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.

Those are normal gunpowder

cover Damian gave them, Joseph and the others crossed the final remaining distance to the city, anxiousness

"Dammit! Open the gate!"

a hundred that had made it

this

didn't make any sense.

decision making became cloudy and he banged on the gates just like all the others, unable to think for himself. He was practically brought

this scene

situation now,"

they didn't open the gates as many would have

a veteran of governance, 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 appreciated. Very easily, a great boon could become bland, a lifesaving grace could be expected, and a savior

the power and who didn't. As for the few

cheer. They didn't even consider the fact their lives would still

was exactly as Hargrove

"Shields at the ready.

Duke Owen didn't stay back. His aging body seemed even more

distance. From a cursory calculation, there was only enough space for a hundred people at a time and it took half a minute for a round trip to

to try and climb the city wall, that would be asking for death. However, the

have wanted to teach the prisoners a pre-emptive lesson with his actions, but he seemed to have not considered the fact that it would

actions though,

to become a guard here, you had

and women that followed Governor Duke

However....

all powerful combatants without the slightest idea on how to siege