Chapter 138. Wow, that was a lot of arrows

POV: Solomon the Mad Scientist

I watched the spy do his gardening 'job' and being sure that his monster friend was there and not teleporting around the place.

Then I went to the kitchen and quickly ate something that would start regenerating my health.

"Phew that was a close one, I only had two hearts left because of that stupid monster and her punch! I'm going to enjoy it when I'm going to take the Enderpearl out of her."

That was riskier than I would've liked.

I expected him to directly attack me once I took the potion, but surprisingly he was very diplomatic. And as I expected, that man knows a lot of subjects. The fact that he knows about all dimensions and has even been to one means he has similar knowledge as the ancient ones! Not only that, he also knew the name of my job which is something that only I know so he couldn't get it from some ruins, since this profession appeared after the great wipe.

The only thing thing that would answer my, question is his home dimension.

It must be really advanced if they travel throughout dimensions.

Unfortunately the potion effects run off and the side effects started to kick in, resulting in that unpleasant situation.

But it was probably for the best since the man asked a really good question, and the reason why we want this invasion in the first place.

If we mange to get to the Coral Kingom, and occupied it, we can use ships and sail towards one of the most secret projects our ancestors build.

There's several of those, but we only manged to write down three of them unfortunately.

-The underwater tample 1.000 blocks away from the Coral Kingdom

-A metal stronger then the legendary diamond

-A portal toThe End

All of those secret experiments where crazy on they're own, and we only manged to record just three!

I can't imagine what was lost, since just the portal alone is an open invitation for the System to strike them.

Sometimes I wonder if my ancestors where geniuses or just plain stupid.

They must've know that the underwater temple would anger the System, that's why it's so hidden, but could they at least make some better plans for when the System turned against us.

After resting some more and feeling healthy again, I got up and walked towards my next part of the plan.

*knock knock

"I'm busy, unless we're being invaded don't bother me."

I didn't care as I just opened the door like I didn't hear him.

"Who da- Oh its you Solomon, I told you not to come into my office like that anymore, it leaves a bad image for the others subordinates."

"Who cares about those expendable parts, I came here for a reason."

"I told you, I can't give you any more viligers or Witches for your experiments, not when we're so close to invasion."

"I didn't came here for that, even though I would've loved to. I'm here to report a spy."

His pen froze for a moment and then looked at me with wide eyes.

"Where is it? We need to capture that spy as soon as possible, I don't want to embarras myself like last time."

"Calm down, he's easy to spot it's kind of amazing how he didn't get caught until now. But then again he had some dangerous items on him, so he must know a thing or two about infiltrating. "

His eyes narrowed more as I talked.

"Tell me everything you saw."

I told him how I was on my way to eat something, got interrupted by Brutus the traitor who was very RUDE, but from his expression he didn't seem to belive me for some reason.

I contained with how I met the spy, invited into my lab, talked with him, and then he left with the promise of a another meeting tomorrow night.

He seems to get a headache as he keep massaging his forehead.

"So let me get this straight, you saw a spy, and instead or killing him, you invited him to a cup of milk, and then let him go to continue spying on us, not only that, you also gave him a Totem! Give me a reason why I shouldn't just execute you for treason?"

When he puts it like that, it does sound bad.

"Because we couldn't take him on without casualties."

"We have an army of over 500 soldier and you think we can't take care of one guy?"

"I think we can, but at heavy losses, let me paint the banner this way. He is a man that came into this world a little over a year ago with knowledge rivaling our ancestors, has FOUR skills, two at level 4 the other two at level 6, the System doesn't know his name, he knows a way to the other two dimensions, and mind I remind you, that's what we're looking for as well, he's fully equipped with enchanted diamond armor and tools, and has a four block monster friend that can teleport and turn herself invisible."

The more I talked the deeper his frown got, and I would've taken pleasure in that if this wasn't so bad for all of us.

"Yeah, your right, with an enemy like that we can't attack without a proper plan, that was a good call. I'm guessing you have a plan as well since you came to me."

I could only smile since he was right. He is the General and I've seen him grow up into a fine young man capable of holding his position, but that doesn't mean I have to ask for his wisdom in this predicament.

"Yes of course, I'll take a hundred soldiers with me at the meeting point to capture him."

"But you don't know where you'll meet up, so you can't prepare the ambush."

"Who says we can't? We've got all of those Witches working for the past few weeks that we don't know what to do with all those potions, when I get the location, I'm going to take with me a hundred invisible soldiers with bows that would shoot arrows with status effects."

"But we need him alive to get the information we want, and from what you told me extracting it from the soul does not give the best results."

Indeed, I could try to rip apart the information from his soul, but I can only hold it in this world for an hour, before the bottle brakes.

If I make a special ritual I could hold it for much longer, but that would only hold the soul in our plane, not stop the rapid process of memory loss.

I'll give it a day at most before it would be just be an empty soul, and that's not enough time for me to get the information I want.

"That's why the only arows well use are going to be the ones with blindness, weakness, slowness and regeneration so he won't die from the rain of arrows. Only one arrow for every soldier would be enough."

He put his hand on his chin to think about the plan before nodding his head.

"That's simple enough and it has a high chance of succes, ill slowly gather the soldier and equip them with the necessary tools, you just stay on the lookout for that message."

I did my part, so I left his office with all the responsibilities passed on, and got back to work.

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"How many times do I have to tell you? If you want to make a Flaming potion you need one netherwart, 10 grams of powdered nether rock and 5 grams of blaze powder! Also don't you dare waste any nether rock powder since its very hard to get!"

The two 'disciples' were on the verge of crying but they manged to hold it to themselves otherwise I would've given them a reason to cry.

With an exhausted sigh I want back to my lab to calm my nerves down only to see a white paper on my table.

I narrowed my eyes and equipped the monocle seeing nothing wrong with the paper or the room, so I picked it up.

Meet me at the water fountain on the wast side of the castle in 10 minutes, don't try any funny business or were done.

How rude of him, he didn't even sign his name.

I looked outside through the window and saw that it was already night, a little later then I expected and very short noticed.

But the plan had to be put in action, so I left my lab in a hurry.

"You! Did you see anyone enter my lab?"

"No sir, only yourself. "

Hmm, probably his monster friend helped him.

I then walked towards the soldier closest to me and spoke at low volume.

"The operation has begone, bring everyone at the meeting place in 5 minutes, hurry!"

The man nooded his and ran to fulfil the order.

I instead took items necessary in case things would go bad and went towards the meeting place.

Once I arrive there I saw 100 soldier all in order ready for battle.

"Drink the potion and follow me at 20 blocks distance, shoot when you hear the signal."

Everyone did as I said and soon I was in an empty room, with a bunch of particals floating around.

Thats why they needed, to stay so far away from me.

I calmly walked towards the meeting place, only to see the spy waiting bored on the side of the fountain.

Suddenly he sees me and quickly equips his armor.

I panicked for a moment, did he know about the plan?

"Where have you been, I've been waiting for an hour!"

"What do you mean, I only saw the massage around 7 minutes ago?"

Suddenly he hit his face with his hand whispering something about me getting late into my lab.

But he didn't seems to suspect me of betrayal at least.

I looked more closely at his staus and saw that be has some speed effect and jump boost?

But what took me by surprise was what he had in his inventory.

Lots and lots of loaded crossbows, and for some reason all of them were with fireworks as well.

That sounds so stupid why would he do that?

It didn't matter since I was prepared as well, I looked around to see if the monster was here, but to my surprise she wasn't.

The only thing I saw was, flowers, fountain and the outhouse behind me where the soldiers hid.

Now that I was looking more closely I realised that he was in the corner of the big wall, no way for him to get out unless he bypasses me.

How convenient, suspiciously so.

"Since I didn't get my question answered last time, I think it's only fair that you'll be the one to start talking."

While I didn't like it, I think it was fair, and he would soon be a prisoner anyway.

"Do you know about the water temples?"

"Those? Yeah I know about them, their very annoying to get into especially when you have to beat the Elder Gardiens."

He even knows about that?!

What doesn't he know?

"Do you know what the guardians are protecting?"

"Some gold and sponges from what I remember."

"Why would they protect something so stupid? No what they're really protecting is an artificial System."

Finally this seems to impress him since he didn't know what to say, and I took my chance with that.

Quickly I let a fireworks fly towards the sky making a lot of noise.

At the same time I felts my guts being pulled behind me, and all of the sudden I was in another place where I could see a rain of arrows shooting towards the spy.

"We got him!"

Or so I thought, instead of a screaming man yelling in confusion, I only saw an empty fountain filled with arrows.

"Oh wow, that was a lot of arrows, making the soldiers invisible was pretty ingenious."

We all looked towards the voice that was on top of the outhouse, and saw the man smirking, and right besided him was his invisible friend.

I was confused, when did she get there, how did this happen?

Quickly I took out the white potion and chugged it, and that was the smartest move that I ever made.

"I guess it's time for payback."

Then he took out two crossbows and shoot towards us, but instead of exploding it in his face like I expected it, it detonated when it hit one of us.

What followed was manslaughter as the only thing I could hear and see was explosions, screaming, and bodies hitting the ground.

It hurted a lot, but the potion did an amazing job at keeping me alive, and after a few moments the explosion stopped.

Slowly I looked around only to see bodies all over the floor, and the ones that somehow survived were invisible making me unable to help them.

"Stab yourself with the regen arrows, and someone go and report this to the General!"

I don't know if I was heard, but the orderes were sent, and right as I was about to gather myself back I hear a roar in the distance.

Then another one, and another filling the air with terror.

"That madman let the Ravagers out!"