Establishing Camp and Resources

under the cover of darkness, an army left the capital's garrison and traveled into the night via military ships,

the route mapped and marked by Vanessa clones with willow wisp that appeared along

the way traveling along the back of Draconia City in the wilderness on the very edge of the continental plate

the city sat on until it dropped off at cliffs edge before them, was an open strait across which they had to travel to get to the other side

where Stromfort city was located beyond and the vast kelp forest that shielded it

the forest seems to run for miles along the edge of the plate on the other side this was literally the other end of the crescent-shaped continent Dragon Land sat on

they crossed the strait and made it to the kelp forest by the dawn of the next morning surrounded

by waving reeds that grew taller than trees above them they danced in the flow of the current swarms of fish swimming

around everywhere the sunlight slanted down through the reeds every now and then but it was mostly dark as their ships slowly pressed through the densely packed reeds

if not for Zyle and Zehan's powers surrounding the ships they would be hopelessly entangled and trapped in the reeds

all the ships lights were on as they cut through the reeds as soon as they passed through they closed behind them seamlessly as if ships had not just sailed through

it was an eerie feeling because the fish were so silent but so active and lively everything was constantly moving in the quiet of the reeds

coming into a camp prepared by clones they had uprooted a part of the forest clearing an area to build a camp within a large cave system the clones had found in the cliffs below the continental plate

and then replanting the reeds around the camp hiding them from sight

they had already captured and tamed many beasts in the kelp forest which were mostly celestial and natural

sea creatures population they had not encountered any demonic beast yet however the kelp forest was very vast

and the clones were still hard at work mapping it the camp was built and well hidden within the shifting reeds

and it was big enough they could hide their entire

army safely including all the beast accompanying them the kelp forest was filled with food it was astonishing

that they had not thought to harvest it before not just the kelp itself but the numerous schools of millions of species of fish

that lived here the kelp was their natural food sources their army would not starve and they would also be able to ship

food back to their people the capital

"once the harvest begins we have to be careful not to take too much" Zyle

reminded the general during a meeting "we don't want to kill the kelp forest this Forrest can be a strong food source for our people

for many years to come if we don't over harvest and allow the fish to replenish their numbers we set a limit of how

much is allowed to be harvested the same goes for the kelp itself we must not let the Forrest be damaged

no kelp means no fish which means no food so we must protect these Forrest"

"We let in a systematic number of vessels to harvest, "Zyle said

"give them a few miles where they can harvest the rest is not to be touched"

"We put a boundary on it," Vivian said

"perhaps a barrier spell would work" Vanessa suggested

"sounds good" Zyle agreed "a lot of the forest is still unmapped

so we still don't know completely what's out there it would be better if we consider on the side of safety as well for the crews manning these vessels"

"how many vessels are we allowing to come out here?" the general asked

"only a trusted few" Zehan said "we can't have people who are going to accidentally reveal there is a route to these Forrest we need to handpick the captains and the ports that will be handling this"

"can we do this before or after we take the city though?" Vivian asked

Zyle cast a spell "I know a few good men already" he smiled and the faces of the captains wearing hats and uniforms appeared inside a ring of glowing water

that looked like a large mirror with energy glowing around it "hello captains" he said with a smile

"King Zyle aye!" the men replied with bright confident replies "how may we serve your Highness!"

"I have an interesting mission for you" he replied

and gave them the details of what they wanted to do

"we will arrive as soon as we can sir with full crews," The Leader of the captains said

Zyle replied "I am sending you all maps of the route they are for your eyes only, no one else must learn the route here, protect them with your lives captains it would be best if you could memorize the map and then destroy it"

"King Zyle we have our means of protecting the map and carrying out our mission we will not let you down, you can trust us with this, your Majesty, it is our honor to serve" the Leader replied

zyle ended the call

"call yuqi I think we can learn the barrier spell from her" Vivian said

ah of course Zyle said in fact all you should learn this technique to make communication easier he cast a ring and gathered energy in his hands cultivating

the technique very quickly and dispersing it to the others the wonderful thing about all of them being twins was their ability to share each other's cultivation techniques

Zyle could naturally share some of his techniques with his brother and Vanessa through their bonds as mates,

the same was to be said for Zehan and Vivian and when the power of four came together in perfect synergy they were an unstoppable force to be reckoned with

before long they had all learned it and a call was made to yuqi appeared on the water mirror

"hello yuqi oh look it's anna too they are together hey sis!" the girls cried

"Vivian Vanessa how are you girls?" they cried "oh my god this so weird!" yuqi cried "you guys are on the bathroom wall, you're lucky we were in here just now," yuqi said giggling

"do we have put something that has water in the living room now she asked that would be preferable anna said amused

"hang on," she said

"get a glass of water use a clear glass," Zyle said i can cultivate it from here

a moment later they were gathered in the living room of the tower

"How are you guys doing?" anna asked with a big grin the new water mirror was a fixture in the middle of the living room coffee table it floated in the air above the table big enough to see everyone

"um we are at war?" Vivian blurted out

"wait what?" yuqi cried

"WITH WHO?" Justin demanded

"calm down guys We took over dragon clan," Vanessa said with a sigh shaking her head at Vivian

"it had to be done, Zyle and Zehan

are the rightful kings but their uncle pretty much screwed up everything

so we have to fight to set it right again

we have to reclaim three cities under the ocean we already have the main capital

but now we are taking the others we need your help with something

we need a barrier spell we can put around a really big forest to protect it theres like this giant seaweed Forrest

and it's filled with food and celestial beast we don't want anything to happen to the forrest but we are going

to harvest a small part of it so that the people can have food its a really large forest, we have no idea exactly how big it is we have no idea what else is in it,

there could be demonic beast or dangerous sea creatures out there, so we have to be careful about letting people come and harvest food here so we were thinking of creating

a safe harvesting territory where the ships can harvest and put a barrier around the rest of it just to keep things safe"

"oh wow a project yuqi said with a smile let me consult with Nike we can probably cook you a cultivation spell that will work"

"hi guys," Nike said "it would help if we knew how big this forest is what are the levels

of the celestial beast, you found there so far? that might give me a general idea"

"level 200 beast has been the highest so far," Zyle said "we captured a few hundred of them to build our cavalry,"

"level 200 beast in large numbers means they are a very big population of large size beast

we are talking over thousands of miles of forest possibly hundreds of thousands of miles of forest

ok we will get on it" he frowned and focused as the pair moved to the back of the room sitting on the floor

while he and yuqi worked with their rings surrounding them a ball of

energy spun in the air between them and slowly a celestial orb was formed strange symbols began to appear around the orb creating chains

while yuqi and Nike worked anna asked "whats it like underwater in dragon land"

"it's like they are still in the medieval days down here," Vanessa said "but it's stunning everything is beautiful the buildings are coral the streets are white sand and stone imagine gigantic huge coral plants with houses and stuff inside of them everything is massive down here"

"a tiny sea horse is like a huge beast I wonder if we shrank when we came here," Vivian said chuckling

"We saw a real sponge bob and real Patrick and a real handsome Squidward lives up the street from them" Vanessa added they are the common sea people you would find but

there are mermaids and crab men who love counting money so much they are accountants for our kingdom

they work in the kingdom's coffers keeping track of our finances can you understand that?

crabs are doing that!

on land, crabs are food they are like funny grumpy sea creatures down here they are brilliant and extremely useful everything is so not what you would expect"

"so what about this war you guys are fighting how are you managing?" anna asked

"oh don't worry about the war we got a plan the good thing is that we come from a modern world up top," Vivian said

"taking these cities is like playing an MMO we just have to have a good strategy and we can reclaim

them without fighting too much, some people, might have to be executed, but they will be arrested first, and there will be justice, they have laws here and a senate

so the wrong doers will go to trial and all that and the cities will be reclaimed and the people are given freedom it will be settled shortly" Vivian said confidently

"We took the capital very easily with small numbers because the people were waiting for Zyle and Zehan to return" Vanessa added "everyone's very happy and festive at the moment down here despite a secret war going on"

"is it possible to fight and keep the peace at the same time?" Justin asked

"Please do not start," Vanessa said cutting him off I know all the philosophical stuff will say its impossible,

but thats up top the same rules don't apply down here, the kingdom belongs to them, whoever the ministers are that are holding the cities are supposed to turn them over to Zyle and Zehan

they are only claiming what is rightfully theirs this entire territory belongs to them as celestial dragons and the reigning kings the gods themselves have made it so

we should not have to be going to war to take them back but apparently thats how it is"

behind them, Yuqi and Nike finished the spell a glowing orb was steaming in the air between them in the middle of a circle that slowly spun and then collapsed and vanished