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This is a story unlike any other story Shado had on his Arena of Honor endeavors, a story of tears and joy, of loses and wins, of good and bad. Its a sunday morning in Westeros, sun is barely rising and Shado is up for another Arena of Honor fight, prior to this he lost his team and went to knocking on a lot of gates for a place on the table but everyone remain silent, so he had to do what all the warriors in Westeros do when they have nobody to fight along in Arena of Honor, join the mercenary recruitment camp, despite being advised by the displayed banners that playing with friends is better than playing alone.
Upon entering the mercenary recruitment camp, he didn't see anyone familiar around but decided to sign the registration form and take part in the upcoming fight. The clock ticking at 6:30 sharp and the draft started, it was like Westeros's version of NBA blind drafts, warriors didn't know who they'll end with. Shado was assigned to House Baratheon this time and had fighting along him ATTO, ZoOTTO and GYEBACK KOR from [GuR], RagnarokZero from [Nbe], DaRock from [UNO], IAMBIG from [SKR, Next Episode from [DUM], John McClain from [CXI] and vikmd from [MyR].
As opponents House Baratheon got warriors from all of the strongest Westeros's alliances, playing for House Stark, House Targaryen, House Lannister, House Tyrell and House Greyjoy.
Game opened with the seven strongholds, everyone from the team rushed to occupy them and after the occupation time passed, Shado faced the first inconvenience of not being in a team that communicates, being the 1st that occupied a stronghold he had to be first that constructs something, so his choice was to go with trading post as they are the most common built by teams in Arena of Honor, thinking if other team members construct military camps, he'll destroy the trading post and build a military camp instead. Somehow everyone else followed the idea and seven trading posts were constructed and leveled to max.
At the same time everyone reinforced the House so it won't be lost to NPC's during fights. Next to be opened were the last 5 strongholds and the first altar, Shado rushed to occupy the first altar as he usually does but he didn't last long there as he was quickly got an eviction order from Mirwen of [NW1] and his cavalry army. He didn't comply the order and after the fight that emerged, he had to leave carrying along most of his dead troops. He was quickly avenged by his teammate ATTO that sent his spears and dealt swiftly with Mirwen's cavalry.
When rest of altars opened, the battle started spicing up and being hectic without communication, multiple warriors going for the same altar at the same time, Shado sent spies to Altar of Maiden this time and found Ares from [LEG] residing there along his spears and decided to issue an eviction order himself and Ares had to succumb to the order and left the altar into Shado's and House Baratheon possession.
Points wise House Baratheon wasnt doing bad at all, juggling between 2nd and 3rd place, and now it was time for the most important building in Arena of Honor, City of Glory to open to the House's Attacks. House Baratheon's warriors put the altar's fighting away and started rallying the City of Glory, opening 3 rallies at once, unseen by Shado till now as his former team only did 1 rally on City of Glory at a time.
RagnarokZero, ATTO and GYEBACK rallied the City of Glory together and Ragnarok's cavalry were the first occupiers for now, but the team knew the other Houses won't just give up and let House Baratheon move their residence into City of Glory so rallies started from all sides.
RagnarokZero defended fiercely against waves after waves of rallies, House Baratheon kept sending reinforcement armies but the lack of communication hit the team quite hard as instead of sending cavalry, some of House Baratheon's warriors sent untrained spears and infantry that were no match for Problemka of [OBV] and the City of Glory swapped sides once more.
Meanwhile, while he kept joining rallies and reinforcing City of Glory, Shado noticed that other houses are going for House Baratheon's altars so he started the cleaning operation, scouting and attacking every lord that tried to take his House's altars. Some of the fights went well for him while some ended with him generating way too many white walkers for Night King's army. On one of those fights he met ARES from [LEG] again that was looking to take his revenge after the attack earlier.
Fights for the City of Glory kept going for the rest of the fight, without any House getting decisive wins, until House Targaryen managed to keep'it enough for the City to change to protection status and that concluded the fight for the City of Glory and this Arena of Honor fight.
House Baratheon ended up placing 3rd on the rankings which meant 10 well deserved glory points in their pockets. For the first battle alone and considering his pre-fight expectations Shado was quite pleasant with the result and happy that those 10 points helped him rank up in the glory rankings. Will he go alone in the next fight, or he'll be able to find himself a team to join? Guess we'll all find out on the next battle.