After telling them everything that happened inside the abyss everyone seemed a little more relaxed, they knew that we had lost a great capacity for self-sufficiency but in exchange we get power, immense power.
Then I turned to Balthazar, although we had the knowledge to do the teleportation formations, it was just how to do it, someone with more capabilities could see further than that.
For example: a person could see that he has a thousand euros in his account, but an investor would see all the possibilities of multiplying that figure. In this case it was similar and I liked the answer.
- Sir, this knowledge is perfect and the materials to create these formations can be summed up in 2, which we have, the first a source of magic and of great capacity, in other words the crystals and lastly ourselves. Due to the divine mastery of the power of space, our bodies are the perfect catalyst to use this magic. In other words, we can create the rudimentary formations right now, I can even create a formation in which only we intervene, in this way we will not need any means to move immediately in case of emergency, although before that we need to create a formation with crystals to be able to use it as a point of return, apart from that is the limitation of distance, with these formations we will not be able to cross huge areas, it is limited to about 100 or 150 kilometers at most, I suggest we prepare a network of hidden teleports, although it will be very difficult to keep them in the shadows, their high concentration of magic will be visible to the enemy mages, almost like a lighthouse in the night - As always, so direct and passionate about magic, in other things not, but for this he is serious.
Contemplating the possibilities I asked.
- In that case, how many crystals do we need to transport, how long would it take to set up the formations and more importantly, how long does the escape formation take to activate? - These were the doubts I was most concerned about, whether it was logistics and accessibility.
Balthazar seemed to be thinking, after a couple of minutes of silence, he answered.
- The crystals are the least of it, we still don't know if we can break them to use them, but small ones no more than a finger long are enough, we will need 6 to make the formation. In our cases, in our own formation, it takes about 3 minutes to prepare it and 1 second to activate it, that yes, in the formation there will be a pivot, someone has to be the center of the formation, that center is the one that controls it and also the one that directs the mana of those involved, it is also the most dangerous place in the formation, until we have more knowledge about the space, I will not be able to solve this part. In any case I recommend you my lord to be this pivot -.
Before certain people rushed to break it into pieces, I stopped them, Balthazar seemed to have gained the strong impulse to put me in the middle of the danger, but returning to seriousness, it is also true that I am again the most indicated to be in it, since we do not know what price the abyss will ask for resurrecting them and in my case it is free and almost at once, although I must admit that I felt like hitting him for his reasonableness.
He could at least dissimulate it and give me a hint....
With that said, it was time to prepare our departure, now that we have strength, we lack numbers and the only way to grow in population without more guardians of the abyss is from the vassalage, we will have to find allies who decide to be our vassals, in this way their population will count as ours, is the only way that at higher levels meet the needs of population.
At that point the first thing is to get these vassals and for that I already had a plan, this I have thought since I knew that we could not increase the population, although I hoped to get less power and more numbers, before having to do so.
The plan consists of several steps, although it can be summarized quickly, help someone strong in exchange for fame. In other words, be mercenaries or the elite of a faction, this way we will be safe while researching our strength, we can also get experience without bringing much hatred towards us, another point is to meet more people, in large factions you can find great wars and missions, and if there is something in these are people, soldiers and generals, if we can put a few under our wing, we will have the necessary population.
And precisely, the one to whom we are going to offer our services is relatively close, the little emperatrix, the first reincarnated. I understand that she is quite intelligent for her age, although in this world she will be almost three years older than she would have been on earth.
But before we go we have to secure the abyss....
After waiting for Balthazar to obtain the necessary crystals, we began to move, our Bioarmor not only allowed the use of these clothes, but it could modify it slightly, now Balthazar, in the inner layer of the raincoat, had some small holes where to safeguard the crystals.
It was time for a visit to our neighbors.
With Saun's reports, we learned that they focused only on fishing and storing food, but they had something very strange, that there were no children, or elderly, only the perfect people to do manual labor, that means only one thing, it is an artificial village in 90% of the possibilities.
With that we decided to introduce ourselves.
It didn't take us long to reach its coast, with one look I knew it wasn't a normal village, its houses were huts with shell-shaped and round upper areas, that was an aesthetic of its own, for that you need time and resources, the strangest thing was its wall, although generic, it could still keep animal class beasts and some superior ones, that attested by the marks on it.
But how can a fishing village develop enough to gain the aesthetics of their race and defend themselves from continuous attacks, with that, just by fishing? The answer is that it can not, the only way is that this people come from a larger faction, with more knowledge and then they were placed here, surely not even they know how to build this type of housing or the wall, hence this is still with large marks without being repaired.
Without any fear, since we had not yet moved away from the limit of the curse, we began to approach their mini dock, being obviously seen.
They seemed somewhat frightened, but mostly still serene, that intrigued me quite a bit, to get that contradictory behavior, their master must have won a battle recently and obtained the [Courage] passive temporarily.
That alone was the final confirmation.
Without asking permission, we jumped out of the water into the sand, it was the first time for my companions so I let them get used to their two feet.
I have to say that our tentacles, just like when we were abyssal, emulated a tail when we swam in the water, another interesting point.
After entering land, [all-terrain] activated, our tentacles melted into our coccyx and instead of flesh and bone, they transformed into chains, these were like our tails and we were free to use them.
At that moment one of them approached us with a smile.
- Dear nobles, I am the chief of this village of humble fishermen, could you tell us what in our poor and calloused hands we can do for you - Flattered and at the same time showing their inferiority, even having more numbers than us, but that was the effect of the Bioarmor, it looked like very high quality clothing, anyone with the ability to make clothes like that in times of war, where development is so backward shows the power behind us.
But their well prepared speech was also a sign that they are part of a civilized group, so now all that was left was to get information.
Calmly and with a touch of kindness I responded.
- I am very sorry for intruding, we are lost, we are looking for the city of the little empress, I hope you can guide me - With my answer I could notice a sporadic change of expression, but it was Lint who spoke in my ear, who clarified everything.
He had seen, relaxation, arrogance and anger, within the anger also a touch of murderous aura.
In other words, these people were in conflict with the little empress, or rather her faction.
The village chief kept smiling as he answered me.
- The city of the young emperatrix, is located 1200 kilometers to the north, approximately, if you just follow the coast you can find it after a few weeks of travel, also allow me in courtesy to advise you, even if this was our discretion your wishes in going there, we recommend you to be careful, lately it is an unruly area, a few weeks ago a traveler passed through our village, bringing news from there, apparently the emperatrix has offended a large group of dreamers and there is even talk of war - Although the village chief seemed concerned, Lint told me that I notice mockery, when he spoke of the emperatrix offending the dreamers.
In that case, all I had to do was to discover the cake.
- Mr. village headman, since that is the case where could I go to take our merchandise nearby, do you know of any place? - As I asked him, even I could notice the happiness on his face, even in the other members of the village.
- Hahaha, a wise young merchant, the war could destroy your merchandise, but this boss knows where he can go and get a good price, 800 kilometers northeast of here, is the small central city of a group of dreamers, their flag is a black shell, maybe he knows them - And with that there was no longer any doubt, The black shell is one of the largest Chinese coalitions, one that has always rivaled the emperatrix because of its proximity and her enormous power, besides that their cities dispute trade, but the emperatrix is more famous and being a reincarnated, she has the favor of the advanced reincarnated and has gotten trade deals from some of the neutral faction.
It was already clear to whom this town belonged, surely it is a lookout point in case the little emperatrix makes moves in the south.
Now that I had the information. It was time to get to the main point, to protect the abyss.
- Thank you very much village chief, it is very kind of you, but...- At that moment it was Lint the first to move, it seemed that he was watching my emotions from the beginning and he knew what I was going to order.
He jumped forward and hit the head of the village chief, tearing it off without hindrance, the 600 points of attack, were absurd, even though the turtle races, have a lot of defense, which are 100 points against 600, absolutely nothing.
The others came out of their stupor immediately and a carnage began, each one using either their hands, the chains for tails or summoning our own chains, these come out of the Bioarmor as well.
The reason they had died was not for lying to us, or for being part of the Chinese coalition, it was simply for being close to the abyss, this was the result of their bad luck.
Obviously I didn't flinch at the carnage, I was a veteran player to some extent and my mission was to hunt the prey of the coalition I stayed with, so I was already used to blood or even destroying a village for a petty and stupid reason, but in this case, it was harder to see it, that was because it was no longer a game for me, now it was my life.
Now without the village, no one will look for the abyss or find it unintentionally, this will give us time until we are stronger and can build a fortress city on top of it.
Or at least for Demora and us to become strong enough so that no one will come to bother us.