The number of orcs was too massive to get to the battering ram. So Gremory waited patiently for the right moment while every guard and archer was firing arrows non-stop. The more close the orcs got, the more precision they had.
Geoffrey was firing five arrows each time, he doesn't even need to aim properly because of the massive amount of enemies.
The quicksand also manages to delay their advance and the numbers were decreasing every second, but not fast enough and Gremory was getting ready to give his life as a decoy.
'I am a bad person and I know that, I don't understand why people fight so much to protect the ones they love. Maybe I will understand once I do the same...' Gremory thought, seeing that the mutual feeling above the walls was pure rage and no fear anymore.
He raised his dual blade and left the shadows to embrace his entire body, together with Cerberus. He was now using an armor of pure dark energy and the mitre crystals were providing all the mana he needs.
The light was not reflecting the iron of his sword anymore, he was now a black point while the light twisted around him.
Thousands of orcs were coming to the gate and the only thing defending it on the battlefield was Gremory. Once they got close enough, he used shadow evasion up while mounted and went to the middle of the army.
He swings his dual blade and activated Shadow Impulse over and over while Cerberus shattered every orc near to him with his massive three heads.
Changing the weapon from hand to hand while spinning it, made it look like a synchronized dance, but was his way to activate Shadow Impulse in both blades at the same time.
Shadow Impulse was receiving too much mana from the crystals and now reached 30 meters. So while surrounded by the orcs, Gremory was killing dozens of orcs with every swing of his dual blade.
They kept coming one after the other, and then he started to get hit by them. Every time a stab hit him or Cerberus, a lot of mana would be needed to refill the hole and then the first medium crystal broke.
But Gremory didn't stop at all and became even angrier running through the massive army of orcs and destroying what was left of a formation.
Orcs were dying every second with the arrows fired and some of them were even hitting Gremory. But he kept running towards the bettering ram and then activated shadow impulse three times aiming the siege weapon.
However, a loud noise was heard and the siege weapon took no damage at all.
'It has magic protection!' Gremory thought, shocked by what he was seeing.
Orcs were not able to build siege weapons and even the magic was very rudimentary for them. It was obvious that someone with knowledge was helping them.
Yet, he had no time and decided to kill the orcs around. Surprisingly, the battering ram was moving by itself, someone was controlling it using magic.
Suddenly, his pupil doubled once again, but he didn't notice that and kept fighting with all his might while the orcs started to reach the walls.
Boiling oil was thrown at them once they finally reached the walls and started setting their ladders. There were also several traps, mechanisms of fire, and even bear traps near the walls.
Most ladders were being takedown by the guards from the walls. Still, the battering ram reached the gate and was working on its own.
Gremory was now feeling fear from the guards for the first time since the beginning of the battle.
The feeling intensifies with every hit of the siege weapon and the trembling from the iron gate. Danton and the few hundreds inside the walls had not the same protection as Gremory and they were the last line of defense. The city will be destroyed if they fail here.
But what they didn't know from there, was that the orc army was almost finished already.
The mages together with the archers in the wall were able to kill thousands of orcs before reaching that wall. The decoy also destroyed the little formation of them while letting them open to multiple arrows.
In total 8 medium crystals broken during all this fight and now Gremory had only three more. Yet, the fight was too easy to be true.
Gremory was covered in guts, blood, and shadows and Cerberus had a piece of meat in his mouth while salivating.
Gremory became fast as a physical rank C, but it drained all its strength, even with the consumption of black energy from the battlefield. His muscles were trembling and he was exhausted.
He looked around, observing the sea of blood that reminded him of the abyss, but the number of corpses made it hard even to walk. There were even mountains of dead orcs near the gate.
'The orc army... was not bigger?'
And then he remembered the giant bests that were nowhere to be seen. He looked back to the city and black smoke was high in the sky.
Without noticing, the orc army started to invade the west gate during the fight, abandoning the main force of the orcs and bringing every Clatus with them.
They managed to break through the unguarded west gate and were now raiding the city while everyone waited for the orcs in this gate.
'Oh shit, I was acting as a decoy while also fighting the decoy army.'
As soon as the noise of the battle stopped, the humans started to hear the loud noise of the screams of the citizens inside the city and then realized that the orcs managed to go through the wall already.
At that moment, Gremory began to feel enormous pressure, the feeling of every human inside was now inside his head. A mixture of anger, sadness, and regret was flooding his mind and he had no control over this flow.
He falls from Cerberus while an enormous pain is in his head. He scratches his head trying to reach the brain with his fingers, but then Cerberus holds his hand, preventing him from hurting himself.
All kinds of thoughts of the people being killed were now mixing in Gremory head.
"Why is this happening to me?"
"I want my mamma."
"I don't wanna die."
"Please don't!"
"Someone help me."
Until the pain became too much for him, the vision blurred and he passed out there in the middle of thousands of dead orcs.