Chapter 154: The Black Army
Gunnar squinted against the driving snow. He could feel it clinging to his mustache as he hurried along the lines overseeing the distribution of his people on the walls.
Calling them "walls" was a bit generous. Some of the fortifications on Cervice's western front were stacked, mortared stone, but most seemed to have been cobbled together from scraps of deconstructed houses. In some places, the builders had incorporated existing standing buildings. Leah's new command post was on top of a stone guardhouse, a once freestanding structure now part of the walls.
It was along these ramshackle defenses that the forces of Cervice lined up, waiting for the fighting to begin: Mythaeans, Nolians, Endens, Cru, Holy Army men and women, and other fighters from all over Athacea. There were thousands of them. The eastern front had been abandoned by order of the princess, and all forces were gathering here, in defense against an army of demons beyond count.