Chapter 100 Fight to the death
To the south of Hagia Sophie, the Apostolic army of Somoto is engaged in a mortal duel with the Magellan guards who defend the walls.
The commander guarding this section of the wall was very puzzled by this fierce army of attempting to die, why the apostles would let such a team attack Saint Sophie alone? Was it a temptation? Or was it a decoy? He wanted to let the others know his doubts, but now that Magellan's leaders were either wounded or ready to leave, the cautious commander did not send reinforcements, but let all the troops he could send climb the wall to prevent these apostles from climbing the wall.
Even so, the ratio between the two sides is still very different. The Apostles under the city were the elite of Somotor's army drawn from the other apostolic armies, and the guards of Hagia Sophie, even though they all climbed the walls, still seemed to be somewhat undermanned. Somoto knew that the attack was a feint, but he brought all the siege equipment he could with him, including the five-headed behemoth Crusher. The Guardians, apart from a magical-infused stone thrower, were left with a scarce amount of fuel. Compared to this place, the palace was much more important, and most of the garrisons were evacuated with Viren to the strongest castle of the palace, including almost all of the beast slayers and their horses.
Somoto stood quietly under the city, watching his soldiers put ladders on the city walls, and one by one the apostles rushed up without fear of death, and then the city walls were cut down by the same guards who were not afraid of death. One by one, the boulders were thrown onto the city walls, each of which would have taken the lives of several of the brave guards, but the guards who had already killed the red-eyed ones smashed the boulders close to the walls on their shoulders with all their might, and then slammed them down again, making the apostles pay the same heavy price. Whenever the ladders were ready to approach the walls, the magical stone throwers would kick in full force, smashing the fuel-mixed boulders into the fragile ladders until the wooden ladders shattered, and the apostles on the ladders fell to the ground and burned to ashes.
Somoto raised his arm high and yelled, "Crusher!"
The five giant beasts that were led for the siege of the city broke free from their shackles, their eyes blood-red and rushed towards the city wall with an indomitable momentum. With a muffled sound, the crushers began to ram the battered walls with all their might. The walls rattled from the impact, and the guards on the walls could clearly feel the vibrations of the walls.
"Fuel, quick, fuel!" the commander hurriedly picked up the nearest barrel full of fuel and threw it towards the crusher under the city, and as the barrel and the crusher came into close contact, the entire barrel of fuel covered the crusher. "Rocket!" the commander shouted, and the two archers with rockets on standby next to him shot their rockets at the crusher. While one of the rockets was mistaken when the archer happened to be killed by an arrow from the city, the other rocket was pinned to the crusher's back and ignited a raging fire.
The incinerated crushers suddenly let out a burst of screams and crashed in all directions. After slamming into a wall, the Crusher jerked and charged towards the apostolic army behind him. For a moment, all the apostles were caught off guard, and a ladder that was about to push towards the city wall was completely knocked apart by the crusher. The apostles on the ladder felt in an instant all the pain of their fellow citizens who had been struck by the stone thrower. Dozens of apostles howled and rolled on the ground, but they couldn't extinguish the flames caused by the specially crafted fuel. After a few howls of weakness, the apostles were burned to charcoal.
Suddenly, the crusher, surrounded by flames, rushed straight towards Somoto. For a moment, the apostles around Somoto dodged one after another, and Somoto just raised his spear with a cold snort. After a few moments of direction, Somoto threw his spear at the rushing crusher. A few seconds later, the crusher let out a scream and collapsed to the ground. The huge corpse slammed into Somoto by inertia, and only came to a halt at its feet,
Somoto jumped onto the still burning body of the Crusher, pulled out the spear stuck in the Crusher, and threw his spear at Saint Sophie with a loud shout. The spear screeched, piercing several guards and nailing them to the wall. The commander standing nearby couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
"My lord, do you need any support? The surrounding soldiers waited anxiously for the commander's order, and looked at the four crushers below the city who were still brute force against the wall. Each crusher's rampage sent a dying groan from the walls, but the commander calmly commanded his men to keep fighting. After a while, he shouted to the soldiers who had fallen to the walls of the city because of the tremors: "Never! The Magellans will not run away!"
But the Apostles didn't give the commander much time, and as the soldiers on guard died one by one, they were finally unable to stop the Apostles from ascending the walls. And fighting the Apostles at close range is just an inescapable dead end for the soldiers. In this way, more and more apostles poured onto the city wall, gradually filling the wall that the commander was responsible for.
Gradually, the entire section of the wall was left with only the commander and a few soldiers still fighting. Somoto descended in front of the commander surrounded by the apostles. "To die, or to be a slave?"
"Phew. The commander spat at Somoto in response.
"Give you another chance, die, or be a slave?"
One of the soldiers closest to the commander shouted and raised his sword and rushed towards Somoto, but Somoto sneered and grabbed the sword and threw the soldier off the wall with a flick.
"Looks like you've made a choice. Somoto turned away, and the surrounding apostles swung their weapons at the few remaining warriors.
"Magellan, never surrender!" the commander shouted, and with a few soldiers, he frantically launched a counterattack on the apostles. But he was no longer able to do any harm to any of the apostles. After a few encounters, there were no living humans left on the entire section of the wall, and the massive stone thrower was burned to ruins by the guards.
"It looks like our gains can be extended a little more. Somoto looked at the buildings under the city walls and said lightly, "Go and tell the mourner that you don't have to test those humans anymore." They don't threaten anything from us. “