Early in the morning, official messengers were deployed from the Citadel all over Valhiem to get instructions to the leaders of the 6 Adventurer Parties that were located in various places.
The message was simple:
-All Druid Class Adventurers and Earth Domain magic users are to make their way to Golden Tree Park and report to Wartime Industrial Officials there.
-All magic users of other Domain’s are to make their way to The Academy and report to the first available Academy Official.
-All those of every Class not included above are to report to Valhiem’s Military Centre.Aside from this, there was a special message for James Sirius:
-Clarissa Shields has requested your presence at The Academy.________________________________________________________________________________________________
By around 10am, all members of the 6 Adventurer Parties in Valhiem were gathered in their designated locations...
Michael Fern was in charge of the Military Industrial Branch of the siege. He was coordinating all of the teams for the purposes of creating scaffolding, trebuchets, city-street blockades, gate reinforcements and other things.
Druids, both non-Adventurers and those coming from the Adventurer Parties, were organized to grow Oak Trees. Other workers would gather acorns for further planting. Lumberjacks were on hand to fell the trees.
On site were machine operators to create workable lumber from the trees and transports were in place to get the lumber to industry.
Michael Fern was there to greet the summoned Druid Adventurers and briefed on their task to join in the process.
“This work will run all the way up to the day of the assault,” Michael explained. “Everyone here is a volunteer, working together for our survival. But that does not mean that you must commit all of your waking hours. We understand that your magical reserves will limit your contribution in lumber creation and you must have your rest, mental and physical. As adventurers, you are not obligated to commit any of your time here. But Valhiem thanks you for anything you can contribute.
James would be escorted to the lab where Clarissa and her team were trying to work with the Mysterious Cube that Second Chance had first delivered to Valhiem, by request of Commander Vadim of the village of Hommas. After the two were introduced by the escort, Clarissa would get straight to the point.
“I’ve asked for you on the recommendation from trusted sources that you are uniquely intelligent and gifted.” She gestured to the cube that was being held in magical stasis amidst different kinds of machinery and computers. “This is technology beyond Mytheria. And you being from beyond Mytheria, puts you in a unique position to help us by providing an intellectual perspective that none of us have.”
Once all of the Adventurers were gathered at the Military Centre, Vice Commander Jeremiah came to meet them and thanked them for their presence.
“When the time for battle comes, the defense will be coordinated from Citadel Mountain by Commander Thorn using Voice Amplification to distribute overarching commands throughout our three sections; The East Flank, Centre and West Flank. Each section will be have some autonomous control by a General, who will interpret the overarching commands in context of their situation.”
He led them out onto the massive yard where soldiers were marching, going through disciplinary exercises and training. However, there were 2000 soldiers stood to attention in blocks of 100 each, waiting on Vice Commander Jeremiah and the Adventurers.
“To spread the power of our Source Crystal Users, each of you will Captain 100 men. It will be for you to fight with them, lead them and help reiterate instructions from the Chain of Command.”
The entire city garrison of 4000 men were divided into these blocks but the other half of the army had been given Captains already. Each block was not it’s own separate entity, nonetheless it was given a flag and a name for the purposes of communication.
The Vice Commander would introduce each Adventurer to a block, who would salute their new Captain. Each block would be briefed; firstly on the specific position in the city streets to gather and form up upon hearing the sounding of the alarm. Each block would be given their position amongst the East Flank, Centre and West Flank. Maps for the city were handed out, each marked with chokepoints, wall-access points and other pertinent information.
Each Captain would be given full discretion to train, prepare or address their block however they wanted. Melee and Ranged status was given to all blocks, requiring all soldiers to hold appropriate weapons for the possible range of instructions that came from the Chain of Command.
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