POV Captain Darren
It was the crack of dawn. Trees were covered in morning dew. The hard workers were waking up for a tough day at work, and after darkness was cast out, guard patrols started making their rounds down the long dirt road into the surrounding forest area that led towards the mines. On this road, four young men and an older captain were making sure that no suspicious individuals were seen. It's been two weeks since the Lord made all soldiers be on vigilance for any Kalimbor spies, and recruitment was rising every day. At this point, they have had over 10000 new recruits, but they were all still as green as this forest.
"Hey Captain, how long is the lord going to keep us doing this anyways. We haven't even seen or heard anything suspicious, I barely get any sleep nowadays." Said one of his men in his group.
"We're soldiers of the Viscounts territory we get our orders and we follow them without fail, and if you want to get more sleep then I suggest to stop going out to the red light district every night." Responded Darren.
The rest of the soldiers laughed at the young guard for being called out by the captain. Like that, they kept walking, passing by tired miners going back with wagons of ores from the mine. Soon, they stopped because one of the guards needed to take a leak, so they waited for him to come back and waited.
"Hey! go check on him. He's been taking way too freaking long." Ordered Darren.
One of the guards was going to go before they heard something thrown at their feet from the forest. They all looked down and saw it was the head of the guard who went to take a leak. An expression filled with horror frozen on his face.
"RUN TO THE MINES! WE NEED TO LET THE GUARD STATION AT THE MIN -" Before he finished his sentence, he crashed into what felt like a metal solid wall.
Darren looked up and saw a giant metal golem staring at him. The golem picked him up by the head with one hand. He struggled and kicked. He was a bronze rank, but nothing helped. Feeling helpless and scared, he yelled for his men to help.
"GET HIM OFF ME! DO SOMETH-" he didn't finish before his head was crushed like a watermelon.
Since he couldn't see what was happening behind him, he failed to notice that all of his men were dead before him. A loud sound of trees being uprooted and cracking came from the side of the road. A team of titans was uprooting and pushing trees to make way for the large convoy of vehicles carrying the mechs. Once they got to the wide dirt road, the lead humvee stopped, and Sam stepped out and asked for a report. Once they told him that they took out a patrol, he had them hide the bodies and take out any patrols that got in the way. The convoy started moving again straight to Bryxton town.
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POV Viscount Conner
"SON OF A BITCH!! GOD DAMN STUPID BRAT! DOESNT HE UNDERSTAND WHATS AT STAKE HERE!!"
Viscount Conner was making a mess of his office, before he sat down behind his desk and leaving a dent into it. He just read the letter from the second prince, and thought that he wasted his time sucking up to a useless royal.
"Fine, you've forced my hand, don't forgive me for supporting the first prince for the crown." He said as he gulped down a drink.
Once he settled down, loud fast paced footsteps were heard from the hallway. A retinue of knights, his right hand man with them as well burst into the lords study Ignoring the mess.
"My lord forgive us for the sudden entrance, but we just received word that a large army with weird siege weapons have been spotted on the west side gate. They are also using strange wagons to surround us from all sides as well." Said his right hand man.
"What insignia is their flags? Their colors and numbers?" Said Conner shocked at the news.
"My lord they fly under no flag, from what I heard is that they range from black, grey and blue, their numbers are more than 20000. Even stranger that their siege weapons and golems are nothing we have ever seen before." The subordinate said a little scared.
Conner tried to think of who exactly he has offended that has such a background, at first he thought about Kalimbor and the Dwarven kingdom to the north. Right now he thought about running to his vault room and getting his hands on the teleporting crystals he has saved up. Instead he decided to stick around and protect his pride as a nobel, also if he ran away he would get executed for not defending his majesty's country.
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"Gather all the men and new recruits, I'll send a message via hawk to the surrounding territories to send reinforcements." He said as he ran to a cage in the corner of the room. He wrote a quick note and sent the hawk flying. He turned around after he sent the hawk flying, as soon as it got some distance, it was turned to red mist and ball of feathers mid air by the arachno tank. He didnt see what happened, since he didnt waste time and immediately set out to the west gate from where this army came from.
As he got to the ramparts, all soldiers saluted as he walked by, he had a stoic expression while staring into the large army of finely lined up soldiers. Most of them were weird looking golems that just had a spear, with their numbers they looked intimidating, but simple. The more he looked to the back the more he got nervous, he noticed some tall heavily armored ones in the back, the army parted as the ones in the back were following someone with black armor. He went down with his subordinates following him, opening the gate, he approached of what he thought was the commander of the army.
"May I ask who exactly it is that you're and the reason you are invading into the Vanmeister kingdom, I will ask you to retreat, if you continue with these aggressions, you will be starting a war." Said Viscount Conner with a threatening tone.
"For someone you want dead so badly, you seem to not remember me Viscount Conner." Said Sam as he took off his helmet and watched the surprised expression of the Viscount. "Here's how things are going to happen, surrender and I'll offer you a painless death."
"YOU! SO YOU DID BETRAY YOUR OWN KINGDOM TO THE KALIMBOR EMPIRE! I SHOULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU STAND TRAITOR!" the Viscount said with a red face.
"SILENCE, I BETRAYED NO ONE! And if you think you can do that, then feel free to try." Sam said looking at the viscount with a sarcastic look. "If all your going to say is bullshit, then I have no reason to talk to you, ATTACK!!"
"YOU COWARD, YOU HAVE NO HONOR, RETREAT TO THE WALLS!" Said the Viscount as he ran back through the main gate.
Meanwhile the archers on top of the wall rained arrows to cover for the viscount. Energy mechs protected Sam from any harm, while the androids charged to the walls in droves, hanzos in the back sniped any archers on the wall. Almost all the arrows just bounced off the androids, some hit their optic eyes making them fall dead. As soon as the androids got to the wall, they worked together to build a pyramids for others to climb on. Seeing this the soldiers on the wall started throwing boulders, hot oil, and even a few magic casters were in their ranks throwing spells. Seeing his android army being momentarily stopped by the human army, Sam ordered the arachno and titan mechs to provide cover fire and destroy the main gate.
"FIRE! AND KEEP FIRING UNTIL THEY EITHER DIE OR SURRENDER!"
Several loud thundering explosions were heard, next moment the humans were sent flying from the cannon blast along with parts of the wall. They were getting either blown to pieces or shredded into minced meat by the machine gun fire.
MISSILE BARRAGE!
A titan close to the frontlines activated its skill, several missile slots opened up behind its back launching several streaks of smoke towards the gate. The human soldiers standing behind or close to the gate were blown to chunks and launched meters away.
"CHARGE! KILL THE ONES WHO RESIST AND CAPTURE THE ONES WHO SURRENDER! TAKE THE TOWN!" Sam yelled while smiling at the carnage left by the constant bombardment. No kind of medieval world can take the brutal reality of advanced warfare, he thought to himself.
"YOU TRAITOR I'LL KILL YOU!!" the Viscount yelled as he jumped off the wall and activated one of his skills.
ECLIPSE LIGHT SLASH
Sam just looked at the oncoming attack with his hands behind his back and a steel gaze.
"Do it" He said to the energy mechs next to him.
ENERGY AURA
EIGHT FOLD SLASH
Combining two skills at the same time. Viscount Conner opened his eyes wide open, terror creeping into his heart. The skills collided causing a large amount of air pressure, and canceling each other out.
"Gold rank! Unbelievable, these must be the knights the Kalimbor empire sent to help this worthless traitor." He mumbled to himself, a second later he had an idea.
"GREAT KNIGHTS OF THE KALIMBOR EMPIRE I BESEECH YOU TO STOP THIS FARCE! I WILL PAY THE EXCELLENT EMPIRE AN EXORBITANT AMOUNT OF GOLD, RESOURCES, AND SLAVES IN RETURN FOR YOUR TROUBLES! THIS TRAITOR HAS ABSOLUTELY NO VALUE! HE IS NOTHING BUT A BRONZE TRAS- COUGH!" Viscount Conner was attacked by the two energy mechs at the same time before he insulted their master.
"Tsk tsk, why is it that you just can't get through your deep fried head that MAYBE they aren't from the Kalimbor empire!" Sam said tauntingly.
"You think you can just come here, and steal from your kingdom without consequences!?!" Yelled Conner
"Yeah" said Sam
"Hahaha! delusional! You have no idea what you are doing and what's in store for you brat! Go ahead and take me down, but your father, the king. Will enact revenge and you will crash and burn." Viscount Conner said with an insane expression.
"You heard him boys! Take him down, weird request by the way." Said Sam before the energy mechs started attacking with fervor.
It was already hard to defend against one, but two was already pushing his limits. Conner just thought of where the reinforcements he requested for, from the surrounding towns are at, they should have arrived by now. In a moment of distraction he didn't notice the titan mech charging at him from behind.
CRACK
His body contorted to the shape of the metal fist, slamming behind his spine. He was sent flying forward towards the energy mech, while midair they cut off his hands and legs off. His hearing was going in an out, staring at the stumps of his arms made him nearly faint from shock. He watched as a blurry figure walked up to him coming into focus, It was Sam carrying a metal stick in his hand and pointed it at his forehead. No matter how much he wanted to move his body, he couldn't, even if he wanted to.
"Viscount Conner you've been targeted for elimination!"
BANG BANG BANG BANG
Since the Viscount was gold rank, it took a couple more shots in the same spot to finally penetrate the skull. Sam sighed and heaved a sigh of relief knowing the battle has been won, he asked the energy mech to cut the head off and parade it around so that the soldiers would surrender. Once the people saw their lords head, they resigned to their fate. Their was smoke, rubble and bodies lying in parts. Once Sam took over Bryxton, he sent the rest of the armies to the rest of the towns. He used a humvee to get to the lords manor in the center of town, servants were taking precious things and trying to flee. Hanzos apprehended them before they escaped, looking at the long line of
local government officials he had an idea.
"You, stand up, tell me your name and occupation." Sam said pointing at a decently dressed young man.
"My lord, m-my name is Christopher norridge, and I was a newly appointed Baron, after taking over my fathers passing. I also served under Viscount Conner, managing the town." Said Christopher trembling.
"Good, you work for me now, understand? So from now on, start working with the rest of the usual officials. First order of business, gather all the citizens and have them be at the town square in 3 hours. Second, gather all the nobles and have them put in cells in the manor. If anyone objects my men will take care of them. I'll be back in 3 hours, don't fail me." Sam said as he walked towards the Humvee and left back towards the mountain base.
Coming back to the base he entered the room of Operations, he checked his gains.
[15 TIER 1 CORE SHARDS]
[8300000 EXP]
"A little more than 8000 dead human soldiers, not bad. Soon the kingdom will retaliate after learning what I did, better start preparing. Nostromo how much to upgrade the military base?"
"Military base upgrade, Cost:5000000"
"Upgrade"