Xandrian Stone Book 15: The Plaxian War by Breitenstein Christian Alex

Author:Breitenstein, Christian Alex
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

REBORN

A few hours later, we were all in our stacks and cleaned up again, I sat on my bridge watching the planet below through the bridge screen with great fascination.

The other admirals and all senior officers of the combined attack fleet were also here, in their stacks of course, watching.

"So is it breaking apart?"

Having scanned the planet thoroughly I answered:

"No, the frozen parts had interrupted the internal flow of material and the center of mass was also a tiny bit shifted – so the planet is heating itself up again and in the process of melting its crust or at least large parts of it. From the planet's point of view it's being reborn I think. It will be a long time until it becomes habitable again, that's certain."

Then I looked at the screen, addressing everyone:

"Fellow officers, Supreme Admiral. I have a suggestion concerning anti-magic. We know how bad it is and how much suffering it can create – so let's specialize wizard-kind in countering, neutralizing anti-magic."

The silence was heavy – I had expected cheering, or at least some sort of agreement. But I kept myself calm and waited. Then the Supreme Admiral asked the obvious question:

"You neutralized Deodrin 4. Do you need to keep training?"

"Ma'am, I am afraid that we do. To neutralize anti-magic we have to be stronger than the source of it. Think of it like water and a pond: If the pond is bigger the water disappears. If there is more water it overflows. We are the water, the pond is the black magic user or other source. Deodrin 4 was not that strong – hugely big, but very stretched and diffuse. The absorbing nature of anti-magic helped us neutralize it all, we would never have been successful otherwise."

She nodded.

"I know, I was there."

She was obviously shaken, as were we all. Prime Admiral Brown added:

"It is bad, but it is necessary. We know how bad anti-magic is, and we know how to counter it. It is our duty to wizard-kind and all other forms of life to use that ability and actively seek out any anti-magic we can find – and neutralize it."

The Supreme Admiral nodded.

"This is hereby a general order."

I stood and saluted – so did every other officer on the bridge, and on the screen I saw only standing, saluting figures.

Then I noticed that everyone was starting to watch me.

I grinned:

"Nothing. It seems that this was always going to happen."

Prime Admiral Brown added:

"Absolutely."

Prime Commodore Johnson appeared on the screen too, herself and all her bridge officers saluting as well:

"What are we saluting?"

Supreme Admiral Frankstein snorted and everyone broke into a fit of long-needed, well deserved laughter.

The mood shot up even further upon the Prime Commodore's report a few minutes later:

"We found 3 systems so far, one feels heavy like it has a twin star, one is so far away that we can barely tell it's there – though we are sure it's there – and one has a very distinctive feeling of coldness."

"Got 'em!"

"Sorry."

That had been a male voice, who had spoken my thoughts exactly.

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