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  Chapter 222 Part C8

  Adventurer’s Guild

  Adventurer’s Guild Leader’s Office

  A secretary entered the room. “Sir, I’ve got a high ranking fae official that wants to speak with you. Its urgent.”

  The secretary had just poked her head in the door.

  The adventurer’s guild leader was sitting at his desk, with one of the high ranking adventuring team’s that were giving him a report. This was a popur team, that had a rge following. Young people all over the city screamed this team’s name like they were rockstars when they went out in public.

  “Tell them I’m busy. I’m in the middle of something,” the leader said.

  “What could be more busy than us reporting the sying of a high level high orc,” one of the adventurers in this meeting whispered to the other buddy next to him smugly.

  “Sir, this can’t wait,” the secretary pressed. She held a bunch of files close to her chest as she’s giving the boss a certain look.

  “Tell them, I’m busy damn it!” the leader shouted at the secretary.

  “You can’t. Its a code bck event,” the secretary told him.

  The guild leader stood up eyes wide. “Wait what? Code bck? Where?”

  “You need to take it in the spare office. If you have company...” she told him.

  “What’s a code bck?” one of the adventurers sitting there asked.

  His buddy shrugged. “Probably higher up code. Just be gd we don’t know and that they aren’t bringing us in on it. I want to go get high and get id anyway.”

  It was a team of 5 adventurers, although they’d kept it quiet that number 6 had gone missing st year. The public had the story that he was on vacation. They were trying to induce a public retions event rally with the leader. For more prestige and popurity. This team was popur also. Then they hoped to come back in a month and use that to ask for higher pay for jobs. And even ask for donations from fans.

  Although some of them just wanted to find lots of girls to fuck all the time… that was why anyone wanted to be rockstars and adventurers anyway right…?

  But now the guild leader had abandoned this popur group and gone with the secretary to a different office. Where they couldn’t be overheard.

  “You still have them on the mage mail video connection?” the leader asked as they went down the hall to a spare room.

  “That’s right. Here. This room is empty,” she said leading them into … a storage room.

  They went in and locked the door. Since both of them were having an affair in here anyway they knew it was safe to talk here. They’d been in this supply closet many times alone in fact…

  “So we have the secrecy procedure? You didn’t leak this?” the secretary asked.

  “Shit… that team in there heard it was a code bck. They’ll probably ask what that means,” the leader said.

  Despite being in charge his secretary had higher ‘rank’ in responsibility than he did.

  “OK. So you have to tell an agent to contain them,” she told him.

  “What will that entail?”

  “Not much. They’ll have a mind mage come zap that word out of their minds. And anything else for states secrets they’ll do the same,” the secretary said.

  “OK. I’m taking the call of hold now. You are live, they can hear us now,” the secretary added.

  The image on her screen changed and re-opened as she pulled the air screen up for the leader to join her on the ‘call’.

  “Hello, This is the adventurer’s guild. This is President Ky’zak’er speaking,” the leader said.

  “Hello President. Its nice to see you. I only wish we were meeting under better circumstances,” a fae general in full battle armor was on the screen. On the sides of him but facing perpendicur to him were 2 other fae, dressed in mage robes, and probably mages since only their type wore uniforms like that.

  “The feeling is mutual general. Although I’m not sure what this is about. I was told this is a code bck event?” the guild leader asked.

  “Yes. Effective immediately I’m activating your adventuring teams immediately. We need you to get them together as quick as you can. This also means secrecy and you are to operate under radio silence. Your teams will do the same,” the general said very carefully and slowly.

  “OK. Which teams do you want me to activate. We have several that have top secret clearance and certifications. I can work with them also to help coordinate with you. Just point us in the right direction,” the guild leader said.

  “Which teams? No. That’s not what I need. I need you to activate everyone. Everyone you possibly can. And not just the special teams,” the general said.

  “All of them?!” the guild leader’s eyes widened. Then he’s also seeing this is a code bck event… which is VERY bad.

  “Th-this, i-is this an invasion?” the guild leader asked shocked.

  The general didn’t reply right away. His face grimaced though, so it probably wasn’t far from the truth. Instead he looked at the mage advisors sitting close to him. One of them gave a very slow butunmistakably affirmative nod. The general turned back to the guild leader. “We’re not sure yet. Its about to be one if it isn’t. This is like discovering they are about to come over the hill. Or we think it was meant to be one that was about to kick off in probably 1 or 2 additional weeks. They had almost crippled several intelligence stations and many intelligence. We think they were going to spring the real trap over a week from now. But because we caught this before it went off we think this means it could be countered. But only if we’re careful.”

  “And that means we’d have to act quickly,” the guild leader said. “You know hazard pay and military activation require time and a half for wages on all jobs.”

  “That’s not a problem. We’re more than happy to pay the adventurer’s guild to help us in our time of need. But just a gentle reminder… if the demons get in this city, they won’t spare anyone. Not a single fae, nor a single human. They’ll cull EVERYTHING here. And what doesn’t culled will wish they had been. That’s how these vile filth operate,” the general said.

  “Your sure of this?”

  “We’ve had several real life models to study. Also the current demon princes have had the same ruler for the st 100 years. He’s sacked several cities already. That’s why we know they won’t spare anyone. I’d make sure your people know that.”

  “Do you have any specific examples?”

  “Yes. But that’s a side tangent. Can we come back to that? I’d like to get this code bck issues at once,” the general said.

  “I need to know you aren’t bull shitting me just to get our people to fight to the death,” the guild leader said.

  The general sighed. “Ask your secretary why there aren’t any gnomes anymore on this continent. She’ll tell you why. HE did that. Their current leader.”

  “Really? I’d been wondering about that.”

  “Its true. More to the point. We have to show as much strength as possible right away before they open up their fortresses. That might deter them.”

  “So this is why The General was killed wasn’t it? Its linked to this?” the guild leader asked.

  “It clearly is. We didn’t realize it at the time. But yes, bombing our head general, trying to get the 3 princes dead at the same time. And now this. Its all linked. So we need to move quickly,” the general said.

  “Fine. I’ll look into that. We’ll run the muster call now to get everyone called up. And then be on standby. But please don’t waste my men. Its not easy to repce a good adventurer or their teams,” the guild leader told him.

  The general shook his head. “You don’t understand still. I have marching orders for them also right now. This isn’t just calling them up. We need to send them into a real combat situation.”

  “Oh? Where…? And why haven’t I heard anything? I haven’t heard a damn thing. Normally before you call me I’ve already had several spies give me the information about a half hour before you get it,” the guild leader.

  “That’s because… most of our spies are dead,” the general sighed.

  “What?! This is horrible!”

  “Yes. And that’s why we need them to move fast.”

  “Why are all our spies dead?” the guild leader asked.

  “Not all, but just more than half,” the general was annoyed.

  “So how many percentage wise?”

  “I’m still getting...”

  ‘HOW many? No more bull shit,” the guild leader pressed.

  “We think its between 55 and 75 percent. But we can’t be sure till tomorrow,” the general said.

  “That many?! Why didn’t you do something about this?””

  “They were using shapeshifters to hide the holes in our ranks. We just found out the strategy. Our detectors were compromised also. This whole thing is bad.”

  “I’m mustering the order now. But I have to tell you adventurers don’t like code bck orders. It makes them feel wary. Too many of them feel like its like decring martial w. It backfires if it stays in pce too long. You’ll need to rex the order within 2 weeks or as soon as possible, whichever is shorter,” the guild leader told him.

  “Well if you don’t like that part you are going to like this other part more. The pce we’re having you send them to fight is… the Fae Federal Intelligence Building. To sy monsters, shapeshifters specifically. And the teams that go into the building can’t have females in them. The females will have to stay outside because of their charm attacks.”

  “...” the guild leader dropped his pen. Then he’s swearing.

  The connection was cut just then, neither of them knew what happened.

  …

  Elsewhere near the border fence at a certain guard tower.

  A guard tower was watching the border fence around the fae fortress carefully. Normally it was boring. The two guards were pying chess on the top, while every once in awhile using binocurs to look around.

  “Your move. Check.”

  “Damn it. You cheated!”

  “No I did not! I’d never do that.”

  “You did take my lunch the other day.”

  “Ah that. Crud. I’ll pay you back. Guess I was caught huh…?”

  “There’s not that many of us here in this border tower. You can’t hide it when you do stuff like that.”

  Then the ground started rumbling…

  “Uh… what the hell is that?”

  “Earthquake?”

  “I don’t know… I got a bad feeling about this.”