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Chapter 25 - Holding The Line

"Kill them all!! no mercy, no remorse, if they want to spill our blood, then make them pay the biggest price!!" Alexios shouted his words of encouragement as Korithians begun to swarm the wall. Korithians begun to pouring in like a swarm of mosquitoes, "My king!, their putting their ladders again!" Hippei said with panic voice. "Calm down!, take some man and throw them off again!, i will take care of them!" Alexios replied and rushed in front of him where a few hoplites hold the line, hippei obeyed the command without hesitation. 

"Those who are not fighting help me with these ladders, MOVE!" hippei shouted to make all Spartans nearby who did not help in time to hold the line obeyed. "Make way!, i will deal with them" Alexios said to his hoplites who ferociously fight and stepped back to make a gap for their king. "Don't stand there like sheeps!!, forwards!!", Korithian screamed in the back. "I hope that's their commanding officer, you don't know what's coming for you", Alexios smirked as he focused on one of his abilities that come with his legendary spear called Aegisbane. Korithians were startled by sudden retreat of the hoplites who taken few steps back, and their officer was not helping in this situation, they were afraid of the Spartan king, the memory of the king piercing many of fellow Korithians were still haunting their dreams.

 Alexios launched with powerfull thrust,with his right foot of the cold ground with his spear facing the young Korithians, the spear was slightly glowing red and was rapidly shortening distance between them. "Quick!, shield formation! or we all dea-", Korithian officer tried to quickly form shield wall, but all in vain, as the Alexios pierced through the line, with crunching noises that were following him, blood spilled all over the ground and many Korithians flew of the wall. "you are already dead" Alexios murmured to him self as the Korithian officer was met with feeling of unbearable pain in his stomach.

Korithian Enomotarch was flying over the ground and bumped into a another line of Korithians who were facing them with their backs. Few Korithians fell on their knees and looked behind them, to know what was going on, "E-E-Enomotarch is dead!", one korithian screamed in fear as the dead body was lying in the middle of the line. "R-Retreat!!, we must retrea-" before he could finish, Alexios wasted no time and pierced his throat with Aegisbane. This shattered the morale of attackers severally , and they dropped their weapons and shields, they started to run to ladders to escape this horor.

"oh no no, you aren't going anywhere" Alexios was massacring the men, who were in fear and some of them even jumped of the ledge of the wall. "M-monster, he is monster!!" one Korithian said, but Alexios made quick work with him. "You dare to kill our people, pillage our land, rape our women!, this is our land!, if you want to kill, be prepared to be killed!" Alexios stated as he was killing unarmed Korithians who were all around him. some of the lucky ones were climbing down the ladders in attempt to flee, "Kill all of them!!, by Zeus i will kill every last one" Alexios was blind with hatred.

"They want to annihilate us, and not even willing to fight if their Enomotarch is dead!?, pathetic, but i cannot deny the fact that its going in my favor, pche i am sick of this". Alexios thought to himself, "my king it seems we pushed them back, i can say for sure this side of the wall is secured", Hippei proclaimed with slight anxiety to his king covered in blood. "Good get rid of the all ladders and assist the rest of our Spartans who are struggling on the rest of the wall, i will go to the east wall to assist" Alexios proclaimed with cold voice while watching the Korithians who were vanishing in the distance.

"Congratulations for killing 22 Korithians youths and one Enomotarch, you are awarded with 135 experience points! and 27 units of glory!, to reach next level you need 365 experience points!,"notification proudly announced to Alexios, who ignored the pop up screen, as he was quickly rushing to aid Perseus in the east wall.

Meanwhile, on the western wall

"Hold the line!, make them pay with their every step dammit!!" Perseus cursed and clashed his spear with another Korithians who were trying to stab him from all sides, "you never stood a chance from the begging you scum!!" Perseus cursed loudly as one Korithian youth missed his spear and was met with strong impact of Perseus shield to his head, that swung was so powerful it shattered Korithian skull accompanied by loud crack. "Even your helmets are poorly made!! haha," Perseus mocked them, witch furthered the anger and battle spirit of the Korithians, to end Perseus's life.

Sound of clanking spears against shields could be heard, all across the wall, screams in agony and pain were also present in this merciless battle. "you are done for, you scum!!" one Korithian proclaimed as he and his fellow warriors attacked simultaneously. Perseus managed to block some of the attacks, but not all of them, few Korithians managed to stab Perseus in the back, "You bastards!!" Perseus screamed with pure hatred, with his shield he cut the spears in half, but the points of spears were stuck in his body.

"Hell is awaiting you, you scum!" Perseus, with all of the remaining strength threw himself at the Korinthian's who were in shock to see their enemy severally wounded, and to even threw himself at them was unexpected. Perseus stabbed with his spear a Korithian who was holding his stick that was few seconds ago a spear, and desperately tried to raise his shield in time, but it was too late.

He was dead on the spot, as Perseus aimed on his neck, another Korithian next to him was about to be greeted by his shield but it was deflected from Perseus in time. "you..you...will...never...take...Sparta", Perseus murmured with heavy breathing, and blood that was pouring from his body. Perseus fell to his knees, awaiting his fate, but before he was granted the wish, he heard whistling sound that flew above him. Perseus with blood in his eyes saw a Korithian with Spear stuck in his neck, shortly after the warrior dropped on his back with a loud thud.

"What the-", before they could process what happened, 2 Korithian youths who were standing behind Perseus, quickly turned their heads ,and before anyone of them could do anything, Alexios stabbed one of the in the stomach with his xiphos. Xiphon was quickly pulled out of the unsuspecting victim and fall on the ground on his side, the next Korithian frozen in fear was attempting to avenge his brother in arms, but Alexios wasted no time and quickly stabbed the other one in his right arm. He groaned in pain and his right fist let off the spear, Alexios then slashed his throat with one swift move.

"Who is next?" Alexios said with mocking voice to the rest of the Korithians who encircled Perseus and were watching in horror. "R-Run! for your lives!!", Korithians rushed in attempt to escape, horewer Alexios did not chased them, instead he walked in front of the heavily injured Perseus, "You did good job Perseus, i will take this from here" Alexios told to Perseus who, by this was relieved, "Thank you my king, i did not managed to hold them off, i am terribly sorry". Perseus started to apologize but Alexios cut him short.

"You did everything you can, rest Perseus you did well" Alexios reassured Perseus with his words. Perseus only nodded and slowly fell on his back, "Spartans!, Treat Perseus injuries , i will take it from here" Alexios shouted his order to nearby Spartans who obliged with a strong cry. "With that out of the way, where could be their Enomotarch?" Alexios pondered, but soon he heard his answer, "Do not falter!!, end is near, they are at their breaking point!!" strong yet distinctive sound could be heard amidst the battlefield. As Alexios was looking in the direction of the noise, Spartan youths started to drag their Enomotarch Perseus to safety. 

"Found you" Alexios said, while pulling his spear from the lifeless corpse of Korithian youth. "My Enomotarch Ajax, we are pushing them back, but we are taking heavy casualties" one of the Korithians reported to Ajax, "Yes, i am aware of that, now lets-" Ajax was about to Finnish when he saw a Man with his shield and spear walking towards to Ajax, with flames in his eyes and blood all over his armor. "What the hell?!, is that Sparta king?!, why is he here?!?" Ajax shouted in disbelief, his luck was about to run out.