Emissary

"Sire, this is levitation. You can apply any force whatever you want to move you to a different direction. And what the old man was using is his own mana to hasten his flight, though it is the fastest, it certainly would drain mana fast if one has low mana capacity, but from looking at this video, he seemed to be at the peak of Gold rank which in standard among the legendary mana practitioners. There are very few of these kind of people that I have known. Some of them are related to kingdoms, some are contracted by kingdoms to aid during war or use in certain purposes in exchange for something or maybe a favor, and the rest of them are free spirited people. They have lived long to know that conflict, politics and war is tiring, chaotic and unfruitful. That is why some of them live the rest of their lives relaxing, but do not be mistaken that they are gentle and kind. Among them are those who are bored and playful, they destroy cities just because of misunderstanding and sometimes revenge but it would be rare for them to interact with trivial matters just as what I have said. They seldom go into politics." Zion and the others observed carefully, as Argon demonstrated the levitation ability, they also listened carefully and curious of these certain people.

As Zion analyzed how Argon levitated, he immediately perfected the concept with the help of his own computation process just like Azraelle.

"So this levitating ability is very simple...Mana is all around us ready to be harvested and use, but if you imagine that the mana itself is a tangible element you can simple control them as if they are hands that would lift you up. In short, apply a small and steady discharge of mana and target the mana surrounding you as if to command them to lift you just like you would do with air." Upon discovering the technique, Zion slowly and explained it further to help them understand the basics.

"However, the ability that the old man used to fly was somehow the same with the first one but instead use force from mana, he concentrated his mana to flow from his lower body to push him outward. Just like a normal fire blast, like this." Zion then showed a fire blast damaging and pushing a dummy away from him.

"The force that I used was applied to the dummy pushing it away, and in that way if applied under me the force would push the ground pushing me the opposite way." They nodded at the explanation, and even Argon was listening as he did not know the concept of flying.

After a few explanation Argon was able to execute the ability and can now fly, but he was no good at landing. The others got it also while the rest are still practicing it. But on the other hand, Zion was busy calculating another possibility.

"Azraelle, I have already run the data of levitation and it is perfect for our drones, in this manner, the drones and even future spacecrafts would not disrupt anything on the ground during landing and hovering which traditional booster rockets do because of the huge force. traditional force during flying and levitation during landing but still assisted with small amount of force to speed up the landing or initial lift from the ground."

{I will schedule all flying drones for upgrade as soon as possible. But how should we proceed with QBUV.? and the other bee crafts?}

"The QBUV will remain and continue it's purpose. I will design a new carrier, intended for me and the officials that would be used in official travel." After a few minutes of focus designing a new flying craft. Zion heaved a sigh of relief.

"It's not easy to design something, thankfully I have these abilities to correct the engineering problems." On the hologram was a Hornet Robot. It was more streamlined compared to the QBUV design to be an all purpose vehicle. It still as large as the QBUV that could accommodate 15 persons on the thorax area but this design will only accommodate 10 persons at maximum, in a long travel. It includes the ability to cast mana shield, and can even fight back with mana lasers. the thorax area will serve as their meeting area and command base in case the vehicle is at war.

"Additional Hornets should be made to cater the same capacity, but instead the thorax will carry the officer soldiers and support bots, and on the abdomen will carry their team around 40 soldiers and or Autonomous bots." The capacity differentiate between thorax and abdomen because the thorax area includes the mana core, engine and the mechanism to move the legs while the abdomen area will be pure hollow to maximize capacity.

{Sire, there is an envoy from Banawe Kingdom, the guards have guided them to the Guest facility}

"That is very strange, they should have not mind us for a more longer but it seems they caught on us early. This will be a bit of a problem."

Guest Facility Tent.

"You made us wait for a while, is this how you treat an important emissary? It seems that you have no proper etiquette." A somewhat mocking voice coming from a person around the age of 50 after Zion and Rygorn entered the guess room. Their smile abruptly vanished as they were flabbergasted by the sudden treatment.

"My apologies guests, as I am very busy. Please take a seat and let us relax for a moment." Zion did not mind, as he was very calm and professional. But Rygorn was the opposite, he was steaming in anger at the corner but he could not but inn as it would be disrespectful not only to the guest but to Zion as well.

" I brought an advance congratulatory message from his highness and personally gifted this to you." The emissary who has white black, curly and long hair hidden from his white shawl gave a small dagger with jeweled golden scarab along with a letter.

Zion humbly received the gift with a smile, and read it on the spot silently. Zion's eyebrows lifted while reading the letter but he finished it somehow and gazed at the emissary.

"Yes, did I mention that the king demanded that it should be delivered as soon as possible." The emissary mocked again while smiling as he already knew what the letter. The king congratulated them in establishing a new and successful settlement, but somehow it demanded that they give tribute as the King emphasized that the whole of Dark forest is their territory, and they should give 50 % of their production and income.

"Ahhhh, yes of course..It shall be delivered, in fact. There are goods that you can bring right now as you travel back, in addition we will provide all carriage and tools necessary for travel without any expenses. That would be my initial gratitude to the true ruler of these territory." Zion then bowed smiling without any hint of anger or being affected by the mockery. The emissary was a bit shocked and annoyed of Zion's confidence and demeanor.

"Fine, prepare it without delay before dawn tomorrow." The emissary with his guards got out of the tent hastily as if to hate them.

"Sire forgive my intrusion and disrespect but, why would you lower yourself to them, we should have killed them on the spot for their blatant disrespect? Rygorn was so anger his aura was in chaos.

"That is unnecessary, we should just go with the flow for now. Though we have advance capabilities, we lack the necessary military power at the moment. We have invested in the balance of our settlement prioritizing not on any side just to survive, but if we confront them right now. Our advance weaponry and capabilities would not work any longer just like last time. They are a Kingdom after all, and if they decide to attack as. What would become of us? We can certainly handle a couple of army composing of 10 thousand but what would happen if the entire kingdom attacked us?" Zion calmly explained.

"Forgive my reckless decisions, I almost put the people and citizens in danger with my emotions." Rygorn was again disappointed with himself.

"That is fine, for now as your punishment. You will personally handle all the emissaries needs and request, they will also need a guide this afternoon if they decide to go out for a walk." Zion commanded.

"As you wish." Rygorn bowed and hastily got out of the tent.