"You want to look for this place for you?" Islinda asked, before sighing, "that's ok dear, co, I was about to go down and et the officials and rchants. Let's first go to the archives and look for any monsatery here for you."
Islinda then led the way and Eli followed, silently from the back, trying her best to control her emotions well and behave well.
The archive was in the basent, beside the main vault of the palace. Islinda had once co here to check things out, and so she knew the way and perfectly led Eli there.
The man responsible for the archives was a mix of human and elf, with long ears and human head, with a long and good body that was a mark for elves. "What can I help you today, my esteed ladies?" he asked the mont he saw them coming in the archives, politely saluting them with a short bow.
"We want to know if there is a monastery here, secluded and away of noise," Islinda said, as she glanced at Eli to confirm she was asking the right thing.
Eli was nervous, quite nervous actually, so she neglected a small detail, a detail that would define her entire future later on. she nodded, affirming the words of Islinda.
"Oh, there is such a monastery here, on the long west desert, the white sand desert. It's called the shrine of the sun, it's a good place, nice fellows living there. you can go easily to it by any cruiser my ladies."
"Do you have a map?" Islinda asked instantly as she was quite busy to follow this mad girl beside her on this adventure.
"Sure, one mont please," the man disappeared for quite so ti before returning with a map, a very detailed one actually, with a mark over a place there. "Here, this mark is the place of the shrine," he said as he gave the map to Islinda.
"thanks," she replied, politely, before turning and gave the map to Eli. As the two went outside, Islinda stressed over the point of telling Jas again as she said:
"You shouldn't leave before telling Jas, alright?"
"S- Sure, I won't leave before telling him," Eli lied, as she had the strength to face anyone, but not Jas.
Jas had a very special place in her heart, making her unable to stand in front of him and hid her true feelings and emotions. For her she wanted just to throw herself in his embrace and cry, cry until her soul wither from pain and guilt.
But this way wasn't the right way to redeem herself; she had to dedicate herself to the light again. this was the way she only knew about.
"Good, I will leave you now as I have many things in waiting," Islinda said before finally turning away, making Eli sigh a long and deep sigh of relief.
As the two girls went different ways, the man inside the archive noticed everything that happened, hurriedly returned inside the archive, grabbed a communicating screen stored carefully under many records before pressing on a button and sending one short ssage.
"I have sent you a pure white lamp, belonging to the shrine of light. Make sure to twist her well, and make her turn into a black wolf worthy of the shrine of darkness."
Then he sent the ssage away, before smiling in content. This day was deed to be a turning point in the lives of everyone, without them noticing that what simply happened here had such a devastating effect on all of their future.
Eli didn't inform Jas by her decision or even left a farewell note to him; she simply vanished and when Jas asked about her a couple of days later, he was shocked to learn about her bold decision.
He didn't comnt despite ordering Rigo to dispatch secret agents to monitor that shrine. Everyone felt nothing wrong here, except Jas who had this strange worrying hunch about this incident.
Despite that he was totally imrsed in his own affairs, and this incident was dood to be forgotten for such a long ti, before it would return to the surface at a very decisive mont later one.
The next day, Jas went on a wide check tour on all the planets. He made sure everything went according to plan. He was also quite pleased by the deals Rigo had made, as the numbers of soldiers under his command started to well up, counting tens of thousands now, enough to arm a thousand ships fleet.
"Give the green light to Islinda, let's amass enough ships for these boys," Jas didn't delay to support them, as he wanted these soldiers to be combat ready at any ti.
"We have enough fighters for them," Rigo suggested, instead of buying ships, they use these soldiers for the large, unused fleet of fighters they had.
"Then what about tomorrow's batch? Next week's batch?" Jas asked, "we need to be ready. Just start forming a second fleet, each one must have from five hundred to one thousand ships, led by a large cruiser," he added, drawing the general and latest warfare tactics to his own fleet.
"Affirmative," Rigo just replied, as he had to comply with his leader's wishes.
The next few days proved Jas' vision to be true. The number of their soldiers just kept escalating day by day, and eventually their fighters and cruisers were completely filled with soldiers, and even the newly bought one thousand cruisers were also filled partly with them.
It was a race against ti, with the trade going smoothly as they expected, with much more trade happening here than ever, benefitting from the offer Jas had offered to rchants here.
That increased the total revenue of Jas, and also the variety of goods had increased exponentially, giving them the opportunity to choose between many races, even between so famous cruisers' models.
The more rchants ca here, the more lively the place had beco, and that made the planets look more crowded than before, and also more dangerous.
Jas asked the newly recruited soldiers to be led by his droids, and start to patrol the area, inside and outside these planets. He also made many disguises as normal clients, walked into the streets, used the previous experience of Islinda to gather intel.
Things were going smoothly, especially when he hadn't found any source of unrest or troubles for the past two weeks.
But after two week of reigning control over this place, and his fleet had grown to two sub fleets, each were led by a large cruiser, and a fleet of one thousand cruisers, the first major problem happened.
Jas was inside the main throne hall, enjoying reading the latest reports sent from Islinda and Rigo while bathing in sunlight. A servant moved with haste, and so nervousness on his face, as he hurriedly to say:
"My lord, there is an ergency in the back garden of the palace."
Jas looked at him in a strange way, as this palace was highly secured by Rigo's droids, and the latest spying detection tech they ever found here in black market.
"Just tell what's there," he said, with no much care for the matter.
"A strange hole appeared there, my lord, people said it was like a black hole, which would absorb everything here," he said, with a sharp trembling move of fear that didn't escape Jas' vision.
"Oh, then led the way," Jas said, as he pressed so buttons on the screen he was holding in hand, as he sent a ssage for Rigo to co here. he exited the throne hall, passed through so long and complex corridor of the palace, ending up in the large back garden of this palace.
Once there, Jas could hear the ruckus from far, as many servants were running, with pale faces and panicked looks. He walked in faster steps, running towards the direction everyone ca from.
As he reached there, he was t by a large ball of deep blue, with arcs of lightning dancing around its edges. Jas noticed that so servants tried to touch it, but apparently that didn't end up well for them.
Behind Jas ca his personal bodyguards, ten very experienced droids, and once they reached him, they shielded him with their weapons, which was now pointed towards this strange ball.
"Orders, my leader," one of them said, as he waited for Jas' commands.
"Hey," Jas didn't reply to this droid, as he yelled at one of the freaked out servants, "did anyone try to attack it before?" he asked.
"Yes, these servants did," the servant boy replied, as he suddenly identified Jas' face, but the fear he felt was overwhelming more than his fear from Jas.
"Then we have to wait," he said, ordering his n to stand back a little, as attacking this ball seed not to be the right decision to make.
A brief ssage suddenly kicked in from Islinda, as she notified him with the appearance of strange risky balls all over the planets.
"Don't attack the balls, just surround them and send for Rigo to deploy reinforcents," he hurriedly sent to her, as he knew she might order her own patrolling guards to attack the balls.
He then looked at the ball in front of him, and muttered:
"What are you exactly? And who sent you?"
These phenonon kept occurring at many places around the planets under Jas' control. Per his orders, Rigo dispatched a good part of the fleet soldiers to surround and be ready for anything that might pop out of these balls.
Rigo then ca to Jas, with a serious look on his face.
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