Gabriel nods on sergeant's suggestion and said; "It sounds good idea, but we need test and trial these men with a standard king's army drill session. I will measure the most promising candidates personally before I make final call do they receive promotion or not." He asks sergeant to fetch Michael, inform he is going participate in the drill session like rest remaining king's army soldiers do. A good to show recruits how veterans of king's army do the drill and perhaps face them off each other is good experience for everyone. He also asks for presence of the two protectors, the young recruits which had stayed in castle while he had been gone.<br/><br/>While sergeant moves fetch Michael Gabriel starts his standard fresh recruit speech which he mastered over the years; "Welcome to king's army gentleman and ladies. As you know for now you and your immediate families will be released from taxation during your service. In return you get reduced payment but you are well provided for so you have no need spend coin for food or place to stay for daily needs.<br/><br/>I am captain commander Gabriel Brightblade, during king's absence I am speaking as king's voice on matters as well and do decision in his regards on daily matters. Anyways I shortly describe what is expected from you, three things are absolute rules while your in king's army.<br/><br/>Loyalty to your country<br/>Discipline<br/>Respect for your superiors<br/><br/>Breaking any these three rules the person faces varied level of serious punishment. From lashing to traitor's execution. I explain these things only once so even most wool headed among you understands what they mean.<em>Loyalty to your country</em>, it means you now swear oath to serve the king and the country. Not towards either one alone but the whole package. Disregarding either one is considered a crime. As king is the country and the country is the king. So they are one and the same. Meaning when you do crime which is viewed illegal in our country, it is same as you had done crime towards king himself and same goes other way around. It means you must respect your oath to the king and also follow laws of our country.<br/><br/><em>Discipline</em>, this means your ability live up as ideal soldier. A soldier who follows command to charge even if you spear shakes in your hand and your shitting bricks. It means you can hold our minimum military standards what comes taking care of your gear and how thoroughly you perform your jobs and how you follow commands of superior officer. As soldier your spared from mandatory paperwork involved but you all are responsible and dutybound to report to your officer after each duty which you have performed up to it's end if not otherwise told do otherwise.<br/><br/><em>Respect your superiors</em>, This goes beyond what discipline means. Besides following orders it also means basic etiquette and show of respect to your superiors. it includes salute superior officer whenever it enters same room where you are, salute when you pass them while walking and it also means not talk disrespectful manner towards or behind the back of superior officer. If there is conflict or you think officer is unfair, you report it another officer or officer's superior about it. After that it's done in officer inside investigation which you have no right to get information about it's decisions or any actions taken if not otherwise informed.<br/><br/>Now there is certain protocol regarding accepting orders, when given order you either follow it or inform your officer your unable to perform the command. A refusal to follow commands if faced with harsh punishment, but any officer has right to demand explanation why you cannot perform command what is given to you. Again officer decides either assign task to someone else or he asks you do the given command anyway. So when officer asks you to jump, you can only ask 'how high?'.<br/><br/>A good story which I learned as young to this principle is this; long time ago there was a skinny farmer who had joined a army. The officer saw the skinny farmer was laziest of all soldiers he had. So he commanded the farmer lift a wooden cart. Farmer knowing he cannot refuse he told he is unable perform such feat of strength because he was skinny. Officer told him to do the command anyway. Skinny farmer tried but failed in the task. Now officer seeing things did not go nowhere commanded farmer do forty pushups in each morning when he woke up, forty during lunch break and forty before going to bed. Telling farmer do these push ups until he is able lift the cart alone by himself and ask officer witness it when he is capable to do it. Failure to follow commands exactly on letter daily was harsh hundred twenty lashes, minus number of push ups what farmer had done in the day.<br/><br/>Farmer who feared the lashing session did as told, but he never was able lift the cart alone even after a year doing the push ups. But he was no longer skinny but quite sturdily build fellow. So war came and farmer's unit got trampled by calvary but farmer had survived intact. Then cart which was meant transfer injured had the horse leg broken by random bolt fired from battlefield. Officer took off and killed injured horse and commanded the farmer pull the cart filled with ten men laying in the cart injured. The farmer than pulled the cart, all alone himself, all way to barracks where soldiers were taken care off. Officer then released farmer from the duty doing the push ups, as then farmer had proven he no longer was a lazy soldier. However even if released, the farmer kept doing the push ups so he never would be skinny again."<br/><br/>Gabriel held a pause before he continued; "So now today your first day starts with a drill! I want see what you got so we know what your made from! We hold one melee drill, one ranged combat drill and then one mounted combat drill. All in row today so we can think where we train you in following weeks. You will join with king's army veterans in these drills so keep keen eye on their performance and compare it yours; think your good as them or are you less capable?" With that said Gabriel starts the drills in courtyard and start instruct and organize the drills in the courtyard and observe the results carefully. To see what quality recruits he had and kept eye out for the young knights and the three evil detected soldiers.<br/><br/>He knew Steel was king's assassin but he had died for his country despite distasteful work what he did and despite being a protector. Gabriel had enough wisdom to know that someone detecting evil did not mean they were malicious or evil like demons or undead. As mortal men evil could take so many shapes, shapes which some were useful and could work with in service of good while others do not work at all with good.