Tree Heart did not know what to say, things had gone very crazy in a very short time, the war was already causing famines in different parts of the kingdom were already beginning to affect the village, although they were a few days from the front line, Tree Heart thought that perhaps the mountains would be natural walls, since only a few men could pass.
But they were enough to attack the village, they barely managed to evacuate the villagers without many casualties, but painful.
Now, these strange beings bring them proposals for peace and help, if it weren't because they brought Kind and Violet safe, Tree wouldn't have believed them a word.
"I had never heard of your people, to which kingdom they belong? Are they from beyond the great sea?" - asked Tree Heart, while making signs for his men to lower their weapons, some even collapsed from tiredness and wounds.
"No, just us, but that can wait, your people are hurt and tired, they may not say it, but some of your men have very serious wounds, some may not spend the night if we do not hurry" - said the strange man, pointing behind Tree.
During the exchange of words, some of the relatives of his men were attending to their loved ones, some were crying with concern, Tree was amazed that he had not realized that some were so badly hurt, but a little proud to know that even after a few hours of continuous movement they continued without protest.
Even Violet and Kind were checking Night, who was collapsed, being as stubborn as his father, hiding a horrible wound in his stomach that finally took its toll.
The village chief turned his head, Elián had already confirmed the preparation of the medical facilities in the Keyship, Newblood was coordinating the teleportation line for the ship, being so many and in a delicate state, Newblood quickly began building a portal.
"If only we had Huragok doctors, we could save the brains of the bodies and rebuild their bodies" - said Newblood, surprising Elián.
"Can they do that?" - Elián asked as he watched the village chief exchanging words with the cat woman who teleported and another woman, maybe his wife?
"Did you forget that they appear in halo wars? They were not only units invented by developers, life engineers employed them for centuries," said Newblood.
Elián did not doubt that possibility, but unfortunately they never managed to create life, or at least the engineers, Newblood says that the magic in the universe makes the creation of engineers impossible, perhaps when they know more about the magical nature.
"It seems they are ready to move" - said Newblood, causing Elián to focus on the village chief.
“We accept your generous offer, my people are ready to move” - said Tree Heart.
"Very well, follow me" - Elián said as he left the cave, with the villagers a few steps behind.
Although Elián was turning his back on them, he could see them thanks to his visor, and he couldn't hide his laugh, although the armor hid him.
The Sentinels were floating overhead, patrolling the area, to the villagers, they looked like silver carriages, huge and quite fast.
But what was most striking was what they were doing, at the tip of the mountain where the cave was located, they were building a huge structure, it looked like a tower made of silver, materializing through the blue light threw some of those strange beings.
They did it with such precision and speed, that all the villagers were hypnotized by their movements.
“It is a shield generator and an access point, when it is finished they can use it as entrance” - said Elián.
"Entrance?, entrance to where?" - asked Tree Heart, while he still looked astonished.
“A refuge, for all who seek to live in peace” - said Elián.
Before Tree Heart asked what he meant by a refuge, a huge blue vortex appeared a few steps away from Elian, causing everyone to focus on him.
Elián, seeing that he had everyone's attention, simply signaled to be followed, just before crossing the portal.
All the villagers hesitated, seeing the companion of the strange man waiting for them to move.
Tree Heart was the first to move, walking just a few steps from the portal, and entered, followed almost immediately by everyone else.
“You know, we could well send the directives of the mantle to hell and adopt a more active position with other more primitive civilizations, but wait, we are already doing it!” - Newblood said on the comm, while he saw the village chief looking thoughtfully at the portal.
“I understand that you are upset, but I think we can be flexible with them, and their magic makes it impossible to determine what technological level they are in” - said Elián, while waiting for the other one in the portal in the Keyship hangars.
"Well, the analysis of the bodies is ready, they have already been treated so that those of the people can bury them, you will be surprised to know that there is not much difference between human physiognomy, besides that it seems that magic does have the means to move" - Newblood said, while showing images in the viewfinder to Elian.
"It seems that magic is a type of energy they use as if it were sugar, they are simply like plants, they absorb the magic of the environment and process it to use it, although I am still not sure of the process for that, it seems that you need a catalyst to manipulate it as you wish ”- concluded Newblood, showing a small diagram of the circulatory system, comparing magic as if it was part of the blood.
"So it's something we could use as a type of energy?" - said Elian.
“No, the only reason I know is for the process, distribution and manipulation are done in the body itself, and by extension the horns, is the same radiation that you emit, when analyzing their blood, they showed nothing unusual, they have almost same components as yours, I would like to analyze more tribes to see if there are more differences, but it seems that simply the only differences are merely physical ”- said Newblood with emotion, but thanks to the fact that they accelerate the processing level thanks to the armor of Elián and being an AI, his emotion did not last more than a fraction of a second in real time.
“And about the magic?” - said Elián
"True, in a nutshell, it is a mystery, it seems that our technology is not compatible with magic, no matter what I do, they cannot be mixed, although if they can physically interact, that you are able to invoke Forerunner technology is impossible, but you do it, maybe later we can clarify things about magic ”- said Newblood, achieving a sigh from Elian, although perhaps with hope, if magic escaped any law of physics, perhaps it could be his ticket to home, although it seemed to be far away.
Returning to normal time, no more than a second passed when Tree Heart appeared, followed by everyone else in town.
"Welcome to my Keyship, follow me to take care of the wounded, everything is ready" - said Elian, as he walked towards a door in the huge hangar.
Unlike the other ships, Elián's Keyship was huge, almost the same size as the didact's ship, although moving was quite simple thanks to the portals.
Newblood strongly insisted on making it that big, although the ship has no weapons and its systems are entirely defensive, most systems are entirely for investigation.
So the hangar was naturally huge, it was like a giant version of the halls of the halo.
So the faces of disbelief of the villagers did not surprise Elian.
Only a few meters were suspended beds, large enough for an adult man, Elián made these beds as similar to those in the village, so that it is much more enjoyable compared to the original treatment chambers.
"Please, those who need medical treatment lie in one of the beds, the most serious will take a little longer, but do not worry, the procedure is quite fast" - said Elián, lying in a bed like an example.
The first to do so was Tree Heart.
When Tree Heart crossed the portal, he did not know what to expect, perhaps a hospital as in the capital, his surprise was great when they entered what he could compare with the stories of the mausoleum of the alicorns, silver walls and blue lights that seemed rivers, high pillars with suspended balls of light, in addition, the size was so immense that he thought that the entire village could easily fit, and leave plenty of space.
Just a few steps away, there were hundreds of silver beds, suspended in the air like the levitation devices that they had in the empire for the zeppelins, but Tree Heart had already seen them in their youth and they were huge, occupying an entire room, but these Beds were no bigger than a normal bed.
Just behind the beds, there was an immense wall, it could easily be hundreds of meters high, frankly, the place was intimidating, and that ignoring the silver horses they had seen in the village flying high.
There were hundreds of them, all carrying silver boxes for the gods know where.
Returning to the present, Tree Heart lay in bed, beckoning his subordinates to wait, his wife and daughter looked worried, but he just gave them a smile, reassuring them.
Then the bed emitted a light that covered his body, he closed his eyes, waiting, praying that his decision was the right one, his body went numb a little, but he began to feel comfortable.
Then the pain disappeared, opening his eyes little by little, to avoid being blinded by the light, he got out of bed, his wife looked at him with teary eyes, but with a huge smile.
Checking his body, he discovered that his wounds were completely healed, he was also clean, full of energy, even felt powerful, it had been years since he had so much energy.
"His wounds were treated, cell reconstruction went well and apparently the old wounds have also healed, the treatment is a success" - said Elian, even with his mask, Tree Heart detected joy in the tone of voice.
Nodding their heads toward their people, everyone began to lie down, although the bed of the most wounded was encapsulated, starting with Night's.
Before Tree Heart said anything, Elian spoke.
“His treatment is more delicate, a more sterile space is needed to avoid complications” - Elián said in a calm voice.
According to the explanation, since medical treatments even required a magic spell or device for sterilization to prevent infections, they were not unknow to Tree Heart.
"I am grateful to you, Forerunners master, but if you allow me to ask, where are we? A place so large and majestic could not go unnoticed on the continent" - asked Tree Heart.
But what Elián answered would never forget him in his entire life and what he showed him.
“I think this would answer your question better” - said Elián, with a touch of fun in his voice.
Pointing to the great wall behind him, it began to open like huge doors, and what had left him completely amazed, even gasps of others were heard.
Ignoring the lack of sound of such huge doors opening, on the other side, there was nothing but the stars, a beautiful night, and at the bottom, a huge blue and green planet.
But paying attention, Tree Heart realized that the stars were moving very fast, then a massive object moved right in front of them, it seemed to have the shape of an arrow, but the color of that strange thing was the same silver-gray.
Approaching slowly, Tree Heart put a hand on what he thought would be the largest window in the world, watching his home from above.
Not his little town, or his country, his world was right in front of him, filling him with a feeling he couldn't discover.
"Let me introduce oursself again" - said Elian, taking Tree Heart out of his stupor, who felt that the huge metallic dog was passing right next to him, stopping next to his teacher.
"We arrived and saw the suffering of your people" - said the metal golem.
“And that of many more, we are not from his universe, but we know the pain of cruelty” - said Elian.
“Only we remain”
"But we will protect as ours if they were our people"
“With our help, you can live your life, share your knows with your children”
"to flourish"
"in harmony"
"We are Forerunner"