While the Ares soldiers were making their way to their second test, Aron could be seen sitting at the center of the rooftop of the massive building with his eyes closed while the entire rooftop continued to glow in a golden color.
Slowly but surely, the color of the rune that was covering the rooftop started to turn to white. With that, Aron stood up from the spot where he was sitting and immediately went to the elevator which immediately took him to the ground floor.
Meanwhile, Nova got to work as she started providing Mana to the runes, causing them to immediately came to life and for those who could see the building from a bird’s view, they would be able to see the entire of the building had started to disappear and in its place started to appear an image of uncompleted construction of a building, making it so that whoever wanted to photograph the building from the bird’s eye viewpoint would only be seeing an incomplete building that was still ongoing its construction phase.
“Any tweakings that I might need to do?” Aron asked Nova to check if there were some inconsistencies in the images.
[No it looks just fine, Sir] Nova reported showing him what the satellites would be seeing if they were to look at the images of the island.
“Hmm, it looks good,” Aron nodded as he smiled with satisfaction.
[Sir, John is inquiring if he should also send the trainees together with the first batch of the former soldiers. He needs to know it now so that they can start preparation right away and then begin arranging the logistics for their move] Nova informed Aron of John’s request.
“Yes, tell him to send them too and also print the transportation boats which would make it easy for the transportation of the thousands of the upcoming visitors,” Aron answered after giving a moment of thought.
[With such a massive number of soldiers being sent to the island, won’t that attract more attention?] Nova asked in concern, wanting to know if he had thought about it.
“No, they will simply think that we are bringing them to expedite the construction on the island,” Aron answered, showing that he had already thought through all of that, earning him a smile from Nova.
[Also the construction machines are already being transported so it should start to speed up the progress of the construction of the airport, the railways and the ports soon] Nova reported, keeping Aron up to date on the other projects.
[As for the school search, you can buy one from the few I have found, however, they still are below your stated standards, so I suggest that you just build it by yourself] Nova also reported about the task she was given for finding a good enough school for Aron to buy.
“Let’s not stress Felix with any more projects and postpone that until most of our big projects have come near a completion, because if I decide to build a school now, I won’t be building just one, but start making a whole school chain which will allow me to train the future workers for my company personally.”
“For now, Henry would have to be content with being homeschooled by me or going to one of the best schools you have found. The choice will be his,” he answered, showing that while his ever-growing construction list continued to grow while his other projects were still not completed yet, which kept him busy, leaving no room for additional tasks at the moment.
[Yes, sir] Nova replied, confirming that she had already added it to Aron’s future promises lists.
“How is military hardware production going on?” Aron asked as he reviewed the footage of the massacre that took place earlier in a fast-forward playback.
[Felix has already finished the procurement of the materials and the cargo ship transporting these materials is on its way as we speak and should arrive tomorrow and drop the cargo at our port. However, using the materials that were available, I have managed to print enough equipment to sustain a 1000 strong force, without any problem] Nova reported, informing that the production of the new weapons has come to a stop for the time being.
“With them, we should first build a surveying plane that would scan and map the entire country and record all of the available resources. Once that data comes to us we can buy those locations and start extracting the materials ourselves,” Aron suggested before continuing.
“Given the country’s size, it should have enough resources to allow us to sustain our material needs for quite a long time,” Aron said and then thought of something.
“If I’m not wrong, I remember that about a month ago, Felix had ordered a batch of materials for me, what happened to them?” Aron asked after he paused briefly as he remembered that there should have been one more cargo delivery that should have happened a long time ago.
[Esparia confiscated it during the transfer of cargo from the larger ship to smaller ones which could have docked on our ports] Nova reported.
“They are really getting bold, aren’t they?” Aron sneered, with him now learning that they had taken his belongings by force and even kept them, he was even more eager for them to provide him with a justifiable reason to not whoop their asses.
Realizing where Aron was going with that statement, Nova suggested [It won’t take too long] trying to postpone Aron’s triggered happiness for a slight longer, knowing that she couldn’t change his though neither was she even planning on doing, knowing very well that kicking their asses should act as therapy for losing BugZapper twice, once it was stolen and once it was legally snatched, but in both times he was forced into giving it up.
[By the way, what are you planning on doing with the guy who shot you? Did you forgive him or do you have any other plan in mind?] she asked, knowing that it would divert his attention from the Esparia discussion.
“Not at all, I am biding my time and by next week, with the arrival of the first batch of the five thousand former soldiers who would also be accompanied by the twenty-five thousand first batch of new recruits who have been receiving their training and along with them there would also be the intelligence department trainees. The agency’s first real-world mission is going to be the apprehension of that fellow.” Aron clarified with a smile.
[But aren’t you going to make those who sent that man take responsibility too?] Nova asked further.
“Of course, I plan to do that as well but that will happen after I have him and have kindly asked him to give up all the information. And if he tells the truth, his punishment might be reduced, but if he lies, I will make sure that he will regret it” Aron confirmed with a sinister smile.
At the same time, somewhere else, someone felt a shiver run down their spine while their whole body trembled.