Waking up early in the morning, Shiro stood in the command centre while looking at Vrish’ Lir in the distance. Even though they couldn’t see the country itself, they could see the whirlwind protecting the country from his distance.
Looking down, she could see the spirit council, sect elders and demon nobility working at the terminals. Most of them were controlling drones that scouted out the place and created a map of the battlefield so that it was easier to command.
With Madison leaving for the demon realm, she had ordered everyone to follow Shiro without question since she was the leader of this city.
Naturally, they all agreed and since strength was a big factor of their hierarchy, they knew that it would spell death should they cross Shiro.
“Your highness, we’ve spotted a few temporary camps off the west coast of Vrish’ Lir. Judging by their numbers, most of them are probably under level 300.” One of the spirits spoke up as Shiro nodded her eyes.
Waving her finger, she projected the screen in front of her.
“Hmm… with their auras, there should be at least 4 tier 6 beings with them. The Queen is nowhere in sight too…” Shiro muttered.
“Assign two drones to them. Keep them in stealth mode and report if there is any suspicious activity.” Shiro ordered as she leaned over and pulled up a mic.
“Shiina, I want everyone to be ready for deployment at a moment’s notice. We don’t know when the event will start.”
“Understood. All 15 specialised pilots are already on standby. As for the normal pilots, we have 300 elites gears up. They’re just organising themselves now.” Shiina replied as Shiro nodded her head.
“Split the 300 elites into Platoons. Each of you will command one each and depending on the situation, I’ll need you to work with one another to take a zone. If you look at the document I sent each of you, you should have a rough idea of how this event works.”
“I’ll be right on it.”
Ending the call, Shiro glanced back and saw everyone that was participating in this event.
Yin, Attie and Lisa were talking to one another by the side while Estrella, Nimue and Iziuel were overseeing them. Aarim wanted to join but Shiro needed her to stay behind so she settled with Artillery duty instead.
With her fast calculations during spell casting, controlling the artillery shouldn’t be too hard for her especially since Shiro made it easy for people to use with the AI.
Helion stayed behind since his level was a bit low for this fight and provided support using equipment instead. Chen Yu was joining in despite his level since he specialises in burst damage so he’ll be useful for assassinations. He’ll be commanding his own unit within this event along with Keiko since she is the highest level assassin in the city. Plus, she was also a tier 6 so it was extra insurance.
Of course, since Keiko was joining in the fight, Keomi wasn’t far behind as she came out of seclusion with Li Jian. She’ll be joining a team composed of her father, Koji and Li Jian.
Silvia was commanding the healers along with a group of combat healers to provide support during the battle.
Shiro’s reunion with Koji, Keiko and Keomi was rather short as she reassured them that she’s fine for now and that it just gets a bit hard after 10 minutes. Promising them to have a proper talk after the event.
However, Koji didn’t say anything since he trusted his oldest daughter. With Mio going to train, he will protect Keomi on the battlefield.
Kanae had also wanted to join but Shiro had her protect the city for now since she wasn’t experienced enough just yet despite her time spent in a dungeon.
“How should we split this? We have 6 tier 6’s on our side not including me or Nan Tian since he’s injured. We can either move as a singular group and dominate each place we go to or we can split up. The first option will make it harder for us to protect the zones that we have captured but I can teleport us back if anything happens. The only problem with that is that they can stall us by repeatedly attacking the base. We don’t want to reveal too much just yet so we’ll see if we can use the bare minimum to win this event.” Shiro smiled.
“Seeing as how the Queens won’t be showing up early, I won’t show up either since that would just paint a target on my back. Therefore, I’ll be taking command back here and manning the artillery with Aarim.
“However, knowing your skill level, I’d say you can split into six groups each being led by a tier 6. Plus, you have the bonus from your court roles no?” Shiro grinned.
Giving everyone here a title except for Nan Tian, in case it gave him something weird, all of them were now included in her divine court with benefits that matched them.
Divine Court Blood Moon General – Koji
Divine Court Dragon General – Li Jian
Divine Court Spell Weaver – Yin
Divine Court Aspect of Fire – Atesh
Divine Court Holy Judge – Lisandra
Divine Court Aspect of Water – Nimue
Divine Court Void Ruler – Estrella
Divine Court Aspect of Life – Iziuel
Currently used slots : 13/16
Both her father and Li Jian got roles as generals and they have received skills that would help them command the battlefield such as Rallying Warcry.
[Rallying Warcry]
When activated, your allies gain a 20% boost to all stats while charging towards your designated objective. They receive the buff [Indomitable] during this charge.
Cost: N/A
Cooldown: Once per battle
Duration: 2 minutes
While the 20% boost was good, the main benefit was the buff Indomitable. It made you completely immune to crowd control abilities and while in this state, your attacks have the chance to inflict fear against the enemies.
Naturally, the skill wasn’t limited to just the generals. Everyone else also received skills.
Looking at Yin’s title, Shiro wouldn’t be surprised if it had dubbed her Divine Court Glutton or Divine Court Chef.
“Is there something on my face mum?” Yin blinked seeing Shiro stare at her.
“Nothing. Just thinking about stuff. But as I said, with the title bonus from my skill, you should be able to contend against all of their tier 6’s, perhaps even the Queens. And since that’s the case, I want to suggest that you lot split up and dominate the battlefield with a small group of people under you. Dad, Li Jian and lil’ sis will act as our spearhead in the beginning since we don’t want to reveal our hand of tier 6’s just yet. We’ll poke the scene a little and see how it develops. Capture a few zones if we can but there is no pressure.” Shiro smiled as Koji nodded his head.
“Chen Yu and Keiko will group up as discussed, prepare to assassinate any high priority targets that we spot so that they’re removed from the battlefield. Having unstable variables like them would be a little annoying.”
Explaining all of their roles for this battle, Shiro sat patiently as the event screen finally appeared before her, announcing the start of this event.
[Ruling Dominion]
The barrier around Vrish’ Lir will be taken down and the zones will be made clear in the skies by an empty crest.
The Queen that Captures the zone will have their crest displayed in the sky and it will collect points over time. The more zones you capture, the more points you earn. The event will last for a week and the Queen with the most points at the end will win.
There are many ways to Earn points.
Winning skirmishes, capturing zones that haven’t been captured in a long time, killing priority targets such as tier 6 guards.
Everything you do will generate a certain amount of points depending on its impact on the battle. Naturally, you can lose points as well such as losing a captured zone, failing a skirmish and losing a powerful guard.
In order for you to secure a zone, you’ll need to assign a lifeline to the zone and this lifeline can only be a being that’s tier 6 or higher. Once the life line is assigned, they cannot leave the heart of the zone and a barrier will appear around the heart.
The only way for you to capture a zone is to enter this barrier and kill the lifeline.
Killing the lifeline will grant extra points. Once the lifeline is killed, the zone can be captured but only if there are no more enemies within the heart of the zone.
You may also spend points to place a bounty on an enemy and whoever kills them will earn the bounty. This bounty cannot be claimed by the person’s allies.
More details can be read on the extension tab.
Reading the notification, Shiro looked out of the command office and watched as 15 empty crests appeared in the sky.
