"With the start of the war, several surveillance and espionage teams have been submitting several reports of sightings of suspicious people, obviously to many other types of reports, but they are not that important to us now. We have several leads that made the intelligence division feel it necessary to send a reconnaissance and elimination team to the kingdom of Mirue, to be precise the slave town of Canos which is a bit far from the border and the war."
"But this mission can have a big package in the war, as I said before the army of Mirue and Kavenus is using many slaves the hope of achieving freedom is a great motivator. They have been using this to spur their suicide army which is being fed by various routes, the route we will investigate during this mission and the one that ends up in Canos where the slaves are prepared to serve in the army."
"Canos is becoming one of the busiest towns in Mirue because of the influx of slaves being sent there, they are not being taken to be trained. Slaves are mostly fighters plus a few mages on mine, but they are not our focus, fighters go through an assessment upon arriving in Canos."
"But the reason we're going there isn't to destroy the slave supply of Mirue's realm army, as that would be too stupid. Attacking the city would only momentarily impede the flow of slaves, even if the city were destroyed another city would take its place. Stopping the slaves is a task that would never end."
"Our objective is related to the operation of normalization of slaves for war, from the clues and reports that the spies have recovered we believe that a group of cultists only infiltrated the city of Canos to divert resources for their attack on the three kingdoms."
"Our mission is to capture or eliminate the cultist or cultists responsible for this, as well as find out where the slaves are headed. We believe they are being used by a group of necromancers or plague mages, also the possibility is for another purpose, but this is unlikely."
"But the fact that these slaves are being used as materials is not uncertain, our mission is to eliminate our enemies and recover as much information as possible from their operation, and also we must not be discovered by our target or by the kingdom of Mirue, but I I don't think this is shocking to any of you. In case I think we can't complete the mission without breaking our cover we'll back off, starting a diplomatic incident now isn't smart."
"During this quest we are going to have a guest from the temple of the goddess Helen, so all of you must keep your identities a secret from our guest. He is not our ally nor will he help us during the mission, he will watch over us and serve as a witness of our operation in case everything goes wrong."
"Witness? How would their presence protect us?"
"In case everything goes wrong, Volkan. The priest is there to confirm that we are not on a mission of sabotage but to eliminate enemies from temples and kingdoms, worshipers of evil gods who only want to cause chaos and death on a grand scale because of war."
"So, during the mission don't try to do or say anything that could be seen as harmful to our enemies, I know. It's very weird to invade the enemy realm during an open war and don't screw with it if the opportunity presents itself, but that's for the safety of the entire team."
"If we are caught or captured, we can claim that the temples have given us permission to hunt down the cultists worshiping an evil god within their realm, the priest who must not die during the quest is a witness and proves that the temple of the goddess Helen is in protecting."
"Why isn't this quest done by members of the goddess Helen's temple? The threat from the cultists seems real enough as the temple is sending a spy priest."
"I can't say that it wouldn't make sense for the templars to be sent to solve this problem created by the cultists, but I also don't have to point out to you that it makes sense for the temples to try to sacrifice our lives to cleanse the cultists rather than risk the life of their own. folks, we can't cup them so as we would do the same in their place, it's really unfortunate when you're on the weaker side of a situation."
"Who is the priest who will watch over us? What is his skill level? It would be really bad to have some other weak link in the team, and I say this without intending to offend you, Ulric, you are very useful, but not during combat."
Annoying goat, but his concern is one I share. It would be really bad to have a weak member along with the group even if he isn't going to fight, I hope he at least has the ability to hide himself.
"I will ignore the cruel comment that denigrates a teammate, that's not cool Jordan, even if you're speaking the absolute truth, it's not cool to point out a teammate's weaknesses for your amusement, but constructive criticism is always welcome. "
"But back to the temple spy, sorry, I mean the witness who comes from Helen's temple to accompany us is a battle priest. I don't know his name because like us his identity is hidden, but I was informed of his capabilities."
"He's an agile warrior of the shadow element, although he's not meant to help us in combat, he won't get in the way either. He's responsible for his own safety, so we don't have to protect him, but you have to not put him at risk during combat."
"If he dies, we're all screwed. So, try to keep him out of harm's way by keeping him away from the group, that won't be difficult as he will likely be in Ulric's shadow at all times."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I think I was quite direct, the priest will stand in your shadow, Ulric. Of course, he won't follow you during reconnaissance, but during battles or in 'free' time the priest has to stay in your field of vision, Ulric, if you're far away someone in the group has to keep an eye on the priest, it will probably be Milena or Mia."
"I thought he's going to be accompanying us to be a witness, because it looks like we have to treat him like a prisoner? Can he order the mission to be canceled or give orders in the name of the goddess Helena?"
"From the goddess? No, but he can invoke the authority of a bishop since he is a representative of Bishop Paul. He cannot order us to do a specific task, but he can claim that our current actions are not prioritizing the capture or elimination of the cultists but the interests of the realm, and that would be bad for everyone."
"So, you guys really have to behave yourself, don't even make funny comments or anything like that that could be misunderstood. We don't know what kind of person this priest is, if he is one of those fanatics or takes the rules of his goddess to the letter which I think is unlikely since this type of person is not trained or placed for this type of mission, but as that possibility still exists and I don't want to offend our watchman."
"But leaving the new unit addition aside, we're not sure who our target is and that's where surveillance and exploration come in. Upon entering the city in separate groups, Ulric will be responsible for analyzing and studying each of the possible targets for suspicious signals, for those who do, a surveillance duo will be assigned and we will raid their properties to uncover more clues."
"Only after making sure, we have the identity of those who are diverting slaves to be used as ingredients by a cult or society full of sick motherfuckers, will we make our move. Even I want to make it clear that we must not interfere in the war, but nothing prevents us from keeping an eye on all operations in the city."
"Ulric and Mia, during reconnaissance I want you to try to locate weaknesses in city defenses, buildings and streets that are involved in the slave trade, we cannot interfere further this does not mean we cannot gather information about the operation of the slave trade. city, but remember not to talk about it during the mission, I don't want the priest to dare that we're doing recon."
"Remember this mission is different from the last missions our ultimate goal is not to destroy the hidden slave smuggling but to find out more about the enemy operation, the more information we get from the cultists the greater the chance we have to find out what they are planning."
"In the best case they are simply stealing slaves, in the worst case they have more plans about taking advantage of opportunities created or that will be created because of the war. Put on your masks and remember not to take them off in front of the priest, he has just been called into this room to join us."