Hello everyone sorry for the wait I had to do a lot of research to make the dimension a bit more realistic and that cost a lot of time. anyway this chapter is about The wall in the north of Edrana and I wrote this so that the story is more understandable for everyone.
oh and one more thing I am have been looking for some cool art for the flying ships I don’t really need new art made but if any of you know a cool piece of art with a flying ship please put the picture in the comments.
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Chapter 8: The wall’s past
Part 1
The wall was built by the first ruler of our clan after he founded Edrana. In that time the north was totally unprotected from monsters and only very few people lived there. The first king knew that if he wanted to make the country safe and sustainable he would need to stop the monsters from coming in to the populated lands.
He had two options one station a large army to kill any monsters that would come close this option would be the cheapest to implement but the cost of the upkeep would be enormous and a lot of soldiers would die every year and that would be very bad because it would be an endless war. And option two was to build a wall it would cost an astronomical amount of gold to build but the upkeep would be much cheaper and a lot safer for the border guards.
And he chose for the wall. The wall had to be strong and high because some of the monster are larger than twenty meters and that is only taking the level one and two monsters in to account and it is not strange for a level three monster to appear ever hundred years. And so the construction of the wall began.
The wall had to be high wide and long and the king decided that the wall should be made out of a never before seen material that was incredibly strong but also hard to produce. Ceramic stone blocks that would be enchanted where the main building material. And the king had made giant factory’s that automatically produced the ceramic stone blocks at an incredible pace.
would be 50 meters high and 15 meters wide at the top and 20 and the bottom and encapsulate the entire northern part of Edrana. The wall was a massive undertaking because the wall would be more than 1200 kilometres long. And the king used flying ships the transport the materials and used mecha to place them.
The wall was built to connect to the biggest mountain range that would be used as a natural wall and fortress. The mountain range would later be called Dragon fortress mountain range (with was not really original but described it perfectly).
The building of the wall took more than 500 years and because the dragon race is so long living the king lived and ruled the entire time (and during those 500 years he also build the walls in the south but those where a lot smaller so I am not really mentioning them) and when the wall and key fortresses where done 300.000 border guards/soldiers where placed there to guard the wall and the mountain range there were also 3 flying ships and around 10000 mecha units. (they work in shifts of a month only half the number of guards is active at one time in normal circumstances)(I should also mention that the pilots for the mecha are included in the soldier count)
(If you are thinking: WHY SO MUTCH, WHY SO BIG read this:
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If you compare the size of Edrana with Italy, this will be the scale:
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And after some research about the wall of china I found out that the wall of china was about 6000 KM long and had about 1000000 guards (before someone tells me I know it is not totally aureate).
And after some measurement I calculated that Edrana’s wall is about 1687 KM long that is with the natural mountain wall calculated in.
1000000 / 6000 = ±167 guards per KM
167 * 1687 = 281729 (I made it 300000 because I like a round number)
Those guards and mecha where spread out over the wall and its fortresses but the three flying ships where stationed at Dragon fortress mountain range. And after all the building the king was old he had already lived very long and in the last years of his live he disassembled most of the technology that he had used to build the wall and he said that if the knowledge would fall in the wrong hands it could cease grate destruction. And after that he passed away and the kingdom mourned for years.
Part 2
The years(centuries) went by the wall and its fortresses stood through centuries and the guards where well trained and fended of any monsters that came close to the wall both by fighting in front of the wall and also bombarding from the top of the wall and while the wall would be damage from time to time it was never something really threatening and the wall would be well maintained. The killed monsters here processed and the meat, skins, soul stones and other things where extremely lucrative to sell and many adventures came and travelled beyond the wall through the gates to test their strength and earn gold. Edrana had become the biggest exporter of monster parts(does someone know a better word than parts? Please tell me in the comments) and while the life here was harder than the life in the centre of the inner world the country was peaceful and almost everyone was happy.
And now I come at the part of the wyvern attack, after many years(centuries) of peace(of course there still was minor fighting and some “small wars” so relative peace) with the wall standing as if invincible and well-guarded. But then something happened in the outer world, maybe some natural disaster of massive migration caused it but one day about 50.000, level 1 and some level 2 wyverns came and they also had an army with massive amounts of monsters that came with them.
The initial attack was a slather. The wyverns focused their entire might on Dragon fortress and took down all the flying ships before they had a chance to retaliate. The level two wyverns where led by a high level 2 wyvern and it ordered the other wyverns around. While most wyverns have low intelligence this wyvern was a stronger and smarter variation that was probably the one that made the plan to attack Dragon fortress. After the initial face of the attack the guards that where stationed there at the time where about 50.000 and they had about 5000 mecha units. But when they started organising a counter attack they had already lost about 5000 men and 750 mecha units.
They tried to defend the fortress but with their strongest anti air weapons destroyed they had lost a great amount of strength. But they still had the advantage of the fortress defences and they fought with grate strength. And the closest forts along the wall also started sending reinforcement after they heard of the attack via the communication crystals. And now the entire country was waking up to fight of the attack and started sending support. But the wyvern leader ordered some wyverns together with the monsters that came with them to attack the wall and destroy entrances, roads and to delay/stop reinforcements from reaching Dragon fortress.
The current king my grandfather also came to aide dragon fortress but he knew that we could not win the battle. The best they could do right now was to brake the wyverns encirclement and help the soldiers in Dragon fortress escape. And he started to try to punch a hole through the wyvern encirclement to secure the main tunnel.
Inside dragon fortress the commanders (or what was left of them) reserved the order of the king to hold on and to try to escape thou the main tunnel. While the commanders did not like the order they knew that it was the only way some of them where going to come out of this alive. From the first attack the wyverns had been killing them by using there superior’s speed and manoeuvrability to always outnumber their opponent in combat and the army was suffering greatly form the attacks. While the soldiers still took down a lot of wyverns sometimes with suicidal attacks they were obviously losing at a steady pace.
When the king finally broke down though the encirclement, he led left half his men to secure this escape route and he led the other half through the tunnel to help the trapped forces escape. When he emerged from the other side he fourth his way through the monsters and wyverns to meet up with the trapped forces. Of course the trapped forces also fought their way toward the king and when they met up everyone started escaping via the secured path. Bu then the leader of the wyverns came together with a huge amount of wyverns and the king and the reaming forces fourth on their way to retreat. And the king fought with the leader to the wyverns and the king stabbed the left eye of the wyvern the scream of the wyvern was ear shatteringly powerful and resounded throughout the death filed valley. And when the wyvern counterattacked the king was mortally wounded and was taken away by his soldiers.
After that the leader of the wyverns retreated but the other wyverns and monsters continued their assault. Our forces retreated through the tunnel and blew up the valley side entrances to stop the monsters form following them. They all retreated till they were out and more or less safe. The king that was on his deathbed ordered his generals to set up a defensive line to stop the furred advance of the monsters the generals and then they left him with great sadness. And the king comforted his queen that was pregnant with their son (my father) and told her to be strong. A day later the king dyed, the king was buried in the royal tombs somewhere in a secret location in the kingdom.
The losses of both sides where huge the army lost around:
35.000 men
3250 mecha core’s
3 flying ship core’s
Dragon Fortress
And the estimated losses of the wyverns where:
25.000 wyverns
¾ of the monsters that came with them
Following the last order of the king, the generals set up a defensive line to make sure that the wyverns could not take more land. This worked more or less but the main reason that the wyverns did not launch a new attack is because they had lost a lot of their comrades and underlings plus they accomplished their original goal to take the mountains. The wyverns started destroying any manmade structures around the mountains to make sure that no defensive structures could be used in a war against the wyverns. And all structures also includes the wall, the wyverns used guerrilla tactics to take the wall apart bit by bit. This would eventually last for fifty years till they had destroyed the wall in a one hundred kilometre radius around the mountains.
The current situation:
Currently the wall and the defensive line are well defended and not many monsters are able to brake trough. And from the past failure we have learned how to strengthen our defences. Almost immediately after the “war” with the wyverns ended our country had started the development of anti-air weapons that did not need the massive mana requirements that could only be supplied by a flying ship core. They have made improvements over the years and now the wall is well defended against aerial attacks. But the magical weapons are still bulky and if we make them smaller they will not have enough firepower. So the weapons can’t be taken to the field and cannot effectively be used in a offensive agent the wyverns.
And now the wyverns can also not attack without losing a lot of their forces in the process. But we also can’t attack them because they use the mountain for their defences and that means that we can’t just march in with our army and defeat them with sheer force of numbers plus the wyverns are not the only monster that live in that mountain.
So now it the “war” has been at a deadlock for a least four hundred years with both sides unwilling to lose a massive amount of forces in a battle that they might not even win. But now the wyverns are planning and preparing for another war. And that is strange because they have no reason to do attack. they have been fine in then mountain for more than five hundred years so why attack now? I know that we are not as strong as them but still if they would go all out they would probably lose half their forces so why?
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
Part 3
I leave my temporary home/base and head out the gate and follow the tunnel till I am finally on the other side of the mountain. I look around and see a massive valley and when I look forward I can see the other side of the circular valley. The other side is far away I estimate it is about a hundred kilometre away from here (for the scale of Edrana look at the: Map + current location spoiler at the bottom of the page). I clime a high point and look around the valley. In the distance I see old buildings that are overgrown by nature, to the right I see the old road and a collapsed gate. The gate was probably form the main tunnel and the soldiers probably destroyed it when the held their last stand 500 years ago. After looking around a bit more I see the remains of the three flying ships that where downed in the initial attack. The once mighty ships now lay there decaying.
I start walking over the land wile my drones map the area around me and also look out for any monsters that come close. I walk toward the road the road itself is still in good condition probably because it was mad form ceramic and remained unused for such a long time. On and close to the road I find very old skeletons most of them are already half decayed and overgrown by nature. there are also skeletons of wyverns and other monsters, these skeletons are probably from when the soldiers retreated from the fortress. In the bushes I see an old mecha and I look into at it, it was also ripped open like the once I found in the tunnels and the core was taken.
I expected as much and I keep following the patch of carnage. On the way I check any mecha but they are all the same. The war upcoming war with the wyverns will be coming soon and I am thinking about what our options are.
We can’t take away from the army in the south, because of the war between Ufemus and Oneutharia and they would probably take advantage of the weakness in out border to take our country and get behind the defensive line of their enemy.
We have a limited amount of mecha and repairing/upgrading costs a lot of time and money and the worst part is once their broken the wyverns will probably rip out the core and steal it and that means that we lose another core and we can’t get more of them. Well at least till I figure out how to make them.
We can’t send any flying ships because the defence of the southern border would weaken. And even if we could sent both of the flying ships there is a large chance that they would be destroyed. And rebuilding one of them with the current amount of mechanics and artificers would probably take a year or more and the amount of needed resources is also huge.
Well probably I will need to upgrade some of the equipment but I must also make sure that it douse not fall in the wrong hands. Hmm… I can use some blood magic to make a certain identification system and program the soul stones to only work when a person with my seal uses it. But then I still need people I can trust to use it well that is for later right now I must map these mountains and find out how many monsters there are.
After following the carnage for a while I leave the road and head toward one of the ruins. When I arrive I see a very old village. Dragon fortress was very special in some ways one of those things that made it special was because of the size fortress there was more than enough space to make into farmland and that would make the fortress self-sufficient. Most of the villagers that live in the villages inside the fortress where farmers and family of the soldiers and technicians that defended the fortress.
Most of the houses have collapsed and rotten away and only a few buildings are still standing because they were made from ceramic stone. There are also a few skeletons laying around but not many. Most of the people probably fled from this village to one of the army bunkers and hopefully left with the retreating soldiers. It is late and I decide to sleep in one of the old homes. I walk in and I look around, there is not much left of the furniture most of it has already rotten away or have been broken by monsters. I put a ward on the door and lay down some hides and my sleeping bag I eat and go to bed.
Part 4
I wake up in the morning and pack up my stuff. When I am about to walk out of the door I see a dead monster on the flour it was a good thing that I set up the ward. I look around outside for a bit and find a high tower. I climb up the tower and look around from my vantage point.
I am currently in the south-western part of the valley with the main road to the left of me. The valley had a lot of ruined villages and military buildings and in the distance probably in the middle of the valley there is a big lake with some islands in it. The biggest ruin is also on the biggest of those islands and there are also a lot of wyverns flying around their as if they are guarding the islands. It is probably the place that the highest ranking wyverns live because while there are a lot of wyverns there it is far too small to accommodate all wyverns.
I clime down the tower and think, while I can go to the island directly and I would be able to get a lot of information it will be very dangers and I am not confident that I can take on so many wyverns. I can also scout the valley and search for a smaller wyvern nest and get information there. One way or the other I need to map the valley and get try to find out how many monsters are under the wyverns command. Well it is time to start, I send out my drones and start mapping.
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Character list
Spoiler :
Kyna Pendragon: MC
Acholate: Mother
Wilhelm: Father
Helenia: Grandma
Abarden: Uncle
Melisande: Aunt
Kenshin: Friend/general of father
Thorbird: General and friend of Kenshin
Silvetta: General and friend of Kenshin beastmen
Alaneo: Chief of Yalian Elf
Maya: Daughter of the chief of Yalian Elf
Alan: Guard of the village of Yalian Elf
Eron: Guard leader of the village of Yalian Elf
Elaina: Leader of the fairy’s in Yalian Fairy
Fyra: personal Guard of Elaina Fairy
Kyna status plate
Spoiler :
Name: Kyna Pendragon
Gender: Female
Age: 6 Years old
Race: Dragon
Status: First princes of the kingdom of Edrana
Gifts:
Berserk
Wiseman
Limit Break
Dragon form (Level 1)
Natural Beauty
Blessing of Nature
Blessing of Shadow
Blessing of Ancients (Hidden)
Black Dragon Flame
White Dragon Flame
Language comprehension
Martial Arts:
Cosmos Sword Saint (Saint rank)
Magic Arts:
Origin Magic System (God Rank) (Hidden)
Skills:
Flute
Math
Stealth
Singing
Dancing
Running
Alchemy
Presence
Designing
Bookworm
Perception
Developing
Killing Intent
Fighting Spirit
Blacksmithing
Instant Casting (Hidden)
Survival Instinct
Mental Mapping
Magic Perception
Perfect Memories
how Kyna looks right now
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she has blue eyes, white hair that reaches the middle of her back she has lean build with strong mussels but they are not bulking outward. And she has this reptile like tail with white scales and she is starting to develop hors but at this moment there are still very tiny and growing slowly from sides of her head
Dragon Forms (Known so far)
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Level 1 - Be born:
• Half Dragon = Horns and Tail
Level 2 - Moonstone: (rarity B)
• Humanoid form = Any Humanoid beings (no monster)
• Half Dragon = Horns, Tail and Wings
Map + current location
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Map info/Nobel houses
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Nobel house
Arndwell Control the South east human nobles
• Daermod 1st Son of current head of the Arndwell family (human)
Davenlow Control the north east beastmen nobles
• Acele 1st Daughter of current head of the Davenlow family (beastmen)
• Ikini 2nd Daughter of current head of the Davenlow family (beastmen)
Cunningsmith Control the North West dwarven nobles
• Endor 1st Son of current head of the Cunningsmith family (dwarven)
Nightfall special tasks for royal family vampire nobles
• Fydar 1st Son of current head of the Nightfall family (vampire)
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Neighbour country
Edrana our country
Yuyasil ruled by elves
southern half of western border good relationship multi species
• Efari 1st Princess of Yuyasil 2nd in line for the throne (elf)
Oneutharia ruled by beastmen
eastern half southern border neutral+ relationship Beastmen
Ufsemus ruled by Humans
western half southern border neutral- relationship human