Chapter 20 - Think Tank

When the 2 teams returned to the surface, they were immediately summoned to the secret headquarters. Welf, Mikoto and Lili were also invited so they brought Wiene along. Before they left, the prisoner was turned over to the Ganesha famila and the remaining Freya familia. After the teams reached the headquarters, the level boosting was turned off.

Beyond Hermes, Freya and Takemikazuchi, Loki, Hephaestus and Tsukbaki were already there. The goal of the meeting was to use all available information to figure out the strength of the enemy and how the situation was evolving. By then, the Freya familia already extracted useful information from the prisoner and extracted his magic stone. Bell was a little shocked with the quick termination, but this is war. Finally, all the familias have provided their lists of missing and dead members in the last 20 years. After receiving all the available information, the gods' think tank analyzed and then presented the most important facts:

1. All of the dead opponents were missing or killed AFTER the war.

2. The only exception is Revis, who was thought to be killed many years ago in the 27th floor massacre.

3. All of the dead opponents except Revis were roughly fighting at level 6 or 7.

4. Revis was fighting at level 9 or 10.

5. There were many hundreds killed or missing in those many years since the 27th floor massacre.

6. Based on the battle, the enemy did not appear to use much magic, but Revis seems to have very strong magic resistance.

7. Rough ratings for monster: violas - level 3, virga - level 4, varlang dragons - level 5, udaeus - level 6, balor - level 6

8. There is absolutely no information on Enyo or any other magic using monsters besides the demi-spirit, but a lot of parasitic transformation resources were used up in the Black Dragon-Thanatos conflict.

With this information set, they deduced that there is only a slight possibility that there are many hundreds of enemy combatants fighting at level 6 or higher. Many hundreds of enemy at level 6 or higher would simply be the end of the world scenario. There is no need to plan for that because there is no way the current teams can defeat such an enemy. If that is the case, at least several gods would need to join Hestia in heaven. Thus, the scenario they must plan for is that the army of the dead consist of those missing or killed after the war.

The next question is how large is the enemy? Based on their information, 33 adventurers were listed as missing or killed since the war. Since they have destroyed 7, there may be 26 left not including Revis.

The following question is how high level are they? The reasonable assumption would be level 6-8, probably mostly level 6-7. Using the same ratio as what they encountered, there originally were 7 level 7 and 26 level 6. After the recent battle, the numbers may have reduced the number to 5 level 7 and 19 level 6. In terms of Enyo or any magic using monsters, there was inadequate information to make any conclusions beyond it could be bad.

The next question is where did they get the power boosts from? The assumption is that this army was busy consuming the magic stones of the powerful monsters in the deep levels. This is consistent with all the missing violas, viscums and virgas, as well as the dragons and other powerful traditional monsters. This assumes the 'dead' were not feeding off each other like Revis did with Olivas. The gods would ignore the canabalism case because that is the best case scenario. If they were consuming each other, then the recent battle may have destroyed most of the enemy's strength.

The final question is how much stronger will the enemy get if they are not stopped immediately? Does eating a magic stone of a level 6 monster increase the enemy's strength from level 6 to level 7? More? Less? The Loki familia saw Revis leveling after consuming Olivias' magic stone, but they do not know how much experience she had to start with. Suddenly, Hermes suggested a shocking answer. Hermes said to give the 6 magic stones to Wiene to determine it experimentally. After the initial shock, it was agreed to exactly do the experiment. The results would then be analyzed by the god's think tank that specialize in figuring out difficult problems.

Thus, Wiene has become the center figure of the meeting...