Part 25
“You did the right thing, considering what you experienced and not knowing about the Education Spell.” Talia assured her. “If there truly had been a problem, you might have saved all these people by bringing word.”
“Thanks. Bye now.” Tanala blushed, and was gone.
There was a silence for a moment, broken only by the mutterings of hundreds of people all around them, then Mark spoke. “Well, I’ve done a quick check on everything in the city and they’re all doing fine, everyone’s well-fed and taking good care of themselves, beyond the reduction in their exercise and activity. The basics of commerce are still flowing as they should. The parents study for twelve hours per day and care for their young for five, and the Work Spell seems to do a good job of babysitting, so even the children are all right.
“But I sure understand why Tanala thought something was wrong here. This is very strange and spooky, the way everyone in the nation is like this.”
“Less than one in a thousand of this nation’s people were wizards before Hilsith’s spell.” Alilia mused. “And the wizards they did have were generally poorly trained, which is why all of them at this moment are at the court of Prince Jaromer of Thon for further training.”
“Which explains why none of them were available to notice Tanala.” Mark nodded. “Anyway, as weird as this is, it appears there’s nothing that needs to be done here.”
Fire laughed. “But they’ll be glad of it when they’re finished as soon as
was only half done swimming, then there’s breakfast, and then I’d like
and brought
days later the first universal-participation military exercise was held.
The Triax, and most of their gods. All of the aquatic races were included, and for the first time, waves of tens of thousands of Kellarani voidcraft rose from the shipyards of Serminak to join the fray. Beyond those in the time-bubbles, the only thinking beings who didn’t participate in the exercise in some way were the Triax gods who were running it and two Kellarani gods who helped them monitor
prior, to the effect that such an exercise would be held soon, and that all had best prepare for it. But no specific time had been given, there were no command meetings held before it began, no outline of the goals of the exercise or the strength of the enemy had been given by the organizers,
was about to begin was the unignorable psionic announcement that was heard by absolutely everyone; “The first universal-participation military exercise and drill is about to begin. The attacks you are about to experience are not real.
while the lesser demons attacked the city and tried to breach the defenses to get at the non-combatants. They appeared
with First Aquamarine, The Triax God of Power and supreme military commander of his people, and information as to the demons’ deployment was gathered from all over Kellaran
batteries of energy weapons were fired by the worldlets of The Triax at the demon’s rock, where the attack ports of the demons returned fire with equal cataclysm. Millions of warcraft with crews of from one to thousands of individuals emerged from the Triax worldlets to battle
demons. But there were frequent occasions where a god would find himself free of DemonLords long enough to launch a devastating strike against the lesser demons,
the individual battles ebbed and flowed, some forces from areas that were doing well against the demons were transferred to places that were not faring as well. Six and Kragorram’s armada of voidcraft were soon assigned to helping The Triax in the void, where they were found to be most effective. Some of