"The Warband of Iron Fury" [Part 2] Tengu Origins - An Infinity Kingdom Story

🔷 Introduction

Welcome to part 2 of my new Tengu series.  This will be inspired by the new release of Tengu in our game and incorporating his legend within the realm of Norheim.

His story will be roughly based on his historical legend with a twist from within the game we know and love.

I will be bringing 1 or 2 new episodes per week so stay tuned for more!

🔷 Recap Part 1:  “Origin Story”

Raizen climbed the sacred mountain seeking silence, but instead faced a trial where the wind and shadows tested his balance rather than his strength.

By choosing to stand with the storm instead of fighting it, he transformed into the Great Tengu, a shieldman who turns aggression into protection and healing.

🔷 Part 2:  “The Warband of Iron Fury”

Word of the crimson guardian spread faster than the mountain winds.

Some called him protector. Others called him demon. To General Kurogane of the Iron Fury, he was a challenge.

Kurogane believed in one law. Strength belongs to the one who strikes hardest and first. His armor was layered iron. His banner bore the mark of a clenched fist. Villages fell before him not because he was clever, but because he never stopped advancing.

When rumor reached him of a winged shieldman who guarded Kurai no Mine, he laughed.

“If he stands still,” Kurogane said, “he will break.”

The Iron Fury climbed at dawn.

Steel boots crushed frost along the mountain path. Shields locked. Spears angled forward. Drums thundered between the trees. The forest that once tested Raizen now stood silent, as if waiting to see what its guardian would choose.

At the stone torii near the summit, the Great Tengu stood alone.

His wooden wings were folded. His sword remained sheathed. His staff rested lightly against the ground. Wind circled him in slow spirals, tugging at his robes but never disturbing his stance.

Kurogane raised his blade.

“Forward.”

The first wave charged.

Spears lunged toward Tengu’s chest. He shifted only enough to align his guard. Wood and steel rang together. The impact echoed across the cliffs. Yet he did not step back.

A second line crashed into him. Shields slammed into his armor. Blades hacked downward in heavy arcs. The force of their assault traveled through his frame and into the mountain stone beneath his feet.

Tengu exhaled.

When the next spear thrust came, he turned it aside with precise economy. The weapon glanced off his guard and drove into the soldier behind it. When a sword overextended, Tengu’s blade flashed free in a single controlled arc. The attacker fell to his own momentum.

He did not chase.

He did not advance.

He allowed their fury to crest and collapse.

The Iron Fury pressed harder. Kurogane roared commands, demanding relentless assault. Arrows darkened the air. Axes fell like rain. Each impact struck Tengu’s defense and rebounded with multiplied force. The wind around him thickened, feeding on the violence directed at him.

Wounded soldiers staggered back, confused by the sudden reversal of their own strength.

The more they attacked, the more the storm gathered.

Kurogane himself charged at last, great blade raised high. He poured every ounce of strength into a single descending strike meant to cleave shield and spirit alike.

Tengu lifted his sword in answer.

Steel met steel.

For a heartbeat the mountain held its breath.

Then the force of Kurogane’s own blow rippled back through his arms. The wind exploded outward from Tengu’s stance in a controlled burst. Kurogane was thrown to his knees, his blade split, his armor fractured by the echo of his own fury.

Silence followed.

Tengu stepped forward only once.

He placed the tip of his sword against the shattered iron at Kurogane’s chest.

“You are defeated by your own force,” he said calmly. “The mountain does not need to strike first.”

Around them, the wind softened. Those who still stood felt its touch close shallow wounds and clear the haze of battle from their minds. The rage that had driven them uphill drained away like fog under sunlight.

Kurogane lowered his head.

The Iron Fury withdrew before dusk.

And upon Kurai no Mine, the Great Tengu remained unmoved, a shield against aggression, proof that the fiercest power is not in the first blow, but in the one that returns.

📄 Recap Questions

How did the Great Tengu use the Iron Fury’s relentless aggression against them without ever striking first?

What lesson did General Kurogane learn when his strongest attack was turned back upon him?

🔷 Conclusion

The battle on Kurai no Mine proved that unrestrained force collapses under its own weight when met with disciplined balance. The Great Tengu stands not as the loudest warrior in the realm, but as the unshakable shield that turns fury into defeat.

See you next week!

🔷 Hades, Press Officer.

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