Valkyrie Smash
Chapter 159 - 159: Meetings and future plans.

Having dealt with all his personal matters, Sam found himself unable to avoid addressing the main issues facing them going forward.

With Alice having promoted him shortly before her disappearance, in addition to the base's Valkyries being loyal only to him, Sam has automatically become the highest authority of the forty sixth base.

When you consider the fact that the upper echelon of the Resistance has perished during Hela's attack on the headquarters, it wouldn't be an understatement to say he's the highest authority in the world right now.

He wasn't very happy about his new position though. It gave him what he needed for his future plans, yes, however being responsible for the remnants of humanity wasn't something he was looking forward to.

First thing on the list was coming up with the story that will be revealed to the public. He sat down with Wolf and Elina to discuss this matter and after a while they decided to reveal only a part of the truth, keeping the more sensitive parts hidden.

A few days later communications with the other Resistance bases were resumed and a meeting was held a while later. With the importance placed on such a meeting most had chosen to send their commanders to the meeting, however some showed their reluctance to trust the forty sixth and sent representatives in their stead.

Sam knew what kind of reaction he would be getting when entering the meeting room. Until recently he was just a scientist responsible for operating Eir and even with his latest achievements none of the commanders were planning on paying any mind to his opinions. They had a change of heart however when they saw Nine and Five walking into the meeting and standing behind him.

The gathered commanders knew nothing about the strange glowing halos above the Valkyries' heads, however they recognized the women who took care of Fenrir and Niddhog. Seeing how they were standing guard behind the man in a lab coat told everyone to be very careful with each word that comes out of their mouths.

The meeting started with each commander reporting how things were going on their side and the state of the surviving settlements. The conversation then moved on to Sam's unbelievable last minute victory against the Calamities and how he managed to defeat the Ragnarok Heralds and the Nephilim.

Seeing how they started sucking up to him all of a sudden Sam felt the need to tune down the annoyance he was feeling. Bringing Nine and Five with him was supposed to intimidate those gathered but he had failed to to account for this happening.

That said, he still made sure to keep a closer eye on those trying to be friendly with him, otherwise he wouldn't be able to guess who's hiding a knife behind their back.

The meeting took a more serious tone soon after with the commanders probing about information the forty sixth base learned from their battle against the Nephilim. It was then that Sam began reciting the script he created with Wolf and Elina's help.

The story that was told goes like this: after meeting with the Nephilim queen it was concluded that both sides were being manipulated by Odin, a mad scientist whose obsession with the Nephilim had led to the destruction of their world.

When it looked like he would get caught and punished for his crimes, the evil genius decided to flee to another dimension, but not before stealing some of their closely guarded secrets.

Though he didn't go into the specifics, Sam that those secrets had to do with the creation of the Valkyries and revealed that they are close cousins of the Nephilim. That was a troublesome part as he claimed to be capable of creating weapons more powerful than the Valkyries, but he simply spun it as him stumbling upon the secrets Odin stole while studying his work.

The gathered big shots were quick to demand that he share those secrets with them but Sam shut them down immediately, stating that doing so was against the aliens' conditions to stop the war, and that any attempt to create more Valkyries would result in the eradication of every last human on their world.

Sam felt that going to such lengths just to trick a bunch of humans was meaningless. The most powerful Valkyries, those who underwent his adjustments, were loyal to only him. Going against him was a fool's errand and only an idiot would make the attempt.

Even though he could simply take over, Sam chose to let them maintain a false sense of power for the time being. He needed them to manage the human settlements while he hunts Loki so making them believe that their opinions mattered was a necessary step.

Another one of the Nephilim's conditions was the gathering of all Valkyries under the forty sixth base. This one was a fake, of course, which is why it was much more difficult to make the others swallow it. He provided two reasons for such conditions.

The first and most obvious one was that the aliens wanted to prevent anyone else from learning their secrets. The second reason was that they wanted the Valkyries to participate in the hunt for Odin who had escaped to another world.

By this point, everyone was starting to suspect that he was just a puppet controlled by the invaders, which was his plan from the beginning. The illusion of having a backer as powerful as the Nephilim was alone to catapult Sam's standing among the big shots vying for control over the planet.

It was already established that their victory wasn't enough to put them on the same level as the other worlders. The Nephilim could still wipe them out if they wanted to and thus they retain the right to dictate the terms of their peace deal. No matter how dissatisfied the humans were with the situation, there was nothing they could do about it.

There was a silver lining for them in all of this, though. Gathering the Valkyries in the forty sixth base would make it the only point of contact with other dimensions, meaning the rest of the world could enjoy peace without having to worry about the aliens ruling over them like gods.

The opinions were divided on that part. While some were seething with anger and hanging on to their hatred toward the alien invaders, others were already making plans to take advantage of the situation. All they have to do is leave the science fiction stuff to the forty sixth base and turn their sights to more mundane stuff like carving their part of the world.

Of course, Sam wasn't so naive as to believe that they would just leave everything to him. He was sure that, once they had established themselves, the new powers would divert a great portion of their resources into finding ways to free themselves from the Nephilim's control.

He wasn't too worried about that, though. Even if a genius that could rival him and Wolf were to appear, Sam vowed to do everything in his power and more to remain on top. The humans could continue to play rulers and conquerors among themselves, but if any of them were to try and stand in his way, he would use everything in his powers to crush them.

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After a couple of days spent discussing less important matters the visitors finally left. After taking the time to relax a little, Sam began working on the things they would need for their interdimensional hunt, with Wolf and Elina there to offer him some help. A few days later they had a portal connected to the Nephilim's world at the ready.

The other side has yet to hear anything about what happened after their queen went to take part in the war. Mjölnir was chosen as the messenger to deliver the news and inform Thor, the second Nephilim to be born from Freyja, about the human's proposal for a peace treaty.

A few days went by as they waited for a reply. Once a week had passed, the portal opened once more and the silver haired Nephilim returned. The enemy had accepted their proposal and will be coming to discuss further details in the near future.

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