As Heshima drove the Barbarians into renewed assaults, they attacked both the Northwestern Border Fortress and Victor’s Temporary Camp, but the defenders held until reinforcements arrived. Victor then welcomed Alex and the Northern Alliance nobles by train and prepared to take them to the frontier for the coming fight.
The Northern Alliance and Two Rivers County crushed the Barbarian forces besieging the Border Fortress, then pursued Heshima and Keledu across the grasslands. Ron’s cavalry defeated a Barbarian ambush, while Heshima rallied his commanders around the belief that rain could neutralize the enemy’s weapons.
Heshima and Keledu fought to secure crossings over the Shattered Ice River while the Northern Alliance Army struggled to contain the Barbarian advance. The Barbarians completed a pontoon bridge and prepared to break through, but Alex and Victor’s Expeditionary Army arrived and halted the battle until morning.
After defeating the Steppe Barbarians, Victor and Alex managed the captives and expanded Two Rivers County’s influence while the Raine-Vela alliance fought the East Sea Alliance. The war settled into a stalemate, and Victor took charge of restoring agriculture in Vela-controlled occupied territory.
Victor and Alex drew the Xister Kingdom’s invasion force deep into Vela territory and trapped its main army around Vorka City, where the Two Rivers Legion held out under siege. As the Xister forces reinforced the encirclement, Alex and Victor prepared a decisive counterattack and a naval strike, while the defenders braced for another assault on the inner city.
Alex and the Vela Army helped defeat the Xister Kingdom, then joined the Raine Kingdom in breaking the East Sea Alliance’s defenses and capturing Stone Mountain City. The Alliance fractured into civil war, and Victor proposed using naval guns to break the fortified noble armies.
Victor secured a dukedom through a technology exchange, then led the Vela Army to help Duke Barick defeat the Central City-State Alliance and withdraw the kingdom’s forces. After Barick gained the succession, Victor arranged for a thousand Vela noble scions to serve in his guard, where they arrived in Golden Tree City and faced resistance from the existing commanders.
Victor helped secure the Imperial Guard’s transition under Balek I, returned to Vela, and oversaw the territory’s growth while responding to espionage and preparing for conflict with the Faith Order. The arc left Victor angered by a loan shark’s abuse as Bobok and Boyang began a special operation.
Victor equipped the Expeditionary Army with Type One Rifles and sent Santos to seize Faith Order Headquarters. Santos’s army defeated the Order’s forces and withdrew when the Faith Order prepared its Judgment array, leaving the apostles ready to negotiate.
No recap yet. An arc gets one once it has 25 chapters.