“Everything is ready, Eli.”
Elijah didn’t hear what Serena said, his mind was aching, and he was far too exhausted to pay any attention to his surroundings.
“What?”
He said, his words came out weird, and he massaged his throbbing head. Serena sighed and repeated her words.
“Everything is ready, we are just waiting for you.”
He stood up, wobbling for a while, and raised his head. Currently, in front of one of the most protected buildings on Earth, and in front of the very thing that humanity could not risk losing.
The portal that lead to Gigantia, the first human city on Gigantium. Something that everybody fought very hard to keep in human hands.
He noticed everyone looking at him, the entire building had been reserved for a short while, only to the association. Doing that was an incredible feat, He was sure Harrison had pulled a lot of strings to arrange this.
His gaze rested on the most important individual in this entire convoy, who was currently mesmerized by the portal and the construct that held it. Studying the runes and symbols with a pounding heart. Gary was occupied.
He then looked at the rest of the convoy, the entire association had come together to arrange this, and it was filled with the most trusted and best awakened they had, but no S-ranks. A little more than half the people in this convoy were normal humans, who had just put on their special suits.
The association spent a pretty penny in getting all the highest quality magical contracts for these people to sign, and Elijah was surprised many of them did it.
‘Guess the excitement of being the first is high…’
They would be the one of the few humans, normal humans, to step onto a new world after all, Elijah could understand that for men of science it would be a great deal.
He stretched, lacking any sort of strictness that the leader of such an expedition would have, given its importance. He had heard a few of them were dissatisfied with him being the leader in this expedition.
Not only that, but he had also heard of how quickly they were fired by Harrison. Although he was happy that the man trusted him, he had to admit he was too harsh. He knew the association was already short-staffed…
But to assign no S-rank individual to guard the convoy too? Either Harrison had too much trust in him, which he should be happy for since he was Serena’s father… or the man just couldn’t spare any more personnel. Which was a bit sad.
‘Hmm.’
Elijah raised his head, looking at the few S-ranked awakened that were always stationed in the center, whose primary job was to guard the portal looking at him, and the entire convoy with interest.
It was a surprise, none of them had an arrogant gaze, merely curious. He guessed that they abandoned looking down on anyone, considering they had to have their own share of experience in reaching their level… or they simply didn’t care and were merely curious.
Though, when he looked at them, he began to realize why Harrison had assigned none of the association’s S-ranked personnel. Though each of them here was a celebrity, a symbol of strength for humanity in the world. And although each possessed a power that would be considered divine for normal humans…
Elijah could take half of them on if he went all out, was that simply the difference in species, or was he too talented? He didn’t linger on those notions for long.
“Alright… I’ll knock Gary out of his trance and let’s get going.”
He slowly walked towards the portal, taking part in a bit of Gary’s awe in its magnificence… He had to admit it was stellar. Phenomenal, even.
‘Who knew that brute could create something so beautiful…’
He laughed in his mind, knocking Gary out of his trance, he said.
“Get ready buddy.”
“Yes, senior.”
He turned to look ahead and cast [Dragon Eyes] on each member of the expedition, the information of the high level awakened, the armaments they wore, down to minute detail flooded his mind. And those of the suits worn by the normal ones as well. But that wasn’t what he was looking for.
Stumbling for a bit after using [Dragon Eyes], he almost fell to the floor but was caught by Serena and Gary, who helped him stand. Serena spat.
“I knew dad was overworking you…”
He reassured her, and ordered for the convoy to pass, Serena and Gary had to depart first. Since the association had already made preparations on the other side, he had to be the last
one to go.
Gathering his thoughts for a bit, he activated [Dragon Eyes] once more, judging every person in the entire center, it put an incredible strain on his mind.
[Supreme Dragon of Fire, Agri advises you to stop.]
‘It’s just a precautionary measure…’
Everyone was too worried about him. Well… his skill [Dragon eyes] was taking its toll on him these days. He had been using it so much. He had heard that young dragons should abstain from using their eyes as much as possible, after all.
Agri also told him of the negative effects it would have if one used it with a tired mind. He needed some good sleep after this expedition.
The large convoy began to grow smaller by the second, the vehicles carrying important materials, and the personnel needed to handle them left one by one, each having a happy, satisfied, and excited look on their face.
‘Who wouldn’t…?’
They were going to see Humanity’s first ever city on another planet, after all. Who wouldn’t be excited for such a venture. Even he was jealous of the people who got to experience it first.
And even he was excited to see the new world, hidden behind his tired eyes was a light of expectation. But he had to do his job as well. Earth was already a planet that had been destroyed by war… They couldn’t let Gigantium suffer the same fate.
Finally, the convoy was at the other side, in the city of Gigantia, and Elijah turned around, sparing one last look at the S-ranks who were stationed on guard, raising his own opinion a
bit.
‘… I could take them all on, I guess.’
[Supreme Dragon of Fire, Agri says arrogance will lead to your death, but he does agree.]
‘… What’s the point of the message if you are going to agree with me anyway?’
Sighing, he entered the portal.