178 Atlanta, Georgia (1/2)
Standing by the side of the island, their legs dangling off the edge of the wooden wall, the group could be seen overseeing the entirety of Atlanta, the capital city of Georgia. Unlike Jackson which was covered by an ant mound, Atlanta was still fine and flourishing, surrounded by a thick concrete wall.
On the wall towers, there were large turrets attached to it. A few people were by it at all times, constantly monitoring its condition and maintaining peak performance. Although it's been peaceful for a few months, people can never be sure when a beast will go wild and attack. Maybe even an intelligent beast might decide to migrate into an area nearby.
Atlanta was one of the most heavily armoured cities in America despite it not being one of the most heavily populated. The Land Guardians and Sky guardians both had a base here with plenty of soldiers and equipment, Atlanta was where one of their headquarters were. Some of the other headquarters were based in Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and Moscow. The most heavily populated cities in the world along with having strong explorers and intelligent researchers.
Las Vegas is where the headquarters of Researcher's United is located as well as the other half-human. While Hong Kong is the has the headquarters of the Explorers Guild, having a council of high-level martial artist at the head with groups of martial artists beneath them. Not to mention all the beast tamers, some strong and some weak. Being ranked similarly to certain games and books.
The turrets changed their targets, all of them faced the island with their thick barrels as the people by its side were slightly panicking. Some of them calling up someone in a rush as their faces were slightly red. Finally, once getting the confirmation from their superiors the turrets were let down.
”Huh, so it seems they weren't all that prepared for us,” Simon remarked quietly as he sat back down. He was fully prepared to go all out in battle, he didn't care. He didn't care all that much about the Land Guardian's reputation, it wasn't as though they haven't crossed paths before.
”Or, they might have already predicted our flight path and assumed that we were destroyed by the ant mound back in Alabama,” Flynn interjected. The group thought about it for a bit and weren't all that surprised by their assumption. An entire city was pretty well wiped out from existence due to those ants. The Land and Sky Guardians must have thought the same.
”Ha, they probably wished we were destroyed back in Alabama,” Joe remarked with a slight chuckle. ”Who knows, maybe they're still looking for ways to disprove us and even kill us. After all, we did kind of screw with their whole system. The ones in charge probably aren't too happy.”
”So what, their fault for being so incredibly wrong,” Lachlan said with his arms crossed, looking down on the soldiers. ”As for their leaders, well, soon they'll probably be on their knees, begging for their children or soldiers to be sent and trained on the island.”
”Well, we'll still allow them on the train. However, they won't get any different treatment to anyone else here to train. They'll all be treated as students of the academy, whether they're a soldier, regular civilian, or some child from a wealthy family. Treatment will remain the same,” Chloe explained in an annoyed tone. ”That way, you won't have people trying to split up the student body by their backgrounds.”
”Sounds like you have some sort of experience with that,” Joe said in a questioning tone.
”Yeah, the people in my school were so disconnected with each other. If you were wealthy you wouldn't hang out with the poor and visa Versa. Granted, there were cases of that happening those two people would be pretty much banished from their friend group,” Chloe explained with a pouting expression. ”This led to many problems that resulted in teachers having to step in. Sometimes even students would be expelled because of their behaviour.”
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”But I suppose our school will have something similar to that,” Lachlan said as his eyes rolled up to look at the sky. ”Granted, it won't be based on wealth or anything like that. But it would be based on strength, a person at the top probably won't hang out with someone at the bottom and visa Versa. Who knows, maybe we'll also have bullying problems where we'll have to step in.”
”Well hopefully that doesn't happen, but I suppose it's extremely likely to happen no matter what we do. Maybe they'll even start small fighting clubs, you know, bring a weaker student behind a tree and beat them up,” Zoe added on to the conversation. ”Maybe we should set up some sort of surveillance before we start accepting students. After all, Anne already has some surveillance set up, I'm sure she wouldn't mind adding a few additional cameras.”
”We'll talk to her about it. For now, we'll need to buy a few things to build the academy,” Lachlan said before halting the movement of the island. It cast a shadow upon the city, the residents all looked up in awe and wonder as a group of people descended from the skies.
Landing on the ground they were swiftly met by a small group of soldiers armed to the teeth. Their foreheads were covered in cold sweats and so was their backs. A rough-looking woman took a few steps forward out of the soldiers. ”Please state your purpose in coming here Bloodied Wings, also, please move your floating island elsewhere, it blocks out the skies so we're unable to surveillance it.”
”Relax,” Lachlan disappeared from his position before reappearing by the woman, his hand lightly patting her shoulder. ”We're just here to buy some materials, that's all, no need to be all up in arms. That is, of course, unless you want to give fighting us a go.”