ARCHDEUS

YOUR HELP(2)

The morning had dawned, indicating that a new day had arrived. A beautiful morning in which the chirping of birds and the flapping of butterfly wings color the green hue of the earth.

The morning activity was started by farmers working in the fields with enthusiasm, students running cheerfully to school, priests who started their day with wise prayer, and traders

who started opening their stalls. That should be, it all starts with enthusiasm and passion.

But that day did not happen.

More precisely it will not happen.

Houses have been vacant, schools have been closed, and temples deserted without anyone present.

Where is everybody?

*NO NO NO NO ....

The sound of pounding feet scares birds and shakes the earth.

Hundreds, not-maybe thousands of people were lined up and walking neatly.

They wear equipment in the form of swords, armor, spear, to bow. The occasional sound of horse-rattling was heard among the large group.

What the hell's going on?

Why are so many soldiers moving in unidirectional direction?

Lenastronople, County of Otilia

"All ready! Close the gate, check all the preparations!"

The figure of the man who was seen as the leader of the soldiers shouted from above the fortress wall.

"Check all the magic cannons!"

The man shouted back to his subordinates.

The guards of the city fortress were seen running around while carrying various supplies.

The archers checked all their bows and arrows, the swordmen checked the swords, and the magicians checked all the magic equipment over and over again.

"Captain!"

A soldier from the watchtower shouted in panic.

The captain saw the soldier pointing his hand forward with nervousness.

The captain looked in the designated direction while narrowing his eyes.

At first, he saw nothing but trees. Coupled with the sound of footsteps from his running subordinates interrupting his concentration.

"Shut up!"

The soldiers fell silent when they heard the screams of their captain.

They wait and keep waiting.

*DUG ... DAG ... DUG ... DAG ....

"Ughhh!"

From a distance the sound of war drums sounded earthy.

*KHEEEKK!

Before long, hundreds of horsemen were displaying their form from the horizon of everyone's vision in the fortress. The horsemen carried the flag of their order and domain.

"Marquess' army ...."

The regional flag of the March of Canadia fluttered and surrounded the Fortress of Lenastronople City. In addition, a flag with a black background and an emblem identical to the flag of the County of Otilia fluttered next to the flag of the March of Canadia.

"The supporters of Mr. Peter!" muttered the soldiers Lenastronople.

***

Peter Le'Guy Otilia watched from afar the sturdy walls of Lenastronople which were currently their target. On top of the fort, fluttered dozens of regional flags from the County of Otilia that had a white background

with the same emblem as the flag.

Peter smiled viciously at the thought that part of his family's territory would be invaded by himself. He should have guessed this from the start, from the very beginning he would never have gained all the power as the ruler of the county.

Then better take it all!

Peter returned to his army. He stared proudly at his total army of almost 10,000 men, plus the troops given by the Marquess of Canadia numbered 2,700 people

they all numbered 12,700.

Unfortunately, not all are trained soldiers. About 60 to 70% are partisans mostly drawn from peasant, slave, fisherman, and mercenaries backgrounds.

So in actual fact, trained soldiers numbered only 3,800 to 5,000 people. Only 10% of them are soldiers who have a role that means able to use mana or aura.

The rest were only regular warriors with normal human combat abilities.

But he has nothing to fear. With war technology like magic cannon sponsored by the triple-marquess coalition, they turned out to have more quantity.

The city was guarded by only 2,000 to 3,000 regular soldiers. As for the troops that have roles there are likely no more than 200 people.

"Sir, the Marquess asked to meet to discuss the assault strategy."

A thin man who became one of Peter's strongest subordinates gave his report. Peter nodded and immediately went to where the commanders were for

devising methods of execution of attacks.

***

While the enemy side was making preparations, in Lenastronople a war veteran who was back on active duty and became the supreme leader of the entire army in the city fortress made a brief encounter.

"So there's over 10,000 people?"

Lambert, the leader of all the forces at once as the strongest had received a brief report from the supervisor at the tower.

"Sir, what should we do? They're at least twice as many as us!"

One of the assistant leaders who was under Lambert's command asked frantically. He is one of the oldest and is a role knight. But at the moment he was very desperate after

knowing that the enemy alliance has an edge in quantity and quality.

"Sir, we better evacuate the citizens and run away quietly while they're still getting ready."

"Are you stupid?! The enemy must have had a spy unit watching the entire corner of the gate! There's no way we can escape with this many people."

"But how should we? They had already managed to take control of three fortresses!"

The debate between military elites. This makes the decision to be taken slow.

"Sir, we have to keep the city. At least until the troops from the county capital come."

The voice was again strongly debated.

"That's too hard. We don't have enough numbers to keep defending the city. Besides, we have too little food. Shit, we're just entering spring. How can we collect food?!"

Eventually Lambert could no longer hear all the quarrels that occurred. He stood up and looked at everyone present.

The military higher-ups fell silent and gulped. None of them dared to oppose this old man.

"Hah .. enough, even if you keep fighting, the enemy is in sight. We can no longer escape. We can only fight, even if it may be the wrong choice but we better make something."

Lambert walked towards the window. He saw a group of soldiers made up of young men who had just been pubescent. Different from regular soldiers, these soldiers only wore low quality weapons

carrying hoe. They were only partisans with a peasant background. They had no previous military experience.

They only had 2,500 regular troops and 4,300 partisans. So if totaled, they have 6,800 soldiers. But the number of opponents was twice as many as them.

Lambert did not say anything his eyes had enough to express all his thoughts.

May the gods accept our death.

*BOOM!

*BOOM!

*BOOM!

The first three attacks from the attackers have been issued.

All the magic cannons were pushed until the radar of his attack hit the walls of the fortress.

*BOOM!

*BOOM!

"Revelation!"

The walls of the fort were rained down with fireballs. Debris from the walls of the fort hit by the attack flew.

"Magic Cannon, fire!"

*BOOM!

The counterattack from the fortress glided.

Soldiers Peter and the marquess were in the western part of the fort. In the west there are only 10 magic cannons placed above

the towers. While the enemy has at least 50 cannons.

In addition, the magic cannon owned by the enemy has better quality than the troops of Lenastronople. It was seen from the range of the attack and the quality of the attack.

Attacks from enemy magic cannons can shoot magic up to level 4. While Lenastronople's magic cannon can only cast level 3 magic. But it is not without weakness. Although the magic cannon belongs to the opponent is much stronger but the consequences of

the level of magic that can be ejected, it takes mana in more quantities

large.

To operate one magic cannon it takes at least 2 people. As for the magic cast by the magic cannon are Magic level 3: [Fireball], [Lightning], [Windburst], [Shooting Ice] and [Wallbreaker]. Level 4: [Explosion], [Falling Storm],[Wind Chain] [Frozenburst], and [Earthshocker].

Under the multi-pointed attack of the opponent's magic cannon, a fortress magic cannon raised its muzzle at maximum distance, directing the attack on an opponent's magic cannon that was slightly too advanced from the others.

"Foot!"

*BOOM!

Using [Fireball], the attack managed to destroy an opponent's magic cannon.

"Damn, the artillery forces take it further!"

The artillery leader ordered to retreat a few meters. As a result the storm of magic cannon fire stopped.

It is used by the fortress army to re-charge and repair the ammunition magic cannon. They ran to the top of the fortress while carrying equipment and magic stones.

"Damn, retreat! Back off!"

Unfortunately they are late. A much larger army of enemy archers also descended to replace the artillery role.

"Foot!"

The enemy forces opened fire simultaneously. Not all archers have class marksman. Most are just beginner archers so many shots do not have the maximum distance. However ...

"Aragh!"

"Aragh!"

"Mund-ugh!"

Many of the fortress troops were hit by enemy attacks. Chaos ensued. There is no chance to fight back.

However, not a few enemy archers were killed by the fortress magic cannon fire.

Archer's strike range is shorter than artillery. So this causes archers to be easy targets.

Slowly the opponent archers retreated. In the meantime, all the artillery had been in their respective positions and returned fire.

"Revelation! It's [Earthshocker]!"

A tower was hit by a shot from a level 4 spell. The tower suffered a severe earthquake. A crack occurred but it did not cause the tower to disintegrate.

But the attacks continued for at least four hours until finally ....

The gate has collapsed!

The rain of gunfire stopped.

However, it was a bad omen for Lambert and his soldiers.

The fortress had broken down and from the destruction of the gate, Lambert could see the change in position of the enemy soldiers.

"Spear forward!"

Lambert shouted with all his might.

The soldiers who had spears and shields immediately made a defensive line. Unfortunately only about 50 soldiers with lancer class. As a result, knights must use spears as their second weapon.

*KHHEEKK!

The Cavalry troops carrying long spears had arranged a triangle-like formation leading to the fortress. The cavalry moved quickly. The shouting of horses and their loud footsteps replaced the soundtrack of the war which was originally an explosion from the artillery forces.

The cavalry and the spear collided. Spear by spear clashed against each other. Shield after shield parried each other and the death cries between the two camps continued to echo.