Alright, now due to some alterations I've made to everyone's inventories:
Aideen can now throw motherfucking fireballs.
Anyway, now that we have Macbeth out of the way, let's just take the castle why don't we?
And we're treated to this conversation from one of Sigurd's trustworthy advisors, sent to him from his father himself. Apparently, Shanan, the prince of Isaac we met earlier in chapter one (when we recruited Aira, remember?) was kidnapped as part of a conspiracy by both the Verdane and Isaacian nobility. The Isaac nobles had the King of Isaac assassinated, leaving evidence that Grandbell (Sigurd's home country) was at fault, instigating a war between the two. The Isaacian nobles then arranged for Prince Shanan to be kidnapped by Verdane so that he wouldn't ascend to the throne we he came of age, and then throw them out of office or otherwise screw up their plan. He also tells Sigurd that two nobles in particular, Duke Reptor and Duke Langbart, part of Grandbellion high command, are painting Sigurd as the bad guy in this entire Grandbell/Agustria conflict for their own purposes.
It's a good thing that none of this is very important, or I might actually worry about having a hard as hell time remembering all this shit verbatim.
Anyway:
New challengers! Not pictured is a scene that has King Shagaal telling Fury that Levin (whom she's been assigned to find) has been captured by Sigurd, and is about to be executed in Evans. Why, if there was ever a more bold lie! She sets out with her flying pegasus knights, making a B-line straight to our home castle of Evans.
Also, take note that King Shagaal is a "Baron", an improved version of General class that has higher stat limits, A rank in everything except light and dark magic, and is a royal pain in the ass.
The enraged Shagaal sends out two detachments of horsemen to deal with us.
The first detachment will reach us first, of course, and is equipped with spear-using units. The second detachment has sword using units. They both have a 'captain' unit that is a tad stronger than the others. Neither proves much of a challenge. Just remember to not let them gang up on a single unit, and you'll do fine.
Oh yeah, I must have forgotten to mention that to combat the Pegasus Knights go over to attack Evans, I had Levin teleported there and stationed to guard the castle. He kills most of Fury's lackey's, and then when the time is right, he can leave the castle and talk to Fury directly.
Apparently, Levin is secretly the Prince of Silesia that ran away to avoid becoming the King when his father died. Apparently, being the King is really stressful to a laid back guy like Levin. If you're surprised that Levin is a prince, it only makes sense, seeing as people with Holy blood tend to be high royalty, barring a few exceptions. Fury was sent to get him back, but he's hesitant to give a shit, and convinces Fury to join in Sigurd's rampant slaughter of everyone that opposes him until he changes his mind.
Fury is awesome for a couple reasons. One, she's our one and only flying unit, allowing her to move where the hell she damn pleases, she has decent stats, can use both swords and spears, and comes equipped with the 'thin spear', the lightest spear in the game at 6 weight, whereas the next lightest is 12 weight. This is important because while spears have the upperhand on swords in the RPS triangle, their evasion advantage is oftentimes negated completely by the fact that spears are so damn heavy. it's a little weaker than your average spear, sure, but this rivals the hero spear in terms of overall usefulness. Pegasus Knights have a fatal weakness though, in the fact that ALL bows and longbows have a 100% chance of critical'ing flying units, and this limits Fury's usefulness at points in the game where the computer spams archers and longarches.
Next time, we capture Castle Annoying!
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