Against the World II: Transgression
Chapter 29: x + y ≠ z, part 3
“They are already aware of our arrival,” said Hekiel saw dozens of archers taking place above the walls of the city—ia and the walls were nearly two hundred meters away. “Did they not consider us enemies, or, could they not focus their attention on us? If it was a second possibility, what would it mean that the Knights Templar had already attacked from the northern side of the city?”
Hekiel did not throw the question at the seven captains who led the seven battalions which if all his soldiers combined numbered 25 thousands. He asked himself. Hekiel was such an individual. Asking yourself makes the mind pause sharper and more focused. Hekiel will be more able to think clearly, which then makes him calmer in making decisions.
“Giraal!” call Hekiel while raising one of his hands beckoning a stop to the troops.
The soldiers stopped, and Giraal rushed over. Giraal was one of seven captains to command one of the seven battalions Hekiel had brought. Of the seven captains, only Giraal had teleportation magic.
“Go there. Convey our arrival intent and get the information we need.”
Giraal answered swiftly, instantly using teleportation to arrive above the city wall.
Hekiel then allowed his soldiers to sit down. He also sat down to rest while waiting for Giraal to return. From where he sat he certainly could not hear their interactions, but their actions were faintly visible. Hekiel looked at him with slightly narrowed eyes.
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Alfonso stood with both arms folded in his chest, eyes looking intensely at the efforts of his soldiers in breaking through the city's defenses.
Fifteen minutes had passed since the city's protective warrior unleashed the first arrow, but the city was still impenetrable. The city walls were quite loud; so far they could only crack the outside. Meanwhile, the escorts in front of the gate were extremely tight. Spells are fired at anyone who tries to get close. There was no respite; coralina's soldiers were earnest in protecting the gate.
Their archer teams were not bad either, but their numbers continued to decrease as time passed. Within a minute there were dozens of them dead. On the contrary, not a single Knight Templar warrior had died. The earth magic users did their job well; the soldiers who tried to destroy the city walls could carry out their duties safely due to their protection.
With the number of 80 thousand, the city would be conquered quickly if Alfonso ordered them to exert everything. However, Alfonso wanted to put psychological pressure on the townspeople. He did not want to subdue quickly, but more like a snake that made sure the victim died before being swallowed. They had dared to lie to Emiliel the Holy Kingdom; his treatment was well deserved.
“I want to see, how long can they last before crumbling and giving up with humiliation?”
...* * *...
Mortana's getting riled up. He saw the archer soldiers falling one by one quickly. He did not know if any enemy troops had been killed, but he understood the situation would worsen if it continued. Their attacks did not weaken because other soldiers immediately filled the place of the fallen soldiers. However, their number is limited. And soon….
“Your Majesty! They are Imperial Army as you anticipated!” Foratta. “Favilifna Kingdom gives them information about the Knights Templar camp. They came to offer help. They can't just let the Knights Templar go. One of their captains is waiting for His Majesty's permission to enter the capital.”
“The gods don't lie!” shriek Mortan with an unusually relieved expression. “Wait another? Give them permission! Their presence is the same as the gods promised. They will help us ensure this capital remains standing.”
Foratta delivered Mortana's word to the soldier who shouted from below. The soldier immediately ran quickly to the south side of the city.
“We can. We can definitely! The liars and scorners of the gods we must have destroyed with the help of the Imperial Army, with the guidance of the god!”
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Hekiel smiled broadly at Giraal's report.
The reports were not detailed, but most importantly Mortana accepted their arrival with open arms. Hekiel thus had a brilliant idea to overcome the difference in numbers between the Imperial Army and the Knights Templar. Carolina will be their solid stronghold to annihilate the Knights Templar forces little by little. Then, when Division 4 and Division 7 arrived, they could start countering the attacks.
“I will go there first,” said Hekiel as he stood up. “I expect you all to be there in ten minutes.”
Without waiting for the response of a single soldier, Hekiel shot out at full speed. A pillar of earth sticking out from where his feet rested. The pillar continued to shoot horizontally towards the city. The pillar of the ground was moving very quickly. In less than a minute, Hekiel had already thrown his body into the sky of Carolina City.
Boulders were created one after another in the air. Hekiel made it a foothold to make it reach the northern city walls quickly. Hekiel landed right on top of the pillar of land that had been sticking out to the top of fifty meters—the pillar was ten meters away from the tightly guarded gate.
Without wasting much time, the two palms of Hekiel fused together with a loud clapping sound. A moment later, the earth wall burst out right in front of the outer wall. The wall continued to grow and expand, condensing all of the Knights Templar soldiers who were in the vanguard.
Hekiel ignored the shock of the soldiers of Ekralina Kingdom. Nor did he care about the cries of the Knights Templar. He needs a strong wall as the main foundation of his strategy. Mana in high quantity just left the body of the Commander of the 6th Division of the Imperial Army. A dozen seconds after that, the earth wall continued to extend, widen and rise exponentially.
Almost a minute later, the wall was already the same length as the north wall of the city.
Its height exceeded the pillar on which Hekiel stood— about 15 meters higher. What is amazing is the thickness of the wall. Hekiel's artificial earth walls were four times thicker than the city walls. And, it doesn't stop there. Along with the pounding of his feet, the wall was made Hekiel to walk away from the city wall up to twenty meters.
“It's quite drain mana, but I'm still not finished.”
Hekiel instantly jumped from the top of the pillar and landed right above the city gate. The super long, tall and thick earth wall he slowly transformed into adamantite. Then, to perfect the city's defenses, Hekiel made the ground between the city wall and the adamantite wall push down. Two minutes later, a moat twenty meters wide and a hundred meters deep had already been created along the northern wall of the city.
Only the part of the land in front of the city gate that was not pushed down. The part of the land seems to be a bridge that connects the adamantite wall and the city wall, as well as a separation between the right and left trenches. The four-meter wide area was deliberately made as access for soldiers to pass.
“And the last...”.
A hole three meters wide and ten meters high was created right in the middle of the adamantite wall, its position perpendicular to the city gate. The four-meter wide road flanked by a hundred-meter deep trench became the link between the two.