Beneath Delin City, Valgard watched the Holy Blood Shield remain utterly unmoved under the Iron Cobalt Roarers' attacks, his expression exceedingly grim.
He still remembered that two months ago, in order to turn Delin City into an impregnable fortress, he had invested vast resources into building Square Towers to increase the Holy Blood Shield's strength and duration.
Yet now, those Square Towers had become an obstacle, leaving his army unable to advance even a single step.
One Elemental Disintegration Bomb after another was loaded into the Iron Cobalt Roarers, then launched toward Delin City under the artillerymen's control.
"Order the Iron Cobalt Roarer units to cease their attack."
"Yes."
An officer acknowledged the order and immediately went to relay it.
Gazing at the hundred-meter-tall city wall, Valgard ordered with a livid expression, "Send word to Count Barn. Have him lead his troops in the siege."
"Yes."
At the front of the army formation, a Level 7 Warrior clad in red armor received Valgard's order and said darkly, "Understood."
Watching the messenger leave, Count Barn turned to look at the troops behind him. Only five thousand were combat-capable soldiers; the remaining ten thousand were garrison troops from various regions assigned under his command.
Had he known this would happen, he might as well have remained in the main camp like Mortis.
"Pass down the order. The Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth Battalions will serve as the vanguard and assault the city. The Twenty-Fifth Battalion will await orders."
As the order spread through the army, the more than ten thousand soldiers at the front immediately erupted into commotion, though no one dared leave the formation.
War drums sounded, and the Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth Battalions slowly began advancing under their officers' coercion.
Over four thousand men of the Twenty-Fifth Battalion, Count Barn's personal troops, followed