Chapter 92: The Collision II
Chapter 92: The Collision II
I’m taking a day off from Ancients World, and I’ve convinced my family to do so as well. Marcus as decided to join us in the living room, despite being very young his vocabulary is quite advanced. We are all sitting in the living room watching the news, and I hear something that does truly worry me. “In light of the recent abandonment of J&X headquarters many have speculated the location on the co-founders. The government has no idea where the responsible party of the stock hit has gone, and many are wondering why J&X has gone dark. Much of the scientific community has gone dark as well, its safe to say something more is going on here.” The reporters words are true, if J&X is abandoned then that means whatever happened is a lost cause.
My mom looks over to me and dad soon follows her. “I don’t know what’s going on, I wish I knew because this isn’t looking good.” My little bit of knowledge of the future doesn’t have an answer for this. My best guess is something went wrong after a few of my choices and now the timeline is taking a major divergence. “I’m just as lost as the rest of you…” I mumble in a barely audible voice, much of the future has changed and I have no answers. In terms of knowledge what I have its about items, locations, and lore. What I do know isn’t all encompassing either, in the 5 years I did play I only learned so much.
My instincts are telling me something bad is going to happen, and its going to be on a massive scale. “Well sweetie, all we can do is push it out of our minds. We don’t know what’s going on and sometimes that’s a good thing. I’m sure whatever it is cant be that bad, so lets turn off this depressing channel and go do something.” My mom comes up with wise words and a good idea, I do like the thought of going out and having fun to get my mind off the previous events. With these memories at the forefront of my mind I can use a distraction. I wonder where we should go.
I have some ideas on where we can go, but they are all closed right now since its early. “I don’t think most of our favorite places are open right now, all I can really think of is Marty’s and his early birds special.” Marty’s is a place that my family used to go to before the debt got to big, but now we have money to the point that we never have to worry again. “I’m sure that they are empty at the moment, most are either on Ancients World or asleep.” That seems to convince everyone of the idea, dad goes straight for the keys to their 2234 Bentley Luxury Classic. This is the first time I get to ride in the car that is said to make driving a pleasure.
Mom goes into the kitchen and grabs her purse, while Hailey runs upstairs. Most likely to put on some pretty clothes, I’m going in my sweatpants and t-shirt. I stand up and make my way to the garage. I open it and see the beautiful cars that fill the space, I really should use my Lambo more often. I watch dad sit in the Bentley with a huge smile, I cant help smiling too. Put a nice car in front of a man and he forgets about all his current problems. “So how good does it run, with its price tag I’d expect something great.” I ask him a question that all sons and father bond over. I open the backseat door and hop in. The heated seats are nice, but I prefer cold leather being warmed up from my body heat.
He looks at me through the rearview mirror and smiles. “Its one of the only reasons I drive anymore, we can have everything delivered now that we have money. I’m also looking forward to the look on Marty’s face when he sees my new ride.” The rest of the family join us in the car. I notice something that I’ve never experienced before. I actually have leg room, and my opinion of the Bentley has just sky rocketed. My dad gives me a knowing grin seeing the look on my face, problems of the tall are ones most cant relate to. Dad pushes the button for the garage door to open and begins to pull the car out. While the Adamo family makes the drive to Marty’s there is a discussion happening in Ancients World, and its about the battle on Kroria’s borders. The one to lead off this meeting is The Pope.
With so much going on I don’t think the church will be able to follow up on the leads fast enough. This damn war is causing more problems than any in my recollection of recent times. “I have reports that the monsters are beginning to retreat from the Kroria border, but many of our scouts have witnessed monster shamans sacrificing monsters in the hundreds. This behavior is coinciding with a summon, one that cant be beat by our regular forces.” I don’t know what is being summoned, but its safe to say that whatever is coming will be very powerful. Many of the leaders in the room look at me with worry, most of the kingdoms have lost a great deal of veteran soldiers already. It doesn’t help that most of the smaller kingdoms are suffering more than the larger ones, many fear they will end up like Alsoma.
Gregory stands up and takes the stage, I hope he has better news than I did. “While this summoning ritual occurs, it leaves us with a vital opportunity to deal a blow. My scouts have found that the monsters strongest leaders are not present at the summoning. This leaves them open to an attack from a strike force. I suggest we move on this ASAP.” Many whisper to one another at Gregory’s news, while it isn’t good news, it will lead to a good outcome. “I have already selected potential candidates for the strike force, I hope they are to everyone’s liking.” Soon papers appear in front of the leaders at this meeting and many begin to read.
I look at the copy myself and I notice some prevalent names on here, two of them being Creatureman and Ghostzero. They are the ones that freed the poor town of Ulita, they had a fearsome battle with a mage that wielded a legacy class. If such strong warriors are participating then I can rest safe. I also see Lucy’s name on the list, while it does worry me. I know she is more than capable enough, she wields a legendary class after all. While the meeting continues about the war others are also talking, and there is a meeting in the church of the dark ones. The leader is the only one to talk at this meeting, nobody else speaks in fear of his wrath.
The leader takes a deep sigh and rubs his head. “The son is growing too strong too fast, soon he will be too strong to control. Our priority has shifted, while giving up on his capture for now makes me mad. This war is far more important, if everything goes according to plan. One of the 14 sons will be summoned for this war, and when that happens Kroria will be ours.” The meeting ends quickly with no other discussions. Now we shift back to the Adamo family now that they have finally arrived at Marty’s.
We all get out of the car in the empty parking lot and see some movement inside of Marty’s. “They have the best breakfasts in town, I cant remember the last time I had chocolate chip pancakes.” I voice my excitement at the possible food they have at Marty’s. I feel my stomach rumble and groan at the thought of the delicious food. “Its nice that no one is here yet, good parking and quickly fulfilled orders.” I’m just listing off reasons to be happy now, for all the money we have. We still like the food of diners and simple restaurants. I could never go to one of those snotty places and have their overpriced food.
Dad holds the door open for all of us and we enter. A pretty waitress guides us to a table and we sit down. She gives us menu’s and brings us drinks. “I already know what I’m getting!” Marcus yells out to the rest of us, I want to see the menu. I know the food here is good, but sometimes seeing if anything new is on the menu is a good thing. I look through the delicious pictures and see plenty of food I can eat. The list is almost to big to narrow a single thing down, maybe ordering multiple things would be a good idea. Not like we are tight on money are we, I think I’m going with 2 breakfast specials with bacon, hash browns, and pancakes along with a 14 oz. steak. I haven’t eaten in two days anyway, why not pig out.