Re planning

Azuma had only one question in his mind. Where Jay and McElroy.

Meanwhile. Both of them.

They both sped towards the battlefield as soon as the fight begun but Jay had something clicked in his mind..

Jay :

McElroy wait.

McElroy : sense of urgency.

Whats wrong

Jay :

We need to plan once more. This is an important battle.

McElroy :

Whats there to discuss. We join the others and push forward together.

Jay :

That's the main concern. I think that's what Ikaros precisely wants us to do.

By wasting out stamina and accumulated mana he will precisely hold a powerful advantage over us.

We can't do this like other battles we've fought. We have to think hard.

Both of them reloaded the simulation but now the battle is now updated with the latest information. Such as the pathway the retreat of the Aether order. And now the deployment of the Demon Hunter families.

While on the other side The asuras were simulated with a small golem being created representing 500 of the asruas as well as the rough map of the Demon island.

Jay :

McElroy can you travel through turbulent waters.

McElroy :

Like a dolphin.

Jay :

Great, so I'm thinking of infiltrating the backrank and strike from there.

Jay created a small metal golem representing McElroy and controlled it such that it swam through the turbulent waters and ended up on the Demon island.

McElroy :

How are you going to get there.

Jay :

Since the sky is now clear I can use my jets and get here quickly.

McElroy :

What If the asruas spot you you'll be shot down like a bird.

Jay :

I have a backup plan.

McElroy :

And what would that be?

Jay :

In the instance that I get spotted I plan to raise my altitude such that if they have guns or bows they can't shot me down.

Or even I'll hide in the clouds.

McElroy :

What is they have those type of high tech guns.

Jay :

You mean rail gun. I mean there is a real possibility but I would have to take the chances. It's the only entry I've got.

McElroy :

We enter the island then what.

Jay :

There must be something on the island they might be using to keep the pathway still without any leakages.

McElroy :

By the state of the battle I doubt any of the generals or Ikaros himself will be on the battlefield. They might be watching from afar from the island.

And knowing Ikaros he also might sense our presence.

Jay :

If we close and destroy the pathway should be once again be covered with water with both sides retreating.

McElroy :

But that would put us in a bit of situation. A difficult one.

If the demons retreat the number we would have to deal with on the island will increase drastically.

There by only hurting our chances in of escaping alive.

Jay :

So cutting off the bridge won't do.

McElroy :

The pathway is acting like a perfect distraction.

We could use the two pronged approach.

Maybe we can get them with a pincer attack.

Jay :

The next thing is the generals. The only things I could gather about them were their names.

The Berserker, the grim reaper and the Witch of Blood.

Red information. Has been deliberately hidden.

Even the families do carry a limited amount of information.

McElroy :

I'm more worried about Ikaros himself. Remember how he took oir weapons even us noticing. He also might kill us without us even noticing.

He's got about a 1000 years of advantage in him. And even if we take away the key from him. He might chase us down by running at top speed.

Jay :

But this is the only shot we've got to the second key.

We have nothing on the organization who knows when we will track it down and how many are after the key.

McElroy :

Jay this is clearly a trap, he is just provoking us to come to him.

Jay :

What would Ikaros gain by provoking us. We have nothing to offer. He already has everything.

McElroy :

Maybe he wants the key that we have.

Jay :

If he wanted to open the gates he would have done so already.

And he wouldn't have to such extravagant lengths.

What troubling both of them was the fact that there was a clear distinct lack of motive they could imagine in Ikaros case.

McElroy :

There was one thing that was disturbing.

If he now is acting like he knew us. Then what about the divine era. According to it we first met him there.

Jay :

I did hear him saying that we were similar to someone he previously knew. And I think it was us hearing in the present about the future us in the past.

They were just doing their own thing when the war was ongoing and the families fighting.

Ragnar tasked with smoking them out finally found them out after running throughout the town in the wilderness.

Ragnar :

What are you two bozos doing here. You should be on the battlefield. And not here playing house.

Jay :

We are stratergizing our move. But we are encountering problems in our problems.

McElroy :

We've never spent this long stratergizing about something

But now things are different.

Ragnar : authoritative.

I need you two to take action now. There are lives being on the line. And you're absolutely needed there.

Ragnar approached the board.

Ragnar :

You know what is needed to be done in times like these.

Ragnar kicked the entire board apart and all the pieces were tossed to the side by the kick.

Ragnar :

Sometimes all you need is brute force.

Ragnar was supposed to be very enlightening and motivating here. But it had the opposite effect.

Jay :

What an idiot.

McElroy :

That line is so cliched like ass.

Jay :

It's like that one line.

You just need the power of Friendship it is the Ultimate Power one can weild.

McElroy :

Maybe we can find the ultimate sword which can slay the demon lord.

McElroy : realization

Jay we are missing one more thing.

Ikaros is Immortal