Chapter 218 - Distance (4)

Everyone, even Luke, had their mouths hanging open when the scenario around them began to change. They were basically in a spaceship that wasn't just massive and looked like heavy metal prison. The barrier around the fortress worked to keep oxygen inside as well as to emulate gravity. However, it was extremely thin. Thus, they could see the planet below them and the vastness of the universe in all other directions. Luke assumed that a lot of mana was beind consumed to keep that up and running.

"This is a bit scary…" Rina said while hugging Luke's left arm.

Luke could understand that, but he soon forgot about it because of the awesome feeling of Rina's bazongas touching his arm. Who cares about space, anyway? Although Luke thought that for a second, he still proceeded to check the space around them. It was hard to tell, but it seemed that Rina's planet was the size of Earth, and they came up from the middle of a pretty large continent that was mostly green. From that side, it seemed that the planet was eighty percent land and twenty percent water. Luke could even see a small continent on the East of the biggest one.

"What do you think of seeing your home planet like this?" Luke asked.

"I feel like I have been living only in a small part… but elves aren't explorers, so it is no surprise," Rina replied. "We felt happy just living comfortably on the lands we had."

"Such a stagnant way of thinking…" Shalia said and then sighed.

"The others will appear in the command room soon, so we should get going," Cresta said.

The group nodded and then followed Cresta. The interior of the fortress had more houses than any other type of building, but they were pretty uniform. Probably because they had been created by her to accommodate as many people as possible when necessary. There were other buildings where people worked and had their meals, but they were hard to find, even though Cresta told them when they passed by. 

After a while, they reached the command room, but it was a room with just a big white table and several chairs. It seemed that it was used by the overlords to talk now and then, but since it was there where Cresta worked, people began to refer to it as the command room.

"Take a seat. They will arrive using the Checkpoint at any moment," Cresta said. "They usually stay on the left side of the table."

What was the point of that? Or so, Luke thought, and everyone ended up sitting on the other side of the table. While the white table was rectangular, there were no chairs on the ends of those. Probably to avoid some people trying to look more important than others. Still, sitting on the other side had been a good call because those four appeared on the other side and were already sitting. It would be weird if they had appeared while sitting on the lap of the visitors.

Regardless, Luke was hoping to find more people like Cresta that had animal-like characteristics. Still, only two of those four had that, and those two were guys, so Luke couldn't help but think it was a waste. Still, they looked cool and dignified. One of those was a light brown-haired guy that was like two and a half meters tall, and he had a lion's mane. As if he was always ready to fight, he was equipped with some claws. He also had a nose and face-like a lion…

The second guy resembled Cresta… a bit too much. Maybe they were relatives. Regardless, he looked even more pissed than the lion-like guy. He had a staff on his back, one that wasn't used to cast spells. The remaining two were women, one of them was one hell of Amazon. She was three meters tall and had bulging muscles even despite the fact that she was wearing a black armor from head to toe. She had long black hair and purple skin. Her weapon was a pair of golden bracers.

The last one was a very dignified woman who had long silver hair, silver eyes, and also a skin that emitted the same glint. She also had pointy ears and had a purple bow on her back…

"An elf?" Amanda frowned.

Luke almost let out a sigh when he heard that. While the same question was in his mind, he wished that she were a bit mode careful… they had been invited, but that doesn't mean that they will ignore weird remarks.

"We refer to ourselves as moon elves… I suppose we have some connection between the elves that you know," the silver-haired elf said.

"Let me start with the introductions," Cresta said. "These are Luke, Rina, Shalia, Celia, Luthi, Amanda, Richter, and Rachel. As for my friends, their names are Osdon, Cinia, Daaris, and Yphi. We are here to talk about how we will get rid of the overlords who want the resources that appeared in this world. We don't know much about each other's lives and culture, so let's ignore small blunders."

Cresta introduced her friends in the same order Luke saw them. While their names were a bit difficult to remember, Luke decided that not using them would be for the better instead of making a mistake and making things awkward.

"We should go with an all-out attack to finish things as fast as possible and to avoid unpleasant surprises…" Osdon said, and he said the last part while looking at Luke.

Luke wondered why he did that, and then he realized that perhaps he was considering that Luke and his friends might try to steal the resources for themselves. He either was seriously suspicious of them, or he thought that Luke's group was foolish enough to steal from a group that was way bigger… there was also the possibility that they were agents from other and more powerful overlords, but that would be too weird…