The Golden Throne

Chapter 183: Crossing into the city

The city guards were throwing heavy rocks down towards the soldiers to stop them from opening the doors, but to no avail. With one final hit, the doors swing open.

“DO NOT CROSS THE CITY DOORS YET!”, General George shouted. His voice was one that the soldiers could never forget, and the soldiers who were near the city walls stopped moving.

The horse that George and Hu Long were on neighed as it galloped once more and reached the city walls. The horse skidded to a halt as George jumped off the saddle. He held the shield up to make sure that no one could sneak attack him.

“All of you, your orders are to protect the child on the horse.”, he said. “And making sure that those idiots who are charging at us do not breathe another.”

The soldiers looked back with confusion and saw that the city guards were jumping through the chasm to get to them. Some of them were unfortunate to fall into them.

They shouted a battle cry as some of them reached the soldiers. They were hacking at them, but now, the soldiers’ armor showed their greatness. The swords that hit the armor were deflected. In response, the soldiers retaliated almost instantly. They slit one through the guards’ neck, and pushed them back into the chasm.

“Its your turn now, boy. You better do this good.”, George looked at Hu Long.

“Don’t worry. I can be more reliable than many of the monkeys you people trust.”, he scoffed as he closed his eyes and started to chant something.

George looked up. The city guards were still very persistent and were now rolling down boulders at the soldiers on the ground. Some were unfortunate to be crushed by the weight, while some had injuries.

“This is why I hate sieges.”, George grumbled as he raised his shield. A few arrows rained on him at that exact time, but they were deflected instantly.

“You are ten years too young to sneak attack on me.”, he said with a gruff voice.

He looked back, at all the soldiers who were advancing at a terrifyingly slow pace. They were all stopped by the chasm that was inevitably created. Now, many were falling to the arrows that came raining down on them from the walls.

He shouted, “Archers! Provide the soldiers cover. Recruits, move forward, and get ready to become the first wave.”

Immediately, a hail of arrows rose from behind the army and flew towards the city walls. Shrieks and shouts ensued, and the city guards started taking cover. With this, the arrows from the city walls decreased in number, but not completely.

“What is taking so long? Removing the ground beneath the city walls took you just a minute!”, George barked at Hu Long.

“Do you really think that this is as easy as that? Be happy. You are saving so many lives because I did this. Never shout at me like that again.”, Hu Long snapped back as he looked back at the chasm. He raised his hands, and closed his fingers.

A rumble came, just like before. Slowly, the ground beneath the chasm started coming up, and it was filled in a minute. George looked at this and heaved a sigh of relief.

“Finally.”, he said. He looked at the soldiers with a steeled face. “CHARGE!”, he shouted.

All the soldiers gave a battle cry as they rushed into the city itself. George looked at Hu Long. “Are you going to keep sitting on the horse, or are you going to let me go in? I need to lead the army.”

“Do you think that those monkeys will even hold a candle against the demons inside the city? You underestimate the power of demons.”, Hu Long scoffed as he held the reins of the horse. He hit the neck of the horse, and kicked it with his feet. 

“Giddyap!”, he said as the horse ran into the city.

“I just lost my horse to a boy.”, George murmured. “Get me a horse!”, he shouted.

By now, all the city guards were more concerned with the soldiers who invaded the city itself, and the barrage of arrows stopped completely. The fight inside the city was not clearly visible, but it was clear that something big was happening because of all the sounds.

George looked around. He finally spotted a person riding the horse. He ran towards that man, and stopped him.

“Did you not listen to me? I said, get me a horse. Where are you going?”, he shouted at that man.

“What do you mean? I thought you were asking the stupid commoners. Not- What are you doing. Ahh!”, the man was pushed out of the horse and George jumped onto the horse.

“Stupid idiots.”, he cursed as he rushed into the city. Seeing that it was him on the horse, the soldiers gave way for him to come into the city. He rode in, and the first sight he saw was a bloodbath. There were thousands of men, from both the city guards and the army, lying on the ground. In the center of the whole pile of corpses, there was a dark humanoid thing, standing. 

In its hands was a head, a human head. It was clearly a demon, and a very powerful one at that. The demon threw the human head up in the air, and gulped it. It then turned to see George.

He could see a huge smile in its face. His face changed. He hurried and took a gun from his pocket and pointed it towards the demon.

In an instant, the demon disappeared, and it reappeared before him. At that exact moment, George pressed the trigger. A loud sound and a flash ensued. The gun blasted a mana burst towards the demon.

He jumped off the horse and slowly retreated. He looked to his left and right to make sure that there were not any people who could sneak attack him.

He then looked forward to see if the demon was alive or not. To his horror, he could hear a voice from the huge dust cloud that was inevitably formed by the gun.

“This is a very interesting toy you have in your hands. The demon general will be happy if I present it to him.”, the demon said as it walked towards George. Now, he could finally see the demon properly.

It had smily scales all over its body, and it had a black exterior. Its face was like that of a reptile, and it only slightly resembled a human, because it was standing on two feet and had two hands.

“Get out of the way!”, George heard a shout from his right all of a sudden. He instinctively jumped back. In front of him, the demon was suddenly hit in the head with a huge rock.  The demon was catapulted away.

George turned around to see Hu Long. He had blood all over his clothes, and it seemed that in the short time that he was gone, there was a big fight that happened here.

“Can you take care of this demon on your own? What the hell happened though?”, He asked Hu Long.

“No time to explain.”, Hu Long shook his head as he put his hands together and started chanting. Behind Hu Long, the ground suddenly lifted, and huge rocks and chunks of ground started floating, and they started merging into one big rock.

“Human. You are just a child. You should be easy to deal with. Why are you so irritating?”, the demon’s voice came from George’s left. George knew that this fight was not his, and that he wouldn’t be able to even participate in it.

He slowly moved away, and he slid away from the entrance of the city. He felt bad that all the soldiers were going to enter straight into a huge battle with a demon, but he also knew that he had to do more things in a short amount of time.

Once Hu Long and the demon were out of sight, he started running into the city. He could see buildings lined up next to him. But the city itself seemed to be deserted.

“Where are all the city guards and the civilians? Don’t tell me, they are all dead? But there are supposed to be demons as well here.”, he wondered as he continued running towards the center of the city. He ran straight through the roads, and after a few minutes, he stopped in what appeared to be a city square.

He looked towards the direction that he had just come from. He heard sounds of the fight still, even though he was almost a kilometer away! In the air, he could see blasts of fire, and more. He was worried about where the fight was headed, but then, the sounds stopped. He could not hear anything from the fight anymore.

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