"Okay, now that that's out of the way, I'd like to bring forward another topic. I'll be leaving for the mountains in a day or two," Lucius announced.
Five days had already passed since he met Crenog, and the tournament it spoke of would soon begin.
"The mountains? Why?" Ghost asked.
"There is a tournament taking place there, it'll do well for foreign relations. We could gain valuable allies and connections by sending a small delegation, as such I'll be taking a few representatives as well," he said.
"Count me in," Hannibal, Alpha, Ghost, and Pagan shouted simultaneously.
"Pagan and Alpha, you two can't go because you'll be going into evolution soon. I wouldn't want to stall that just because of this," Lucius replied.
They had defeated expressions on their faces, but they knew he was right. To slow down their evolution for who knows how long would be detrimental to the growth of the commune.
"As for you Hannibal, you're about to evolve soon as well, and on top of that, I feel you'll benefit more from studying some of my memories. I'll pass them onto you in the tree, and you can look over them whilst I'm gone," he continued.
If he could grasp some key concepts from Earth it would speed up the commune's rate of development.
"Ghost, you'll be coming with me," Lucius said finally.
"Sorry guys, it seems its finally my turn," she said in a pitying voice, though everyone could tell it was mockery from the annoying grin on her face.
"As for the first watch, you guys are banned from going on external missions. Defense of the camp is the most important mission of all, and that will require everything you guys have with all our big guns gone," he said now looking towards them.
"As such, I'll be giving you guys your first mission. Each of you are to achieve a stat count of 250 before I leave," he continued.
"I pity you," Pagan whispered, glad that he would not have to go through all that.
"To help you all with that, you'll be following a training regime. Morning training session with Alpha to build up those stats through exercise. An afternoon session with me for combat training. And an evening session of sparring to put everything into practice," Lucius said, to which everyone nodded in agreement.
"I'll allocate buildings to each department to act as a base of operations. The mushrooms we collected yesterday should be enough," Lucius said in question, looking towards Pagan.
"Indeed, Lighted One," Pagan replied.
"Ahh, Alpha, perhaps you should instruct Eleanour on what her duties as Vice Premier will be since you'll be helping the Warring Department with its current mission," Lucius said, looking toward Alpha.
"And Hannibal perhaps you should give your members to Asclepius for the day," he added, now looking at Hannibal.
Once the talks were over, the leaf beings were brought back inside the hall and told to go to their respective Premiers. Since the F and C Department was yet to choose a Premier, it fell upon Lucius to direct their operations.
"You guys follow me, I want to show you something," Lucius said, gesturing for the members of his group to follow him toward the Radiant Tree.
"The skill I am about to showcase is called Elmando, it'll be the most used skill within this department. You will eat and sleep using Elmando," he said, before pointing toward the storage dome.
"That dome is the materials storage dome, watch carefully what's about to happen," he added before touching the Radiant Tree.
Using the enhanced Elmando he created 4 new domes for each of the Departments, all the while the leaf-beings gawked in disbelief.
Once Lucius was done, all the leaf beings in the F and C department stared at him with puppy eyes.
"What's going on?" Lucius asked, completely confused.
"Can we try?" one of them asked.
"Ahh, you'll need names to get the skill. Sorry little one," Lucius said apologetically.
"When do we get names?" another asked.
"Resources are tight right now, so I can only give them to those who I'm sure will use them to their full capacity. You could even get them today, depending on how well you do your tasks," Lucius replied.
"Then give us our tasks, what are we waiting for?" another leaf being added. He knew this voice, it was the leafling that sounded like a flat-earther.
"Your task for today will be to learn the structure of the domes. I want all of you to be able to tell me in great detail, the inside and out of the domes," Lucius said with a smile.
For now, the only thing they could do was learn. If they could ingrain the structures in their mind, then building using Elmando would become easier for them.
"On it!" the conspiracist shouted, running towards the nearest building. The others were still confused, before quickly realizing this was essentially a race to see who could learn it first, as the spot for Premier was still open.
"Well, at least it's motivated," Lucius whispered to himself before walking towards the other Departments to show them to their respective domes.
Once everyone had delegated tasks to their respective departments, the group prepared carts to set off on their little operation.
"Ghost, you should hang around the Internal Security guys, get those stat points up for the tournament," Lucius instructed before they left.
*
"Lighted One, I wanted to ask about the new spell," Pagan said as he drove his cart to move alongside Lucius's.
"The satellite, huh," Lucius replied, looking ahead to make sure that no undead would spot them trying to sneak around the necromancer's camp.
"The information I was fed is a bit confusing. It says that the moon gets its light from the sun, but how is that possible if they are never up at the same time?" Pagan asked.
~I see,~ Lucius thought to himself. Casting the spell would require some understanding of astronomy. Without that, imagining such a thing would probably seem absurd.
"I'll pass a few memories to you once we get back. Hopefully, that will be enough," he replied.
"Also I wanted to ask if you could use that spell during the day," Pagan continued, his voice tinged with excitement.
"Hmm," Lucius whispered, removing his solar crux, before easing it to its light blue state. Once that was done, he cast solar satellite, creating a miniature moon that orbited around his main crux.
