-Inside the Hidden Place-
-In A Mansion's Office-
"Master, we have spotted a few people, a bit north of our town and by the looks of it, the one leading them is heading towards our place and others are following her." Said an old looking butler.
"Do you know how strong they are?" Asked a rather young woman sitting on the chair in front of a desk with a stack of papers.
"Yes master, the one leading them is a woman and the other five people are following her, keeping their distance from her. The woman at the front is able to kill the monsters in a single mana blade strike, although we couldn't see her level, it has to be above 200 at least to kill these monsters with one strike." Answered the old butler.
"Prepare our men and I'll personally have to visit this woman, she might be more than we could handle." Said the young woman.
"Yes Master."
-Liz's POV-
"Fucking idiots." I killed the five people following me and teleported right in front of the hidden place.
Looking at the dome, around the size of two football fields, I could see that the dome was made of runes. The runes looked like complicated words written in a language unknown to people but for me that was no problem. I had a spell that could translate any runes to be readable, so using that spell I could decipher the meaning of these runes.
"So there's invisibility, shock absorption, defense, illusion, as the main base for it, with more runes, using the spells that are fired at the dome to convert them into energies for the dome to protect itself, huh." The dome in front of me can withstand the power of even the S Rankers. I didn't want to destroy this dome, so I just teleported inside the dome and an alarm went off, alerting everyone of my intrusion. I could see a beam pointing towards the sky above me. It gave everyone my location.
The next moment I could see a lot of people leaving the town a few kilometers away and flying towards me.
-In the Mansion-
-The Young Woman's POV-
I had just finished equipping my gear when I heard an alarm going off and highlighting the area of intrusion. I went outside the mansion and headed straight for the beam. My army was already ready and the people of the town were also heading in the same direction.
"Miss Ren, how strong is the enemy?" I heard a voice from my left side as I was flying towards the beam.
"She's at least above level 200 from the way she killed those bugs instantly. She might also be on the same level as those invaders." I replied while glancing at the commander of my army, a man who looked to be in his 30's.
"Let me first talk to her, then we'll think about attacking her or not, because sometimes even power shown and levels could be deceiving."
"Yes Miss Ren, we'll follow your lead."
-Liz's POV-
A few minutes of standing at the same position as before. I looked on as the people arrived, fully equipped and ready to kill if needed. There was determination in their eyes. A total of 100 people were standing 50 meters of distance away from me but none of them approached me until a young woman came and said a few words to the army of 100 people. She then started walking towards me while holding a shining sword in her hand.
"Who are you and what do you want?" The young woman asked me as she reached and stood 12 feets distance away from me. She had blonde hair, a fair skin tone, red eyes and had a body that men would go to war for.
"My name is Lizandra, I am here to talk and not slaughter your people not to kill you." I replied while looking her in the eyes.
-Ren's POV-
"My name is Lizandra, I am here to talk and not slaughter your people nor to kill you." The woman replied, she looked to be the same age as me with a beautiful face, had white hair, blue eyes and a curvaceous figure. She didn't carry any gear on her or even her weapon.
"How can we trust you?" I asked her but the only thing I got in reply was "You can't and you also don't have an option."
"You do know that I have an army of people behind me right?" I asked her but didn't get any reply.
"Fine we'll talk but it has to be here." A talk wouldn’t harm anyone and I was sure that I could defend myself from her. I didn’t even sense any aura from her and she was at level 200. She hadn’t even reached the Tier’s yet.
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"Sure let's just get sit and have a chat, alright?" She said and summoned two chairs and a table between us. I gave my people a nod and we both sat down.
"So what do you want to talk about?"
"Tell me about this dead realm and the invasion." The moment I heard that, I got up and pointed my sword at her. "How do you know about dead realms and invasions." I asked her while glaring at her.
"I am the one asking, not you. SIT DOWN!" As she said those words my body could no longer move and I could feel a force that made me sit on the chair again. I couldn’t understand how a level 200 hundred woman made me sit down just with her words.
"Answer my questions and I'll go." She said and summoned two cups on the table, steaming hot with tea.
"Fine." I said while gritting my teeth. Guess levels really are deceiving.
-Liz's POV-
"What do you want to know about the dead realms?"
“Everything that is there to know. From how your world was invaded to the reason why you are using this dome to hide yourselves from others.”
“How do you know that our realm is dead and an invasion happened here?” I asked her.
“It’s a rule right. If a place is destroyed beyond repair and has no purpose at all, it will be converted to a dungeon and will start opening paths to the new world.'” What she said was true. The system did notify us about this. And from the questions she's asking, she might be from one of the world's our realm opened a path to.
“Well, that is true. The invasion started about 5 years ago with an army of people invading our realm, they numbered in hundreds of thousands and they came in some kind of flying machines that had guns on them. They started a war as soon as they came and began slaughtering everyone. Now me and my people, with a few other lords, decided to hide ourselves and prepare for round two.” She gave me a curt reply while looking at her people and giving them a reassuring look.
“What do you mean by round two?” I asked her as I took a sip from the cup of tea.
“It means that they are coming back with reinforcements. Our people had tried to kill all of them but some escaped. We are waiting for them to come back and being prepared is better than not being prepared.”
“So how did this become a dead realm, if it’s not even been fully eradicated or dead at all?”
“It has become a dead realm ever since the invasion started, we are getting visitors like you every now and then.”
“Where are these visitors then?”
“Dead.”
“I see. So an invasion happened 5 years ago with people coming to this realm using high-tech aircrafts and gunning your people. You all somehow managed to make them retreat and now you are hiding and preparing to fight back. Then why is this realm considered dead by the universe when there’s still resources and people? Or is it that the resources are not valuable enough for the universe to consider it alive?”
“We do have the resources but all that is left are some minerals and food which the universe doesn’t find valuable enough and has declared our realm as dead. We all have got the notification through the system.”
“Hmm, I think that’s enough for now because you are having a few guests to attend to.” I say and make the chairs, table and the cups of tea disappear with a snap of my finger.
“What are you talking about?”
“Your invaders are here to pay back and kill you all. The reinforcements they’ve brought now might be more than you can handle.” I say to her as I look through the dome and see the aircraft or more like a battleship that’s made to destroy everything. The design of the ship is that of a sword. I don’t know what it's made of or even the weapons that are placed on it. But from the looks of it, the ship is carrying at least a billion people. All above level 200. This might be the time when I get to see how powerful Tier 1’s and Tier 2’s are.
A man came near us and spoke to the woman, about the invaders coming back and the sight of a huge sword flying in the skies of the realm. A few minutes later all the people left and headed towards their town.
I was left alone to fend for myself. ‘Maybe I can help them if the power of these invaders is below Vorgrim’s’ I thought to myself and decided to stay for a while and observe.
-Ren’s POV-
“What’s the situation right now?” I was in our base camp right outside the town, standing with my commander and the rest of the people to know the current situation.
“My lord, we don’t exactly have much information, but we are sure that the sword in the air has more people than the last time. The rest of the lords are already on their way to the frontier, we should hurry and help them.” said my commander.
“Alright let’s move out.” This might seem like a rushed move but, we didn’t have much time to discuss and do formations to defend and kill the invaders.
-Liz’s POV-
Having created an invisible barrier around me to hide my position, I observed as the woman and her people left the dome and headed straight towards the frontier. I could see that there were already many people at the frontier. I remembered that I had a dinner date with Reinard but, I guess that'll have to wait- “What happened to our dinner date, darling?” -or not. I heard Reinard’s voice from behind me. I turned around to see my handsome hubby, wearing a white color suit, with neatly combed golden hair. His handsome face and that charming smile of his ‘Ah..my heart’. It was like an arrow was shot through my heart that made me fall in love with him again. I walked over to him and hugged him.
“I am really sorry hubby, the dinner will have to wait for a while, there’s a problem in this realm.” I whispered in his ear.
“Oh, so what is stopping my sweetheart from going on a dinner date with her handsome husband?” Reinard whispered in my ear. We both looked at the scene at the frontier as I explained to him the whole story of this realm and how we might be able to help these people and also how we can take advantage of this situation.
“So what you want to do is guilt trip them and take all of them back to Earth.” Reinard asks me.
“In short, yes I want that. I want them in the army that we are building to defend Earth. I also want the tech from the invaders. So we will have to be careful and try not to destroy that sword ship. They might be in Tier 1’s and Tier 2’s but we can’t say for sure how much destruction they are capable of. We’ll observe for a while and then execute the plan of guilt tripping them.” I said to Reinard and we both teleported a few kilometers away from the frontier and floated in the air, inside the barrier to observe the battle.