Chapter 1-Garrison Attack

The new soldiers of Phantom Guard got the training of their lives, though according to the Ghosts, as the villagers referred to them as, have given them intense CQC training, as well as testing some of them with the Hunting Rifles found in the village, as well as using swords, fighting well against Shadow, who was an expert at using bladed weapons, though it took time as they were beaten up, a lot, both the men and a few women who joined got a thrashing from him.

However they proved themselves strong and were quick to learn, and adapt, Mina was among the better of them, and she showed excellent shooting skills, and she was strong minded in leadership.

She would have been an outstanding soldier had she been born on Earth.

The group continued on, going to the next village, and getting forces from there, and then the next, and next, until six villages had pledged their support.

They had pulled off several successful attacks, such as ambushing a noble carriage on the road, killing the man and his guards before taking the gold, they also attacked supply lines, the Phantoms targeting the Mage's first and then focused on the regular guards, taking large amounts of weapons and armor.

However, the armor was used in a different way.

It was melted down to make more weapons, or it was modified to be put in special vests under the Ghost teams instructions, as the uniforms of the Phantom Guard were to allow the soldiers to blend into their surrounding and be more difficult to attack, as well as being lighter and allowing the soldiers to be more mobile.

However, that was not all, as the team also had their data pads, which intrigued the villagers, and they were able to switch the language to Helkagenian, allowing the people to understand what was written, and they learned more about Science, and a few intelligent people read the aspects of Science from the tablets, though it was limited by the ghost team, and the people could only access the data of Science that had already been stored onto the tablet, which was very substantial.

The purpose would become clear as to why they were learning it.


"Ladies and Gentleman," said Keeper to a group of assembled Phantom Guard soldiers, "today we are going for a major target, which is the local Garrison, located in Fort Miphan, the fort itself is easy to enter, as they do not have much of a door, but the mission will be stealth, so we will send in a small team to cause damge to the Fort, and the we will hit it in the morning."

Keeper explained the plan, saying that they would go in at night, and scale the fortress wall, which was old and run down on one side, which would allow for easy access to the Fort, and Gaurdian along with some archers would take out the men on the wall, and the teams were to set special bombs known as pipe bombs with the detonator being the electronic detonators from the MULE, which they had a lot of, and then they would attack the main structure, which housed the officers and mages.

It would be a quick mission, and would take place that night.

The teams were ready before that time.


It was midnight and the moon was out, and Phantom Guard was on the move.

They secretly approached the fort, wearing dark camouflage made for the night, and the moved swiftly, the teams given special Sykes knives, which cut deep into flesh, and taught the art of silent killing by Shadow, who was part of the attack.

They silently entered the fort through a hole in a wall, the guards were intoxicated from drinking, believing nothing of trouble would occur.

Shadow snuck up behind one, having left his Future warfare system, and had a dark green shirt, black bulletproof vest, pants in forest camo colors, and had a silenced MP7 in his hands, but he now had a knife out.

He got behind a guard while a his team-mate, a Phantom soldier named Rega, got behind the other, a Sykes in his hand, and then they grabbed the guards and ended their lives, taking the bodies and hiding them.

There were eight guards in total, four on the upper wall, and four guarding the lower area, out of the forts twenty-eight personnel, though now it was six guards.

Then one guard who was near one of the walls turned his back on his partner, and it allowed Mina, now in a camouflaged outfit as well, to get behind the man and end his life with her regular Dagger, the other turned around, but was shot in the brain by Keeper, who was also there.

Then, the gaurds on the upper wall, all went down, one from a bullet to the head, and the other three died from arrows fired from steel reinforced Crossbows, dying in an instant.

Then the bombs were laid, placed beneath the large shack that housed the housed the guards, the bombs were placed in silence, until the barracks for the soldiers were lined with explosives, and soon the charges were set and the signal to the detonator was good.

Then came the final part of the plan, and all teams converged on the sleeping quarters for the Nobles, and then they silently ended the lives of the Nobles who were in intoxicated sleep, and then reached the main office, and ended the Commanders life as he slept.

Then came the coup de grace.

Keeper pulled out the detonator, and muttered a short phrase, "fire in the hole," and clicked the detonator.

The Barracks were blown to pieces, the explosive power of the bombs easily tearing into the buildings, ending the lives of the soldiers in an instant, not one survived.

It was a resounding victory.


The next day the members of Phantom Guard moved into the fort, taking it for their own, and distributing the large stockpile of weapons and armor to be either equipped or used.

They also located documents from the Commanders quarters, showing that the nation of Tristian was declaring war, and that Albion was going to move all of its forces to a single Fortress and then focus all of it on the place where the Tristian Army would come in, the port city of La Rochelle.

The attack on the city was to begin in little over four weeks, in which the largest attack force, consisting of over 7 million soldiers, the largest force that could possibly be fielded.

However, it would also take a lot of supplies, and the commanders office showed the supply lines, which would carry not just swords and muskets, but many of Albion's new cannons, as well as material to be used by the newly made 'Defense Projects group' who had learned a lot from the data, and had come up with the working design for a cannon that was more of a rip off of a 150 mm howitzer cannon, along with the design of the cannon shells.

It was time to start planning, because for the next few weeks …

… things were going to get busy.