Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix-Chapter 1473: Agreement

"We can’t confirm or deny that. What we can do is to choose the targets properly," Lucia said. "If we defeat the machine gods of spirit and information, we will have some leeway, but we need to do it fast in order to decide the flow of the end of this war."

"As the person who has the most access to the skills on the path system, that falls to you, Rain," Sakaki said. "Which target are you going to choose, which one do you have the confidence to defeat fast and help the others?"

"None of them I can defeat fast," Rain said. "That is only something that someone with a lot of knowledge and power can do. I can only try to surprise them, and that takes time. If I have to guess... my bet is that facing Rais myself would be more beneficial for the group... it would take more time for me to surprise the machine god that controls the aspect of information, though. For obvious reasons."

"So, we can only wait for your friends to deal with Lidos faster and come to help?" Sakaki said. "A battle against a large number of people would make things more chaotic and hard to predict for that machine god, I suppose..."

There were other possibilities that the relics didn’t want to bring up since they would make Rain change his mind, but he already considered them... truly, facing Rais would make them suffer fewer losses. Even though Lidos probably could use a lot of nasty tools against them.

"What is your battle plan against him?" Sakaki asked.

"We still have to talk with the others about that," Rain said.

"So, you don’t have any?" Sakaki asked.

"That is right," Rain said. "Although the others won’t go agaisnt my idea, I can’t come up with any plan until I understand the limitations of the information aspect. Considering the skills that I have on that path, I can’t tell its full potential, so I can’t say how much the enemy knows about me. Depending on that, I will have to come up with a battle strategy."

Rais would truly be a challenge for the whole group since facing him will give everyone a good idea of what to do expect from the final three machine gods. If winning against him will be almost impossible, then the final three will be like playing Dark Souls in the hardest difficulty without a controller, but trying to input the commands by hitting the console.

"We will try to help those who will wield us to make things happen faster, but we can’t make any promises, so do your best not to die," Sakaki said.

After that, the meeting ended, and soon Rain was called by his friends to have their meeting... Although the training of the whole group wasn’t complete, everyone was there... it seemed that everyone who could learn the technique in a feasible amount of time had done it, and the others would have to wait.

"So, it is already set that we will attack two enemies at the same time," Sealyn said. "We are ready to go at any moment, but it seems that it will be better if we use the Iori pocket dimension then. If something were to happen to us, we would be forced to be teleported to Dad’s pocket dimension. However, if something happens to him before that or after that..."

"Wow, you are already considering that I am going to lose," Rain furrowed his eyebrows. "That hurts."

"What I mean is, you will have less mana to use, right?" Sealyn asked. "Don’t use the pocket dimension unless you have to."

"That makes sense... by the way, what will happen to those with Spectral weapons if your pocket dimension isn’t active?" Terra asked.

"The spell will be activated, and it will expand according to the people inside," Rain explained.

As each warrior falls in battle, Rain would find himself expending more and more of his precious mana reserves to heal their wounds and keep them in fighting shape. It was a draining task, one that demanded an immense amount of magical energy to sustain. With each passing moment, Rain would feel the strain of his efforts weighing heavily upon him, his mana reserves dwindling with each passing moment.

The realization struck them with a sobering clarity: the more damage his comrades suffered, the greater the toll it took on his own abilities. As their injuries mounted, so too did the drain on his mana, leaving him with less and less to draw upon in the heat of battle. It was a vicious cycle, one that threatened to compromise their effectiveness as a fighting force and leave them vulnerable to their enemies’ onslaught.

In light of this grim reality, they knew that caution was paramount. Every blow avoided, every injury prevented, was a precious victory in and of itself. By minimizing their exposure to harm, they could conserve their strength and mana reserves for when they were truly needed, ensuring that they remained a formidable force to be reckoned with on the battlefield.

"When you all think that we should attack the targets?" Sealyn asked.

"We already gave too much time for the dragon god to recover. We can’t give it anymore," Regis said. "I suggest that we should depart the day after tomorrow."

"I agree to it," Esmeralda said.

"All right, then we will depart in two days with all of our forces," Sealyn said. "We will use the remaining time to rest appropriately."

Everyone nodded, and then the meeting ended... although they were supposed to rest. Rain soon left to work on his supply of mana... he already had a bunch of batteries stored, but he needed more of those in case of emergency or in case he needed them for something else.

"It is a pity that I can’t create more of them," Rain thought. "Let’s just hope that all the other preparations have been enough."