Chapter 65

4 months go by and I added Tetra and Sarah to my harem. Tetra surprised me one night when she kissed me. Sarah and myself was set up by Luna and Lucy. The first 2 months was busy with training the new recruits in the BAA. Basic rifle marksmanship and exercises to build strength and endurance as well as teaching them hand to hand combat and other things was hard but it paid off. The BAA is ready to go. The dragoons of Dragon Islands gave me insight to their training as well. I have to say, they're a well trained and disciplined. The last 2 months was spent planning the invasion of the Northern Continent. One port city and the rest of the continent is surrounded by mountains. The Dark Lord's castle was in the middle of the continent. Myself, Eric, William, Beth, Joe, and the 3 beast kin leaders met in Mountain City to plan the attack. I got a surprise from my own kingdom in the form of a battleship. 3 turrets of 3 16 inch guns, 10 turrets of 2 8 inch guns, 6 turrets of 2 6 inch guns and many machine guns. I was amazed by how it looked. I had blueprints of this battleship but I was wondering how it was built. I then see Garth and many dwarves walking towards me and I put a few things together in my mind. Still though, how did they get a hold of the blueprints?

"So Michael, how do you like your present?" Garth asked as he walked up to me.

"How did you get the blueprints to build this battleship?" I asked.

"Your gunsmith brought them over a year ago and I went to work personally with my best blacksmiths. I went to Freedomville and had help from the citizens there. I even been working on a steam powered ship engine before Sally gave me the blueprints so I installed it. The ship is full of munitions and coal. There's plenty of food and water stocked up too." Garth told me as he smiled from ear to ear.

"Have you tested the guns?" I asked.

"Yes, trust me. No one with try to attack this ship. This is my best work."

"Ok, thank you Garth. One more thing, is there sailors on the battleship?"

"Yes, around 1,500 strong, smart, able bodied men. And they have been trained with everything about the ship."

"Awesome. Thanks Garth."

I have to thank Sally when I get back to my castle in Austin. Now I need to think about a name for the ship. As I was thinking about a name for the ship, Yuna walked up to me.

"Darling, what is that in the water?" Yuna asked me.

"That is a battleship made by Garth, the king of the dwarves and the ship builders of Freedomville."

"I feel that the Northern Continent will fall very fast." Yuna said in amazement.

"Who knows, I know that I have an overwhelming advantage in capturing the port city but beyond that will be an uphill battle."

As I iron out the last minute details of the invasion plan, a scout walks up to me.

"Sir, we now have 55 ships to transport all soldiers and supplies as well as cannons and horses. Awaiting orders."

"Load the ships!"

"Sir, yes sir."

I see the scout run away. I turn to see my brother walk over to me.

"So you got a new battleship. What are you going to name it?"

"USS Barnes, haha."

"Barn, you know how cheesy it is to have USS on the beginning of the name?"

"So what, it's my ship, bro."

"Ok, You're the boss. where are we going to ride in?"

"All the leads in this mission will be on the Barnes along with my wives."

"Ok bro, I hope the bed that you have will be big enough for you and your wives. I only have my 3 wives with me. By the way, what's with Thomas and Eric bowing to me?"

"I think Thomas and Eric wish to have a harem like us but their other halves won't allow it, hahaha."

"Hahaha, really? Never figured on that. I guess we're lucky like that." Joe laughed.

"Ok Joe, let's get everyone gathered up. We need to go to our own ship soon." I said as I turn to head towards a tent.

A few hours later...

I'm in the bridge of the Barnes as I look over at the amazing view of the battleship. I have taken the tour of the ship as everything is looking like I wanted it. Even my sleeping quarters looked good as there's a huge bed that will fit me and all my wives. on it. There was one thing that I was thinking about that happened a week ago.

Flashback to one week ago...

I was in the courtyard of the Mountain City Royal Palace when my phone went off. It was God.

"Hello old man."

"Hello my child. I'm wondering about something. Did you figure out how you're going to defeat the demons since there's quite a few of them in the Northern Continent."

I stood there for a few seconds before I answered. "No. I completely forgot about that."

"Well, I have a solution. Infuse everyone's weapons with Holy magic. You can do it as well as Marie."

"Hell yeah, that's a great idea. Thanks God!"

"You're welcome my child. I'll talk to you later."

"Yeah, see ya later, God."

I go quickly to Marie and tell her what God told me. We both head to where BAA was stationed at and asked all soldiers to line up so we could infuse their weapons with Holy magic. 90,000 M1 Garands, Glocks, and bayonets got infused with Holy magic. I even did the grenades. It took up the rest of the day to do this task. In the end, both me and Marie was exhausted and when we got to the room, the rest of my wives was there. I explained what we did and got ready for bed. I slept really good that night.

Flashback over.

"I hope I did enough to prepare for this final battle." I said as I sat down in the captain's chair. I give the order to weigh anchor and to go full speed ahead. I calculated how long it would take for the Barnes to get to the port city. 6 days for the Barnes as the other ships would take 2 more days for the other 55 ships to get there. As I walked around the ship, I infused the machine guns with Holy as I figured on some flying demons there..

8 days later...

I see the port city in the distance. I've been waiting for 2 days to begin the operation to bombard the city with the 9 16 inch guns. I've seen a few flying demons flying around about the city so I was right to infuse Holy magic with the machine guns. The 55 other ships are in place to begin the assault. I look at a sailor who was manning the telecom.

"Begin firing."

The turrets begin to turn the guns towards the city and with a loud bang. all 9 guns fired. My wives was in the bridge to see and hear everything. All of a sudden, I hear someone yell, "Income flyers!" as I head to the deck with my minigun out. I infused my minigun with Holy magic and took aim towards the sky. I see roughly 1,000 flying demons heading towards the Barnes. The machine guns begin to fire as I open fire. I hope infusing Holy magic kills the demons. I see many demons go down. After 5 minutes of firing, I see no more demons in the sky. I signal for the other ships to head towards the ports. I head back to the bridge and give the order to head towards the ports. It took 15 minutes as I was the first to get off the Barnes. Soon, the all the BAA soldiers was on the ground and heading towards town. Sounds of gun shots fill the air. I head into the city as my wives and most of the leaders stayed on the Barnes. Joe was the only one to follow me into the city as we were a 2 man team. I made sure to infuse his guns with Holy magic 3 days ago. I roughly counted 700 buildings with my senses and we cleared 70 of the buildings from goblins, orcs, ogres, and demons. We found the jail and the dungeons in town and cleared them. Half of the prisoners was goblins, orcs, and ogres. The other half was humans, elves, and beast kin. Mostly female. No need for me to fill in the blanks as these women were in rough shape. As I was going thru one of these dungeons, I saw a woman that I felt familiar with.

"Ma'am, you're safe now. May I ask you if you came from the Marks Kingdom?"

"Yes, I was the first princess. I became an adventurer when I turned 20 and I was caught here when I was 25. I've been here for roughly 2 1/2 years."

"Nice to meet you, sister-in-law." I said.

The first princess gave me a weird look before realizing I was married to one of her sisters.

"Which sister is your wife?"

"Nina."

"She choose a fine man. May I ask you for your name?"

"Michael Barnes."

"I'm Bridget Marks."

"Nice to meet you Bridget. Let's get you out of here."

I lead Bridget to the docks as she boarded the Barnes to reunite with her sisters, Beth and Nina. Joe was finishing up clearing the last of the buildings. I was about to ask one of the officers about the casualty report when I hear my phone go off. I take it out and it's Joe. I quickly answer it.

"Yes Joe."

"Barn, I may need your help, got a nasty looking demon at the head guy's building."

"You mean at the mayor's house?"

"Yes."

"Have you engaged the demon?"

"Not yet. I don't think I can with his size."

"On my way."

I hang up and run towards Joe's location. I know my brother and when he calls me and tells me something like that, I'm there. I get there to see Joe waiting for me. I unsheathe Excalibur.

"Ready Joe?" I asked him.

"Ready when you are bro."

We both head into the front yard to see an ugly looking demon stand at the front door.

"So it was you that is attacking my city. I'll earn a promotion if I take your head to the Dark Lord." said the demon.

"Come take it, you ugly fucker." I said with a grin.

I run at the demon with Joe following behind. I see the demon start running towards me. I hit the demon with a spear as Joe jumps in the air and drops an elbow at the demon's chest, knocking the air out of him. I get up and ready Excalibur. I swing down and slice his head down the middle.

"I made a little bit of improvement." I said.

"Did you see the elbow drop I put on him?" Joe asked.

"It was on point, Joe. Lets go back and gather the reports and head northward to the Dark Lord's castle."

We get back and I get the reports. Looks like the Dark Lord wasn't prepared for the attack. Enemy casualties number around 8,500 demons, goblins, orcs, and ogres. We managed to rescue 500 people, mostly women. Even saved some mermaids. Our casualties was around 200 but no deaths. All in all, a great day for the BAA. All the troops gathered and supplies were being unloaded from the ships. After a few hours, everyone started to march north towards the Dark Lord's castle. The final battle is coming.