The first team meeting took a few more hours to finish, Raven, unlike Ana, not only espouses a disturbing episode from her past to warn us of what we may face in the future and introduced the team members.
After announcing our mission and its parameters she started to teach us many interesting things that we will be able to put into practice during the mission, such as our mission complicated in different ways than normal Raven taught us how to capture a smuggler without disturbing his men so that his criminal operation continues to function fully.
To my surprise this isn't an extremely complicated thing that involves us breaking into the enemy base without alerting anyone and capturing our target and taking him out of the base for interrogation and convincing him to do what we want him to do.
When Raven started telling her plan and why we would do it this way I thought she would attack the target when he was traveling, but Raven is intent on having our target Akin aka the emerald snake come to us. Akin is looking for a supplier who has the ability to sell him materials that contain the element of death and fire and get paid for materials he has available.
Death Element materials are under realm surveillance and all trade in them is being supervised to prevent these materials from falling into the hands of cultists who tend to possess the Death Element. The very specific materials that contain the element of death and fire basically no longer exist in the normal market and the materials that do exist in the market are beyond Akin's reach.
When the rumor that a trader who has a lot of that stuff reaches Akin, after that it won't be long before he comes to the trap Raven created to capture him.
Obviously, the plan is a little more complex than simply inviting Akin to a meeting is attacking him, but for those specific points in the plan Raven didn't explain as doing so now will only decrease the plan's chance of success, not that she thinks it will. to a spy and traitor on the team but it's always good to be careful and as she can simply use the suspicion that some users of the element sounds trying to hear the team meeting.
That's a great excuse to avoid bringing up the sensitive topic of betrayal in the group, even though Raven has had to not think too much about how she's going to lure Akin into her trap because that would spoil the surprise, but I have a pretty good idea what she's going to do. will do.
I believe she won't just say that the material is available to trade with Akin, she'll make it work and improve the offer for the rare materials of the fire and death element that I'm very interested in seeing, it's not common materials to have two different elements at the same time.
Meeting in a 'neutral' location will make capturing Akin a job dependent on who's posing as the trader who's likely to be Raven. It's a pity I can't see her beating up the smuggler, but I can't say I'm not worried about this possibility of a plan. Akin is a member of the serpent tribe, he is a warrior of the element poison and wind which can make it difficult for Raven to capture him, even though she has the advantage of being a full stage above Akin who is a warrior in the early stages of the core. orange.
Of course, I doubt Raven would provide a fair fight for Akin, I wouldn't be surprised if the emerald snake ended up poisoned before it was captured. But it could also be that Raven's plan was completely different from that.
When all our new 'brothers' and 'sisters' were leaving to get their luggage as we are moving to the western region of the kingdom to set up our temporary base and Raven will work with the intelligence unit that has already moved there starting the preparations to put Raven's plan in motion.
When there was only me in the room, Ana who was heading for the door, Mia who had a friendly smile and Raven who had a face of arrogance and happiness. The reunion seems to have gone the way she planned and she can't contain her happiness over it.
"Don't look so dejected, Ulric. Thought you'd be glad that nothing has changed in the main plan, even after the shit that happened, I'm still leading my team and you're on it, not because you're sad."
"I'm not sad. I'm just absorbing my new reality."
"Absorbing your new reality? A good way of putting it that you were afraid Dean screwed us up, but now that everything is in order you've realized that I'm now targeting some really troublesome targets, don't be so nervous about what you might face in the future. You can heat that shit up, if you weren't neither me nor Grimalkin, we would have let you be a part of this unit."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence."
Mia who was silent only approached Raven when she spoke to me the smile on her face seemed completely static, before it looked very friendly now this smile is starting to get weird.
"So, this is the little wolf, I'm Mia and as Raven said before I'm second in command. From what Raven told me the two of us will work together many times, I was impressed when Raven told me about your perception abilities and how you apply them with your runic knowledge."
"You have a very interesting natural gift, but other than that I hope you're prepared to be my assistant we'll have to take the time to sort out our teamwork both normally and on the battlefield. I'll probably have to teach you sign language focused on communication about operating matrices and runic arrangements, hope you have a good memory I don't really like to keep repeating the same explanation over and over again."
Looks like someone likes being a leader, not that I care too much about that as the supreme leader of the unit is Raven and I trust her leadership abilities.
"Don't be like that, Mia. Ulric is a team player, you can ask Ana over there, she was leading a unit with Ulric as her second-in-command for several months. Not the need to be alpha on the weak rookie."
She really likes to repeat that I'm weak.
"Don't be such a killjoy, Raven. If I can't intimidate the rookie a little bit who will work under my direct supervision where is the fun of being in a commanding position. Yeah, you should keep your extinct maternal ones away from your professional life, if I didn't know your son, I'd think the little wolf was him."
"I'm not treating you special, Mia, so I don't like you making comments like that. As I said before I lead this team as if we are all a family, this is essential so that we all have a better chance of surviving until the end of the war, you don't know how exhausting our work is going to be and having your teammates like your side supporting you and essential to keeping the team together."
"Okay, I get your point. I never intended to make his life difficult, I just enjoy teasing a cute boy like him. I know he's not arrogant and needs to be put in his shoes, but you can't take all the fun out of coaching rookies either, I promise not to abuse him too much unless he enjoys it."
I feel like I'm in big trouble right now, I feel like Mia can be a dangerous figure.
"Does he already have a girlfriend or they've already broken up, I have no idea now. The relationships of young people these days are hard to predict, the war is putting everyone on edge. If it weren't for that you wouldn't have lost your boyfriend and now, you're chasing children so you don't feel alone."
"Hey! That was unnecessary Raven, it was a low blow that motherfucker used the war as an excuse to flee the kingdom like a coward. I'll kill him when I meet him again, the bastard broke up with me for a note he didn't even have the decency to write a full letter to say goodbye."
"Okay calm down Mia the idiot was a coward and you'll find someone better to be his boyfriend. Think positively, you are not going to have a daughter or son with a coward. You escaped being houses with a piece of junk the next possible daddy will be better."
"It might be better but it will also cost me even more money, those damn nuns didn't refund me after I canceled the medicine order."
"Fuck those greedy bitches, I'm taking the boy to a rune room. We have a lot to talk."
Mia started to leave the room, leaving me and Raven behind.
"You'd better follow her, Ulric. Good luck."
"Everything will be fine?"
"Yeah, she's just in the process of recovering from a breakup and just avoid mentioning anything that reminds her of it and you'll be fine."
I think this training is going to be complicated.