At dusk, the sky was dyed a brilliant orange-red color, but Storm City was still in chaos. In the streets and alleys of the city, members of the Storm Council were running around, constantly searching for the escaped rebels, and the soldiers looked tense and tired.
In the clearing at the edge of the forest, Ian and Mia sat quietly discussing their next move.
"Storm City now doesn't have any Luminary-class Exalted sitting around, so it's a great time for us to counterattack." Ian analyzed calmly.
Mia nodded, "That's right, it's a great opportunity, I'll contact Jack and Roy right away and tell them to bring the main force of the resistance here immediately. We have to take this opportunity to recapture Storm City."
After saying that, Mia took out her communicator and quickly dialed Jack's communication channel, "Jack, Roy, you guys immediately bring the main force of the Resistance Army and advance towards Storm City. The Storm Council's top brass have all been taken care of by us, and now is the best time for us to recapture Storm City!"
Jack's exhilarated voice came from the other end of the communicator, "Okay, Mia, we'll move right away, and we'll be able to meet up with everyone soon!"
After the communication ended, Mia adjusted her breathing slightly and began to recover her energy. Despite the tough battle she had gone through earlier, she had recovered her strength slightly.
Ian waited patiently, always maintaining a state of alert to ensure the safety of the two. Soon, Mia opened her eyes and looked at Ian firmly, "I've recovered some, let's enter the city now."
Ian nodded, and the two of them quickly got up and rushed towards Storm City.
The gates of Storm City were still heavily guarded, soldiers were patrolling around, and when they saw Ethan slowly walking in with Mia outside the city, they all revealed a look of surprise. No one suspected that the Ethan in front of them was actually disguised by Ian using his illusion-making ability. Even though Ian's Illusion Creating Ability level wasn't very high, it was still no problem to use it to deceive these Spark-rank and Flare-rank.
"Lord Ethan?" An officer looked at them suspiciously, "Mia..... this is ..."
"Shut up!" Ian coldly reprimanded, perfectly mimicking Ethan's condescending stance, "From now on, stop all raids in the city! Mia has agreed to cooperate, we are companions from now on, all members of the resistance will be released!"
The soldiers froze in place at the words, staring at each other in disbelief.
Mia spoke at the right time, her tone steady and firm, "Your higher-ups have made a decision, and a new order will be ushered into Storm City. We are no longer enemies, but allies fighting side by side. Now, all put down your weapons and prepare to welcome the new era."
Although the soldiers had doubts in their hearts, the Ethan in front of them was an extremely high-powered existence within the Storm Council, so they didn't dare to disobey and stopped moving. The chaos in the city gradually calmed down, the members of the storm council have withdrawn from the streets, the city's resistance army learned the news, also felt very unbelievable, how could Mia agree to cooperate, they could not tell if it was a trap for a moment, so they also lurked, and the city fell into a kind of bizarre and short-lived calm.
Early the next morning, the resistance army troop led by Jack and Roy vastly into the storm city. Meeting up with Mia at the Storm Council headquarters, "Mia!" Jack excitedly walked up to Mia and let out a long sigh of relief when he saw that she was safe and sound, "Luckily you're okay!"
Roy saw Ethan beside Mia and instantly changed his face, "What's going on? How are you still alive. "
Ethan laughed out loud, "Take a good look at who I am? "Said Ethan, Ethan's face gradually disappeared, revealing Ian's original face, Roy was amazed, "Good boy, you scared me to death, you always have so many strange and weird tricks. "
Mia smiled and nodded her head, "Thanks to Ian this time, we must now quickly take over Storm City, so that everyone can put down their hostility and start restoring order."
As the Resistance moved in in large numbers, the Resistance lurking in the city gradually appeared, and they were all convinced that the two sides really did seem to have made peace, including of course Rayne who had been disappearing. When Rayne came to Mia's side, he was also startled by the sudden appearance of Ethan.
[Congratulations to the host, completing the mission: Rescuing Private Rayne
[Mission Reward: Three choices of battle skills: 1. Gravity Cage 2. Ice Seal Heaven and Earth 3. Heavenly Thunder Lead]
Ian looked at the rewards given by the system, after some thought, he chose Gravity Cage, which is a good control class skill, the ability of gravity control is a very powerful ability, but the biggest limitation lies in the fact that it can only take effect within a certain range around itself, so choosing a gravity related battle skill can make up for the defect of distance.
[Congratulations to the host, obtaining the battle skill: Gravity Cage (forms a gravity cage around the target, can adjust the size of the applied gravity on its own, upper limit of 100 times, restricts the target's actions, the cage will follow the target's movements, the upper limit of the gravity increases with the host's level)]])
When everything gradually calmed down, Ian once again disguised as Ethan and gave an order for all the mid-level personnel of the Storm Council to come to the headquarters for a meeting, during the meeting, Ethan announced an order, "From today onwards, Mia has become the vice president of the Storm Council, with a status second only to me, her orders are my orders, do you all understand? "All the mid-levels below looked at each other in disbelief, although they didn't know what was going on, they still could only say that they obeyed the order.
But immediately after Ethan's another order let them all sit down, Ethan also announced that all the Resistance to join the Storm Council, the Resistance's high-level personnel, Jack, Roy, Rayne, Linda and others are arranged to the corresponding high-level positions, which is obviously to let the Resistance to distract the power in the hands of other people in the Storm Council.
So one of the mid-level retorted to Ethan: "President Ethan, I can't accept your order, your behavior like this is to give the Storm Council to the Resistance, I am now very skeptical, whether you are really President Ethan! "
Ethan's face was grim as he stared at the mid-tier, "You're questioning my decision? Then there is no need for you to exist! " After saying that, he fired a flame from his hand, and the mid-tier who had questioned it stared at him with wide eyes and turned into ashes without having time to react.
"Does anyone else have a comment? "Ethan's icy cold eyes swept across the room, seeing this scene, the rest of the people present also lowered their heads and shut up, the person who raised the question just now had already turned into ashes, where would they dare to question, everyone knew that even though the Ethan in front of them was fake, the Luminary level strength was real, coupled with a Luminary level Mia, to raise an objection at this time to raise an objection would be really looking for death.
"Then since everyone has no opinions, let's adjourn the meeting, let bygones be bygones, in the future both sides should work closely together for a better development of Storm City."
After everyone left, only Ian and Mia were left in the room, Ian lifted his disguise, "Pretending to be someone else is really tiring." Mia snickered, "Is it? I feel like you're learning to act like one, I'm taking you for the real Ethan."
"Thanks for the compliment, however, this side of things is even over, I've delayed long enough, although sooner or later the problem will be found out, but I believe that the others without Luminary class can't make much of a wave, the real threat comes from the outside, you should understand what I'm talking about, so, you can make your choice now.