Yay I've made this chapter long too, I'll try and keep this up as much as possible.

The attacking army was decimated by the cannons, some escaped and ran away, no doubt to tell either Cromwell or the last of the royalists about the ground superiority of the Cleansing Fire. The next attack would most likely be from the air, so Tyson had to build some more protection for the city.

Tyson was making plans for three circular towers that would be placed in all three districts of the city, these districts were between the three main roads that went from the wall to the castle and the wall itself. the first thing built would be the dwemerite frame, then stone would be built up and dwemerite rebar installed, then the concrete pored in just like the wall but much thinner to allow the towers to be hollow, the towers would be five stories tall, with flat dwemerite roofs and a new long range dwemerite cannon placed in the middle of the roof, it used shells like the guns, but obviously much larger, this allowed much faster reloading, the explosive shells would decimate any ships that came close to the city.

"Hmm, I should design some ships too, I'll have to settle with wood for now, maybe add some thin dwemerite plating until I can upgrade the windstones." The ships would be needed as the anti-air defense could only do so much.

2 weeks later

The towers were almost finished, he had added some outside support struts to the towers to add strength as he had overlooked the weight of the cannons, it was impossible to lift them up even with the combined levitation spells of the workers, so Tyson had to assemble it on top, the barrel barely making it up. The towers once finished were quite a glorious sight for the citizens and troops, giving them more of a sense that they could win this war, and made them have looks of pride on their faces as the towers weren't even supported by magic like a lot of towers and large buildings made by nobility.

Tyson had ordered a shipyard to be built but with some adjustments from him, it made the ship building much faster. The sails of the future ships were to be much shorter than normal, but much wider, this allowed them to go much faster without tipping over like with the inefficient traditional design.

He then got out a map of Albion, going over which cities to attack first, he decide to have the army takeover every city to the north until they got to the coast, as that was the closest border. He was moving to go tell Xana his plan when he noticed out of the corner of his eye his old self-propelled carriage blueprint, his eyes light up as he thought of the possible uses.

The lookout on the south-southeast tower spotted something with his telescope, it was about fifteen warships littered with cannons, he rang the bell that was installed under the roof, signaling that there was an attack, the civilians ran to their houses to escape the what would be a battlefield as the cannoneers readied the cannon to fire when they were in range.

Tyson had heard the alarm bells and was very annoyed, he had just started building his prototype and was getting into a rhythm, whoever had interrupted him was going to pay dearly. He pulled himself out from under the basic steel frame and got his armor on. Once the ships were in view he was even more annoyed, he had wanted to get his warships finished before this predictable attack happened to test them out, but they were still under construction. He had a runner go get him Irukukwu, when she got their she was worried that she had done something wrong from the expression on his face.

"Irukukwu, I need you to transform so I can decimate those ships." She was relieved and immediately transformed, Tyson was surprised that she looked like a Dovah from his homeland.

"Irukukwu, why do you look like that?" She looked at herself and looked back at him confused.

"Kyuu, this is how I always look, kyuu." She was trying to find something different about her while Tyson thought about it.

'This is her true form? Then she must have been summoned from Nirn too, but why would she have looked so strange when we first saw her? Bah, doesn't matter, I have some ships to burn, those front legs were useless and in the way anyway." He climbed up on her back and had her get them to the ships in record time, he gathered magic to make a firestorm, going all out because of his irritation, making sure it did not effect Irukukwu as she wasn't fully immune to fire yet.

The twisting storm of fire was so huge it covered the sky of the city even from the edge, it was visible for miles around and awed the citizens that were watching the massacre, they had no doubt as to their lords power now. As for the attackers, the flaming reckage of the small fleet falling towards the ground was proof enough that it was effective.

"Hmpf, that's why I don't want wooden ships, their way too flammable." He had Irukukwu bring him back to his workshop so that he could go back to building his prototype, the few troops that were close by were astounded that he only looked a little tired after that.

The prototype was finished, a steel frame and axels and wheels, with a wooden platform with a seat and three levers, one on the engine, one that faced forwards, and one that went from side to side, the large dwemerite steam engine was at the back and there was a large crystal connected to it's heat chamber by a gold cable, Tyson had his hands on the crystal, charging it with magic that would heat up the water into steam, after a couple of minute he was done and smiled.

"Ready for testing, once this is finished I can add weapons and armor." His eyes were filled with excitement as he opened the large door for his workshop, jumping into the wooden seat and pushed the small lever, starting the engine, waiting a few minutes for the steam to build up and pushed the forward facing one, the contraption moved forwards at a slow pace, then picked up a little speed, well, at least it is faster than walking, he turned off the engine, venting the steam so it wouldn't explode, and went back to the drawing board, now that he knew it works, he would have to improve it for more practical uses. He added things and got rid of others, and kept on testing and testing for days, their was a few more attacks on the way but he got rid of them, until finally he had the finished product.

It was made entirely of dwemerite, four wheels with specially treated leather attached for better grip, a cab for the driver, one seat, he had made the steering more efficient with a wheel, the acceleration lever now had four speeds: off, mudcrab, human and horse. He had made the windows out of thick glass so that the wind didn't bother him, the entire thing had the cab in the middle, the fuel crystal in the front in a dwemerite box, and the engine in the back also in a box, the two steam tanks could be seen jutting out of it, pipes were arrayed all over the contraptions sides.

He opened the doors again and climbed in, it should work this time, it has to! He pulled the small lever on the wall of the cab, activating the engine, the steam pressure built up nicely in about a minute, extra steam escaping through the two tall pipes in the back. He then pushed the lever to mudcrab speed, the vehicle moving forwards at the right speed, he turned to the main road that had been cleared for this test, once on it he changed to human speed, it when at the speed of someone jogging, he then shifted to horse speed, the carriage going almost at the speed of a gallop, the watching crowd cheering as he tested the steering, slowing down so he wouldn't tip over as he had learned the hard way from previous tests, he came up to the entrance to the castle, the renovations still being made, most of the castle having been expanded into a circular keep, the first level was already done.

He parked the carriage by the entrance and stepped out with a goofy grin, he'd done it, now they could make troop transports that were much faster than the nobles could ever get without drakes, he closed the door and looked it over, he'll have to add armor, and make the engine a lot stronger, but this would do for now, now to name it.

"Hmm, how about, the Steambull, yes that should do." He drove back to the workshop to design even more upgrades, it wasn't ready for battle yet but could be used by runners so they didn't have to, you know, run anymore.

Tyson had given up on getting his main design ready in time and had had the army move out. They were going to take over the city of South Gotha with 300 soldiers, 90 rangers, 90 mages, and 15 Juggernauts, traveling through the forest for a sneak attack on the small city.

Tyson was leading with Xana and her Juggernauts, they would be the the first into the action. When they entered the forest, Tyson had Helga scout ahead, he didn't want any surprises.

When they were halfway through Helga came back looking excited.

"My lord! there is a couple of buildings in the forest, their all kids except for one girl, I think she's an elf."

"Well, where is this group of kids and elf?" Xana said, curious about this.

"Right ahead."

"Ok then, we'll check it out, come on Tyson, we'll bring two juggernauts with us." Xana was already moving ahead of the army, they already knew where they needed to go, so they just kept marching, two juggernauts followed the group.

When they got there the first thing the members of the group noticed was the girls assets, they were HUGE, I mean, gloriously HUGE, the elf-girl noticed them and turned trying to cast a spell, but Xana canceled it with a wave of her hand, the girl looked scared now.

"Eh, don't worry about us, just passing through." Tyson said calmly, he couldnt take his eyes away from her assets, who would? Even Xana couldn't. He saw the girl do a subtle motion to the kids and they went inside the cabins.

"What are you doing here" The beautiful girl asked as see saw the lumbering giants behind them, reasonably intimidated, and also finally noticing Tyson and Xana's appearances, she seemed a bit less scared then, but still wary.

"I just told you, we are passing through with our army." The girl seemed a bit shocked as she saw the approaching army further in the forest.

"We will leave you alone if you leave us alone alright?" Xana said to the girl, she nodded as they went back to the army in the forest, they marched through the settlement with most of the men and some of the women wolf whistling at the girl as they passed, confusing her.

'Well that was interesting, she didn't seem to be very used to people." Tyson shook his had as he continued leading the army with Xana, they were getting closer to the city now, a mile or so.

The city was relatively small and had a wooden wall, the mages just burnt through with the frost mages making sure the fire didn't spread too far. The juggernauts charged into the city for the first wave, the guards being caught of...guard, they didn't last long as the soldiers cleaned up the rest, they stormed the small keep and won quickly, the one noble family in charge of the city being slaughtered.

The rest of the army came from Raoul with many cannons in tow and split up into five divisions, four lead by one of the commanders each and the largest one lead by Tyson and Xana, the Cleansing Fire spreading across the map, taking many small cities, burning out the nobility and the old ways.

They eventually attacked some of the the larger cities, blasting down the gates with cannon fire and charging in with the juggernauts, the soldiers and rangers charging after with the mages taking up the rear, a few weeks into the campaign they were occupying around twenty small cities and seven large ones, the base of operations was kept at Raoul for now.

The rebellion slowed when they had the whole northern coast, a good part of the army was now occupying the captured cities so they went back to Raoul to rest and recover.

As Tyson sat down on his throne, he sighed in relief, they could relax for a while now, they now held a good portion of northern Albion with twenty-five small cities and 9 large ones, a very good powerbase for this war. The renovations to Raoul Keep were finished, it now was fitted with fine stone, and reinforced concrete, it was now a circular Dwemer style keep, with a large tower in the middle 9 stories high from ground level, with a flat roof with crenellations.

Xana walked in and collapsed in her throne, obviously tired

"I hope that there isn't any attack anytime soon, I want to relax for awhile." Then she just fell asleep.

"sigh I wish she could fall asleep in bed." He then got up, picking her up bridal style and carried her over to the Dwemer steam elevator that he had recreated, they had stairs but they are very likely to be neglected through the years. The elevator stopped at the top floor of the tower, he stepped out into a luxurious but practical room. Tyson took the armor off of Xana, she could sleep through anything, and set her down on the large four-poster bed, he took off his own armor and layed down by her, kissing her fourhead and then relaxing into the bed. Falling asleep with a smile as he thought of everything he had now.

"Hehe, this is the life."

Their you have it, the Cleansing Fire has expanded their influence, with a little fluff at the end with Tyson and Xana, still can't do any really intimate scenes as I am very new at this and don't want this deleted, and am a coward, review lots so that my power may grow.