Panting and out of breath Adam adjusted his tie and sat down at the huge table he had been awake for close to two days now getting ready for the second wave and dealing with his son’s recovery and he was dead tired, his aid handed him a glass of water and an open folder, he looked through it quickly than raised his eyes “What’s the situation of Ragnarok project?” “Our own side had two loses, as for the global forces there is no way to know before contacting them Mr. President” answered one of his commanders consulting his own papers, “Which ones?” “Balder and Skadi sir, Skadi died blocking our men’s retreat from a clan of Mountain trolls after the second wave, their level was far higher than we had estimated as for Balder… He exploded.”
“He what now?” “Exploded sir, we don’t know how” “Give me that damn report!” the marshal handed him the papers and he read them as fast as he could, apparently Balder had faced a similar problem to Skadi expending all his mana into a mental wave to stun a dozen ogres but got hit by a giant club, when the Einherjar managed to drag him away he drank a health and mana potion then suddenly exploded killing the two men helping him, turning to his expert he asked “Any ideas what happened?”
“Aaaaa…” searching among a bunch of folders in front of him the small men appeared to be gathering his thoughts, adjusting his glasses he finally started to talk “Well man… ah I mean Boss, I…” “Just start talking!” “Yes sir! It could really be anything from a stealth monster to a delayed effect of the club but, the most likely case is something wrong with the potions” “Sabotage?” “Sir, we don’t really know anything about those potions, what are they made of? What are their effects? Are they all the same? Do they already exist or are they created by the system? Frankly the only thing that truly appears out of nowhere as drops are those potions, I think they are made somewhere and, if so, it’s not really that much of a stretch for one of them to have been botched”
“John, get one of our specialists on those potions now, I want to know exactly what they’re made of and if there is any danger” “Mr. President I fell it’s my duty to inform you the amount of potions dropped by monsters has started to diminish” “Even more reason to experiment with them, we need to know how to produce more, besides we can’t take the risk of another man exploding, what is the status of the others?”
“All are above level 5 now sir even Loki, their status and classes are already in your folder” “Good, anything else?” one of the navy commanders got up at the end of the table “Sir, after the second wave hit three of our destroyers were attacked by what appears to have been a Kraken” putting a hand on his forehead he massaged at his already growing headache “Did they repel the creature?” “Although there was extensive damage to two of the ships they managed to slay the monster, it dropped four skill books, a weapon and another guild badge, more than that every man on the vessels got at least one level and the captains gained three” “I thought damage contribution and distance made such battles fruitless?”
“Uhmm… boss if I may?” Looking at the small frightened man he signed for him to go ahead “Sir, clearly battles at sea are different it could be they have an increased range of XP gain or they calculate contribution by ship not individual” taking his hand of his forehead he scratched at his small beard in thought “Ok, clearly the second wave made the ocean far more dangerous, have our ships retreat closer to the coast and allow the navy the creation of their own guild, protect our coastal waters but do not pursue any monsters beyond them”
His phone beeped warning him that his son would finally be cleared for action latter in the day if everything was alright, it was earlier than he thought so he confirmed the message and smiled “Mr. President I have general Owen on the line” he pressed the button and the face of his army general on the northwest appeared “Greetings general I hope everything is alright?”
“Mr. President the situation is not good, our conquered cities are currently safe but there is just no way to move everyone back to the east coast, wyverns have spawned around our positions so we don’t dare put any plane on the air and travelling on foot is even more unlikely, the second wave hit the middle US hard sir” “Understood general, you have my permission to join the Canada’s government, keep our people safe” A huge boom sounded behind the general and the camera shook violently, glancing back worried the general screamed “I want that fucker down now you idiots!” turning towards the camera again he saluted “Understood sir, it was an honor serving the United States!” the camera turned dark.
“very well people we have officially lost the west coast however Canada remains our ally in this troubled times I am sure the good general will still help us in the future any other problems we have to deal with? We still have 5 minutes” one of his few trusted senators and the only one to attend the meeting got up “Mr. President it is about time we speak about payment, freezing the market price and using our food stocks has worked until now but the people have now fully lost trust in the money, they have started to only use products and very few are actually going to work.”
“OK what can we do about this?” handing him another folder the Secretary of agriculture started pointing out words and graphics “As you can see we have already started gathering people in government farms and planting special grains, mainly rice, wheat, corn and potatoes, most monsters are actually edible so we don’t have a lack of meat we just need your permission to start paying people with meal tickets, the civilian guild is also gaining strength and they are helping the police to maintain public order and make sure our people don’t starve” another secretary interjected “Sir we have around ten thousand soldiers training civilians in all conquered cities to participate in battles, by the end of the week we should have at least fifty thousand man at least moderately ready to fight, our specialists have also suggested the creation of an adventure’s guild to collect necessary items from monsters.”
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“Very well I agree with all points minus the guild, what the hell is an adventurer’s guild! This is not a fucking game and killing those things is not a gods damned adventure! Perhaps I should send the fucking idiot who suggested it to the frontlines so he stop being so stupid” “Sir we…” “Have you not read Doctor Mason’s reports? What we need now is normal workers, farmers, salesman, cooks and teachers to maintain our society not suicidal man trying to gain money from hunting those creatures, that is our job” “Understood sir”
Adventurers ha, there may come a day when they create a mercenary guild or something like that but it is far off in the distance, they don’t even know what use most monster’s drops have much less creature weakness and characteristics that would actually make it possible to hunt them with a minimum of safety, those guys play too much computer games “Sir, about Senator Goldwin and governor Eliot?” “Let them do as they want, we control the military and have enough support in the senator Goldwin may try to get the public against me and take my place but he is fated to lose, as for Eliot Grant… for a long time my dearest wish had been to put a bullet through that bastard’s head, now he doesn’t threaten me anymore, just don’t let Loki get close to him or things can get ugly”
“We are ready sir” “Very well connect us” on the far off wall the monitors lightened up revealing the country leaders of 52 countries, it seems they had lost even more people since the last time and there were some new faces to the ones who answered, thankfully the new Canadian ruler had connected and the England prime minister had managed to survive his dragon attack, he was even the one to talk first “Good evening gentlemen it is good to be back with you” they all nodded his way Adam spoke next “Good to see you Charles we must talk latter”
The Russian president was the next one to go, always a man of action “Very well my friends I believe you’re all aware of why we are here, no need for small talk, I accept” “I agree” “I accept”… they all manifested their agreement to the deal, it had been discussed long before the
“It’s good to see we are all in agreement then” said the new Japanese Shogun, a title that raised more than one eyebrow but nobody could fault him, not every government could survive the
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“It seems our actions had unexpected rewards friends” “Indeed” all of them stayed quiet for a moment thinking about their new title but soon the Brazilian president called for their attention “Very well this is great and all but I don’t have much time left, what is the situation of project Ragnarok?”
All of them turned towards the Spanish president, since the Ragnarok member codenamed Mímir resided in his nation and had been responsible for monitoring the situation “In total 6 Ragnarok members have been killed, of those the two strongest both residing on the US, the loses are minimal as the others were all lesser members not even receiving God codenames, from the survivors only 2 have not yet acquired a class, most have received a Boss ratting on their power and the big three have become Elite bosses, the only unexpected thing is that Loki has been nearly killed and is still in recovery, he only received an elite ratting from the
“Wasn’t Loki supposed to be capable of rivaling the big three if he put his mind to it?” Adam sighed, even here his stubborn kid caused him grief “Loki has always been stubborn and contrary, he refused to train his powers despite his talent and fell from second ranked to fifth over the last years, once in action he got overconfident and was overwhelmed by numbers after making a mistake, he has been cleared for action earlier today and will make a full recover soon” Prime minister Charles just had to needle him “You really should have sent him to us Adam the boy hates you” “If I sent him to you he would have been dead fighting that fucking dragon, What the hell were you thinking Charles and where is my wife!”
“The dragon is under control” said the man through gritted teeth “As for your EX wife, I am sorry Adam but we are still searching for her” He just closed his eyes, the chance of her being alive had just dropped by a lot, he started to turn towards the Spanish president but he answered before the question was ever asked “Mímir said sorry but he can’t help you my friend”
Dozens of parallel conversations started between the leaders present, the Chinese leader had declared himself emperor as well as the South African one and a few worried about dwarves in Germany and Fay on Ireland were discussed before he finally called for attention “Very well gentlemen I believe all details were already discussed previously, if there is nothing else?” “Yes we are all busy man my friend and our own nation dangers are far from over I will keep my line open for any who wished to discuss with me but it is time to go” The Brazilian president said with an anxious face before being the first one to disconnect, Adam followed close behind.
Turning of the camera transmitting his signal he drank his entire cup of water and rested his back against the chair “Damn I need to sleep, thank god this is it for the day” his phone beeped again and he lifted it reading the new message, ‘Aaron’s release canceled again, passed out from exercising too much, please pass by the hospital for further discussion’ putting the phone back in his pocket he lowered his head and banged it repeatedly on the table “God damn it Aaron.”