battle plans

Meanwhile, in the lead APC, the captain and the two soldiers were going to meet up with the major to report their huge problem. Not only was one of the Magi still alive, he is pissed, and it was he who defeated a company of soldiers.



As they reported this to the technical officer who is directly under the major, they also learned that there are massive holes ahead of them blocking off the convoy from going to the Fort. This combined with the blocked-off access to the road back they came from.



By the time the technical officer realized the gravity of the situation he quickly ran off to find the major. Who did not want to be disturbed, because he was eating breakfast from his personal servant girl, Lieutenant Sandy brown. Everyone knew how she got promoted.



Still, the technical officer forced his way into the tent interrupting the meal. "Sir, We have a huge problem!"



"You know my breakfast is no time to annoy me. Did you fix the road yet, Sandy and I require a lockable door. This better have been worth disturbing me."



"Sir the company that went to investigate the giant robots was slaughtered last night."



"What, how many enemies are there?"



"I don't know sir, The captain of that unit is freaked out and is on his way back with just 2 soldiers. All the rest are dead. They should catch up to us soon at the speed they are driving. They have not slept a wink trying to get away as fast as possible."



"Call back the jeep crews we may require their extra manpower. The Motorcycles can continue to Fort Andrews. Now leave us and do not disturb us again in the morning."



" Yes, Sir, I will put your plans into action."
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"I am glad you all want to help me with our enemies. Just know I can't defend any of you well in battle. Sure my illusions will distract many of them, well I am secretly slaying them. Are you sure you can fight on your own?"



"We Temporal mages will do the same thing we did last night. We will lock down the APCs."



"We Leyline walkers can't do that, but we can add extra firepower with our spells."



"My undead can cover for the Leyline walkers. We are necromancers, we will follow up your illusions with our zombies made from the troops you killed last night. That should be more than enough to distract the human soldiers. To ignore the Leyline walkers. They will be walking out on the field with the zombies."



Normally, I would kill Necromancers, but like in the war I fought beside them before. So I am not as bothered by it as I was when I was younger. It still creeps me out a bit, but I can deal with it.



"Let us change things up then. We will start with the zombies. Then my Illusions, with the Leyline walkers following your zombies. My illusions should be by themselves because the enemy will shoot right through them. Then when they are fully focused on the illusions and zombies, the Temporal mages can make their move."



"I think the illusions should be first. That way I take less losses to my army."



"You will be gaining more to replace them, besides zombies can be hard to kill."



"Not as hard as mummies, But I lack the time to make them. We are in a hurry to remove the Coalition from our lands."



"Fine, we will start with the illusions, but not till I reduce their numbers with stealth. It is possible, but unlikely that they know we are coming, or that their other unit was destroyed because the original unit did not respond by radio."



"The rest of the unit would know by now that they are trapped and will likely be ready for our assault. Well also trying to prepare an exit plan. The jeeps are the best off-road vehicles they have for the forest if they can make it through the trees. If both they and the motorcycles get through the Fort will fall"



"How far up the path did you set the roadblock, asked a Leyline walker?"



"It might take us two days to get there on foot I normally fly. I can't carry 120 zombies. Honestly carrying one would be hard enough"



My hidden earpiece goes off in my ear. "Master I might be able to do it, but it would take up all of my space."



"No, it would be a waste of resources. Besides I do not want to smell death on our ship. Thanks for the offer, Adan. I knew you could for you had a crew of 20 elves before the crash. Because of the damage you received from the crash, your structure is not stable enough for cargo including moving lots of people. All that you gained from the Leylines is minor repairs and a full energy supply."



"Did you say something, my Lord?" The female Temporal wizard asked.



"No, I was just thinking sorry for the mumbling." Norman can tell by the way she smiles and blushes along with how her voice is higher pitched when talking to him. That she wants a more formal relationship. She might even see herself in the mind's eye of the Lady of my lands.



That of course will never happen. I will never bed a human woman, much less make one my wife. I may pretend to be a human, but that is for convenience. Not because I want to be. This is a human world and humans are welcome in every part of it. So elves can find it easy to get by in such a world with some minor modifications to our looks.



The girls always used makeup on me when I was out in public as a member of the Magi when I was not wearing my mask. Makeup can make one ugly as well. That was what they were doing. Because my beauty as an elf is far too high. It causes distractions when dealing with other units and people in general. Most of all high raked females.



Because of the emergency of the situation, I did not have time to apply the makeup before I left Dweomer. So this woman has seen my real face multiple times now and is infatuated. If I was a self-centered person I could use her for my own gains without losing anything by it.



The reason I was hidden was mostly so Sussy our unit's leader can shine brightly. She was required to be the face of our unit. She had the most charisma and was the most likable of us anyway. My face would only cause problems.



In dweomer it is differnt. The elves when I was born made up more than half the population. So elven beauty did not mean much. Instead, it was about magical power. That is what mattered. Even more so for us elves.



Even now magic is near the center for all elves for disires. So much so that in this world almost every elf can become a mage. Instead of the 5% for humans. Then we would be fully trained and still remain a child in size and age.



This greatly expands our abilities. For instance, I was 14 when I graduated as a High Magus. Physically, and mentally I was a seven-year-old. Normally an elf only needs six years of mage training, instead of the normal 10+ years for humans. Magi training is the odd one out because of the physical requirements.



I may have become a bit more jaded, and more evil from my experiences, but not self-centered. That just means the value of human life is of lower value to me now. For instance, like I told the guys earlier I will not run in and try to save them from death. My only goal is to kill the Coalition in this situation.



Most of all humans from this world. The humans of my world live alongside us elves and dwarves. They see us as elders to be respected and are glad to be guided. In this world, humans long ago eradicated all the non-humans. Then turned on different clans of themselves.



In the end for such people the only answer is genocide. First, they have to gain dominance like the humans in Dweomer are doing. Then separation of the races, which is going on in Dweomer slowly. As the elves are slowly being driven into a corner of the city.



The sad thing is most elves do not even see it. They are just going on to get along. The elves are the target now because they have controlled the town that is now a city for the last hundred + years. The elves will stay the rivals for at least another hundred years. Till their populations become too small.



The population is not being reduced it is actually growing fast by elf standards. The difference is generations. The humans have 10 generations for every elf generation. An elf generation is 200 years well a human's is 25.



Even if it is only a small portion of humans that are genocidal. It would still be massive compared to us elves and the dwarves along with many other races. The humans don't reproduce at ten times our rate they grow at 100 times our rate.



If what I am thinking is true why would they target us Magi? Even they thought we were all human. The reason for that is tribalism. They are tribe Dweomer first then humanist second. We were considered to be traitors to the tribe. As for Greg, he was mostly led by greed.



Anyway, I can think about the human problem later. We have at least 200 years before it gets to mass betrayal. Even then there will still be many humans that will fight on our side. Like with my fellow Magi, who caused great suffering to the Coalition.
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