CH91 Side Story 3- a lesson on invaders

Lehie paced around while Ben sat down, waiting for his lesson for the day. He’d been there for a couple of weeks at this point and his caretaker had informed him the day before just how important this one was to know, but she hadn’t actually gone so far as to tell him what it would be on.

“Lehie, what’s with all the suspense? You’re making me nervous here.”

“Ah, sorry. It’s just a complicated topic, I want to convey its importance to you properly. Still, I shouldn’t put it off any longer, today I’m going to tell you what we know about the invaders.”

The invaders, the entire reason his classmates’ souls had been summoned for a second chance at life after they died. So far Ben’s knowledge of them consisted of the fact that they’d conquered hundreds of worlds, and the survivors who had managed to escape all came together to form a united front together here, but beyond that he didn’t know anything.

“Pass.”

“What do you mean pass? You can’t just pass on learning this!”

“The only real benefit to being completely forgotten about is I won’t need to fight on the front lines. What am I going to do with this info?”

“It’s not like I’ll be revealing some deep secrets to you or anything! This is stuff everyone knows. When you make your own way in the world it would be strange if you didn’t, especially once the invasion starts.”

He could see the logic to that, even if it felt like letting himself get sucked in deeper to the world’s events and coming war. “Okay fair enough I guess, but if everyone knows what’s stressing you out so much about it?”

“These sorts of things need to be conveyed properly. Anyway, despite all the build-up, there’s unfortunately little to say. The attack was structured the same across each world it happened on. When it began on each planet it started with 333 beams of light marking various places in the world where the invasion would take place. From there, after some time gates would open at each point and the attacks would start coming through in waves. Each time it’s the same. The first has nothing but wild beasts pouring through. Demons as some have taken to calling them. They seem nearly mindless in ways but they’re brutal, savage, and powerful. They alone are responsible for taking out most worlds.”

“Wait, how bad are they that you have packs of animals taking over worlds?”