When I return to my office I saw Mr.Soreso's secretary waiting for me inside, she seems to have just arrived as well.
"Hello Ms. Secretary, what brings you here?"
I said while putting perfume on my self and looking at the mirror.
I'm good for today.
"The Chairman said that the strategy meeting will be held at the upper floor of this building. The participants has already arrived along with Mr. David who was summoned by his father."
I immediately look at her after hearing the name of the person who should not participate in this meeting.
"Did the Chairman said anything on why he is letting David participate in this meeting?" I ask.
"I am not sure but he did mention that all second batch dungeon in the Mindanao except for one low level gate that they keep for observation has been dealt with. Hunters there are closing dungeon gate one after another."
I see, then he probably thinks that it's better for David to play an active role than not, so he could get recognition from it.
The huge push to this kind of thinking is probably the knowledge that someone could take over the Mindanao's defense if we are not there and an emergency arise. He's probably thinking of making Charlie and Clark who can transform into S rank as immediate counter measures for dungeon related emergency.
Well, Mr. Soreso knows what his doing and the risk that follows it, I'll just keep that mana stones in my pocket world so if something where to happen, I have spare mana to use.
"Well thank you for everything. I'll proceed to the meeting room now."
I then activated my magic and teleport to the meeting room.
I saw all the S rank here seated along with some guests and the secretary of defense. The way I look at it we are still not complete since there are still some vacant seats.
"Am I late? Sorry, I have some work to finish first before coming here." I said and bowed to the people inside.
"You are not late, we are still waiting for other people to arrive before we can start." Said by someone who I think is the organizer and speaker for this strategy meeting.
"Okay đŸ‘Œ" I then seated on the seat next to David.
"Hey why are you here?" I asks.
"My father told me to come here and attend the meeting as well. He didn't explain things to me, he even told me to leave my tasks for today to my new secretary." He said.
"I'm sure he wants you to join tomorrow's subjugation. But I don't know exactly why, although I have my own thoughts in the matter."
I stopped and look at him. He was wearing a semi formal attire. His bulging muscles is screaming under his clothes. And he is very handsome.
Only Makoy the light speed hero could rival his looks in this entire room.
"Is your secretary pretty? If you find her attractive please tell me immediately so I could stop seeing you already."
He look at me with his sharp eyes, he's definitely not happy to what I just said.
"You won't even hesitate to dump me? You won't even fight for my love?" He said.
"I've matured already, if you find someone better than me then I'll accept it. But if that happens please tell me immediately so I could look for someone that could replace you as well."
"You are a total shit. You didn't even like me."
"Of course I do but there is no way that it would be the same for you. I'm sure that one day you will surely look for a female companion after you get tired of me. That's a typical thing to happen here in the Philippines."
He look at me with dissatisfied look. After that he look at the front wearing his stern face.
"You didn't trust me do you?" He asks.
And I didn't reply.
How could I trust the words of someone like him? He lived in a society where same sex relationship is considered as abnormal. He's been straight his entire life as well, no one knows when will his mind change. I actually have a bad feeling about his secretary after looking how David looks right now. I don't know but my intuition says so.
"Let's talk about it later." He said while looking around.
I also look around and saw several people arriving and seated the vacant seats.
"Ok, now that everyone is present we will not begun the meeting." Said the speaker and begun showing us the entire image of Marinduque Island from above.
There are zombies walking all over the place and there is no single infrastructure that is left standing. I guess the dead came back again after I unleash my devastating spell that no infrastructure in Marinduque could defend against.
"As you can see from the picture, there is no presence of the Lich out there. We confirmed that the Lich returned to the dungeon gate after Mr.Archie unleash his spell and never come out again."
Everyone look at my direction but I only look at the screen in front of me and ignored their gazes.
"The Lich didn't retract his skeleton minions and he could bring them all back again as long as the Lich has mana just like what he did in just few minutes after Archie's spell ended." She added.
"Now let's talk about the Lich abilities first. As you can see, the Lich has the ability to bring back the dead and control them. Those skeletons look like a puppet without memories or will of their own. He could also summon skeletons as his army."
The image shift to a place where the Lich is in the cemetery performing some magic.
"Also, his skeletons have mana of their own and their ranks varies from E-G rank. Some dead awakened also contributed to the forces of the Lich and they retain their power ranks which makes the Lich formidable since the awakened who died there are several C and B ranks with 2 A rank awakened reported as well."
People begun whispering about their worries on the danger that it implicates.
There are 4 S-rank death knight guarding the Lich already, having A ranks and B ranks awakened added will increase the danger level of the mission by several times already.
The Lich is already at the peak of being an S-rank himself, it's not even an exaggeration to say that it can be considered as SS rank already if not for the fact that we use mana to measure someone's danger level. Aside from that it could use magic as well so battling it would be impossible if either one or both I or David decided not participate.
"The Lich has 4 death knights protecting him, each would rank as S-class while the Lich himself is the peak of the S-class. Those 4 death knights could use sword related skills as well and the Lich could use support magic to boost them according to the report made by the Light Speed Hero, Makoy Dela Cruz after engaging them in battle."
The screen shows images of the 4 death knights and the Lich as well as some images of the fight.
"Can I invite you Mr.Archie to share your findings about the Lich's abilities that we haven't mention here after encountering the Lich?" The speaker said and someone handed me the microphone.
I don't remember being asks to share the informations regarding my encounter of the Lich before. That's why they didn't have information from me.
I stood up in my seat and talk.
"I only exchange some few magic blows to the Lich so I don't know much about it's ability. But there is one thing that is certain, he could use short range teleportation and could use dark magic, but I feel like he could still do more. I think he could do the same things as I do as well."
Everyone is in shocked after hearing my words. After all I am the strongest person in this Nation and if I said that there is a hostile entity out there who could do the same thing as I do, obviously they will become worried.
"Are you sure about that?" Makoy asks despite being a little bit far from where am I.
"Yes I'm sure of it. That one is definitely a sorcerer as well just like I do. But the only thing that differs us is the amount of mana. If he has the same mana as I do then there is no doubt that he can burn the entire Philippines. Don't worry, his spells is a downgraded version of mine."
"You are the only person here who has the audacity to tell everyone that the Lich is only a downgraded version of you."
David said next to me but it is not loud enough that others could hear. But those who are near us could surely hear what he said.
"If you fought him while he is only just using Ice Magic, you probably would realize that his spells is inferior to yours." I added