Draiss waved Niara off the rock portals, they were already retasked to prevent forces from outside the fortress from immediately reinforcing the interior ones, though at least a dozen demons had teleported out the second his portals had formed. He was focused on the forces streaming through the eighteen portals, slowly forming a 'living' fortress, even as more portals above opened, this time, though, massive metal plates were dropping through them, accelerating down into the ground, and embedding themselves, before they began to unfold, turning the soft and hastily formed firing pits into an actual fortress. Four walls twenty feet high, half a foot thick, with a rounded top and no gates, they were a literal fortress, and getting into one of them would be a nightmare for a conventional army. As the walls went up, the large sized gorilla looking constructs lumbered forward, the metal pylon on their back unfolding as each pair stepped through the portals, a total of thirty six of them, and took up station inside the middle of the fortresses. The pylon unfolded and split down the center, before tilting its front up and sliding back.<br/><br/>Energy began to slowly gather at the rear of the two metal rods, before it suddenly leapt forward, a small sized wad of unstable energy leaping from the top end of the contraption. The fortresses were set up five miles from the fortress, and as the three thousand medium constructs continued to pour into the eighteen strong points, the energy blobs reached their apex, and then began to descend, before slamming in front of the approaching enemy, a few of the shots getting lucky and obliterating a demon or three that had been too far in front, but those had been ranging shots. The next shots were the same, but the energy gathered faster as the power cores began to reach optimal temperatures, and the second shots landed just shy of their extreme range, in the first ranks of the approaching enemies. Now fully calibrated, and using the observer drones to determine where their shots were landing, they began to fire faster, enemy forces having finally gotten within two and a half miles, the extreme range of the short range mortar cannons on their backs. Most of the magic flung washed over the constructs on the walls, waiting for the advancing hoards to break before counter charging, but the snipers soon joined the Gorilla Siege units, the sharp cracks of their long range beam rifles always accompanied with the sight of a Balor, Marilith, or Vrock's head exploding, thinning out the most dangerous enemies first.<br/><br/>Draiss watched the approaching masses, even as the Heavy Units finally began to slowly stagger through the portals, and then using their jump jets to get into the indentations on the wall reserved for them, their ranged weapons resting on the walls, before the concussion energy cannons began discharging. Soon the Heavy Unit's Gatling energy cannons, and then the Line Warrior's energy beam rifles joined the symphony of death and destruction, explosions tearing apart entire formations of demons, gatling streams shredding demons like a shark through a school of tuna, rifles and snipers picking off the individuals that had the misfortune to survive and stagger closer.<br/><br/>Draiss watched the displays in front of him, before suddenly smiling and looking back at Nadriina. "You asked why I would put you as my main commander when you could only do academic combats? Look at the map on the center left screen, and tell me if that looks like a war?"<br/><br/>The screen in question showed waves of red hexagons, each with its label, the programs gamely keeping up even as the fortress' shredded the approaching groups, with eighteen large blue hexagons displaying the fortresses, with their own labels listing what was inside each. Two gorilla siege units, two heavy units, and nearly one hundred and twenty line warriors in each. That left him with fourteen heavy units or seven squads and eight hundred forty or one hundred five squads of line warriors in reserve, to commit to any fortress that was in danger of being overrun, and to assault the fortress once the enemy infantry had realized that trying to destroy the fortresses was certain death. He watched the anti teleport and anti exit portal fields carefully, but the sheer number of drones maintaining them made breaking it impossible for anything without a double digit divine ranking. That done, he turned back to the screen, and tried to spot the next problem before it managed to destroy a fortress. The last thing he needed was to have a fortress destroyed.