Three new armies were dispatched from the Demon Empire. Morax took command at the forefront. Although he wasn’t a great demon of single-digit rank, he led an army that was among the top of the tenth ranks. It wasn’t just Morax’s army. Another legion followed, and yet another soared into the air from the main camp. Then the garulas, who had had to step down from the gate walls due to the assault of the tower of the dead, hurriedly returned to their post. They all inhaled sharply when they saw countless Demon Empire and the Abyss soldiers rush toward them without an end in sight.

It was different from the Demon Empire’s first assault, which was made clear enough by the vanguards of the corps. A giant siege tower with a triangular roof came pushing forward; it was a movable tower that easily dwarfed the helepolis, which was known as the strongest siege tower in the ancient world and called the Greek’s land battleship. Moreover, there were other siege carts that were covered by shields on all sides like a jeonhopicha[1]. The legions that followed Morax’s army suddenly stopped their march.

They stopped even before reaching the gate, and humanity and Cassiubia League soon found out why. The ballistae brought by the following corps were arranged in a row. Moreover, they weren’t just ordinary ballistae. They were reminiscent of a palintonon from Rome, and each was as big as a field gun. Then when they finished arranging and loading the ballistae, they aimed at the gate and fired all at once. The few priests among humanity and Cassiubia League hurriedly made barriers around the walls. However, the ballistae weren’t meant to simply gun down the archers. Huge...