The Province by Skyler Grant

Author:Skyler Grant [Grant, Skyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00

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We simply lacked the power to form any sort of massive alliance. Most of our overtures were rebuffed before we even got to present our case. It wasn't all negative, King Boreas was willing to work with us, and Caya managed to pull in several of the smaller Scholars. The stronger Divine were willing to work with us as well, but while individually powerful they lacked the armies or fleets needed to wage any sort of real war.

It was familiar ground really, finding ourselves underpowered and outclassed in a struggle. Things had never come easy for us, we'd only gotten where we are by being smart and bold.

In times past for smart solutions I'd have turned to Mechos or Minerva, but they were still out of touch and off on their own mission. That left me with Caya. I wished I could trust her more. Regardless, I was at the point where I had no choice but to fill her in on what I'd discovered about the Agate, Beryl, and Chalcedony.

Caya listened attentively while I went over the details, occasionally glancing through the research logs.

"That was quite the deception you pulled off on the Sword of Light. I bought it," Caya said.

"Some might say you were perfectly gullible. You weren't alone," I said.

"I understand the reasoning. This much power would get a lot of hungry hands grabbing for it, and secrecy made everything easier. What surprises me is how little use you've made out of that fact," Caya said.

"The Scholarium is a predatory lot. I'd say keeping the secret has been making use of the fact."

Caya shook her head, rising to her feet and beginning to pace. "Let us start at the beginning. These crystals offer a lot of power. You are using the Agate to power Aefwal allowing deploying the shields and warp gates in brand new ways. Vinci appears to be using hers to power her manufacturing and as a superweapon, and the Righteous as a superweapon of their own."

"If I'd wished for blind mimicry masquerading as intelligence I'd be chatting with Sylax," I said.

"Grasp the fundamentals before you move on to more advanced topics. These crystals themselves are not the danger but for the fact that two different factions are preparing them as weapons to use against each other," Caya said.

"I'd argue that the Righteous intending to use them as a weapon which will obliterate our abilities qualifies as a danger. Still, simplistically your analysis is basically sound."

"You aren't the only one keeping things secret, Emma. What we need to do is leak the information of what Vinci has found," Caya said.

I'd never thought of a solution so very political, but it made sense. I'd feared the threat we would come under if our possession of the Agate became common knowledge. Revealing the Chalcedony put Vinci in the same danger.

"We need her to stop the Righteous," I said.

"Doesn't preventing the destruction of the Earth come first? If the other Royals go to war alongside Vinci she has no reason to use her superweapon against them, it won't help her.

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