[Current location: Frontlines]
"PUSH FORWARD! MURDER ALL OF THESE ZELOTS!" – shouted the kingdom Yiuk soldier as a army alliance were assaulting a city under control of holy empire.
"Shit! Summon more angels! We need more reinforcements!" – shouted a knight as he tried taking cover.
"WE CAN'T! OUR SUMMONERS ARE STRAIGH UP OUT OF MANA! WE ALSO DON'T HAVE ANY MANA POTIONS TO SPARE EITHER!" – shouted the leader of the summoners.
"WE DON'T HAVE ANY MEANS OF SUMMONING MORE ANGELS!"
"THEN TAKE AWAY FROM SOME ADVENTUERS! I BET THEY HAVE SOME! WE NEED- "
"CAPTAIN! ENEMY WAR MACHINES IN- "
The vampire tanks appeared and began bombarding city walls, hitting the defenders that were on top of it, including the captain himself, straight up knocking him off the wall.
"C-captain?!" – shouted scared knight.
"SHIT! RETREAT! RETREAT!"
Under the heavy assault from the alliance forces, the empire was now easily and quickly losing all of their conquered territory left and right.
Most of the battles that were happening everywhere resulted with the holy empire losing, forcing to them on the retreat over and over again.
However, even as they retreat, their forces would end up getting hunted down or not always they even had a possibility of retreat, resulting in a huge loses on the empire side with each passing battle.
Their conquered territory shrinked non stop and even with the Son Of Glory leading a lot of the battles or the players fighting over and over for the empire, it was no use.
They were keep losing their ground.
"…"
"How many…. How many settlements we have left?" – asked Son Of Glory as he was healing his own wounds in the tent.
"Not many sir." – said the voice through the communication device.
"We are losing settlements way too fast…. We only have 3 cities left…. And one of them is about to get conquered."
"A lot of our forces also deserted…. And some tried to take the boats we had… Only to get hunted down by sea monsters and merfolk."
"…"
"What about our soldiers? How many do we have left?" – asked Son Of Glory as he finished patching himself up.
"…"
"Less than half." – said the voice from the communication orb.
"Not only that, but most of our golems had been destroyed already… "
"…"
"Order all troops to retreat towards out main base where the Great Barrier is." – said Godfrey.
"Splitting our forces anymore is beyond stupid."
"It is better if we just focus on the area where we know we can repel our enemies."
"Yes sir! I will spread word immediately!" – said the voice before ending the call.
"…"
(I say that…. But I doubt it would work.) – thought Godfrey.
(Even without her support, the Great Barrier can still operational….. But the problem is that they may have already found way of declining with the Great Barrier.)
(They wouldn't make those kind of movements if they didn't had a way of absolutely annihilating us.)
(That is also why they wrecked our sea route, they wanted to make sure we had no way of escaping….)
(What about Maryia? Did she at least managed to get to the safety?)
(The ship should had already left this continent….. But did they succeeded?)
"…"
[Some time ago.]
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait." – said Iron Will.
"YOU were the one behind Maryia kidnapping!?"
(I've realized something was wrong with Maryia and tried to find her…. Only to find out that she was kidnapped by her own brother?!)
"Well… Call it kidnapping…. I don't care… Either way, I want you to take her and get the hell out of here." – said Godfrey
"I want you to take her back to the empire."
"?!"
"Wait, retreat order?" – asked Iron Will.
"…"
"Wait…..Why I haven't heard anything about it?"
"…"
"Because I was the one who issued it without emperor permission."
"Iron…. I will be 100% honest with you."
"This war is lost."
"We had completely lost this war and there is no way we can win this."
"The reinforcements from the empire? The Daughter Of Justice? They won't get here in time before we get squished."
"The enemy movements are also weird."
"…. They must had obtained means of dealing with our Great Barrier."
"…."
"Honestly…. I would order full out retreat…. But here is a problem."
"We don't have anywhere to go."
"At the best, we could at least attempt to help out a small group of people, including my sister, to try and somewhat break through the sea blockade."
"The heaves and emperor may say that I should try and fight…. But I can see the truth."
"So, here is my order."
"Evacuate with my sister in secret, make sure that none of our soldiers would find out and return back to the empire." – said Godfrey as he took out a rolled up letter and handed it over to Iron Will.
"I've written the entire situation here as well as signed the document myself."
"With this, you won't get punishment or anything…. Maybe even rewarded….. Now fuck off."
[The quest has been generated.]
[Evacuate Daughter Of Glory.]
"!"
(Even quest on top of it all!?) – thought Iron Will.
"…"
"Fine…. I get it." – said Iron Will that reluctantly took the letter from Godfrey.
(But fuck me! I wanted to murder that bastard Phantasia…. And now he is telling me to just run away like coward?!)
"…"
(No… He is right…. This war is already lost…. And even if I were to kill Phantasia, what difference would it make? We would still lose….)
(The best way to do things would be to take Maryia back to the empire.)
<<Welp, the situation with the empire is pretty much fucked.>>
<<The alliance forces were conquering everything with ease, after the empire army started staving.>>
<<Taking settlements from them, hunting down the deserters and those who tried to regroup became way too easy.>>
<<Our forces were just steamrolling through everything they had, taking every single bit of a map that they had taken away from us.>>
<<And before long? They ordered a full out retreat to their main base of operation where the Great Barrier was located, straight up abandoning their entire territory and allowing us to conquer everything back.>>
<<We had trapped them.>>
<<They had straight up no way of escaping or anything like that.>>
<<Honestly, we could had just waited until these bastards would just starve to death.>>
<<But we obviously needed to make "example" out of them all, especially out of two children of emperor.>>
<<And so, the alliance army surrounded their last bastion.>>
"…"
"Damn….. And you are saying they are everywhere?" – asked Godfrey on top of the wall, as he could see right outside the great barrier an army of vampires.
"Yes…. The entire alliance forces had completely surrounded the city from all directions… They are leaving us no room or what so ever." – said the paladin.
"…"
"No escape… Huh?" – said Godfrey.
"…"
"Was there any weird movements or anything happening?"
"No, but- "
"?"
"What is it?" – asked Godfrey as he the paladin suddenly stopped and looked towards the vampire forces.
"…"
"Okay…. What is that?" – asked Godfrey as he took out a telescope and gazed at the vampire army, noticing them moving away to make way for something like a giant drill device.
"ACTIVATE THE SANCTUARY PIERCER!" – shouted the vampire general.
The gems stones on the drills began light up by one, before moments later the drill started slowly spinning, gaining more and more speed, before then firing a concentrated beam towards the barrier surface.
"…"
"Oh….. This isn't good…" – said Godfrey.
"?"
"General? What do you mean?!" – asked alarmed paladin.
"They have means of breaching our barrier…. We- "
"?"
"…"
"What is it?" – asked Godfrey as he took out his communication orb.
"GENERAL! THE ENEMY FROM THE WEST suddenly deployed a weird drill like device! They are using it at our barrier!" – said the voice from the device.
"…"
"Oh…. Fuck." – said Godfrey.
And it wasn't just two directions.
No.
There were in total four drills.
Each one drilling into the great barrier from multiple directions.
At first there was nothing…. The drill continued rotating, not doing anything to the great barrier…. However, their presence alone was terrifying.
The soldiers right outside were just waiting patiently in silence while the drills continued firing their beams….. And after a while, the damage started appearing on the barrier.
"Huh… This thing is way tougher than you told me. It will take much longer that I've expected to breach this thing." – said Phantasia as he walked up to the general.
"Well yea, it may take longer… But it is working. It is cracking…." – replied the vampire general.
"The ones that they need to worry is them."
"Because their so called "impenetrable" Great Barrier is cracking right in front of their eyes."
"You can even see all the way from here what kind of expression their soldiers are making."
Fear.
Panic.
Despair.
As the drills continued digging into the barrier, more and more cracks started appearing on the barrier surface.
"GET THOSE THINGS! NOW!"
Obviously the defenders tried attacking the drills from afar using their magics and arrows…. But it was obvious that the alliance would be prepared for it as their defenses were able to completely protect their drills.
"…"
"…"
"!"
"NOW INCREASE THE OUTPUT! BLAST THIS FUCKING THING!" – shouted Phantasia, commanding the drill operators to increase the fire output on all drills, making them fire even more contracted blast of energy, before moments later an explosion occurred.
The part of a barrier shattered like a glass, creating a large opening….. But not from 1 spot, but from all four.
"…"
"ALL FORCES CHARGE!" – shouted the vampire general.
"BRING ME THEIR FUCKING HEADS! ALL OF THEM!"
The Great Barrier was breached and the alliance forces began flooding in as the holy empire forces just watched in disbelieve.
The final siege of the war started.
…
And the last hopeless battle has just commenced.
A battle where everybody knew a outcome of.