Alright folks, it's time for another chapter of Gamer of Fate.
Now this chapter I will be a little honest with you I'm not too sure what I plan to with it so this one is gonna be me winging it.
Anyway I hope you all enjoy the chapter.
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When Rinkah, Kaze, and I reached to front gate of the fort that was across the bridge we were stopped by a Ninja that suddenly appeared at the front door.
"Kaze, Rinkah, I see you tow managed to survive." The ninja said, "But who is the Nohrian with you and why is he here?"
"Omozu, this man here is Irwin, he's not a citizen of Nohr, just a traveler who wishes to leave Nohr." Kaze said.
"If he is a traveler then why is he armed?" Omozu asked.
I decided to speak up for this one, "I'd like to have some fore of defense from the roaming bandit's thank you very much." I said a little offended.
The ninja, Omozu looked toward Kaze, "Can you vouch for him?" Omozu asked.
"Yes." Kaze said.
"I can vouch for the chump too." Rinkah said as she pulled her mace of her back and held it on her shoulders, "We let the kid have round of watch last night and he didn't stab us in our sleep, much less try."
Omozu looked at me with a raised eyebrow, "Very well." He relented, "Just keep out of trouble while you're here."
"Thank you sir." I said as the gates opened, and the three of us walked inside, Omozu simply pulled his little ninja vanishing trick... show off.
Looking around the fort I could see plenty of Archer's up on the high walls of the fort, most equipped with Brass Yumi's, while on the ground floor there was a Samurai and an Archer playing a game of some sort by a table, but I couldn't tell was it was at this distance.
Just like in the game, a direct assault on this place is a Death Trap unless you've got the defense to shrug off all those arrows... A Knight might be able to do that actually.
"Now then, let's get food, water, extra fire wood, and more tents." Kaze said, "Rinkah you remember where we keep the rations correct?"
"Yeah, yeah." Rinkah said with a roll of her eyes, "Almost every small fort has the exact same layout as the last." With that she walked off.
"Follow me to the supply room." Kaze said, "It'll be safer if you're with either me or Rinkah."
"Agreed, plus you seem more levelheaded than Rinkah." I said following Kaze into the fort.
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Pretty soon, after we had to navigate past a few Hoshidan soldiers moving a few crates around, we found ourselves in the supply room, which not only held basic camping equipment, but also weapons, mostly brass though.
"Feel free to take a weapon or two if you so wish." Kaze said as he picked up a tent and put it into a pack that, turns out, was enchanted by a Onmyoji to hold things many times is size within, so looks like I don't have to BS my inventory abilities with the whole mage thing I had planned. I just gotta remember to keep pulling things from the pouch I have.
"Are you sure that's alright?" I asked a little worried.
"It's fine, the Border Fortress is over stocked on weapons anyway." Kaze said, "As long as you stay on our side you shouldn't be bothered about it."
"If you say so." I said looking back at the weapons, "But if I get in trouble for this I'm pinning all on you."
I didn't get a vocal response so I decided to grab the Brass Naginata and felt it's weight in my hand.
Now, one of the things I don't really like about Fates was the penalties of some of the weapons. Seriously I'm getting punished for using Silver Weapons by losing 2 points to Strength and Skill and recovering one per turn. Now I can understand that because weapons don't break in Hoshido and Nohr, not counting staves and festals, there has to be a penalty for overusing a weapon, but I'd rather them break from overuse instead of getting a penalty to my stats that could very well get me killed.
Anyway I gave the Brass Naginata a twirl before I noticed an Iron Naginata next to it, so naturally I grabbed the iron one instead and place it into my inventory.
That's when I noticed another weapon, a katana, more specifically a Raider Katana due to the hooks on the front of the blade, "What's this?" I asked feigning ignorace.
Kaze looked over to me, "A Raider Katana." Kaze said, "This Katana is designed to shatter the armor of opponents you have a weapon advantage against. With Swords and Katana having an advantage against Club and Axe users."
At that moment I remembered that Camilla was an axe user... I also noticed this was the only Raider Weapon here...
"Was someone planning to try and use this to strip Princess Camilla or something?" I asked, "Because there aren't any other Raider Weapons here."
"I... think that's something best left unanswered." Kaze said.
"Agreed." I said putting the Raider Katana in my pack, I can use swords if I want, and Raider weapons are considered to be the best E-Rank weapons considering their stats so I may as well hold onto it.
At that moment the archer that was playing with the samurai back on the ground level came running into the room, "Kaze sir, Nohrians are attacking the fortress."
"What!?" Kaze called out.
"The hell? Did we even slip under Garon watch?" I asked, although I knew the real reason... Garon want's to provoke Hoshido into attacking, so he sent Corrin over under the guise of scouting the area to see if it's habitable, while he sent Hans over to start killing indiscriminately.
"We better get up top." Kaze said running ahead.
"Hey, wait for me!" I cried out switching out my Iron Lance for the Iron Naginata, seeing as Hoshidan weapons give a bonus based on the weapon type, the Naginata granting a boost to my Defense and Resistance, even only one, something I may need.
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Kaze and I got to the top of the fort and looked ahead, sure enough Corrin, Gunter, Jakob, and that jackass Hans were there, although the former three were currently on an outcropping 'Island' of rock with rickety rope bridges connecting it to Nohr and the Border Fortress, while Hans was rushing recklessly toward the Fort itself.
"Do you know the Beserker?" Kaze asked me.
I squinted to see that Corrin was trying to shout at Hans to stop, but clearly he wasn't listening, "No I don't." I said, "However it looks like he is not following Corrin's orders."
"Corrin!?" Kaze asked before he looked up to indeed see Corrin and her friends out on the 'island', "Why would she attack us?"
"Kaze, look at her, she's trying to keep the dumbass that's about to run through the front door from doing anything else." I said.
"You've got that right." Rinkah said as she walked over us, "Corrin looked like she was ready to walk away with the idiot there attacked first."
Said 'Idiot' had just charged into the Fortress and was ready to slam his axe down on the Samurai within, only for it to be blocked by the Archer, and the Samurai quickly struck Hans, just before the Archer's up top released a volley of Arrows.
Hans quickly ran out of the Fortress with a few arrows sticking out of his body just as Corrin's group ran to a larger outcropping of rock, towards the Dragon Veins to make her own rock bridges around the fort. However as Hans ran off the three of us clearly heard him.
"Bwahaha! Look like I've done enough damage for the time being. Time to lay low and see how this all plays out…" Hans gloated as he ran across the bridge.
"Looks like he was acting of his own accord." Kaze said.
Kaze and I watched from the fort as Corrin used the Dragon Vein's to create a pair stone bridges, followed by Gunter and Jakob splitting off soon after to attack our fort.
"Looks like Corrin's wanting those two to stop us from blindsiding her." I noted.
"Take cover." Kaze said, grabbing Rinkah by the arm and pulling her into a tower room, I simply hid under the partition.
It didn't take long for Jakob to take out the archers and the samurai stationed here, with Gunter blocking all the arrows for him.
"Gunter, go assist Lady Corrin if you don't mind." I heard Jakob say.
"Very well, I hope you can catch up soon." Gunter said before I heard the horse gallop away.
At that moment I stood up from my hiding spot, and noticed a ladder.
While Jakob was turned away from me I quickly slid down the wooden ladder and stood behind Jakob, I had to double check his stats.
[Jakob Lvl 2]
[HP:22/22 STR:9 DEF:7]
[Weapon: Iron Dagger- MT: 4]
Yeah I found an option's menu while I was fiddling around with my abilities last night during my watch, so I decided to have the game tell me what the enemy is equipped with when I check their stats to fight them.
"Jakob!" I called out, causing the butler to spin toward me with his dagger ready.
"Irwin, I'm surprised to see you here." Jakob said, he then noticed I had my Naginata out and at the ready, "Although I suspect we are enemies at the current time."
"I'm afraid so Jakob." I said adjusting my grip on the Iron Naginata, "I wish we didn't have to meet again like this though, but I gotta show Hoshido that I'm not some Nohrian spy you know."
"I understand." Jakob said as his Iron Dagger slipped out of his sleeve, before quickly throwing it at me, hitting my in the calf.
[BGM begin: Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance- Clash]
[Irwin Lvl 3]
[HP: 22/22, STR: 9, DEF: 8+1]
[Weapon: Iron Naginata- MT: 6]
[HP-4]
'Okay so I see my current stats whenever I first take damage in a fight, and only see it multiple times in a fight if my stats change during the fight.' I reminded myself from my 'Help' Tab reading last night, I also found a BGM tab so I can listen to some of my favorite battle music from the Fire Emblem Series
So now that I'm down to 18 Health I ran up to Jakob and gave a quick stab at him, dealing 8 damage to him.
I'll give Jakob credit, even thought I recovered quickly from his attack and didn't even seem to act debilitated by the strike, he didn't hesitate and quickly swung his knife at me, which I raised my shield just in time to block the slash and quickly retaliated with a 'Poke' knocking another 8 HP off him, followed by a quickl slash that knocked his last 6 HP off.
[End BGM]
[Jakob is in critical condition]
[+26 EXP]
Jakob stumbled back and put a hand to his wound, "Ghuh... This won't do..." Jakob gasped holding the injury, "Lady Corrin, please accept my sincerest apologies, but I must retreat, I cannot afford to die here."
"I get you're dedication Jakob, but Corrin isn't here at the moment." I said as Jakob quickly ran out the front gate of the fortress.
'He'll be fine right?' I asked myself, 'Yeah, he won't stray too far from Corrin, but that injury will slow him down until he can get a Vulnerary...'
After Jakob ran off I rejoined Kaze back atop the fort, "What did I miss?" I asked.
"Corrin's beaten Omozu." Kaze said flatly as he held out a telescope to me.
"Really?" I asked taking the Telescope, which I then saw Saizo arrive... followed byXander, then Camilla, Leo, and Elise, "Uh... looks like the Nohr Royal family has arrived."
"That's troublesome..." Kaze said.
"That's it, I'm going to go take my revenge!" Rinkah shouted before walking off.
"Rinkah? Rinkah!" Kaze shouted going after the Oni Savage.
"Heh heh." I chuckled at the antics of those two before looking back at Corrin as she ran across the wooden bridge back to Nohr with Gunter by her side... Followed by Hans showing back up and attacking Gunter, his attack not hurting Gunter too much but broke the wooden flooring below him, causing Gunter to fall into the Bottomless canyon.
'Damn, I probably should have attempted to stop that... but when Hans is serious he's out of my league at the moment.' I thought with a Grimace.
Looking back through the Telescope I saw Corrin's off handed arm turn into a massive white lance of ribbon-like flesh... never did understand where that came from to be honest, I mean I know she can transform into a dragon, but that thing doesn't even remotely look like something that appeared in her Dragon Form.
Corrin's head then suddenly transformed to grow antlers that she used to headbutt Hans, followed by the stab from her 'Dragon Lance' as I like to call it, that arm then turned into a large maw covered in the same ribbon like flesh that shot out a bolt of water that hit like an arrow to Hans, knocking the asshole on his ass.
I couldn't help but chuckle as Hans ran away with his proverbial tail between his legs, however that chuckle died off when Ganglari literally pulled Corrin into the air and into the Bottomless Canyon, followed by Lilith appearing out of nowhere and jumping in after her.
I put my Telescope away as I was certain Lilith would catch Corrin and take her to her Astral Plane which she would use in place of a camping set during her travels.
'I wonder what the temporal difference between this world and Corrin's astral plane is.' I thought as I left the fort to find Kaze and Rinkah.
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The answer to my question is apparently, long in the plane, short in this place.
The reason I figured this out was because Rinkah had Corrin draped over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes... Sorry I wasn't fast enough to stop her Corrin.
"Rinkah... were you aware that the Nohrian you planned to kill was Corrin?" Kaze asked.
"...Meh." Rinkah said with a shrug, "There's a Flame Tribe camp not too far from here, we can wait there until she wakes up." And just like that Rinkah was already walking ahead.
"Ho boy." I sighed putting my Naginata on my back, "This is going to be a long day..."
"I couldn't agree more..." Kaze said, "We better follow her."
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Alright folks, that's the chapter.
Anyway I'll see you all in the next one, I've been busy and I've got some things I still have to do today.
EDIT: Made a slight mistake in the location Rinkah was talking about, my bad.
