บท 63: ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL CLAN MEMBERS PART 9

Shisui, Itachi and Kin quickly returned after changing to simple grey coloured uniform. As, soon as they returned, Kin remembered something.

"Hmm, Lord Luke, where are the photos I passed to you earlier? I forgot to take them back"- Kin

At that question, they all turned towards Lilly, as if answering they are with her.

Lilly pocketed all the Photos silently into her space ring. These personal pictures of the Empress, can be auctioned in the market for billions of Spirit stones. But she chose to keep them as a souvenir of this trip. As a formation specialist, she is a huge fan of Ichika, who herself is Pinnacle master in formations. She reluctantly gave those photos back to Kin. You can clearly see few imaginary tears on her face.

For the next 2 days, they completely became the number 1 guests of Luke and his party. They also told a lot of stories about Ichika to the party. Lilly and Gia noted down all these information on jade slips so accurately, that it will put all professional reporters to shame. In this 2 days, they also learnt a lot about various Empires, cultures, Customs and relations.

On the 3rd day after receiving signal from all the Spirit mouses, Kin summoned them all back to the tent. He was shocked at the intel gathered by them and took 2 to 3 steps back to balance himself.

He took a huge paper scroll and drew a rough circle in its centre and 9 more small circles around it. With a huge square shape on the far north of the center circle.

Itachi and Shisui had rough understanding about Kin's childish drawing, while Luke and his party are completely clueless about it.

"Your Majesty. The circle in the center is Greenwood city. It is completely surrounded by a huge illusion, masking, detection and attacking formation.

While the 9 small circles represent the enemies camp. They are completely hidden under huge temporary bunkers surrounded by illusion and masking formations.

While the square shape on the far north of the Greenwood city is the enemies main headquarters."- Kin

"Hmm kin san, it is good you were able to gather the enemies positions accurately. It will surely help us in counter attacking them. But what about the numbers of enemy forces."- Lilly

Luke and the others are clearly impressed by the spirit mouses ability to gather intel on the enemies position, despite the presence of detection formations.

Kin gave a rare serious look at Lilly's question, startling all of them. It only means the situation is more dangerous than they thought.

"The numbers are huge. It's more like an invasion rather than an ambush.

There are a total of 600 million soldiers, distributed along the 9 camps. All of these soldiers are High God level cultivators. There are also close to 80000 paragons leading them. Half of these paragons are at least over Mid Paragon level.

More shocking thing is, there are at least 1000 Peak paragons, but they are not the leaders of this troops. They are all taking orders from someone in the headquarters. My spirit mouses were clearly afraid of entering the headquarters and couldn't find more intel on the true leader"- Kin

Silence, total silence prevailed in the tent for more than 2 minutes. After digesting the information, panic is evident in the eyes of all those present.

"Kin san are you sure about these Numbers. May be your spirit mouses were confused from the illusion formations around the enemy camps"- Luke

There is a reason why Luke didn't believe in the intel. 600 million soldiers can only be gathered by a major race. Even then, most of the soldiers will be around God level only. But here the enemy gathered more than 600 million High level gods, Which is definitely impossible even if you gathered soldiers from all of Vanguard Zone.

Then there is 80000 paragon cultivators, including 1000 Peak level Paragon cultivators. Even if you gather all the paragons on the humanoid races side there numbers will not even reach close to 20000. As for peak level pragons, you can easily count them on the fingers.

Empress Ichika surely destroyed more than 3000 organisations, sects and clans. But these soldiers are not the remnants of these organisations. If they had this type of backing, even Empress Ichika will have trouble fighting them.So he looked at Kin expectantly as if hoping it all to be a prank.

"Your majesty. My spirit mouses are puppets. So illusion, masking or detection formations don't work on them. This is clearly the information gathered by them. I swear on my mother, that everything I said is the truth."- Kin

The seriousness on Kin face is not a joke. So it is true. He immediately collapsed in his chair.

"Kin. These soldiers are definitely not from this world. Millions of years ago, Empress warned all the Empire's of invaders from other worlds. We all took it as a joke, but still strengthened our military, after seeing the increase in the Human Empire soldiers.

But, why are they targeting Greenwood city? They can easily destroy our Empires with their forces.

Kin, were you able to gather any names on the enemies side?"- Luke

Kin, Shisui and Itachi also lost immediate hope at learning that these soldiers are invaders. They clearly stepped into this world at the wrong time.

"Your majesty. I only heard one person name, Duke Samil"- Kin

At the mention of Duke Samil, Luke and his party's eyes turned completely red with fury.

"That traitor, for a mere throne, he is even willing to side with these enemies. I will fu***** kill him with my own hands"- Luke

"Your Majesty, who is this Duke Samil?"- Itachi

"Opportunist, Coward and cunning bastard. He is one of the warlords of this human Empire, before he ran away from the Current Empress. We all thought he was dead or settled somewhere peacefully. But never in our dreams, did we think of him allying with these invaders"- Luke

Again silence reigned in the camp for more than 10 minutes. It really came as a complete shock to all of them. Luke turned towards Shisui and party

"So what are you going to do now? This Empire is going to become a battlefield, while Greenwood city will become it's first sacrifice."- Luke

Shisui and others struggled for a bit, before determination can be seen on their faces.

"Your majesty. We will definitely move towards Greenwood city and warn the city officials of the imminent doom. We can't let millions of innocent people die in the city.

With the help of Supreme Commander, Lord Kuro, we will contact my mother. We may be helpless in this situation. But my mother can always come up with superb strategies. She is also a excellent formation specialist. Maybe she can draw a strong defensive formation around the city and delay the situation.

I know, I am exaggerating things about my mother, but I have complete belief in her abilities."- Kin

"Kin is right, Your majesty. We must contact my sister first. She is used to this type of situations from her childhood."- Itachi

Luke and the others never expected this type of response. Normally it is ok to escape in this kind of situations. But these 3 decided to brave the dangers and protect the innocent citizens of the Greenwood city. Just this answer alone won the complete respect of Luke and his party. No wonder they are from the Royal family.

'Also you are not exaggerating about your mother's formation abilities, Kin. The whole world knows, just how formidable she is in formations.

Itachi san, what do you mean by she is used to these type of situations from Childhood? Just what kind of childhood, did she have?'

"So, Your majesty, what are you going to do now? "- Shisui

"Hehe, we Beastmen will never abandon our allies no matter the odds. Our ancestor, single handedly fought millions of monsters alone, to let his allies escape. We can't shame him now, do we?

Also, we always welcome a good fight any time. Lets move to Greenwood City together"- Luke

"Nope. we are not going towards Greenwood city directly. If they are really invaders, then they will capture your majesty for sure, as you are one of the Emperors. It will only hasten our destruction.

The enemy soldiers are clearly waiting for some reason, instead of attacking the city. We will capitalise on this chance and plan our counter attack with the Empire's soldiers"- Itachi

Suddenly all of them looked towards Itachi, as if looking at some god. What he said was definitely possible, if they move with Luke towards Greenwood city.

Luke also started counting his lucky starts at this near escape. He totally forgot the value of his existence to the enemies. If he is caught, then it is akin to occupying the entire beastmen Empire.

'No wonder he is the elder brother of the Empress. Like sister, like brother'.

Without wasting anymore time, they completely packed off their belongings in 5 minutes and started moving backwards to the previous oasis city, Miran. It took 3 days to reach Miran city.

"Wolfgang, contact all our representatives in Eden and order them to move to Greenwood city. Tell them to purchase large batches of supplies, just in case of emergencies.

Lilly contact the mercenary organisations, that are on close terms with our Empire. Explain the situation to the leaders, but tell them to maintain the secrecy, in case our enemies will make the first move. We have a tiny bit of chance, from coming out of this situation alive. We don't want to ruin that chance.

Gia, you will personally go and visit Emperor Tianlong and explain the situation. If I am not wrong, Princess Astarte is already in Greenwood city. As an ally and Great grandfather, he will definitely help us in this situation."-Luke

All 3 of them bowed to Luke and started carrying out their orders. The party stayed in Miran City for 2 days, before they teleported towards Greenwood city.

It is first time for the 3 Uchiha's to arrive in any city of this world. They were completely shocked by the density of the crowd and were afraid about the future. The city seems like a good place to spend some time, but they don't have luxury to waste time.

Luke and his party immediately started to move towards the city Lord Palace, without wasting any time. For them every second is valuable, otherwise millions of innocent citizens will lose their lives.

As an Emperor and an ally of the Empire, he was quickly ushered towards Mayor's office, by the guards.

Kuro, Yang Ye, Yang Qi and all the clan heads heard about the Emperor Luke Lionheart arrival, but before they could welcome them personally at the entrance, he arrived in the Mayor's office surprising them all.

But what shocked them all is the serious look on the Emperor's face. He didn't waste his time and dived straight into the main topic.

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Authors Note: I know it is a clear shock with the presence of so many enemy soldiers. We will know about them and their arrival in 2 more chapters. So keep questions about them to yourself. We will have our first major war of the story in 4 to 5 chapters. I want to tie up few loose ends, that I left previously in the next 4 chapters.

If anyone is interested, they can post few battle strategies of their own. You know, 2 brains are better than a single brain. I will add them as long as they are suited to the situation. I will give complete credit to you guys. I will give a clear view of the terrain of Greenwood city in the next chapter. For now, all I can say is Greenwood city is circular in construction, with 4 gates on the opposite ends of the diameter.

Did I forget to say that the Golems are going to make their debut?