Chapter 34: Revolution

Screams began to fill Leona as the mob, consisting of the rebels and the enslaved nine races, Vardskuls, and the first and second level sympathizers armed with spears, daggers, and gambesons, charges through the street, killing the guards while taking losses.

"FOR LEONA!" Ignatz shouted as he ran behind them and they reached the blockade. Laying three lines of musket infantry along side a phalanx two rank deep. And the muskets began aiming.

Delilah and her mages then moved forward. Doing the circle walking of wind magic and cast.

"Odagio!"

The bullets then bounced off the shields, only a few getting through and injuring few, as the Vardskuls, armed with only an uprooted tree, charged forth and strike. A thunderous boom echoes as the phalanx held for a second, their shields runes cracking, before getting thrown back and gravity did the rest.

Musketmen quickly fire, barely slowing the giants, or ran before being crushed to a paste under their foot.

The cannons then fired, four cannonballs killing a Vardskul, as the rest try to take cover, with some of their forces dead, before the mages retaliate. Sending magics missiles modified to knock them off the wall.

And with a thunderous crack the Vardskuls break down the wall and they quickly charged.

But before the guards could attack a quarter of their forces attacked them, being spies and sleepers in the third level, and the mob continues.

But when they reached the fourth level entrance Ignatz look back and saw the corpses blood suddenly circling. Then realized what it meant.

Ignatz quickly fires off his blunderbuss as corpsejumpers emerged from the portals, killing one and stunning the other for his warhammer to crush her head, as more began pouring out, their kukris slicing bloody swathes to the unknowing mob before retaliating.

The force quickly split, forced into a pincer, when Drow withered, Duergar marksmen and juggernauts charged the front.

"HOLD FAST!" Wolfgang ordered as he fires his rifle at a corpsejumper, then pulls the lever to eject the spent casing and load another bullet, as he, Ignatz, and half their forces fights the corpsejumper. Preventing them from making a bigger portal for reinforcements.

The withered, Drow mages whose body withered to skeletal-like figures for their pursuit of power, then cast arrows of fire. Which Delilah and her mages blocks with another shield, causing explosions upon impact that destroyed each other, before Ekon and the more heavily armored mob charge.

Ekon then fired at a juggernaut at close range, the plasma melting through the armor, before slamming the molten barrel to his face and attacks the rest with the axe bayonet.

The battle dragged on, as allies and enemies fell, the Vardskuls trying to silence the wall defenses, as the cannoneers focus fire on them, as blood began to paint the road and houses go up in flames.

Another defense tower fell tower. As cannons are silenced then stolen. Until they reached the final wall