Chapter 279 - One thought ahead

"What?" Bittore yelled and almost fell down badly as she tried to sit, this piece of information indeed came in as a shocker.

"Well, I figured that I shouldn't rush with the information. You have 3 days, I don't think 300 Soldiers will prove as a problem for you." Answered Commander Alia feeling a bit confused of her reaction, "Why would a woman who exploded an entire Kingdom of dangerous Snow Ignites fear a small Army?"

Commander Alia does carry a point here, I mean how much had 4 Domains to sacrifice just to kill 800 enemy Soldiers? 3 Fire Controllers had to be included in such a battle along with 51 absolute man/woman beasts. Yet they barely won.

And Bittore with the help and sacrifice of the 14 ladies managed to wipe out an entire Kingdom using nothing but an Ignite Gem. Who else would have such grand levels of knowledge? Even the Grand King seems unaware both of how they practically bombed a Kingdom and how they defended the same Kingdom against thousands without facing any military losses!

"This is no time to throw words around." Bittore replied with a bit of rage as she violently took a peek towards Commander Alia, "No matter if 300 or 30, they are a threat to my people. You should have made it as a main priority, a main topic even if the soldiers were 3 months away."

Odd enough, Bittore is making a lot of sense and Commander Alia found herself at a loss for words. Feeling guilty for a bit before she gently replied, "Well that's my bad. I'll face those enemies along with you. In fact I did before."

"How did you do it before? This is your first time up here, I never saw you before." Asked Bittore feeling a bit confused, obviously misunderstanding what Commander Alia meant.

"That is true, but I caused them a bit of a situation to fill their hands. Why else would I be 3 days ahead of them up here?" At that wonderful piece of information, Bittore finally felt relief and indeed became more and more sure to trust this lady. I mean why wouldn't she? Alia defended Maleemia, or at least tried too days earlier before she got here and was introduced to the people here.

"What did you do to them?" She asked a bit more kindly now and Mogranius became a bit shocked too.

To face 300 people alone? It certainly requires some guts and is at some aspects crazy. "Yes, what did you do? That sounds completely dangerous." He became concerned, what if her fate became different from what it is now? Would it be pleasurable to see the woman he loves, as a corpse laid in these mountains? Of course not, "I'm just glad you made it out alive." He added at last, and finally letting her speak.

She tried to explain, but the moment she was about too her word kept getting cut by a complaining 59 year old man. "Relax, I didn't even have to kill any of them!"

"Then how did y..." Bittore tried to ask but Commander Alia already prepared an answer.

"Some Blue Eagles were following us already, we tossed our backpacks full of food all over the Soldiers' heads!" She answered with a bit of a smirk across her lips, as she got a better whiff of the food here.

"That's my lady!" Mogranius added proudly as he gave her another hug once he sat close to her.

"Yes yes... Do we have any food here, we haven't eaten in three days!" She asked as kindly as a lady with an headache caused by hunger can ask. She already took a whiff of the fried meat nearby, she feels sure that there is food here.

As she took a peek back at Mogranius, she figured out that he has already stood up and has approached a stack of meat a few meters away from the Fire. He returned a few seconds later and dropped a Kilogram heavy chunk of meat on her lap, "Chuck down on that, it tastes horrible but..."

Mogranius didn't even have to finish his sentence, Commander Alia has kept her patience and manners until now but her teeth sunk in deep in the Ratbug meat the second she got a hold of it. With meat in her mouth, chewing a bit fast she spoke. "Food is food."

Afterwards carrying another kilogram of meat he walked towards Ada and handed it to her. Odd enough, even as a child who didn't eat for 3 days, her manners remained admirable.

She grabbed the meat which was handed to her and gently grabbed a small piece without a rush. Looking at such patience, Osira thought to herself. "I get why he likes her, who else would be able to be this patient? This other lady is likely over 40 yet look at her manners."

She thought all of that, but when it comes to speech she too became as quiet as Eric, just another person listening in the background. But there is a major difference here, Eric is standing there listening to the conversation while Osira is standing there with her feelings hurt in a rather strong level.

"I think Mogranius killed that Ratbug himself, I know it tastes too sour but you'll get used to it." At this point it was a bit hard to determine if she was talking about the meat or her attitude.

But it was made clear differently, with an apology. "I'm sorry for yelling, I do anything to keep my people safe but looks like you did it for me."

Already having 1/3 of the Kilogram of Ratbug meat eaten, she just raised her head from her meal for a short while and answered with a bit of food hanging from her mouth. "You're welcome."

With that over with, Bittore decided to not waste any more time and cut to the case immediately. "I think we should wipe these ones out of existence as well, Osira what do you think? This will be good practice for you."

At this case she also wanted to point out that Osira is a leader here and remind it to the rest who already knew it, specifically Eric. She did not yet want to give up on the thought of Eric and Osira being together forever and ruling this domain together.

But where was Osira? Here with her body but elsewhere with her thoughts, buried in sorrow at the thought of having her little crush already taken away from her hands before she even tried anything and yes the fact that an ill.u.s.tratio succeeded her made her feel a lot worse and stupidly dropped down her self esteem.

"Osira?" Called her mother again, trying to grab her attention after figuring out that she is a tad lost in her thoughts. "Do you think we should suffocate the enemies?"

"Um... yes of course." She answered as her eyes directed towards Bittore, figuring out that she zoned out there for a little while. "Why would we even risk anything else."

"Well then it is settled, you will handle this situation. It is a small army, you can handle it just fine." Here she wanted to boast about Osira more and more even though her tone remained firm and serious. This is indeed a grand level of social manipulation but no one keep statistics on that.

Oddly disagreeing even though he would finally see how these ladies do their signature attack, Mogranius shouted his suggestion. "That's a very bad idea."

Trying to keep her patience about her idea being called bad after finally putting the plan behind her, she asked gently. "Why is it a bad idea?"

"Well it is because if you keep killing them, new badges of Soldiers will never stop coming up here. They will never leave you alone." He did make a firm point, but what difference did it make in the middle of hot heads?

"I don't care how many come up here, they will all die at our hands." Proved Bittore how hot headed she is, and of course depended on the capabilities she and her team has. "Won't it be better to weaken all that big Army?"

"You've weakened the army already, now we need to assure that no one tries to conquer this place." Answered Mogranius, rubbing his temples a bit to think it through and finally added. "But if they come here and see that there no longer is a Kingdom to invade, they will go report back to their Kings and no one would come up here again."

Hard to argue with such a good idea, she gave it a bit more thought and answered with a sigh. "Alright!" Afterwards continuing, "We will do it your way, but if the Army tries to climb up here..."

"We will shoot them down, that would be as easy as "suffocating" them." He air poked, and already thinking ahead with this plan now where most are focusing on boy girl drama, he recommended. "We also need to get rid of all that melted Iron on the rocks, even a moron can figure out that there is something wrong down there."