Chapter 62: Plague World Invasion
The skies of this world were a clear blue, the clouds quite thick and high up in the air. The humidity in the air was apparent, yet not the hot sort which clung to the skin and made one feel uncomfortable. Instead, the humidity was cool, and felt almost natural.
Beyond even the clouds, two suns shone down onto the earth… and in the horizon the skies were beginning to show the slightest tinge of purple and gray. An all too familiar color which Orodan despised quite deeply.
And on the ground in front them, and all around…
…they were surrounded, the weapons of almost a hundred soldiers were pointed at Orodan and Zaessythra.
At the very front, twelve foot tall suits of metal were arrayed. Hot steam and magical energies being periodically emitted out their vents. Glittering enchantments were engraved upon the plates of metal which made up their armored frames. These large metallic golems seemed to have no pilots within, they wielded some manner of multi-barrelled firearm on the right hand, and an impressively forged and enchanted blade in the left.
War golems of steam and metal.
And behind them, arranged tactically to safeguard the flanks and seemingly vulnerable angles of the golems, were human soldiers were armed with repeating rifles of similar make to those he’d seen the dwarves of his home world use. These guns were seemingly powered by a mixture of steam and magic. Powerful implements, lethal ones too, if the feeling he got from them was any indicator.
The golems and soldiers comprised the first battle line. And behind this leading rank was an assortment of artillery pieces supported by additional gun-wielding soldiers and mages.
They came in varying sizes and had crews operating them, however all of them were mounted atop some manner of vehicle, a metallic, enclosed cart which was again, operated by steam and magical energies. All of these vehicles had firing ports, much like the balistraria upon a fortified castle, from whence the gun-wielding crew could dispense salvos of death. The barrels of many steam-powered rifles protruded from these gun-holes, the human crew within these vehicles alert and watching him and Zaessythra closely.