923 Blocking Cannonballs With the Body

It was when the earth shook that the Black Nightmare Army began to notice something was amiss.

"Attention to all units! The enemy may launch their sudden attack at any time now!"

The first thing Benjamin did was to shout those few words at the sentinel towers in all directions, before flying into the air and looking around. At first, he could not discover anything. Very soon, however, the look in his eyes suddenly changed, as a flood suddenly gushed down from the mountain in the north.

...A mudslide?

He could feel that something was not quite right. Although rain was falling from the sky, the weather recently had been very dry. The conditions for a mudslide to form were absolutely not fulfilled. Also, frankly speaking, the Town of Crewe had been at the foot of the mountain for so long without encountering any onslaught whatsoever of natural disasters. This showed just how problematic this phenomenon was.