Chapter 139
Part 21
“Since The Transformation of Hilsith was introduced we have cast it upon three billion of us, and more
every day, each of whom is regaining their youth and no longer aging. But more importantly, they all
now have the ability to use magic. Now theoretically, every one of the elves already has the use of
magic and does not age, but the fact is that many elves have very little magic power. We have found
that those elves’ power can be improved by having The Transformation cast upon them, so even the
elves are busy casting it. That discovery led us to decide to cast it on every one of the other humanoid
wizards who also had very little power, so one-third of all of our wizards will be significantly improved in
ability. Those wizards who are already more powerful than the bottom third of human magic users show
no improvement in power from having The Transformation cast upon them, but most have previously
been unable to end their own aging, though many had slowed it. So almost every humanoid alive wants
to have The Transformation of Hilsith cast on them, which requires some organization. I’ve heard the
situation is simr among the Selkies and the Mer, for whom The Transformation is equally effective.
“Our researchers are working with those from the non-mammalian races and with Hilsith and her team
to adapt The Transformation to all races that could benefit from it, and we think we’ll achieve sess
with all of them. The Southernmost are showing especially encouraging progress, and expect to have a
version of the spell that works for them within thirteen days. Hilsith also ns to return to the Hiliani
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time-bubble for the remainder of its duration with a mixed-race team, so they should have ample time
to solve the problem for every affected race.
“Above and beyond all of those huge and urgent projects is the task of training billions of new wizards
in the use of magic. As a matter of practicality, the first things they are trained with is the bare minimum
needed to join a Command Link and contribute their power to the Draw spells of battle wizards. Though
they are hard lessons for a novice wizard to learn first, rather than the more usual basic spells, it at
least makes their power avable to our military effort very quickly.
“We humanoids have vast poptions, and when the processes of applying The Transformation to all
of us andpleting the magic training of our new wizards areplete, the power of The Just
Alliance will be vastly increased. But until that time we are falling behind many of the other races in
other areas of endeavor. Hilia and the nations of Xervia and Serminak are ahead of us in military
training and in preparations for warfare in the void.
“To those races we say; press on, continue to advance as quickly as you can. There’s no need for us to
duplicate the development of the advances you’re making. When we’re finished developing out new
capabilities to the point where it’s practical to do so, we’ll join and adapt to your new systems, and
quickly.
“On another matter; the spells known as The Healing of Valentia and Valentia’s Workspell have been
cast by Valentia on many billions of beings, all of whom are engaged in full-time military training, at the
request of The Assembly of The Just Alliance. Her ability to do so is a wonder of spell automation. No
one else has been able to duplicate her ability to cast them. However, most of the remainder of the
poption feel that it is unjust that they cannot share in the benefits of these spells. After all, almost all
of them are fully dedicated to preparing for the war, all of us have too much to do and too little time to
do it in, and a few people continue to be injured or killed by asional idents and mishaps when
they would have been saved by The Healing of Valentia if they had been enrolled in the new training
programs. But many cannot enroll in those programs for various reasons, be they parents or children or
infirm or needed more elsewhere.
“Therefore, I add my voice to a petition of almost a billion citizens from almost every nation asking that
these two crucial spells be universally applied to every citizen of The Just Alliance, at least until the war
with the demons is over. It is only just.”
Val and Six appeared on the stage, as did Somonik a secondter.
“What says the Assembly?” Six called, and was answered by a wave of approval.
“Let the record show that all have agreed.” Somonik pronounced.
“All right.” Val simply said, and cast.
Mark expected a great sh in his vision, most of which would be blocked by his Visual Attenuator
spell. Instead, her casting showed as an ever-expanding wave of multicolored sparkles as theplex
automated self-poweredpound spells multiplied with incredible speed. Soon the wave of them was
beyond the room and gone from his sight.
It was so beautiful that he wordlessly shared the experience with his family. Six and Fire then shared it
with everyone else at the gathering in an effortless disy of psionics.
“Amazing. Thank you.” Osbald stated with a sincere smile as the gathering responded with many quiet
exmations of amazement.
“You’re wee.” Val responded with a proud smile.
She and Six went back to their ces with their family, then Osbald bowed to the assembly and
resumed his ce as well, leaving Somonik alone on the stage.
“To present the recent military aplishments of Hilia and Serminak, I give you Kragorram, Prince of
Serminaki Draconia.” Somonik stated, then left the stage to the huge crimson dragon.
“Thank you.” Kragorram acknowledged, and without further ado cast a huge Revealing above him. His
voice and Six’s provided narration, alternating with each scene that was presented, beginning with the
design and construction of The Void Hunter on Hiliani, continued with recordings of tests and training in
the new craft, and ending with views of hundreds of voidcraft being built in the massive shipyards of
Serminak. The first of thepleted vessels those shipyards would produce would be finished within
the week.
He thanked the assembly and gave the stage to Fire.
She showed a six minute Revealing of the intensified training systems they had instituted on Hiliani,
Serminak and Hilia, detailing the improvements they were showing since recruiting both mortal and
divine senior strategists to conduct their training exercises. At this point almost all of the Sylvan and
dragons in Serminak were enrolled in the new training programs full-time, and they were beginning to
conduct veryrge-scale exercises involving tens of millions of them at a time. Most of theirbat
was aerial, and some of the exercises were done at night and set up to simte warfare in the void.
The fourpleted voidcraft had taken part in a few exercises, but were mostly upied day and night
by training crews.
Since it seemed to be the thing to do, she simply thanked the assembly uponpletion of the
Revealing and Translocated back to her ce.
Visinniria; Elven Goddess of War, took the stage. “With the facts and figures that were revealed here
tonight,bined with what was already known, we can begin to take an ounting of our abilities. In
order to do so we will institute a military effectiveness rating system, and we have chosen as a
standard of power The Smingan Journeyman Battle Wizard. The military of Sming is unique in that their
ranks arepletely decided by standardized measures, and candidates are given the rank
immediately upon attaining the prerequisite abilities and powers. A newly-promoted Smingan
Journeyman Battle Wizard can carry five hundred and sixty kilograms by Movement, has mastered the
use of the forty-nine most useful spells of his profession and the six most useful psionic spells, and has
achieved by training and testing the skills and rank of Corporal as a conventionalbat soldier in the
Smingan military. A Smingan Journeyman Battle Wizard is therefore a capable all-around military entity
whose abilities arepletely quantified within the fighting circumstances that he has been trained to
work in, and that level of ability has been assigned a score of ‘one’ in the new military effectiveness
rating system of the Keran-Triax alliance.
“By this scale, a new elven recruit who haspleted only basic training is likely to have a score of
point two three, and by this you can deduce that we expect it would require on average five new elven
recruits to convincingly defeat a single average newly-promoted Smingan Journeyman Battle
Wizard.