"What do you mean by wizards, are you taking me for an idiot?" Paul shouted as soon as he heard what Richard said.

Richard sighed he knew that that was going to be the reaction of his Führer as what he said was totally unbelievable and the chance of someone accepting it straight away was zero, so he waited for his Führer to stop shouting and calm down a little before saying:

"It really is as I said my Führer, I didn't just come up with what I said, that was what was in the report that we got from them and also we got a video showing a battle between the two sides in which the native of the Area used something which can only be explained using the word magic, that's the truth."

Paul understood Richard the best and he knew that he won't lie to him just like that so after Richard explained to him in detail the reason of what he said he stayed for a while before finally saying:

"Show me the video that you mentioned." he wanted to see for himself and decided if it was true or if it was just something that they come up with to mess with him.

"Ok my Führer." saying that Richard turned to the big screen in the wall and turned it on

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As the big screen turned on it showed footage from the battle between the soldiers from Area 05 against the wizards and warrior from Area 12.

At first Paul just watched normally without any changes but as he saw how most of the missiles seemed as if they were stopped by an invisible barrier or something like that, he sat straight in his seat as he watched what was happening in the screen with his full attention.

He watched like that till the end of the video as he saw the warriors of Area 12 run toward his soldiers without any care for their life at all, and then the video ended.

After the video ended the room fall into silence as Richard waited for Paul to say something and Paul didn't know what to say after seeing that video.

"Are you telling me that... That happened in reality, and that our soldiers might be in a war against people like those right now?" Finally Paul broke the silence by saying that.

"Yes my Führer it is just as you said, general Schmidt even asked for reinforcement and more and military machinery in order to finish the mission successfully as the resistance was going to be stronger than we thought and they are further away from home with limited ammo and fuel while their enemy is in his home ground, and they can get reinforcement whenever they want, they are awaiting your orders right now." Richard said answering his leader's question.

Once again Paul fall into silence, and Richard didn't dare to say or do anything as he stood there awaiting his orders.

"What do you think we should do? Should we give up on that Area and ask for our men to return, or should we keep on fighting and send them reinforcement to help them in the upcoming fights?" Paul didn't give him an order instead he asked for his opinion about what to do.

Richard didn't answer him straight away instead he fall silence and Paul gave him the time to think and he didn't make him hurry up.

"My Führer, both decisions have their positive sides and negative sides, like how if we decide to ask for our soldiers to return, the good side in that will be that we won't lose more soldiers, and because our enemies aren't as advanced as us in term of technology we probably won't have to fear them following us to our Area for a fight or revenge, and even if they were able to follow us by using something unknown to us like some magic spell or something like that, we can still take them on then as the rules would have switched and we would be the ones in our homeland while they would be far away from us, but the negative side in this is that we will lose the support of the people and any other operation like this will be harder to execute and all what we did till now, all what we wasted on this operation will be for nothing." Richard said after a while of thinking.

"Ok, then what about the other possibility, what if we send reinforcement to our troops there, what will the negative and positive sides for that." Paul nodded his head before asking about the other possibility.

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"If we choose to keep on fighting then we will have to send more reinforcement and soldiers then we first thought, and probably a lot of them will die in the end, which isn't what we promised the citizens as we said that the land that we were going to was just a land full of barbarians that won't be of any danger to us, and that's not all, if you remember there's still the Area to our west and we don't know what might happen if we suffer a loss and we become weak, but this possibility doesn't only have negative sides, there are positive ones too, like how if we took control of a piece of the land we don't know what we might find, we might even find the secret to how to become wizards and warriors, and that on its own will be a great thing for us, and using the same logic we might find new minerals which only exist in that Area so of course both possibilities have their good points and bad points, we only have to see which one is more acceptable for us that's all." Richard ended his words.

Once again Paul fall into silence as he contemplated what Richard just said and which decisions to take, after all Richard was just giving his opinion about the matter the one with the last say was still him, and he had to give an order fast enough as his soldiers' life depended on that.

"We will go on with the war, send as much soldiers as we can, along with fuel and ammo, we have to take control of that Area, and also send them an order that we need to know as much as we could about the Area there, and most of all about how to become warriors and wizards, tell general Schmidt and Admiral Herbert that finding about that should be one of their priorities while they stay in that Area, now don't waste anymore time go and deliver those information to the people in that Area hurry up." Paul said.

His decision was influenced by the thought of wizards and warriors, and what they represented, after all, almost in every story and myth wizards were people who have supernatural powers, that was somehow interesting but it wasn't what caught the interest of Paul, instead what caught his interest was that in almost all those myths, wizards have long lives, way longer than normal people and he wanted that.

For a person like him who basically controlled the world and didn't need to suffer in anything in the world, there was only one thing that he feared more than anything in the world, and that is getting older and dying, and that wasn't something just for him, instead any person who had what he had would feel that.

He was still able to member how his grandfather ruled the world as if he would live forever and how he seemed so invisible to him when he was a child, but then he watched as his grandfather grew old and fall sick till one day he died.

After that came his father who just like his grandpa also ruled for years and did whatever he wanted and was simply invisible in the world just like his grandpa was, and he was like his grandpa, as he also grew old, fall sick and died.

Making it finally his turn, and he really didn't want to end up like them instead he wanted to see if he can find a way to live longer, and the way to do that seemed as if it represented itself to him in this new Area.

So of course he wasn't going to waste such a chance to matter how small it was, so he asked for more reinforcement to be sent and more information to be collected about wizards and warriors.

"Ok my Führer I will." Richard said before turning around and leaving the room to execute the orders that he was given, he was on a hurry to pass them as he knew that the soldiers who contacted them were still in the middle of the ocean waiting for their orders as that was the only place for them to contact each other.

He was a little bit surprised about the choice that his leader made but he didn't say anything about that, he just decided to pass them on.

In the end only Paul was left in the room, he looked at the video in the big screen and fall into a state of day dreaming after a long while he finally returned to his senses as he lifted his head sighed and murmured:

"Wizards..." no one was able to hear that word which he murmured.

***

Once again eleven days passed 'new timing", in those eleven days there happened some changes over New Earth as many events happened in many Areas.

On top of Barbarossa:

Dan was standing in the surface of Barbarossa enjoying the sunny weather while his eyes were looking further into the distance, he was lost in his thought till finally he felt someone stand next to him.

Looking to his side he saw Robin there, the other just smiled before saying:

"It's great finally having and enjoying such a good weather right." Robin said as he smiled.

"Yeah you are right, it is really is great, we all missed this." As he said that Dan looked around him at all the people who were on the surface of the ship enjoying the long awaited sun and calm ocean.

In the last week or so 'old timing' they didn't have the chance to enjoy such weather as the ocean waters were in a mess because of the bad weather.

They suffered quite a bit because of that weather as must of the people who were on the ship were experiencing that for the first time and they were quite afraid as they saw the dark sky and the big waves that made the ship sway from one side to the other.

That storm which they met did make them suffer but there was a good side to that as it helped them move a little bit faster in their journey, yet no one really cared as they didn't want to experience it ever again which was to be expected seeing his most of them fall sick and all.

Fortunately the old Barbarossa was till strong enough and it was able to handle the raging ocean waters and they still held on till it finally ended.

In those days people got used to it in the end, but they still wished for it to end as fast as possible, so when the storm finally ended and the sun appeared again they couldn't stop themselves from finding a place in the surface of the ship to finally enjoy the calm weather.

It was only after suffered that much in that week that they finally understood how precious those sunny days could be, yet there was still another good side to the storm as they were able to collect some drinking water.