Looking up his gaze rested on at the direction of 437 Kite sail Corsairs who chased an Albatross. A lot of worthy mariners leaving some ships unattended at the floating port. A Trove Tracker supposedly spotted this bird since it would bring fortune in finding old shipwrecks according to legend. This one Trove Tracker called Umber Twohearted was paid 465 a month was hired by an older Trove Tracker known as Cookus. One story Norbit heard or eavesdropped when hearing detailed a Trove Tracker finding a Trickster's Talisman that was just worth 360 Republic Eagles in VUVR currency. Due to his interests in constructs Norbit helped check the monitor of the Prying eyes. Aiding the lab assistant Norbit witnessed the Prying Eye Orb reveal where the Albatross was heading. Through the screen they saw the Condor Confederacy Island called Pathway of Ancestry. Knowing the speed of the Prying Eye Orb 1054 it was likely to get lost in a storm that was on its way. It was just one of 305 mobile constructs the Tante Republic sent over with their fleet. Their 437 Corsair Mariners held up this fleet as they were supposed to be manning the destroyer "Troglodyte 71" and 6 minesweepers.
Despite this storm their little Prying Eye Orb 1054 came across an average sized island in the north of Condor Confederacies home to 406 families of Hooting Mandrils. Barked out of the room, Norbit found himself face to face with the handsome historian weapons master Ensign Kobakan. Sweaty, half-dressed this Ensign with an Elemani background pushed him to the side. As if Norbit left the room this Ensign go it on with the ship lab assistant in the corner of the room. Norbit watched from behind the side of the door with some items in his sight. On a shelf against the wall lay a Red Scarab Artifact, a pair of white scarab pieces, Astrolobe in decent condition. In the shelf beneath them sat a skull to a Homo Magnar, several Prying Eye Orb 1054s taken apart, stuffed spinal centipede in glass, Relic Vial worth 530 Republic Eagles. He watched for a few seconds then moved away fearing the Ensign would pull rank and punish him. Norbit was only a combat medic, but his nosy nature brought him to the bridge of the ship. Here he found the navigation crew using a new device called the Compass55 for navigation through heavy storms. On board the Evusian rented Cruiser Carrier Hybrid the Fringe Lurker, Norbit was a member of an assembled military Division. Sixteen thousand more Volunteers of the Calornese Coalition. Alagen, Nahem, Lybresan, Redrin, a handful of city-states forged alliances along the southern seas. Other nations, which are free from the invaders' rule joined this Calornese Alliance. Avoiding detection, Norbit backed out of the bridge, navigation rooms just in time to hear portions of a conversation.
"They attacked her multiple times and nothing was done. You get this handsome man sending her letters or something and you lose your shit."
"Perhaps they got carried away."
"Carried away? How many times did we see her with a black eye?"
"What of that handsome one?"
"Him? Gone fighting against those Vullanese or Nazdar Invaders in Vimasdra. That is a cold front there."
"Just don't tell her he is back home in his townhouse."
"That will take a while. If we survive this..."
"Wait didn't you kill someone?"
"It is no wonder you were conscr-"
His ears picked up everything. Norbit's eyes spotted a ghost storm that lasted 300-hour glasses, which became 12 days. This threw them off course a little, but they arrived at the Isles of the Condor Confederacies. Rendezvous points brought them to the northeastern part of the Condor Islands. Some chose to take advantage and used the time to explore and swim. While Norbit watched the women, others went crabbing by hand. On Trove Tracker found one Wish Crab out of a bunch of 360 next to a bay. Their hands required bandaging up because of the pincers. Unfortunately for 28-year-old Norbit this Trove Tracker knew him. Known as Jargos Jan Deviz this Trove Tracker knew Norbit was involved in erasing members from the Index of the Arctic Fox Order. Apparently, a stealer of secrets was discovered with 53 files on hand. This loss of intel dissipated 326 of the Arctic Fox's staff as a result. As punishment Norbit was sent to become a combat medic. All that was allowed to happen because Norbit destroyed some relics, caused cursed coins to fall in the cracks of some drain inside a trophy room. A broken globe statue, some fire crystal, sphinx bust, cursed gold coins were destroyed or lost.
Moving further into the islands, their fleet entered an area some water between islands home to 2,500 schools of Mull Drifter Fish. All he thought was plenty of fish were found. It was not all they found on these parts of the islands. Three or four broken construct vehicles discarded near the bank. On one of the islands some sorcery was used to maximize the velocity of 370 constructs, four of which broke down. Gantronese forces invaded some time ago forcing the Condor tribes to unite then seek outside help. This year of 1844, late 1844 the C.A. made efforts to take control over Iperantos Islands, liberate parts of the Condor Isles. North of them was a quagmire of victories, and defeats which became a stalemate across the board. According to what he heard from the commanding officers, new pamphlets, through eavesdropping. Hundreds of thousands of personnel were poured in to beef up the forces, local forces already fighting the Gantronese invaders in the Unknown Lands.
Among the Divisions sized unit, two foreign units arrived with them. From Malvieth and Meze, 858 scrapyard Mongrel Hounds unit, 510 members of the Blade Tusk Boars unit arrived as combatants. One of the locals described a how authorities brought in a covetous castaway. Their story detailed how they had been adrift on several islands for 322 days. Whoever they were, this castaway predicted the invasion of their part of the world a year before the Gantronese. This foretold impending Gantronese invasion was already in full swing across parts of Calorn. Other events plagued the Condor Islands. Iron Colossus awakens on their mainland, a trio of Lizard folk fighting a dire crocodile closer to the swamps on the mainland. Three groups of large herbivore reptilians get plucked up by a Gantronese Titan Oni ship. Some Orc spy was found asphyxiated inside a large keg on an island in the western part of the southern island. Whoever managed to bound the Orc inside the keg was not alone or was stronger than the average Orc. Whatever happened to the corpse was not to Norbit's interest. Condor Confederacy dealt with a Thatcher's Revolt that lasted for 589 days on some island near Gleaming Barrier. Over 804 got involved in the revolt at first. Then it expanded to some other islands. It resulted in the Tribal Enforcers sending 329 over to help excommunicate 260 suspects from the Condor Confederacy. This came right after discovery of violent impact that effected 423 victims.
That only distracted the public from the invasion. Gantronese Forces took over large swaths of land, stretching some supply lines a little. Just under a Division invaded the Condor Islands. For its own defenses, other free nations sent help. From Evusia, Tante Republic, city-states of Nevora several hundred skittering surveyor constructs were shipped over. One of 486 spotted a Battle Elephant from Vorcadam on the main land areas the Gantronese invaded. Dwarf, Goblin, Gnome city-states sent a unit of 582 Eager Constructs, 273 Lurker Automatons, 361 Despondent Spere Killbots. Most of these constructs came from mixing technologies the invaders left behind on battlefields. These helped fend of the attempts take over these islands with a wave to overrun defenses. Many of the automaton constructs required repairs.
Condor tribes recruited mages, hired them, or lured them back home to defend their homeland. Nearly a thousand returned home among a few thousand other Condor Tribesmen who flocked to fight the invaders. Apparently 361 dabbled in some dark arcane powers as others chose the druidic path. Despite modernizing, many of Calorn's nations kept arcane practices alive. Some arcane users animated 3 statues turning them into weaponized Golems that killed 529 or more before going down to artillery, heavier weapons. From a variety of shipwrecks, a team of arcane users animated a rotten hulk golem, which killed 246 members of the invasion force. On the largest western island of the Condor Confederacy a rather large reptile called a Dracon took out 423 hostiles within a few weeks. All that revealed was the Gantronese brought in more than just a division to launch this invasion. Other than tribal warriors, the Condor Isles rallied ten thousand other types of personnel. Lez nabbed Norbit to meet with other members of their team in the Coalition.
At some small Citadel, a gathered force of 3,200 Heading for lunch be back in a few hours. One of them laid in the grass outside a three-story tower shaped house. Blond haired dark elf in a laced white cut blouse in brown trousers in black knee-high boots with tattoos on her tan skin. In the doorway stood another dark elf with bleach hair in a pink tight blouse, short black skirt with ruffles at the ends. A pair of cat mounts lay close to the house for the Dark Elf. Their names were Jokk, and Nazizi, gifts from the Uxane of the Sarcagos Mountains. An Uxane Dark Elf with raven dark hair called Tahevenin Allod wore a revealing outfit that showed her tribal tattoos, armbands, armbraces. She notched an arrow in her new bow with the short blade at her hip. Red feathers in her hair drew his attention until his gaze caught an ocelot laying on a blond half elf in military under clothing. Introducing themselves as Lyna Mahariel, Evylon Celebrian informed Lez, and Commanding Officers about Youkoso Silje, Captain Yande Fortune of the Destroyer "Gambling".
Leading the way the pair of them introduced them to a slew of individuals involved. A shaggy haired female Goblin Ranger in a fine uniform, goggles, scarf named Eevee Hexun. An elf in double breasted combat uniform fitted with pauldrons, armed with a Gorine .071 pistol. Her name was Lieutenant Patrice Shawnson of Alagen. Next to her stood a Male elf officer known as Captain Pathfinder in a fine military uniform, a cavalry sabre at his left hip. Coming over from Nevora an Imperial Elf Officer in a grayish uniform of packed leather that somehow looked comfortable to wear. Lieutenant Corbax stood with his hair short, slicked back, a few scars on a hardened jaw of a face that saw plenty in his lifetime. From their flank a female in a long blue coat, white hair V.U.V.R. naval artillery uniform approached them. Admiral Weaverz an arcane user who was in military service for twelve years.
This group included non-soldiers such as a Gunslinger named C. Grist dressed in a duster over adventuring clothing donning a wide brim hat with a rifle over his shoulder. A female elf officer, blue hair acted as MP for the C.A.M, Calornese Alliance Military. One female battle mage known as Ms. Succubus wore a cuirass, a piece of armor he called the boob plate armor made from hardened leather that did not go well with her long flower skirt. She was accompanied by a Black Mage who would be wearing a low cut, fur lined, dark gray, black, blue dress according to herself. Instead, she wears the V.U.V.R. style military combat fatigues. She looked more miserable than she wanted in the ugly greenish, brown uniform, and combat boots. Thirteen soldiers in combat armor over a brownish green dyed combat fatigues with the studs. One of them looked just like a well-known actor who was supposed to be dead. Norbit's eyes widened at the sight of the weapons they were cleaning aside from the T.M. 13 bolt action rifle, 4-Hands shotgun, the 7-Bakshin carbines, E-6 repeaters. Under the trench coats, extra padded armor, goggles he could tell these were veteran knights who were soldiers after squires then knights after a certain age. Walking away from the Norbit physically bumped into a pair of Korivs, a male and female armed with traditional swords, Gantronese weaponry, and some standard rifles. Forced to the ground by the female for touching her chest when bumping into her Norbit was walked allover by a trio of other members. An elf Warrior Chef, a Chef with a Gnome-halfling-dwarf background with darker skin complex, followed by an Uxane who wore a decorative bandana that gave his head a tail to wrap around their long braid. As for the rest of the members of this gathered force, Evusian conscripts with bald heads, or Vullanese turncoats sent over to remove any thoughts.
"Despite my Admiralty rank, the situation north and south Gantronese forces are crippling along the fronts. We do not know if their forces will reinforce positions in the Condor Confederation after they left the Iperantos. More tribes and peoples have rallied to fight off the Gantronese invaders. Just hope they haven't got contracts that expire."
"Like the two hundred ninety something that annoying Anointed Chorister Isle Cleric recruit for their cause?" One of the soldiers pointed out in a bitchy tone.
"Didn't they use some spell caster or orator called a Chaplain of Alms?" another asked scratching their head. They looked around with some nodding, others bickering to each other or under their breath.
"Yes, they managed to get some mob on their side or to yield to their authority. Some Ringleader of Seven hundred ninety-two gave their full cooperation to this Ringleader. Some city state of necromancers with a dying practice handed over two hundred thirty-eight grim guardians. Outlaws chose to aid us for some reason. Likely for money. Calling themselves the Fire Brand Crews, four hundred twenty pirates sided with us against the Gantronese invaders." Admiral Weaverz pointed out as if she was barraged with questions.
"We cannot trust the pirates. Or can we?" Someone blurted out then asked themselves.
"What about the Fraternities?" another asked. "Not the ones on campus."
"Fine, they're fine, just trust them. The um, Knightly ones, not the college ones. Those pirates may not stick around for long, but don't forget the three hundred twenty-six catacomb crocodiles are put to use. Five hundred ten provision scouts landed on the southern longest island just last week."
"Jerkmess, the thicker second largest island is where most of the Gantronese invading forces are. Aside from the northwestern parts of the islands. We don't have a moment to lose, so move out! Before the Vestrisians beat us to it."
As a unit of 43 Calornese Coalition personnel maneuvered to the island of Jerkmoss. Dividing up their forces the coalition sent 4,000 to Jerkmoss, another 4,000 to the northwest position. Only 2,000 personnel were deployed on the southwest of Holmes-Illah island. Condor Confederacy consisted of five main islands among its islands. Fifty-three other islands, 314 smaller islets made up more of the Condor Confederacies. Towards the front lines they came upon six petrified outposts. Completely abandoned until their own forces took over. It was where transfer documents were made for military units switching places.
Positions which still remained in Condor Confederacy's hand were manned by 7,000 Condor subjects. These subjects formed the military force that faced the brunt of this smaller invasion. A quarter of Condor's force which were stationed became wounded, and a smaller percentage dead. Some areas were reclaimed in the south. It brought in prizes such as 31 Bull Elephants from Via-Talus. All these large trunked beasts carried 448 hides while holding stones from a quarry island. This quantity of stones came from an island where 533 laborers ran the island production. Norbit did not get a chance to see any other prizes as he tended to some of the wounded along with the other medics.
Scared the wounded would take the attention of the female medics Norbit attempted to convince he could take care of the wounded. Unconvinced his C.O. slapped him across the face forcing him to tend to the enemy wounded. Eighteen Lamia, snake people among 22 Oni, Demon Offspring. Some had very distinct descriptions with their backgrounds. One Desert Lamia with orange-sand scales, red hair, pointed ears, copper skin was an archer. Her days with the bow and arrow in the field became disrupted. Next to her lay a white-haired female Lamia in modernized Gantronese combat armor. Medics had to pry an empty submachinegun, and katana from her grip, and sheath. Three male Lamias with striped scaly tails, maroon undershirts with tribal and modernized designs. Dark Green scales, green hair, shirt torn off, replaced with a wrap cloth this next was far more wounded in the tail. Once armed with dual daggers her tail was somewhat shredded. Beside her lay a purple scaled Lamia with tiger stripes lay with one arm injured, bullet holes in the tail. Two pairs of Lamia Archmages the Nailihuclie, the Maru Neko Siblings lay shot up. Towards the end of the field hospital tent for the wounded prisoners lay two more Lamia. On the opposite end lay a yellow scaled Lamia with antlers, aquatic creature's ears donning a blood-soaked kimono robe. Next to the antlered one lay a half dead copper skinned Lamia with red hair. Donning a hospital tunic gown rather than a green glass looking armor this one attempted to cling to her weapon. He only got names such as Zinforya, Blazbaros Tal'saia,
Most of the Oni wore Samurai Yorai armor, Gantronese combat armor over dark green jumpsuits. One crimson skinned Celestial Tiefling or Demons with horns overlapping their scalp from the forehead wore a matching coat over the fatigues and jumpsuit. Soaked in blood this one sustained bullet wounds to the sides, hips, chest. Their name read Brother Ignatus, a Lieutenant, some Warlock of the Myth Weavers. A three eyed Oni-Demon stood at 8 feet tall with goat legs, muscular body, weapons sash over his body. Accompanied by a scantily clad female thrall once armed with a Mattock this one had a shot up leg. His thrall refused to leave his side. Each chatted with each other on how Gantronese forces ran into lethal Lizard Beasts, and Sigil covered Lizards roaming certain areas. According to one of them about seven hundred Lizard Beasts were killed, over two hundred seventy of the sigil covered lizards. As a result, they lost 10,000 dead and wounded along with other situations.
One of them mentioned the loss of a Dispeller's Capsule that was worth 379 in coinage. Another revealed the fates of Basilica Guards of a neighboring city-state called Kicari. Mocking the language, a female Oni detailed how they barred a door to some tunnels alongside a unit of 260 Infantry, 278 volunteers of some Adamat Will group, and some 65 rebels who opposed Gantronese rule. These very rebels, according to one of the Oni, watching their whole city fall to the V.U.V.R. Those stories happened a while back when the Coalition Forces were just acting on behalf of the free city-states along the Unknown borders. That whole area had a name, but it escaped his mind. Unknown Lands pretty much stuck as not many colonies could spread further than Borvados.
While tending to these wounded Norbit was scared away by a dog warrior creature accompanied by some ghostly figure. Leaving those wounded at the mercy of the Dog Warrior, and its acquaintances proved these invaders recruited other aliens. He only heard the sounds of fighting then shots fired from a nearby Coalition sentry. Three days later their positions came under attack. All he could think of were the prisoners they had to move off the islands. Norbit wondered what a shirt would look like with a tiger on it. As the fighting went on Norbit smiled to himself thinking the company name should be AV Holmes, or Mother Tigers. He did not snap out of it until a bullet went just past his head from an angle. Over a week passed in the fighting as they discovered the size of the Gantronese force. One brigade of 3,500 Gantronese personnel and fighters pushed against Coalition forces. Made up of three different battalions the members of this brigade called themselves the Ejone Personnel, Otaku Warosu, the Red Beetles. When the fighting was done, they discovered only 3,298 among the dead and wounded. As for the remnants of the brigade they presumed they fled. This brigade's leaders were found wounded and brought to the medics in a stretcher. Hikato Mushi a Gantron Spawn dressed as a rhino-beetle style armor with wings, bulkiness similar to that of a Golem made from metal. An Oni Officer carrying a Kanobo club, studded, and tipped with a face called themselves a Night Stalker. Its main commander was a big strong female Oni with thick long hair, black horns tiger hide vest, loose baggy pants, armed with a Kanobo club was found seated on a large sake keg sizes jug with a bullet to the leg. Norbit was not allowed to tend to the wounded alone.
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