Attack begins

All kingdom troops were stationed a little far away from the city. There were a few thousand of them ready to attack their superior's order. Duke Mason was conducting his battle strategy meeting because, even though these attackers were rebels, he had no clear idea about their power.

"Shouldn't we attack head-on, aren't they just puny rebels?" One of the commanders suggested that others strangely look at him.

"Don't be stupid, these aren't normal rebels, I heard Davin Keller is with them, he only has enough wealth to rival a duke house,"

They were arguing among each other about which Duke listened with his eyes closed. He was thinking of the optic way to attack this city without accumulating much damage because they might have to send more troops to help the battlefront in the empire.

Ivan and Norman were also members of this meeting but both of them kept silent. Norman wanted revenge on Velian and others but, he was knowledgeable enough to know that he doesn't have enough power to do something like that.

Ivan was mainly planning on how to draw out the most powerful person that Norman talked about out of the town because he wanted to see his strength.

"I decided, we will use a full head-on fight, according to Norman here, they shouldn't have a gate, it might be more disadvantageous for them than us," Mason was making a little miscalculation thinking that, they couldn't build a gate in a such a small amount of time.

"Don't hesitate, kill anyone who rebels, we don't have the luxury to stay here for so long," Mason wasn't mainly worried about this fight, the thing he was worried about was an empire.

He gave the order to station the archer and attack mages near the range to counter any attack and ordered the infantry and his cavalry to charge.

Mason wasn't going to participate in this because he had to be in good and complete health in case something happens.

The Messenger who was sent to the Cantrell city returned with a small piece of letter,

"Duke Mason, they told me to give this to the commander," He handed over the luxury-looking paper which was previously used by the kingdom as their main source of papers.

"Tsk~ what a waste of talent, Davin Keller could have attended to a superior position with this type of talent, I don't know what's he dissatisfied with," He thought while opening the loosely sealed letter.

He read the letter but his face wasn't getting any better looking at it.

"How does he know all this? Even my spies don't know these things,"

Velian didnt send a letter begging him to stop the attack, his letter was a threatening letter to Duke, he mentioned all the current movements of the empire and if Mason don't go back to the kingdom, Velian mentioned he will wipe out all of them in this battle and then next will be the kingdom.

Mason being the patient man he is, was able to resist the anger he was feeling from this all underestimation.

He didn't know he was going to face a walking disaster which is more dangerous than the empire itself in this battle.

Mason ignored this latter and decided to according to the plan he discussed with his commanders and soldiers.

"If this information is true, I might have to go to the empire battlefield too, I should quickly finish this," Mason folded the paper and kept it in his pocket.

It took a few hours for all of them to get on the formation. Mason was supposed to talk with warriors before they go to battle to boost their morale.

There were quite a few men from the alliance who went to the capital in this army who didnt know the current situation of their families.

Velian and his troops were also ready to counter-attack the kingdom anytime. Since they were heavily outnumbered they decided to play the dense instead of offence.

Delvi and Remi were standing in front of Velian looking at the huge army in front of them.

"They have quite a several soldiers, Are we going to wait?" Remi asked Velian.

"Yeah, it will be easy for our soldiers to defence rather than attacking,"

"There are few people, who look extremely powerful, Our soldiers are not up to their standard, can you beat them?" Velian said while pointing at the most powerful-looking individuals.

They saw a horse coming toward them at full speed,

"I'm the envoy of Duke Mason, the commander of the army, we order rebels to hand over the territory back and surrender, We will attack if you don't do it," He shouted looking at the gate.

He didn't notice Velian standing on the wall because it was a little too high for him to see.

"I refuse, we won't surrender," Velian answered him.

He wasn't surprised or anything by this surrender note because it was the tradition to send these types of notes before attacking.

The envoy retreated back to give the message to Mason about their refusal of the proposal.

"Tell our soldiers to get ready," Delvi ordered and looked at Velian.

"What will you do brother?"

"I will watch out for now, If a tough opponent comes, I will help you, not that I think there's anyone who can handle my sister,"

Delvi listened to him while going back, She was thinking about something so she wasn't in her best mood.

"Should I tell him about it? But he will get disappointed if things went wrong now," She thought while going back.

The army of Rapidclaw kingdom was advancing slowly to attack the city, they were full of confidence since they were facing a bunch of rebels.

The adventurers were not so excited about this because this won't give them extra profit like monster hunting but still they had to do what their guild master told them.

Mason got near the city but he was dumbfounded.

"Norman, didn't you tell me that gate is destroyed?" He was a little angry with him because he thought Norman lied to him.

"I promise, the gate was destroyed when they entered the city, I don't know how they did this," Norman said while looking at the huge closed gate.

"There's no way they can build such a high gate anyway, I will deal with you later, first order infantry and cavalry to fall back, tell range warriors to attack, the wall," Mason gave his order and went back to supervise the battle.