[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-city-of-desire-kingdom-building":3,"chapter-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-436":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","City of Desire [Kingdom Building]",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1846289,2449,"Chapter 438: Attacking The Wall II","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-436",436,"\u003Cp>Rynra Throne\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing siege towers rising. I couldn't help, but get surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ladders, I had expected, but the siege towers had caught me off guard. The intelligence didn't mention anything about the siege towers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were some whispers about them having catapults, but they had crossed that off, seeing they didn't use it yesterday, but here, they have popped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn't use it yesterday, because they felt like, they could win without it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were absolutely right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The siege towers will make things slightly difficult, and I asked my mages to target them. They are, but the enemy had good mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are defending against every attack; we are throwing at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took out my sword and swung toward the siege tower closest to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shadow Cleave!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, a bronze arc shot out of the army in response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It clashed with my attack, destroying it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the elder-blood. There is a lot of intelligence about him. I also grilled Wayne for every piece of information, he had about him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is powerful, but I feel like, I could kill him. I will kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would make him second elder blood, I kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will definitely level up if I manage to do that. I really needed a level-up; it had been nearly a year since it last happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at him, while his army moved siege towers across the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The army came out, but we were ready for them. Our undead met them with greater zeal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elder blood didn't move to attack; he was standing with his eyes locked on me. If I attack, he will respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne had told me about his strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hate to admit it, but he will be able to kill as much of my people as I begin to target his.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am not in a hurry. I will get enough chances once he falls into my trap. Till then I will have to make sure, he doesn't do any mischief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole wall was filled with bodies of men and undead, trying to kill and push each other off the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is bloody and the enemy is dying by minute, but not without the cost of the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing it, I wish I could begin with my plan immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would have helped us a lot if we got to know about their attack, but before their army got out of the gates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I acted quickly, within a minute, I received orders to march to Panar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would have preferred if the orders had come sooner, but here, our intelligence network isn't strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current preparations are enough to defeat them, but that is not enough. I want to wipe them out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The orders state the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minutes passed, and the enemy tried to push through the wall. They had even destroyed a good part of the wall, but my undead are keeping them in their place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are stronger than any walls and do not let the enemy move an inch forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it is not without a cost. I am losing the undead every minute. The undead, I could have used in the trap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is not just the undead. My mages are also losing a lot of mana in defending against the cannonballs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enemy had brought greater firepower, than I had estimated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially those catapults. They are capable of huge destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was thinking about the catapult when one of its ammunitions was able to move closer as the shields stopping it flickered away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enemies cast disruption on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since they started attacking the wall, the catapults had targeted behind the wall, where the undead had gathered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had not targeted the wall, since their own people were here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My shield appeared and stopped the catapult ball. It exploded in the air, sending shrapnel, that were to stop by my shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion had just subsided when a cry for help rang out in my mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I saw an orc moving to kill one of my warriors. Immediately, the gem of my sword lit up and Dark Wall appeared in front of the orc, stopping him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warrior retreated and drank a potion before rejoining the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am not killing the enemies, but I stop them when they are about to kill my people. The elder blood doing the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, once I sprang my trap, nobody would be able to do that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I might lose some of my people, but it would be a loss, I would be able to bear. As the loss would be much smaller than the direct, battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They want everyone dead. Especially the elder-blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had been contacted by several of the people, I know for the body of the elder-blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's very valuable to the necromancer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes passed, and the battle continued. I have to say, the enemy is fighting well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They seemed to have experience in fighting the siege battle and the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would have liked, it if we were killing more of them than we are right now. At least proportional to the undead, we are losing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the powerhouses are being contained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Wayne is being contained by Paladin and Orc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I too want to jump into the battle, but it's not time. If I fought, the battle might get struck here or enemies might retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don't want that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is for the same reason, I don't want to do, what the high-ups had ordered me to do, but since it is an order, I would follow it, no matter how much I hate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They have asked me to use that thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To give them the taste of medicine, they had fed us yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's not as good as the alchfire, but it will cause a massive loss to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The alchfire is merciful in how quickly it kills. It does not; it gives a lot of pain before it kills one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is wasteful to use such resources in this battle, which we will win without a doubt, but they want to send the message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For it, they are willing to waste the precious thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stone\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My arc clashed against, her defensive spell, crushing it. Letting Klein move at the enemy in the narrow wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle on the wall is challenging, but we are doing good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been over an hour and a half since we had attacked the wall and we had killed thousands of undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though, we didn't have much luck in killing many of their powerhouses and pillars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battlefield is small, which helps the enemy leader to save her people whenever they are in danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am in little disadvantaged in that. I am not as versatile as she is with her spells. I could break her shields with my arcs, but I couldn't put shields in front of my people as she could do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even sending arc is difficult in this crowded battle, while she could just materialize the shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite that, we are doing well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, we had yet to accomplish our mission to break into the city, which would take hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are resisting with everything they have. Sending the undead toward us in large numbers. Not letting us have an inch to move past the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most orcs who are fighting this kind of battle for the first time, are visibly shocked. This a not open ground outside the city or forest, they are used to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this thick battlefield. Enemy could come from anywhere or explode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The necromancers love to blast their undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had lost more men in an undead explosion than a direct battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mages are trying, but it's hard to defend against every explosion, even with danger sense warning them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the wall battle. They aren't called one of the bloodiest without a reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I moved around the battlefield, with my eyes always on the enemy leader. We are the only two people on the battlefield, that aren't fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We will. The battle won't end, till we do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes passed when I noticed something. The more, I looked, the surer, I became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Careful, they are trying to move us into the center,' I said to the powerhouses before started commanding them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their powerhouses are pushing us, to a certain place. It is not good, that means they are planning something, and I would be dammed if I let that happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I begin to move the powerhouses, but the enemy is also good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is responding, countering fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to retreat immediately, but that wouldn't be wise. We would lose the edge we have got; they would destroy our siege towers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without them, it will become more difficult to breach the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That doesn't mean, I will let my people die, needlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I moved my powerhouses, trying to spread them further to thwart whatever the enemy was planning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's too late, elder-blood,\" said the leader, shaking her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking to me for the first time, before waving her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, a bone sphere with runes on it appeared in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My eyes widened as I saw that ivory ball. It looks delicate and smooth, but it is extremely dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck!\" I cursed loudly without care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I know, what the thing. I have seen it many times and two times nearly got killed by it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thing is called the bone bomb. One of the most dangerous weapons of the undead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is made by necromancer alchemists. It's very stable and destructive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Alchfire, which is unstable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it is not as powerful as it and its range is less than half, it is more than enough to cover a small area, we are occupying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Calm down. Shields Up!\" I ordered my people. Controlling the panic, I was feeling in my heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was relieved that the army followed my command immediately, with mages casting defensive spells, while the bone bomb lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In less than a second, it will explode, with its power covering a large area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had not expected that she had this thing or she would use it here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is not cheap and the undead is only used in important battles, but it seemed like after experiencing destruction by alchfire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They want to send the message to us and everyone watching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is what they do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They put fear into the hearts of their enemies. So, they would never do anything daring against them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die!\" said the leader, as retreated from the wall, along with her powerhouses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the undead formed a wall of protection to defend against bomb power, that might come at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't even glance at her, all my focus on my halberd and bomb, which was about to explode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, it blasted sending a dark shockwave and thin dagger-like shrapnel, burning in dense black fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These shrapnel look delicate, but they are capable of piercing through most Grade IV defensive spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They have a powerful necrotic poison that will act, the moment it touches the blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It kills the people within a minute and the death is horrible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The poison is so powerful. That normal potion is useless against them. It had killed many of my good friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I too had suffered it, but survived, thanks to the elder blood inside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which kept them alive long enough to be fed an antidote.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These daggers will kill a lot of my people. I can't let that happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, I brought my halberd down on the stone floor of the wall, with all the hope in my heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read20Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",1963,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.599Z",1,"novelbin.me","23f2b13665a74be40e2104346e3b7a5b3a6d8633b12109e816d319ec49094a35","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-437","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-435",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]