"so its settled then, Siesta. Alpha and Beta shall take one of the newly constructed venom craft and go after the Tacitus in the elven lands. Get it under any circumstances." Hearing Louise say this, Siesta nodded and put the mouth cover of her kunoichi outfit on.

"Fouquet, you take Delta and go after the Brimiric artifact in Albion by way of the second venom. Legion and I shall go after the one in Romalia. All right?"

Fouquet nodded before speaking. "That's fine, but what about the one in Gallia, and how exactly will you get Legion there?"

"I'll be using a vertigo that will be complete within the hour. And we'll deal with Gallia later I think. Any other questions?" Louise asked as she looked around the war room table that had a glowing 3d holographic map of the continent. Seeing no one asking any questions she nodded her head. "All right, let's do this. I'll see you all when your missions are complete."

As she dismissed them they all left the room, knowing none of them would be back for a while.

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Tabitha stood in the middle of the Gallian palace waiting room and surveyed it from beside the window. The palace had changed little since she had last been here. It still reeked of corruption and was as quiet as a cemetery. Since her mother's fall to sickness and her father's death, her uncle had taken over the kingdom and controlled everything with an iron grip that made her sick that they were even related.

Hearing the click of a door, Tabitha looked over to see her uncle's left hand man, or woman as it were, enter the room and stare at her with a cold icy glare. She did not like Sheffield, her demeanor just did not seem right, and she seemed to hold her uncle in too high of a regard for just being his left hand man.

"About time you got here. Why have you not done the last mission your uncle sent you on?" Sheffield asked in a cocky manner.

"Wounded, could not." Tabitha explained calmly as she raised her arm so the remaining bandage on her forearm showed.

Sheffield stared at her and visibly snickered. "I guess that is an acceptable reason. Here is your new mission. You are to find Tristania's void mage, and bring them here. If they will not come peaceably then force them. Understand.

Tabitha nodded.

"Good, now get out! I have business to attend to with your uncle and you have a job to do, little princess." Sheffield mocked as she left the room.

Tabitha waited for a few moments before slowly turning and leaving the room and proceeding to exit the castle. If she was right and Louise Vallière was Tristania's void mage this would be difficult. With the Academy closed from Tristania's war with Albion, she would have to search for Louise without any help and without revealing herself. It was going to be a long, long, mission.

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Sheffield stood on the other side of the door and sighed happily when she heard Tabitha leave the room. While the girl was good at taking orders, she worried that she would betray Joseph, not that she didn't have reason too.

With a shake of her head, Sheffield walked down to the castle's dungeons and through the secret vaults hidden door into the excavation site below the castle.

The excavation site was bustling with miners moving all over the bottom of the pit as they tried to dig out the strange metal building they had found months before. In the middle of it, she could see her master, Joseph de Gallia, standing in front of the building's massive metal door. As she came down and walked up to his side he began talking to her happily without looking toward her.

"Is she going to do what I've ordered?"

"I believe so yes, though I do not know for how much longer she will."

"Good, soon we shall not even need her if what I'm correct is behind these doors." Joseph said as he grinned at the massive doors.

"Have you discovered how to open it, my lord?"

"Perhaps. I've had every type of magic tried on the door except for lightning magic. That is next. Do it." Joseph said to a man holding a staff who stood a few feet from them. The man nodded and pointed his staff at the door sending a massive continual surge of electricity at the door. For many moments it did nothing until the entire door and the structure around it lit up in glowing blue symbols and lines.

The entire excavation site went silent as the mage stopped and looked on in wonder at the glowing symbols. The door had only one symbol, that of a large human skull and it made many of the workers seem worried. Joseph only sighed.

"So we've done everything but it still refuse to open."

"We will find a way, my lord. I will find one myself if necessary" Sheffield states as she stepped toward the door only to be stopped by Joseph's raised arm.

"No, I have a more important job for you. I want you to go to Albion and acquire the Founder's music box. You left it in the Albion vault, correct?"

"Yes."

"Good, get it and bring it here. Also, I would like you to ask Wardes to travel to Romalia. He is to acquire the Founder's mirror by any means necessary and bring it to me.

"Very well, is there anything you would like me to do before I leave?"

Joseph stood and pondered for a few moments before smiling to Sheffield. "No. In fact, I'm happy with how this last few weeks have transpired. Everyone may go home , excavation will resume in three days!" Joseph called causing all the workers in the excavation pit to cheer happily and quickly leave as Joseph and Sheffield did as well.

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Hours after a singular figure walked slowly toward the now glowing metal structure and began writing down what the symbols looked like. As he finished and walked away his attention turned to the door as it slowly opened with a hum. Looking into it, all he saw was a deep black abyss.

He stepped closer, intent on seeing inside, and was quickly impaled by a spike on a long metal cable that shot out of the darkness at blinding speed. Without even being able to make a noise he was quickly pulled inside as the metal doors closed behind him.

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Joseph de Gallia stood alone before the metal door in the excavation site and looked through the book he found on the ground in front of it. It was filled with sketches of symbols and shapes that appeared on the door and its structure, and on the last page was a dried splatter of blood.

"Someone was trying to sneak about, but what killed him?" Joseph asked himself as he turned and walked away. "I'll need to tighten security to- guuuuh!" Joseph's quite speech was interrupted with blinding pain as he looked down to find a large metal spike through his chest. In moments, it had lifted him into the air and pulled him into the now open door of the excavation site, the door closing behind him as if nothing had happened.

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Joseph awakened and found himself bound inside a tank of strange liquid with a metal pipe of some kind forced halfway down his throat. No matter what he tried, he could not move and all he could see was the pink glow of the liquid he was suspended in.

He could feel his consciousness slipping and as he heard a strange voice in his head.

Rejoice, weak human. You now will work for me, and your skills will be far better suited to my plans than your own. Everything you care about is meaningless, your own desire is meaningless; all that now matters is my will.

The will of CABAL!