A Summoner's Journey
Grand Hero Battle: Narcian
Current Heroes: Alfonse, Sharena, Anna, Virion, Eliwood, Caeda, Odin, Niles, Maria, Robin, Chrom, Lyn, Olivia, Nino, Seliph, Julia, Abel, Serra and Lon'qu
The next morning I took the postcard Anna left for me on my desk and went downstairs to eat breakfast as usual. Today, I planned to fight the "Wyvern General Narcian" in the World of Binding. I already planned out with Robin and Alfonse last night in the library who to bring into this fight. Drawn onto the back of the card was a picture of the units appearing in the hero battle. There were a Blue Mage Cavalier and a Brave Bow archer surrounding Narcian, while a swordsman waited on the intersection to the mountain valley we were fighting on and a green mage cavalier waited behind him. Thanks to Robin's Blarraven being able to deflect daggers and arrows no problem, I planned to put him in front of the mountain path to draw the swordsman's attention while also provoking the Blue Mage Cavalier. Narcian would follow over the mountains and I could use Lyn or Seliph to strike him down as according to Robin, who read "The Weapons of Embla and Askr", the Emerald Axe Narcian carries makes him super weak to swords and red magic, but extremely strong against lances and blue tomes users. After the swordsman and Narcian is defeated, I'll use Lyn or Seliph to take out the Green Mage Cavalier and end the fight, hopefully getting Narcian on my side as well. I decided to take my orbs and summon a couple new allies just to make our fight easier.
Loading the Breidablik, I noticed that there were three gray orbs and two red orbs in the circle this time. I did the usual and summoned, filling the ruins with blinding white light. When the light faded, a pink haired girl wearing a black maid outfit adorned with dark feathers was standing there, Silver Dagger in hand and a silver tea platter in the other.
"My name is Felicia and I'm one of the very best maids in the Kingdom of-" The maid introduced herself, but stumbled forward clumsily, dropping her tea tray in the process, "Whoa! Sorry… dropped my tea tray".
The next summoning got me a blond archer that I saw back in the World of Mystery. His uniform was fancy and red, with a crimson scarf around his neck and a quiver full of arrows tied to his waist. He was wearing leather gloves and in his hand was a Silver Bow.
"I am Jeorge, an Archanean archer and strategist. I'm not sure if I got much to offer you, but you have my aid" The archer said.
I smiled, "I could use another tactician. Welcome aboard you two!".
After Jeorge and Felicia, I summoned a slender girl with long black hair, wearing a short pink ninja uniform and a short dagger in her hand, stained with faint purple poison.
"My name is Kagero, a ninja from Hoshido. You have a mission for me? Then I'll serve you in the shadows", the ninja said, then vanished into thin air.
I looked around me, bewildered, "Where did she go?".
Then, Kagero reappeared behind me "Nothing personal"
After nearly backhanding Kagero in the face, I continued my summoning. The red orb got my a young girl wearing a teal tunic along with a thin white jacket. In her hand was a sheathed katana Killing Edge.
"I'm Fir! I aspire to master the sword and travel all over to find sparring partners", the girl said.
I rolled my eyes, "Yippee, another sword user…".
"What was that?"
"Nothing. Welcome to the Order of Heroes. Stand behind me. I gotta summon on this last stone"
Fir walked behind me and I aimed the Breidablik at the last glowing red stone. A bright light flashed in the ruins and another girl appeared. This one was wearing long purple robes and had similarly long purple hair. In her hand was a dark purple tome with golden patterns.
"I am… Sophia. I am - Sorry, I get a little winded - I'm a priestess in the Nabata desert", the girl said softly.
"Cool. I can use more magic users", I smiled, which earned me a surprised look from Fir, "Welcome to the Order of Heroes, Sophia!".
I took my five new heroes back to Askr and Robin looked them over, wondering if they can be incorporated into the strategy to defeat Narcian.
"Jeorge would be a good idea to bring, as his Silver Bow has more power than Niles's Killer Bow. Plus, Narcian is a flier, so arrows can take him down easily", Robin said, "Felicia seems to be extremely resistant to magic, so she'll be good to take down those two horse magicians".
"You can handle the Brave Bow archer next to Narcian, since your tome is good against bows, daggers and staves somehow", I put in, "So we got Jeorge, Felicia and you so far. Who's the last person?".
"I can handle both the swordsman and the archer, but we should bring someone with a lance or blue magic as our fourth member, just to take down the swordsman in case I'm busy with the archer", Robin replied, "Kagero works as well, since her Poison Dagger's effective against both of them".
"I want to get this done as fast as possible, so let's bring Sharena as our back up lancer", I decided, "Jeorge and Felicia! Wait for me in the lobby until I come back with Sharena!".
"Yes sir!", the two nodded and headed out of the library. I went to go grab Sharena from the training yard and met with my heroes in the lobby. I took my Narcian Grand Hero Battle postcard and led my heroes into the World of Binding.
When we arrived, the postcard glowed in a bright blue. In front of us was a huge mountain wall obscuring the valley where Narcian and his troops were supposed to be.
"It'll be tough shooting my arrows that high", Jeorge observed, gazing at the mountain thoughtfully.
"If I can't see my target, then I can't cast magic through the hill", Robin said, looking towards the passage on the western side of the valley, "The hill over there looks low. Jeorge can probably make the shot from there".
"One problem", I said, "The swordsman is patrolling that area and Narcian's troops are likely behind this mountain wall. Attack the swordsman and Narcian's men are surely coming in to ambush".
"I guess we just go in and rely on our instinct", Felicia put in, "I mean, it shouldn't be that hard, right?".
Robin sighed, "I would contradict you for that statement about instinct, but we don't want to linger here too long. Let's just get to the fight".
"Hey Narcian!", Sharena shouted, "Are you here?".
"Ah, here are some visitors!", a wyvern-riding man holding a large Emerald Axe flew over the mountain wall, casting a dark shadow over us, "Come to challenge me?".
"Yes in fact", Jeorge nocked an arrow and shot it towards Narcian, but a huge bolt of lightning fried the arrow into ashes.
"Now, now, you lowly worms. No need to be so testy. All you need to do is beat me and all my troops in this valley. If you do that, that is if you CAN, then I'll join you as an ally. Deal?", Narcian rose his axe, "I take your silence as yes! Let's begin the fight!".
Narcian flew back over the wall as his troops yelled out a war cry and took their positions in the valley. I sent everyone towards the western passage, Robin first, Jeorge behind him and Sharena and Felicia trailing at their feet. The swordsman saw Robin and swung his massive Armorslayer at the tactician's face, nearly cleaving it in half. Robin expertly dodged the clumsy swing and sent out a swarm of spirit ravens in response, blinding the soldier and making him stagger back. Jeorge shot his bow and the swordsman was defeated with an arrow through his chest. The Blue Mage Cavalier galloped from behind the mountain and launched an extreme bolt of lightning towards Jeorge.
"Watch out! That's the tome Thoron!", Robin shouted as him and Jeorge darted out of the way. Felicia dashed forward and threw her Silver Dagger with utmost precision towards the mage. The mage stumbled back at little, allowing Felicia to fling another knife towards his chest, destroying the mage's only defense. Sharena lunged forward and stabbed the mage through the chest with her Silver Lance, taking him down. A spiral of wind rocketed towards her and Sharena jumped out of the way in time. Once again, Felicia took the magical hits well and retaliated with a series of expert dagger throws.
"Felicia might be clumsy as a maid, but she's incredible with a knife", Robin commented.
"Yeah, remind me not to get on her bad side", Jeorge readied his arrow and shot it towards the Green Mage Cavalier, knocking him to the ground with an arrow through his head.
Finally, Narcian and his archer were left. Narcian flew straight towards us, his Emerald Axe gleaming sharply in the sunlight.
"Robin, Sharena! Don't let Narcian attack you! Retreat to the back!", I called. Both of them obeyed and dashed to the back just as Jeorge unleashed two arrows towards Narcian. Felicia threw her dagger from the cover of trees, but the Silver Dagger bounced off of Narcian's dragon's hide. I read up on Weapons and Skills in Askr before. The Emerald Axe and all other gem weapons, grant the user the skill Triangle Adept 3, which means that Narcian is incredibly good against blue units like Robin and Sharena. But at the same time, he's terrible against sword and red magic users.
I mentally slapped myself in the head, "Should of brought Lyn, Seliph or hell, even Alfonse".
Meanwhile, Jeorge managed to evade Narcian's attack quite well with Felicia distracting him and lowering his guard with her dagger throws. After a couple more shots from his bow, Narcian was shot down from his wyvern and crashed onto the ground, fading into light like other defeated heroes. Once Narcian was defeated, Robin walked into the valley and killed the archer easily. The hard battle against Narcian was over.
After the fight, Narcian appeared to us in a flash of light, with an Iron Axe in hand.
"You seem a person worthy of my strength. Very well! I'll add myself to your ranks. Do not waste my talents", Narcian said.
"Thank you. Welcome to the Order of Heroes" I said, smiling.
Sadly, Narcian was only a gray two star when we defeated him. He came with an Iron Axe, Steel Axe, Emerald Axe, Emerald Axe+, Vengeance, Lancebreaker and Savage Blow. A good skillset, but it'll take a lot to make him on par with my other heroes. Upon returning to Askr castle, Anna reported that Embla was attacking the World of Birthright now. Robin told me he wasn't tired from the fight with Narcian, so I assembled my squad of Robin, Lyn, Nino and Serra and prepared to march into the glowing red portal of the World of Birthright.
To be continued…
A pretty short part this time around, since it only covered Narcian's Grand Hero Battle. Don't worry though, as I am working on World of Birthright shortly after. Enjoy the story and thank you for all the favorites, reviews and follows throughout the series. It means a lot to me.
- SharpEyLogic (Heroes ID: 6977989459)