At the end of the stressful battle we just had, everyone finally had his or her mont of peace, and I had no excuse to push on them right now. tis of war were abundant, but tis of peace were rare, extrely precious.
"Order everyone to camp and rest here," I said to my three advisors, "and fetch for my group leaders and my new subordinates' leaders as well. We have to organize a eting."
"Now?" Gen asked in surprise, as he thought we would take a period of rest before we think of what we should do next, but he was mistaken.
"Ti awaits no one. We need to rest, our players are, but for their leaders, like us, rest is an extravagant luxury none of us can enjoy."
I sighed, as the grueling life of those in power was sothing I was trained to do since I was young, so I was acting, as usual, in a natural way when I was in a position to rule, like now.
My subjects, my followers, my players, were just norms, people who just had so ambitions to achieve. I realized that I was different, and to succeed I had to shape them to be like , a workaholic, always thinking of what to do next.
I didn't wait for long, and during my wait for them to co, so demons started to attack my army. I didn't order my players to move, as they had earned this mont of rest preciously with their utmost efforts, so I just ordered my demons to sweep the place clean.
It wasn't practical to order the demons to patrol, as they were uncontrollable, but moving them back and forth every now and then was enough to keep any harassnt away from my resting players.
In less than ten minutes, I saw the balloons coming again towards , also my own was now welcoming my top players one after another. This wasn't just a simple eting about this layer, or to just get everyone to know each other, it was a eting for the future.
I had so feeling that I had to return to the ga world sooner than I planned, so I would prefer to avoid any unneeded battles, go straight up towards the next layers and claim it.
Staying here, waiting for my players' army to keep track of us was impossible. Players were fast, but comparing them with the speed of my balloons was injustice to them.
So, I had a simple idea in mind, which I intended to explain right now.
"Hi princess, you are really full of surprises."
Nina was the first to co, with a face full of eagerness to speak and chat. I just chuckled, as I didn't mind having one more sister, as the first was reserved for Lady Nada, and the second spot was for Diana.
I smiled, warmly welcoming her on board of my balloon, as I intended it to be the place of our discussions.
"I'm an open book, girl," I chuckled as she moved to hug and I hugged her in return. She chuckled loudly and even laughed shortly before she moved away and looked into my eyes with a playful look. "Yes, you are an open book, totally opened."
She winked, and I didn't get her joke that she smiled on it like it was so funny. I just smiled back as she moved her eyes around, before muttering:
"Sweet girl, you have many aweso looking boys here."
This ti I understood her, and that made laugh, embarrassedly, as I truly loved the presence of good looking, handso boys around, how could I deny it then?
"See? Busted, now tell ," she then leaned to , that even her head was about to hit mine, "tell whose is your favourite?"
I couldn't hold my laughter back, even when I raised my hand to my mouth in a try to hide my wide opened jaws and bright to be seen teeth.
"So far?" I asked in a playful tone as well, arousing her interest to the peak, as I delayed my response before whispering, "none so far."
"Really?" she asked with doubt, as she looked toward Rog while gesturing with her eyes, "not even this hot assassin? I heard the boys speak, you value him dearly, even you granted him a mystic art dallion, right?"
I didn't speak, but it seed my cheeks blushed and exposed to her. She raised her finger to my face as she danced it up and down, like she found a great treasure. "See? C'mon, tell , tell all."
I looked away, embarrassedly, as I muttered, "not now," then I looked to the players around us, closely watching the two gossiping girls, "they are so close."
"hahaha, you are such a cautious girl, and you sure should be, as it seems he isn't the only one, right?"
She winked again, this girl just loved winking and speaking dirty things it seed. Though I was embarrassed by her topics of interest, she didn't get bored or overly annoyed. She passed the test, she could be my friend and little sister for sure.
We didn't have ti to chat, or gossip, as the other balloons just arrived. Richard, Rendy, and Randy just ca on board, glancing at the two of us, standing so near and whispering, in what seed like a little conspiracy, girls' conspiracy that they had no interest in.
"Welco all of you," I tried to jump over this awkward mont, as I moved to stand in front of them, with Nina just closely following with a silly smile over her face.
"It's our honor to respond to your call, princess," Richard was the one to reply, first, as he slightly bowed his head, expressing how affected he was, and how much he respected .
I forgot they never saw summon demons before, and so their looks of affection that I could clearly notice in their eyes were logical.
"Let's start our little, important eting," I said, attracting their attention, not only the four of them but every player on my balloon.
"Isn't it a eting to arrange the camp?" Nina moved from my side, to stand in front of , eyeing in a weird look that made quite helpless. As expected, their vision was only focused on things underneath them, not on the horizon, not like , and they were lucky to have .
"No," I firmly shook my head, "I want all of you to listen, listen very well to my words. I intend to divide our move into two."
"Are you dividing the army to control this region fast?" Rendy hurried to ask.
"No," I shook my head again.
"What do you plan to do with half of the army then?" Richard asked, with his wise tone.
"Sigh!" I helplessly sighed, "I never said I was going to divide the army." Before anyone else interfered with the unneeded comnt, I hurriedly explained, "I want to divide our motion into two, one is this huge army, and one is composed entirely of balloons."
My words rendered them speechless for quite satisfying monts, before Gen asked:
"Do you want to hastily control a higher level layer?"
Finally! Soone had gotten my idea at last!
"Sure, that's my intention," I said, "I have sothing, very important things, back in my ga world. I need to move from here fast, but I have to conquer layer five first, establish a territory for us there, so we can start from there at any ti."
They looked at , like they were looking at a crazy person. I sighed, they just couldn't understand how dangerous staying here was, especially when I already had a way to amass many players and recruit endless demons under my service.
"Listen," I said, after a long deep breath, "I know you might have your reservations, but my decision is final. We are here not to discuss it, but to discuss who will stay here and lead this huge army, and who will co with and help rule over a castle or a fort at layer five."
Once I expressed my thoughts, a low storm of whispers aroused, before Rody led the players from my group to speak:
"We will follow your steps, princess."
" too," Diana said.
"And for sure," Gen said.
I looked at Gen, lost in thoughts. I knew this swordsman and the remaining of his team were loyal, so loyal to . they had lived through hell and ordeals with , but again I needed n to stand here, n I could trust, and again I needed n like them with , n I could spare, control my castle and guard my territory until I returned again.
This was a dilemma, who would go and who would stay
"Gen," I finally made up my mind, "select ten of your best players, and co with . As for the rest, all those who ca with from my ga world would co with , and the rest I will leave here," I then turned to the newly acquaintances of mine, asking in silent eyes about their stand.
They now understood the aning behind this eting. I had my own plans for my own private forces, but theirs I didn't step in their own businesses, though I had the right to do so. I preferred to keep their dignity, not arouse their upset against for sothing so negligent like this. They understood, and apparently they appreciated it.
"I will co with you, sister," Nina said, "it will be a fun thing to do," she added, with a playful tone, like she was going on vacation, or running away for a boy.
I smiled, helplessly sighing inside , without the need to say anything more, the rest nodded, as they planned to stay here, leading the army, enjoying the free benefits of this new reinforcents.
"What about the demon army? will you take or leave it?" Randy suddenly asked.
"I won't take it with ," I simply replied, "but leaving it here wouldn't be wise, as there is no one here to order them," I added.
"You can teach how to control them then," he said, before he obviated, "I just want not to lose all these powerful demons."
He wasn't convincing, not to , not to anyone. I recalled he didn't give a good impression from before, and now he raised the alarming suspicion towards him.
"No, unfortunately you, or any of you, can do that," I faked my sorry, "I will release them, to clear the way from here to Layer four. They won't be of much help, but at least they will relieve a lot of pressure."
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