The Compulsion Viscount's revenge came swiftly.
As members of the Ambros City Council laughed heartily, the Compulsion Viscount's forces launched a direct siege, compelling the Noble faction's coalition to act together.
Trebuchets advanced, pelting the ramparts with stones like raindrops; large sections of the wall collapsed, and some witches took advantage of the chaos to cast plague magic on the corpses, then purposefully allowed the trebuchets to hurl these infected bodies into the city.
In Ambros City, were it not for the presence of five hundred engineers from the Republic of Belisarius and the defense engineering expert Achilles, the outer city wall would have already been breached.
