Shadow Slave novel Chapter 3046

Soon, the city was ready for battle — as much as it could be ready, considering the circumstances.

Azarax was not going to limit the assault to just the riverbed, of course. In order to divert Effie's focus from only protecting the relatively narrow span of the city wall where the grate was located, he was sending his warriors forward across the entire length of the wall.

Out there in front of the city, a vast ocean of helmets was flowing forward, countless war horns roaring like thunder. It was as if a steel tide was devouring the world — inevitable, unstoppable — minutes away from crashing into the proud walls of the besieged stronghold.

Among the ocean of steel, immense forms of Transcendent champions loomed, emanating a terrifying sense of danger. Pulled by some of these gargantuan creatures, colossal siege towers rolled forward, tens of thousands of soldiers sheltered in their armored depths.

The defenders of the city were readying themselves for battle atop the wall. Quivers of arrows were placed along the battlements, the siege engines were being loaded with heavy projectiles, fire burned beneath steel vats where quicklime pots were being heated, ready to be thrown at the enemies below.

Today, however, there were far fewer soldiers than usual on the wall. Many of them were somewhere else...

The great river had disappeared completely, revealing its muddy bottom. There, on the hastily constructed wooden floor, thousands upon thousands of warriors were assembled into a wide formation, ready to face the most ferocious assault of the Steel Horde.

Morgan and Nightwalker were also there, standing in front of the soldiers, looking ahead with somber expressions.

The grate had not been destroyed yet, but it was only a matter of time before it was. The makeshift barricade constructed out of soil, rocks, and ice in front of it had not been dismantled yet, but nobody believed that it would last long.

The muddy riverbed would inevitably become a battlefield today, and when it did...

Who knew? The great river might flow with blood instead of water today.

Standing beneath the wall, clad in steel armor that was like a second layer of skin, Effie drew a deep breath and then activated her Transcendent Ability. Immediately, her radiant figure shimmered and exploded into a storm of light, a huge form rising from it.

The walls of the city were nearly a hundred meters tall, but when Effie transformed, her figure easily towered above them. The armor expanded with her, and so did the white cloth tied around her hips and shoulders — the Starlight Shard, a Memory she had carried ever since the Forgotten Shore.

Seeing their commander, the myriad defenders on the walls and in the dried riverbed exploded with jubilant cheers. Their voices rose to heaven like a roar, and as it did, their bodies were instilled with an echo of her titanic strength and resilience. Their hearts were infused with fierce vigor — with a ferocious, overpowering lust for life.

At the same time, a thunderous voice resounded above the city, making them tremble.

“Be strong! Be valiant! Give them no quarter!"

That was Kai, commanding the defenders of the city with the mystical power of his voice. The world itself listened, instilling them with greater strength, making them resistant to the aura of dread emanated by the elite warriors of the Steel Horde, and filling them with unshakeable courage. Effie, in her titanic form, looked at the approaching ocean of steel with grim anticipation. At the same time, Kai looked ahead, as well.

However, he wasn't looking at the soldiers. Instead, his gaze pierced the vast distance between the wall of the city and the line of towering trebuchets that stood far away, all aimed at a single spot — the center of the metal grate that blocked the wide opening in the impregnable wall of the city.

‘What are they waiting for?'

The horde was already in motion, but the trebuchets were still idle. They were loaded, but the command to launch had not come yet.

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