"What do you propose to avoid a confrontation? It will not be long until they find the town, and I doubt they will come peacefully" - Newblood said.
"And they will confuse ours as the cause of the attack, perhaps if we speak together with the boss we could reach an agreement?"
"Then we will not land the ships yet? If you want to unify the nations why you don't just do it and that's it, we have the capacity for that and more"
"I will not impose an order, that was the fall of the Forerunners in their universe, they have to do it at will, the best thing we can do is provide shelter and humanitarian aid"
"That is why you want to build an underground megacity? Are you aware that this city is more than enough to house 4 times the population of the planet? Why do you need so much space?" - asked Newblood, quite exasperated.
"To be my copy and a very powerful artificial intelligence, you lack intuition" - Elián said with humor, gaining a flat look from Newblood.
"It is for the same reason that we cannot leave, something strange happens in this solar system, even if they reach the stars, they will never be able to go beyond, if we cannot, what hope do they have?" -Elián said as he observed the space, after their news friends.
All the villagers who were not helping something were absorbed in seeing their planet.
Hundreds of Forerunner ships were coming and going at first glance random directions, but Newblood was coordinating them for the extraction of resources for the city.
After so long, they had not only found life, they had found so much variety and although Newblood did not want to admit it, he was also excited.
But something truly happened that worried Newblood, something ancladed them to the solar system, a few ships that had appeared outside the solar limit and had entered to give aid, now they could not leave.
Elian and Newblood came to the same conclusion.
It seemed as if this solar system was a prison, they had not yet detected anything that caused the strange anomaly, Newblood only speculates that magic has something to do with that.
Only this solar system exhibits this strange behavior.
"By the way, any news from the other side?" - Elián asked as he turned to see the villagers be healded, even greeting a few who saw him.
"Nothing yet, we lost many ships, more than half of the original fleet, maybe at home the explosion even damaged Maethrillian" -said Newblood while showing a simulation of what had happened.
"My best guess is that the anomaly of the solar system caused the disaster, I still have no idea how magic affects technology"
"You say I'm to blame too?"
"No, maybe ?, I don't know, this body was made with matter and not with magic, the only magical thing that crossed the portal was you, but then only you should have changed, but I did it too" - Newblood said while comparing in a hologram its current shape and its original shape.
"Sir, what's going to happen to us now?" - asked Tree Heart, turning to see him, he looked much better, but he seemed quite upset.
"Well, I can offer you two things, the first is to be under my protection, or I can leave you wherever you want, but you will always be welcome"
Tree Heart was getting fed up of not knowing what to say or do, his town was attacked and many friends were killed, they found very powerful beings who mysteriously offered them help, not to mention the fact that they were now by the stars, watching their planet and strange structures that were as big as a mountain.
His father told him that there would be times as head of the village, what some decisions would be very difficult, or confusing to the heart, but this was ridiculous.
"Why are you helping us?"- he finally asked the only thing that occurred to him, but one that would at least help him clarify his doubts.
Seeing the strange man, anyone could easily mistake him for an angel or a god, given his abilities.
But Tree Heart saw a person, did not have the grace of royalty, and less than a divine being.
"You have no idea how rare you are, your world, life, the mission of my people is to protect it, the mantle of responsibility protects everyone, you were the first to be help because of your situation" - said Elián.
"If your people had been assassinated, your tribe would be doomed to extinction, there are not many of you left and they are very scattered throughout the continent" - said the strange metallic dog
"Sigh..., I did not know that things were so bad, we have been isolated from other towns for quite some time"
"Those were not your concerns in a while, but now they are fine, worry about healing your people" - said the metallic dog.
"For now they can stay in this place until you choose what you want to do, you can be sure that all their needs will be covered, if they need something, they can ask one of the sentinels around, they will attend to what you ask for, including your response" - said Elián, as he began to move away towards a circular platform attached to the floor.
"I have to coordinate a few things first, maybe we can achieve peace between the two kingdoms" - Elián said teleporting just before Tree Heart could say anything else.
Now in such a large room and accompanied by his people and those strange birds, or Sentinels as Elián called them, Tree Heart could only look into space once more, contemplating his options.
"We did not find the bodies, furthermore, the magicians cannot identify the origin of the strange force field that surrounds the area" - reported the soldier.
"Shit, continue exploring the area, at least we must make sure that the enemies are gone" - Atalaya said, as she headed for a house intact enough to be used.
Entering, the first thing Atalaya saw was her princess looking at what appeared to be an old book.
"It seems that this house belonged to someone close to the head of the town, it has quite detailed records of exploration patrols that the town sent to the mountains in case the empire managed to cross the walls, so they can escape" - said the princess as she kept the book - "perhaps they managed to escape just before they attacked the town"
"We did not find bodies, enemies, or allies, but the blood marks everywhere tell another story, someone or something took the bodies" - said Atalaya.
"Did they find the source of that shield? A town like this shouldn't have that magical technology, even if it's a town of deer."
"The magicians do not detect any flow of magical energy, whatever it is, something else feeds that shield, although it reflects almost all kinds of magic, from what we saw seems particularly sensitive to elemental magic"
"Perhaps it is some artifact of the ancients? although in this region there should be no ruins" -said the princess as she sat down on a chair, setting aside her sword.
"Maybe, although why would the deer people have such a thing in their power?"- said Atalaya
"They may be powerful in magic, but still they have the right to protect themselves, I would not have reported it or handed it over if I could use it to save my people"
Atalaya could not find words to contradict her.
Then blue lights began to illuminate the surroundings, alarming them.
"Everyone in position! protect the princess!" - Atalaya shouted, to which the nearby soldiers rushed to them to form a circle of shields, some sorcerers already had shields ready around the princess.
Meanwhile, the princess was also preparing, charging the stone of her sword with magic.
Then they saw that the lights were coming from certain directions in the sky, beginning to dim a little, revealing metallic beings the size of a small horse or adult man, almost looking like huge birds.
Then, some blue light began to form a few feet in front of them, two beings appearing, both metallic, but one looked like a wolf and the other a guardian knight of the tower in the eyes of the soldiers.
"We come to dialogue, princess, if you have time for us" - said the knight as she bowed slightly, to which the wolf also leaned on its front legs.
The princess managed to compose herself after a few awkward seconds, but simply pointed inside the house, inviting the beings to pass.
"We need progress, professor, this war has already lasted too long and there is a risk that the cat men prefer a peace treaty with the enemy, we have no more time!"- shouted a winged man with the characteristics of a bird and a lion.
"I understand your point, admiral, but this could change everything, magic serves every living being, it is part of us, but some were better blessed to use them than others, the forbidden records of the kingdom of Cordelia, Caballus, and Amaris have the same references to the ancient ruin records even though they were never shared, if what my research suggests is true, we might be able to obtain the origin of magic ”- said a land pony, quite old and in a green robe, the only thing that could be seen from his face was his blue eyes.
"We listened to you because you presented information that could help us to our cause, even if the questionable raw material that you need to channel the magic required to find these places, we need more than simple promises and data from old books"
Lighting up the catacomb in which they found themselves, soldiers and scientists of many races, brought together by promises of an easier life, entered one of the oldest ruins ever explored, being at least 25,000 years old if the magic analysis is right.
The simple fact that it is still standing is a mystery, even though it was found days ago thanks to arcane magic sensors made with the parts of the most sensitive magical beings on the planet, although they can only be limited to a few uses before they break from stress.
"And this place may contain the answer, history will remind us of what we accomplished, even with so many sacrifices!" - shouted the strange earth pony.
The admiral was silent.
Along the way, they found structures that were less and less worn by time, including machinery of magical metal alloys, the admiral only marked the artifacts with a beacon to be collected later.
The journey lasted several hours more, confusing many of those who went, outside, the ruins did not seem bigger than an old abandoned mine, but the road was getting bigger.
Then, they reached the end of the tunnels and stairs.
An enormous structure received them, similar to a huge dome, then they realized that they were in another larger dome, from their perspective they were on the edges of the outer dome.
The walls were filled with very old stone structures in a style that no culture had, they seemed like rivers covering the superstructure.
The bottom seemed like an infinite black void, only sporadically illuminated by small magical pulse lights that seemed to come from the bottom, only to dissipate just before reaching them.
"We arrived ..., this must be the place, no one else could be able to build this place" - said the professor, with a trembling voice.
The admiral was the only one who did not say anything, although everyone else was very excited, he only observed the structure, intrigued, in his years of service he had never seen anything like it, but he could not help comparing the structure to a uterus and a placenta.
"I will send a message to his majesty asking for equipment and personnel" - said the admiral.
"I promise, my almirant, this is what we are looking for, I do not think it is necessary to collect more raw material to manufacture compasses" -said the land pony with almost indifference.
"I hope so" - said the admiral coldly, while admiring the structure.