"What is the current situation with the other kings?" Alvine asked Liliana after bringing his fictive soul, which now occupied his new shadow clone, into the dark dimension.
"Um, according to the information given by the 1st Councillor, Miss Sylvia has just brought back five million Elves and Kelspies soldiers. The councils are waiting for us in the assembly to decide on the distribution of roles on the front." She gave an explicit explanation to Alvine who nodded after hearing everything.
"Well, in this case, let's go back; it would be rude on our part to make others wait."
"Ho? How long have you been concerned about what these people think of you? It's surprising to see how much you can change in a single day." The queen opposed with slightly wavy eyes.
"Sigh, you're all wrong, the reason I didn't want to let them sympathize too much with me is just because of a somewhat personal factor." He replied briefly as he opened a dimensional flaw towards the vampire kingdom.
"Hmm, are you afraid of being indebted to them?"
"Debted? No, it doesn't work like that. Sigh, in short, let's just go home." Despite the queen's insistence, Alvine gave only this unimportant answer to her before crossing the portal followed by Liliana and Vandel.
The portal in question leads Alvine and the other two directly to the meeting room where the two kings and Sylvia were gathered only.
"Master, all preparations are over; we are ready to welcome our enemies as you wish!" From the moment Alvine set foot on the other side of the portal, Sylvia announced this information with a platitude.
"Hm, nice job, Dylvia." He said, instinctively caressing Sylvia's head.
"Ahem, Sir Dalvine, what about you?" The king of the Kelspies asked with bloody red eyes that made his eyebrows frown at the sight of this pathetic look. But seeing Sylvia's innocent smile who seemed to appreciate his caresses and congratulations, Alvine sighed believing that he was thinking too much.
'I guess I'm worried about nothing.' He says to himself as if he did not see the strange anomaly in their eyes; because, in reality, Tugra's eyes were not different either.
"You don't have to worry, everything went well on our side. As Dylvia said, we are ready to welcome our prey to perfection."
Hearing Alvine's affirmative words, Tugra strangely wiped the pearls of sweats that were beginning to sparkle on her forehead.
*Sylvia, you didn't do anything strange with them, didn't you? * He finally asked telepathically, he had the strong intuition that something strange had happened between Sylvia and the others just by seeing Tugra's strange reactions and his state that seemed more pitiful than the other king.
*No, they just refused categorically to cross the dimensional portal I had created by saying that it was a path that led to the depths of hell. As you know just like me, we lack time. Then, I was obliged to force them and push them inside. Once there, it was the same with their subordinates who went so far as to disobey the orders of their kings by refusing to enter through the portal, so... *
*Continue, what did you do? * Alvine frowned, it was already beyond his expectations that these two kings have such beliefs.
*Nothing complicated, just like the kings, they also refused to cross the gate. So I moved the giant gate towards them as they ran in all directions as if they were being pursued by a demon. But seeing that the fun might take forever, I did not have thirty-six solutions; I finished depriving them of their movements to complete the task in the allotted time. Um, it was an entertaining show.*
After hearing these unbelieving remarks from her, Alvine was not surprised. 'But how can she think it was fun to traumatize poor innocent people? Sigh, I forgot that she doesn't see these people as normal beings.' He knew that he could not prevent Sylvia from committing certain unbelieving things, even succeeding in dissuading her from killing with a simple unpleasant look is a miracle for Alvine.
With a derogatory sigh, Alvine began her last briefing before the battle. "I'm going to be brief, how numerous of your troops are at the moment?" He asked Tugra.
"Sir Dalvine, we currently have about 15 million soldiers ready for battle!" He gave the exact number of all the alliance soldiers gathered as soon as he felt Alvine's gaze focused on him.
"15 million...? I thought they were ten million?"
"Ten million were only the number of soldiers acting on the ground. After Lady Dylvia's intervention to bring back the other inactive soldiers from our respective kingdoms, we now have fifteen million ready to fight. Is this number... are insufficient?" The king of the Kelspies asked with a disturbing air.
"No, it's even better than I imagined. Maybe, in the end, we will succeed in winning this battle without losing 2% of our troops." Alvine said, supporting his chin while he thought carefully.
"Are you sure? They are still magical beasts that are far more powerful than each of our soldiers." Tugra stammered by asking this question.
"You are right. But your men only have to take care of the holy beasts, as for the others, we will be six to take care of them." Just after saying these words, a small dimensional tunnel suddenly appeared on the table and began to enlarge slightly until it occupied the entire surface of the round table.
Through the tunnel, the others could see the forest that Alvine had recently remodeled. Then the real-time images changed and showed what was behind the forest. Hundreds of the giant pillars overlapped like an impregnable border that rose kilometers high in the sky. "This is our future battlefield!" Alvine commented in an impassive voice.
"Where is this place?" Tugra asked curiously.
"It's about tens of kilometers from the border. The forest that stretches fifty kilometers away is our master map to face emperor beasts and divine beasts that will easily climb beyond the wall of peaks. But this part of the plan does not concern you, so I will not go into details about how we will deal with these enemies." He said without paying attention to the curious looks of the two kings.
Then he continued: "It is behind the pillars that your men will be escorted to take care of the holy beasts that are unable to fly. I am counting on you to form six squads that include about 2.5 million of your soldiers. I managed to count about 750 thousand holy beasts among the horde; so if my calculations are correct, 20 soldiers will fight against a holy beast. You must do everything to contain this horde. Neither I nor the others will intervene to help you separate the holy beasts between your six squads, so do your best to carry out this mission, which is the easiest among all others. The last point I would like to note..."
He stopped in his speech to see if others can keep pace. After being reassured that everyone understood what he had just said, he continued.
"The last most important point is the holy beasts that can fly. Therefore, your sixth squad must only consist of soldiers who have specialized in long-range attacks. Is it possible to have 2.5 million soldiers who will meet these conditions in the sixth?" Alvine asked the others, raising his head towards them.
Liliana immediately resumed the reins. "90% of my men are all able to fly in the air but, the number of my men is only 1.9 million, I think the Kelspies have a few beasts that can fly under contract with them; we can reach the figure of 2.5 million with the ice elves, who can cast long-range spells with their ices magic She said by solving the problem.
"Very well, in this case, we have nothing more to fear for the rest." He said, sitting on the chair behind him.
"But how can we confound the horde of emperors and divine beasts who will be in the forest to traverse it by safety?" Tugra asked once again. He did not care about the other questions that tormented him, namely, how six people will be able to take care of about five hundred emperor beasts and four divine beasts!?
"Fufu~, you will traverse my portals to reach the bottom of the cliff. This is the only solution to cross the forest that teems with powerful magical beasts, isn't it, master?" Sylvia, who seemed to be fully in her role as a demon, made her suggestion.
"!!!" -Tugra
"!!!" - King of the Kelspies.
Alvine didn't care if their faces became paler than vampires, he nonchalantly nodded his head to Sylvia. "This was the plan from the beginning, if we let the weaker soldiers than the beast emperors make their way through the horde who managed to climb the giant, they will not only be massacred, but those who manage to overtake the magic beasts will have no chance of going down the wall. So teleportation is the only solution for them to reach their final destinations within the allotted time."
"You don't see any problem, don't you?" He asked the two kings with sharp eyes. Even if he seemed to ask for their opinions, anyone in the room could guess that Alvine did not give them the choice to debate it to negotiate another solution. It was understandable, they lacked time.
"No, we will borrow the abysses of the demonic God as a trophy!" The king of the Kelspies was the first to agree with Alvine's proposal through his clenched teeth.
Alvine then looked at Tugra hearing the answer of the king of the Kelspies.
"... Y-yes, after all, we have no choice."
"You were saying?"
"I'll say... that's okay." He was alarmed when he saw Alvine frown.
Hearing these words, Alvine had a mocking smile while addressing Sylvia. "Little Sylvy, don't waste time with them, if they refuse to cross the portal, tie them and throw them in if necessary. We will be very busy solving our problems. The plan must unfold to perfection, the only anomaly I want to hear or see through our plans is it must be favorable to us, and not the other way around!" He ruthlessly ordered while displaying his rows of milky white teeth.
"Fufu~, you can count on me. The escort missions will be embellished with the successes that will force you to reward me!" She was like a geek who had just received a new state-of-the-art console!
"Well, you can leave and organize your squads!" He ordered the two kings.
"Now, let's talk about serious things, divine beasts... And our two lambs who think they surely hid their treasons from us!" His expression became solemn after driving the two kings out of the room.
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