It was a godsend to Boyce that the armies of the alignment had reached the Joenine Forest. The commotion had drawn curious eyes from those religious citizens of Gothal. Lilith had a perfect view of the assembling army and she finally caught sight of who she knew to be her beloved husband, with Zoro still by his side. Boyce landed and arranged for a short aerial battle to divert the monastic force's attention from the army that would charge into the city by surprise. There was only some dozen eagles for this stage of the attack. The scores of eagles that were to fight were scheduled as the second wave that were to arrive tomorrow, but at least the cavalry was only an hour away. Boyce hoped that Halls wouldn't know what hit them even considering the strange forewarning that they had for the invasion. While Boyce was quickly taking charge of the operations from the Joenine Forest, Lloyd had flown across the open ocean to find the Bestenese navy. Before long he found them. The fleet was amassing several kilometres to the south east of the Phoridene cost. He landed on the flag ship and let the fleet commander know that they could make their way to Phoride, for a landing and their attack. He soon made his way back to Pomperaque. By this time, one of the high cardinals suggested to the ArchBishop that Lloyd had not flown out to sea for no reason and that there was probably an armada out there, somewhere. With this suggestion, Orren was ordered t secure the coastline and he had one man placed every twenty meters on the southern shore. If any kind of attack was to come from the sea, these soldiers would sink the modes of transportation, while still in the deep, annihilating the enemy. Boyce was flying back towards the city as the sun began to make its way towards the far horizon. Lloyd flew back to Halls and fought, from the air, with a few of the monastic guards that were there, keeping the ArchBishop safe. Manguino was watching the entire show but he felt no real emotion for either side. Cardinal Orren had come back to Halls after the two men flew off. He watched the battle with Manguino and he was frustrated and furious. "Look at those stupid fools!" he said to Manguino about his own guards. "They don't know what to do but die like rats in a burning pit." "I do not worry. We will be victorious here, as always!" said Manguino, actually believing it. "I will give each of my men some of my godly power and I will fight through them!" "You do that -- but meanwhile I have to find some way to destroy their birds. Now their cavalry has come in. We have to regroup without their aerial observation of it." huffed the cardinal. "Why don't we just shoot the birds? That shouldn't be too difficult!" Manguino suggested. "Our weapons don't have the range to shoot the birds that high up!" He sat down for a moment and removed his great helmet and ran his fingers though his sweaty hair.