It has been a little over a month since Blackstone Fortress fell to the Orc forces. News spread quickly throughout the Empire of the Legendary fort's capture shocking many. But the Empire's response was to be quick and decisive. Within a week the Emperor signed an Edict Calling upon all able men and women to help reclaim mankind's territory. Militia were formed and quickly trained, lucrative mercenary contracts were sent out to tempt all comers, and Nobles with secure lineages were asked to send their best warriors to aid the Empire. And now all that work had come to fruition, a massive army of man made of both Empire forces and the common folk now marched to retake Blackstone Fortress. But even with the Empire's swift response the Orc's still had a month to wreak havoc on Human territory and grow. They were constantly sending raiding parties out as far as fifteen miles from the Fort pillaging and destroying whatever they came across, as their numbers swelled as new clans arrived from the Dread Lands pleading themselves to the Bloodfang daily.

Our Story stars within the ranks of the Empires Third Legion one of the Five armies raised to take back the fortress. The Third Legion is at its core a Militia force, with a total of 1500 troops only 500 of them being part of the Empire army. Luckily so far the third Legion has yet to come into contact with the Orc forces. But that is about to change as the scouts have reported a Orc Raiding party headed in the Legion's direction. Seeing this as a perfect opportunity to train its new Militia troop the Commander of the Third Legion broke off a group of 100 militia tasked to eliminate the raiding group roughly numbering 75 orcs.

Night falls over the 100 man Militia group, tomorrow will be the day of battle and there is a sense of unease through the group as many of the militia have never seen combat before. The 100 man General given command of the group had just finished a little speech meant to calm the troops, but words of encouragement have little effect to those who feel the reaper is creeping upon them.

-=Kantari Planes, Empire of Man Territory, Approximately ten miles from Blackstone Fortress=-

Silas and Dixon had been posted into the Third Legion three days ago and the three days of marching had given Silas more than enough to go off of and what to expect. And just their luck they had been chosen to be part of this first battle. In the back of his mind he couldn't help but wright off a good portion of these Militia troops for the battle ahead. But he didn't let that show instead he stood in front of one of the fire pits telling a story of old days.

"[color=00a651]The damn thing hit like a wild boar snapping my spear as I tried to block the hit. Luckily I had help and one of my guys were able to turn the Orc into a pin cushion before it could finish me off. Remember Orcs bleed like us, if it bleeds we can kill it. Remember if we work together nothing can beat us. We have shown these Orcs our strength before and it seems like they forgot. Lets due humanity proud tomorrow.[/color]" he said before going to sit next to Dixon. "[color=00a651]So I got today's list of possibles if your read for it.[/color]" he casually said knowing that the two did have a side mission here aside from fighting the orcs, Recruiting members to their squad.