Side story 7: Uncle Bibi's military career (Read part 1)

Uncle Bibi P.O.V

My name is Bibi. I am a forty-five-year-old imperial army veteran.

I began my military service at the age of eighteen years when the Great Batang IV was the reigning Emperor.

I was first enrolled into the regiment of Okala in the west of the empire where I spent the two first years of my quite long career.

Then I was transferred to Okunde barracks in the north and stayed there for five years before being assigned to the regiment of Ekule, that is to say, the imperial city and also my hometown.

The empire had been...