Later that day, after hours of waiting for the Hero to finally start the meeting, most of the meeting was about sharing information about the big picture of what's going on.
When I finally heard it all I was astonished at how much nonsense I was hearing.
Alan started to explain that the people to be rescued are individuals from 7 to 25 years old who were kidnapped from Worlds dominated by the Church of Light, there must also be people who were kidnapped in worlds like ours where the Church of Light is only present as more a religion in the world.
It seems that this is not something done recently, the Church of Light has been using these flat types for decades, it seems that the battles they fought to conquer the worlds where under their leadership, and now in this last battle where they lost on several fronts, it cost more than just soldiers, it cost the greatest talent within its ranks as well as the loss of many individuals of great power.
Losing military power on this scale could be the undoing of the Church of Light, the way they found to solve this problem was this horrible thing they are doing.
Alan assures that each of the more than 30,000 individuals are people who have demonstrated outstanding talents, each of them has talents for magic or combat, these individuals are forcibly trained to become Inquisitors, but there is a problem with people trained like this, the resentment generated regarding them.
Alan somehow managed to get more detailed information, it seems that the younger ones are left separate from the older ones, they do this because over time they can shape the minds of the children, or at least most of them, meanwhile the older ones who do not surrender even after years of training will be subjected to some purification ritual. n0velusb.c0m
It seems that this Purification Rite does something similar to what happened to Irius and Irina, the targets are unable to disobey orders, but in this case, they are trading the correct use of individual talents with absolute loyalty.
When they are sent into battle, these individuals who are almost slaves are treated as expendable while those who choose to join are placed in positions according to their abilities.
Alan said that this kind of thing happens in a lot of places, but this is the one that has the most of these individuals gathered, while in other places they are counted in the hundreds, in this world there are tens of thousands of these individuals, Alan believes it is for a reason who only a short time ago got solid evidence for what he thought.
Those held captive in this world are the individuals marked as troublesome, they are strong-willed individuals filled with hatred towards the Church of Light, there are also those who have gone mad and those who were already enemies of the Church of Light before they were captured.
Alan told many examples that they had documented, they are the people he followed until he found this place, after hearing this I began to understand why he even though he doesn't like to get involved in his things still chose to call me, he also can't stand to see something like that and must be feeling the false impulse that if he goes up front he'll be able to beat up everyone there before he goes out the front door.
After hearing about our rescue targets he started to explain about the world we are about to invade, but I only heard a few things while thinking about something I talked about with Elizabeth earlier that day.
When he finished explaining everything, he started talking about an invasion plan that I denied right away, he wanted to use a few people to descend to the planet, those people would be me, him, and two or three other people.
I declined because it would be impossible to simply enter that place, as much as I hate the Church of Light, I know they are not idiots, this place was once the heart of their Religion, and the God of Light must pay extra attention to this world and there must be powerful enemies hidden here, especially if so many individuals who in their eyes can see themselves as despicable, I will not underestimate them only to fall into a trap without realizing it.
It was at this point that my sister Caitlyn interrupted the Hero, which he didn't mind and so followed Caitlyn's explanation of her plan, which everyone accepted due to the low risk of us getting caught, but there were certain requirements with this plan that I couldn't run away.
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That same day after the meeting I was in an improvised room dug below the surface of the Moon where we were hiding, as it would be uncomfortable to assemble beds for everyone, what I did was use my lines to build a padded floor as a bed.
I went to Caitlyn while we were still waiting for the rest of my Familiars and Divine Servants, they will all help me this time, of course not everyone can come, Alice will be coming along, and how much Karina will stay inside the Communal Temple.
The two are more tightly connected than it seems at first, one of the reasons is that I am the link between the two.
"Will this plan work?" (I)
"Yes, but it will depend on you, now we need to wait for Navar to finish the spell." (Caitlyn)
"Don't we run the risk of discovering our location?" (I)
"Yes, so we're taking it easy." (Caitlyn)
"You also need to prepare yourself, because once I start I can't stop." (Caitlyn)
Caitlyn's plan was to invade the planet through the dreams of our targets, but that was easier to plan than to execute, that's why it won't be Caitlyn who will do the work to reach these people, that work falls to me, my Family and about my Divine servants, they used the whispers of prayers in my head to reach our targets.
This means that I will be alone leading this work, in fact, I myself will have few opportunities to do something directly, my presence because it will be someone hated by the God of Light can draw unwanted attention, so the less I interfere directly with the exception of cases where the others are not able to do anything about it.
"I've experienced their nightmares several times and I have some idea of what I should do, but it can be difficult for them." (I)
"Don't worry, mental spells and techniques have the characteristic of being very intuitive to use as they affect the mind." (Caitlyn)
"Just make sure they don't interfere with the mind of anyone other than one of the targets." (Caitlyn)
After some time, Navar arrives as well as my Familiars and Divine Servants, this room was made with magic focused on hiding everything that happens inside, it also has plenty of space for all of us.
With everyone involved Caitlyn and Navar starting to activate the magical ritual while the rest of us sat with our eyes closed, it wasn't long before I felt my mind slipping away.
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Pov Haku:
I closed my eyes and felt something pulling me, it was the connection I share with my Master, when invading Consciousness was sucked in I felt like I was being dragged through a field of stars before falling into one of those points of light.
When I open my eyes I was in the middle of a city, I looked around and the people walking or working in the surroundings have no faces, with the exception of a single woman taking a 10 year old child by the hand along with her.
This woman had brown hair and eyes, just like the boy who was holding her hand, they were passing by a food stall.
I was reasonably close and everything seemed to run faster as if the flow of time suddenly went faster.
When I was trying to understand if I was in the dream of the boy or the woman who are the only ones with some distinctive feature, that's when a flash of light formed in the sky and with it the sound of a war cry.
At that moment the landscape suddenly changed in the blink of an eye, the city around us was in ruins in less than 1 second, blood and bodies everywhere, meanwhile, soldiers in white armor sang in the sky in a language I didn't understand.
I looked around for the mother and child, but there was no need to see, I could feel the urge to fight endlessly coming from behind a half broken wall, when I looked up a single Dragonewt was still flying covered in wounds and without some limbs, but his figure was so inspiring with courage as he flew against the army of light without fearing death.
Seeing that the army of light and the Dragonewt don't have faces, I left them aside to go after the strong will I felt just now when I got to the other side of the wall I realized that the part of the wall that had fallen was crushing more of the wall half of the woman's body smiling at the intact boy crying beside her.
The woman didn't say anything as she put her hand on her face, then that hand slips as it falls along with the woman's life remnants disappearing, the child seems to change and age every time I take my eyes off him, this time he looks like a teenager still with a sword in hand looking up where the Dragonewt fell with a smile on his face.
"The power of a Dragon is supreme as well as its will not to surrender until the end..."
"..." (I)
As he spoke the soldiers of Light landed around him, that's when I saw a glint in his eyes of someone who would never give up and felt his willpower as heavy as a mountain.
I walk over to him who was now dressed in rags and chained up, then hold out my hand to him with a smile.
"Take my hand and accept the power your Willpower has gained, in the name of Zenos your Will will bring you power." (I)
"I accept..."