Rumbling of hoofs.

Akiyama's head lifts a low rumbling passing under him. He looks down at the ground for mere moments. Bolting up, he sprints out the door.

Bursting out on the balcony, he stares out the rumbling increasing. he coughs, turning on the drones. He Roars "GET INTO POSITION!"

His voice resounds across the city, waking thousands. as the guard quickly burst out of their doors, stumbling over themself's reaching the walls.

Augustine Bursting out of the barracks "TO ARMS!" Akiyama jumps on the spectral aura enveloping him smashing into the ground.

He taps his ear. "When the Death's tear device going to be ready," the monotone voice roars to life "[3 days from now the rumbling does not appear to be coming from a horde or gate]"

Akiyama looks out, holding his hand out binoculars are passed to him. He puts them on, looking out over it. "Did it spread this far already?"

"that animal" he looks over the mass herd of creatures. "it's" a mix, but it appears they came back already," he mutters, looking through the binoculars at the herd of pigs and cows.

The herd split to move around his massive city and wall. Looking behind them, he nods. "The ecosystems coming back fairly quickly."

He nods. "The Acid Corrosive stench must of off put them from trying to run through the city." he lowers the binoculars.

"capture around 6 cows. 3 female and 3 male and prepare to run. Capture the same for pigs: I'm deploying entire battalions because of how wild animals and cows are"

"seems I'll have to spread out farms outside the walls or within quick outposts. I just don't want anybody to be there when it starts.

troops move down, opening the gate, the path rerouting a portion of the splitting herd. the cows moos as the pig, Snort.

walking in "NOW!" the portcullis slams shut the animals in the intersection split in half as the rest are caught and taken by multiple men.

The bulls try to shake off the chains, kicking out to harm anybody. "Use Tranqs. " the men pull out a gun, firing the Tranq.

its contents injecting into the cow's body the animal Shaking violently before collapsing "Move them onto Carriages and get them into Pens for now I'll get a spot for them.

He walks towards the palace. "I made no progress on how to close the gates," he mutters. Entering the gate, he walks around.

teleporting into the building, he sees more honour guards, their numbers steadily increasing as the security tightens.

He enters the workshop looking at the book holding the current known information on the gates sitting down. "I should start working on magic"

He stares carefully. "But where do I want to start? " He stares into nothing. "Wait, a minute. " He looks at the shop, buying a flame crystal and a hollow sphere.

Look at the pale white sphere and Blazing Crystal. He nods. "If I open the sphere, insert the crystal, then close it off. The fire should spread into the confined space."

'𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑' he pulls out a sheet of paper, careful drawing a staff of sorts. Using a wooden pole.

He designs a circular guard to keep the flame from touching the wood. The spires designed to hold the pearl in place without breaking it.

He draws out the crystal placement in the middle. "I can probably send this to the base," he mumbles, drawing out a detail display of the components and uses.

he nods, looking at the simple staff, a long pole with an even hammer pommel on the bottom the top, a simple circular guard holding the orb in place.

"for lightning then," he draws out a gauntlet onto the page, adding detail additions including the lightning Crystal its voltage regulate by a system of inscribed circuits to direct the power to the pointed cone tips.

planning out the internal layer to block the current from the user's hand, he nods, drawing the systems and the layer of rubber insulant.

before making a layer of Portioned wood to make it flexible but not problematic doing up a final layer of leather, he draws out the internal design

For comfort. Looking over the gauntlet split into multiple sections for creation, he slid it off to the side. Getting up, he glances outside.

"still the afternoon. Suppose I can go for a bit of a walk. " He stretches out fairly tired, still entering the maze like hallways. He makes his way to the garden.

Walking in, he looks around, smiling at the soothing scent produced by them. "I'm glad I did this," he stops, looking across. Sonia sitting quietly well staring at the tree in the centre.

The glow seemingly hypnotising her. He walks towards her, the tapping of his shoes breaking her. Trance, she looks at Akiyama.

Him smiling at her, his arm hidden behind his back. "I heard you liked these. " He presents the flower to her. Sonia's eyes widen.

"why would you do this? Your-" he places his hand on his lips, Shushing her "Planning to take it up with Lythinma after she recovered enough. My sweetheart gets. quite lonely for now, though she probably won't when Illiana grows some.

"Shouldn't you be raising your daughter?" He smiles, rubbing his eye. "Well, apparently not. " He sits down next to her,

"I am supposed to be there, however, for now I don't tend to stick around" he smiles "after all I'm working on things in the Workshop including new weaponry."

Sonia narrows her eyes "wouldn't she forget your face" Akiyama leans in "I don't think Lythinma will let her" moves away snickering to himself.

Sonia shakes her head, a smile plaster on her face. "You're so bad at this. I'm afraid of your relationship," Akiyama looks at her.

"oh don't worry," he smiles. "it's just a business relationship," she giggles lightly. "sure like a business relationship would have that much physical contact" "

He carefully thinks "hmm I'm not too sure. I never went outside a lot to figure it out. " He yawns. "Video games were always more important."

Sonia tilts her head. "What a video game? " She asks Akiyama looking at her answering with excitement. "it's an electric game in which players control images on a video screen"

"it's basically a game like tag digitised" he leans back "I used to play them a lot because of feeling useless" Sonia scowls.

Cutting him off. "your not useless though," he laughs to himself. His eyes seeming distance "it was stupid life, anyway. I much prefer this 1," he says.

Sonia Nodding, "and I wouldn't have ever got myself back if not for you" she says. Akiyama shrugging his shoulder in acknowledgement.