Alice handed Leona the piece of paper. She was to write down six random cities, and then Leona would throw a die to pie out. The woman was the Goddess of Luck, there was er to hide than through a method which resided on almost pure ce. After a week, this would be repeated and they would ge locations.
Leona rolled a six and then looked at the corresponding number: Pepayel, in southern Karaina. “There’s plenty of forests there, we go visit a ke.”
Ilwin sighed as he looked at the one hundred men he had chosen. It was y-ually, but he included himself in the t, his fiapped the file in his hand as he took slow steps in front of the crowd. They were in one of the rge warehouses that had been acquired. Only a few crates sat in the er, the rest of the area was crete and white lights hanging from the tall roof.
Ilwin marched in front of the men he had chosen. Arascus and Ilwin’s grandfather had basically created the pn for him. Most of his own ideas were thrown out for something that was siderably harder, had far more points of failure and was simply, just generally, more difficult for o no gain. “Micheal is in charge of Blue team. Erwin has green team. Olivier, you have Yellow team. I have red team.” The three were the best leaders he had found from his pick, all of them had worked under him before, all of them had lead operations alone.
The three saluted, they wore pin clothes, like the rest of the men along with Ilwin himself. The elf had thought of having some on uniform or suit before but then decided against it, let people wear what they wao wear. A theme would only make them more suspicious ory. “I have already ahe teams already, everyone knows who they belong to.” Ilwin said, the teams weren’t even, his was the rgest at forty people. Olivier had only fifteen. It was supposed to be that way, Ilwin’s team was to acquire several heavy cargo pnes from the rgest airport in the region, Olivier was to steal a few private jets.
“Here are blueprints and pns for the airports.” Ilwin hahem out to the three captains. “You’re allowed to take initiative to make any ges to the routes as needed, as well as bringing any items you deem fit.” Ilwin took a step bad raised his voice as he spoke to the crowd. “There are only a few exceptions which are not to be broken.”
“Firstly. We’re bringing no Ashs. Swords and traditional ons are allowed. Bows likewise, the only exception is the Ash or anythied to it. If you have even a bullet g in your pocket, you will be rep to Arascus himself.” The utmost secrecy was requested by the God. Requested may be the wrong word, demanded fit much better. Ilwin would ihe y-nine men himself before he set off, Arascus had said it would be his head on the chopping block if he didn’t. His grandfather had agreed.
“Sedly. Everyone will be issued one of Anarchia’s bck bands.” Ilwihe disgust out of his voice. “Wear it as you see fit, don’t make it tanized, you’re pretending to be one of her followers.” Someone in the crowd raised an arm.
“ we wear a face c instead?” The man asked.
“Wear whatever you wish, as long as its obvious that your one of hers.” Another man raised an arm.
“If we’re tanised, would it not be obvious we’re one of hers?” Ilwin crossed his arms and shook his head. He didn’t mind answering questions, but anisation like this could easily devolve into a debate.
“The goal is not to frame Anarchia, the goal is simply to throw the trail away from us. The followers of the God of Pride would never dress up in the dregs of Anarchy, would they?” He got a series of ughs for that.
“I have already informed the designated pilots where they are heading to.” Another aspect of the pn he disagreed with. The disagreement did not matter though, Arascus and Iliyal had both sorted this out. Warehouses had been secured, shelters built, even a cave had been wideo house a pne. “You are forbidden from even requesting the destination from the pilots, do not ask. You do NOT o know where they are being held in advahe faces of the men were grim, but no one asked anything.
“Bloodshed is to be avoided but Anars are not known for their pacifism. If someone does try to stop you, then kill. The less people who remember us, the better.” Realistically, there was no ce they would be able to hijaes directly without being spotted. That didn’t mean they would simply give up all hope of subterfuge though. Predictably, this point received no questions.
“If you are captured, everyone has been issued with a poison pill.” Ilwin held up his own, a small capsule filled with white powder. “Keep it on you at all times, it’s ced with drugs. You’ll get a high, and then you’ll die.” The elf saw the faces in front of him pale. The men needed a reason to end themselves. “Remember, we are followers of Arascus. There will be no trials for us, no courts or hearings. If you get captured, you will be shipped off to Olympiada.” Nothing else o be said. Olympiada was an unassaible fortress, there was no hope of escape and even less of being saved.
“These are the general guidelio be followed. The Captains are allowed to make their own infiltration pns. The airfields are as follows: Michael’s blue team will take Astangrad tral, Erwin’s green team will go to the Tress Ceremonial, Olivier’s yellow team has the Tushev-Malkov Airport. My team will go to Pepayel Regional. Gentlemen, in three days, we will unch Operation SkyStealer.”
Leona’s head started to hurt.
