touchnovel Chapter 456: Improvements
Chapter 456: Improvements
After waiting for one hour, Rain and Seadir were called to the council hall again. All the members there were weirdly quiet, to the point that Rain felt suspicious about it.
"We decided to agree with your terms, but we have some requirements as well," Josar suddenly said. "First of all, the attack needs to be done in five days when our army reaches the area where the human army is."
"... I suppose that is reasonable," Rain said after rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"We also want information about the technology that Joanis developed You can't kill or take him anywhere else until we understand how he was able to obtain information about people from our history and how he was able to create the anti-magic relic," Josar added.
That was troublesome... that might take days, or Joanis could kill himself before that happens... he definitely will choose death over being captured. At the same time, the magic people wanted the knowledge of something that could make them a real threat in the future.
"... What if he kills himself before we can extract any information?" Rain asked. "Then, with our knowledge, we get half of their relics and study them."
Rain looked at Seadir, and he nodded... that was acceptable by him. They didn't care about the conquests of the magic people, and they couldn't see them as a threat to the ocean either.
"Fair enough," Rain said. "We will get the other half. Anything else?" Rain asked.
"One last thing," Josar said. "We want our people that were captured and that are with you."
"They aren't our pets. They are the guardians of the ocean," Seadir furrowed his eyebrows. "They should know that we don't want their lands, so I guess it makes sense... by the way, how are you planning to negotiate with the king and Joanis when you killed their messenger when he came to talk with you."
"I don't need to talk with them directly, and I just need to make someone pass the message. If I don't like what I hear, then I will kill the messengers again to make my point evidently clear."
Rain decided to pull out all the restraints in order to achieve their goals once and for all... everyone was tired of all the problems that the king and Joanis were causing, after all. It was time to end all that...
When it was mid morning, Rain and Seadir were able to find the human camp in the distance, and then Rain decided to use Magic Eyes to see if there were any traps around... much to his surprise, he didn't find traps, but he found something else... he found that the anti-magic barrier protecting the city and their soldiers were a lot bigger than he had recalled...
"It seems that they did something in the last month..." Rain muttered. "I guess it makes sense, considering that I almost made their camp sink on the ground."
"What?" Seadir frowned.
Rain explained what he could see, and then Seadir realized the severity of the situation... he assumed that the attacks of the giant sea monsters would eventually destroy the barrier after making it sink underground, but maybe that wouldn't be possible... the anti-magic barrier was now five kilometers tall and wide... Rain could only imagine that it was that deep as well.
"Are we going to change the plan?" Seadir asked.
"No, we are still going to send the message," Rain said, and then he began to lower the ice platform. "No point in letting them faze us with this much."
Rain considered that bringing Esmeralda might make the king come and talk with them, but it would be too risky now... leaving the king and Esmeralda in one spot would give Joanis the chance to kill both of them and put the blame on Rain... he would be able to control the queen and the prince all of the human army afterward.