The next morning, war drums sounded, and ranks of Kingdom of Skelly troops marched out of their barracks, forming up beneath Audrick City.
Atop the city wall, more than three thousand Parambria Kingdom soldiers, led by their officers, climbed onto the ramparts and prepared to defend the city.
On the watchtower, Elad, legion commander of the Parambria Kingdom's Losa Legion, watched the endless military formation with a grave look on his face.
In particular, the unknown war engines in the enemy's center, covered with black cloth and being pushed forward by soldiers, made his eyelids twitch.
"I hope I'm overthinking this."
Half an hour later, the Kingdom of Skelly's one-hundred-thousand-strong army stopped five kilometers from Audrick City's walls.
On the central army command platform, the middle-aged man looked at the high walls in the distance, resolve in his eyes, and loudly ordered, "Pass on my command. Order the vanguard to move out."
"Yes, sir."
Before long, the war drums were beaten, their sound echoing over the army formation.
More than four thousand Kingdom of Skelly soldiers in the vanguard, under their officers' orders, charged forward carrying scaling ladders and pushing heavy siege engines.
Braving arrows and boulders, and at the cost of more than a thousand Kingdom of Skelly soldiers, the siege engines were pushed to the foot of Audrick City.
The fifty-meter-long scaling ladders were raised, and barbed hooks weighing over a thousand jin smashed onto the city wall, embedding deep into the masonry.
"Attack the city."
With the order given, more than five thousand Kingdom of Skelly soldiers, led by their officers, launched a charge and merged with the first wave of more than three thousand soldiers, beginning to climb up along the ladders.
Archers on both sides exchanged fire, and boulders were continuously pushed down from the