Hello guys, sorry I've been gone for such a long time, I've been busy w/ school and I've also been sick w/ a sinus infection AND the flu and haven't really had the energy to sit down and type. Updates will be staggered due to school as well, once or twice a month, three max. The chapters will be moved down to 3k words due to how long it takes to edit them, I hope you'll understand. For those who complimented me on my writing skills thank you!
I'm just a freshman in Highschool, so my writing abilities are definitely not on par with some other fanfic writers, but hopefully with the help of my new Beta who will make an appearance in the next chapter or two.
This chapter will include much more action for those who really wanted for something to happen combat wise, Drop a review if you really want me to continue this story! Also ill be mentioning the interface and call-ups less often in order to improve the general flow of the story, I hope you all like it, if not, please make sure to let me know.
Here are the stories you can expect to see in the future.
UPCOMING STORIES:
ENLISTED-JAUNE IS OUTED FOR ATTEMPTING TO SNEAK INTO BEACON WITH FORGED TRANSCRIPTS, INSTEAD OF BEING PROSECUTED IN VALE HE IS TURNED OVER TO THE ATLAS GOVERNMENT. HE IS GIVEN TWO CHOICES. ROT IN PRISON, OR JOIN THE MILITARY AS A GRUNT. THE STORY FOLLOWS JAUNE THROUGHOUT HIS MILITARY CAREER FROM GRUNT TO A BEACON FOR BOTH HUMAN AND FAUNAS- CANNON DIVERGES LATER IN STORY.
THE PUPPETEER Jaune's semblance unlocks at an early age, giving him the ability to breathe life into inanimate objects, turning them into anything from towering behemoths to the smallest of swarms. The puppeteer has arrived, all tremble before him.
BLOOD Jaune Arc sank further into the crimson ocean of blood, he watched as the monster led her group of murders away from his home. They Murdered everyone he loved, forcing him to watch. Then they tried to drown him in his own families lifeblood. But they neglected to finish the job. He'd come for them, he'd slaughter all of them. He knew the blood, and now... he was the blood. (Jaunes semblance is complete control over blood.) (Has some major drawbacks)
Once again thank you all for the love and support ya'll are what keep me going, enjoy!
EDIT: 12/14/18 Howdy! this is the last revision. Im seeing some space for some major revisions here. right after the conclusion of the editing of this chpater im gonna start on writing chapter 4! See yall at the end of this chapter!
CHAPTER 3- SIEGE
It was the day after Jaune completed the tutorial, He stood by one of the wooden windows of Homebase, watching as the patrols walked around the interior of the surrounding palisade, the stone gatherers had come and gone, amassing him a large amount of stone, enough stone to get him thinking about upgrading his wall to something a tad bit more formidable so he could defend his holdings more efficiently.
Jaune thought back to the rewards he had obtained from completing the tutorial, he willed forth the [Tech Tree] Menu, which flooded his vision with massive amounts of information all at once. He ignored all other paths instead opting to focus on the "Defensive Structures" Tab, more specifically, the "Walls" path.
at the very beginning sat the currently used "Palisade". Above it, he found what he was aiming for, [Stone walls] It read. It would cost him a single TTP(Tech tree point) to unlock, luckily he had 23 of those at hand due to the loads he got from the numerous tutorial quests he had completed the day prior. He glanced over the information provided on the stone wall before unlocking it.
-1 TTP
UNLOCKED CONSTRUCTION OF [STONE WALL]
Jaune selected it, watching as the placement menu popped up. He was soon greeted with some options pertaining to the placement of his new fortifications.
"Ok, so I can either completely remove and replace the palisade with the stone wall, or expand the palisade wall out, and place the stone wall where the palisade laid prior." To Jaune, it was a no-brainer. Two walls were always better than one, plus he could cover the costs of the expansion of the palisade without it hurting his coffers too much. After debating with himself he decided to expand the wooden walls from 300x300 to 500x500 before arranging the stone wall to surround the 300x300 space the wooden wall had occupied.
After confirming the reorientation and construction of the wooden walls he was greeted with the option to add "Ramparts" to his new Stone walls, even though it would increase the amount of stone needed in the walls construction Jaune reasoned it would prove beneficial to the defense of his lands, allowing his archers to rain arrows done on his enemies as well as serve as a vantage point if need be. After all the final arrangements were completed Jaune began the construction of the new walls, paying no heed as materials skyrocketed past his head, watching as the entirety of the palisade was uprooted from its spot before being separated at the corners in order to add the new sections.
The cuts in the earth that marked where the wooden walls stood seconds prior were torn open as giant 15 meter tall walls of solid stone erupted from the ground, not stone bricks arranged in the shape of a wall stacked on top of one another, but literally just a solid structure of stone 15 meters tall and roughly five meters thick, with stairs carved into the sides leading up to the walkway on the top, which gave him quite the view of the surrounding areas.
He didn't really mind having his money drained to a decent 10,500 nor the fact he used a little less than half of his stone to construct the wall, It made him feel far safer then he had prior to its construction.
His eyes flashed to the notification that displayed itself in front of him.
[Congratulations Emperor Arc!]
Due to the progress you have made we have decided to give you a suitable challenge to test your tactical capabilities!
Nothing serious, but don't take it lightly, wouldn't want to die so early in your conquest, would you?
BARBARIAN RAID INCOMING TIME UNTIL ARRIVAL {7:59:59}
HINT: Probably a good time to look into that champion player!
15,000 GOLD ADDED
ABILITY TO RECRUIT PEASANT SLINGERS UNLOCKED
Jaunes eyes widened upon seeing the words in front of him. He was quickly sent into a flurry of panic, thoughts raced through his head before something akin to a steel clamp shut them down.
"Thank Oum for Gamers mind." He thought to himself as he took a deep breath. He ran through tactics in his head, he had two sets of walls, which was a very big improvement already. He quickly formed a rough plan in his head. Jaune shot threw his unit assignment menus, sending out all available units for resource gathering so he could afford the following payments he would make. He took the hint the game gave him and switched over to the champion tab, which displayed a single button that read {SUMMON CHAMPION}
Seeing he had no other available option he pushed the glowing button, nearly being blinded as a bright flash filled his vision, after the white subsided he was greeted with a similar face staring back at him.
It was for all intent and purposes, himself, but instead of slightly dented iron armor with his family heirloom strapped to his waist, he was garbed in leather armor with a bow and quiver full of sharp arrows on his back.
"Umm hello?" Jaune said to Jaune
His Archer counterpart stared back at him before saying, "Well, this will be confusing. Perhaps we can come up with a more convenient name for me, as to assure no mixups in the future, yes?"
Automatically Jaune could tell what was going on, most likely due to the strange connection he felt with his copy, he understood that the clone in front of him was basically just him, but with select qualities of himself making up his doppelganger personality, like his calmness and problem-solving.
"We'll call you John, easy to remember and at least somewhat different than my name, anyway, let's get to preparing for this attack now, we can talk about why the hell there is a copy of myself currently standing in front of me later, "Jaune spoke out loud, mainly to himself.
"Well Jaune, if we are going to properly defend our fledgling empire from those who seek to destroy it may I suggest you look into my champion exclusive units? You can currently recruit Peasant Archers as well as Peasant Spearmen Who will no doubt assist us in the defense of our stronghold," John suggested.
Taking that as a good idea Jaune threw open the unit recruitment page, flicking over to newly acquired units. He purchased a much needed 150 peasant slingers, bringing him down to 21,750 gold. Once they completed phasing into existence he sent them to the Western Wall, which was where the Barbarians were planning on attacking acording to the alert. He flicked over to the to the Clubmen, relieved with what he saw.
{EVENT EFFECT}
RECRUITMENT OF MEELE UNITS COST 1/2 THE NEEDED AMOUNT OF GOLD ORIGINALLY NEEDED
Not one to spit in the face of assistance Jaune took this time to mass recruit the units he would need to survive the approaching siege, swiftly purchasing 270 clubmen, bringing the total amount of Clubmen to 300, a number he was comfortable with for the moment. Left with 15,000 Gold he moved to the Peasant Spearmen John had told him about, he proceeded to purchase a nice round 200 of them, seeing as they were armed with both a spear and a wooden shield he reckoned they'd prove useful at holding their ground when required. He watched as his gold plummeted to a meager 8,000.
{ALERT ALERT QUICK PATCH INCOMING}
Due to unseen complications in the unit purchasing system the game has recognized how outrageous the prices to unit amount are, therefore as a hot patch we are providing you with a settlement of 15,000 gold until we are able to completely fix the problem. Thank you for your consideration player.
Jaune was dumbfounded, he was wondering why recruitment costs were so damn high, but he never expected the game to fix these issues. Not that he would complain about additional funds. With his gold bumped back to 23k he felt confident in purchasing 200 peasant archers, once again sending his ranged units over to the western wall to stand vigil over the land that would soon be stained with red.
With his money down to a workable 17,000 Jaune looked back to the Melee units, he decided to purchase another 100 spearmen, leaving him at 13,500 before he purchased another 300 clubmen effectively doubling his amount of clubmen, but dropping him to a measly 8,000 gold.
Jaune watched in astonishment as his legion of clubs and spears march towards the western gate, he turned his attention to John, who stood guard next to him. "You have my permission to take command of the ranged units while I am commanding the melee forces, John." He alotted, knowing that doing both at the same would prove difficult in the heat of a tense battle.
"Of course, it would be my pleasure Jaune." His clone responded with a nod.
Turning his attention back to his menus Jaune pondered what he could do with his remaining 8,000 gold. He soon decided to recruit another 150 peasant slingers to bring their total numbers to 300 at the cost of bringing his gold down to a heart shattering 4250. Jaune looked over the summary of his troop numbers and was generally pleased with what he had to work with.
[TROOP NUMBERS]
CLUBMEN- 600
PEASANT SPEARMEN- 300
PEASANT ARCHERS- 200
PEASANT SLINGERS- 300
TOTAL TROOP NUMBER: 1,400
Jaune knew he could work with these numbers, all he had to do was arrange them in an efficient way and victory would be his. he had John take care of the archer placement, Having no doubt he would arrange them efficiently.
An idea flashed through Jaunes head, since the Barbarians would only be attacking from a single direction that would mean that he'd be able to form an amazing chokepoint on the 150 meter stretch between the palisade and the stone wall, if he allowed them to break through the weak palisade gate and rush through the empty expanse to the main stone gate unhindered it would lead to problems if they decided to spread out, but if Jaune erected two stone walls running parallel from gate to gate almost like a tunnel and placed his archers on top of them they could rain down fire from above before opening the gates on either end to allow for the remaining enemy forces to get pincered.
With the idea formulated in his head, Jaune was ready. He raised the two walls, knocking his gold down another 1,000 leaving him at a final amount of 3,250. He smiled as the Archers and slingers, led by John, flooded the new ramparts of the affectionately named the "Kill Alley" Jaune himself ordered 150 Spearmen and 200 clubmen to mount the walls in order to drop behind the enemy and cut off their possible escape once their majority had been cut down from the rain of projectiles. the remaining sortie of 550 Spearmen and clubmen sat behind the final stone gate as the tidal wave that would crush any opposition, or serve as the final defense if all else failed.
With all his units in place, all Jaune could do now was wait as the counter ticked down, hours passed as Jaune, John and their men waited for the imminent attack on their newly begotten home.
The moment the timer hit zero a large warhorn sounded in the west, all the units on the walls were quickly ordered to crouch down as to avoid being spotted. Jaune peeked his head over the wall to observe the enemy forces that would attempt to take his home from him, a gigantic mob of unruly savages charged towards the first gate, a couple groups of them bounding towards the wooden walls with thick tree trunks, meant to be used as battering rams. He breathed a sigh of relief when he noticed they lacked any form of ranged capabilities. This would be much more enjoyable then he had originally predicted.
As expected, the savages busted down the first gate, they all pushed past one another to reach the final, much stronger, stone gate. Once all of them had filed into the stone alley and packed tightly like a can of sardines Jaunes plan was enacted, the archers and slingers popped up from their elevated positions and began to rain fire upon the couple of thousand barbarians below, swaths of them were cut down in mere minutes due to the frequency of the barrages, Jaune caught glimpses of John launching arrow after arrow into the mass of raiders before he enacted his own part in the aforementioned plan.
Jaune let out a guttural roar as he and his force of 350 descended from the stone walls, down to the wooden gate, having his spearmen lead the way in a simple yet highly effective shield wall formation with his clubmen filling in any spaces, they charged forward into the exposed backs of the savages who sought to take all they held dear away from them. Jaune roared as he plunged his family blade into the neck of a raider wielding a pitiful wooden club, all the while his men tore their way through the opposition in front of them, screams sounded around Jaune as both allies and foes had limbs crushed or chests pierced by the vast assortment of pointed and blunt weapons both sides utilized.
Jaune caught sight of a one of the larger, more experienced barbarians taking on three of his clubmen on all by himself, wielding a great axe he blocked two of their swings with the haft of the large weapon, the recoil of striking the weapon sending them spiraling in a heap to the ground. The barbarian then pivoted on his foot and in one fell swoop nearly separated the clubman attempting to attack him from behind in half. He twirled back around and decapitated the two other clubmen as they attempted to rise from the ground.
Upon seeing this Jaune was filled with the strong urge to sperate the animals head from his shoulders. He charged forward, brandishing his families blade. The barbarian saw him coming and met him in a clash of steel. Jaunes initial overhead strike was redirected downwards by the thick wooden haft of the man's axe, forcing Jaune to deploy his shield to smack away the lightning-fast counter-attack the barbarian began to launch. A heavy downwards swing that jaune dodged to the side of followed by a sweep that he jumped over a little too late.
Part of the savages axe haft clipped his ankle mid-jump, causing his legs to be swept out from under him. Jaune hit the dirt hard, head smacking back into the mud, he was almost too disoriented to roll away from the axe blade that slammed into the dirt right where he had been laying a second prior. Jaune decided to even the ground a little bit, he rolled towards the barbarian, who was trying to get his axe head out of the dirt to no avail and slice through the flesh and bone of his ankle, parting his right foot from the rest of his body.
The animal let out a guttural roar as he collapsed to the ground in pain. Jaune, still on the ground himself, launched his prone form into the side of his injured opponent, causing him to topple over and for Jaune to land on top of him. Before the man had the chance to throw Jaunes skinny body off of him like a sack of potatoes he was stopped by Jaunes sword, which was currently embedded in his skull.
Exhausted, Jaune rolled off the dead body of his opponent, smiling at the sky over his first real one on one victory in combat.
His reminiscing was interrupted by the trademark rumble of a gate opening filling the air as said gate rotated outward to reveal the remaining portion of Jaunes powerful army, who charged forward towards the nearly shattered horde, once numbering over two thousand strong cut down to maybe two hundred. The raiders, left with no other option other than die, were forced to wave the white flag. Thoroughly beaten and dishonored the Barbarians raid leader was brought before Jaune by John, as well as the remainder of the Leaders forces, a group numbering in the low two hundred. All bound tightly and watched over by Jaunes own troops.
"Why is it you attack me and my people?" Jaune asked, in as manly of a voice as a 12-year-old could humanly manage. The leader looked up at Jaune from his kneeled position, before replying,
"I Ragnar, funny man tell Ragnar new people in land have tools to get shiny stones, Ragnar likes shiny stones a lot, some go boom, Ragnar likes boom, Ragnar attack you for tools, Ragnar loses, Ragnar dishonor name, Ragnar must regain honor!" The newly named Ragnar finished with conviction.
"Shiny stones? That could either mean dust or metals like iron or something along those lines, either are ultra useful."
"What do you mean exactly when you say 'regain your honor' Ragnar?" Jaune asked while rubbing his chin
"Ragnar must serve under his defeator! All Ragnar's holdings belong to them, all Ragnar's people are yours, this Ragnar swears so Ragnar may regain Ragnars lost honor."
[Champion added!]
{RAGNAR THE DISHONORED}
FORCES ADDED
{120 BARBARIAN CLUBMEN}
{110 BARBARIAN AXEMEN}
{15 CHOSEN LONG AXEMEN}
SETTLEMENT ADDED
BARBARIAN WAR CAMP
REWARDS
GOLD (30,000)
UNIT UNLOCKED: SCAVS {Can loot the dead bodies on battlefields for armor, money, and other things}
{Must collect additional loot from the bodies of the deceased, who will evaporate shortly after being looted}
Jaune swiped away the info, mentally remembering to reread it later, he helped Ragnar up from his awkward kneeling position before sticking his much smaller hand out to him.
"I'd love to have you on board Ragnar, now, can you tell me about this funny man and 'shiny rock' you were just talking about?" Jaune asked in a kind tone.
"Ragnar would love to tell War Cheif all about the shiny stones and funny man." The giant barbarian confirmed with a nice childish grin.
"Here we go."
CHAPTER END!
MANNNNNNN THAT WAS WILD! 3K Words and I'm already fricking dead. A little bit action, hopefully, its enough for now, next update will be in a week or two, don't want to dry up all my enthusiasm for writing by spamming chapters, but by the way, HOLY SHIT WE ALREADY HAVE 120+ FAVORITES AND 200 FOLLOWERS! THOSE ARE AMAZING NUMBERS FOR TWO CHAPTERS! It's honestly amazing to see how much support I'm getting on this story, a million thank yous guys!
EDIT:12/14/18 HOWDY FOLKS! Just finished revising this chapter and adding some stuff to it. THAT MARKS THE END OF THE REVISED CHAPTERS! YAY! If I'm being honest I'm dead tired, so I'm gonna break my promise of starting to write the next chapter right now. Gonna go grab some z's then get back to it in the morning. Can't wait for it. PEAUCE ALSO IF YOU'RE READING THIS I'm going to start writing another story alongside this one. Its gonna be the puppeteer since I personally feel like that story, in particular, has the best chances of actually filling out plot-wise. I've already begun working on the plot outlines and everything. I'm super excited to get started on it. I have no idea when I'm going to release the first pilot chapter yet since I'm really focused on this story but the way im looking at it ill update both alternately. as to give me enough time between each update to plan for the other story. I LOVE YALL TO DEATH IF YOU LIKE THE STORY SO FAR DROP A REVIEW. Peace :))