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  Chapter 222 Part C9

  Adventurer’s Guild

  Adventurer’s Guild Leader’s Office

  The guild leader went back to his office. “Secretary, get a divination mage in here. Now.”

  “On it sir,” the secretary said.

  A minute ter.

  The secretary is leading a mage in a gray robe into the room, who is also wearing a blue hood.

  “Sir, what can I do for you?” the mage asked.

  “I need to know what’s going on in the field.Since we’re independent of the military I need you to be my eyes right now. This can’t wait.”

  “I can do that. You want to start now?” the intelligence mage asked.

  “Yes. Immediately. They are having tons of our adventurers sent to a site. I need to see it. We deployed several teams to the fae federal intelligence building. Show me a birds eye view of the building. Also do you have an enchant to monitor the health of my field teams?” the guild leader asked.

  “As you wish, sir,” The mage then cast a spell acting dramatically, but his skills were pretty cool so many didn’t see he was showing off just a bit. And air screen popped up in the air in front of them.

  It showed a birds eye view over the the massive skyscraper. The sky view was initially kind of high. But then he zoomed in a bit lower, so that it was a more reasonable view.

  “That’s interesting,” the intelligence mage said.

  “What?”

  “Normally if they were on top of things I would be noticed even looking at their building like this. They clearly are having something happen or we’d be stormed by their agents already,” the mage said.

  “Scary,” the secretary said.

  “Yes. But its as you ask. You can see the building. The skyscraper… impressive. Rumors are that only dwarves now know how to make skyscrapers. I wonder when they had it built,” the mage said.

  “Let’s worry about that ter. For now help me know what’s going on,” the guild leader said. He’s studying the scene like a hawk.

  And the whole building was surrounded by torch bearing figures. There was a tight lock around both the front and back entrances with tons of soldiers, fae military, and adventurers. They showed arrows being shot about every 4 or 5 seconds.

  “What is that?” the leader asked.

  “Looks like there’s some kind of imp summoners in the building. They keep summoning imps to keep the troops outside busy,” the divination mage said.

  “Aren’t imp summoners weak?” the secretary frowned, looking at the guild leader.

  “You’d think so. Many are. But the ones that survive can get pretty strong, because it forces them to be tricky just to level up. Any time you see one that’s strong, take extra precaustions,” the guild leader said.

  “Aren’t imp summoners a demon only css?” the secretary asked.

  “Yes. This one has been hampering their efforts to contain the entrance. Something happened and the demon side got hold of the building entrance lobby. And the troops inside were forced out,” the divination mage said.

  Author note; ‘divination mage’ is the equivalent of a ‘intelligence mage’ or military intelligence specialization magic, not necessarily only for spying. But many work as intelligence advisors, spies, or analysts for various governments.

  As they watched the the tightened security circles tank units would then run forward to use magic blocking and enchanted shields when demon forces shot fireball spells out the front door.

  There was also bodies all over the pce. While most of them were demon bodies, not all were. The fae and their allies were better at teaming up. But the demon’s were usually stronger fighters, but solo builds that didn’t py well with others. The result was that 80 percent of the bodies were demon bodies.

  But it still wasn’t good enough, given that fae and other non-human races didn’t breed as quickly as humans and demons did.

  “Crap. Looks like there’s losses,” the guild leader said.

  “Yes. But most seem to be civilians caught in the area, and people that worked in the building that were jumped before people could figure out what happened,” the mage said.

  “You can tell that much just by seeing this?” the secretary said in surprise.

  “I can tell because I know what to look for. Like see here, in this quadrant of the screen these 2 bodies have no weapons up. And only business suits. They probably never saw what hit them. And mage bolts to the back of the head, probably from the top floors of the building. Shot in the back from coward’s attacks,” the mage spat angrily.

  “That’s sad,” the secretary said.

  “And please add the enchant that shows the heart beats of our teams in in the bottom of the screens,” the guild leader said.

  “OK...”

  They held their breathe waiting for the body count. Since the screen showed so many bodies they feared the worst. And when stuff is blown to bits with body parts everywhere its hard to tell how many people it actually is among the red jelly slime...

  “Can you make the screen really big so I can help see also?” the secretary had come around to sit near the guild leader.

  “You got it boss,” the mage said. He wigged his finger and the air screen grew to like the size of the back wall. And he set it there, so all 3 of them could watch this.

  “Wow. This is so cool. This is like TV,” the guild leader said.

  “Yeah if you watch the horror channel,” the secretary grumbled.

  “TV? What’s that?” the intelligence mage asked.

  “Uh never mind.”

  “How many units have we lost?” the secretary asked.

  The mage is counting. “According to the heart rate monitor plug in enchant, you deployed 56 units. 4 of those were veteran teams. Others just answered the call and were thrown in with whatever they had. You’ve lost 3 units already. You have 11 wounded also.”

  “Damn it. I hate sending death notices,” the guild leader said.

  “But there’s so many bodies?” the secretary asked.

  “There was a popur deli serving hot meals across the street. It was famous all over town and running a coupon day. Now they are the hot meal instead. Most of them never knew what hit them,” the mage said.

  “Damn it. Civilian deaths are what I hate the most,” the secretary said.

  “Who has the most kills?” the guild leader asked.

  “Um, let’s see...” the mage is maniputing data a minute. “You want me to do a scoreboard enchant plug in with the monitor?”

  “Yes please.”

  “OK...just a sec.”

  The scoreboard enchant went up.

  Scoreboard stats;

  Highest number of kills; Shun (adventurer, archmage css)

  Highest amount healed; Heavy Metal Nun

  Highest amount of damage; Sylvie (fox beastkin, team (error))

  Most number of pets; Fae Archmage Ry’zyggian (fae military)

  Largest team; Fae Military Special Ops Unit ‘Silver 1B’

  Most mana spent; Demon Mage (@@#J)#@*()(ERROR)(adversary)

  Most demons summoned; DEMON MAGE @*DLSK:!)! (ERROR!) (GATE DETECTED!)

  Allies MVPs: Heavy Metal Nun, Shun (tied)

  Demon side MPV: The Silver Succubus

  “Oh they’ve delpoyed a succubus already? Can we see her?” the guild leader tried to smoothe out his emotions. He definitely was only looking at her for work, yeah,… he told himself.

  “Just business?” his secretary gred at him.

  “Its… for a report...” the guild leader managed to come up with an excuse on the spot.

  “So we’re going to see the succubus then. OK,” the intelligence mage punched something into the screen but then got an error code.

  “Uh oh. That’s not good,” he said.

  “What happened?” the guild leader asked.

  “I had to use a censor enchant plug in. It seems the succubus’ charm stat is too high for us to view her safely, even if we’re remote viewing. That’s scary. That doesn’t happen much. So I’m reverting back to the building entrance view cameras,” the mage said.

  “Fine,” the leader frowned.

  “I don’t want you looking at other women,” the secretary spped him.

  “Owww! What was that for?!” the leader gushed in shock.

  “You know why. Hmpph!” the secretary pouted.

  The camera view was back in the previous location again. Although it still showed the scoreboard enchant since it was changing constantly on the numbers.

  “What the hell. Its not supposed to show that. A gate? Wh-what does th-that mean?” the secretary observed. She’s pointing at the bottom.

  “Um, am I reading that right? It says they have a gate open?” the guild leader blinked with wide eyes, standing up quickly.

  The mage swore. “F—k! A portal gate open?! That’s the first time I’ve seen something like this. I’m barely mid rank. I was low level rank mage status until a month ago! I’ve never seen this before!” he’s very stressed out.

  “Wait. OK. Think what should we do?” the leader said.

  “Um, I don’t think the others know there’s a gate open. We should tell someone right?” the secretary asked.

  “OK. Let’s do that,” the guild leader opened up his own magitek screen.

  Then they heard the mage swear.

  “What… what is it?” the secretary woman asked.

  “Um, 2 things. First, a second gate is opening, in the building somewhere. That’s bad I know. But also it looks like someone just raised 2 of those killed in action units. Not a healer. A necromancer reanimated them and they are now attacking allies,” the intelligence mage said.

  Now the guild leader is swearing.

  …

  At the fae citadel their own mage surveilnce room is going crazy right now.

  “I need more troops! This is taking too long,” a general shouted.

  “Sir, containment is failing. You have a breach,” a security advisor said looking at a screen.

  “What’s the status?” another ranking officer, the first officer of the general shouted.

  “Containment is...holy shit...” an intelligence mage said.

  “What… spit it out,” the leaders in the room can already read something bad is going on.

  “Sir, I’m detecting a gate energy signature in the building,” an intelligence mage said.

  “What?! How?! They shouldn’t even have our gate keys,” the general swore.

  “Somehow they have them. They’ve literally opened up a portal to hell in the building. Demons are coming through,” another mage confirmed.

  Lots of swearing.

  “C-can we contain it?” the general’s second in command asked.

  “...”

  It was very tense for a few seconds. Nobody said a word as on the air screens in front of them all over the room they saw various angles of a huge firefight taking pce at the entrances of the building.

  They even saw some people jumping to their deaths out of the top of the skyscraper to avoid getting eaten by demons. But then they saw a really tall 8 and a half foot foxkin woman casting spells to save those jumping to death. She did something to put air bubbles around them and prevent the falling damage.

  But she couldn’t save all of them. On the enemy side some huge dragon like arm the length of a semi reached out of a window from within the building and scooped up one of the people falling and smashed the body into red strawberry jelly that wasn’t so strawberry like.

  “What the fuck is that...” a fae agent said with his mouth open.

  “My g-d. Is that… “

  “Shit… that looks scary as f--k,” someone said.

  “It is. Its one of their secret weapons. The cssified research project we got intel on st fall,” someone said.

  “You mean the one we lost all those people for?”

  “That’s the one. The survivors of that team all went insane too.”

  “If that’s here we’re doomed,” someone said.

  “Wait, they made a mistake. Its too big for the building. So its glued in. We might still have a chance, if they can cut it up before it can dig itself out of the building. But by then the building will be ruins,” someone said.

  “What other teams can we ask to assist nearby?” someone asked.

  “We’ve already issued the code bck to activate all the adventurers. But its a pity that not many of them will be able to survive this. Human bodies are too frail for this,” a fae woman said.

  “They have leveled up well. Our Human sponsorship program is working well. We’ve mentored many to be stronger than humans typically get.”

  “But to face a greater demon that tall… I don’t know if even our archmages can fight that,” one said.

  “If we don’t kill that giant greater demon, the city will fall,” the general said.

  “We… do have a couple of points on our side that might tip the scale,” the same fae woman as before said.

  “Which is what exactly? I can’t exactly deploy mana bombs in our own city,” the fae general swore.

  “Yes. But that foxkin woman. She’s amazing. By herself she’s holding the line. You need to recruit her. Find out who she is. She uses a lightning bolt attack,” the woman said.

  “You mean at the other entrance?”

  “Yeah we almost missed her because she’s doing something strange with charm and illusion abilities, while the others are showing up for raw damage and performance.”

  “Yeah that’s a bug for illusion and charm users. It doesn’t read their contributions right because charm makes them kill themselves or their friends instead.”

  “That’s … wow. Sick way of combat.”

  “Well… in this case she’s on our side. We can’t compin.”

  “She seems stronger than our historical data on her.”

  “Well that data is like 4 years old. A lot can happen in 4 years.”

  “Just get hold of her somehow. We want her for our weapons programs.”

  “OK. I’m on it,” a lower end team leader volunteered.

  “What’s wrong with the agents arrows? Its like they aren’t hitting their targets. Yet I do see them hitting the demons when they pop their heads out. And someone kill the imp summoner. He’s the most annoying,” an officer called out.

  “We received word a few minutes ago. The holy water supplies in the building were sabotaged. That’s why none of the holy water arrows or range weapons are doing enough damage. They normally coat them with the stuff and it’ll incinerate a lot of the lower level demons. Even the higher level ones it can hurt them. But if its sabotaged its like shooting peanuts at them,” someone said.

  “F--k!”

  “Yeah we’re in trouble.”

  But then they saw a lightning bolt attack fsh and explode the imp summoner.

  “Yes! Finally they got him! That will help with morale.”

  “The imp summoner was single handedly holding the defense of the north entrance. We have an edge!”

  “We might just survive this if they can get to the giant demon unit in time.”