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BANG BANG BANG

Three shots in quick succession, with all the calmness and finesse of a master duellist. Three tiny bullets with the right preparations were enough to cause calamity for hundreds of soldiers, and halt the march of thousands.

The bullets made contact with the gunpowder as planned, and three pillars of flame shot up from the earth, shaking the ground violently for miles around, indistinguishable from a regular earthquake.

The siege towers had been designed to mount walls and withstand bullets, they had certainly not expected to have to overcome a veritable landmine, and all its after effects. Those on the inside were killed instantly. The wood buckled, and shot apart, splintering onto the landscape around them, all blackened and abused.