A top of a mountain peak a lonely fortress covered with thick looking walls stood the gates of the fortress was flying a red flag that had a dragon painted on. The walls of the fortress were patrolled by guards that moved in groups of four one was holding the torch and moved in front of the rest as they held their spears beside them.

The one holding the torch noticed something near the gates of the fortress when he realized that they were riders on top of black armored horses he yelled.

"Stop who goes there! This is a fortress owned by lord Damien under service of his royal highness the first prince of Yander kingdom identify yourself!" the guard yelled at the unmoving horseman he started to get suspicious because the horsemen had hoods on their heads and refused to speak up.

He was about to raise his hand and signal the alarm when one of the hooded riders showed his face when he did that the guard on the wall sighed in relief and showed a toothy smile.

"Glef so it's just you, haha you scared there for a bit open the gates the riders have returned!" the soldier yelled and the guards stationed at the gates slowly opened the gates of the fortress.

The guard was just about to turn around when he noticed something strange, Glef and the rest of the riders weren't moving at all he was suspicious once again and just as he was about to yell out to them something that chilled his bones happened.

"Charge!" the riders that were by Glef's side removed their hoods and cloaks and revealed red and blue armour that had a golden gryphon painted on but that was not what made him panic it was a concealed force that showed out of nowhere carrying the same mark of golden gryphon on their banners, it was the banner of the one and only princess Deyla of Yander kingdom.

"Quickly close the gates sound the alarm!" the guard panicked and yelled out orders, but it was already too late as the majority of the fortress forces had fallen into a state of panic and were running around in panic.

"Damn it wake up the lord!" the guard yelled as he tried to reorganize his panicked soldiers.

"Crush them all in the name of the princess!" princess Deyla's forces had already entered the fortress and started massacring the panicked soldiers of the fortress.

The fortress had fallen into chaos as the invaders pushed the defenders with ease the guard that was on the walls quickly made his way through the halls of the fortress and into the lord's bedroom. 

He charged in without knocking and waiting for a reply "my lord wake up we are being invaded!!" he yelled and woke up lord Damien who had to half-naked beauties by his sides, he rubbed his eyes and didn't quite get what the soldier in front of him was babbling about.

"Why the hell are you yelling you fool, look it's still.." Damien stood up and slowly walked over to his window when he gazed outside his face lost all colors.

"Wha....whatt... the hell is going here!?" Damien pointed at the window and yelled in anger and fear.

"My lord we are being invaded your orders please!" the guard quickly spoke and waited for his instructions, but before Damien could open his mouth another guard that had an arrow sticking out of his back walked into the room and spoke.

"My....lor..lord there are too many" he warned his lord with his dying breath as he collapsed all bloody on the cold stone floor.

"We...we need to activate the steel soldier quick!" Damien stood up and dashed out of his room still in his night robes, he quickly ran towards the 3 meters tall steel door, he quickly placed the key into the keyhole and with shaky hands, he unlocked the steel door.

The guard that ran together with Damien helped him open the steel doors as it usually took around 10 grown men to fully open them, but they were able to open them enough to slip through.

"My lord are you sure we should activate them?" the guard questioned Damien but Damien just glared at him and yelled at him.

"Are you mad do you want to die!? Deyla's soldiers will kill us otherwise and I don't want to die!" Damien yelled angrily.

"By your will.." the soldier bowed his head and silenced himself.

Damien lighted the room with torches, and inside this big room that was made only recently about 3000 unmoving black steel armors stood, they were all exquisite armors with spikes all over them they would be perfect for warriors to wear if they were half giants that is, all of the armors were almost 2 meters tall except for one of them that stood out the biggest and the bulkiest of them all that really was 3 meters tall, in the middle of their helmets were round gem like things that stood out on their black armor.

"Hahaha look at them our 5 years of research was not in vain and all those people we turned into soul stones so we can power them up hahaha today I will show his highness that it was worth investing into me these creations of ours will slaughter Deyla's forces!" Damien laughed with a mad look on his face. 

He walked over to a pedestal that held a blue orb-like thing, he picked it up and raised it towards the black armors and yelled: "AWAKE FROM YOUR SLUMBER I COMMAND YOU!!".

As soon as Damien yelled out blue light started flickering in the armors eyes it grew stronger and stronger and soon they started to move, one by one they lined up behind the biggest one.

The light in his eyes flickered as well and moved closer to Damien that had the biggest grin ever on his face, the biggest one came closer to him and slowly kneeled down.

"I am at your command master" he spoke in a cold and deep voice that made Damien and the guard shiver a bit, but his mad smile was back on his face.

"Good-good now listen up the enemy forces will be here any minute now I want you to slaughter anyone that enters through that door understood!" Damien gave out his commands happily.

The steel giant stood up and picked up his ginormous black steel halberd and moved closer to the door Damien pointed at and positioned himself to cut down anyone that comes through the door, the other steel soldiers did not move because Damien didn't give the order.

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"Good very good, hahaha Deyla I pray you come through the door!" Damien laughed with a crazed look on his face.

Soon loud footsteps were heard heading towards the room Damien and his steel army were he was grinning ear to ear and couldn't wait to see the carnage and destruction his weapons could create.

It wasn't long before the first unlucky soul entered the room and was separated in two as soon as he did, the other soldiers had a shocked look on their faces as their comrade was just cleaved in two in front of their eyes they couldn't understand what monster could accomplish that.

"What the hell Markev!!!NOO!" the man's friends and comrades yelled as they charged into the same room as their comrade when they meet face to face with the steel monstrosity they regretted it dearly, some of them wanted to run but their legs couldn't move and some of them just dropped their weapons and surrendered to their fates.

The steel monster claimed their lives with swift movements of his halberd.

"Do not be afraid charge men Damien who committed so many crimes is right in front of you take his head!" a clear young voice of a woman was heard on the other side of the door and soon she arrived a woman that had blood on all of her body holding a sword in one hand and a small steel shield with a gryphon crest on it.

She had a blonde bloody hair tied in a ponytail, her face had a few scars here and there but she could still be called a rare beauty her blue piercing eyes looked at the black steel monster in front of her she looked at the monsters helmet and looked at the blue shining gem.

"Damien you fiend so this is why you sacrificed all those people to create these monsters!?" Deyla yelled towards Damien who had a grin all over his face.

"Hehehe exactly and sacrifice is a little too much don't you think? They are not dead hehe I would say they have become something much more powerful don't you think? And they get to serve their beloved future king" Damien spoke to Deyla while keeping his grin up.

"I correct myself Damien the only monster here is you and the one who gave you the order in the first place my brother!" Deyla snapped at him with an angry voice.

"I have heard enough kill them!" the grin on Damien's face was replaced with a look of hatred and ordered the black steel giant to kill Deyla and her men.

The steel giant resumed his attack, with every swing he would claim a life Deyla's soldiers were in a panic as they couldn't block with their shields or run away from the steel monster.

Deyla kept jumping around and dodging the attacks, she looked at her men that were trying to either block or run away "disperse don't stick in a group it will be harder for it to target us all!" she yelled out orders those who were still able to hear her orders listened to her but those that had given in to fear met their end quickly.

The black steel monster turned his attention to Deyla who had given the orders to disperse so it would have a harder time killing them all it viewed her as a primary target.

"Oh crap.." Deyla looked at the approaching steel monster and cursed, some soldiers saw this as a chance and tried stabbing and slashing at the monster but the result was in vain, as they were pummeled into the ground with just its fist.

The steel monster slashed its halberd at her, she jumped to the side and avoided the initial slash of the halberd but what she didn't expect was the strength and speed of this monster, the steel monster changed the course of the slash back towards her again as soon as she hit the ground while she avoided the first slash.

"Crap!" she didn't have time to roll to the side like before but she did manage to pull up her shield just in time, the halberd hit the shield and sent Deyla flying into the wall of the room.

"PAHA!?" Deyla let out a painful scream as she hit the wall, blood was coming out of her mouth "damn....i...it wha....what power.." she struggled for breath.

"Hahaha now do you understand princess you can't win against that one, and I have a whole army hahaha!!" Damien laughed madly at the state Deyla was in.

"Now finish her and her rabble!" the steel monster moved towards Deyla with its giant halberd ready to claim her life, but instead of being scared for her life she just smiled towards Damien.

"Is death so funny to you, hah so brave you are little princess" Damien mocked.

"Hehe it seems to one who will be meeting his end today will be you, Damien, so long" Deyla slowly sat up and watched him with a smile.

"What are you talking about you foolish gir.....ahgageag!!" Damien started to scream as the sharp pain from his stomach was felt, he slowly looked down and with a shocked face, he saw a blade coming out of his stomach.

"Wh....who!?" Damien managed to turn his head around and saw a young boy no more that 16-year old that starred at him with hatred in his eyes.

"This is for my family you bastard!!" the young boy yelled as he pushed his sword deeper into Damien's body, it wasn't long before the light in his eyes vanished and he let go of the blue orb in his hands.

The giant steel monster's halberd stopped just a few inches away from Deyla's head, it retracted its blade and slowly made its way towards the rest of the steel soldiers and positioned itself like before in front of them.

"Hah.... that was scary so that blue orb is the thing that controls them huh?" Deyla stood up with the help of the few soldiers and walked towards the blue orb, she reached down and picked it up.

The steel giant once again made his way towards Deyla and kneeled down like before "Your orders master?" he spoke to Deyla like he did towards Damien, the soldiers around Deyla gulped when they heard the thing speak it sent them shivers but not Deyla she had a sad look on her scared face that puzzled some of her soldiers.

She slowly walked closer to the steel giant and placed her hand on his chest, the soldier's seeing this yelled in panic "princess don't get close to that monster!?" but she just waved her hand for them to stop.

"This one won't hurt me anymore, he was just given orders against his will and besides these things were once humans what do you think happened to 3000 people that were abducted from their homes, the only monsters are my brother and his allies that used this ancient soul enslaving magic" Deyla gritted her teeth and with a grim look on her face she spoke.

She looked at the steel giant once more she turned her head towards the blue glowing orb in her hands, she placed it down on the ground and with her sword, she slashed it in two with her bloody sword.

"Princess what have you done!?" the soldiers yelled and once again panic was all over their bodies.

The steel giant stood up and with a cold voice he spoke "You are a strange one, instead of controlling me like the others you have given me and the rest of my brother free will why?" the steel giant had intelligence which shocked some of the soldiers but not Deyla, she noticed it in her earlier battle against the steel giant that he was intelligent and just some controlled puppet.

"Hehe its simple I want you to make a decision for yourself and by someone else's control that's all, now here is my proposal come and serve me and help me take the throne of Yander or you can go your own way, you are free to choose there is nothing to stop you now" Deyla gave a sweet smile while she spoke but the rest of her soldiers had their hands on their weapons all the time.

Blue light flickered in the giant's eyes as he looked at Deyla, he still didn't understand why she had given them freedom but one thing is for sure there was something telling him to follow this little princess and help her on her path he didn't understand why but he just felt like that.

"Very well we shall follow you princess Deyla" he spoke in his deep cold voice and kneeled down once again, but this time the rest of the black steel giant soldiers kneeled as well, the present soldiers gulped down at this sight and it will forever be engraved in their minds as they were here on the day that Deyla's black steel legion was created.

"Good!" Deyla showed a delighted smile.

"Princess we have caught the leader of the guard that tried to escape!" two soldiers dragged the guard that was together with Demian, he tried to escape through the secret escape way but was caught by Deyla's soldiers.

"Good interrogate him find out what he knows, it seems he was close to Demian!" she gave her orders and he was carried off kicking and screaming for mercy.

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AN: Little prologue of what's to come as you have figured it out there will be war lots of war! ^^ 

Hope you enjoy!