Soldier, I want you to bring as many powder barrels as you can" iris commanded one of her men "why?" asked ratley
"look, the Cyclops are quite far from each other if we drop the wall on the first one, that will give us about 20 minutes to escape"
"you give up" ratley seemed disappointed
"Idiot, I know the difference between a battle and a massacre"
"Ma'am the civilians of this part of the city have been evacuated to the inner walls" said a soldier who approached iris
"perfect, make sure everyone has a shield ... now we just have to wait"10 minutes have passed but only silence
a buzzing broke the wind "incoming" shouted iris, a few seconds a tremor shook the walls, that was the projectile of a catapult
the screams on the other walls were loud, the catapults did not give a break between shooting and what seemed a battle that could last for days now they would not resist a few hours. The night became darker as if a swarm of giant Hornets will rise above the sky "shields up" ratley exclaimed
"You believe me now" iris asked Ratley, after the rain of arrows ended "we haven't been fifteen minutes here and we have already lost a quarter of our soldiers" iris lowered her shield
"Those who have scratches go support the men at the doors and those who are worse withdraw to the castle" stairs appeared at the edge of the wall and a Cyclops began to move towards the door, kicking the stairs iris shouted
"knock down that thing" Suddenly a great rumble came from the east side of the city, followed by a lot of smoke
"ratley, they break the east wall, take some men and go help in the evacuation"
"I'm going" Ratley took his bow and left
"Ma'am, I've finished bringing the powder barrels" said a soldier panting
"Okay" the skeletons had already managed to climb to the position of iris and she tried to kill as many as she could with her crossbow, the clashes of the swords was intense and each time there were more and more of them . A ball of fire hit the west door "they have magicians hidden in their troops" Iris knew that the west wall was lost and gave the order to retreat while she went to the north wall to devise an escape plan with ravoth and renfield
the wounds of iris do not allow her to go very fast so she had to fight, each step that advances is another skeleton that wanted to cut her head she blocked, shot and recharged again and again. Finally the three gathered, iris told them to retreat to the inner walls "you are crazy, not only couldn't defend your position but you come and you order us to withdraw when we haven't started our counterattack" ravoth was furious
"You know, fuck you, I'm going to save as many as I can"
"It seems that this time you were wrong ravoth" renfield says
"Yeah"
both returned to their posts but Iris took the road to the palace fortunately they had not yet taken the central square which allowed her to arrive in a short time
Iris took command of the inner walls, ratley joined her after examining the civilians hidden in the castle "any news?" she asked
"Rowland, I mean, the leader of the east wall is hurt bad"
"I understand, ratley you know better than me the castle, go with your men and look for some underground exit we can use, I will try to get us time" now this was no longer a battle for the city, this it was a battle to survive