The battle of the gates

The raging reunion was stopped when a thunderous explosion resounded behind Von, the sergeant had disappeared and his position was replaced with stones, the once standing walls had been completely demolished and the remnants of what was once the sergeant was all around the wall, and the thing that was thrown towards the wall had ended on the other side of the camp.

All three of them looked towards the gape, their eyes in complete horror as they saw the path of destruction the boulder, as they could now clearly see, had made. The hellish landscape both the fire arrows and the boulder had created would be that of Kever, the cotton tents proved to be an amazing fuel for the raging, engulfing fire, which consumed not only materials but lives, the screams of agony of those trapped inside the now deadly tents were heard in the forest and surrounding areas.

Suddenly through the gap a figure masked by the smoke and dust arose, his physique would be more comparable to a monster than a human, his back was as wide as two men put together side by side, he did not surpass the walls height by chance and his arms were nothing like they had seen before. In his hand he held a stone the size of a fist, his view shifted towards Miek who was at Von's left, it didn't take too much thought to realize that they were no match for the monster.

"Leave, i'll handle him" Von ordered

"You have no chance against him!" Jochen shouted "Let's leave let another Lieutenant handle it"

The stone was pulverized in the man's fist, and before their conversation could continue the smaller rocks were thrown towards them, the speed would be comparable to that of an arrow, if it hit them it was certain death. Von created fire which resembled a wall in front of him, it didn't manage to stop the rocks but slow them enough so they wouldn't be lethal.

One of them pierced Von's left arm skin, the pain wasn't unbearable but it damaged near the elbow which meant that it would be harder to move.

A shriek pierced his ears, it was Miek "MY EYE!!!!" Von turned around and saw Miek holding his left eye with his hand, flowing blood came down his cheek as he kept shouting. Von realized that if the three of them stood there doing nothing they would end up like the sergeant.

"Jochen get him out of here, take him near the other squads" Von snapped

"But.." Jochen tried to reason

"Go!" Von shouted

Von was terrified, this man, his demeanor, his eyes, everything was just like a tale monster one would be afraid of when he was a kid, yet this was not a tale it was real life. Still, he was the only one who could face him right now, so he pushed his fears back, unsheathed his sword and charged head first, he would use fire in his feet to be quick enough to evade some attacks and then he would aim for the head. The monster now faced him.

On the other side of the camp the soldiers were fighting the enemy on the gates which formed a bottleneck of corpses, the Kriel forces managed to hold back the enemy thanks to their spear wall, a common tactic which meant using their shields and spears to make a deadly formidable wall, however the tides were starting to gather against them, the gape the monster had formed was more than enough for the rest of the forces to go through and perform a flank on them, having most of their forces in the gates meant a deadly disadvantage if they were.

Lieutenant Groman realized this after hearing the thunderous explosion in the back of the camp, he quickly assembled the few soldiers left that weren't on the wall and formed a small defence in the rear of the forces.

"My soldiers, the enemy thinks they have us by the neck, that their surprise attack was successful" Groman began shouting

"But the pit will prepare for them will show them otherwise, so fight, kill them all and once we do we shall toast over their graves!!!" he kept shouting as he formed part of the defence

"For the King!! Kill the traitors!!!"

The battle of the two sides in the gates had begun. The assault on the rear proved to be quite successful despite the defence put up by Groman and the remaining forces, the wall had to be partly disarmed to protect them from being encircled. "Riege!! Get over here!!!" Groman screamed as he pierced the throat of what he could finally recognize, a erwebund soldier.

Around the gates the corpses of both sides started to pile up, till some were used to get higher and try to jump over the spear wall.The metal tipped spears would not stop, they would pierce organs, limbs, anything that standed in their way.

Inspired by Groman's speech all soldiers started yelling as they fought creating a warcry "For Kriel!!" was heard around the camp. Sometimes they would open the wall, let a few enemies in and kill them before they could react.

Now the blood mixing with the already thick mud made it hard for it to walk in, it was slippery, some soldiers would slip and fall and be killed, trampled by their own. As the battle continued Groman had two insecurities in his mind ¿Where is Riege? And ¿Where is Von?

All of Von's senses screamed danger, the distinct metal taste of blood filled his mouth, the smoke and dust made his eyes teary, the fires now starting to die having consumed the tents and the men within them, darkened the scenery. As he clutched his sword he devised a strategy, since this enemy seemed to have thick skin combined with his stone binding it would prove difficult to kill head on, instead he would move around parrying and deflecting till he had a clear opening for the neck then he would strike.

Putting his plan to practice, Von rushed what he could call a leader before he had a chance to throw more rocks. He used fire in his feet to allow the mud to dry before he actually stepped on it, as he approached the man he felt the air, hot, dry around his face, his hair now over his left eye swayed around as he got nearer.

He aimed for his right arm, it was covered in rocks before he could strike, he twisted and jumped aiming his left foot now covered in fire to the head, blocked by both hands.

Before the enemy could grab him, he dropped down aiming a blow to the right knee, before he could strike he saw a kick of the left leg covered in rocks getting closer, he blocked but he got blown away. After rolling a few meters he got up, his right arm wasn't broken but it was probably sprained.

"he's tough, but his moves are slow, if I keep moving fast he might make a mistake." Von thought "after all he can't use stone to protect all parts at the same time". Von realized that the enemy had to choose which limb to protect since he only had a limited amount of energy he could use, so after seeing the enemy in action he decided to use his own tactics against him. Von quickly got up and grabbed some of the stones that had been crushed after hitting the camp's walls.

He lunged forward, the man in front of him already expecting his attack.

However instead of lunging with his sword first Von threw the rocks towards him using his fire to accelerate them fast enough to be deadly projectiles. The captain managed to create a stone wall in front of him just in time, but Von was already there after spinning just fast enough to evade the wall as he aimed for the stomach. The captain seeing the surprise attack covered the targeted area with stone, Von took advantage of this and turned around leaving his back exposed, but before the captain could do anything else Von jumped and flew up using his fire and came spinning down with a downward slash towards the captain's neck.

"I got you now monster". He thought Von shouted as the sword fell on it's prey.