9 Defense

When my familiars went about their missions I dropped the logs by the gates making a barrier by the front gate. One of the villagers on watch attempted to yell at me saying "You can't block the gate, move the logs." To which I responded a raider group is approaching this gate. I'm going to leave these hear and make them trip over the logs om their attempt to breach the gate." The guard nodded, then grabbed his axe, and started to hit a bell. The bell was added after the last attack when I had told my father we should use the bells we use to ward of evil spirits as an emergency alert. When everyone heard the bell they dropped what they were doing and began to take up their weapons. My father again asked me what was happening only for my familiars to return.

Bran reported first "*Cahh* there is 45 men marching this way, and they are bringing 2 River Trolls." I question how far out?" Receiving an answer from the newly arrived Coro responds "we have 15 minutes for the attackers and 5 for the Wolf Pack." Of course my family understood minutes as I had remembered a spell from Harry potter known as tempus which let me time out my day and my parent have also loved the spell to know what the proper time was during the day. Floki had used said spell on Rituals.

When my father heard this I told him "I have to kill the trolls. Trolls take multiple men to kill while a mage like me could do it with a couple spells. I will handle the trolls while you handle the men. I will attack the raiders after the trolls are done. Try to keep them in a group so I can use lightning on them. The werewolves arrived with there armor on that was purchased from Matt over the years. They had joined the village in all but home since they turned once a month, except once in a blue moon with 2 full moons a month. When they arrived the Wolves divided amongst gates as our gates to the fields were locked and chained. We had built watch towers along the fields allowing for view above the open land. We had watch towers in key spaces with fencing around the village. The fence was long trees barried side by side. The watch towers were made of wood which had been improved by Floki and I while we practice magic.

The villagers were all in the chiefs house while all of the warriors were at both gates. A couple of the war maidens were at the village chiefs house. I was sitting at the gate closest to the raiders while my birds were overhead. My birds tweeted at me which I could understand allowing me to know the attackers had the trolls and 35 men attacking the front while 12 men were attacking the rear. I was at the gate by the fields on one side, and the swamp on the other separated by a path leading toward the seaside village. The gate toward the mountains were on our backs, which Floki had been guarding. I would have placed Runes on the gate, but they were purely wood, and they would get too hot burning up after one use. I had talked Floki in over the years to build boundary stones around the chiefs house which he activated before the fighting is to begin. The boarder stones made a barrier around the house that would last until the ward powered under Flokis house would be out of power in many years or the stones were powered down.

The attackers had the Trolls attack first as they stood behind shooting arrows from protection of a shield wall. The archers on the towers shot arrows at the walls as the Trolls approached. The trolls had a steel looking collar around their necks. The trolls began by breaking wooden barrier. I had tranfigured some tree segments into wooded stakes and held them in the air. With ten sharpened stakes fall two at a time one falls on a troll from head to stomach killing it imidetly leaving 4 stakes floating in the air. Aiming with kinetic weapons from above are difficult to judge. Using my stakes I targeted the second troll as the barricades were down. I only took of its arm with the rest missing. I used my knife with telekinesis and hit the troll in the brain through the eye.

As the first wave of men hit the shield wall I used my knife to fly through the air. I began throwing fire and lightning bolts at the approaching men. I broke 3 barriers used by attaking mages. Taking life after life. After the last man was ended my birds said that one man got away. He was running to the east. While cleaning up the dead of which only one of our villagers lives were taken I had found 3 men carrying a wooden stick similar to a wand and one with a book written on a leather I probably wouldn't have wanted to know. I walked over to the troll while Floki harvested. He explained " Troll leather is spell resistant and their body is made of mana. Using them as ritual fuel we can power many rituals. We can use them to grant a strengthening on people if we use the hearts." After learning what to harvest i walked back to my home with a troll collar, the book and 3 wands.

Each wand was made of a sturdy wood. The wands had designs on the outside but not any runes. Using the shortest wand I pushed mana trough it with an imagination of a wind bullet. The wand aimed the bullet but it felt like a dam of mana forced through the small hole and losing some mana. As it goes into the air not being put into the spells but as waste energy. Either the wand is in effective or I have pushed my mana to the amount to much for a wand in general. Testing each wand I could feel a similar feeling with the largest one have a smaller wastage.

The book was written in an unknown language. It was leather bound together by what looks like processed spider silk. Their was 15 pages all with a symbol in the top forth of the page and centered. Them words across the bottom probably explaining the rune above. Since I can't read the explanation then it's safer to not attempt to use the runes. The troll collar had 5 runes around the inside of it. 3 runes were the same equally distanced around while the other 2 were different runes. Only guessing I theorized that one of the runes Is a slave rune. The three could be strength runes that protect the collar and the other one had an unknown use.

The next day, I gave the middle length wand to Floki as I would use the other two to learn about wand usage and building. I had carved a copy of the book for floki with wood so he could add more to his collection. Since it was my spoil for defeating the attackers and trolls, I kept the collars and book. The chief of the village thanked me and Matt took the enemies armor that people didn't want and melted them down. We burned the bodies with non magical means so that Ashwinders wouldn't appear as they are born from snake spirits who use fire as a medium to regain life. I believe the spirits are also attached to the animagus form that humans can take based on spirit resonance. The werewolves remained in the village as mead and food was passed out to celebrate the victory. My familiars were sitting on the bench eating from scraps thrown by everyone from the village. My sister and Randvi were feeding coro sitting beside them. Someone had also poured them some mead as Brans favorite drink is alcohol while Coro likes sweet juices. My brother was drinking with my father, Matt and my brothers new father inlaw

Wallace. My brother was to married a year ago to his wife Petra. They were hunters by trade and did leather products. Petra was sitting with my sisters and was a friend to Coro. I had remembered a Harry Potter trope about familiars living as long as their owners, meaning Coro and Bran could be Ageless like me. Undoubtedly an army with mages will be ready for a fight. The mages hear had an ill look before we fought as if evil had absorbed his soul.