After their first victory of defending the city against one Ruler and its massive undead army.
They sang praises and filled with high morale. Unfortunately, their celebration was cut off short because they felt tremors. Tremors that are much stronger when the undead army marches and the Ruler ran at them.
At the horizon, the men who are at the top of tall towers saw a hundred percent death marching towards them at the speed of atleast 31 horsepower.
"May God give us strength and courage to face the enemy and please let us in Heaven." one of the soldiers said.
The enemy was consisted with different kind of mutants. Some were in a spider form with human body parts. Some were like 5 meters tall. Some where flying. Furthermore, the worse of that are the ones who are capable of flight.
Tremmm...
Tremmmm...
At the far, they can see a silhouette of mountain that is moving like it was walking with 2 legs.
Fortunately, the sun is about to rise, but unfortunately they're all tired of an all night warfare against the undead and the Giant mutant.
Humanity also gain a significant amount of casualties as some of their catapults and their walls were destroyed. They have no means of barrier to slow down the incoming enemy who are much more stronger and faster than the undead.
There is not much ammo left for the hwacha and the archers. Also the terrain inside the walls were a mess because corpses were lying down and fallen debris were scattered that form a terrain difficult enough to walk or run.
"All troops who are still alive. I know you all are tired because I am too, but we need to keep fighting as a last resort of humanity against the monsters we have created ourselves!"
"Those army of mutants who are marching towards us. They're numbered to millions and there's just a few thousands of us who are barely alive. We need to go out the walls as the terrain is not in our favor. We need to march and collide to the enemy."
"Marksmen will stay inside and organize their position and provide us support via rains of arrows."
"All ground troops get in formation! Spearmen will be the vanguard with their shields. Blade units shall be the base of the battalion."
The leader said as he commanded all troops to fight to their death. Take down as many enemies as they can.
"Sound the drums!" Nero the leader, said.
A drumming sound could be heard and serves as a signal for the ground troops to start marching. A marvelous sight can be seen which hundreds of thousands human beings marching towards their enemies.
They wore various types of armors and have various types of weapons.
After a while later, the marching humans stopped at 100 meters away from the city walls. The spearmen that look like the ancient spartan army were holding their position with their shields as the vanguard of humanity.
The archers at the wall raise their bows, the war machine hwacha were aim at 30 degrees, the catapults were loaded with oil coated debris that can set fire the battlefield and hit the enemy like a meteor.
Additionally, giant crossbow were aim specifically for Rulers that may reach the firing range.
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A while later, the charging enemies is only a kilometer away.
800 meters...
680 meters....
500 meters till impact...
"Brace yourself for the shock!" shouted by Nero the leader.
"Archers fire!" commanded by the archer commander.
Then, a valley of arrows can be seen at the foggy skies and landed at the enemy causing to some of them to fall.
"Spearmen ready your spears!" commanded by the spearmen commander.
Boooooooom~
Finally, the enemy collided at the vanguard and some of the mutant died when they got stab to death by spears.
Stab! Stab! Stab! Stab!
The Spearman keeps stabbing chipping out the enemy little by little.
Some mutants jumped inside the boundary of spearman and got killed by the melee infantry who were standing by inside.
The first wave of enemies that were made of various types of mutants and a little of undead as almost all undead were taken down during the siege. The mutants at first wave were only less than 3 meters tall that some of them were more 8 legs beasts.
They were a unit of weak mutants that can easily be taken care off but with such a number they can be a serious threat and can tire the soldiers before the main battle.
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15 minutes after the commencement of the battle.
Rawwwwwwwwwr~!
A deafening roars that came from a far has been heard. Giantic mutants have finally reach where the 1st vanguard where at.
The giant mutants were as tall as 10 meters with sharp claws as long as 2 meters. It could rip apart a sturdy metal like butter. Their claws were hitting against the floor enough to create sparks from time to time.
"Blow the horns!" said by Nero the leader.
Hmmmmmmmm...!
Hmmmmmmmmmm...!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...!
The sound of horns signify the firing of catapults. The debris that were coated with oil was lit and shot. The spectacle of flying firing debris were beautiful as if meteorites were falling in the sky from outer space.
Booom! Booom! Boooooom~!
Sounds of explosions were everywhere. The debris were scattered throughout the enemy lines creating craters that annihilate tons of them. The fire has also spread causing pandemonium among them.
Some giant mutants were hit by arrows and died causing them to smash everything they fall into including their fellow comprades.
A lot of spearmens at the vanguard lost their lives by the non-stop onslaught of enemy. Fatigue has also caught them and they are slowly getting weaker and killed in battle.
The arrows are also depleting and they only have less than a few thousand left in their arsenal, specially how fast the hwacha is firing.
The ground troops that were fighting are also slowly perishing as much faster rate than the enemy perishing.
...
Humanity is slowly getting push back as the Frontline troops were getting killed like flies by much stronger enemy and overwhelming numbers. Some where squash to death and some where eaten alive and tore apart.
It was a gruesome sight to behold.
"Retreat!" no one know who shouted this word, but everyone at the battlefield ran for their lives as if fear where ignited in their soul once more. They were prepared to die in honor, but they were not prepared to die while getting torn apart and eaten alive.
" Get back! Get back! Even if we die, we must die while fighting!" one of the commander who were still alive shouted, but no one listened to him.
The ones who ran away are the ones who died quick. They were still torn apart by 6 leg mutants that may be a dog in the past.
Nero the leader and his fellow brave humans were still fighting to death and manage to kill tons of them.
...
"Fire the giant crossbow and aim at those giant mutants!" ordered by the commander assigned at the giant crossbow.
Swoooooosh~
An 8 meters long arrow has pierced the body of giant mutant that is charging towards the broken gate.
It was pandemonium, no order has been followed after the retreat of humanity soldiers. They did as they could to survive, but they all know that sooner or later they will be killed and human race will go extinct.
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Meanwhile at the leader and his men...
They were surrounded by mutants. Giants and small ones. Not even a Ruler has step in except for the one they already killed.
"Hey what are your real names? Mine is Raven." Nero the leader said as he parried a fang of a mutant.
"Why are you asking this when we are going to die soon?" a soldier asked.
"Because before we die I atleast want to know your real name before we adopted the name of Nero." the leader replied.
"Mine is Christopher, my lord." the soldier who asked the question replied.
"Mine is Rick."
"My name is David."
"Mine is..."
They all said their names as they fought the beasts with all their might.
Ahhhhhhhhhh~!
They look at Rick as he got chewed by a mutant. Little by little they all got killed except for Raven.
Raven look at the corpses laid on the ground. He saw the bodies of his comrades who fought along side him until the end got eaten. Although he can't see the city but he knows it has already fallen down as he saw black smoke coming from the direction of Nero City.
'If only we humans wasn't greedy for power, none of this could happen.' these thoughts flash through his mind.
Tears flowing down on his dry and tired eyes.
Raven shake his head as he snap back to reality.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh~~!" he shouted as he charges towards the enemies with his worn out sword made by his blacksmith friend who is now probably dead.
Swoooooooosh~
Then a claw pierced his body and blood came out from his mouth and nose. The tears that came out from his eyes before has turned into blood.
He mustered out all his strength to stab the mutant one last time.
He slowly closed his eyes as darkness consumed him.