Rae picked up Sybil and ran off to join the others, while Karl headed for the bus she had been taken from.
“Monarch, how might we help you?” The driver asked as he approached the door. ƒгeewebnovёl.com
“I have collected Awakened Elite Sybil, on orders of the Inquisition. She is part of a specialty training program and should not have been separated from her team. It interferes with the training data.
However, I will be leading a group to guide battle tactics for the region, so please find a replacement for her position until one can be assigned to your unit.” Karl informed the driver.
“Yes, Sir. Did you just arrive in the Capital? We were informed that there were no Ranking Elites available for the North Side Defence.”
Karl nodded. “My team returned with intelligence from the border, and I saw the situation here. Now, I need to go. My scout is already sending data, and I need to get in contact with some of the regional leadership.”
Karl sprinted off to the section where Hawk had indicated that the line was being tricked out of position, looking for the Commander in charge.
There was a Commander Rank Mage, most likely female, with her hood up, looking over a table full of maps. That seemed like the best choice.
“Commander. My scout reports that there is a group of eighty, led by an Ogre and a team of Hobgoblins, waiting in the valley here for your troops. They’re being pulled off course for an ambush.” He announced, gesturing to the map, before he looked up at a familiar face.
Danni Mackenzie, the Golem specialist of the Mackenzie twin sisters.
“Oh, Danni, good to see you again. If you tell your people to pull back and hit the Goblins here and here, you can fight them without reinforcements, as the stronger team will be stuck waiting for you. Hawk is overhead giving updates to everyone.” Karl explained.
“Monarch? Karl?” Danni Mackenzie stammered.
“It’s been a minute, hasn’t it? It’s good to know that I wasn’t totally forgotten.”
The other leadership team members, none of them Elites, just strategists and army officers, chuckled at her baffled expression. They hadn’t expected to see anyone of his rank here, but now there was not only a Monarch, but a Monarch with what sounded like a flying scout.
[We have followed the team members to their spots. We’re spread out to be with all four zone Commanders for the north now.] Cara updated Karl as he was about to send more directions.
[Do you have a way to pass on Hawk’s scouting messages?] Karl asked.
Rae and Thor could be human, but Karl had never seen Cara do it.
[Of course. I just asked the silly bird to send the others a message directly.] Cara informed him smugly.
Karl could feel Hawk rolling his eyes, but he didn’t refute it, so he must be able to send messages.
[That had to freak everyone out.] Karl laughed.
[They all think the messages are from you. This will be so much fun later.]
No, a disaster is what it was going to be if a mischievous Void Badger started sending people messages in Karl’s name.
Once he knew to check, Karl realized that the messages had both his name and Hawk’s on them, so at least it wasn’t just tagging all messages as having come from Karl directly.
Hawk sent enemy positions and movements as he saw them, and the team relayed them to the Commanders on the ground.
[Who paired up?] Karl asked, as Cara had said there were only four zones.
[Tessa is with Thor. Ophelia is with Rae and her baby Rogue. I am with Dana and Lotus watching the other four cubs, and Remi is napping in her space.] Cara explained.
That worked out well. The combat power might be a bit imbalanced, with Thor and Tessa together, but they would have the strongest buffs out of anyone for the Church Soldiers.
Karl turned left to observe the fight, and saw a towering tree in the middle of the line, which had to be a transformed Lotus. He could clearly see the birds flying around in the branches, as well as the golden dust sprinkling down from the branches to the line.
They held the spot along the road where the buses were unloading, which would naturally be where the injured were sent to for treatment and removal, so having a Tree of Life there would greatly reduce the number of casualties that had to be evacuated.
[Does everyone have enough Red Dragon Clerics for their soldiers?] Karl asked.
There were three here that he could see, one of them a Commander.
[We have a Commander plus some.] Cara agreed.
[We have the Orphanage Matron, plus two other High Priestesses.] Rae added.
[I have my Tessa plus two Commanders.] Thor cheered, and Karl sensed that the Cerro was greatly enjoying the Chivalrous Knight act, while also working to understand the [Humanoid Transformation] spell that Rae had already mastered.
He had even found time to carve a picture of a Cerro on his shield. [Rae did it for him. Thor can barely colour inside the lines.] Remi quietly joked.
[I’m not that bad. It’s just that Sister Rae is too good.]
With the constant stream of updates from Hawk, Karl had resorted to using coloured stones on the map to update positions and group sizes in real time.
Hawk could see much further than a regular scout could, and for some reason, there were no planes flying patrols in the area. It took Karl a few seconds to realize that it was because the radios weren’t working, so they couldn’t report back.
That left Hawk as the only aerial scout in the region, and a much more valuable asset than even Karl had expected.
[There are portals in these five spots. The ones on the East and West have Giants gathering at them.] Hawk updated.
Karl immediately relayed that to the Overlords he had been travelling with, so they could update command, and got a swift reply from Niall.
{You can send them directly to Tabitha, she is with the Archbishop and his assistants planning the defence. Keep her in the loop as much as you can.} The Rogue explained.
{No problem. I will send her updates every five minutes on the status of the battlefield if it’s significantly changed.}
What Karl didn’t know was that the two were standing side by side in the room with the Archbishop, and Niall’s smug look had not gone unnoticed by the Warrior Overlord.