64 Report, Emergency, War

"Hmm…I am tired…" I said in whispers while looking at the sea surrounding the island. "It has been too long since I had a good sleep" I shook my head and stood up.

"Master, the report is ready," Rose said while standing behind me. "Let us go back to my office," I said while walking away.

"Master…" Rose said with a sad look on her face. I waved my hands to dismiss it before she continued, I couldn't blame her though… for an entire month I have been running around, fixing small issues before they grow bigger, destroying any threats and investing in all business that may or may not succeed.

After a few minutes of walking, we reached the tavern and entered it.

"Good Morning!" I said with a loud voice, "Morning!" everyone replied, one of the staff ran up to me and handed me a towel and a bottle of water. "Thanks" I replied before placing the towel on my head and taking a large gulp from the bottle.

"Back to work!" I said with a smile and walked upstairs to my office. Everyone began to giggle and laugh, my smile disappeared as I entered my office, "Rose, take a seat" I said before going to my desk and sitting down on the chair.

"Mast.." Rose wanted to reply but I stopped her, "Call me brother Ace, don't call me master…" I said with a stern voice as I relaxed my body on the chair.

"Brother Ace, let me help you summarize the situation." Rose said as waved her hand to make the monitors appear in the office, slowly they are organized and finally Rose began to speak "The population casualty rate has decreased to 0.5% per day, statistics show that within a few years it will reach 0.001% and with the increase of D-C Rank hunters, we will be able to display better results"

I slowly squinted my eyes to read what was displayed on the monitors while Rose was speaking, I asked: "What are we lacking currently?".

"Mast... Brother Ace, with the current speed of the civilization growth, we will run out of material to provide to the public, medicine is too hard to obtain for the lower class population, clans have increased to 10, rate of income increased by two-fold and the adventurers rating has grown yet no one has reached gold yet." Rose said as she displayed the diagram on one of the monitors.

I shook my head with displeasure and angrily said "Too slow! Too damn slow!" I stood up and began to walk back and forth "Rose, how active are the people on the internet these days?" I asked as I stood facing Rose.

"They are active on it, Hope has taken control of the internet to identify what happens on it, we have also reworked all of the systems for the entire world which led us to uncover everything hidden from us on this planet… currently, there are three important things on the internet which is known to all: Monster Hunters, Monster Encyclopedia and Marketplace" Rose said as she displayed on the monitor the three sites.

I sat there and scrolled through the sites while listening to Rose explain them, "First, Monster Hunter's site which consists of party finders such as power leveling, gear farming, and grinding experience". I switched to the other site and smiled, "As for the second, thanks to you Brother Ace, this consists of all the compiled information you have prepared before the invasion, it is updated constantly by every adventurer while hope is managing it as the first site."

I nodded and praised their independent work "Good job Rose, I am truly grateful and having people by my side who can make decisions on their own is the best that I can hope for". Rose looked at me and nodded before continuing her report on the last site "Marketplace, a site proposed by Robert, he said that we can avoid future troubles by allowing people to trade safely through a third party, if anyone does something shady without our knowledge which will be very rare, we can trace it back to the offender"

As Rose ended her report I went back to my seat and stood next to it facing the window "Thank you, Rose, you-" the door opened before I ended my words and Emma entered with mother in a rush.

"We have a problem!" Emma said while breathing heavily, she held my hand and pulled me with her downstairs, "Ace! No matter what do not freak out!" mother shouted as she followed us.

My heart was beating hard as we exited the tavern, "What's going on?!" I said with worry covering my face. "Do not ask, just see!" She stopped outside the tavern as a fissure opened up followed by Yama being carried out of the fissure.

Letting go of my hand, Emma tears begin to flow down her eyes, "Yama, is he alive???" she said with a cracking voice. I stood there and looked at Yama before turning to Rag who was carrying Yama, "Take him to the Medic Area, now!" I said with anger.

"Ace, I am coming with you!" Mother said as she followed but I stopped her, "He is not dead, he is injured and stay with Emma!". I rushed behind Ragnarok as we reached the Medic Area and entered it before a few Medics came and began to treat Yama.

"Explain!" I said as I watched Yama tattered body, "Brother, we went towards the new land and began to explore as you have asked of us but we didn't expect to be ambushed!" Ragnarok said as his head began to release smoke and continued with rage in his voice "Those bastards were too many, too powerful! We couldn't do anything! Yama nearly sacrificed himself if Hope didn't send reinforcement"

I stood there and realized that I was too foolish "What race were they from?"

"Humans, all of them are humans! They had a white light covering their bodies and their attacks were all based on magic" Ragnarok said with hate filling his eyes, "I believe that they are from the light…"

Before Ragnarok could finish I already left, "Rose! Time is short, meet me at the Basement now!"

『Break through your level limit! You can't fight them at your current power』

As my body flashed through the island I reached the island ignoring Anima, I can break my limit anytime but I need one final thing to make my foundations stronger than anyone before me or after me. "I won't fight them now but I will make them understand that sometimes… power isn't everything"

Blood began to cloud my vision as I entered the basement with Rose behind me, "Hope, Klaus, Lara, Myah and Blue Castle… meeting"

"Master!" All of them shouted. Walking towards the middle of the basement, a large round table began to appear from the ground and chairs appearing with it.

"Kukuku…. Master" Asura cold voice appeared in the surrounding.

I shook my head and sat on a random chair and closed my eyes to fix my state of mind. Taking a deep breath I open it again and began the meeting "One month ago, we began to fix the communities, the people, the adventurers and the world itself. We cleaned the filth of light, dogs of darkness and traitors of humanity."

Looking around, my face began to distort "But it seems like we have failed to realize that we have been invaded, Hope explain to us how your scan failed to realize this"

Hope nodded and began "It started with…"

'Open Book'

Name: Ace

Title: Black Death, Dungeon Master, Tower Master

Race: Elder Troll

Level: 200 [-/-]

Adventurer Rank: Branch Guild Master

Class: Hacker [Requirement not met to upgrade]

Subclass: Blacksmith, Medic

Element: Lightning | Time | Space

Attributes:

Strength: S

Intelligence: S

Dexterity: S

Endurance: SS [Max ?]

Spirit: F

Blacksmith: S [Requirements not met to upgrade] (2/3)

….

I looked at Hope and the others who were discussing the events, I can't blame Hope for this failure but with my current actions, I am allowing them to grow independently.

It seems like I need to enter the battlefield soon, this time I might not be able to come back unless I completely eradicate the enemy and close any potential fissure that may or may not contain a connection to my world.

But first… I need to maximize these stats within the shortest amount of time