Marching footsteps can be heard, towards the entrance of Krono.
Captain of the first brigade Derek is leading a platoon of 500 men towards the now seemingly empty entrance with no guards or any form of protection.
At the entrance, a guard with the symbol of what seems a bird with the background of a purple and white background.
The guard walks in front of the incoming soldiers and salutes.
By order of the major of the city of Krono, I hereby declare the surrender of the city and wish to know who has the authority to take the command from here?
Derek walks to the front, and asks where the other soldiers are stationed?
The guard explains that they have been disbanded and return to their homes, and hopes the new rules do not mind them.
Derek nods, fine but bring us to the vault and give us all the possible gold bars and magic crystals.
The guard acknowledges the command and asks Derek to follow him to the manor of the major.
Derek and his men walk through the entrance and suspiciously they look around, for any form of traps or ambushes lying in wait.
After following the seemingly harmless guard, towards the manor of the major, Derek gives one of his men the signal to ask the other platoon to enter the city.
The guard walking in the front sees this happing but says nothing, but a creepy smile emerges from his face.
The Hound and the remaining soldiers wait in front of the entrance and are waiting for the front scouts to see what's happening inside.
A soldier rushes to the carriage and tells of the current report,
General, we have secured the entrance and have found no resistance thus far.
After hearing the report, the Hound smiles, You heard it men the city is for the taking move onward and do as you please.
With the command of their general, the remaining platoons hurriedly march into the city, with the aim of plundering and enriching themselves of its wealth.
In the inner city,
Various soldiers can be seen searching into houses and are happy to see the various belongings some even found gold and silver and a lot of food that are still fresh within the warehouses.
Captain Derek and the other captains can be seen watching their men looting and pillaging the different places.
Derek frowns, I do not know why but there is something strange going on.
The other captain gaze over, what do you mean Derek?
Derek explains, don't you find it strange there are no civilians in this city, sure they might have run away in anticipation of our arrival, but to not even have even one civilian present?
This is very strange no matter how you look at it.
The other captains laugh and sneer, Derek since when did you become such a coward.
Captain Derek ignores them and calls a soldier of his own brigade over and asks; where is the guard that brought us to this place?
The soldier looks around, and shockingly answers with; captain he was just here, huh?
Derek becomes even more suspicious and brings in even more men on the search for that particular guard.
Watching Derek and his men searching all around the place for a guard, makes the other captains laugh and think;
Derek oh Derek, why are you such an idiot while you are wasting your time our men will find the most valuable things and leave you all with practically nothing hehe.
A shout can be heard from behind them, What are you all laughing about?
They see a carriage arriving in the center of the square.
The captains hurriedly rush towards that position and salute their general.
General Hound confused: What is the matter Derek what are you looking for?
Derek salutes: General something is wrong, we came here by the guide of a guard of this city but we cannot seem to be finding him.
General Hound laughs, Derek what are you talking about idiot you think that guard will wait for you to kill him after showing you the way?
Derek answers: General it is not just that, don't you find it strange that there are no civilians at all?
The hound scoffs, so we can still find other places if we want women or slaves.
Derek irritated thinks, dammit why am I surrounded by such dumb people.
A man on a horse watches as the Hound and its men, pillage and loot anything they can find and laughs mockingly, ah I should really find a better opponent to fight against, these are truthfully the biggest idiots under the heaven.
Hurried footsteps are heard coming his way,
A guard comes over and reports on the preparations.
Commander the tasks are completed, and we have led the Hound and his men towards the center of the city.
Rowan nods: Well done, now initiate the first wave.
The soldier gives a salute, we hear and obey!
And takes out a small crossbow, and fires an arrow into the air, afterward an explosion happens and a red star-shaped signal appears in the sky.
Guards with the same owl insignia around the city see that, and take out a mask and put it on their faces, and start preparing to set up their ballista on different locations around the city with a strange container at its bolt, and give a yellow signal back to their commander.
Commander Rowan, looks over at their signals and takes a deep breath, and raises his hand to the guard that delivers his signals to the different positions.
Rowan focuses, on my command unleash hell, and raises his hand to start the firing.
A large blue signal can be seen in the air.
The various ballista positions respond by aiming and simultaneously fire towards the various positions in the city of Krono!
At the same time in the inner square of the city, Captain Derek is still being mocked and made fun of by the various captains and even his general.
Something unexpected happens in the distant air around Krono.
The Hound, Derek, and all the captains look over and see different colored signs.
Derek yells: I knew something is going to happen!
General Hound shocked: What is that?
Derek answers, general I think those are signal flares to bring out certain messages to different positions!
As they were speaking various bolts arrive at their position, and very strangely they do not manage to hit their men.
However, suddenly a dark-yellow gas appears and moves all over the square and it covers the whole army!
Derek feels himself being affected by something as he inhales more and more of the strange gas, and he becomes sluggish and tired and starts breathing with difficulty.
Derek yells, poison gas!
The surrounding soldiers are not answering his yells, for they are starting to feel the same symptoms as Derek.
Many soldiers collapse on the ground, some have fallen unconscious others are having difficulty standing straight.
The Hound and the other captain are not faring any better, and are becoming weak all over their body.
Before one of the captains collapses he hears and sees his general, screaming out of anger and frustration, ''What is happening! Why can I not lift my ax!''.
Commander Rowan watches and sneers, as the army of the Hound collapses on several fronts, idiots this gas was specially prepared for you all, the more you move one part of your body, the harder it becomes to maintain the functioning of your other body parts.
Rowan signals the guard,
Commander, your orders?
Start the second wave, for its time to meet our uninvited quest to our humble abode.
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