Geode's face contorted angrily for a moment. "I am the Golem Origins Deity- Erm.. Geode. I have created all that is, and ever will be on this paltry planet, and you would do well to respect that, worm." He paused and his eyes went dark. "Even if I've lost every last shred of my power.."

Oz beamed up at that and soothed the megalomaniacal statue. "Oh come now. Look on the bright side, you still have your awesome galactic eyes. I've never seen anyone with something like that!"

Geode grunted and crossed his arms in a fuss. "Shut up."

Jenso turned to Geode and frowned. "I don't see how much more I can train...though I suppose I could try training the form that I used to fight you. Alvios and Oz have seen it, too. I can't use it recklessly, though...if I'm not careful, Yzeira will end up ripping me apart when it runs out." Jenso said to him, and turned towards the others.

"When we face off against the Order, I want you guys to avoid killing Nexus. He's my friend, and one of the Order of Chaos. He wears armour and blue eyes and clothing. It's possible that he'll fight you guys against his own will under Yzeira's orders, so try to subdue him if you can. Only kill him when you don't have any other choice." Jenso explained to his companions. "And...there's also the matter of Dacer. He is still under Adarine's mind control, and according to what Jeff's told me, she uses some kind of candle to control him. We'll have to destroy that candle if he want to save Dacer. He's really powerful, so be careful." Jenso stated.

Jenso remembered Lark's final request to him as he died. 'I'll definitely keep my promise to you, Lark...I'll save him, no matter what!'

"That form is worthless," Geode grunted, "You are not a Gaian. If I'm not mistaken, it must have been gifted to you through unorthodox means. If you use that form, you will die," Geode admitted, without a second of delay. "You're forgetting the most important factor here. Stamina. If the members of the order are similar to me, they'll have a limitless supply of natural energy. And from my observation of our battle, you can only hold that form for 3 minutes without losing a substantial amount of stamina, with a maximum of ten minutes, assuming you wish to die. You won't be able to win against any of the order members if you fight them head on without a strategy." Geode crossed his arms and sat straight in his chair. "Pair that with the fact that you are, honestly, out-matched in terms of raw power, and this entire campaign is futile."

After gazing at the hole in the sky and typing in various things into a tablet he had on him and snapping a picture or two, Jeff turned his focus back to the group and came back inside shooting his grappling hook out to grab ahold of Alvios' hand and shake it. "oh yeah, I don't think we've had a chance to get aquainted." He said before releasing the chain's grip and retrating the device as he walked over. "I'm Jeff, guildmaster, wind sage, and master of techonolgy. Pleasure to make your aquiantance."

Alvios yanked his hand away, looking at the hook shot past him and back at Jeff, incredulous. "What? What kind of greeting is that?! Was that supposed to be a handshake?! It doesn't take that much effort to walk around a table!" Alvios leaned back, crossing his arms. "If you're a 'Master of technology', just tell me. I don't try to cut off your head to show you I'm a swordsman, do I?"

Jenso nodded at Geode. He knew that a lot of the things Geode said came out of spite and because Geode underestimated him, but he raised some good points. He couldn't fight Yzeira carelessly, after all. He had to be the leader of the Order of Chaos for very good reasons, and he needed to be careful. He was far more perceptive than both Rajaka and Adarine had been, and more calm and calculated than Prisma was. "You're right...I can't attack him without a good plan in mind. But what plan would work against someone like Yzeira?" Jenso questioned. "I also don't know a lot of his powers, and I'm sure that he knows a whole lot about me. And that puts me at a big disadvantage." He added.

As Alvios spoke to Jeff, Jenso turned around and walked up to them. He rose his fist and smashed the table to pieces. "And I do fist to fist combat!" Jenso shouted happily.

Oz looked down at the remainder of breakfast scattered on the floor and frowned. "And.. I wasn't done eating."

Alvios took one very long, hard, judgmental look at Jenso, taking in a deep breath to quell his frustration. "I would appreciate it, Jenso, if you and your friends decided to not show off in Melina's inn. Between giving free food and lodgings to five--" Alvios paused, looking over at Geode. Four people, and now having to pay for anything that breaks, you'll run the poor girl out of business before the world ends."

Jenso frowned at Alvios. "Sorry...I thought we were all going to show off what we could do.." Jenso muttered, dashing towards the bar. Jenso reached into his pocket and put a small bag of gold on it. "This should be enough...both for the damages and for the inconvenience!" Jenso shouted at Alvios. There had to be about 30 gold in there! He dashed back to his companions. "Uh...sorry Oz.." He added, referring to the fact that he was still eating earlier.

"Ah yes, my bad, I just get caught up in the moment sometimes that I just tend to do stuffs." Jeff responded as he did his best to laugh off Alvio's reaction to the grappling hook. "Plus, I was planning to leave a generous donation to this place anyways. This food is five stars and I could see myself coming back to eat here at least once to twice a month." Jeff then proceeded to drop a bag of gold next to the one Jenso placed.
"So does anyone have any plans on how we are going to invade this place? Regardless, I suggest we at least try to quickly make a stop to techmo from here and grab Bruce. He on the same level of power we all are and has been on standby for this to go down since meeting Jenso."

Alvios' jaw widened as he saw both Jenso and Jeff both drop rather weighty bags of gold onto the counter. Melina would be able to refurbish the entire inn with the coin from those two.

If they lived long enough to see it. Alvios began chuckling to himself, before laughing outright. "I'm sitting here and complaining about broken tables and bad manners when the end of existence is just floating up in the sky above us. Doesn't matter much what we break or burn in the short time we have left--" Alvios stopped immediately, and looked Jenso dead in the eye.

"I am being figurative. Don't start burning or breaking anything."

Alvios cleared his throat, and looked over at Mikey. "Speaking of plans and people, you've been awfully quiet. More quiet than the living statue, and that has to be worth something."

Mikey lifted his head up in surprise, and then smiled nervously. "Oh! Uh, well I've got nothing to really add here, honestly. I mean, aside from my understanding of Arcane energy and Ki, I guess. It sounds like we don't really know anything about our opponents, except for the basic idea of what they can do..? So, uh, anything I'd have to offer might not even be that useful..." Mikey paused and looked to Jeff. "Still, I think Jeff has a point. We should get back to the hero guild and plan from there. We have a lot of resources at our disposal, after all. We might be able to scout the tower.. From the sounds of it, we have at least a week to prepare, right?" He said, looking to Geode. Geode nodded and glared at Alvios.

"One, two, maybe three weeks. If you can incapacitate Yzeira for even a moment, the rift in the sky should repair itself in a manner of minutes. That's the real goal, here." Geode paused and looked out the window. "Of course, if you don't kill off the entire order, you'd only be prolonging the inevitable."

Jenso listened well to what everyone had to say. "Yeah...Mikey and Jeff are right. We should head to Tech-mo and prepare properly. I wasn't well prepared when I ran into Geode's trap where he removed the oxygen in the room, and it nearly got me killed. We can't afford to make any mistakes. From here on out...It's win or die. We have to be prepared to kill our opponents if needed. We can't hold back even the slightest bit." Jenso added, and began heading towards the exit of the tavern. "Let's go meet up with Bruce. I think it's a good idea if he's informed about all the recent stuff that's been going on, as well."

The crew made their way back to Tech-Mo as quickly as they could. With the help of Jeff's newest airship, it was child's play. They made it back to Tech-Mo is less than an hour, and met up with Bruce back at Jeff's hero guild. With everyone together, the preperations could go underway.

Before the final stages of planning were set into motion, Jenso made contact with Luke and the diver's paradise, giving Luke a spot at the war-table for the battle at hand. He arrived quickly, with his repaired lightning rifle at the ready, along with a selection of artefacts for use in the future. To Jenso's surprise, another face showed up at the war-table meeting. Ross! He was eager to join in on the fight, even if his energy was only a fraction of what it was before the tournament. He would do what he could.

When everything was prepared, the war-table was complete. At the front, sat Jeff, overlooking the massive oval-table with Jenso on the opposite side. In the middle, a massive hologram of the beach where the tower of chaos was located popped up. Thanks to Jeff's robotic scouts, they were able to get a detailed layout of the battlefield...



Thanks to a discussion between Mikey and Jeff, it became clear that Mikey's knowledge of strategy was to be respected. As the meeting began, Mikey took the podium, as co-owner of the hero guild, and prepared his announcement.

"Thank you for coming, everyone..." Mikey started. He looked down at everyone that was present.

Jenso, the golden hero. Their most powerful asset they had, and the reason they were all sitting together, against the order of chaos.

Jeff, the wind sage guardian. Head of the tech-mo science and robotics division, and the hero guild's leader.

Bruce, the wandering earth sage, a resolute force against the evils in the world that seek to enact wretched destinies.

Alvios, scion of light. The shining hero of Corona who's morals and power fight for justice and righteousness.

Oswald, the fist of Kario. A man who's strength seeks to crush darkness and pave a way for peace.

Luke, Paradise's paragon. A man who seeks to do whatever it takes for the greater good, the leader of Diver's paradise, and Jenso's father.

Geode, Golem Origins Deity. The creator of all mankind, trapped in the body of the servant who betrayed him, with knowledge of the void that greatly benefits their efforts.

And Ross, of course, with knowledge on Gaians, and their abilities.

And of course, Mikey, their official strategist.

"Before we discuss anything, let me review what we already know." Mikey pointed forwards to the hologram in the center of the table, which dipped down into an overhead view. "As you can see, the tower of chaos is positioned on the top of this large patch of lang that stretches off the edge of this beach, into a chasm. It's the high ground, literally, and overlooked the surrounding area. The tower itself is..." He paused and gulped. "It's at least 100 stories high, and nearly a kilometre thick. From what our scouts could discern, the walls are made of some... Alien stone. We don't know how strong it is, or what its properties are. Long range attacks might be effective, but there's no way of actually knowing."

"Next up, the terrain surrounding the tower," Mikey pointed against, moving his finger across the field. "There is a large, open field with several patches of trees scattered across it. The field seemed war-torn, and it meets the edge of the forest, here. From here, there is plenty of cover. It's likely that if we strike, it will be from the forest itself. Overall, we'll be at a disadvantage if they choose to fight outside of the, as well as if we fight inside of their tower, which we have no information on. Their homefield advantage is, to be frank, overwhelming as it stand."

"Next up, let's review our resources. First off, we have the new and improve Tech-Mo castle. Jeff has been uh.. Pretty cryptic on its capabilities, but it's mobile, and has several weapons lining its ramparts. As far as weapons go, it's our fortress. The city also has thousands of guard robots, as well as the hero guild members that number in the 100's. They are all perfectly willing to fight for us. We'll be able to scout with them as well, since everyone will be equipped with one of these." Mikey lifted his communicator, and showed it to everyone. "These communicators can be used to speak with everyone in the hero guild. They can also be used to leave messages, scan your surroundings for Arcane energy, among other things. Review them with Jeff if needed."

"In terms of trump cards, our most powerful members are Jeff, Jenso, Alvios, Bruce, and Oswald. Their abilities will improve in the coming week, but as it stands now, they will be assaulting the tower once a path is clear. If possible, they will be the only ones fighting, seeing how the rest of our men can't compare to their power levels." Mikey looked down and sighed.

"Luke has brought Jeff this, a book of artefacts researched by Bobba. Turns out, they were all arcane productions, and could easily be re-created with science! The only thing we're pulling from this for our trump cards however, are these." Mikey pulled a small pill out of his pocket and showed it to everyone. "Jeff has named it... The pilletainne. I prefer to refer to them as power pills, or PP for short. They can restore a person's Ki and Arcane energy in an instant. However, creating these is unexpectedly costly. We were only able to make 6. I will be keeping this one, and the rest will be distributed among the trumps. They are an extra life, as far as I'm concerned. In the case anyone screws up, this will heal you completely. The rest of the artefacts are being made as we speak by our head scientists. They will be equipped to the guard robots as they come out of production. To my knowledge, they are all equally, if not more powerful than Luke's Lightning rifle."

"Lastly, let us review what we've compiled on the enemy... As little as it may be."

"It turns out, our trumps have all had run ins with the order, many times in the past. Aside from Prisma, who was defeated and killed earlier this month, there are 6 members in the order. Shadra, Ada, Nexus, Rajaka, Zelriane, and of course, Yzeira."

"Shadra is a wraith-like creature, who's darkness seems to corrupt human beings. Geode has asserted that this is likely sheer void energy sickness. Void energy overpowers weak Ki sources quickly, and cannot be cured. However, unless you are plagued with a severe amount, it will not affect more powerful beings. Regardless, she is dangerous, as she can disappear, reappear, and phase through attacks with ease. Alvios has asserted that she may have to see things to phase through them, but this cannot be confirmed. Needless to say, she is possibly the most mysterious figure on their team, since we've never witnessed her do anything... Significant."

"Ada is a matter-manipulator that conjures purple Goo. Her perception appears to be phenomenal, and she can speak through some kind of magic, directly into the heads of people, from very far away. From Jenso's reports, she is a trickster, a master manipulator, and does not seem to take combat seriously. Never-the-less, she is powerful, and can take control of people's minds by... Kissing them. In doing so, she creates a candle to keep them linked permanently, but must stay within a certain range of these candles to maintain control. Perhaps the most dangerous part of her arsenal is the newly accrued Gaian, Dacer. He, on his own, is comparable to our trumps, if not even more powerful. Without his one with nature form, he shrugged off both me and Jeff while attacking Tech-Mo. With his OWN form... WE have no idea of strong he might become. Freeing him is one of our top priorities. Ada isn't likely to allow this, however. We need to find that candle, and destroy it, as soon as possible."

"Rajaka is a big, muscle-bound titan. He's huge, arrogant, stupid, and... Strong. Stronger than anyone in this room, by miles, from the sound of it. He effortlessly lifted our own Oswald's most powerful technique without breaking a sweat, and it's imagined that his strength has no limits. Taking a direct punch from him, even once, will spell your doom. But from reports, he is relatively slow. He can use ranged attacks with stunning properties, and has Ki mastery that makes my own Ki control look like child's play. We don't know much about him. Proceed with caution and take advantage of his stupidity."

"Zelriane is the smaller, faster physical fighter on their team. He can break the sound barrier, and possibly, even break the speed of light. His magic allows him to inflict severe pain that outright kills weaker individuals, and can incapacitate strong fighters. His punches are not all that strong, but they are fast, incredibly difficult to dodge, and inflict this magical poison with every strike. Not much else is known about him. He seems like the most intelligent fighter in their group, however."

"Lastly.. There's Yzeira. We don't know anything about him, aside from the fact that his magic is very deadly. He wiped out the entirety of Alvios' village, and was able to kill Jenso outright, without breaking a sweat. His limits are unknown, his capabilities are unknown, and he appears to be... Incredibly intelligent. Defeating him is out main goal, but I've gotta be honest with you... I have absolutely nothing to go on here. It's something we can't really plan for, as far as I know.."

"With all that in mind, this meeting is for the sole purpose of planning our offensive. We will be attacking their base in one week's time, and have these meetings every afternoon at 12 sharp. Today, we're looking for ways to improve, ideas, brainstorming, anything at all... Everyone has an equal voice here. Take advantage of our resources, combined intelligence, and power. That being said, does uh..." Mikey paused and scratched his head. "Does anyone have any ideas??"

Oz spoke up first. "I have a way to counter Zelriane's favorite form of attack but it comes with its own costs. I can teach it as well as help others to train using my power over the short amount of time we have." He raised his hand to his chin and thought about it a little harder. "My first few encounters with Zel have taught me some important things and I have sinced worked my ass off to find ways to overcome them. Zelriane cannot be dodged, he's too fast so you need to be able to counter this before anything else so that he doesn't simply weave through us and inflict his brand of poison before we've even started the real fight. Repulsing his ki will cost some of your own, it's essentially a flush and can be exhausting but it's going to matter when it counts."

"Having everyone learn how to do that wouldn't be a bad idea and it's a start to say the least." Jeff said as he nodded his head in agreement. "Personally though I was thinking we could do a fake attack of sorts with a small hand of robots just on the purpose of seeing how the masked folk and there tower retaliates to the attack. Given we need to make sure they have the intelligence to actually not get wrecked right away so we need to find a balance that wouldn't waste too many resources."

"Mikey has already told you what I know about Shadra's abilities. However, she also seems incredibly naive. She seemed more confused and intrigued by being around people rather than aggressive, and attacked without any preamble when I encountered her. Even if she doesn't know what you're doing, you won't know how she will react. More importantly, though...Yzeira came to Shadra's defense when I attacked, and he treated her much like a pet or child. She might be a favorite of his or something, so if Shadra is taken down early, it could hinder his stability...which could either be advantageous or more dangerous." Alvios reached to his side, the memory of his village rushing to his mind. "I've also survived one of Yzeira's attacks. Once. He might have been surprised. He left because of Shadra before deciding to finish the job though, so I'm not sure, and I also don't remember how I did it. If there's a way to manipulate our Ki to dampen his attacks potency though...it's something to think about."

Alvios paused, and looked at Mikey again, a chord striking him in the speech suddenly. "Also...what do you mean he killed Jenso? He's right here...right?