The Reimagining of the Bow Hero

Chapter 42 - Defeating the Spirit Tortoise

Chapter 42 – Defeating the Spirit Tortoise

Author's Note: It's Tortoise Time! Also, Arcium and the Arcian Confederation will be used interchangeably even though Arcium is a state of the Confederation. This is purely for simplicity purposes.

"Oh! Bow Hero! Great President of Arcium!"

"You must save the world!"

"Please help us! That thing destroyed my country!"

The military commanders were in complete despair. They didn't know what to do.

I sat down at one of the seats and set an Arcian Flag and a nametag in front of me.

"We must come up with a plan on how to fight the Spirit Tortoise. Does anyone have any ideas?"

"Well, we know the method."

"To seal it?"

"Yes."

"How can we do so?" Mirellia asked. "Can we even use that kind of magic?"

The room fell silent.

"However," A commander butted in. "The coalition army wizards can cast it if they all work together."

"So, we need to weaken the Spirit Tortoise so that the wizards can seal it away?"

"Correct."

Looking at a map on the table, I could see that there was a city right next to the tortoise, where I had been in just a bit earlier.

We had to evacuate it, or not everybody would die.

"Has the city been evacuated yet?"

"Not yet. The evacuations won't be completed before the arrival of the Spirit Tortoise."

"Let's share all we know about the tortoise. Maybe that will lead to something."

Mirellia, the other leaders and I shared all we knew about the Spirit Tortoise. We were all quite astonished afterwards. They were quite shocked to realize that the Spirit Tortoise could stop the waves, but at the cost of two-thirds of the world's lives.

"What is Faubrey doing?" A restless commander asked.

"They only take steps after the problem is already there."

"We must wait here with the Bow and Shield heroes until the seven star heroes are here!"

"But how many cities and forts will we lose while we wait for them?"

"That's easy for you to say. Your country hasn't taken any damage yet! We must defeat the beast as soon as possible!"

Everybody in the tent was slinging insults at each other.

I had to do something to stop this.

"Everybody!" I bellowed. "If I may."

The room quickly quieted up.

"The Arcian Confederation and I shall defend this world to the death, sacrificing life and limb. Once we are committed to a cause, we shall not stop until we have achieved it. We shall not give up in the face of despair, no matter what the circumstances, and we shall protect the peoples of all nations involved like if they were our own. That is what it means to be a good ally, and the meaning of a true hero. It is my duty as the President of the Confederation and the Bow Hero to oblige by those words. Thus, we shall go on to the end."

The commanders clapped at the first part of my speech. Time to pull a page out of Winston Churchill's book.

"We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many long days of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our strategy? How do we plan to defeat the tortoise? And I will say: It is to wage war with all our might and with all the strength given to us by the powers above. We must wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalog of human crime. And that is our strategy."