THE ANCIENTS

Ruin

"Wolves" Shouted a soldier from a wooden tower and it alerted the soldiers prompting for the alarm to be sounded. With haste Rygorn was on the site instantly burning his reserved mana just to arrive on the site.

Silhouette of wolf beast was at the horizon, behind them was the setting sun perfect for wolves to hunt. They waited for bated breath remembering the event that happened in connection with their young lord.

"Archers and Mage ready to fire." Captains were shouting being ready to unleash their wrath at their commanders behest. but as the image became clearer, they halted their weapon.

"It's the young lord." Shouted one soldier but they could not believe it, with him are two huge wolves and some behind them following other medium wolves all of them wounded and defeated tails tucked inn.

As they confirmed it was their lord. They opened the gate and welcomed him with amazement.

"Soldiers and Citizens, I apologize for the commotion but this wolves were the culprit behind the event last time, and I have tamed them completely so there is no need for alarm. To serve me will be their karma and punishment, still we should not belittle or misunderstood them just because they did what they have done. This is my decision, and from now onwards they will be part of our community so treat them as one of yours." Zion's speech amazed them, not only he did the unthinkable but he was very merciful still maintaining his ruthlessness by.

"Commander, please escort the wolves to this area, I have already contacted ahead Azraelle to prepare for their dwellings. They may be tamed by unforeseen events may occur so we will still put caution for the time being." Zion instructed the commander to escort into a nearby cave system near the Ruin.

QBUV

{Sire, what are your plans in taming the wolves?} "As the data we have gathered from the capital was already organized and processed, I have discovered something of value that piqued my interest. This data in particular" after explaining his thoughts Zion showed a book in the hologram titled THE ANCIENTS.

"Our mining team unearth a relic last month of bones from a beast from the past, and upon investigating, it was not of this era. Data suggest that it is from a different era. Comparing the beast data and of this era beasts, there is very little connection, so in conclusion this extinct beast may somehow the one's described in this book, but how could they have formulate such idea if they did not have evidence such as this bone we unearthed."

"For others this book may seem just another legend or fairytale but for me, there is something."

{Sire are you suggesting that we revive one of those prehistoric beast and see for ourselves?} "Exactly, that is why I already informed all the teams to report any sightings of mysterious objects and bones in their respective area."

Beast Ranking

Beast ranking is highly dependent on their mana capacity which could be gauged through their aura color.

Gray usually seen from insects and small beast, white for common beast, green uncommon who can strengthen their body to aide on their own purpose, blue for rare those who can manipulate certain type of elements, purple for very rare which is able to manipulate multiple elements at once, orange for those beast that is of the highest in their category and can manipulate and even combine elements to form into another and create new abilities, gold for guardian beast that rule over huge territory which is able to use all the skills of the ranks under him but the difference this beast had is experience, knowledge, and the capacity of mana that is developed overtime or gain from fortunate event. This color system is also applied to human mana practitioners.

Sultans

"fellow sultans our preparation is almost done, our spies have reported many activities and it seems that our plans were not exposed, and even if they will know. We outnumber them three to one. This will be the stepping stone of our rise to power, we shall claim this victory for our future." After the declaration from Sultan Amir. Others celebrated in joy boosting the sultans morale and their soldiers.

Cyril on the other hand was skeptical of the smooth flow. He know for a fact that Snow fort won their last war through sneaky and deceptive tactics, and he can feel that they were in the same position from the last war. The only thing that impede the sultan from seeing what's behind is their lust for achievement and the compilation of failures that befall on their tribes for the past decade.

Even if he knew that the outcome of them going into a beast den is not impossible, he has a duty to be in this war. He would do all in his strength to avoid the unthinkable and brave the unforeseen future.

The consolidated army of sultans they called hammer is composed of 40 thousand strong men, and 10 thousand support group. It's goal was to hammer the ruin to the ground for several day without rest, to potentially make them surrender. It's goal was not only to attack but to cut off any supply of resources from outside and on their own farmlands. Their plan was superb and well thought so all the soldiers were confident and brave.

{Sire..Movement from the sultans..it seems they started the march.} Zion has the capabilities like Azraelle like monitoring and multitasking all movements in the ground through the cameras, drones and detection system and can even analyze reports with haste but choose not to do so..He was annoyed of the constant notification, and still practicing his familiarity with connecting to the system.

"There would be around two weeks for the Sultans to arrive here..Alert all units and start the preparations."

The ruin was always busy but upon the arrival of the sultan attach force, the citizens and all people coming to the ruin including merchants were cautioned of the incoming war. All hunters and jobs related to the forest were temporarily halted and they were transferred to other jobs like supporting the army. etc.