When Silva arrived back home, he was met with numerous questions as to where he went and what he did.
He had to leave the answering to Lily and Drake. He had so much stress gathered up that he had to rest.
But the next day, immediately after he woke up, he was in full drive, and he called for a meeting with those closest to him.
His guardians, summons, siblings, and close people like Roxy and Aris all sat in the council room, waiting for Silva.
Silva arrived in the room and took his seat. He looked around and was certain that everyone was present before he started talking.
“It’s nice to see all of you here. It’s shocking how much we have grown since the first day I stepped out into the forest in Ribest.
That was where I met most of you, where I had most of my conflicts, and the place that became my home for a while.
Honestly, it’s been a crazy ride, and we moved so fast that even I don’t understand how. I didn’t expect our growth to be so rapid or for us to be here.
You know that there are plans I made in the past, like using the mercenaries or the Dark Blades or creating my own business ventures to help us take control of the kingdom.
But we didn’t need most of them, and the plans just ended up being thrown away. I don’t regret making any of the plans, though.
The only reason we never used the plans was because I grew too fast and made some rash decisions that actually sped things up more than we anticipated.
But making all those plans and drafting them out on a daily basis was totally worth it. It was worth every second and every minute we all put into it.
Now, I’d also like to address the war that we fought and won. Thousands of lives were taken in that war, and they were mostly human.
So this is for Fay, Roxy, Mike, Lia, Quin, and Leah. You followed me despite the fact that I took away the lives of humans.
I’ve never come around to say it, but I’m beyond grateful that you stayed by my side and fought with me.” Silva paused, took a deep breath, and started talking again.
“All I have been saying is because we will be starting the move against the empire quicker than expected. The reason is that when I went to the elf empire, I had a talk with the demon kings, and they have given me a time frame to finish all that I have to do.
And that includes finding out who is making the fake demon blood and why. There is also the issue of the person who has been ripping portals.
All of these are threats to us in their own way, so we have to stop what we can when we can. That starts with the empire and the demon blood.
Most of us have seen what that blood can do when ingested by a normal person. It gives them more power but eats their sanity and soon turns them into monsters.
As much as I’d hate to admit it, Dark Dragon is nowhere near what I want security-wise. It is still very much lacking, and that is an issue.
If someone were to slip into the kingdom with the demon blood, it would cause unwanted trouble. The empire and the Holy Kingdom are all looking for ways to destroy our little inter-race kingdom.
Having rampaging citizens is not a good thing at all because it will give them the perfect excuse to jump the procedures and attack us.
So while we are building our defenses, we also have to infiltrate and find out what the demon blood is and if it has anything to do with the portals.
In the long run, we are still defending ourselves. Now, this brings us to how we will be doing all of this. We have a short time frame, and it would be crazy to leap into the empire without a plan.
So for that, over the next week or so, those of you who are yet to evolve will be going into a training camp that will be headed by Zack, Fang, Drake, and me as well.
We will help you evolve as fast as possible because your strength is going to be needed—all of you, that is.
The empire is a place crawling with the most unusual people, and we can’t know who is who or what they can do. We will be running in blind for sure.
So having ourselves in the best condition is the least that we can do for our own sakes.
Now onto the plan for the training, and then after that, I’ll talk about the plan for the empire.
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The best way for someone to evolve will be by gathering experience, and that comes through battles and hardships.
So for the first week, Drake, Fang, and Zack will be hunting you inside a sealed-off forest. I’ll be hunting as well.
But it doesn’t stop there at all. Inside this forest, we will take away sleep, and we will take away any sort of comfort. How will I do that?
Well, by releasing an absurd amount of abominations from the labyrinth into the forest, and their only goal is to make life harder for you and try to kill you.
While you sleep, while you ease yourself, during everything you do within that first week, they will come for you. This should all work together to boost your experience as much as possible.
You will face countless battles that will probably break all of you, but you’ll have to push through if you want to evolve and help our plans for the empire,” Silva explained to them.
He let out a tired sigh, as he had been speaking for a while, and then he continued again.
“Now, with that out of the way, I’d like to talk about the plan for the empire.
You see, the empire is a massive place. I haven’t been there, but I have done my research. From my research, I have found out that the best way to rise is through adventuring.
So yeah, we will be going back to our roots as adventurers. We will start with new identities and new information.
Nobody really looks into the details of adventurers, and even if they did, the information that I would structure for us would be pretty concrete.
We will start out like a normal adventuring party, and we will grow fast while watching and observing, trying to learn what we can in the short time that we have.
While also building good connections that might take us to the demon blood. This empire is not like the kingdom, where we can wage war against them and win.
I can say for certain that if we went against them, only the Guardians and Aris would be alive.
What we have is quality and not quantity, but the empire—they have quality, and they have quantity. They can do whatever they want.
So we will have to build our structure inside them to get the information that we need. It’s also a chance for us to learn other things and not only about the demon blood.
When we are in there and we have risen to the highest rank in the shortest time, it will call the attention of many high-ranked people. Everyone would either want this new, powerful group of people or they will want to kill us. This will allow us to make progress.
We will be able to enter the deeper sides of the empire and start getting closer to the blood. When we do find the blood, we will have to find out who is behind it and why.
We also have to find out what they use to make it and if they are risking undoing the seal of the demons. That would be a very unwanted happening.
So that is the summary of the plan. We will give you a more in-depth plan later with each of your roles clearly laid out based on what you do best.
This plan is estimated to take about two months to find the blood and uncover the secrets that the empire holds.
It might seem like a long time, but to be honest, it is a very short time, and we might not be able to pull it off if we aren’t careful.
Still, I believe that we will. We have all we need in terms of resources and people, so it should work out.” Silva finally finished.
The meeting came to an end with that, and there were no questions asked. Everyone knew the importance of this whole thing.
After all, none of them wanted to be labeled as the person that failed Silva, so they were going to put in their all and make sure they made it work well.