Steel and Sorrow: Rise of the Mercenary king

Chapter 243: Message to those insides

Chapter 243: Message to those insides

The days slipped by like a steady march, each one bringing the army closer to the final act of their siege. Outside the city of Arduronaven, Alpheo's soldiers worked tirelessly,

transforming the barren landscape into a theater of war.

Engineers directed crews to haul timber,and the dirt filling path would pass through the ditch shielding the city's walls.

The onagers, finally having been dragged back to camp after the battle, resumed their relentless barrage. Stones the size of barrels crashed against the walls, sending up plumes of dust and chips of rock that rained down like hail upon the defenders.

The air reverberated with the deep thrum of impact and the distant cries of the besieged. To the soldiers in Alpheo's camp, the sound was a steady drumbeat of progress. Siege towers began to take shape, their skeletons of wood rising slowly under the efforts of carpenters and laborers. Ladders were prepared, and sharpened stakes were affixed to thei ground between the walls and the camps, creating wooden shields for the archer to take refuge in while shooting at those on the walls.