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  On one side of the wall stood the foralencia. A total hly 10,000 liquidators, a mass produ of guns, providing enough ons for one every man woman and kobold in the forot all the guns were produced locally, a signifit amount urchased from Ri thanks to Cathy's spatial magic. It's not something that be relied upon, especially not for transp beings not familiar with traversing space, but the niche and Cathy's expertise proved to be plenty in this category. In addition to the liquidators are 1,000 from surveilnce, 200 destroyers, and 3,000 auxiliaries. The walls are too thin to station many liquidators or even some of the destroyers, as such Malen military and decided on a pn that factors in losing the walls. Not that the walls will just be hao the enemy on a silver ptter, they will have to pay for it in blood.

  Opposing Malencia is The Grand Army of Faerune, a shadow of its former self after the dimensional merge and the disappearance of the gods. 50,urs equipped with high-quality pte armor, and the experience of retaking Faeruo back it up. In addition to the regurs are also the bined churches holy mission, an alliance ions with the goal to find their gods again, 1,000 padins with enough magical support troops to get a healer to everyone on the front in time. The source of their magic may have disappeared, but magic itself doesn't disappear so easily. Given a few geions, padins will be no more, so they would have to act fast to find their gods again. Along with all these forces is the Adventurer's Guild of Faerune, a force of 3,000 locals bolstered with an additional 4,000 from different worlds seeking fortune and glory. They vary wildly in individual strength, ranging from a cut above a regur to a cut above a padily this army was joined by a flock of greater drakes headed by a red dragon called Asher, they number less than 100.

  The cold wind blows, while coughing men and rattling gear are the only hat es from the walls. A messenger returns to the city on horseback, carrying a bck fg on his horse. A signal that iations have broken down, and now the only course of a is violence. Before the messenger eves ihe city, balls of fire are unched from the lines of the attackers in an arc. Trebuchets that were rapidly set up, i on delivering their payload. The balls of fire break on a massive dome-like barrier c the city, the men on the walls he falling debris sweat in their suits, but that is the only issue as the debris is dumped outside the walls by the smooth barriers. The captain on the walls raises his arm signaling the men to get ready, they adjust the range on their muskets to pensate for the massive distaween the armies. On full capacity, there are few things with a longer rahan a musket, but the long recharge time could have proved to be a problem had the army decided on a rapid advanstead.

  "Ready!... Aim!... Fire!"

  *B L I I N G*

  A line of smoke erupts from the walls, and the smoothbore barrels do find purchase despite operating far out of effective range. Just because a gun shouldn't reach a certain range, doesn't mean it 't. Some people oacker side fall over dead or wouhe attackers themselves already have their resolve shaken. They saw in very simple terms just now how their own attack at this range was iive, while the attack of the defenders did plenty.

  Officers of The Grand Army s the cowardice of their troops, they might not have had it easy with the monsters invading their precious world, but now that they faething pletely familiar they are shaken. Fortunately for the troops, field officers don't dictate battle strategy. A and es from the rear, and neons are brought to the front. Ornate ounted on wheels, escorted by groups of mages. A rger design than the Rin musket, a harrowing symbol of wars to e.

  The ons are loaded with orichalium ammo, powered by mages. Such a force could take out the walls given some time, time high-and isn't willing to afford. Along with the usual stuff given to these neons, each of them is also being powered by holy artifacts given by the church. To say they would be using their beliefs as ammo today wouldn't be inaccurate, but all worth it to get rid of the Malen sce before it grows too powerful to remove.

  *BOOM*

  A premature fire bsts aire manned se of the wall away, the troops on it buried beh the rubble. Horrors stationed nearby quickly move into the shadows of the rubble to extract survivors. Before the other ons get properly ready, the bulk of troops are evacuated from the walls to prevent more catastrophic failures. A token force is left behind to take shots at the attackers to keep them ooes, and said shots are now primarily aimed at the well protected on crews. Over the hour, the two sides py whack-a-mole with each other, trying to inflict as many casualties on the opposing side as possible while not overreag themselves.

  A horn resounds over the battlefield during a lull in the firing, and the attackers begin to move. Camps that were set up are quickly torn doeople that sought fame and glory quickly cmp down on their rations as they fall in lockstep with the rest of the army. On the defending side a green fre is unched, it detonates a total of three times befoing silent, signaling the troops to assume the position of 'green three' as it is so uninspiringly named. Soldiers rush to their posts to receive the enemy in their formations, most are to head deeper into the city where the urban enviro will naturally disperse the enemy. Signifit holdouts barricade themselves in some of the sturdier towers, with tunnels leading to the inner city to guarantee an escape pn.

  In the skies, fliers on both sides hiss at their oppos, not daring to leave friendly territory to fight for dominance over the skies. The demons of the sky look dull and savage, but are led by high-ranking demons that have greater ing than all humanoids. The dragons are more ing than the lower ranking demons, but the true terror of the skies is Asher himself. His gravitas keeps the greater drakes to the pn, and within the safe range of their own ground support. As ground troops finally begin reag the wall breaches, the first skirmishes start. Iweeag force is a group of heroes, one of the few that know the true identity of the [Nightmare], but for reasons only known to themselves did not disclose it with others.

  Asahi gestures his rades to follow, the drakes joining their punitive force was a fortunate event, and his ces of f Esstrey to reveal the location of the gods has increased drastically. Ohe location of the gods is revealed, they start rest the world.

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