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  dell looks at the battle pn, and then looks around him. People are ying down a railway track behind him, while in front of him the various members of the military arms of Malencia prepare a patrol. A rge wooden lootive arrives at the end of the tracks, and from one of the metal ftcars Sofia drives off, having pleted her own mission at a different stop. The pn proposed... demanded by Esstrey was a demand for speed. They o quer Faerune faster than The Grand Army could, A difficult feat to aplish sidering Malencia isn't seen as a friendly force by the rest of Faerurey found human manpower in Mercer's domain, the st bit that could be easily acquired. For the rest, dell would be forced to rely on the [Mazurian Pgue] for most of his manpower, and the Mazurians are uling to him. Somehow, the Mazurians are a lot like their former selves, but their ability to deny being those former selves is impressive. Their loyalty is appreciated, but it's squarely aimed at their 'royals'. Unlike human royals, Mazurian royalty has a much greater focus on personal strength.

  At the front lines, Dimitri climbs up one of the siege dders. They would have had more siege equipment if they had more time, but much like the assault on Malencia and is pressed for time. It matters little that all he use to scale the walls is a measly dder with no cover from attackers, as he has fiden his allies. A man with an axe is at the other end of the dder, and he raises the axe to destroy what little siege equipment Malencia brought to the field. The man iion is interrupted as surveils to him, and soon enough the only noise he makes is the noise of a particurly rge animal eating aire of sardines. Once he's on the wall, he takes out his gun to start firing, leaving the rest of the wall to be covered by the surveileams. More and more of his men make it to the top, and their priority targets are anyone capable of defending against devastators, with a sedary priority for clearing out AA positions. He doesn't know the whole pn, but he doesn't o as his targets are expnation enough for what the pn is.

  Sure enough, the gate breaks down, and two pit-fiends esc a ndstrider emerge from the other side. The city of Bordenvale barely had an ao the devastators, especially now that there is more than one ndstrider. The breach proves to be too much for the undersupplied defenders, and they attempt to retreat. Their retreat is slowed as demons desd from above, fog on taking as many alive as possible. Mazurians rush through the breach behind the devastators, and in the panid more new rades to add to the Malen auxiliaries. The pgue spreads quickly, and a mia royal leads the offensive.

  dell looks from a distant hill in mild disgust at the dispy. It's on for armies to sack cities, and an army of monsters is sure to have their own take on sag, a bined army of man monster and demon is only certain to turn a sato a raze as not a sihing not bolted down will be left behind. If they had more time, then perhaps they could have properly takey. It wouldn't even be sacked as his own mehe most disciplined for existence right now, a result of w together so closely with beings who desperately ck it, but he couldn't even be given time to trairoops he got from Mercer to full strength. When dell brought up his pints to Esstrey, rather than ht dismissing him or telling him why it's needed, she simply gave him writing supplies and his own postal service. They both already know it's needed, and the only way this fate be avoided is if a city surrenders, something rather hard to aplish when being a known demon-colborator.

  heless, dell does his best to plead the case of Malencia for the he case of his own humanity with the people, and the case of his usefulness with his allies. More thay surrendered without a fight, with the occasional noble even accepting them with open arms. More than a few cases of starvation and rampagis destroying their nd, while the king's response was to ask for more troops to unify the nd. The cities that got visited earlier by The Grand Army felt left behind as the army moved on from them, while the ter cities felt betrayed as they weren't deemed important enough to save quickly. For many, the war with Malencia was the straw that broke the camel's back, could they really start a war with their fellow man during such a difficult time? The most heretical of rumoing around were of course that Malencia didn't need Faeruo survive or even thrive, and that it had found a lord more worthy of serving than the king. It didn't escape dell's notice that the strohe presence ion was in a city, the lower the ce of surrender, and the higher amount of dead would be found in areas where they never fought.

  Naturally, there were little 'miracles' here and there. Mainly ones pertaining to Republiism, stemming from Ri. Apparently Ri itself had been digging into heretical magic, as they had somehow acquired detailed knowledge of The Beyond and The Infernal Host. Their neers also cropped up more only in cities, something that happened i amounts after the merge. None of that was very strao dell, he already thought that Esstrey wasn't the type to put all her eggs in one basket. What did surprise him were two things, the Rin gover got a much better grasp on statesmanship, ideological cepts, and tactics around the same time, along with Malencia and Ri seemingly being allied without any official uniqué betweewo. As if helping each other was a natural clusion. He read some of those neers, and they treated Malencia as a fellow Republi struggle against their monarch, and the use of heretical magic as a teology forbidden by the old order.

  dell looks at the burning city of Borde used to be a major rival of Malencia, being one of the big cities closest to the capital, but today it would be a stepping stone and ung point. The prime position to attack their final goal.

  Whoever that might be.

  Prickly