132) I seriously can't take this anymore. Updating was such a struggle today. It failed over and over, and it took half an hour before the upload finally went through. This is so frustrating. I still owe you one update, so I'll make up for it with six tomorrow. I can't keep going today.
The thick clouds blanketing the sky grew darker still. Every so often, a silver dragon-shaped streak of lightning writhed across the heavens, while muffled thunder echoed between heaven and earth. This was hardly good weather. For the allied soldiers, rain was unwelcome, but the undead had no sense of feeling and would suffer no discomfort from it.
Behind the vast undead army, at least several dozen enormous siege towers slowly approached the Greymane Wall under heavy protection.
Each Large Siege Tower stood roughly as tall as the Greymane Wall. They were called large because their height far exceeded that of other siege towers. Clearly, they had been built specifically for the Greymane Wall. Anywhere else, these Large Siege Towers would serve no purpose.
Rex narrowed his eyes as he watched dozens of rotting abominations, each a mountain of flesh, push every Large Siege Tower slowly forward with brute strength! The abominations were enormous themselves, yet beside these Large Siege Towers, they seemed tiny.
A siege tower was like a crude little building constructed from massive logs.
At the top of its stairs was the siege tower's exit, which stood almost level with the battlements. Its greatest advantage was that the undead could rush out and engage the allied soldiers atop the Greymane Wall in close combat. Compared with attacks that required them to keep climbing scaling ladders, this posed the greatest threat to the Greymane Wall.
When the Large Siege Towers entered the battlefield, they paused