Dimensional Descent

Joseph and Damian looked back after hearing the clicking of the gears. They had put their all into running and avoiding the A and Dark Prisoners around them, but hearing such a loud commotion, they couldn't help themselves.

When they saw the sudden appearance of the Dark Cloud Prison guards, and in such a large number at that, they felt as though their legs couldn't carry them fast enough.

There was just half a kilometer between them and the city gates. To well trained men like them, even before the Metamorphosis, this was a matter of a two or three minute run at most. Yet, these few minutes felt like the longest they had experienced in their lifetimes.

Escobar scanned the situation emotionlessly. It was as though he couldn't see the archers aiming their bows toward him.

His gaze landed on each and every one of the guards that had fallen, the billowing of his mustache becoming deeper with each passing moment. Even with the long cycles of his breath, it felt as though the wind around the Warden was kicking up, responding to his will in large swaths.

"Mow them down." He commanded coldly.

At that moment, the clicking of guns sounded.

City Lord Hargrove's pupils constricted. 'That's impossible.'

Heavy military boots stepped forward before they each kneeled, pressing their rifles to their shoulders. And then, the bullets rained.

As quickly as the guards had fallen, the prisoners fell even faster. How could the fire rate of archers match the pace of semi-automatic weaponry?

"Shit!"

Damian growled, his feet stamping against the ground.

A surge of earth followed his command, peeling concrete jetting into the air to cover his back.

panic! Those are normal gunpowder

others crossed the final remaining distance to the city, anxiousness clear in

"Dammit! Open the gate!"

the doors of the city remained firmly closed. By now, the crowd beneath the city gates was growing and there were already more than a hundred that had made it this far while several thousand more were crossing the final distance. But,

despair. Could this really be a ploy by

didn't make any sense. Just

became cloudy and he banged on the gates just like all the others, unable

scene from

situation now," He said coldly, "Lower the

gates as many would have expected them to. Rather, they began to lower platforms from the top of

Hargrove understood the truth of human nature, and it would be the truth no matter which world one was born in. If things came too easy, they wouldn't be

Hargrove needed them to understand who held the power and who didn't. As for

descending, the group of prisoners that had been wailing below suddenly began to cheer. They didn't even consider the fact their lives would still be in danger or that many more could have been saved had Hargrove chosen

as Hargrove expected. This was

Escobar commanded coldly. "Shields at the

aging body seemed even more agile than the

to successfully climb upon those platforms before they crossed the remaining distance. From a cursory calculation, there was only enough space for

and climb the city wall, that would be

considered the fact that it would be impossible to use the archers to stop their siege if the very platforms they were using protected

actions though,

a place with maybe the tightest security on Earth with the exception of the Royal Palace. It could be said that in order to become a guard here, you had to

group of men and women that followed Governor Duke

However....

without the slightest