Chapter 148: Marcus'' n
"So there will still be no interacting with humans? Wouldn''t that breed fear?" Dokoy questioned Marcus. If the races of the sea and the humans would still not interact, then it will all be the same as before. It won''tst long until the fighting will once again start.
Marcus shook his head. "Separating your people and the humans is not the n I have for the end. I agree with you that it would be bad for both sides if everything was the same as before."
Marcus paused. He took a deep breath and nced at the three leaders.
Dokoy had a straight and stern face as he waited patiently for Marcus to continue. The other two were pretty calm.
Marcus continued. "I n on letting you leave this."
The two calm leaders now had wide eyes. They thought they heard wrong so they didn''t say anything.
Dokoy was also shocked by what the vermilion-haired teen said.
Seeing that their reactions were within the boundaries of his expectations, Marcus chuckled. "It is either that or we build a city of trade. A city where humans and your people could live together in harmony. Interact with each other and see how it goes."
"The thing you said before, the thing about leaving this, are you serious?" Peroy didn''t listen to the second option that Marcus said. He was too taken aback by the first one and could only focus on that. How could he not when all of his life he had been on this and would be told to depart?
"That is an option. In my opinion that is a lot better than the second one." Marcus calmly spoke.
"Do you think we can leave that easily?! What kind of n is that? This is where we live and this is our rightful ce. The humans are the ones who are supposed to leave, not us. This is ours by right and we would never think of abandoning it." Dokoy red at the teen in front of him.
He was furious at the thought of giving up the to the humans. He would never bow his head to them and admit defeat. Leaving the absolutely feels the same as surrendering.
"That is not what I meant. If we destroy the Strongwald family and the people they are in partner with, others would just find trouble in the future. How long can your guardianst to protect you when the human civilization thinks that you are a nuisance and they would bring in the big guns to wipe you out?" Marcus asked.
He didn''t want this to escte, and he also didn''t want them to misunderstand. As much as possible he wanted this to be a peaceful discussion.
"Are you saying we can''t protect ourselves?!" Dokoy angrily scowled. He. of course, knew that if the humans would send more powerful forces, they would die. He doubted that the leviathan that acted as their guardian could save them. However, how could his pride as a leader just say that they were weak, that the race he leads is weak?
"That is the truth, isn''t it? If you think about your people then you should follow me, I will bring you to new heights, and you will see new things. Soon the problems you have here would seem meaningless. In the future, you could even destroy everyone here with just a pinky." Marcus wanted to bring them to the heavenly realm.
His ns on building a powerful and massive army start with these races. They would be what he needed to fully conquer the realm above the heavens.
"Is that true?" Synthei slightly gasped.
"I have no reason to lie to you. Why would I when were all in this together. Were going to go up against the strongest family on this and probably the strongest and most influential group in this area of the gxy." Marcus looked at the three leaders with his calm face. He didn''t look nervous at all.
"We''ll cross this bridge when we get there." Dokoy didn''t want to talk about the end of this n anymore. It was too much of a decision to make, especially since the leviathan was not showing himself.
"Does that mean you and your people are on board with my n to take the Strongwald''s and the Octopi head on?" Marcus smiled. He didn''t mind having to hold off the conversation about the final parts of the n. He knew that the decision must have probably rest on the guardian, the leviathan. The leviathan was the one leading these people, he had been the one protecting them. So he probably has the biggest say in this.
"Yes!" Synthei smiled. She was excited to fight against the humans. The bastards who were the bane to their existence ever since.
"Our race will also join the fight. We''ll take them on and take them down like the shits they are!" Peroy clenched his right fist and raised it high.
Marcus turned to Dokoy.
"The siyokoy will join the fight. The races will stand united against the humans!" Dokoy dered.
The three leaders then nced at each other. Seeing that their guardian, the leviathan had no reactions, that meant he agreed with them.
Synthei stood up. "We should probably find a ce to sit properly and discuss the initial stages of the n."
Marcus nodded. "That is for the best. I also wouldn''t want my wife and my friend to stay standing the whole time."
He looked at the twodies that were a few meters behind him and smiled at them.
"Let''s go," Dokoy stood up, followed by Peroy.
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Marcus, Emily, Zoey, and the three leaders sat at a wooden round table. The square room had four pirs on every corner. They all had markings on them and all of which were different from the other.
"Those pirs, well actually, those marking will reduce the chance of people from the outside from over hearing what we say in this room. Those were created by our ancestors a long time ago, and since then, this room had been used for meetings." Synthei waved her hands as she gestured towards a pir.
"There was that one time in the past where this room was used by one of the leaders for his own personal use." Peroy grinned.
Dokoy and Synthei chuckled. They have heard of the story before. One of the leaders used this room to be with his mistress. It, of course, didn''t end well. The leader was thrown into prison not long after the incident happened.
"Personal use?" Zoey asked.
Before Marcus or the leaders could exin. Zoey''s cheeks already turned red when she realized by herself what it meant.
"Shall we get to it?" Dokoy asked. He wanted to know what the teenager had to offer. To him who was a warrior. He only properly respected people who can not only talk but can also throw down on a battlefield.
"Alright," Marcus nodded. "On the side of the Strongwald family, they have three Preparation Stage experts who are at rank 9, only a rank below Transformation Stage."
The three leaders calmly listened. They were not worried about fighting against Preparation Stage experts.
Marcus continued. "They have a prettyrge army employed. I don''t know the exact number but expect that there would be around twenty or so Preparation Stage experts."
"Don''t you have someone on the inside of acting as a spy?" Peroy asked. If someone had a spy, wouldn''t they know the exact numbers.
"I didn''t ask, because the number of their soldiers won''t matter as we have our own army. What we have to worry about are the leaders. I was told that all three of them are cunning, especially the head." Marcus was told by Vid how powerful the Vice President of Estra was.
Vid had no problem taking on the other two leaders of the Strongwald family one on one. It would take a lot out of him and injure every single part of his body, but he was sure that he would win. However, he said that against the Vice President of Estra, he would lose.
"How about the Octopi? The organization you told us that was working together with the Strongwald. How many troops do they have? And how many Preparation Stage experts are we expecting?" Dokoy asked. The number of Preparation Stage experts that the Strongwald family had was already quite a lot. It would be a problem if the Octopi would have a lot more.
"That, I have no information aside from their leaders being rank 9 Preparation Stage experts, or even stronger." Marcus was a bit ashamed of how weak his intelligence gathering was. He had no resources to work with right now and the one he had captured inside the chamber didn''t really know much about the organization he hailed from, which he found weird.
People who are already at that stage, the Preparation Stage, should know a lot about their organization and would have a lot of ess.