Takatak takatak made the general's pudgy fingers on the table of his office.

He then picked up his phone... "Any news?"

Bello: "Yes, Sarah is back... she will be here in a few minutes."

Meanwhile, Waspy didn't say anything and neither did Sarah. The jeep drove by itself without a driver.

The jeep stopped, "Terminus" (everyone gets off haha...)

Sarah came out of her reverie.

The door of the village was open and she went back on foot. The jeep automatically left, but the subway cars had arrived under the temple. The officers were reluctant to enter the temple again. It was time for the tour but everyone was waiting for the Chancellor.

"AH, nice to see you again, Madam Chancellor," exclaimed the general who had since exited.

"Can we talk for two minutes before we leave?"

Seeing the woman's distant attitude, Mondeville was surprised. "Are you all right? Did something happen?"

Sarah: "No, General .... everything is fine... But go on without me... I'm tired and I'd like to stay with my children. Don't worry... everything will be fine."

The general also saw that the fairy had calmed down and was talking all smiles with the teens. it was reassuring.

"Madam, did something happen?"

"No, I was with Kate. She's a friend of mine and she's very nice but please be lenient and tolerant, sir.... Don't forget that we owe them our lives and their authority is justified... You have no idea of the horrors and sufferings they have endured. Hans and Kate are heroes but also martyrs, you will understand in time when they open up to you. But I am sure that you and Hans will get along just fine..."

"Is there anything wrong with them?"

"No, except that I really feel sorry for them... you have no idea, you have no idea how much they care about us. We are their family and friends...trust them.."

The general was amazed at the chancellor's completely turned around attitude.

Then she got teary-eyed and went home.

She hugged Raven.

"the children....I know everything... I understand Waspy's confusion and terror but...don't tell anyone, let me handle it.."

Monty: "So, there is a dragon, right?"

"Yes... I talked to her... she is my friend.... It's Kate!..."

"!!!!!!! KATE??? a dragon," the teens exclaimed.

Sarah let out a sigh... "There are no humans left except us... I had hoped. But Kate was human... before .... radiation and her treatment... She is a dragon and it is hard for her. Yet she fights to keep her humanity. It is to cry.... Such a nice woman..."

Monty: "And what does she look like? "

"A white dragon covered with scales and wings. She looks like a long albino crocodile, 25 meters long...But she still has her hair, like a mastiff. She is very beautiful as a dragon too...

She has big teeth but she wears a veil to hide her mouth...and also a veil hiding her horns.

She is very much loved and is very sweet..and still very human in her gestures."

Raven: "And what the elves said, that we were a human farm...what do you think?"

"No, they would never do that... Kate is too nice but they are enemies with the elves and maybe that is normal..."

Waspy was listening to the conversation, still playing and drawing like a child.

"Hans eats the mean fairies...and the elves too!!! but Kate is going to kill Hans! This sucks!"

They looked back at the fairy who had just dropped a bomb..

"What?? Is it true? So he's going to eat the humans who left?"

Waspy "Oh, no... He would never do that.....He once explained to me... Yes, but I didn't quite understand... BZZZ BZZZ... Yes, I think so... Ah, yes....Euh... The sparks??? well a soul thing... yes, basically if you want to have children... you have to kill the elves..... and eat them!!! if you don't eat them... they come back and you don't have children..... and if you eat them, then you have enough sparks?? yes, things like that and when you have enough, bam, you can have an egg or a baby."

Waspy had just dropped an atomic bomb.

Sarah began to sob.... "What a horrible world!!!! why!!!!????"

She understood the horror of the war but also the impossibility of stopping it....

Wapsy added: "Kate doesn't know all this. She just learned that Hans ate my friend who was my enemy

The little ones hatched after the elf defeat..."

Basically, Sarah, Raven and Monty understood like the dwarves that if they ever wanted children, elves had to go, at least a good part of them.

Monty: "Hans said something about a meteorite and the Sparks...before he mentioned the goddess... Yes... everything is explained..."

Waspy: "When you eat them, they don't come back!!!"

Sarah: "What do you mean, they come back???"

Waspy : "yes... Let's say that the bad elf tried to kill me..., I defended myself and he died... ok??? you follow me??? . Trallala, life is good and I can play quietly.... and, paf, the next morning, I get killed by surprise... Cuckoo... the dead elf came back with the morning dew....The bodies disappear quickly then come back in shape and angry even more..."

The dwarves not coming back anymore because rejected by Tyrant... they were decimated by some fierce elves who kept coming back... Eventually they all died, except for the ones Professor Carnage saved."

Meanwhile, I was waiting for the subway to arrive and Kate was pulling my head.

But I was too busy. "Kate? Honey???"

The dragoness turned her back to me and went down to the base through the inverted V arches behind the villa

This time, I had shaved my beard a bit to look more presentable and put on my brown Tuxedo, the same one my father wore when he was alive.

The train stopped and the guests were less numerous than expected.

A few guards came out and surrounded the villa to secure the place to their standards.

They were still worried, but I think Sarah reassured them and Kate had something to do with it.

I really wanted to make a fresh start with the humans and start a great adventure with them. They were the hope of civilization, the cream of science and the elite of the elite.

Bello had stayed, apparently. There was General Mondeville and Professor Volkor. An eminence in astrophysics...

Kate received them warmly and ignored me completely.

Some Kobolds arrived and served refreshments.

There were strangely no drones or robots.

"Professor Reinhardt! I'm glad to see that you have no lack of taste in decoration..."

"But I owe it all to my wife, who knew how to bring out the best in humanity..."

Volkor: "You speak of humanity as a precious good"

"Indeed, dear colleague, it is unfortunately when we are deprived of something that we realize its value, but often too late..."

"I agree with your ideas... but I see that the materials and the quality of the construction must have required considerable means. With you, we go from surprise to surprise."

"But I am sure that after the visit you will have more questions than answers..."

The professor was bursting with anticipation. He was dying to see.

Then we took leave of Kate and the two humans followed me and we passed by a sliding armored door in reinforced concrete and metal

The general and the scientist had never seen anything like it... A laboratory, but beyond all comprehension...

Volkor: "What is this laboratory?? I don't recognize any machine or computer..."

Indeed, processors and computers were not built to last 3000 years...

But now there is another science, let's say that, according to Shakespeare, when science is too advanced, nothing distinguishes it from magic.

The dwarves use a tiny part of it, the runic magic, but here it's something else, this science penetrates the matter and its reason to exist.

On the left, you have a disruption column with mana discharge. A kind of artificial Ki, like an electromagnetic field but using another form of energy. An energy coming from the friction between worlds and dimensions. I called this science, hypergeometry..."

Volkor: "What about elven magic?"

"Let's say it's cro-magnon next to an einstein..." They only use beams emitted by their orbiting rock. If it disappeared, they would be devoid of "fantastic" but here, it's another technology (draconic, but I wasn't going to tell them)."

Volkor: "And let's say they "cut off" the energy to deprive you of it?"

"But I have millions of times the power....of energy to infinity, enough to revive all the industry that humanity has ever enjoyed.."

General: "Can we have a demonstration of this science?"

We then moved to the desk on the left and sat around the test hood.

General: "It's a very strong armored glass. In case of an accident, we are protected..."

I then put down a 400 x 400 block of steel, very heavy. heavier than a truck engine block.

I took it with one hand. my fingers going like butter in the metal to lift it.

I put it on the workbench: "Touch it!

They saw the shape of my fingers and the metal heated up by the pressure

I took my index finger and pushed it through the block which deformed like plasticine.

Then the block lifted up on its own and started to redden and melt like a candle and ended up like lava at the bottom of the bowl.

"As you see, the possibilities are endless. Imagine the constructions, the technological development. And not to mention the advances in medicine and travel to space and other worlds!!!"

Mondeville : "So a tank is useless in the face of such power???"

"Unfortunately for you, you are 3000 years in the past.... it is like asking if a horse-drawn chariot from the time of the pharons would still be of any use in a modern war. Besides, ammunition is getting scarce, and everything related to the past tends to disappear. I'm sorry, but I'm sure that people of your caliber will bounce back. Don't forget that you are the elite of the elite... but let's move on...

We arrived in a corridor but instead of an elevator shaft, there was a huge door (obviously my size) but it remained closed. On the other hand, I opened another iron door, of our size. And we got into a small tube-shaped car, and we went deep into the bowels of the mountain. At least a kilometer deep...

Then we came to lava-filled faults, but further on, monumental installations allowed to convert all this energy into mana crystals for my huge projects.

But before that, we passed a tunnel with tanks. Tanks and more tanks.

They were old but completely restored and in working order.

Kobolds of human size with long tails were in charge of maintenance and upkeep.

Immediately the humans saw that the "small" ones also had a "giant" version.

They were Kobols who had earned the ultimate reward for their race: the awakening of their ancestral dragon blood.

They were bipedal dragons almost as big as carnosaurs, and most of them were the size of raptors.

Right away, they were less friendly. They were scary. I was a non-human army...

As I walked past them, they immediately stopped to give me a military salute.

The females were crazy about me... Their eyes sparkled with envy, love and emotions.

We continued and finally arrived at a well going directly to the lava but it was so deep that we could not see the bottom.

There was a gateway that allowed to cross without blocking the invisible flow of mana.

"Here, the infinite energy converter..."

Volkor: "But how did you do it? It's not with the Kobolts!"

Professor Volkor... I am 3000 years old and I have been working on this project for a century. Matter has no more weight or resistance. I only have to imagine a 3D part and it twists and takes shape before me...

This science will be my gift to humanity, for its future and its future... and, don't forget that we also have to settle our accounts!

Mondeville: "Why haven't you crushed the elves yet?"

"Simply because they keep coming back with no end in sight! I exhaust by putting constant pressure on their resources. I've noticed (through vile massacres...) that they take longer each time to come back... so their energy is not inexhaustible."

Volkor. "I see that you have a number of Kobolds under your command... but what about us? What is our place?

"Come, come, this world is yours! I advocate multiculturalism and the mixing of genders and races. And, don't forget... Our Goddess watches over us... if you believe, and you will perish. She will also be merciful, most of the Kobolds here still have their dwarven families!!! They are free to do what they want..."

Then the tour ended and I took my leave of the Humans who went home on the subway.

Then I called Kate, but she did not answer my call.

I was sad and devastated. What happened?

I end up dozing off at my desk.

Kate... Kate...!

Kabal appeared on a screen.

"Not now!!!"

Kabal: "Your wife has gone with the little ones to the village!!!"

"WHAT!!!!"