Chapter 600
Anton and all of the male mbers of his squad, except for Captain Leonard, entered one of the taverns near their barracks. They ordered their drinks and when they arrived, started drinking to relax. They talked about the situation in the place near the West Wall. Even though the people were still behaving sowhat normally, they saw that there was desperation in the people’s every action.
Another thing they noticed was that there were no children in that place. The table beside theirs, who were mostly soldiers, ntioned that all families that were living near the west wall had relocated to other parts of the kingdom.
Even though the Undead Coalition only started the siege of the kingdom of ndoza’s West Wall just three weeks ago, it felt to all of them, not just to Anton, that every person in that place already accepted that war would be a part of their lives.
Anton felt a little sad about that. The kingdom of ndoza was beautiful. Its gigantic walls were majestic, intimidating, and full of authority. At least the East Wall looked like that. Anton assud that the West Wall was probably looking dilapidated on the outside, even though the wizards of ndoza were doing their very best to make sure the walls remained sturdy in the face of the undead’s relentless attacks.
According to Charlie, ndoza was surrounded by large fields of produce teeming with life, and now the only fields that continued to survive were the ones located in the East. Even the farrs of the fields near the south and north walls of the kingdom started relocating to the East of the kingdom.
Thankfully, New Drennor and Ormunda fully supported ndoza and started concrete plans to make sure that food was constantly supplied to the besieged kingdom.
“Of course, New Drennor and Ormunda wanted to make sure that ndoza remained standing. If ndoza fell, the next city that the undead would probably attack is New Drennor, since it was nearer,” Charlie said.
Even though the tavern was full of people who were a mix of soldiers and civilians, there was no chaos. ndoza’s authorities were making sure that everyone followed the rules they had set up. The kingdom did not want chaos behind their lines, and they were doing everything in their power to make sure of that. According to the soldier in the next table, even petty cris were punished harshly by the authorities.
After a couple of drinks, Charlie reminded everyone that none of them could afford to get drunk on their first shift, so instead of constantly drinking, they busied themselves talking.
Anton’s squad returned to the barracks assigned to them to rest at around eight in the evening, and after a round of cleaning spells cast by Anton and Charlie, everyone slept.
At around one hour before midnight, Captain Leonard woke everyone up. After their preparations, all of them went to the section of the west wall where they were assigned. When they arrived there, each two mbers of the squad would shadow a veteran soldier while Captain Leonard would shadow a veteran captain.
In their section of the wall, there was a door that could fit a couple of n. That door was guarded by several soldiers. Long-range attackers would exit through the wall using the said door and would climb the allure located nearer the ground. Using those allures, the long-range attackers would be able to reach the undead that would try to attack the walls, since the top of the walls was where the wizards who had spells that could reach extrely far and war machines with very long range were located.
The lee fighters would gather behind fortifications constructed near the walls and would attack the undead. If lee attackers got wounded, they would then run inside the fortification to be healed by healers.
At first, Anton was assigned to the upper part of the wall. When he declined, he was then reassigned to an allure, but he said to his captain that he would prefer to be assigned in lee range so he could use his spells against the undead more effectively.
A Supre Wizard assigned to their wall section appeared and told Captain Leonard that he had read the profiles of every mber of his squad. Anton would be assigned to one of the parapets since it had a magic array that would allow spells to be cast at extrely long range. Since, according to Anton’s profile, he could cast powerful spells, the magic array would allow him to cast his spells with an exaggerated long range, especially since the profile ntioned that Anton could cast spells nonstop, which was very rare.
Captain Leonard, of course, agreed with the Supre Wizard nad Pudonis, and the wizard led Anton to the parapet. The parapet’s design was simple. The wizard who would cast the spells would simply stand in the middle of the circle array, and he or she would be able to see the view outside in their section of the wall. Then the wizard in the array would simply cast his or her spells, and the spell would manifest above and would be hurled towards the attackers.
Once the array was activated, it had to be supported by around one hundred low-level mana stones per day, but it would depend on the quantity of spells that the assigned wizards on the parapet would cast.
“Does this an that I can cast my large area of effect spells?” Anton asked the Supre Wizard Pudonis.
“Just make sure that your spells do not reach our lee defenders. You should be able to see everything beneath our section of the walls,” The supre wizard said.
Based on Anton’s understanding, he could only cast spells where the center was not his body. That ant no Hurricane or Armageddon from the Druid’s skill tree.
Supre Pudonis then commanded Anton to place himself in the center of the array. He saw that around 10 wizards were sitting inside the room overlooking the parapet, and all of them had their heads inside their grimoires. During attacks, a wizard would enter the array and cast all of his spells using and once he was empty, he would be replaced by a wizard that was inside the room, and then the one who emptied his or her mind of their spells would use the downti to morize their spells again to be able to cast them again once it was their turn.
According to Supre Pudonis, a high wizard or an archmage assigned to the parapets with the long-range magic array would be able to last 30 to 45 minutes of spell casting before they needed to be replaced.
Anton was flabbergasted at the information the Supre Pudonis shared with him.
“How long does an attack last?” Anton asked.
“Every night starting around seven in the evening, the undead would usually attack for four to five hours. Then they would retreat. After two hours, they would attack again for four to five hours. So they attack twice every night.”
“How many undead did the Coalition bring to this continent?! How co they were not running out of attackers?” Anton exclaid.
“It’s confird that the coalition constructed a two-way portal from Rendindura to here. We also think that they have the capability of recycling the undead if they manage to retrieve the corpses,” Supre Pudonis said, and Anton could detect a sense of fatigue from the wizard, but it could just be his imagination.
A loud alarm sounded from sowhere, which, based on everyone’s reactions, was expected. Supre Pudonis instructed Anton to place himself inside the magic array and quickly told him more information on what he needed to do to utilize the array. The mont Anton entered the array, he could imdiately see the situation outside. He was astounded at the large army that was coming in from sowhere to the west.
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