Two hours ago, when the sun was in the middle of the sky glistening brightly, soldiers who were on the first defence line walked to and fro and patrolled the area with bored expressions.
This place had always been boring for them. With no one in sight, they just converse among themselves.
Most of them were drowsy, due to the boring surroundings. In a place like this, there was no need to hold their drowsiness, so most of the senior officials were already having sweet dreams after leaving the younger ones to guard the post.
"Hush!" Taking a deep breath a soldier spoke.
"The weather is quite pleasant today. It would be nice to go for a picnic or a party. Have some good food and laze around but all we have to do is waste time here on this barren land."
"Hey, don't say that. If the superior listened to it we would be punished."The soldier beside him interrupted him and asked him to keep his voice.
The soldier who was patrolling around suddenly noticed something was missing and his eyes widened.
Although he couldn't see anything, he felt a light vibration. He kneeled and put his ear on the ground and heard a faint sound.
"A group is coming, I have to report it quickly."
Notifying everyone beside him, he looked for his senior officer in the fort, who was drooling with his head on the table.
"Senior, get up. We are in trouble."
'...just how much time had passed?'He cracked his shoulders and tried to get up in his half-sleep state.
At the time, the window shined brightly.
He saw a huge fiery bright light and spoke" Did you wake me up to see the fireworks? It had been a while since I saw something like this."
"Sir, that's not a firework, it is an attack from the flare."The soldier beside him screamed in panic.
"What!" The man suddenly screamed and his heart drowned in fear as the bright light appeared before them in an instant and hit the walls.
BOOM!
The entire place shook violently.
When he woke up forcefully, he thought of punishing the man but looking at the scene outside the fortress, he was utterly speechless.
Far away he could see thousands of people lining up and attacking the place.
Behind them, flares were already lit up aiming to take down the walls.
He stared at them and with a single glance, he recognised the forces with the flag of Arkham Empire.
He was dumbfounded for a moment and shouted"Call the commander, contact the general."
"Ask troops to send the message to the other defence lines."
"Yes Sir!" The soldier shouted and immediately ran away along with others to relay the orders.
Even though the enemy had crossed the borders and come closer to the radius of a kilometre, their presence went unnoticed.
The commander who was greatly displeased by the sudden change came out hurriedly trying to organise the troops.
"What the hell are the scouts doing?"He screamed.
If not for the current situation, he would kill them first."
Viscount Lukin, the commander of the first defence confirmed the things happening before his eyes with a pale face.
The enemy took advantage of their lax duties and sneaked in after the scout's return after which there was no shift.
Moreover, they seemed to be a wide area of invisible mask cloak spells.
He took the mana signalling stone and tried to relay the information to the centre but it made a buzzing sound and didn't connect.
He tried again and again but the communication fell and his heart started to sink in despair.
"Damn!" He cursed and threw the stone.
The huge armies were drawing near was menacing and according to the rule, they should act immediately and attack them first and prevent the wall from falling.
But if he attacked now, it would begin the war due to his order. And what if the Arkham Empire justified this as an army drill and accused them of starting the war?
He wanted to ask directions from the capital and do what they said. After all, he can't bear the sin if this wasn't an attack.
"Commander Lukin, we need to attack. They are coming closer. If we hesitate now, they will soon breach us easily."
Lukin gritted his teeth in anger and said"Deploy the archers and prepare to attack. Just pull the bows but don't engage."
"I am repeating. Don't engage."He shouted
"Give them a warning first."
"We retaliate if they attack first."
A loud warning was heard from the place which asked the enemies to disengage but soon he realized that he had made a stupid mistake.
The enemies had no intention of talking as the distance to the fortress became closer, they rang the trumpet and the commander of the opposite side ordered them to charge at the enemies in unison.
THUD!THUD!THUD!
The earth started to shake due to large strides and soon the war blew out.
It was a full-scale attack.
It all happened in an instant and the soldiers from the Arkham Empire all rushed through with the siege weapons which astounded Kinley's soldiers greatly.
They were too shocked to react as they had never imagined a scene like this.
Lukin quickly came to his senses and ordered the attack without any mercy.
"Everyone fires the arrows."
"Fire our flares."
"Mage, take your position."
"Don't hold back anything. Wipe out the invaders."
Hundreds of arrows and projectiles rose in the air and fell over the flock of enemies.
Even though there was a menacing sight threatening their lives, they didn't fall back and raised their shield in formation trying to counter the attack.
Most of the arrows couldn't even reach them and fell before, while those who managed to reach the other side didn't contain much momentum to deal the damage.
This wasn't just a lack of training but also due to carelessness in situation awareness. Just seeing such a sight causes many to tremble.
How could an archer aim properly, with trembling hands?
While their flares were still charging, the flares from the other sides started the bombardment.
The fire spread all around, dust started to rise high up into the sky and the situation was a mess.
The weapons and armaments were not prepared in advance and soon soldiers ran out of arrows and hurried back to get them.
Mages were exhausted quickly and soon ladders were placed on the walls and the enemies started to climb up.
Lukin's face turned pale seeing the sight. He knew that if this went on, they won't last long.
He decides to send the messenger to ask for the reserve unit and inform the others while hoping for his men to be able to last long enough.
The enemies have jammed their mana signal which increased their difficulty.
If they hadn't done this, they would already have reinforcements by now.
Kinley's soldiers went out and clashed against the enemies but with a single glance, one could notice that they were at a disadvantage.
Lukin, knew that it was a reality and they were on losing ends and because of their carelessness and incompetence, many would lose their lives.
And it didn't even take two hours for Arkham to break through the gates and conquer the first defence line.
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