They only just made it to safety before the explosion made its way to the wall. Solid stone bricks were torn apart with ease and thrown hundreds of metres away. The thick wooden gate was blasted to pieces and sections of the wall were completely erased.
The amount of gunpowder it took for such damage was not to be underestimated. Their ears rung from it. The whole world shook. They could not help but fall to their knees. It was all they could do to prevent themselves from falling flat on their faces.
A screen of smoke hung over the holes in the wall drifting up from the deep unroofed tunnel where the gunpowder had been kept. Chaos, that's what it would have caused had they not had those few minutes of preparation. Even as it stood now, it was a difficult problem to meet.
