140 The War Room Part 2 (1/2)
After Nisus looked around he finally spoke to everyone at the table, ”Greetings everyone, while it is nice seeing all your faces gathered in one place the gravity of this matter requires me to skip all pleasantries and get down to business”.
No one at the table had a problem with that meetings have a tendency to be overly long and boring anyway even if its one about their battle tactics on how to defend the city. Everyone at the table has gone through the same thing, so many times their fed up with it and welcome anything that would cut the time down even if it's by a second.
Since everyone had a mutual understanding Nisus continued, ”As you, all know this war that decides the fate of Delmar City isn't a normal one. For us, it is a battle of attribution while for the enemy every second matters. Since we illegally claimed it while within the Solaris Kingdom we are subject to many restraints. Some of which as you know entails that we can not claim territory outside of the borders of Delmar City along with not being able to attack any clan that is associated with the Solaris Kingdom or land governed by a noble, ... Ect.
The restraints also include that we also can not call for aid from the Starling Empire (Magi Empire). Though it's not like they would have given it for a small clan war it limits us nonetheless in the face of an enemy that isn't subject to any of that. While many of the restraints are lifted during wartime it doesn't change the fact that we are at a disadvantage.
The only way for us to overcome that disadvantage is to use the loopholes in the deal we brokered with the Solaris Kingdom. Since our city not only has to defend against the might of not only every clan that those dark elves have been able to gather but along with whatever aid the Solaris Kingdom is willing to send we have a time restraint of 3 years before the war is contracted to end.
With that said, Nisus stopped speaking to allow Velar Kadyn to have a few words. Velar spoke eloquently as he addressed a few important subjects.
”After the sudden attack from the rogue blood mage known as Minerva The Crimson Cloud our forces took a bit of a hit. Her attack killed 4 rank 3 combatants, 50 people at rank 2, over 300 soldiers at the realm of rank 1, and is estimated to have killed over 10,000 citizens. We are still calculating the actual amount. Memorial Wall of which sustained no damage was able to significantly reduce the range of her attack if it didn't the death toll would be much higher.
While the losses aren't that high when compared to the force of 500,000 soldiers that we have active her excluding the reserve unit of course. The loss of those rank 3 combatants is a devastating blow to us. Our army is mostly comprised of over 450,000 rank 1 soldiers the rest of which is mostly just rank 2 soldiers. Through the combination of all our clan's aid, we could only scrounge up a total of 50 rank 3 combatants a number which has now become 46. But through my efforts, we were able to procure a few wondering magi and cultivators willing to lend us a hand bringing the combined total of rank 3 combatants up to 76.
Because of our world's continued war against that universal level civilization, our clans are extremely limited in what kind of aid they can send and that stands true for the Solaris Kingdom as well”.
Universal level civilizations are peak level civilization's they have full control over thousand of galaxies, can cross vast distances near instantly, and can harness power from stars, black holes, even from other dimensions. Theotera has encountered 2 such civilizations in its existence. They completely obliterated one of them and are in the process of destroying the second one they happened to encounter. The war has been a long and bloody one. During the war, legendary people have continuously been born and fallen. Even demigods have fallen fighting in the war which speaks volumes about the might of the civilization its self.
”Apart from that, there has been an increase in suspicious activity inside the city. Ever since the refugee we brought in the amount of graffiti inside the city has significantly risen. After a thorough inspection, it was discovered that the graffiti was harmless nor did any of it have any religious meaning or resemblance. But because I could not rule out spies from the Solaris Kingdom amongst the refugee I had all of them continuously monitored. The monitoring has brought to light a few suspicious people, but one of which stood out from all the other. That Person's name is Eliot Row.
He is a nobleman with no cultivation of any kind and is currently a refugee in the city. Ever since he arrived here he hasn't done much besides getting into a heated conflict with a reserve unit member by the name of Desmond Gillies. But ever since then that man has been nearly untrackable. He pops around the city and leaves just as quickly as he arrived. During our monitoring of him, we found him conversing friendly with a suspected high ranking purifier member. This leads us to assume that he is one himself or is merely acting as a middle man”.
Mason was listening to Velar's report and was already getting bored of it. He was fully focused when Velar spoke about the general makeup of the army but quickly lost interest the moment Velar went on about a potential nobody.
”Sorry for interrupting you Velar, but what has this Eliot person done to warrant this much attention? I can think of dozens of ways that a mortal with enough knowledge in magic can escape your detection methods even if they have no cultivation. But I still would make them enemy number one just for that”.
Velar didn't hold anything against Mason for his questions he simply answered to the best of his ability.
”The reason this man is the most suspicious to me is because of the say he disappears is strangely similar to that of a known member of Secret Visage. We have absolutely no proof that even remotely says that their connected in any way but I can not dismiss such a thing either”
Mason didn't bother asking another question after that. Anything even remotely connected to Secret Visage should be given top priority. No one ever knows what their planning and whatever they have planned has never been good. Every member of Secret Visage are nothing but agents of chaos. An order comprised of the worst kind of filth one can currently find in the world.
After settling Mason's question Velar continued on about a few other general topics about ammunition, food supplies, daily yield, weapon production, medical aid, reimbursement for loss of life, damage to property, ... ect. Once he finished he handed things over to Emma Von Cooler.
Emma's cute appearance and adorable voice was overshadowed by the strong aura she emitted. With a wave of her hand, a large hologram appeared in front of everyone. It showed the outline of Delmar City, its defense, along with the current position of every ally moving in real time. The green dots indicating allies were like a million marching ants. A number that was currently overshadowed by the overwhelming number of red dots in the forest.
”As everyone can see her outside of the city a horde of magical beasts. While we are unsure of the exact number it is currently estimated to be 10 million and that number is projected to steadily increase as time goes by. Solaris is attempting to use those wild beasts as cannon fodder in controlled waves to control the flow of the war. Which is fine but the current tactic their using is strange, but simplistic which makes me worrisome”.
”And why is that General Emma?” Allegra uttered while softly cackling.
”That's because the way their going about attacking is completely different than usual. This is is the first time that they have been, so direct when sieging the city, but that's not what's weird. What's strange is that their only attacking the south side of the city while completely ignoring everything else. They're not even trying to spread out our manpower as thin as possible”.
”The war has just started we can't be too sure about any of their plans as is, so this could also just be a clear display of their lack of control in coordinating that many beasts all at once”. Uttered Delphin as she gave her own take on the situation.
Emma gave a light nod in agreement with Delphin, ”while that may be true it might not while forcing a monster tide at this scale isn't easy with their resource they should be able to do more than force them to attack in a straight line, so I can not be truly certain about that.