Alfenheims Warlords (a SAO fanfic)

Chapter 15

The arena was massive as it almost was as big as Kommando's castle itself. He had it built at the entrance of the valley made by the mountains flanking his castle as he had made its walls of Darkstone and Bone as it had towers sprouting from it, two gates with one facing the entrance to the valley and the other facing his castle and the town before it.

And now there was many, many of the Alf Outcasts and spirits of Hel pouring into it as Kommando293, with Sanginium, Thaxae, Medusae, and Theodosius, simply trotted his horse towards it as he watched the many Bone Princes being summoned up and escorted by his many skeleton units.

He was quite thankful that he had enough generals with him to be able to assign the more menial tasks to them, like improving buildings, recruiting units, and sending them out to attack Reaper294 and the others.

As he trotted his Darkness horse along, Theodosius said to him, "My lord.. you must realize that tomorrow is the day of the invasion? Surely we must be preparing the defenses and bulwarks around the Portal instead of having a game?"

"Ah, Theodosius... you're wisdom for defense is still unparalleled... I also see that new DarkSteel Shield is proving to look good on you." said Kommando to him as he pointed to the large tower shield on Theodosius's left arm. 

"But, I will be needing the Bone princes from here to help defend the Bulwarks.. I cannot simply split my forces to attack and defend.. such an attack would simply fail against even a small force made by the Alf Lords..." Kommando told Theodosius.

"As such.. we will also be ridding ourselves of many of the more.. problematic of Bone Princes anyway.." said Kommando as then he gave a small yawn.

And then they reached one of the gates and as two of the guards opened up one of the doors next to the large gate that many of the NPC's were pouring through and as Kommando got off his steed and watched as the guard soon tie it up nearby next to some feed and water and as Kommando went up first, soon followed by his handmaidens, suddenly he heard a groan and looked behind him to see Theodosius putt his shield and siege hammer on his back as Kommando then said, "Need me to shrink you, General?"

"No, sir..." Theodosius managed to scrape through and as the group continued to go up the stairs.

The stairs soon came to a large, sectioned off balcony as there was a single throne as well as several smaller seats around for Kommando's handmaidens and generals. Rek Raiden was already awaiting for him as he gave a bow as Kommando293 walked around and then came to the edge as he looked around and into the arena.

The Arena itself was as big as a football stadium as the entire middle of it, where a football field would be, was completely covered in the grey, black, and bone ground that was Hel's terrain. Already, about half of the total seats in the stands were filled up with Alf outcasts and spirits while the arena itself had over a dozen Bone Princes standing down below waiting to be given orders while several units of the more experienced Skeleton swordsmen were lining the arena walls.

And almost as soon as he appeared at the edge of his balcony, the shouts, clapping, and cheers of the many spectators reached him and he smiled as he gave some waves just as Rek said, "My Lord, the remaining Bone Princes are slowly coming into the arena.. the goddess Hel herself also sends her word of doing a fine job of this arena in such a short bit of time."

"Thank you. I will soon send a message to her about my appreciation.. how many Bone Princes in total?"

"We have maybe about 24 in total coming... all of varying skills, however..." said Raiden as he stood next to Kommando.

"Mm... well, the strong ones tend to stay alive anyway.. have they been adequately prepared for combat?" asked Kommando293.

"Yes, my lord... They now use the BloodSteel weapons while our units are slowly switching over to DarkSteel items.." said Raiden.