Chapter 28 (1/2)

Chapter 28: Skyfire Avenue Council

Skyfire Avenue Council Hall

The floor space of the classically beautiful Council Hall was quite large, nearly three hundred square s, awash in dark red adorn a simplistic but beautiful at table With the Clairvoyant at it’s head, the total count stood at thirteen

The Wine Master sat to the left of the Clairvoyant, and beside him was Lan Jue The Gourmet took up the third position

The Clairvoyant lifted his hand and gently rapped upon the tabletop All eyes turned to hiathered, the other five away on business in other planets” There was an odd char h they revealed no eaze

Elder of Skyfire Avenue, Chairman of the Council, the Clairvoyant was for all intents and purposes the brain of Skyfire Avenue

He continued “I’ve called this eent overn this Lan Jue’s eye twitched An official froovernment? What did he want?

“Diplomatic emissaries have been dispatched from the Citadel of the Western Alliance’s Pontiff, and have indicated they wish an exchange with us here at Skyfire Avenue The governree to this exchange”

Was this revenge from the Western Alliance? Lan Jue was surprised, but quickly banished the thought The Austin family was certainly influential in the Western Alliance, but they certainly had no ht of the Pontiff The Pontiff’s Citadel was to the Western Alliance what Skyfire Avenue was to the East, only h stations of power It was highly unlikely that a political fiasco like the failed wedding would inspire them to make a move

For the Clairvoyant to attach so much importance to this correspondence, to display apprehension over the exchange, was unusual indeed

With the onset of the New Era, Mecha sciences and developral component of the battlefield The Three Alliance all spared no expense or effort in creating the latest h on the surface the Three Alliances lived in harmony, in practice the border planets between the three often saw conflict

In addition to the advance of Mechas, on the battlefield each unit required exceptional pilots to dictate the floar A pilot had to be athletic, with high genetic Talent, thusan exceptional warrior more likely As a result Adepts also received a fair amount of attention

Adepts were separated in to several groupings Those who possessed awakened innate talents were called Intuitives Adepts of the Eastern Alliance ory All of the Adepts who lived on Skyfire Avenue were Intuitives, and that was in fact a prerequisite for meh special enetics, were called Derivatives These constituted most of the Western Alliance, and the Alliance was second to none in the study of the anizations representative of the Western Derivatives; the Pontiff’s Citadel and the Dark Citadel The tere, naturally, at odds Though both names indicated locations, in truth it was just the naroups of talents there was a third, wherein lomerate of flesh and reat power These were called Converts