“Gentlemen, I already told you. We are adventurers.”
“You dare disobey Viscount Syria’s guards?!” One guard approached Alex, lifting his right hand and striking it down on Alex’s shoulder to bring him to his knees, but to his shock, he slammed metal.
Bam!
His bones almost shattered, causing him to grunt deeply as his face turned crimson.
“You…!”
Shing!
Other guards unsheathed their swords, but the King Swordsmen blurred into action. Almost instantly, they closed the gap, swinging their twin swords with swiftness.
In the next moment, the sound of their swords sliding back into their sheaths as they made their way up the sentry tower dispersed through the cold, chilly wind.
The hem of their cloaks bounced against their boots as they climbed the staircase. Upon arrival at the second floor, a King Swordsman knocked twice.
Click! Creak!
The door was swung open, and before the guard could react to the strange armored men, the same King Swordsman grabbed his mouth, easily lifting him off the ground as he proceeded into the floor.
Others spread out, slaying the guards, those that were awake and those that were fast asleep.
At the third and last floor, another King Swordsman knocked, but the door wasn’t opened.
He frowned and looked at the others. Taking two steps forward, he pressed the side of his head against the door.
A gleam flashed through his eyes.
Taking the same two steps but backwards this time, he slammed his foot against the door. The door collapsed, and the guards behind also fell to the ground.
As they struggled to their feet, they saw tall armored men whose armor made clanking sounds march into the room slightly covered in black cloaks.
They couldn’t even see the faces of the armored men, causing their apprehensive feelings to spike.
Each of them wielded two swords, and the fiery aura billowing out of them was so oppressive that some couldn’t get back up.
Some guards ran past the ones that had fallen, but the armored men in black cloaks cut them down almost instantly.
At that moment, a heavily armored man about 7.2 feet tall walked into the room with his sword drawn.
His eyes locked on the King Swordsmen, and he charged towards them with a yell.
Bam!
He slammed a King Swordsman with his shoulder, causing the Swordsman to stagger.
The swordsman lifted up his head and saw a sword heading for him. He lifted up his own, causing sparks to fly.
Taking one step back, he grunted and dashed toward the huge knight. The huge knight deflected his sword slash with his vambrace and launched a swift punch that sent the King Swordsman to the ground.
“Die!”
He plunged his sword down. It pierced through the floor as the King Swordsman rolled out.
Panting, the King Swordsman got to his feet, his teeth clenched tightly.
The huge knight dashed toward him, but someone held his cloak, causing the huge knight to turn back.
He found Alex holding the cloak with one hand.
In anger, the huge knight swung his sword toward Alex, but to his shock, Alex gathered force in his fist and punched the sword.
The thick gold-ranked sword broke into two!
The eyes of the huge knight widened.
Puchi!
A sword pierced through the knight from behind. Although he was a diamond-ranked knight, his equipment was of the gold rank.
So he was still vulnerable to the King Swordsman, who was behind him!
“You… dare… attack Viscount Syria’s—!”
Thud!
The knight fell on his knees, grunting deeply before collapsing.
Shing!
The King Swordsman sheathed his sword and bowed before Alex.
“You, return to His Lordship and inform him that the sentry is ours.”
The swordsman nodded.
………
On the walls of Greenrock, several soldiers clad in dark green scale armor walked about, some of them holding torches.
The fog was still thick, so they couldn’t even see each other clearly.
Few sat on the floor, chatting, while some snored. Some of them had not faced an attack since they became soldiers, so they deemed it natural that no one was ever going to attack them.
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They had no information that Count William had started a war with another house in the wastelands.
Out of the blue, the clanking of metals fell into their eardrums, causing the alert ones to look beyond the wall.
Yet all they could see was the dense white fog.
A captain frowned as he felt he heard the sound of arrows being let loose.
Shortly after he had that feeling, hundreds of arrows fell from the sky, piercing his men and the ground. Some tried to run and ran into an arrow.
“We’re under attack!”
The captain bellowed. As a gold-ranked knight, he wasn’t hurt because he could easily deflect the arrows.
“Go grab your shields!”
While the captain gave orders, he noticed some soldiers stared at the horizon with pale faces and were taking several steps backward.
Curious and slightly apprehensive, he turned. What he saw made his pupils tremble.
It was ten large balls of fire seemingly hovering in midair. Because of the fog he couldn’t see the trebuchets.
“Mages!”
The captain gasped, completely horrified.
Unfortunately, this was a bigger fear. The moment the soldiers in charge of the trebuchet let the ropes go, the brimstones were hurtled toward the wall.
Boom!
One slammed the wall and exploded. Although the wall didn’t shatter, it cracked, and the shockwaves threw soldiers off the wall.
Just after the first one came the second, the third, the fourth, and the fifth. After the twentieth shot, a section of the wall about 20 yards long in between two towers crumbled.
This was a wall that had stood for decades!
The earth shook as the wall fell, destroying some military structures behind it.
“Onwards!”
Alec bellowed.
Boom! Boom!
Thousands upon thousands of Desolate Wolves marched toward the gate. Their tower shields were slightly raised off the ground, and the tips of their spears were pointed at the sky.
The sound of their feet tapping the ground went far.
“Adjust the range. Attack the second wall.”
Greenrock had two walls, supporting each other. Now the first wall had fallen, and soldiers had gathered at the second wall.
Hundreds of them were on the wall while thousands gathered under the wall.
About 3000 Syrian infantrymen clad in dark green scale armor, a small shield, and long swords could be seen behind the wall, ready to go on the offensive.
Tall men wearing black chained masks and black leather armor came along with huge dogs. These dogs could reach the chest of an adult man.
They were about 1.6 meters tall!
All of them had their mouths bound by chains, but the men began to remove the chains, causing drool to spill from the mouths of the ruthless dogs.
These dogs were called Saber-Toothed Giant Canines. Known for their incredible strength, tracking excellency, aggressiveness, and huge size, they were the best for a beast troop.
About three hundred Saber-Toothed Giant Canines were unchained.
Their barks and growls reached the ears of the Desolate Wolves, but the heavy infantryman marched on without a flicker in their eyes.