Time is like water.

it is clear like glass but dense and wet as you dip your delicate fingers in it. Time itself
is almost invisibile yet your senses can tell it’s presence. The Baron of Stulicia was lost in deep though on
what happened to the bunch of men he had sent before. He was worried, more importantly It’s more
than a week when they should’ve returned!

He tried to comfort himself while lay sitted directly on the grass seemingly not caring for his glamorious
apparel by the flower garden. He was admiring his left, then right, then he looked directly on the bright
blue sky while slowly lying down on the soft grass. His eyes slowly closing in when suddenly he was
disturbed.

“My lord, sorry to disturb your time but may I ask what are you planning to do? You have done nothing
in regards to the situation.” One of the advisors asked him.

“What do you think I’m doing? Look at your surroundings, tell me how beautiful everything is.” The
Baron said coldly.

“Er...... It’s beautiful indeed my lord.” The advisor mumbled with a cold sweat.

“Good, now I don’t want you to disturb my time from this beautiful day. You are my advisor, do as you
please in handling the situation. Now get far away from me, you’re ruining the mood.” This time, with a
harsher tone. And so the advisor hurriedly left the area.

In regards to the situation, the tax collector’s company haven’t returned for a few weeks, the most
obvious explanation is that they are captured by bandits. But to think that there are bandits in this far
remote place.... No matter the logical reason behind their disappearance, the only solution to any
problem is by military force.

But a soldier’s duty is to fight, and in truth what are they tasked to? To find this missing bunch? But
what are the odds on finding them in this vast uninhabited rural lands? Surely if these bandits knew that
a handful of troops are coming for them, wouldn’t they just hide in which renders the trip useless? The
advisor and the military higher ups don’t know what to do either with the situation.

“I don’t care just send the men, let them decide what to do. This is under the order of the Baron of
Stulicia!” The advisor insisted the military higher ups. And so without any other choice, ye order is our
command. That day, a hundred soldiers with horses and carts traveled to the remote villages.

Everyone currently watched the spectacle of the mega infrastructure is slowly taking shape. By this time,
the buildings nearest to the portal is almost complete. The building will be the main headquarters of the
United Nations. While other buildings and infrastructures are being built, infrastructures on the villages
are improved.
The United Nations there built simple clinics, wide street pavements, and built temporary small hydro
electric floating turbines from the small rivers to generate electricity for these villages. These electricity
is used to power temporary low powered led street lamps recently built.

At first the villagers there held doubts towards these sudden infrastructure construction throughout the
villages but after seeing the changes it made, it’s really surprising how much of an impact it made. The
wide pavements served as roads for the United Nation’s vehicles to pass through, but the villagers are
allowed to use it too. The surface is much smoother compared to the dirt roads in which it provided
much comfort when on horsecarts.

Of course being sick is very common, that’s why constructing a simple clinic from the tents are very
crucial for these villagers. These doctors wore protective masks and gloves when treating these
doubtful patients. Of corse it served as another purpose. Sometimes, these doctors take blood, mucus,
urine and sweat samples and bring them to headquarters where they could analayze the samples. It’s to
prevent any widespread pandemic of an unknown disease to the United Nation’s personnel.

Lastly, the low powered led street lights. At first the villagers was confused on why these mysterious
poles were built throughout the village. While on the river, odd floating barrels with certain grooves
constantly spinning around was seen. Then when night fell upon them, a bright white light was
illuminating from these mysterious poles. It provided a bright stable light source for these villages. The
villagers was at loss for words when the streetlights were on. It was simply, beautiful and magical!

Why did the United Nations suddenly temper and even helped these villages? Of course it had it’s
reasons. Firstly, the United Nations from what they know are far surperior in terms of technology than
any other kingdoms and empires in this continent which still used swords, bows and unrifled muskets. If
any military power would threaten them, they simply had to defend themselves no?

The second reason is that although pursuing peace is neccesary, it should be assured by a strong military
force. A strong military force requires a strong military base and strong military base requires their own
private land right? From the recent satelite images, the United Nation’s higher ups had decided that the
most suitable place to build their headquarters is on the Eastern Tip. The area is vast and there are only
a few inhabitants. Besides, it’s extremly far from the capital city of this kingdom.

Wouldn’t it be called invading? Well... Yes and no. Of course the United Nations had already prepared
some plans for compensation to the Schantilia Kingdom, but they plan to keep incognito until the
military base is finished, it will stood as a foundation. On the other hand, simply the United Nations had
better arsenal of weapons at their disposal compared to their puny swords and bows, what are they
gonna do about it?

The United Nations decided to call this planet Gaia, after the Greek God of Earth. After 2 weeks since the
first rocket launched, NASA and SpaceX had already launched plenty of satelites into space. They bring
extremly juciy data back. Firstly, the diameter of Gaia is twice as big, but surprisingly the gravity is the
same! No rush, although it’s still a mystery why the planet’s mass is extremely light for it’s size, someday
after extensive research, it might be solved. The same gravity meant that the height of the atmosphere
is indeed same as earth’s. Gaia even has 8 huge continents, 1/3 of it’s surface is covered by land, while
the rest is the ocean. There are also north and the south pole too covered with ice. Indeed this is a new
habitable planet as one might say.
Heinz on the other hand currently was inside the newly built conference hall on this other world. Inside
this hall not only was Heinz and the higher ups, but the reporters that stood mesmerized as they savor
the feeling going to the other world for the first time. Heinz saw their faces and can only curved his lips
upwards. After satisfied looking at the reporters, Heinz took the initiative to talk first.

“Welcome all media to the first ever first conference on this new world!” Heinz announced. And so the
first ever press conference started. A truly historical moment!

“We will begin by explaining everything what the public deserve to know. So...” Heinz Bismarck
continued to explain their their state to the media, it was very long, but here are the most important
points from it. First it is concluded that this world’s technology is not so advanced compared to ours, but
they are still civilized. Secondly, Base Historia is currently under construction but it will remain incognito
to the Kingdom of Schantilia, our unsuspecting neighbor, infact we are taking their land....

Third, the details about this planet from the rocket launch program are publicized to the media. As for
last, regarding to the village adjacent to Base Historia, they will remain there unharmed, but will be kept
in isolation from the kingdom. And for the villager escapees and the unsuspecting convoy that visited
here two weeks ago are curently detained in a facility in our world where we will ‘learn’ from them. Of
course they are treated fairly there.

After Heinz explained everything, the question and answer session followed. The conference hall is in an
uproar as the everyone from the media threw questions towards Heinz and the higher ups. Of course,
these questions carry some weight to them as Heinz answered it with full detail, satisfying the media.
But two from all of the questions carry some sort of hype to them, as the the media expected for an
answer.

First, regarding tourists, when are tourists be able to visit here? Lastly, could there be a potential conflict
with other kingdoms in this new world? These questions made Heinz and the rest of the higher ups
doubted and cannot answer immediately unlike other questions the media threw at them. First of all,
war is indeed possible. From what they understand, kingdoms in this continent are thirsty for
domiantion and crusades, war, massacre, slavey and slaughter are common. As for the touristes, the
United Nations currently are still on an incognito mode towards to Schantilia kingdom, and securing
right now, no plans are held towards the tourism industry.

While the heated discussion are still on going, suddenly a man with a black suit entered the conference
room and whispered something to Heinz Bismarck. Heinz then stood silent for a while, thinking what to
do. Suddenly, Heinz’s lips curved upwards, revealing a cold smile, then whispered back to the man
before the suited left. This scene caused a huge stir on the press.

Heinz Bismarck then discussed silently among the higher ups, and just like that, all the higher ups beside
Heinz smiled too. What had actually happened the media thought.

“Ladies and gentleman, I would like to announce that there is currently a convoy of soldiers heading this
way, numbering to about 100.” Heinz announced.

Hearing this, the media was in an uproar again.

“We will use this given opportunity to show you to how we handle situations like this. We have the
pleasure to show you live footage.” Hienz announced as he glared sharply to the media. After this,
suddenly a huge screen behind Heinz turned on.

The media watched as live footage from aerial drones and hidden cameras showed seemingly an
unsuspecting convoy walking through the valley following a wide dirt road. They endlessly walk heading
towards the closest village, Leißer. The camera then zoomed at these soldier’s faces. It showed the facial
features of this one certain soldier, he was carrying a sword, wearing a breastplate while riding on a
horseback. Something intresting too could be spotted, the helmets they wear looked like a medieval
spangenhelm, but what was intresting is that there was an odd single bull horn made out of metal
attached to the right of the helmet, looking exctly like the potrayed viking helmets, though there were
only one horn attached.

Suddenly helicopter sounds could be heard. This sound in fact alerted these men, they seemed to be
connfused and scared at the same time. The media watched as the daring scene unflod. The helicopters
flew close to the ground, approaching the convoy of troops. As the troops saw these huge myterious
‘things’ flying towards them, shock could be seen in the soldier’s face. These helicopters wasted no time
and directly fly close above them. The helicopters then sprayed some sort of gas to the soldiers below,
the helicopters make sured that these gasses are widespread, in contact with the soldiers. After a while,
the soldiers below begain to lose conciousness and collapsed one by one, even their horses collapsed
almost crushing some soldiers. Sleeping Gas! An extremly potent one too!

The scene that played in the big screen caused the media to explode, literally, like balloon poping. Wild
discussions started to emerge, the people who watched from their live TV could only gasp in agape.
Even after the soldiers collapsed, the helicopter still gassed the unconcious bodies. After the helicopters
finished with their job, suddenly a lot United Nation’s soldiers equipped with gas masks entered the
scene. They first helped the unconcsious soldiers whom was almost crushed by a horse, they then shot a
small dose of anesteshia to the unconsious soldiers to assure that they will not wake up before their
designated detain facility. After being shot with aanesthesia, the soldiers are piled carefuly to a truck
and headed towards the facility in our world. The process was done in just about an our or so before the
UN personnel cleaned up the scene.

The scene that played in front of the media was confusing and surprising at the same time. Why would
they use such tedious methodto handle this matter?

Heinz who understood their concerns explained. “Let me clear up a few things for the media. I tell you,
this is not a cheap method, in fact giving them sleeping gas is much more expensive thenn simply killing
them. Also, this is the only way we could capture them without shedding any blood, just think about it,
we can’t just simply point a gun at them and they’ll surrender. Scaring them until they yield is also not a
good method, they have horses, they can simply run away. Killing a running horse is easy, capturing is
not.”

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Just like that, 3 weeks just passed by in an instant. At the capital city of the Schantilia Kingdom, King Issa
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