After Daniel's short emotional breakdown, he dropped a bombshell which was sort of expected. "Pack your bags, we're moving to London."
With how serious the mood was, the Windsor wives agreed without a thought and were on the way to packing the bags when Ayleen, the Smith's only daughter asked a question, "Are we allowed to go with you as well".
"But of course Ayleen, we are all family aren't we, and ol Jack said he would allow me to bring my family."
Hearing his name being mentioned, Jack broke free of his skock induced trance and asked what was going on and after seeing brought up to speed by his son, he gave his views on the matter at hand.
"Please Danny, don't make things difficult for me. Even bringing your family is a stretch that would make me lose favour in your brothers' eyes."
"It's quite a surprise that even after seeing my power and witnessing it firsthand you still speak of gaining those weasels' favour. This means that they have evolved as well, and by the looks of it they might be as strong as me or stronger. Tell me, what tier are they?"
"They are both TIER 2 and their children are TIER 1."
"Well, that won't be a problem for me and our enlarged family seeing as only one of us is TIER 1 and the rest are TIER 2."
Given this new piece of information, the Sulivan duo were conflicted since they themselves were mere TIER 1 beings, weaker than almost everyone around them based on stats alone.
With their decision to go finalised, the Smiths and hhe Windsors all took a seat at one of the few remaining gazebo and decided to plan about the upcoming trip, the women thinking about souvenirs even in the apocalyptic time they were in while the men, Daniel, Julian and Jack sat aside discussing the different possible 'receptions' awaiting them and how to defend against them.
*A few days later*
Everyone was seated in a cargo plane co- piloted by Julian and Daniel as they flew to London. The journey to the castle was delayed for so many reasons.
The first was that the outreach programme they held would be left without supervision. To deal with this, they selected a few people benefiting from the programme who each had the presence of a leader.
They were; Marco, a 32 year old gym instructor, Dave, a 22 year old ex local gang member, Stacy, a student who once held a leadership position in her college, and Ruby, a 27 year old literature teacher who had bonded with Amy over their shared love for romance.
They had taken these four to one of the new dungeons that had been spring up on a monthly basis and guided them to kill monsters, raising their ranks to TIER 1 so that they could use the fear factor to maintain control of the 1000+ hungry members of the outreach.
The second thing that delayed them was raising Amy's rank to TIER 2 and selecting a dungeon for her. Being the soft person she was, the fact that she even got to TIER 1 was a miracle and it took a lot of convincing from Maria, her 'future mother-in-law' before she could kill. With the matter of selecting a dungeon, she chose a butterfly themed one. The butterflies in question were TIER 1 Dream-catchers who produced sweet scented pollen-like grains which numbed the senses and reduced awareness, leading the unprepared into a deep sleep which they might never leave if not broken by an external force, like a slap to the face that Leone and Mateo found out the hard way.
The last delay was their chosen mode of transport. The Sulivans suggested using the helicopter they brought but their hosts had other plans. They broke into a nearby airport thst had become abandoned due to the current world status and stole a cargo plane big enough to store the few military grade cars along with the weapons and ammunition they decided to bring with them.
With the flight being a 14 hour long one and the need for sleep mildly reduced due to continuous level ups, everyone got themselves busy.
At the tail end of the plane, Amber had opened her mantis shrimp dungeon where Wilson was naturally increasing both his stamina and endurance by swimming with weights around the easily agitated and aggressive shrimps.
Amy was surrounded by the mother trio who were advising the socially innocent but mentally and romantically corruption girl on things to do to gain Mateo's attention and eventually affection.
Mateo had entered his own slime dog dungeon to check on them and practice his earth wall skill some more since mana regeneration and control which was faster and easier in dungeons received an increase in a personal dungeon.
The beasts of his dungeon had grown in size and in strength with most of them being at the mid to late TIER 1 rank and a handful of them being at TIER 2.
Leone and his two pseudo girlfriends were testing the limits of Mateo's enchanted barrier chain which could now produce a TIER 2 resistant barrier which might prove useful in their upcoming visit.
Carmen had chosen to sleep since she wasn't that fond of air travel especially 14 hour long ones. Overdosing herself on sleeping pills was the only way to stay asleep since her evolved body purified the prescribed dosage too quickly.
The Sulivan royal guards had gone ahead since they needed to meet with the others who had been sent to capture different relatives on the submarine they travelled from London on. No questions were asked since Jack was their leader and it also wasn't something that bothered them, they just assumed that the target had died, a very common occurrence since not everyone was brave or strong enough to endure the apocalypse.
15 hours later, the cargo plane landed safely in Heathrow after a few of its passengers jumped down and cleared the runway of debris among other things.
The three military cars were soon filled by their occupants and from there it was a smooth drive to their destination, The Buckingham Palace.