Come on people, I only need literally one more review and I can die happy! Not that I would or would want to. I don't own familiar of zero or the elder scrolls, if I did Saito would never exist and Louise would die a horrible and painful death, and if I owned the other one, you would be able to change the height of your character.
Commander Wolf's division was deep in enemy territory, Iam was watching the keep called Newcastle, the last of the royalists were hiding inside, he knew it wasn't because of cowardice, so he would give them a good death when the attack started. Iam saw Anthony's troops over by the other side, the divisions were surrounding the castle in the forests to have the element of surprise, he looked at his troops, the way they were made up was the class that the commander was, the most of those type of troops would be in their division, so he had a lot of juggernauts in his division, they would be the first division to attack, so he wanted them ready.
"Alright troops! Get ready, the signal will be seen soon, draw your weapons!" He turned back around, a minute later he saw their new ships attacking the waiting Reconquesta ships, they had thin dwemerite plating and filled with ten cannons each, he ordered the charge and they were through the gates in seconds, the doors being blastesd down by cannons. the awaiting royalists were surprised by the different enemys, but they still held their ground surprisingly well, Iam noticed that they weren't fearing death, these soldiers had lost hope, but had not given up, these were men to respect.
A couple minutes into the battle he noticed a blue-haired noble, he had lost his swordwand and was fighting with just a rusty iron sword, he was killing lots of his men, he noticed one of his juggernauts approaching.
"No, I will fight him." The juggernaut nodded and went back into the fray. Iam approached the young man and his troops cleared out of his way, the man noticed him and put up a guard.
"I am Iam Wolf, Juggernaut Commander for the second division of the Cleansing Fire, I will give you a good death." He raised his tower-shield and readied his mace.
"I am the Crown Prince Wales Tuder, I don't know who you people are, but I will defend this keep til my last breath." Iam nodded at that and smiled.
"I wouldn't have it any other way." And he charged, the prince raising his sword and trying to block, when the mace hit it the sword broke and a shiver ran up Wales' arm, he then grabbed a steel sword from a fallen Cleansing fire soldier, he tried to pierce Iam's armor but it didn't budge, he then backpeddled away and tried a different tactic, he went for the space between the helmet and chestpiece, piercing Iam's neck, blood flying everywhere as Wales looked triumphant, but that washed away quickly when Iam pushed him off and loomed over him with the sword still in his neck, he then grabbed it and pulled, blood splattering on the prince as he yelled in panic.
"What in Brimer's holy name are you!" Iam looked at him with a neutral face.
"I am a loyal juggernaut of my lords, Tyson and Xana, I do what they will and do it magnificently, I am the spiked shield of Cleansing fire, I am the Juggernaut Commander, I am your death." He then stabbed the Crown-Prince Wales in the heart, he leaned down for one last word.
"You battled well, but we are better, rest in peace." When Wales died Iam reached forwards and closed his eyes, he stood back up and looked to the ships in the sky.
"Only you left, then this country is ours."
Tyson was on his flagship the Dovahyol, this ship had extra armor and windstones, extra cannons too. he had the gunners shooting at any ships they could and taking a couple potshots at the castle too, the little bit of armor he had added to all ships helped immensely in lasting through the battle, so far they had only lost five ships out of the fifty they had made and/or retrofitted, the Reconquista forces had already lost around thirty ships out of the estimated one hundred they had.
"Fire!" The cannon shells hit and the ship that had been approaching fell onto the edge of the island, some of the survivors on board cheered as they thought they were safe, then the ship started to tip, it then fell off the edge, screams making their way into Tyson's ears, he smiled and looked to where Xana was fighting, she was battling ten soldiers at once, not breaking a sweat.
As Xana killed the last soldier currently surrounding her, she looked around, most of the enemies seemed to already be dead, she raised her pistol and aimed at the manic soldier charging at her, she shot him in the chest and he exploded.
"I love this gun, it is sooo awesome." She then aimed it over her shoulder without looking and shot the soldier who was trying to sneak up on her, the explosions after the shot were a VERY nice touch from Tyson. She walked into the keep, the troops were now just cleaning up any stragglers outside, when she got to the throne room she shot at everyone in the room except for the aged king sitting on his throne. He looked up and saw her skin and ears.
"So is this what has attacked us, demonic elves? Or are you something else?"
"Something else." She then stabbed his heart with her sword and said some parting words, "Don't worry, reconquesta will not take your former kingdom, we will take it instead." Then the old king died, Xana closed his eyes and walked away, she had seen the Tristainian Griffon-rider Captain hiding behind the pillar, but she let him go, she wanted the other countries to know about them, it was about time they learned to truly fear.
The castle was theirs, but they were abandoning it, the castle was too far deep in enemy territory to be worth holding it, they had the troops get on the ships and they went back home, they had defeated one of the other generals in the chaos, the Cleansing Fire had achieved another milestone, now they would only have to keep on expanding their border until they reached Londinium.
Tyson was finally making plans on how to upgrade the windstones, he had a theory that if they were transmuted into crystal they would have a lot more lifting power as crystal was a much more powerful magical material than stone, he was currently making a system that would allow him to do such a large transmutation, he had the power necessary, but not the focus, he had figured out that circles drawn on a flat surface with the object that would be transmuted in the middle would make the transmutation spell work better, he had added a triangle to an array of circles that would hopefully allow this to be done, he placed a deactivated windstone on the array, he placed his hands on the array and did the spell, electricity appeared as he did this and a bright light flashed, when it was done he saw a bright blue crystal form a few seconds before it flew in a blur into the ceiling of his workshop, smashing against the cement of the building and shattering.
"I'll have to fix that, but it worked! Now for that new steam engine design." He looked to his pile of papers and brought out his design for a steam-powered ship, it was actually quite an easy design in comparison to his last steam-powered device, but the weight limits of the Windstones would not have allowed for armor and cannons and an engine, but this new crystal would do it and more.
"Hmm what to name my invention, how about, Sky Crystals, yes that should work. I think can make a new class of worker now too." He thought of how alchemy used to not be about potions and poisons but what he had just done, they had never called anyone an alchemist in this land yet so it could work out.
The new ships of dwemerite were being made while Xana led her troops in battle attacking even more cities, by the time she had returned to Raoul they then held the whole northern half of Albion, they also returned to finished warships, they were made entirely of dwemerite and were shaped strangly(like a naval submarine).
The new ships all had three rows of six cannons on each side, with three more cannons facing forwards, there was a command bridge on top in the middle, it had very thickglass windows for the navigationers. they all had a large propeller in the back, the steam engines inside them powering it, and a rudder on the front of the ship.
There was ten of these ships currently made and others were under construction.
A woman in a brown cloak was walking down one of the three main roads of Raoul, she had green hair sticking out of her hood.
"Damnit how much security does this place have? Just getting in here was a major hassle, why did I take this job." This whining woman was Foquet of the Crumbling
Dirt who had succeeded in stealing the staff of destruction and had taken this new job for the Reconquista. She was just about to walk into an alley an skulk around when she noticed a distraction, there were two dark blue skinned people walking towards the keep with six others, everyone was showing respect towards them and were getting out of their way.
The woman turned towards her and she saw that they were elves, she panicked as she saw her point to her and one of the other girls in the group ran at her, she escaped into the alley.
Xana was walking towards the keep with her commanders and Helga and Irukukwu, as she was looking around she could feel a malicious arua, these auras were not felt very often in this city when there wasn't a battle, she looked around and spotted the perpetrator, she did a basic illusion mind-read and saw that she was an infiltrator.
"Sarah, capture that woman, she is a spy." Sarah ran like the wind.
Sarah chased the woman all around the city, not letting up for anything, she was chasing her around the new prison when the woman drew a wand and cast some rock spikes at her, Sarah picked up her pace, avoiding the spikes sent her way, and when she got close enough she threw the ebony dagger that all commanders had strapped to their boots, it hit the woman's leg and made her trip, the woman quickly made some shifty earthgolems to distract her, the woman was chanting for a big spell when Sarah shocked her with ... well Shock, it caused the woman to spaz out, Sarah cut her wand in half and put the tip of her sword at the woman's neck when she stopped wriggling.
"I would suggest not moving if ye want to keep that pretty face."
Foquet was brought to the prison that as conveniently right next to them, she was stripped of her clothes and thrown naked into a cold cell that was made of solid smooth polished white stone walls, with dwemerite bars stopping her from escaping, there wasn't even a window for her to see the outside as the cells were deep underground, set deep in the bedrock.
Foquet heard childish humming getting louder, when the person came into view she was shocked that there was a child in the prison.
"Why hello there! I am Helga Lake and I am going to be your torturer this evening, if you talk quickly I might only maim you a little bit."
"The theif woman is someone called, 'Foquet of the Crumbling Dirt' what a funny name, calling herself dirt.giggle" Helga was very cheerful after having lightly tortured the woman, she had given up her secrets much quicker than anyone else because she apparently, "wasn't paid enough for this"
"She says she would have got paid for telling our secrets to the Recoh, the Reconqwa, the bad guys, and that if she told people about this stuff they would kill her half-sister, she runs an orphanage in the forest outside of South Gotha, I think she's talking about the pretty elf boob-lady." Tyson broke out laughing after that, he recomposed himself quickly though.
"Ehem, carry on."
"She had stolen something called the destruction staff or something, she said it was useless as it didn't work or summing, I think I stopped listening to her and got a bit too into the torture, sorry, also she said she was the fallen daughter of a former archduke, I guess that's important."
"Don't worry, this is enough information, we have an interesting woman in custody, I think it is time to make a visit to that elf-girl in the forest.
As they touched down in the landing platform of the city, the Tarbes family looked around in awe. Anthony approached them and did a magnanimous bow with a flourish.
"Greetings and welcome to the homebase of the Cleansing Fire rebellion, Raoul, the city of innovation."
I cant wait to do something with siesta, she has a lot of potential, please review, also tell me if you thought the design for the flying ships in the anime was stupid too, I mean, they would have tipped over before they got anywhere.