4 days remain for their march onto the west. Strategist are racking their brains running simulations on the present information. Coming up with methods to recoup their losses.
But they are only working on foot soldiers, mechanical soldiers and androids. And they are working through various classes of angels. From normal winged angels to angelic abomination.
And which combination of species would be the most effective at teamwork and efficiency.
But only at a certain limit. After that information is restricted.
The strategist have accounted for terrain, wind, climate, all astronomical and meteorological situations. Which could affect the efficiency.
For the strategist it is not the feelings of soldiers, for them it is just a numbers game. Cold, hard, ruthless, mind crunching numbers game.
Brains and artificial intelligence working on full power. The economy was slowed down as a result. Transactions were taking much longer. Many had begun to gather supplies in huge amount in preparation. And the government had to regulate the amount of rations a person can buy.
The ruling system was spitting out propoganda like a machine gun. But in the morning there was an explosion in thr city epicenter. And three people died. The video panels were hacked and there was a hooded figure with a fur mask hanging besides his face attached to a string.
But before he could speak Ai cut him off. And the coup maker instead of being set free or arrested. Was caught and publically executed for pulling off such stunt in perilous times.
From now on it wasn't a city where anyone was allowed to dream. It had become a authoritarian city. Where freedom was suspended. The head working on spreading propaganda and honing himself. Roy took on the duties he performed before he disappeared and because of it Phoenix's workload had decreased significantly.
At 7 in the morning when Jay was still asleep there was a knock on the door. And Jay pretended that he wasn't there.
The knocking continued and eventually ceased.
Jaz groaned and turned in his bed to feel a hand on his shoulder. And his bodz reflexed, he jumped and tried to attack the individual by piercing it with a newly made weapon of destruction an iron knife made by metal bending
. And the infiltrator revealed to be Phoenix who had gotten inside using a master key he had taken from the warden easily reflected Jay's attacks.
Phoenix like the other days smiled today as well.
Phoenix:
Rise and shine, we've got work to do.
Jay:
Half an hour, let me sleep goddammit.
PHoenix:
2 minutes.
Jay:
15 minutes
Phoenix:
3 minutes.
Jay: muffled voice
5, final offer.
After 5 minutes Jay was made to wake up dress nicely and then they both departed to wherever Phoenix wanted. And Jay had stopped asking questions.
He instead took out his accessories and started cleaning them as many of them were covered with dirt and grime in the previous adventures. He wiped them with a coloured fine cloth and some water. After finishing he put them inside his inventory as usual.
Finally, he took out his sword and started wiping it as well. Fortunately as it was new, it didn't have any stains on it. And when Jay wiped the sword with the same wet cloth, after finishing Jay's face could be seen on the weapon.
Phoenix:
It's been a long time since I've seen someone cleaning their accessory, most of them just toss their accessory and get a new one instead.
Jay:
Well, I'm quite attached to these accessories myself. So where today Phoenix.
Phoenix:
Today we will be having a multicultural, inter-regional, inter-territorial, inter-racial, inter-species, inter-generational war meet
Or to put it simply the gathering of races.
Jay :
Add inter political too.
Phoenix:
Good choice.
Jay:
And what's my role there.
Phoenix:
Safeguarding the rest of the races nad prevent any fights from breaking out.
Jay:
Sure.
This meeting was held at the World tree Yggdrasil. A tree so large and it's reaches are so wide it is said to connect many different realms together.
It is sometimes said that elves have descended from the old tree. But research proved otherwise. They are an offshoot of human being itself who lived in the silent forest for too long.
While dwarves were rumored to have the fear of the sun, that why they hid themselves away from the earth. To prevent their skin turning into stone. And due to food shortage their growth was stunted until recently.
The Yggdrasil is located even more northern and borders the barren mountains. Home to the King of Dragons who is rumored to be as strong as the Immortals. There was a rumor that a man once hung himself from the World tree. And he died due to his windpipe being choked by the vines of the tree.
It was said that he did so in order to understand runes and magic much better as they were connected to the world tree. Some belive that if the world tree is destroyed then runes will cease to exist. It is a very important tree which is said to hold the realm together. But it's location proved otherwise.
At the top of the tree there was an eagle Hræsvelgr and at the bottom of the tree was a dragon on named Níðhöggr.
But both of them died fighting each other thousands of years ago. And their fighting irreversebly severed any of the tree's connection to other planets and realms. But the tree still remains standing to this day.
And after the event there was a man named Prometheus who discovered fire and shared the knowledge with the rest of humanity. But was soon incarcerated for spreasdint this forbidden knowledge which was against the nature.
It is said that the God of the sun who goes by many different names Ravi, Surya, Ra was the first who gave them the purifying fire as a means to fight back against the blights of the world and to ensure their survival.
Jay was visiting such a culturally significant place. When they exited the huge hemispherical transparent dome the world tree was visible from afar spreading its branches far and wide. After losing its former glory.
As Jay's vehicle approached northward. From the barren Mountains the King of Dragons was flying in the sky towards the tree. And the tree blossoming radiantly with vivid colour's of leaves and flowers as if it is inviting everyone.
There are also special crystal flowers which grow on the tree and they reflect light much more brilliantly than diamond.
But they are prohibited to be harvested.
Jay and Phoenix finally reached the base of the tree after travelling for a while. From far the tree looked small but when near the tree grew larger and larger and when they reached the base it was even larger than the King of Dragons and spanned in 1.5 kilometers wide area.
The preparations were all set. Every leader of a race was arriving at the base with their envoy. United together to rebel against the gods.
The first to arrive was the King of the Foundation himself, following him were the Leader of different races of elves. Each race such as fiar elves, dark elves, half-bred elves and celestial elves are considered culturally different form one another thus each community has different leaders.
Following them were the master dwarf, the King of Dwarf and ruler of the underground fortress Nidavallier. The King of dwarves wearing an exoskeleton to make up for the height difference between the dwarves and the other races.
Behind him rivaling the dragon in height was the King of giants. Giant humans born in a very fertile land with abundant food and water and next to no competition for survival. Allowed their bodies to grow exponential over generations. And finally becoming giants.
But after becoming giants they had to struggle a lot for their survival because og th paranoia of others fearing the giants leading them to launch many subjugation on the giants race and finally they retaliated. Leading to humanity's war against giants. But now they have been bought under single banner.
Except the dragon kins.
The dragons accept purity and strength as their golden standard. But dragon kins were an tarnishing image of them in human form.
For it reminded them of the experiment from the past. A man, a dragon and a God. Bought together in a single body.
Behind them were the recnelty recruiter ally the beast folks. and the vampires. Even Dracula had made an appearance alone.
One after the other the leaders kept arriving until as expected in the end the most anticipated King was the King of Dragon. When he touched down on the land the ground shook for a second. Adn the King spewed fire into the sky. Signifying his arrival.
And following them were Jay and Phoenix. Riding in the dawn. Security was tightly maintained all around the tree. In the forest near the tree elves had been assigned since they know the forest better than anyone .
Around the perimeter an entire unit of mech was waiting for any threat scouts had been deployed in the nearby area for surveillance and drones were flying for aerial surveillance.
The area was fully secure. And it also accounts for any godly threats by placing the security detail on Jay and Phoenix.
Jay:
Wow, this tree is huge. Why haven't I been here before.
Phoenix:
Your journey began in the west after all. People don't come here that too often.
The King had made seating arrangements for everyone except the King of dragons and giants standing on his hind legs and giant sitting with his legs and arms folded.
He sat with the might of the ame dragon even rivaling him. Because for him he was nothing more than a salamander.
The meeting finally began.