POV Riva
The songs of the military band are echoing heavy through the hall but I have no time to enjoy them since I have been busy in the last 20 hours breaking the seal of the door to the heart of our Prison. I have the honor to be one of the best seal breaker in Lux and so even as field marshal, I pushed the responsibility to break the seals to myself. I slightly regret the decision now since its harder than I thought!
I wonder what is inside the heart room, it has been 150 or 160 years since the last time I was inside it. Everything later than 100 years is hazy in my memory, I am just like everyone else in that regard. What happened 100 years ago? We are finally going to solve the mystery and hopefully solve the mana pollution or else we all are going to die!
What should I tell the senate if the solution is not in there? I am sure forced to retire from the military for at last 50 years! But if I solve it I am sure to make history and lead Lux finally to the sun! My songs will last forever and my status will be as bright as the sun itself!
With a hand signal, I order my army to prepare for the door to open and with that, the music instantly halted only to be replaced with signal horns.
After waiting for my troops to be ready I crack open the seal with a bit of sweat on my forehead and immediately see another Seal! Why did I ever think there was only 1 seal?
I signal my men to stand down but in the middle of the sound of the horns an earthquake trembled, ignoring my orders the soldiers stay in formation. Looking at the stone Army and making sure they are not moving I signal for a conference and let the army stay ready, it would be a good drill for them.
Shortly after, the command tent is filled with all my important officers but most importantly is my daughter that I gave the general position of the 6th. She has been a troublemaker ever since she was born, it is because she has never seen her father. I try my best to be strict with her but you just can't replace a father. That is another mystery I want to solve here, what happened to him 100 years ago?
The conference is suddenly interrupted by an officer “Excuse me but we detected a hight end invisibility field!”(officer)
Could it be a monst...
*grumble*
My thought about it was interrupted by loud sounds and the trembling of the ground. I run outside like the rest of my officers only to find my worst fears come true, the Stone army is waking up!
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POV Rarion
Teleporting a bit outside from the army camp I finally have a visual on the army and I did not expect it to be an army from the stone ages!
Everyone was dressed in a uniform with the main color theme of black and red it also had an emblem on it that had the sun and a blue dragon under it trying to bite the sun.
The main weapon that I see is a long spear but there is also the musicians and standard-bearer mix in. Now that I zoom past the torrent of tents with one off my eye skills I pay attention to the strange red stone fort that is surrounded by tents, there I see that they have rifles too! So it is more like a mix off ancient Rome or Greece with a bit of world war 1 weapons blended in since I also found some cannons here and there that are with sand backs fortified.
The races are all over the place it seems they are mixed together, that earned a bit of my respect. Most of them I easily recognize. In Plane Wars the VR game, it is extremely important to recognize the races and know the evolution paths since the game did not have levels or traditional stats, everything was instead handled with evolution, you could upgrade everything from your skin so that it is, for example, able to absorb more mana up to the blood cells! But to unlock them you needed extreme expensive treatment plans and so for the top upgrades, you needed hundreds of industry nodes plus rare materials. But they could even go so far that one top ranker could even transform in a swarm of insects!
It is always hard to rank someone only on looks, but with equipment it is way easier and so I can tell that most of this are absolute trash! Just how did they even get here?
What!? My gas mask displays me that they have somehow detected me! That is what I get for underestimating them. So ok no time to lose, set formation for the army with the help of a 3d illusion in front of me, one of the many benefits a dungeon master has inside of his dungeon, and send the orders to Rose!
*grumble*
Haha, look at them how scared they are! I think this ugly one peed himself! You did not think that they are just an ornament! Hahaha!
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Ok, ok, I need to get serious! Searching my inventory for my Flag I turn visible and ram it into the ground.
Oh, nobody can see the flag that should be flying 4 meters above me since here is no wind!
With a smile, I jump 10 meters back and turn into my dragon form while still in the air. Cursing myself for forgetting the pain from the last transformation I push myself with the help of my wings slightly forward so that my head is next to the flag and while I open my wings I use one of the standard dragon skills roar!
*Roooooaaaarrr*
Still thinking this is a game i have a huge smile and it should be visible even under my transformed gas mask. I am proud that the Flag is flying and with the help of a quick spell I should make it stay that way!
But my attempt to cast the wind spell was stopped as soon as I activate my mana eyes.
In front of me are thousands, no millions of lose, ugly natural formed mana threads in all colors. These deformed strings in a size of 1 mm to 1 cm can easily mess up spells and in the best case dissolve enchantments in the worst case they just make the enchantments explode!
Normally I would laugh evilly at the scared shitless army before me and I would have the best time of my life! But no at this moment all my focus is the equipment that I have on me. Searching for the right solution I try to release my mana to create a current of mana and push the strings away, but the outside mana is so saturated that it would only take 1 hour till I am out of mana! Hmm... if I had a mana exhaust from Rose under me the pressure would wash the trash away! It took me only a blink to transmit the command to rose and another few seconds for the exhaust slowly replace the stone floor.
Thinking about it, the important storage rooms they should all have seals on them and make them save, but most of the magic based traps should be turned to junk. Well, I just need them to be re-enchanted. Ah right, the army!
I turn my eyes back to normal and I am surprised by the not so scared army that has taken formation. My army of wardens should have soon surrounded them. Even if the weapons of the stone guardians have lost the enchantment they should be able to massacre them since their ancient weapons are just too weak to hurt them!
Finally casting the wind spell I will wait for the enemy to respond and after a few minutes, a small convoy slowly approaches me. The leading figure is Riva she gained a bit of weight and has lost her youth but she is still attractive, typical Valkyrie she has white wings and blond hair but the giant war pig with metal horns that she is riding just does not fit her angelic figure!
Slightly behind her is another winged creature riding a pig but she has dyed her wings black and Red? Well, it fits her red hair, quite the beauty.
“Greetings Overseer Rarion it has been a long time.”(Riva)
“Well you see for me it was just yesterday that I saw you in the old command center”(Rarion)
“That was 100 years ago, what happened?”(Riva)
The whole convoy was waiting in tension, but I was surprised by the complex answer. So she has also a consciousness? Ignoring her question I demand answers instead “Who gave you the order to come here?” (Rarion)
The only one in power to do so should be me!
“The co-consults of Lux together with the Senate have finally approved of the expedition after they noticed the mana pollution will not solve itself. I as supreme commander took the honor myself 10 years ago to lead it!” (Riva)
So they ordered it themselves? This is a big problem, what in the world is going on.. can't log out everyone is suddenly alive? No way...
“We have changed the constitution 1 year after the fall in order to modernize the army to better fight the Monster horde that is invading Lux all the time. At this time, there should be no mention of your name in the constitution Lord Overseer!”(Riva)
This is bad damn forget about my equipment, my civilization ah! Why did that happen to me, I did all I could do to build them up! Should they not pray to me like a god? If they were truly alive for all the things I did for them they should pray to me!
“Clare I want you to step forward.”(Riva)
“Yes ma'am.”(Clare)
“I want you to greet your father!”(Riva)
My face would turn ashen if it could. Oh no no no, when I think about it if they pray to me than only as the devil! No no no this can't be true, they can't turn alive!!