Prelude to Destruction

I should've timed myself to see how long until I'd forget, I completely forgot about the whole question of the day thing after what? Only doing it twice? Eh

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Back at tempest Rim had once again left after a bit to make a security pack with Blumund, so if anyone were to go through the forest we'd have no choice but to act as a divergence if they wanted to attack Blumund

Rim then left once again to go to the school and help the kids or something I'm not sure

I haven't been doing much other than just living and occasionally doing some quests with Mugino, Jin even came with us a couple times

He's been training with the old man that trains the goblins and he's been getting better, but I'm surprised Milim hasn't come back at all

I thought she would have came back at some point but she never has, but she is a Demon Lord so maybe she has some responsibility

Jin: "So what are you gonna do? After training with the old guy I'm gonna hit the bath house"

"Well I asked the dwarves to get me some steel and crystals and other materials, so I'm gonna work with those"

I was gonna go back to my home and try working on something with the materials I asked for though when I was going Youm came back with his party and a new girl

He said she was a new member and that she defeated him but I felt something off

'Her life, it feels as if it's in the hands of someone else. At any moment it seems she could be killed by someone'

Her life is akin to a puppet, I'm guessing whoever did that to her is forcing her to do something here

I can't really change it without killing her or at least the heart, if Rim was here he could probably make a new heart for her but he won't be back for a couple days so I can't do much for it

'I'll see if I can find out anything later, right now I'll see if I can make what I want to'

Making my way into the home I saw all the materials out and spread out, I could see it all and everything was there, now this is gonna take a bit of time, but if it works I just may be able to make our economy that much better

Timeskip

Alright the most important part is done, I've made an engine

An engine to what? A train, I've made an engine that can run off the magicules in the air and once we can make a train this will be used to power it

The great thing is that it's much better than any train engine back on Earth, and it's not harmful to the environment surprisingly

I made some blueprints for the train concerning the actual build and rails which I'll go give to the dwarves and they can definitely help more with this

Leaving, I saw the girl that came with Youm so I decided I'd follow and see if I can catch anything, she has bright green hair so she's hard to miss

Reflecting the light off of me I made myself practically invisible, I don't have much magic normally either so she shouldn't be able to notice me at least without focusing a bit

I followed her around and just when I thought of leaving she went into an alley and started speaking, I only heard her part but it was  enough

So apparently she's in the palm of Demon Lord Clayman, he wants her to start something in Tempest, I'm not sure what though

Using the choker I told Rim of this, even though he was far thanks to all the magicules in the air normally it got the message through

So now he knows of Clayman wanting to start something with our nation

This day has been enough so I'll rest and give the plans to the dwarves later

After I awoke I gave the plans to the dwarves who were excited about the train and just how it would be used, it'll take time but thanks to them it probably won't take too long

I decided I'd just stroll through the streets when I saw a crowd huddling around some people

Going through I saw three humans and Gobta and Gobzo, the girl in the group was saying how Gobzo tried something to her but I wasn't buying it, Gobta was defending him and she along with the other two guys were getting angry

"Alright that's enough"

Making a way through the crowd I arrived in front of them

The one with spiky hair was asking why I'm being treated nicely since he noticed the looks the people gave me

"I'm the secondary leader to this nation, since you three are trying to start something I'll have to kindly ask you to leave"

I was trying to be polite but this guy was really looking to start something which got me thinking, why?

He's trying really hard to start something, it's not just instigation, he's actively trying to get me to make the first move

'I don't get it. Why does he want me to fight him so bad, it doesn't seem like they know of me so it's not wanting to prove strength'

I saw a sigil on his bag briefly and noticed it was the symbol for the kingdom of Falmuth, I then got it

'They're from Falmuth, Gazel said the king was greedy, are they trying to start a war? Get the other nation to attack first, yeah, that might be it'

I'm not gonna start a war, I'll get them out peacefully, at least that's what I wanted

Until the girl said something about everyone dying but nothing happened, which made everyone laugh at her

Shuna and Shion came by and Shuna started explaining how her magic that messed with people's brain waves wasn't going to be allowed here

The spiky haired guy was looking at Shion with "that" look, the one of a guy wanting to make her his in any way and it was making me pissed

Before I started something they decided they'd start to fight instead

"Fine! If you want to start something then we'll be the ones to finish it!"

I launched myself at the girl who had dodged and then I noticed the magicules in the air became very weak, as Shion was fighting I looked up and saw two barriers forming over us

'This isn't good'

They both seem to be weakening the magic so I needed to get word to Rim now

Using the black wings I brought them out and made my way to the edge of the barrier, I then gripped a hold of it and began to break it though before I did I heard a voice

???: "I've finally found you first!"

Looking up I saw a boy in a dark red suit with blond hair and white wings coming out of his back

"Kakine?"

I think a war may just happen, and it's all going through Tempest

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