After finally deciding how to move forward with the way events had been unfolding, those mature ladies approached the younger ones and spoke to them at length about the situation, the risks involved, and the choices that lay ahead.
Once everyone understood the gravity of it, they gathered inside the meeting room.
They eventually agreed on two immediate courses of action.
One was to focus their attention on the metallic entities that had begun appearing randomly across the Empires.
The other was to send Chosen ones to the Void Empire in order to negotiate directly with Mary and understand her intentions.
These matters could no longer be ignored.
They needed to uncover what those metallic beings were doing to the people who encountered them, especially those who survived yet lost fragments of their memories afterwards.
At the same time, they had to understand why the Void Empire seemed to be rising in value at such a dangerous pace.
