Beyond the wooden gates of the camp, was a camp that looked like it had seen better days. Their tents were a dirty reddish brown, the streets reeked of blood and death, and every soldier had something out of place or the other. Some might have been missing a helmet, others a spear, and some just didn"t have any armor on. But beyond all that, Alex was able to notice one very startling factor; the soldiers here were no more than 300 if not less. And this was a far cry from the one thousand one hundred and ten he was expecting.Eventually Alex and the others were led to a ma.s.sive tent where two individuals were waiting. The tent was blood red in color and seemed to be obviously a command tent, but beyond that it was the only tent in the entire camp that seemed to be in fairly good shape. The people waiting was a man and a woman, from the look of things they were twins.
"We welcome the ninth princess Lu Victoria Albion and the prince consort Alexander to grey valley camp, we greatly apologize for Jin"s insubordination. We have all been cut off from earth and proper information for a few years, so we have no idea what has been going on. Please forgive us, also join us in the tent, I believe there"s much that you both need to be caught up to speed with," the fact that they were twins wasn"t that bad, but why did they have to say the same thing at the same time. It reminded Alex so much why the triplets spooked him so much.
They accepted the in vitiation and followed the twins into the tent, there was a ma.s.sive round table where their meetings and strategies were held, but looking at it now, it"s obvious the furniture has seen better days. Alex took a seat, along with Victoria and Anya, the twins, took their seats before they proceeded to introduce themselves.
"Our names are Chao Xu and Chao Xing, we were amongst the ten generals that were once given charge over this camp and asked to carry out the colonization effort of this dimension, however as you can see your highness Lord Alexander, we have not made the best of it." This time it was the male who decided to speak, but Victoria cut him off as she said,
"You shouldn"t defer to me, Alex is a childe of the empire, and my husband to be. He"s practically ranked higher than me in every aspect, give your report to him and don"t look at me when you speak, is that understood?" She asked as she drummed her well-made nails on the table, creating a cacophony of rhythmic sounds that made even Alex nervous.
"We Understand your highness!" they both replied, Alex decided to take charge and ask the questions he needed answered,
"Where are the rest of the generals and the army, based on the report there should have been at least a thousand of you people, but the camp looks practically abandoned and a slum."
"We beg for your forgiveness Childe Alexander, but this dimension is unlike anything g we"ve ever encountered. We"re unable to use Qi or Mana, instead there"s this stat screen always showing up, and this new unknown energy in the atmosphere that we have no idea of harnessing or controlling. Within the first week of setting this camp up, we lost 67 of our generals and 354 men and women of the imperial army.
We have been here for years, but we"ve been unable to achieve anything. Beyond the plains to the north, the Fiefs of vampires makes up the vampire kingdom. They have no king, only covens of bloodsucking beings that are too fast, and too strong. Even though we can"t use our energies, our cultivation base still remains, with all of the physical enhancements that come with it, but it means nothing., the weakest of them is around the mid-realms of the mortal gate, according to rumors the strongest should be at the peak of the heaven"s gate if not more.
We"ve been raided by both the vampires to the north, and the werewolves in the forest mountains south of here. They"ve used some of us for food, others as slave, some got so scared for their life they decided to defect and join either one of the camps for a chance to live. And every message sent back to the empire was never responded to, our supply of plane keys was destroyed within the first week alone. What you see Lord Alex, is all that"s left of the 777th regiment."
They were thrown way in over their heads, this was the place in between universes, and the only energy that was allowed here was spirit energy. The rules here were very much different than the norm, and if they were to survive, they needed to adapt. But how could they, there was no one to teach them, plus none of them were spirit kings or as crazily talented as Alex who could easily pick on it.
But beyond that they were practically sitting ducks, they had an army, but it was practically a useless one as none of them would be able to fight. 300 men were enough, but they were handicapped, honestly Alex didn"t expect this, but it was very obvious that the odds were stacked against him. But this was the spirit world, while everyone seemed to have gotten weaker, he has gotten stronger and was still getting stronger. He was sure it wouldn"t be too hard for him to come up with a method to help everybody, not to mention all of his spirits could now manifest themselves physically, so there might still be hope.
And speaking of spirits, just as he finished talking, the temperature went up a bit, and Nezha showed up, sitting on one of the chair and looking as ever divine and G.o.dly as before. Chao Xu and Chao Xing had their weapons out in seconds ready to strike, but a gesture from Victoria calmed them down, and then Nezha turned to Alex.
"It"s time you know how to survive here, and how to help your army grow stronger and increase its size, since we need to talk either way, let"s talk!"