Capital city of slane theocracy - Kami Miyako

In the innermost sect of the capital city's central cathedral there was a meeting being held and the temperature there was very high even though it was peak of the winter because the discussion was getting very heated.

"We will never work with the garbage of the world. I will… never ever approve of this and shame on you all for even fathoming the idea."

Dominic Ihre Partouche, Cardinal of wind, was throwing a tantrum in the meeting and he was right. According to the creed of the slane theocracy, humans are supreme beings and no one is above them. And if you acknowledge a vermin to be on the level of a human, you are blasphemers and there is no place for you in theocracy, the abode of gods. Some people there wondered how a thin and fragile old man can be hyper on that level, then again he was a part of sunlight scripture and they were called radicals in slane theocracy (radicals calling people radical).

"Calm down Dominic, you know better than anyone to not raise your voice in the cathedral." Pontifex Maximus calmed him down with a single statement. Maximus was theoretically the most powerful position in theocracy but politics does not work on theory. All six Cardinals are like the messengers of gods and they combined possessed more weight in decision making than Pontifex.

There were more than a dozen people in the meeting. One could say if you kill all the people present there, then theocracy would be essentially crippeled but security there was more than Treasury that holds things that gods gave them. All six cardinals, Pontifex, from the government, the heads of Executive, Legislature, and the Judiciary, plus the head of the Research Institute in charge of magic affairs, and the Grand Marshal as the highest appointment-holder in the military. The council sits on a round table within a sacred room where everyone is equal. There are no superiors or inferiors on the table, everyone is a collaborator and a comrade, including the Pontifex Maximus. The captains of the six scriptures were also present.

The meeting was being held to decide what to do about the undead king and the proposal of meeting the Platinum Dragonlord. They were sure that PDL would want to form an alliance with them and deal with the undead. Some were opposed to the idea but most of the people present were okay with the idea of working with demihumans and dragons. They knew it was their only chance to deal with the undead. As much as it ashamed them, they alone were not able to go toe to toe with the sorcerous kingdom and the subordinates of the sorcerous king.

Cardinal Raymond Zarg Lauransan, was the most young Cardinal and people said he was the most sensible one. Being the former third seat of Black scripture, he has been places and knew the world for what it was and how big it is. He had fought a Death Knight in life once. They were on a mission in the area to tame a Death Knight to increase the power of theocracy. Five minutes into the fight and half of the members were dead. The other half members along with struggling similarly. If the extra seat was not there, then all of the seats in the Black scripture would have been vacant. Raymond knew, without the help of true dragons, without the help of every available demi-human, every soldier in the army of every nation, reaching the undead king would not be possible.

From his sources in E-Rantel, Raymond had complete knowledge of the military might of the sorcerous Kingdom. Maybe the undead let his spies roam free in his lands because he wanted us to see how powerful he is. In any case, they need to form an alliance. I need to convince the council to agree to meet PDL even once. Only Dominic and Yvon are the problems. Yvon will agree after he meets the dragonlord.

Raymond played the last hand he had. "Dominic, I know that working with other races is against what gods said, but gods could uphold their ideals because they had power. We are not as mighty as our gods. We cannot defeat the undead with what we have, and until all of us agree to it, we cannot use {that}, so we have no other choice."

"Yeah.."

"Yeah, yea!"

Ginedine and Berenice seconded what Raymond said.

"I put in front of the council to use the final divine artifact gods gave us."

As Yvon said that, a "yea" came from Dominic.

Everyone looked at Pontifex.

"You all know as well as I that gods gave us certain conditions to use it. I don't want to be a Pontifex who could not follow the direct word of gods. We cannot use that until the day of Ragnarok . The lore of gods clearly says that and there cannot be any room of discussion on that."

" I motion we accept the proposal for meeting with the final goal of alliance in mind." As Ginedine said that, most of the people seconded the motion. In theocracy, until all the people of the supreme council approves, motion cannot be passed.

After a lot of discussion, they all agreed to meet the dragonlord with the particular demand of not agreeing to anything that can show their full power to dragonlords because at the end of the day, they will have to fight Republic as well because no one is above humans.

Captain of Black scripture was very tired after the meeting with the most important people in the country but he cannot say this to anyone. There are a lot of expectations on him and he is not sure if he is up to the task. Being a captain, he has to deal with a lot of things but nothing can be compared to the one he has to deal with now, frankly it is a bother.

"What was the meeting about?"

Knowing the nature of the girl in front of him, he knew she does not care about the meeting and fulfilling her obligation of knowing what is going on. The girl looked around the age of 16-17 but he knew better that the girl was older than 100 years, asking her for her age is kinda taboo and she gets cranky about it so nobody asks her. She had different coloured eyes and different colored hairs. She was so out of the ordinary that the captain did not even bother to ask what is up with her! She was an awakened god-kin like him and she was more powerful than any other human he met.

"Whether they want to join the alliance or not." The answer was concise and no one can further probe another question and he can go to bed.

"So? "

"They have decided, we will join the PDL and when the opportunity arises, use the god artifact."

"Who are they sending?"

"Tch"

"What?"

"You will be there, I will also, Black ops, rest is to be decided after the meeting of alliance"

"Do I get the chance to fight this Ainz Ooal Gown?"

"Zesshi, I don't want to say this but they think you cannot take him on. And undeads cannot reproduce so you should not even bother."

"This undead is out of the ordinary, maybe he can reproduce maybe not."

"What does this mean for you?"

"How about a practice match, Captain?"

Here we go again!

"We have adventurers from the Kingdom, why don't you practice with them!"

"Blue Roses did not accept our proposal, what happened to them, I wanted to fight at least them from the Kingdom"

"Apparently they escaped, last minute using teleportation."

"Hmm.. "

"You and I will also need to go with Cardinal Raymond to meet our collaborators. There, we may meet the Elf King, we have speculated that platinum will call every helping hand"

At the mention of the Elf King, she looked up for the first time and there was apparent hate in her eyes. Captain thought that he might have seen wrong but it could very well be possible.

"Nee, Captain, let's have a practice match after all"