While we were planning the Drakon outpost in the southeast of Jade owned by Nazarius came under assault by Angra Mainyu’s fortress. We discovered two new things, 1: Quetzalcoatl’s mouth apparently leads to Angra’s dimension and 2: Alice’s powers are still tied to the dream realm. We know about the latter because Milenkosi noticed some denizens are being forcefully torn straight out of the dream realm, what bothers him is the ones he found out it happened to don’t mention the incident.

Despite Angra’s casualties at the battle he has managed to acquire more striders for his growing army and his K/D rate is improving rapidly. Acquiring Nazarius as a new member of his legion when Nazarius got eaten by the giant snake god, which is how we learned that the Quetzalcoatl’s mouth is a sacrifice pit.

We also take note of one of his new champions that we had overlooked during his initial return since they weren’t recognizable. Known as The thousand faced witch, witch of a thousand faces, whatever alias you like. They’re a witch and they have a lot of faces. They’re distinctly noted for the ability to create masks of anyone who they can put a blank mask on. These masks allow her to change her appearance and powers to imitate the imprinted individual. Its almost never as good as the original, but it does give her a lot of diversity. The shinobi learned about her because of their captive giving away that Angra also has spies.

In all, Angra’s attention is focused on Jade and the Drakon colonies right now due to proximity. Unfortunately he’s acquiring dragons and striders for his army in doing so and while Drakon was favored in engagements at first the ratio is diminishing especially as more and more of them are added to Angra’s legion. Angra’s legion has diminished by several thousand, but the quality has been increasing.

The second major conflict came when Roc encountered the Atlanteans to the south. The eagle was forced to retreat after a long battle with the  pirates and their demon dragon. Though the major damage was dealt to it when it attacked an illusion of Eli that turned out to actually be Swain and it wound up goring itself. Soon after that the pirates disappeared before Angra could launch a more appropriate retaliation.

Shento:

Dual aspect research still seems to yield very little results, mostly because Kiala is doing it an entirely different way then the actual dual aspect things work by stitching people together. Johann has yet to figure anything out either and figures that to discover how this works he’d need to get his hands on one to study.

Shenlong doesn’t actually represent Drakon enough to make alliances for them and so far the Drakon don’t seem to be all that interested. Shenlong says that after engaging in conflicts with the likes of Asmodaeus and the Jakaal they’ve become distrustful of the natives around here. They wouldn’t put it past Azazel to have orchestrated this into his plan somehow.

In regards to the blood ritual we find thats not going to work short of Hei Song’s powers. Details covered in Con Lai’s interrogation investigations.

Lin Sun:

Well you can assume the flying fortress of death works on a similar principle to the tech of Dyaus in that in needs Sima Wa to function. It doesn’t help though that it was originally Sthan Thi which was the world’s super fortress made to withstand crusades, which makes it a bit difficult to damage.

The idea of having professors go through the time chamber has a problem in finding those willing to do so, professors tend to be good with people and teaching which is the opposite personality type that does well with years of isolation in a time chamber.

Vris is a little offended.

Con Lai:

Interrogation of Angrmons actually yields at least one bit of useful information. They’re not magically enslaved. It turns out that when people are sacrificed to Angra they go into his dimension he has as a Djinn, at which point time warps like it does for all djinn and they have spent centuries in a world that is created by Angra. Though the particular captive the Shinobi picked up don’t know enough about djinn mechanics to get into further details, and a large part of this is a bit of conjecture from their fanatic ramblings.

The team has deduced the problem with bringing down the fortress is that you have to fight gods to do it. Sima Wa is the key piece that lets it fly around but all the other gods are still there and approaching it means fighting them. This is why Naomi can’t just fly up and demolish the thing like she has showcased her ability to do to cities before. Because the giant snake god will eat her or something.