Beneath the crimson rain, the siege cannons and trebuchets rolled closer and closer toward the massive crystal walls. The ground trembled beneath their weight, while their enormous reinforced wheels crushed the wet grass into the mud and left deep trails across the plains.
Each siege cannon required dozens of soldiers merely to move, its enormous barrel wide enough for a grown man to crawl inside. The trebuchets towered above the surrounding infantry like wooden giants, their throwing arms already lowered as soldiers loaded them with magic boulders large enough to crush entire buildings beneath them.
There were enough siege weapons surrounding Blackspire to bring down an ordinary capital without a single soldier ever needing to approach its walls.
