"Are the alarms difficult to make?" Wolfe asked.
"No, we can make them in a few hours, the problem would be that we need to get them everywhere." The Fae replied.
"In that case, it's not a problem. We are about to change the whole nature of trade within the Territories. We just need to remove a few bad actors first. The real issue will be the stationing of troops with rapid movent capability. None of us exactly have a standing army, or at least we don't anymore.
My people can supply the gear and helicopters, but we need a way to train the soldiers to respond as a team." Wolfe explained.
"Just hire the demons. If you give wrath demon rcenaries helicopters and machine guns, I bet that they will do it for less than half price." The Advisor laughed.
Wolfe thought back to the last ti that he had given wrath demons machine guns and thought that charging half price might be their version of trying to drive a hard bargain. They loved the machine guns in a way that was slightly concerning.
"Alright. The costs will have to be sorted out later, but I can have the people of Forest Grove work on a plan to get rcenaries in place for rapid response to attacks until we have an actual army of our own. It won't be cheap to have them stationed in enough places that it makes a difference to response tis, but there should be sothing that we can do.
I have t the Queen of the Wrath Demon nation within the Demon Realms, and she seed rather agreeable, so I will contact her later to arrange sothing." Wolfe agreed.
The list of things to do just kept getting longer, and this one would make it even more extre. The problem was, that they could appear anywhere. Not just in the territories under his command, but anywhere in the world.
But he didn't know why it was targeting this world, and he didn't have any influence outside his own territory, except with a few of the Continental Representatives. That ant bringing them together for another eting so soon after the last one, and with another aspect of trouble with these strange humans.
Wolfe knew that they were still trying to teach their people the ways of these human magicians, the sa as the people of Forest Grove were, so there might be so opportunities here, but it seed unlikely that they would be able to pull prisoners out of a ti loop spell designed to protect them.
"Is there anything that we can do to keep our people safe in the short term?" Reiko asked.
"Not much. Those of us with more power should be able to sense the spell activating if we're not distracted, so I will ask the Guardians to keep an eye out for similar spells, but that's about it.
The mages that were in the group I found today weren't particularly powerful, Rank Five at the most, but I don't know how their growth speed is going to be. We might have so ti before they can actually threaten larger towns, but the smaller ones, and anywhere without a protector, would be at risk." Wolfe explained.
"Alright. If there isn't anything that we can do but keep our eyes open and make charms, we will do exactly that. I will send the charms out with your witches when they start visiting the towns through the Forest. I will have them ssage you as soon as we are done." Reiko replied.
"Alright, talk to you soon."
Wolfe hung up and turned to the witch Elders who had co to visit.
"So, we've got the general idea, but how long were we under attack? The ti outside doesn't match with the ti in my mind, so it had to be a while." One of the old won asked.
"A few hours, I assu. I responded after I got the ssage that you were being attacked, since it appears that the spell didn't stop the ssage from getting out. But exactly how long that was, I can't say." Wolfe inford her.
"It's a strange feeling, knowing that I've forgotten sothing, like a whole morning, but having soone standing here that proves I forgot sothing important during that ti. If you weren't here, most of us would have never known that anything at all happened here. It would have been just a glitch in our mory when we checked the ti and date."
Wolfe smiled. "That's actually a good point. Checking the ti and date against what is automatically updated from the cell phone towers is a brilliant idea. The ti inside the spell is reset to the start. But if it's not a full twenty-four-hour period, as this one was not, then the ti in the outside world will be hours from what everyone expects it to be.
So, comparing an analog clock against an auto-updating one should tell you if sothing like this happens in the future, but without the residents managing to get out an ergency call."
The town's protector made a note of the idea, but there was already a grandfather clock on the wall, so there was no need to take any action.
"Thankfully, everyone appears to be alright, and they didn't breach the armoury. I'm not certain why I didn't have my mory reset as well, but it might have been because the attack ended before they managed to breach my barriers.
My mory is fine, but those without strong magic all had their days reset.
I will look into barrier spells that defend more effectively against ti magic, but I don't even know if those exist. Ti magic is positively broken, and only a few types of barriers would hold against it, the ones that have an immutable aspect that is outside the flow of ti."
Wolfe gave him a curious look, and the Fae continued. "Well, most things are affected by ti, right? Earth, air, fire, water, nature. The passage of ti changes them all in various ways. But ti doesn't change gravity, and it has a limited effect on the soul, so unholy magic has so effect against it. Ti also doesn't have an effect on space that I know of, so the two work well together.
You know, that might be part of the reason that my mories aren't as effected. I am a little over a thousand years old. They are humans. Perhaps the difference in the amount of ti that I have lived gives a bit of stability in ti that isn't as affected by the spell."
Wolfe smiled back. "I would say it is possible. Magic is mostly down to interpretation and the will of the caster. How many humans really appreciate how long a thousand years is when you're living it?"
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