.
Everyone moved in single file one after the other, and if someone moved out of position they were hit very hardly on their sides with a baton.
As Jade made it out of the transport she was astonished by the new architecture and technologies that were being used in this new section of the city.
The area was separated from the rest of the Carthiane city. This section of the city was not connected to the ground at all. Everything was floating above the rest of the world. This amazed Jade because this meant that the empire valued this new caste very highly, and they were also putting resources towards it.
Then everyone moved into two rows. They mostly stood still as a female that was in black body armor that matched the people that greeted Jade at her house.
"Now that you have become members of The Silent Cortex, I have been tasked with molding you into either special task forces or individual assassins that will be tasked with carrying out the orders of the empire." She said as she started to march and look at all the fresh people from the transport.
"Also, you have the choice to leave whenever you wish by going through the gate of failing, but be warned once you leave you will never get the opportunity to become a member of The Silent Cortex. If you ever choose to leave us you will be forced to work in the fields and mines to gather resources for the empire."
"Am I supposed to be intimidated by you?" one of the men said as he looked at her and started to laugh.
"Do I look like I was joking at all magnet!" she exclaimed at the boy who was not taking this training seriously at all.
"I just cannot take the instructions of my training in the new and very important caste of our empire from a woman." He said in a very confident tone as if he was very sure in his belief of male superiority.
Everyone on the platform went entirely silent and stared at him in shock at what this recruit had just said to the first person that they all met after getting out of their transports.
The instructor kicked this man in the nuts with one swift thrust from her knees.
"Well, I do not care what you believe fresh meat! I am your worst nightmare and you do not want to piss me off!" She yelled at him as she spit on his face.
Then the instructor made her way over to the next person that stood out in the crowd of recruits. This person had a massive smile across their face when she passed by them.
"What is wrong with your smiling face dumbass!?" she yelled as she gave him a death stare that made her eyes look like daggers as they stared at him.
"Gery Fredrick at your service ma'am formally from the crafter's caste. I am to join the royal guard and give my life and limb in service to our great empire!" he said in an excited voice that made it sound as those he was quoting something that he had said to himself his entire life.
"That would make you optimistic moron if you believe that someone as weak as you will ever have the privilege of guard our empress. That is a privilege that is only reserved for the top twenty students of each set of recruits."
He stopped smiling and started to frown after hearing the truth of what he would have to do to get into the royal guard.
The instructor continued testing out different tactics of intimidating the recruits from insulting the way that they looked to physically hitting them with her right fist or knee.
After the first part of the training was over and we were told to go and get our dog tags Jade noticed that about one quarter of the recruits chose to work in the mines and the fields instead of continuing the training.
Since a quarter of the group chose to leave Jade could finally notice the architecture throughout the floating section of the world was all made of a light but sturdy metal that was painted black.
The walkways that connected the buildings were about twenty feet above the floor level. They were painted white in contrast to the buildings around them.
Then Jade made her way to where she was to get her dog tags.
This area was filled with all the new people that had chosen to stay and because of how many recruits there were still left in The Silent Cortex it took one and a half hours for Jade to be able to get her dog tags.
"What is your name?" an elderly man asked her as soon as Jade approached a metal table that was separating her from him.
"Jade sir". She said in the professional and serious tone that her parents had trained her to act around those that were of higher position or rank then her.
"You do not have to be so formal to me." He said to Jade as he turned around and grabbed a pair of dog tags and threw them at her.
Jade caught them and put them around her neck, and as she did, she held the tags tightly in her palm. She smiled as she walked out of the building and still holding her dog tags.
I had finally made it. I hope that I am going to make my parents proud of me.
What type of training would they choose for her to do in this new life that awaited her.