Trying to stay quiet and unseen, we hid in the back of the auditorium. I used my Shadow Touch ability to wrap the shadows around us and make us invisible. We could still see through the shadows. People outside just couldn't see us.
We watched as people filed past us and took seats in the auditorium. Once the seats were mostly full, soone walked up to the podium.
"Is this thing on? Hello, my na is Gemma and I'm here to present the military strategy for the elental sect in the upcoming battle against these so called 'Weepers'," she said.
She looked like a normal human other than the fact that she had red hair. Which is technically a human hair color, but this was beyond normal red. It looked dyed but I assud it was just sothing to do with her elent.
"So, as you may or may not know, we have been acquiring diamonds, corundum, and topaz across the US. This is all for the frontal assault. We plan to put our strongest fighters, the diamonds in the front, with corundum next and topaz after that," she said.
"The hope is that will be enough to whittle down most of their forces, and then everyone else will clean up if the gems don't cut it. Any questions?"
I stood up. "Yeah. Have you considered that your strategy sucks?" I said.
"Where is that voice coming from? I don't see anyone over there," Gemma said.
Oh right. The shadow invisibility. I turned it off for but kept it on Hope, in case she still wanted to stay out of sight. "Can you see now?"
"Yes. I can see you're not wearing a bracelet, which would an you're not an elental. What does a human passing monster think he knows about our strategy that we don't?" She said.
"Well, for one, you're basically creating a genocide of your diamond, corundum, and topaz elentals. You're throwing all of them at the enemy, expecting they'll take them out. What if they don't? What if they all die? Why is that an acceptable sacrifice to you?" I said.
"Seniority," she said. "They are incredibly strong, but they are also so of the newest types of elentals that have spawned of our kind, so they go first."
"That kind of military strategy only makes sense, if getting older ans you lose vitality and strength over ti. That doesn't work with elentals who only get stronger over ti. By the logic of strength, the oldest elentals should go first," I said.
"That makes sense when you say it like that, but the oldest elentals are the ones that run the sect. The people in charge get to set the rules, and they've ruled that the gems are the strongest among us, so they should go first," she said.
"Just because your leaders say sothing, doesn't make it true. What about fire and lightning elentals? They should be able to provide long range support without endangering themselves. What about air elentals? They could strike from above," I said.
"What about stone elentals? They could throw massive boulders to provide artillery fire. There are so many more strategies that could be implented to make your army stronger. Those were just off the top of my head. I'm sure with more ti, even better strategies could be devised."
"But you're prioritizing the hierarchy over reducing casualties. With your strategy, far more elentals will die than with the few ideas I just ca up with. The thing that bothers the most though, is that you have no idea what you'll be facing."
"I gave every sect the opportunity to hear first hand from , the only person who has faced the weepers in battle, what they're capable of, and no one took the opportunity to listen. All of you ca for the free hand out of power, but not for the vital intel I can provide."
"What are you talking about? Who are you?" She said.
"I'm Dylan Sanguis. The person who fought the first weepers and won," I said.
There was loud murmuring from the crowd. I took that as a sign of interest, and walked up onto the stage and up to the podium. "May I?" I asked Gemma.
"Fine," she said. She stepped down from the podium and I stepped up.
"How many of you want to hear what I have to say about the weepers? Raise your hands," I said.
Very few people raised their hands. It was maybe 5 or 6 and there were hundreds of people in the room.
"What if I were to tell you that I foiled your plan to hoard gemstones stolen from vaults all across the US?" I said.
There were more loud murmurings from the crowd. With my incredible eyesight, I could see that most of them were confused and unaware of the jewel heists.
"Or did the military branch and upper leadership not tell you that?" I said. "Since this seems to be your first ti hearing about it, I will inform you. The military branch has been stealing diamonds, corundum, and topaz from banks in major cities across the US. They hoarded them into a massive cavern and were planning to use them in the battle."
"It shouldn't sound all that farfetched, since you heard how they were planning to use diamond, corundum, and topaz elentals on the frontlines. They would have to power them up sohow. So why not do it with stolen gems? Or can the elental sect afford to buy the gems legitimately? I think not."
Gemma was turning bright red, and I don't an her face was flushed with blood. I an she was literally turning a deep red color. Her skin and body changed form into rubies.
She walked up to and grabbed by the throat. She lifted up and said, "You weren't lying. I just had soone check and the gems are gone. Where do you have them?"
"They're in a pocket dinsion that only I have access to. If you kill , you'll never get them back. Not that you could kill if you tried," I said.
"We need those gems back! Now hand them over or I'll make you wish you were dead," she said.
"Sorry, no can do. I promised to return them to their rightful owners. Most of them anyway," I said.
"We'll see if this changes your mind," Gemma said. She changed her other hand to a spike and tried to stab through the stomach with it.
The spike stopped an inch from my flesh. I had put up a small spiraling blood shield in front of the spike that knocked her hand out of the way. Then I kneed her in the chin, making her drop as she was knocked back and off balance.
I leaned into the microphone and said, "Did you hear that folks? Evidence of the cri for you to hear and see. Now she's going to try to beat the gems out of or silence . We'll see if she succeeds."
I stepped away from the podium and got into a fighting stance. I spread my feet apart, bent my knees, and put my palms facing out and forwards.
Ruby rushed at , presumably in an attempt to tackle to the ground, but she didn't get that far. I released an energy wave when she was about a ter in front of . It blasted her back and into the air.
She hit a wall and went right through it to the outside. Man, was that ability useful. I couldn't imagine my life without it and I'd only just got it.
I went up to the podium again, and said, "You can get a hold of by either just thinking about calling Dylan and the number will co to you, or you can contact Harold, and he'll set up a eting. That is if you want to work together to take down this enemy, rather than stand divided."
Hope ran up to the podium and said, "We gotta go. My dad said the entire elental military is mobilizing. You're strong but you're not strong enough to fight thousands of elentals at once. At least, not yet."
"You're right. Let's get out of here," I said.
We ran down the aisle and back through the front doors of the auditorium.
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