--An) Last chapter tonight. Enjoy!--
The fifth floor was hard due to the pixies who like to play tricks. Like the fairies, the pixies also like to use illusion magic but they were very sinister in how they used it tricking people into falling off cliffs or running into poisonous things like plants or areas where poison mist was naturally created. This was because the pixies were mainly meat eaters. While weak their illusion magic alone was enough to make their prey kill themselves allowing them a free meal. The bigger the prey, the more pixies they could feed. But what killed him was the boss of the floor, an euruna. A plant based humanoid who could control nature at will. The whole boss's room was a forest and this meant that the boss had thousands of weapons at its disposal. Because of that, as soon as you even did anything in the boss room, you would die instantly.
He tried burning the forest down, only for him to light the first tree on fire and end up with fifty roots stabbed through his chest. Mona and Moha were always taken out before they could bring their hammers over their heads.
It was a huge mess. They tried it over five hundred times before they decided to quit. They were just not strong enough yet to fight someone who could control an entire forest at will. Whether or not this was a true top euruna's ability was another story since Blake had never fought against one.
He could only hope that in the future, he never met such a powerful enemy until he was truly ready, or he would not even know how he died.
Fifteen minutes later Blake stood in the new military barracks that were built specifically for the new army. The city was named after Blake's first child and was called Destiny City. This was decided not by Blake but by Lillia who would not hear otherwise. Blake did not mind nor did the citizens of the city, so it had become their new city name with the slogan: 'Destiny Is In Our Hands'.
It fit quite well with what they were trying to do, plus it allowed for a city wide celebration. After all, everyone loves celebrations. The population of new babies also jumped as well. Thanks to the many women that were coming in and men taking in multiple wives, new mixed races were being born daily, now giving rise to a new era. Luckily the mookin girls have been milking themselves every day since they came to the city, and were able to begin the first big company in the new city. The Mookin Milk Company. The city now had over five hundred mookin that showed up one day after herding together for a year. One of them happened to see Blake and Mona out for a walk one day outside the city and asked to be taken in as well.
But just because the city had a lot of females did not mean the new Destiny City Military was understaffed, no, in fact, people of all races, men and women, signed up right away. You could say that more than half the population was now in the military. And the city itself now had around seven thousand or so people, including newborns.
Because of that, five squads were going out with them. This was fifty people. Each squad had four healers in them. This was to keep the front liners healed at all times. There was always two scout or bow user and four swordsmen as well. This was to keep the squads even and allow for perfect control of the field of combat. Blake, Mike, and Bret worked hard on the configuration after many days in the training rooms watching each squad as they trained. This configuration allowed for the best sustainability of the men who were fighting. However, this time around, things would be a bit different.
"As some of you might have heard, our outpost number twenty seven has been destroyed. Ten of our people have died. We can not allow this to go unchecked. So from this moment on, we are at war with the orcs. Since they dared to attack, we will dare to fight back and destroy any of them that comes near our territory. But remember this. When fighting, fight smart. Don't let the blood get to your head. Always take care of your comrades and do your best to stay alive. We can not afford to lose any of you, but we can also not allow the orcs to step all over us. Destiny City was built on the grounds of us forging a place for us to peacefully live together no matter which race we are. As such, when one of us falls, we stand up and fight together. Let's move out!" Blake's words made the five squads of soldiers all yell out in union. They couldn't wait to join in on a real battle. After all, they have been training for this for a long time.
"Blake, why are we going out in such a big group?" Noa asked in a low voice. She knew they did not need this many for a small group of orcs.
"A small show of strength. Plus, we are about to test the new weapons Thardra has finally completed. If they work against orcs and their regeneration ability, then they will work against any race." The weapons Blake was talking about were the new mana based muskets. While they took after the one shot style muskets of early times, it was still a step in the right direction. Thardra had spent a good deal of time on figuring out how to make mana work in such a weapon, and so far, the tests were good, but now it was time for a real world application.
"I see… My guess is you plan to let one escape?" Noa asked.
"Yep. We will let one return back to their main camp and tell their leader that Destiny City is a force to be reckoned with. If they wish to cause us trouble, then they will need to fight against thousands of soldiers with these new muskets that can blow their heads off with a single shot. These five squads are all the best sharpshooters we have at this time. They had the best results when training with the new weapon. Now is the time to truly see how these work and how our people deal with them." While his squads were set up to use magic, bows, and swords, this was his first test on how well these muskets worked. If things went well, then he would be able to ask Thardra to mass produce a bunch of them.
