Roisin sat dumbly for a minute. Then she realized Anika had told Andrew to get her a phone, but he had not had a chance to before he left.
She thought about catching a cab and just visit miss Croft in person… but she also didn’t have any money right now… How the hell was she supposed to do what Andrew asked?
Finally, she mustered up the courage to walk to the front desk.
“Excuse me… would it be possible to hire a ride to the Dreadnought Investment building and charge it to my room?”
When the attendant looked up her account he smiled graciously. “of course, we can accommodate. Your VIP room can accommodate almost any need. I will get the driver over right away.”
Roisin was a bit stunned. VIP room? What kind of deal had Anika, or was it Andrew… gotten her? what she did not yet realize was that Anika had transferred her to the penthouse account, and now that she was heading out Roisin had full
Roisin found the driver Arya had arranged and they headed to the local car dealership. She noticed that there were several shops along this route, and she asked the driver if he had any idea which one to start at. “Ma’am if you want personal transport, as a personal assistant I would not go less than the lindworm class.”“Really?”“Miss Croft would be displeased to have a wyrm as part of the fleet.” Said driver Donnel.The driver let her out at the first dealership and handed her a business card. “If you don’t find what you like today, just give me a call, I will be in the area should you need anything.”“Thank you”She walked up to the sales floor and looked at the Lindwurm transports and also saw a few kirin class options as well.A salesman noticed her and walked over. Looking her over to assess, her clothes were rather basic. This did not hide her beauty though. The
Late in the afternoon, Andrew and the gods of war arrived at the fortress of Verril to find it in total chaos.“Sargent!” Snapped Andrew as he grabbed the first officer to run by. “Who is in command?”“Umm, right now that would be Lieutenant Colonel Geraldie. If he is still alive that is”“Take me to him now.”“yes sir, he should be in the command center in the central fortress keep. This way.”The gods of war made their way to the keep, with passing soldiers giving them a wide birth. Soldiers knew a true warrior when they saw them, and these were eight of the deadliest generals in the whole land. If Andrew was the top supreme warrior as a five-start general, then his gods of war were his four-star area generals. No one questioned or outranked them.When they arrived at the keep headquarters, officers were running back and forth with reports and calling out orders. A man stood in th
Just then the others returned and began to report. Gad, Carter, and Malachi walked in with grim faces.Gad started “Sir it looks like Asrana walked into a shit show. That’s likely why we didn’t hear from her. She arrived to find her veterans had all be rotated out for other bases and she had a whole cohort of green troops. She had to start with basic training for almost everyone here.”Carter picked up the report, “Stores are low sir, looks like this base had been slowly drained of its stockpiles and did not get the last shipment. They have rations for about 2 days when they should have at least a month’s supply here. Gear is in bad shape as well. If the reports are accurate, the anti-air is the only thing supplied. The other ammo supplies are an absolute minimum to not trigger alerts to anyone not familiar with this base's minimum standards. If it were anywhere else these levels might pass as minimal, but for this base, and its loca
Several hours later, the lead car with Jackson and Gad slowed and everyone could start to hear gunfire. They gunned the vehicles and come to a large clearing with an old stone house and several outbuildings including a stone windmill. Andrew could see that a good number of troops were pinned in the house, and a few more were returning fire from the windmill. One of their vehicles was flipped on the far approach.“ok team, local comm to comm should work here even if they are jamming anything as distance.” Said Malachi, checking his radio equipment“let’s clear a path in,” said Andrew.Thankfully, this side of the enemy flank was thin and as they advanced, they were able to punch through the enemy line after only a few rounds with the mounted machineguns. However, as they approached the house, they saw their pinned unit of troops waving them off. They didn’t understand until they arrived and what they thought had been a weak poi
When everyone was set, it was decided to leave Jackson behind to provide cover and stay in charge of the field base. His sniper would keep all but the dumbest from advancing, and the other five gunners would take care of ones who did advance. The remaining 20 battle-ready men took up positions. 6 would be needed to start treating the wounded and loading the wounded into transports for when the team returned. The others fanned out to cover each direction. Four would drive the vehicles for the gods of war as they advanced.In a burst of speed, the four vehicles launched forward and drive through a week spot in the lines to the northwest. There was enough of a trail to suggest this was a path to something, but what was unclear. Arrows bounced around them and a few stray shots come from the two snipers, but that just gave their position away to Jackson who quickly took out one of them. Men on foot were not much of a match for armored vehicles so most kept their distance. Wh
Back in Tiranë, it was getting late and approaching midnight.“Any news?” Asked Lord Reva.Kage frowned and looked at the report in his hand. “My lord, all of our eyes in Durres report that the goddess departed on her motorbike shortly after breakfast. She should have been here mid-afternoon. There have been no other sightings of her, and most were no longer focused on her once she left. No one has spotted her entering Tiranë.”“Dam. She was even apologetic when I talked to her this morning. Said she was going to head back right away. I should have sent that squad of guardsmen regardless. Could something have happened to her on the road?”“Sir while I guess it is possible, let us not underestimate her. She is a goddess of war for a reason. Also, it is worth mentioning that my spies say that Andrew guy was seen heading to the airport in Durres shortly after Anika left. Seems he was in a rush.” Said
Deep in the mountains north of Verril, Andrew and the gods of war silently approached the cave entrance from the far left. Malachi and Asrana flanked left to clear up and behind the cave, planning to come in and flank the far side, with Andrew and Anika flanking right clearing everything in front of the cave. Carter and Nash went right up the middle to assault the three entrance guards.Anika and Andrew found the bulk of the guards who were right at the edge of the trees. At first, they didn’t realize anyone was there until Anika snapped the neck of one and had a long knife sinking through the throat of another. Andrew took out another with a knife under the chin into the brain before two others spotted them.The guards raised crossbows and fired. Bolts zipped at Anika who still had her knife embedded and trapped in her latest kill. Andrew flicked his wrist and a small knife tinged off the bolt, changing its trajectory a mere inch to Anika’s left. The secon
Anika rushed outside to find Andrew and the team in a pitched battle. Another 20 soldiers had appeared being led by a huge hulking commander.“ok team, we need to get back to Jackson and the others. Hopefully, Gad and Zev were able to clear a path for us because we will be doing this on foot.”Malachi, carter, and Asrana each eyed one another and then the enemy in front of them.Anika was pissed and said, “you don’t expect to leave that woman in there do you?”“Were you able to break the chains?” asked Andrew.“Well no. but we cant just leave her.” Pleaded Anika.Andrew gestured to the advancing army unit “I don’t want to but unless we can defeat all of these we are going to be hard-pressed to make it out alive ourselves.”Anika glanced around and tossed the book to Asrana. “Read fast, see if you can find a way to break those chains, the rest of us will buy