“This arrogant little-!” Ichabot Longbottom cursed at the announcent that just echoed across the city, He knew it. He knew Minas Mar were just a bunch of power-hungry tyrants. He never liked their conceited leader.
“Quick, activate Iego! Strike both parties down!” he declared. Under the influence of Chrona's new representative he had managed to claw his way back into a position of power, now he was part of the council in charge of governing Delta.
“Iego is for defense against external enemies... They are already within the city paraters,” another mber said, obviously tired of Ichabot's stupid ideas and antics. Project Iego was a defense system based on the floating peaks surrounding Delta. It had no inward-facing attack or defense qualities.
“And anyway, all we can do now is hope Minas Mar wins, at least they wouldn't kill us,” another mber comnted.
“what are you even saying!? Do you hear yourself talk, man? We are the chosen representatives of the people! We can't give up! We need to defend Delta from these invaders!” Ichabot insisted that they had to do sothing. However, his emotional speech only caused wry and sarcastic smiles.
“You an the sa way you groveled before rkraut Sar to get a seat in this council?” so asked, his voice oozing with acid.
“Enough!”
Ichabot beca red as a tomato and was about to scream at the man when the oldest in the council told them to shut up.
“Ichabot is right in one thing. We can't just wait for soone to win and hand over the city to the victor. We have to mobilize the special forces to interfere,” he spoke his mind. “ In the anti, we should seek shelter in the complex below the parliant. At least until reinforcent from Spatia arrives,” he added.
For a mont he seed like he ant well, but in the end, he was no different from them. Throw out the special forces as a pretense and hide until the storm passes.
...
Seth was a little surprised to find a horde of demons swarming Delta. It seed like everyone had the sa idea about acting a little more aggressively. Since Chrona announced their retreat from Delta, only leaving a minimum number of personnel to keep the city safe until Spatia ca, it felt like an invitation to take the city.
They expected there to be few people, but nobody expected that “minimum personal” ant that they even pulled out the security technicians and deactivated building security. This was suspicious, but none of Seth's worries, for now.
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He glared at the horde of demons who stopped at his announcent but didn't retreat. A massively obese-looking demon slowly floated to the front of the demons in the sky. The beast was easily five ters in height and width.
“We are the Army of Bragmomal! We don't back down from a fight!” he answered smugly, looking down at the army of knights and golems. There were easily thrice as many demons as people on Minas Mar's side.
“Are you sure you want this?” Seth asked with a dangerous edge in his words. They had co to Delta by teleporting to Minas Mar which was why there were only Oathguards and golems making up their ground forces.
Both groups had grown quite a bit. Because of the expansion of Minas Mar, the Oathguard now numbered roughly 3500 n, of which 2000 were here. Apart from them, there were the over 5000 golem made of orcs from Kozdams, as well as the various Golem Knights and Faer. On the surface, the demons really seed like they had an advantage. However, Minas Mar had arrived prepared for a battle.
“Haha! Bragmomal would skin us alive if he heard we retreated without a fight! Attack!” the fat demon commanded, not listening to Seth. His command to attack was overshadowed by an ear-shattering crack in the sky.
“You asked for it,” Seth shrugged, as hell broke loose.
Thunder and lightning roared in the clouds above. The strikes of light illuminating the city with every roar also revealed a massive creature weaving in and out of the tumultuous cloud cover. The next mont beam of heat and light descended from the sky, burning holes in the rows of Demon.
At the sa mont, storms of lightning, ice, and fire rained down on them. The demon army fell into chaos, as the herd was suddenly thinned. Up in the clouds, Puffles and Tatzel were farming experience remotely, making sure not to destroy the city below the demons.
The sky filled with scenes straight from apocalypse movies, illuminated the city below, where the Army of Minas Mar engaged the demons in brutal combat. What looked like an overwhelming victory to the demonic forces, quickly revealed itself as a one-sided massacre as Minas Mar's relic-rated weapons cut through the demons like a hot knife through butter.
Golems sward the streets on the hunt for demons, while the Oathguards put priority on evacuating the survivors of Delta under Minas Mar's shield which covered almost a fifth of the city. The defenses set up by Chrona were gone, but this also ant nothing blocked the Tower of Minas Mar from showing its power.
...
“Look, what are those beasts in the sky?” one of the assemblyn who was observing the situation outside exclaid. At his exclamation, several more n ca to take a look, shocked by the sight of the massive silhouettes in the clouds.
The shadows of a giant flying centipede and a smaller dragon-like creature reigning above the clouds were eerily familiar. however, it took soone tone-deaf like Ichabott to speak out about what everyone was thinking.
“It's the pets of the Tower Master!”
But unlike everyone else who was concerned by the sight and the danger these creatures exuded, the forr chancellor seed almost excited. The rotund man waddled back to the bench of the council.
“This is our chance! These creatures have invaded the air space of Delta. I formally request for the deploynt of the Iego System! Let's make an example of his pets and shoot them from the sky. Without them, Minas Mar and the Demons will whittle each other away. I'm convinced our special forces and our city guards are enough to take care of what is left then,” he spoke quickly in a single breath.
Although Ichabott spoke like a nutcase, a disconcerting craze in his eyes, the counciln were pondering. The oldest of them, given the highest rank by rkraut Sar, finally nodded after they convened for a mont. Dealing a hit to Minas Mar before they could overrun the city was not the worst idea.
Excitedly, Ichabott went along with the preparations to deploy Project Iego. Originally planned as a continuous defense system, at the suggestion of the representative of Chrona, they had decided to only activate it in ergencies to save energy.
With the magic seals of all five counciln, they activated Project Iego, the defense system using the floating peaks surrounding Delta in the sky. tensed they waited for the magic of the system to activate and the throes of pain and death of the creatures in the sky. Well, mostly Ichabott waited for it.
However, nothing happened.
“It didn't activate!” one of the assemblyn at the window confird their suspicion. They tried again. And again. And again, but it didn't work.
“Did it break?” Ichabott asked in dismay. Did the reduced maintenance lead to this?
None of them knew that this was their lucky day. Minas Mar had long since used the backdoor originally implented by Al'Zalsar to take back control of Project Iego. Who knew what would have happened to them, if they managed to actually harm either Tatzel or Puffles?
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