17 A storm of darkness. 1 (1/2)

”That's it...we are almost finished Miss Izumi...keep transferring for a while longer.” Ryu instructed as he saw an exhausted Izumi.

”Alright...that's enough, you can stop now.” Ryu ordered as he signaled the others.

”That counts as the 13th day since we started forging your Soul Sword. The grip and the blade are ready now. Miss Izumi, tomorrow's the last day, we are going to forge the grip and the blade together into one. Tomorrow will be the toughest day of all, be prepared.” Ryu warned as he carefully picked the forged blade and grip.

”Sir, you are ordered to report to the Chief immediately.” A Protector shouted as he rushed towards a middle aged man standing atop of the fortified walls of the city's Western gate, gazing at the sun as it set over the barren land to the West of Areon.

”What...?!” This was Areon's third in command of the city, a senior B-Rank protector, the protector who is in charge of making sure the walls of Areon are heavily guarded and defended from any external threat, 'Hisashi Yamamoto'. He is responsible for making sure that the city's walls are not breached.

”I will head over there immediately...inform Kurai's squad to keep a watch here till I come back and tell Hishimoto's squad to look after Kurai's assigned position as well.” Hisashi ordered as he took the stairs to his left and headed towards the protectors office.

”Miss Nariko...where is the chief?” Hisashi inquired as he stepped inside the protectors office. Nariko is the ever present protector in the front counter at the protector's head quarters .

”Oh...he will be here soon. Most of the city's high level officers will be here as well. I heard it is something very important. Even I was asked to attend the meeting.” She replied with a pleasant smile.

”What could be so important, that all the captains of the city had to be called.” A voice came from a man walking towards them from the corner of the room. This was the city's patrol captain, Isao Sato.

”Who knows...he said it was something we have to prepare immediately for.” A women's voice made it's way into the room as they saw all the captains of different sectors of the city made their way into the building along with Zeyner.

”Let's head to the meeting room, captains.” Zeyner said as he lead the captains into the meeting room.

The meeting room was dark with a triangular table in the center surrounded by chairs and lamps on the wall. The captains seated themselves around the table with Zeyner seated at one of the corners of the table and Hisashi donning another corner of it.

”Sir...what is so..importan...” One of the captains tried to talk up only to be interrupted by Zeyner.

Zeyner released a strong gust causing the lamps in the room to go dark.

”Genus Urbs!!!” An energy tattoo floated from the left arm of Zeyner as it shone in a blue vibrant color.

This created a white color, three dimensional floating miniature model of the city made of energy on the table. This is something only a city's chief could do. All the city chief's have a blueprint of their city instilled in their body.

”There is a storm of dark energy approaching from the north of the city. I assume it was created due to the dark energy emitted by the approaching Dk's army.” Zeyner pointed his finger towards the north gate of the miniature model of the city. A dark colored storm appeared a few centimeters away from the city's north gate in front of them.