Fundamens (Month 1) 23, 1617 Central Calendar, 10:00 Second Civilization Time
Mykal, Kingdom of Mu
The attempts to improve relationships and foster cooperation between the Holy Milishial Empire and the Kingdom of Mu following last year's World Conference could also be viewed as a convenient excuse to allow more people with mana roaming around in a magicless land. This was certainly the case for the Order of the Ancients and the White Lotus, who exploited the situation whenever possible in their ongoing search of infiltrators from Annonrial, a tiresome game of sensing and counter-sensing each other's magical signatures.
Motivated to swiftly secure the Muish flank from Annonrial interference to the World's Defense Line strategy, Meteos continued his headhunting in another city while monitoring the test flight of one of the Dreaming Child's prototypes in use that day. This had become his routine whenever he arrived in a new location. With the reverse-sensors indicating he wasn't being sensed by an enemy, the White Lotus Leader seized the moment to expand his network, successfully gaining an impressive number of new collaborators this morning alone. Additionally, as a port city with a sizable international trading activity, there was a large presence of foreigners, allowing him an even greater reach once these people returned to their home countries.
Since arriving last weekend, Meteos also intercepted and charmed even more separatists lurking around the city now that he was in the hotbed of their activity that is the Southern Mu region. Like a moth to a flame, most of them had come for reconnaissance, following the grapevine deliberately spread by the White Lotus through their Muish collaborators that the new prototype fighter's testing would bring it to Ainank Airbase nearby. Information is crucial, after all, no matter how trivial.
However, he found one particular cell amusing with their plan to steal the prototype. When he inquired about it, they elaborated that they wanted to use it, especially the Milishial-developed mana detector technology onboard, as a bargaining chip to gain supporters from either the Magicaraich Community or Leifor. While it seemed absurd and they seemed to not get the memo that the smuggling routes were being destroyed one after another, Meteos couldn't bring himself to mock them, considering how outlandish his own operations actually were. In the first place, he was the one who drove them to the point of desperation by becoming an unknown factor that foiled their plans, after all.
But it's okay now. As the new collaborators of the White Lotus, they won't have to be that desperate anymore. He will take care of them to the best of his ability through his proxies in Mu.
Still, there are no signs of Annonrial infiltrators, which is unsettling. The only thing that lingered was a sense of ominous calm—far more dangerous than any confrontation.
Meteos entered a car waiting for him at the end of his "souvenir shopping spree" and pulled out his tablet, launching a program that showed a small blip indicating the Dreaming Child's current location. He followed its movement as it neared the southern gulf, close to the border with Magicaraich, with its onboard mana detector actively sensing its surroundings.
The long-sought target would enter their radar not long after...
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Subice Bay Region, Southern Mu
High in the sky, far away from Mykal where Meteos and the rest of the MOASEC delegation were staying, a lonely biplane soared southwest over a small coastal mountain range and heading toward a region close to the border with the Magicaraich Community, cutting through the thin, frigid air with a steady drone of its single propeller.
In the cockpit, Kruger, the one piloting this Dreaming Child's lightning motor-powered variant, watched as the deep blue of the Minerva Ocean stretched out endlessly to her left, its surface textured with slow-moving swells and the occasional whitecaps stirred by winter winds. To the right, the land was a stark contrast, with mountainous ridges and valleys covered in a patchwork of winter-bare forests and pockets of evergreen. The higher elevations were dusted with snow, while lower slopes showed brown and green hues of dormant vegetation.
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