The players who had died on the Great Reef Province battlefield began reviving, as planned, in a warehouse in Banks City. Since they hadn't revived where they'd died, they couldn't retrieve their equipment, but that was all right. Their respective guilds had already gathered up the items they'd dropped, and they'd be sent over with the transport convoy due to arrive in Banks City.
After reviving, the players first fought off a wave of ratmen, driving them back underground. Then, with explosives from the city, they helped the Earth Priests seal off the tunnel. Afterward, they received a mission: join the elites of the Pioneer Legion and leave the city to meet the People's Army transport convoy.
Sister Guochan013 was escorting the vast armed convoy with an elite force of Blood Vultures. They were heading toward Banks City, but getting the supplies meant fighting their way through the Chaos abominations gathering outside the city and the ratmen lurking in the shadows. It was clearly going to be a bloody battle.
General Kuder would command the strike force. Marshal Loren had also assigned some of his personal guard to join them, making the NPCs look like a formidable force. That gave the players, who had to make do with ordinary equipment after reviving, a little more confidence. They split into groups and prepared to move out.
Meanwhile, Marshal Loren was facing a difficult choice.
He had just received bad news from Transia.
The People's Army vanguard had emerged from the Maginot Line and entered East Prussia, but the army led by General Soros, which had set out from Dorod Fortress, was trapped in the southern hills of East Prussia. The ratmen had ambushed them from underground as they marched, and they had also come under attack from Chaos abominations transformed from