The appearance of a city floating in the sky caused panic not only among the citizens but also among the officials. The emergency meeting was held, gathering all the high commanding personnel. If humans were afraid of something, it was the unknown. Never in history was there a whole city floating above Tartiib. The bomb that might drop into their homes, wasn't helping with their anxiety.
In a room full of exaggerated gold decorations, 23 women and men were sitting silently waiting. The door to the room was opened and a woman around her thirties walked to her seat, located at the front of the table. A young man walked beside her" Reporting, an unknown obstacle, the size of a small city is hovering above our city. We do not know the threat or its object. Even if it's not an invasion attack, evacuating the citizen under the obstacle is important"
The woman looked at everyone's faces. Even the usual calmness of the nobles wasn't present as visible worries were seen on their face. She couldn't blame them for it too, the obstacle above them was an unknown factory that could destroy their peaceful days. The door to the room was opened and a knight walked through with hurried steps. " Report, a movement was detected from the obstacle. The targets are heading towards the nobles of Teran"
The woman instantly rushed towards the territory of Terans. Thankfully the meeting was held just a few blocks away from Terans. She could arrive before the invaders arrived. The woman didn't rush alone as 5 knights and 3 mages followed right behind her. Just as she thought, she had arrived before the invaders but the Terans didn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation as the guards were leisurely chatting. The guards of Terans didn't try to stop the woman. She was the sole commander of the whole city, how could mere guards have the courage to stop her? The guard let her in and informed the Terans.
The head of the Terans hurriedly walked to welcome her personally. It was an honour for the commander to visit but he was more worried at the timely arrival of the obstacle in the sky, coincidence? " Commander, it is our honour to have you. If I may ask, what did you come for to our humble manor? "Before the commander could answer the question, they heard a conversation and it was getting closer.
" We are getting closer, soon we should be there. Can't believe in mere days, am already back here." Amilios could still see the danger lurking in the corners and unlike the last time. All eyes were on them. They had come to the enemy's front doorsteps, blowing trumpets loud and clearly. They would receive all the attention but that didn't change his duty. Since he had the job to lead them, he would just do that.
" The air sure feels different in this city. It's been a while since I've seen this many humans. It's almost nostalgic" Raiz felt like he was going on a vacation and even waved. Some children saw the wave from Raiz and waved back. Their mother grabbed them back into the house and closed the door behind them. Raiz scratches his head, he had almost forgotten he was someone humans were afraid of now.
There was only Moon, Raiz, amilios and Bolt who was on top of Amilio's shoulder. Bolt was still in the form of small size, looking just like an ordinary white cat. This way he could save up some of his mana, no matter how small it may be. Amilios arrived at the gates he once left before. Now there were humans purposely waiting for their arrival. Of all humans that were present, he could feel instinctively, the woman who was guarded by the five knights was the strongest.
" Halt there. What business do you have coming here" The commander said in a calm voice, hiding completely the ravaging thoughts going through her mind.
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" Excuse us for intruding, we have small unfinished business with a woman who lives here. We need her to come out" Raiz smoothly talked. Raiz knew exactly how humans thought and making enemies with all of them was unnecessary. Everybody knew that Terans only had two women. One was the mother and the other the daughter. One could easily guess which one they meant, as Terans only troublemaker was the daughter.
" For you to demand my daughter to come outside is hilarious. I won't let her come outside before I know what intentions you have towards my daughter" As the head and the father of his daughter he had to know what were the intruder's motives.
"Of course, there is a motive, why else we would come all the way here? Your so called daughter tried to kill one of us. Where is the old man, he should have informed you" Raiz unhurriedly said, monitoring closely their expressions.
" If you are talking about when my daughter went into the forest. Sometimes unfortunate things happen, you can't blame everything on my daughter" He knew exactly what was Raiz talking about. After fourth had told him everything. The head of Teran looked at the city commander, he couldn't let the matter become public. The Terans would become a laughingstock and most importantly it was banned for humans to go into the forest.
"Since you didn't comply with us. We will take matters into our hands" Raiz didn't try anymore, knowing he would have to hassle with the overprotective father. It was easier if they just handled it with simplicity.
"Aren't you dumbing it on me, way too fast? You could've tried at least a bit more. " The white tiger sighted as Raiz slyly handed him the job. He had memorized the scent of that woman, finding her should be easy.
Finally, Bolt sniffed the air and locked the scent. He opened his closed eyes as he stared at the second-floors middle room. He smiled dangerously " So there you are little rat"
Bolt charged ahead to the second floor. The family head saw where he was going and commanded his guards to stop him. It was close to impossible to stop the nimble movement of Bolt. In just a matter of seconds, Bolt came back as he threw the daughter in front of the family head's feet. Raiz stepped up again" This is the woman we were talking about. Since our cat is nice enough, it's even letting you say your goodbyes"
The head family whistled and all the protectors came forward. When the fourth saw the Cloud, he jumped back " It's you? Why are you here?"
He knew the stronger beast, the higher mana they needed. Ultimately making them unable to leave the forest. Why was the Cloud that even appeared in his nightmares floating in front of him?
" Oh, Hiya. We meet again, how you've been. I told you we would come to visit you, didn't I" Thought it wasn't supposed to be this fast, Moon added in his thoughts
" My lord, we need to deal with that monster as soon as possible. He is way too dangerous to be able to freely roam in the world. Everyone under him is just weaklings" Fourth said to the family head.
" Everyone else is weakling? you are hurting my family here. How about this? If you can defeat him, we will leave this place " When he said him, he meant Raiz who was still enjoying the " vacation " The plan was fast revenge for the white tiger and return, there was no need for Raiz to fight. Until the big mouth called the fourth hit the pride of Moon. Moons pride were his family and someone just disregarded them.
Moon would've just ignored or personally dealt with Fourth but Raiz was stronger than Fourth. Raiz was 4th stage in the Myr realm and Fourth was 5th but Raiz could fight opponents that were 2 stages higher than him.
" Him, ahaha. I saw his fight before. He isn't anywhere near my level. My lord, I think we have found an easy way to deal with this once and for all "Fourth said as he strode forward with confidence.
The last time Fourth saw Raiz fight with the giant eagle, he was just at the first stage in Myr realm. For that reason alone Fouth was brimming with confidence " So this is how it feels to be underestimated. Oh well, I take this chance to show off. " Raiz flew over as he muttered to himself. Being underestimated has its perks, the opponent wouldn't put their guard up"
The commander wasn't able to see the strength of Raiz. It wasn't because Raiz was stronger than her but there was some other power shielding him. She didn't stop Fourth's reckless challenge towards the invaders. After all, she would be able to gauge the invader's strength without wasting one of her men.