The time had come for Danso and the rest of the Veiled Village to raid Fort Fjord. There was a simple reason why they wanted to raid Fort Fjord and not other forts that were set up on the border between the Frozen Everglades and the Snow Kingdom. The reason was it was the closest to the Veiled Village and more importantly it was the largest fort and it crossed a meter into the Frozen Everglades, which Everlin did not accept. His logic was simple.
'First, they will intrude by a meter then a kilometer, then the entire Everglades'
Danso prepared himself in his hut, he wore his refined Red Samurai armor with his sword and placed his Emerald Ring on his ring finger and removed his helmet. He held his dark red helmet using his right hand and placed his sword by his waist.
Yvette would guard the civilians of the Veiled Village and Everlin got ready to lead the warriors, brutes, and archers. He wore a Yeti's fur coat and held his staff with his right hand and his posture was strong and upright. Leonard, Auro, Lucia, and Cole also got ready for battle. Lucia had her giant ax with the helm being comfortable with Soul Beast fur, Cole had a wide array of bows for example throwable spikes and shurikens, longbows, shortbows, and more. Auro had brought multiple traps, explosives, and ritualistic magic spells that would act as bait or traps. Leonard tied his long white hair and grasped his staff tightly.
Danso and Everlin met Leonard's group at the center fireplace of the village and Yvette had just finished giving instructions to all the villagers who would stay at the village. It would be foolish if all the villagers went to raid Fort Fjord because then who would be there to protect the village?
In the Hospital of Rein.
The DMMS, Nicole, and Ozamu got ready to leave Rein and go to a port near to the Endless Sea, where all the shipments of illegal items would be. There was a very high chance that an Anti-Sorcery Key would be available there.
"Can't Emily just command reality and open the cage?" asked Nicole.
"Sadly, my ability cannot change reality if there is a strong interference or the person sealed is not in the dimension I currently am in," explained Emily.
This was a major reason why they required the Anti-Sorcery Key but also Chiro was in the Fifth Dimension currently and that was the speciality of the Alkanium Soul Beast Cage. It teleports the person who is sealed far, far away.
They decided to take a train to a small village bordering the Endless Sea and from there they would rent a car and ride to a ten kilometer radius of the port then they would reach the port by foot. It was a perfect plan to conceal themselves. The village they would be reaching was called 'Calcio Village' and the train ride from Rein would be around four-five hours.
Haruki, Emily, Tensei, and Natsuki would be going to the port for the retrieval of the Anti-Sorcery Key while Ozamu and Nicole would be searching for the Cage in the deepest part of Ninjaro's twin river on the border of Lukia.
After a thorough plan and health check-ups by Natsuki and a few other professional doctors and one last meeting, their plan was set into motion and they left for their respective destinations.
Everlin got on his Wyrmtiger before Leonard and the rest of the Heads of the Brutes, Trappists, and Archers got on Wyrmtigers as well but Danso had to use a Weretiger since he had not learnt how to ride a Wyrmtiger yet. Riding a Weretiger was similar to riding a horse which Danso was familiar with during his time in the Narahara Complex.
And so they set off for their battle or raid. Danso did not remove his helmet and no one spoke during the time they rode towards Fort Fjord. Danso practiced his Essence during this time to not waste a single minute of it.
Eventually they reached the part of the journey where they had to walk to the Fort to maintain concealment. Danso activated his Essence and so did everyone as they walked using a map that Everlin had masterfully created late at night.
Soon they reached the walls of Fort Fjord. The surroundings were a mix of plains and hills as they walked through the slim exit of the forest. It was intricately placed on top of a giant hill which was perfect for catching trespassers such as them.
The walls were tall, as tall as a fully matured Yeti, and there were multiple watchtowers and archers as cover. Everlin walked towards the fort as Danso watched in puzzlement. If he continues their concealment would be thrown in the trash and they would get caught. They have much better equipment and warriors than them.
"Everlin…I could just shoot them all down discreetly," said Cole in Laxasian so Danso could understand.
"Save your arrows," said Everlin.
Everlin raised his hands and moved them to the left with a swipe of his wrist and suddenly the walls of the Fort were cut down horizontally by a gigantic ice blade. Then Everlin chanted a few words and tapped on the floor with his staff and it started to hail with a blizzard also forming in the fort.
As the snow and crystals cleared, Everlin appeared at the entrance of the Fort with Danso and Leonard to his right and Lucia, Cole, and Auro to his left. Multiple guards, who were wearing scaly metallic and medieval armor with a snow crystal on their chest sprinted towards them but Danso quickly disarmed them and slashed them causing them to fall down to the floor.
Auro quickly turned invisible, which Danso did not know he could do. Then he sprinted towards the center of action placing traps and rigging the entire boundary or circumference of the circular Fort with bombs, loss of vision or senses, fog, poison, and hallucination spells. His bad posture and droopy black hair were something Danso found amusing.
Lucia quickly smashed her ax on the ground causing the Earth itself to shake and chopped all the guards in half with no mercy. The bloody scene was something Danso thought was unnecessary but he continued to slash down his opponents without killing them.
Cole armed himself with a dagger and the tip of the dagger had a poison which was crafted by Yvette using Everglade Butterflies and purple flowers, which he was using to sneak around and kill people and loading his bow with fire arrows to burn down the huts and the food rations while using explosive arrows to blow up living stations and horse stalls. He also used arrows to kill the archers that were raining down arrows onto them.
Danso used Wind Stance to quickly dance across opponents and he was turning Essence on and off to adapt to his situation. Suddenly a few men rushed towards him and Danso quickly struck them with a single strike.
Then as more started to flock and horde him he decided it was the perfect time to use his new technique.
"Ritualistic Magic of the Wind:- Horizon's Gale," said Danso with his soul aching for action.
His orb turned into a whitish green as it seemed as if wind was swirling inside the orb. The wind in the orb transferred to Danso's left hand as a ball of wind formed at his palm. Then Danso struck a guard at his chest and then sliced another guard, striking the stomach. Then he used his legs to disarm another guard before ending the horde with another spell.
"Ritualistic Magic of the Wind:- Aging Windstorm," said Danso.
He dragged his left arm back and then swung it forward causing a strong gust of air to come sending multiple guards flying backwards and using the momentum sprinted forward cutting down multiple extra guards. Danso took a deep breath before looking for the next horde of men.
Fort Fjord was a large fort with housing for multiple hundred guards and a central fireplace. It was similar to the Veiled Village in many ways.
"I am Lance Shire! The Red Samurai!" screamed Danso to intimidate multiple guards into running off and away.
Everlin caught the act and stabbed all the running guards with ice shards as he gave Danso a stern look.
A guard sprinted to the telegram room and caught Danso's attention. He silently followed while slicing and slashing a few other guards in his way before making an entrance into the building with his bloody footprints staining the brown wood.
By the time Danso entered the dusty telegram room the guard had already killed himself by slicing his neck. He felt a bit of pity before replaying the telegram's contents.
The Palace of the Snow Kingdom located in Alexandria.
Calamity of the Snow Kingdom, Alicia Paland received a shocking yet simple telegram from a region on the border of the Frozen Everglades where Fort Fjord was situated.
As she heard the telegram, multiple high ranking Vice-Admirals ran to the Calamity's room and as they reached they found that the Admirals were already there waiting outside the door.
"What had happened?" asked Vice Admiral Acoust Namina with sweat dripping down from his blue hair.
"A raid on Fort Fjord…And Everlin is there," said Head Admiral Norvin Alcari with his grey white hair swaying with the fan's wind and his wrinkles shifting in tension as his white cap and bulky white uniform with a golden snow crystal on the cap were shivering.
"What were the contents?" asked Vice Admiral Zaraut Pallac.
"I'll say it myself," said Alicia Paland as she opened the Royal blue and white doors of her room and walked with her beautiful white hair reaching her shoulders and her white dress with blue outlines matching her captivating beauty with her ocean deep blue eyes.
"Everlin has appeared in Fort Fjord with multiple villagers plus an outsider. Everlin destroyed the fort's walls and took control of the fort with the person called The Red Samurai,"