Chapter 336: Seems You Cannot Be Replaced
[HAWI]
If they were alone, Malia could have facepalmed at how obvious the two horny souls were being with each other but since they were in a damned conference room, she had to keep herself in position and not give in to the temptation to laugh at these two.
With Hawi and Rukiya seated, the Savasci Knights took their positions too.
Mbali and Elodie were standing at attention right behind Rukia's Seat while Hudhayfah and Sherry were standing behind Hawi. Malika on the other hand was positioned on the far left, though close to the middle of the room..
It was a neutral position that would ensure that she kept both psychos safe from any attacks, and everyone else safe for the two psychos. But maybe they could hope for better times, yeah?
"I trust you have checked the documents. And now that the Greyson alpha is here, we can proceed," Hawi said.
She then went back to being the Awuor Hawi Sicario that everyone knew of and Rukiya went back to being the formal Rukiya Greyson that was known across the realms.
It was quite hilarious how they could change that fast, but then this was not just about the two of them.
They had mouths to feed and packs to make sure were secure. This right here was how they made alliances and they wouldn't fuck it up despite the lusty looks they both were getting from the alphas, both women and men.
"We are glad to have you back, Alpha Awuor," one of the alphas said and Hawi just looked at him, making him instantly shut up. She knew they were glad she was back and even if they were not, that wasn't her problem.
They would sort out their own feelings later. Right now, she needed to hear what challenges they had with the proposals set before them. They needed to deal with the pressing issues first.
"The Greyson pack was attacked by the shadow warlocks a week ago, and you have two of them in your custody. As the leader of the Devlet Union, how do you plan on countering that?
"Are there any measures in place to ensure that Greyson and other packs do not experience hostility like that again, seeing as they managed to reach the human lands too?" Rukiya asked as she looked at the folder for her.
She had seen her people slaughtered firsthand and while she would get her vengeance beside Hawi, these pack leaders needed to be on the lookout to ensure that this didn't happen again and even if it did happen, then lives wouldn't be lost.
Greyson had survived because Hawi had a personal connection with that place and it was easy to dispatch her best warriors to do damage control while ensuring that the rest had been saved. But what of the others who didn't have Hawi?
What if they didn't have enough manpower to make this happen?
"Greyson was attacked? If they can attack Greyson, what hope is there for us who don't have the strongest of armies?" another alpha asked, the worry on his face clear as day. It was however not surprising to Hawi.
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Greyson had one of the strongest aliens and over the years, the Greyson had been at the top and better than the Sicario army. If they could be weakened then there was no hope for the other packs. That was a logic that made sense.
"That is where the fifth proposal comes in, alpha Greyson. There will be a Special duty task force, SDT, to counter all those attacks. It will comprise the five strongest warriors from every pack and every leader.
"If every pack and leadership give their five best, then we will have around two hundred and eighty warriors to be assembled for training. These warriors will be trained in the best of techniques. They will be taught how to make sure the regions are safe.
"After the training, they will be divided into groups of twenty. Each group will be in charge of the security of four regions for six months, after which they will switch up with other groups, until each group will have protected all fifty-six regions.
"And they will reset and start over again, until the end of time. The recruitment for the SDT replacements in case of fatigue will be done in the Sicario military camp, which is the largest camp in the entire world, all realms considered.
"There, the SDT warriors will get the perks of every other soldier. That is an increased salary of six kilos of gold bars every six months. As for where the gold will come from, every leadership has a gold reservoir.
"We will all be required to bring forth to the general reservoir, five thousand gold bars each weighing one kilo. That is nothing compared to the gold in all the reserves, and it is a small price to pay for the security of our homes.
"I mentioned that too, in the second handouts in the unopened folders before all of you," Hawi explained and Rukiya stared at the folder before she and the other leaders began delving deeper into it.
The idea was a good one and the leaders eventually came to a reasonable agreement as they embraced the change and the danger that had to do with everything that had happened.
At the moment, they were all cursing themselves for being so lenient on Jeremiah, but then they got to learn the hard way that the system that she had created was the kind that no one would be able to manage properly if Hawi didn't do the handing over well.
The rest of the afternoon was filled with discussions about general security and food supplies. The regions depended on each other for so many things and not just firearms and it is impressive how they had worked through that.
At the end of the meeting, they were all spent. They were done at midnight, which was too late for cheerleaders to go back home. So, they spend the night in the hotel wing of the operations building.
It was dangerous having the leads in one place like that, but with the magical reinforcements that Hawi, Malika, Mbali, Hudhayfah, and Rukiya had put in place, there was no breaching that could occur.
Hell, even if the leaders wanted to get out of the building they would have to wait till morning. It was a safety measure that seemed too obsessive, but they were eina time when they were at a risk of so many things.
"Well, that went well for your first meeting," Malika complimented and Hawi fist-bumped the air in excitement. They may have all been tied from the endless discussions earlier, but then they had made the impossible happen.
"I expected them to object to the amount of gold I proposed, but I bet they trust me that much now. I feel like I could kick the air and scream in excitement right now," Hawi said excitedly.
She truly was happy.
"If Dom were here he would have bought me ice cream from Farida's store downtown," Hawi mused and Malika stared at her softly before Elodie and Mbali shared a look, before Mbali created a portal and pushed Hawi thought, as the rest of the team went through.
"You always ate ice cream after every successful mission. So, here's to keeping Farida awake because of business," Elodie said when the portal closed and they were at Farida's stall.
"Oh child, I missed seeing you."