Chapter 67 Time Runs

Looking around the forest I saw that there was a rough pathway about the size of a car in width. However seeing as their technology level wasn't as high as us it was most likely that it was a route for carriages to cross over and deliver supplies to the war effort.

That meant that it would lead us further into the elves' kingdom. The only problem was that we didn't want to be spotted until we were deep enough into their territory to call ourselves orphans or something.

The only problem in our disguise was that we didn't have ears like them. While theirs were pointed like a typical elf from legend ours were rounded. If they noticed that our disguise would be blown.

Luckily though we both had long hair that we could cover our ears with, along with beautiful appearances that would help us blend in. We couldn't know if all elves were beautiful however no matter the race pretty people will always get the benefit of the doubt which is what we aimed to take advantage of.

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It took us a whole day but eventually we had reached what looked like an outpost city. It was prosperous. The walls were made of stone and the gates of metal. Everything looked pristine. There were even heavily armed guards outside greeting and letting in caravans left and right.

There must have been at least 10 caravans that had been let into the city in the time that we had been watching.

However it seemed like a sort of ID was needed to get in which we didn't have and we were still too close to the frontlines that it would be too suspicious for two travelers to be here.

Looking at Aoif I conveyed our next move, not through words but from gestures. There was no longer any need for us to converse, our actions could be accurately interpreted by the other.

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Out of the three days that we had allocated to gathering information on this realm two days had passed with us only waiting and traveling.

No information was gathered except a crudely drawn map that we had made, the strength of their soldiers, and the patrolling routes of them.

It was with a heavy heart that we had to depart, we had spent too much time here when Aoif or I could have been growing our territory.

Confirming that we were done we activated the teleportation home.

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It was after Darwin and Aoif left that I immediately got to work.

"I need you to have your workers construct better defenses, we have a limited amount of time until the invasion of this realm."

"On it" A competitive look was gathered on Melia's face. I however didn't care, if she worked harder because she thought this was some sort of competition then all the better.

After leaving I went around and gathered my pack of Kitsunes.

I had let them slack off for the past few days, seeing as I needed to tend to Darwin but now that I had some time I opted to train them.

They all had potential just like me but without Darwin they would not be able to evolve like I had. Even just a couple days after Darwin had evolved me I had grown even more in power. I had grown my power having advanced to tier 3 and grown my sixth tail.

Looking up at my subordinates they all seemed so weak to me. Ever since I had advanced to tier 3 it was like a new world had opened up to me. No longer was I worrying about my aether capacity since I could now efficiently absorb aether from the air, replenishing my reserves within seconds. The power of my abilities had grown stronger too.

Before I could only kill a few hundred in a second but now I felt like I could will out of existence thousands at the same time.

Just thinking of the potential my subordinates had for serving my lord excited me. If I could train them up to even just what I was at tier 4 then we would be unstoppable, however that wasn't going to happen, not without Darwin to evolve them.

That didn't mean that I couldn't try. A sadistic smirk found its way onto my face as I started to formulate a training plan for my subordinates.

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*BOOM* *BOOM*

Ever since Tama had gotten it into her head that she could train her subordinates up to her level the booms of explosions had not stopped.

It disrupted the focus of the humans that I was teaching. Enough that I had to erect a barrier that blocked sound.

Not that it stopped the sound from reaching my ears but the sound didn't bother me at all. Not like it bothered my students.

They had progressed well. Learning the mechanics of the turrets I wanted them to learn fast enough for me to trust them with the production of them.

By now we had 4 turrets online which was enough for now. So now I found myself explaining how the bullets are made so that they could mass produce them

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After a lengthy lecture I had finally gotten it into their skulls on how to make the bullets effectively and without accidents.

I found myself back at the research bench where I was drawing up blueprints for my gun so as to arm the humans.

"Shouldn't this make it more efficient." One of my students had popped up behind me. A rather plain black haired girl with a surprising amount of intelligence.

"No" I responded not in the mood to debate over something so obvious. Of course I had seen it and had dismissed it as being too inefficient. The amount of strength someone would need to lift that would be too much for a fleshy human.

"What if we enhanced their strength with prosthetics though, wouldn't that work" I had considered that too but it would be a whole nother project to do that which I didn't have the time for.

"Do it yourself and I'll implement the design change" However I wasn't going to discourage my student, if she could do it then so be it.