A dozen Roman soldiers were on the wall, watching in disbelief as their companions abandoned their heavy shields and fled.
The clone soldiers, taking advantage of the gaps in the defense, took positions on the city wall.
The defense of the city wall was collapsing, and the flight of generals and legionaries only accelerated the fall.
The Roman soldiers who protected the city were desperate and could only continue fighting.
The clone army did not take prisoners.
The few Roman soldiers who tried to surrender were brutally killed by clone soldiers.
The intense combat had awakened the thirst for blood in all the clones.
The bloody sieges had affected the mentality of the clones, and as a consequence the clone army became more bloodthirsty toward its enemies.
The Roman army had collapsed long ago, but unfortunately the clone army did not accept their surrender.
The clone soldiers only had the option to fight desperately.
In a short time, a large number of clone soldiers occupied a great part of the city wall, and the Roman army was losing its numerical superiority.
Marius the Younger and Gaius gave orders to seal the stairways leading down into the city to prevent the clone soldiers from descending from the wall.
Wooden carts with enormous stones blocked the stone stairways, managing to prevent the clone soldiers from descending from the wall.
The last order of Marius the Younger and Gaius was to delay the entry of the clone army into the city of Rome.
The clone soldiers had gained notoriety for their madness and their suicidal attacks.
It would be a disgrace for the city of Rome for such a bloodthirsty army to invade it.
Marius the Younger and Gaius withdrew under the cover of their soldiers and taking advantage of the chaotic situation of the city.
The flames began to burn across the city of Rome, and the screams and laments could be heard in the distance.
Sulla's army began the looting and the killing of families they considered enemies.
On the other hand, Septimus frowned upon realizing that most of the stone stairways of the wall that led down into the city were being blocked.
The wall attacked by Septimus's army was already controlled by the clone soldiers.
The few Roman soldiers who remained on the city wall could only maintain a defensive formation and protect themselves desperately from the attacks of the clone army.
Septimus, on his black horse, was outside the wall, and with a gesture of his hand gave a signal.
The clone soldiers acted as if possessed by an evil spirit and threw themselves from the city wall at specific points.
Septimus's purpose was to create a mass of clone bodies in order to be able to descend into the city of Rome.
The clone soldiers would climb the wall by the siege ladders and would descend on the side of the city by jumping and falling onto a cushion formed by the bodies of clones.
The first clones to throw themselves from the wall who had the luck to survive only broke their legs or their arms.
More and more clones threw themselves from the wall, trying to create a human cushion of bodies.
The clones also threw the corpses of dead Roman soldiers, managing to accelerate the creation of the cushion of corpses.
The infernal scene of accumulated corpses also terrified the few soldiers who were protecting the stone stairways.
In a short time, hundreds of corpses accumulated, forming small mounds of 3 to 5 meters.
The clone soldiers who threw themselves from the city wall managed to get up safely.
The Roman soldiers who witnessed the scene abandoned their posts and fled in terror.
Not even the most experienced Roman legionary would have witnessed such a terrifying scene before.
The few Roman soldiers who were too horrified to escape were killed by the dozens of clone soldiers who descended from the wall.
With the passage of time, more and more clone soldiers began to descend from the city wall and to organize themselves to clear the obstacles from the stairways.
The efficiency of the clone army was very high, and after an hour, all the obstacles that prevented the Roman army from descending the wooden stairways were cleared.
The streets of the city of Rome were filled with Sulla's soldiers and opportunistic thugs who took advantage of the situation to join the looting.
Shops of all kinds were looted, and the houses of the upper class that were not well protected also suffered a similar or worse fate.
Most women preferred to commit suicide rather than fall into the hands of a crowd of looters.
The few women who lost the opportunity to commit suicide were brutally raped and tortured without leaving a corpse with intact limbs.
When the clone army finally managed to enter the city, Sulla's army had a two-hour advantage inside the city.
With a thought from Septimus, the clone army, like a pack of wolves released from their chains, began to run in all directions throughout the city.
The fall of the city of Rome meant an opportunity to generate wealth through looting and murder, and Septimus would not waste that opportunity.
In a noble house, a Roman senator named Gaius was holding a Roman sword while giving orders to dozens of men.
The group of armed men was made up of slaves and thugs who worked for Gaius.
Gaius sponsored a small gang in Rome that was dedicated to smuggling, theft, and the collection of protection money.
Half of the thugs had been mobilized to protect Gaius's house, and the other half of the thugs followed their leader Mako with the purpose of taking advantage of the looting and making money.
Mako was the small leader who obeyed Gaius's orders in the underworld of the city.
Gaius's plan consisted of taking advantage of the situation to use thugs and get rid of his political enemies.
The senator Gaius belonged to the neutral faction and did not fear Sulla's purge.
The plan was perfect, and the looters of the area knew the thugs who protected Gaius's house. As a result, no one dared to attack Gaius's house.
Sulla's army focused on taking key locations of the city and attacking the large houses of the nobles who supported the consuls.
The thugs and slaves of Gaius's house were reinforcing the wooden door with thick logs.
Few dared to attack the house of Senator Gaius, but as a precaution the door was being reinforced.
The thugs who were reinforcing the door did not notice that a group of one hundred soldiers in black armor was marching toward the house.
A sharp javelin pierced through a small opening in the door that was used to observe visitors.
The sharp javelin penetrated the arm of a thug, and his blood splattered onto the faces of the slaves and thugs who were near the door.
The sudden attack stunned all the men, but the sound of blows on the door quickly awakened everyone present.
Senator Gaius, with a trembling voice, gave orders to block the door while his legs trembled.
The door began to shake with a dull and steady rhythm.
The soldiers in black armor were using a log as a battering ram to knock down the door.
The terrified senator Gaius began to shout orders with an increasingly trembling voice.