Three of the most prominent clan leaders stood in front of a table planning their rebellion against Chian. Their Queen and Priestess had abandoned them to the humans now all they needed to do was wait for the right moment to strike.
"Ok so infiltrators what news do they have to offer?" asked on of the leaders.
"They have found out the structure of the Chian military." said another. "The are split up into three main branches known as the 'Core', Army who are the foot soldiers and war machine operators of Chian. The Imperial Navy are the master's of the sea's of Chian's Naval forces. Then there's the Air Force, mostly made up of Succubi and those new Zeppelins. The also have several special forces groups known as the Outer branches. These groups hold the Elite forces of the military."
"So we can pay them off."
"Not possible. Unlike other nations they don't get their groups from the their society's elite but form skill. Their military is a strict meritocracy and extremely loyal. They cannot be bought."
"That presents a problem. But if we want our freedom we will kill the Ou."
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The Capital of Swea, Gothenholm, its structure is that of a fortress city placed at the mouth of a large river leading out into the ocean. The massive river splits the city in two parts, each side of the city is lined with massive two hundred feet tall solid stone walls with turrets, towers and gatehouses. The two halves of the walled city is connected by three large bridges that reaches over the lake, each looking like massive valves as the boats and ships enters the harbour below. For such a heavily fortified city is there little to no pollution as once inside the walls it can be realized that the people of Swea river their nature as beautiful gardens, parks and even trees made into houses, line parts of the city like some kind of magical spectacle of civilization and nature working together and not against one another.
Each of the city halves are split up into separate districts, each of the districts have its own walls, not as tall as the outer walls though, and its own gates connecting the rest of the city. In the southern half, called the Winter Hold after the ancient historical battle that happened there long ago during a long harsh winter. IT is split up into five districts, the Stone's Vault, home to the majority of the city's civilian craftsmen, the Gilded Sanctum, a district devoted to art, music and entertainment, the Red Courtyard, the most gardened district which is named after a specific garden filled with trees filled with blood red leaves called Blood Oaks, the Court of Trade, were the city's main market, trade guilds and squares are located, and the Tower District, the district being the central military force of the Winter Hold, the Tower District's namesake being a gold and red coloured tower that towers over all other buildings of the district, standing like a massive spire reaching for the skies.
The Northern part of the city is known as the Summer Hold, after the flourishing fields and crops from the lands just north of its massive walls. It is split into four districts, the Dragon's Nest, the place were the majority of the city's stables, animal trainers, war beasts and magical creatures are kept, trained and so on, then there's the White Garden, a district made up of wooden white tree houses and white stone towers, it is the location of the wizards, druids and other magic users of the city, then there's the Bell Square, a large square with a single massive cathedral in the northern part with an equally massive temple to the southern side, this Is were priests of Him and Norsen religions gather with their follows and the common folks to pray. And finally there's the Lion's Den, a place of education, knowledge, tactical knowledge and a strive for knowledge and bettering of modern science, this is were the people and nobles go to school, to debate, to discuss and so forth.
Then there's the final important part of the city. The Gothic Holm's Keep, the namesake of the city, a castle located in the centre of the city. This is the ruling seat of Swea were the Court holds its seasons and were the main living quarters of the royal family is located.
As Ren, Rinma and Jenna walked they looked in awe at the sight.
"Daddy it's so buatful." Rinma said with a smile as Ren picked her up and held her on his shoulder.
"That's true." Red admitted.
The three soon entered the main marketplace and Ren could see several Chian people selling their wares. It made his smile until a voice of a preacher of the Phoenix order met his ears making him sigh. He didn't like it but then again his religion was based on a lie as were most. They just walked along but all the time Ren felt like he was being watched which was unsettling but he continued on like nothing was wrong.
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Off the Island of Everlight a group a large iron clad ships moved in closer with troop sips getting closer. The flags above the ships was that of a red sun with rises spreading out from it with the kanji for fire in the middle of the sun. They came in under the cover of darkness ready to strike with most of the Militia and crew being Elves ready to take back their home. Gun's loaded and the new weapons ready for the attack. As the sun began to rise behind the ships Queen Fay dressed in her battle armour smiled.
"FIRE!" she yelled.
Almost at once the cannons fired on the Empire positions. Th echoes of the cannon fire could be heard across the island waken up the residents. Soldiers got to their stations armed with little more then spares and muscle loaded weapons. But the Chian Grenadiers where armed with more than that. The Mk1 'Kelda' rifle was issued to all of them, a 10 round stripper magazine with a bolt action system. The rifle itself was similar to a Lee Enfield used by the British in WWII.
Empire soldiers armed with mussel loaded weapons moved to the upper buildings along the top of the island and aimed their weapons at them. But before they could fire one of the naval ships fired taking out the soldiers allowing for the Grenadiers move up across the island taking out the soldiers as they did. Juno saw what was happening from her cell. Chian soldiers came in like a wave with strange machines behind them. The empire elites didn't stand much of a chance against them.
Within a matter of hours Chian had taken over the island with almost no casualties. Juno along with the other slaves and prisoners where released and for the first time in years she saw someone she never thought she'd see again.
"Celda?" she asked as she walked toward the Dark elf and grabbing her attention.
"J..Juno?" she asked before the large bust human pounced on her hugging the Dark elf.
"Hee good to see you again you I guess you where held up here as a slave?"
"Servant until I was accused of magic and sentenced to die today so thanks for the save. So I hear you have a man in your life care to share?"
"We'll see." Fay said with a lustful smile.
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Yuki and Celda where in the Nausica looking over production over prototype machines. At the moment the two where looking over a section labelled 'Luna 1 project'. Inside wasn't a prototype spaceship but several vehicles meant for traversing the Luna surface. The first that was being tested was a exo skeleton like machine with a large rectangular head that held oxygen and a heads up display along with a standard radio among other things.
Next was a large 10 meter mech made for construction purposes. It was shaped more or less human with exaggerated shoulders that where widened for easy manoeuvrability. While one of the arms was normal the other arm was a drill which would allow for mining on Luna. This was mostly for scientific purposes until a permanent settlement can be allowed. Yuki had agreed that a base for scientific and study purposes will be made on Luna until it is decided that the materials on the moon would be worth exploiting.
When Yuki and Ren arrived on this new world they saw three moons. The nearest one was named Luna after an ancient Elven goddess who was here to protect people with her one silver eye. Risna was the second, it looked like a desert moon with little oxygen which meant that the equipment that was meant to be used for the Luna mission can be used for the Risna mission. The moon was named after Luna's daughter but the story as it went was that she turned to the black gods and became corrupt, and died.
The final moon was named Devina and was Luna's sister who was jealous of her and was sentenced to watch over man as they took over. Thanks too images given to the two queens from the observatory they found that the final moon was a forest moon meant oxygen could be there. But ether way the plan was to send a done and determine the composition of the atmosphere before they could decide anything.
Yuki sighed with a smile on her face looking at the machines hoping for the future.
"Yuki I have something to show you, and with the threat of the Inquisition." Celda said before moving over to the lift with Yuki following her.
Yuki and Celda rode a lift down to one of the construction rooms of the Nausica facility. But unlike the rest of the facility this room that they here in was twice the size of the castle and ten times as long. To say the place was huge was an understatement. But the two couldn't see what was in the room due to the shield of the lift.
"So what is it that you wanted to how me?" Yuki asked.
"Well after researching the alien metal from the crash I found out that it is stronger then any known metal we currently have. Its also quite light and I though elven silver steel was the best. But after finding how easy it was to produce I looked into applications for it both military and civil."
"What did you find?" Yuki then asked with interest.
"Hee well after looking at that mech that Ukemoto made I thought of something myself. I came up with a superheavy weapons platform." Celda said as the lift stopped and the door opened. The two stepped out but what Yuki saw she nearly stopped breathing. "A mobile fortress standing twice the size of the castle with a force inside ready for action. I call it the Phoenix class Mobile fort the 'Call of hell'."
Standing in front of them was an 8 legged mech with two landing platform on the front and back with a large bunker on the top with two large cannons in the middle. The bunker area was similar too a modern aircraft carrier bridge. Yuki just stared at the mech in utter surprise.
"Why did you build this?" she asked.
"Last stand weapon, there's a weapon that the Inquisition has which is told to be as big as a mountain. The Sacred Altar of Repentance, we need something to counter it. Unlike the Alter the Call of Hell can deploy aircraft or airborne mechs as well as troops. Plus we have two main cannons, the first is the Railgun cannon the second is the magi gun which uses magic to accelerate the payload to the target with major blasts that can devastate the area."
"Well let's hope that we'll never have to use it."
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