As Spartans and Korithians alike were trying to kill each other in this mess of a battle, Alexios started to speed up, as he saw a young man in front of him with thin body full of muscles. all men around of Alexios were fighting ferociously as their king appeared, witch certainly boosted morale of the brave defenders of Sparta. "Our mighty king has arrived!!, we cannot disappoint him, forwards men!! let the king witness what we can do!", one Spartan Hoplite shouted with confidence and all men shouted in agreement.
With those words said, the Spartans begun to fight back even harder than before, Korithians were confused and scared, and were starting to lose their will to fight. "Let's prove to those dogs, we are more capable than them!!" Ajax was trying to encourage his men, but with no effect, Korithians were frozen in place as the Spartans were pushing them back to their ladders where they came from. Spartans were retaking the grounds with tremendous speed, and if that was not enough, Kortihians were so disorganized they could not even form a defensive line in this chaos.
Alexios take a few steps,then he heard a splashing noise, he looked down before him on the ground. It was a pool of blood from his fellow Spartans. Bodies everywhere, river of blood was reaching Alexios feets, this momentarily stunned him. Alexios was not affraid of blood like people do, but this was entirely something else, seeing this for the first time this massacre, A surge of adrenaline gripped him, and he felt a bead of sweat forming on his forehead.
"Now you did it" Alexios said through gritted teeth as he was running to Ajax with adrenaline rush. "W-wait, i surrender, please, i was against this idea!, we should stand united against barbars from the north!, but no one listened" Ajax tried to plead to Alexios while dropping his weapon and shield, witch Korinthias left confused. "What do you mean?" This genuinely frightened Alexios, he knew very little of this world, and the words even greater threat send shivers down his spine.
Aegisbane with only few centimeters from Ajax throat was hanging in the air. "I-i surrender" another Korinthian followed Ajax's footsteps, with hands in the air in the sign of capitulating. Alexios scanned the area around him with eyes, and noticing more and more Korinthians surrendering, then he returned his sharp gaze to Ajax to continue the conversation, With Ajax who was trembling with his body.
"I-it is true,S-Spartan king, our spies t-told us that they are mobilizing huge army right on their borders" Ajax stammered. "How many of them are?" Alexios asked with concerns,but did not make it appear so easily, "they can be from 5 to 6 thousand strong" Ajax replied.
Great, this is just great, how the hell am i suppose to live in these god forsaken lands?!, agh i must get more information. "If i am correct, they are vassals too right?" Alexios asked curiously, "y-yes, they are vassals of the prince Xenophon". "Last question, where are the rest of the officers?" Alexios demanded, "Taxiarchs Philotas and Lycron are in the west, they want to make way to your palace" Ajax replied.
Alexios wanted more information, but there was still battle going on in their city, "Take them away, i will talk to them later, treat the wounded and the rest will go to south to reinforce our brothers, i will confront them, alone, our men need help more then me" Alexios barked his order, and Spartan hoplites, youths and hippeis did not make any subjection, they were visibly shaken but not broken.
Meanwhile at the west side of the wall
"haha, we should done this sooner!" Lycon shouted enthusiastically as he sliced a throat of a Spartan Hippei with his xiphon. "i never get why are you enjoying this Lycon" Replied Philotas to his colleague, "why not?, i just love getting rid of filth Philo" Lycon shot back. "Anyway, we are almost done here, Lycon,take some men and head to help our fellow Korithians in the south, leave some men here to secure this area, i have no doubt that we managed to break north and east as well" Philotas issued new orders to Lycon.
"Wait a minute!, i want to kill that King too! you know?,i will not let you get all the glory for yourselves!,our soldiers can make it on their own", Lycon objected, still with his joyful expression. As Korithinans Hoplites were finishing wounded Spartans on the ground mercilessly, Callias was fighting with another hippei to the last dying breath. "We must inform our king!, Callias you must go, i will hold them of", Hippei told Callias, "i will not abandon you Lysander!" Callias replied to Lysander as they were blocking spears from all sides, "You know better than anyone how important this is!,now GO, i will join shortly" Lysander shot back his argument.
"Don't let them escape!" Lycon ordered as he was rushing to a circle where the Spartans were surrounded. There was no time to argue, Callias clenched his teeth's, Lysander was right he thought, "I make way, follow me!" Lysander shouted and barged in to the line with spears aiming at them. Lysander managed to push one of the Korithian Hoplite back a few steps with his shield protecting him in front. "Go!, Callias!" Lysander shouted full of adrenaline. Callias managed to slip between the gap, and blocked incoming spear from his left, "stop him!!" Lycon shouted.
Lysander was covering Calliases back and fighted with his last remaining strength. As Callias was running down the stairs, he heard sounds that were fading away, and went to silence, "Your sacrifice will not be in vain Lysander" Callias promised to his brother. "They are like dogs, so annoying" Lycon mockingly said to a Lysander who was on his knees with multiple stab wounds on his chest and side. "you'r...days..are numbered" Lysander said to Lycron with heavy breathing on top of his lungs. "isn't this funny?, he thinks your king is some kind of divine being?, grrr so scared".
Lycon continued with mocking, while Philotas was watching from the back. "See..you..IN HADES!!" Lysander shouted on top of his lungs and grabbed the spear from the ground. Before he could do anything, Lycron was not letting this by, with a firm and quick thrust, spear was already inside Lysander's heart. Lysander cough out blood from his mouth, with a wide smile and bloody teeths. Lycon quickly pulled out his spear and watched as Lysander fell on his back, still with a smile on his face.
"goddamn fanatics, they are worshiping him or what??, and you even let him escape!!, agh no matter, he won't change the inevitable" Lycron said disgustingly to all present. "Enough talk, lets go Lycon" Philotas said with cold tone. "All right, Niketas, take all of my men and go support our troops in the south, hopefully they won't need it" Philotas said to one of the Korithian hoplites. "It shall be done Taxiarchs Philotas", Korithian Hoplite firmly replied. Roughly 100 Korithian Hoplites were heading along side the wall to south, "now hippeis, i think you want to taste some revenge right?" Lycon asked with devious smile to hippeis who wanted to rake revenge to Spartan king for killing their general under their watch.
"Ahoo!", Hippeis Answered with loud battle cry. "Good, that's what i wanted to hear!, lets go!!, to glory, for City of Korithia!!". With these inspiring words, 25 Korithian hippeis and 45 hoplites were heading to the middle of the city, to the palace of the Spartan king, "I think he is shivering right now!!, i cant wait to see his desperate face as everything around him is crumbling to dust!", Lycon said loudly, "Lycon, can you spare for me some of your men?, i have idea that could be interesting for you" Philotas asked, Lycon's eyebrow shot to the sky, "i am listening" Lycon answered curiously.
"Congratulations for killing 3 Korithians youths, you are awarded with 15 experience points! and 6 units of glory!, to achieve the next level you need-", system kindly reminded, but quickly disappeared from Alexios eyes, he was not in mood for this.
"I am such an idiot!, my Aegisbane have ability which can boost my warriors who are around me!, fuck i am such imbecile, so many could been saved", Alexios was colding himself, from the lack of preparation. He had never hated himself more in his life for this, as Alexios was running to the middle of the city, thoughts of his fallen soldiers were haunting him on his way. "Fuck, Fuck, was i really this careless?, how could this happen, so necessary casualties".
Alexios arrived in the middle of the city, except for the torches there was no life in the city, Alexios was looking on the hill but heard clanking sounds from his right, there was group of Korithians with their armor covered in blood and stopped upon the sight of the Spartan king. "Well well well, who do we have here?" Lycon said with a smirk on his face upon the sight of the king.