Beginning of the Invasion Part 3A

Chapter 40

Beginning of the Invasion

Part 3A

Authors note

Helo everone,

I apologize for the short chapter; actually, it's hard to write something, but i couldn't break the promise, so I tried my best to fulfill it and keep on doing that. Please, I see you kept quiet nowadays and there is no communication or conversation. Please don't hesitate to write for everywhere as usual.

Only ten chapters remain from the volume, so I need to hear from you before I start publishing the third volume, and I am open to any suggestions. Also soon i will be uploading my new book, and i can send you a preview, but you have to ask for it. 

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In the eastern part of the continent, there is the third biggest country on this continent, which is the mythical land of Arumina. It is the only land on the whole planet that is ruled by Animans (beast men or dime-humans). Although humans also live there, including the mythical beasts, the majority of the country is forest land, and it borders from the north the country of Numira, and from the south, the Thames Kingdom. From the west, there is the Magu Forest.

The Magu Forest is the only land that borders all the countries on this continent, and it is located in the center of the continent. The Magu Forest is the biggest forest on this planet, with an area of almost 7,000,000 square kilometers (2.7 million mi2), almost the size of Australia. It's a pasture for over one million species, animals, beasts, Animans, monsters, and also some humans, the world's worst criminals, bandits, and the like of them. Rumor has it there is a country in the middle of it that is ruled by those renegades, but no one can confirm it or deny it, simply because it doesn't go under any country or kingdom. And the name of that country was Langurdon, and yes, it really did exist. The country was not that big and not small at the same time; it consisted of five hundred and eighty thousand square kilometers, or almost (36,000 square miles). With five major cities, the capital city, which is not an official capital but known as that for everyone since it's the biggest oldest and the first one was named Arabas, This city strangely was like any other city in the world; no one will guess that it was built by what is believed to be a lawless community and a band of thieves, but this is far from the truth; the whole country was built and administered by one single organization, called The Continuum Guild. Although there was history known for that organization, what was known was that it took root in that location not less than a few hundred years ago, and nobody knew where its origin came from. 

The Continuum Guild existed for a long time; some say it's thousands of years old, and some say it's only a few hundred years old, and most of the people don't even believe that it exists, but the fact of the Langurdon country and its five cities was proof enough that there was another power behind it, whomever they were. Arabas was a city that over one million people lived in, and at the same time it was the trade hub of the whole country under the control of one man called the Mayor, who was not even known by any other name except the Mayor, whom he answered to nobody knew, and nobody asked or dared to even ask. Although he was a very known man in the whole city, anyone who was unfortunate enough to meet him, never had the opportunity to talk about him to anyone.

Surrounding the city was a big wall, that wall giving everybody the safety and ease of mind since it was inside the Magu Forest, where there are all kinds of ferocious animals, beasts, and monsters. It is also a known fact that no one knows how many species live in that huge forest, and one tried to study or do any statistics about the creature that lives there; although the wall was supposed to cover the city, it was also covering all the agricultural areas of the city, so there was a big enough distance between the actual city building and the wall. On one of the big farms that belonged to local government near the wall, the same phenomenon appeared, but this time it included another smaller one a few meters beside the first one, the same shape as the bigger one, but the inside of it was like a clear cloud without any movement, like a mirror of the sky above. 

Fortunately, no one was near the location because the whole area was scorching with fire—not exactly with fire but a burning heat that burned all the harvest and plants in more than 1,000 square feet around where the anomaly appeared. The first one who noticed was the gatekeepers of the city, then immediately sent the news to the city administration, although anyone inside the city who was in a high enough building and facing that direction was able to see it. 

In an oval office in the administration building, on the 8th floor of an office without any windows, someone knocked the door, but she didn't enter or wait for any response at all. All she did was knock the door and wait for a few seconds and knock again, then wait for a few more seconds and knock again. For the third time, now a small opening appeared in the middle of the door, and the woman who was knocking slid the piece of paper she had on her other hand through the opening. And then she turned and left without waiting for other things. For a split second, she looked at the top of the door, where there was a big sign written on it that was The Mayor's Office. She didn't even know why she did that; she has been working in this office for the past two years but didn't even once see the so-called The Mayor. She only delivers the important message through that opening, and she gets her instruction through a letter also; that actually made her why a lot of times in the beginning of her work here, but at the end she got used to it. That didn't reduce her wondering, but there was no one who told or explained to her why it was happening that way.

Inside that office, there was a single desk sitting behind it. It was a middle-aged man. Although there wasn't any single window in the room, still the daylight was shining in the room like there is a window, and where the light was coming from was a window-sized screen showing the exact thing that was happening in the far, not from a distance but like he was there beside it. At the same time, all the remaining space from that side of the wall was showing different scenes of the sesame area, as were the rest of the walls in the room. There were hundreds of screens that showed multiple scenes of the city and surrounding area. He stood up while still looking at the screen and went to the door to collect the paper that fell to the floor. With a sigh, he went back to his seat and gave the paper just one look, and he understood it was a report about what he was watching at the moment. He mumbled with an un hearable voice, "Too slow; it took the ten complete minutes to report. I am afraid with this mechanism we can't handle things the way we want, we are not ready yet; this way we will fail, and it's bad; I think we already failed."