Mage And Wolf
Chapter 283

Chapter 283: Chapter 283

"Welcome everyone. For those that don’t already know, I’m Alpha Conway. In just a few minutes we will have dinner ready in the courtyard between the housing buildings. You’ll find there are a great number of strange and unique things about our community, but any of us will be more than happy to help you adjust."

All attention is on him now and Elder Song gestures that we should make a hasty retreat while we have the chance. "If not now then we will likely be delayed for days again. That will just give them time to prepare and plan for our arrival."

That’s a very good point, this operation will go much more smoothly if the Divine Transfer has no idea what we’re up to.

We hop over the Town walls and have run quite a ways into the muskeg, looking for a good spot to Transfer from when Karl gets a genius idea. The area is swarming with monsters, why not find a nest of them and set a bunch loose in the other world? That should cause the kind of chaos we’re looking for.

"If we portal to the East first, we can find hundreds of category 3 and 4 monsters clustered together. Opening portals for them to random spots all around a world that doesn’t have any should be enough distraction that our movements, and any suspicious disappearances, won’t be easily noticed or traced." Karl suggests with an evil grin.

As soon as he finishes talking Elder Song opens a portal and jumps through, leaving the rest of us to hope he’s with the new plan. He is, but a bit more recklessly than I had anticipated. The portal he went through opens to a large field where both monsters and Giants of all sorts are fighting. They’ve just begun to engage, and the two sides are mixed everywhere that I can see.

We’re in the middle of a battle on an epic scale. Nearly a hundred thousand giants by my rough estimate have come to quell the monsters in their ongoing war. They’re all limited to the Mortal Realms in power while they’re on Earth, but that might not be the case elsewhere.

Song and Karl have started opening random portals on the ground, each a dozen meters across, dropping everything in the area through to the other side before closing. There are so many fighters the open spaces quickly fill with more combatants, and the two continue their work as rapidly as they can cast more spells.

Of course, it didn’t take long before we were noticed, forcing Lelou to transform into her mighty Red Dragon form and me to draw my swords as we fight off angry giants bent on eliminating the troublemakers interfering with their battle.

"That should be enough. We’ve sent them into every wilderness area and near every town and city that was marked on the map we managed to make of that continent. I’ll take us near another refugee camp. I also sent monsters there, so the Divine Transfer should think they were killed and eaten not abducted." Elder Song smiles, happy to have had a chance to play pranks again.

He opens the portal and we all jump through, much to the dismay of the remaining giants in the area, who are shouting about capturing us and making us pay.

The camp is in sight when we arrive, and a full fledged battle is going on outside the walls. It looks life the facility is a carbon copy of the last one we liberated, right down to the color of the stone. I don’t know if that means they’re close together, or if the builders just enjoy uniformity.

"You got the location wrong. The camp isn’t at the river, it’s a mile away. I’ll bet they dropped in only few steps from the walls." Karl laughs, while Song frowns.

"Poor cartography is not my fault. But they’re not all outside. See there, that section of wall was blown outwards."

If that’s the case, we’d better hurry. I don’t know what sort of demihumans might be here, but with the walls down and monsters everywhere, they’re in trouble. While the Beasts were limited to category 4 on Earth, I can sense a few much more powerful presences here. Category 5 and 6 Immortal Beasts. No stone wall could stand against that for long, even with inscriptions.

The guards that still live are fighting in the trees outside the walls, or what remains of them, but the inside is eerily quiet. I don’t sense a huge amount of Death Energy though, so maybe the occupants are just in hiding.

"You guys get the guards. I’ll rescue whoever is inside." I call, activating Shadow Meld and rushing for the broken section of wall.

The inside is unexpectedly clean and totally empty, only a small section of torn up dirt by the wall is out of place. There’s a chance only one monster got in, and its first priority was to get out. If that’s what happened, it’s a best case scenario for me. Seeing nobody around I rush to the cages along the walls, finding piles of cloth and nothing moving. My nose says bunny though, there are definitely Bunnies here.

"Hello, my name is Katrina, High Priestess of the Black Dragon and I’m here to rescue you from the crazy humans." I call in my friendliest voice and a floppy eared head pokes out from the nearest pile of cloth.

"I’ll cut open all the cages now, and take you somewhere safe. A place off world where Bunnies are treated well."

"You don’t need to break anything. We’re not a threat so they don’t lock the doors." The man says, opening the gate, the fallen blanket revealing a large number of Bunnies huddled together.

"How many are here?"

"About two hundred, all Bunnies. There were others, but they killed them just after we arrived." He explains while a few others rush for the front barracks areas.

"Are they going for Guard reinforcements? I growl and he flinches.

"No, the guards are gone to fight. They keep some of our young locked in the barracks though, you know how it is." Yes, I do. If they weren’t already doomed, this would have sealed the guards fate in my mind.

It’s only seconds before everyone has gathered in front of me, and I get a great idea. Arcana loves Bunnies, they’re everywhere in the city. A couple hundred more likely wouldn’t even fill the informal job boards they keep of employers looking specifically for them.

[Karl, we need a portal to Arcana. I’ve found Bunnies.] I send through the mate bond and receive his laughter in response.

[Make up a nice note for Lala. She’ll get them placed once they arrive.]

I write up a letter while I wait, sealing it with black wax and handing it to the spokesperson. "When you get where you’re going, a city named Arcana, ask for a bunny named Lala. Anyone in charge will know who she is. She will get you settled and find you jobs."

"Are they nice? Do they give you real clothes and days off?"

"Yes and yes. There’s no slaves in Arcana, so she will help you find employers. The usual is two days off every week, and she can help you with negotiating wages. Or have one of the Bunnies the city employs help you. But until then, the city is set up to give refugees a good place to sleep and warm food. It’s a city full of magic and built by mage type cultivators. Trust me, you’ll like it there."