10 City of Heles
{Based on the Book, 'Queen of Monsters: Nevare'}
The walls of the City of Heles stood firm that morning. It is six meters high and three meters wide. It could allow two people to walk on it without their shoulders touching each other.
The City Walls of Heles stretched from the north to the south side of Mount Delin Fall. It formed a semicircular wall that protected the City from external danger.
Heles did not have an inner wall, but the 12-meter towers that stood tall pierced the sky.
These towers were built beside the wall and inside the city. Each tower was only 100 meters apart from the other towers.
The towers inside the city were also used to mark the boundaries between districts.
The construction of the walls and towers of the city of Heles took only three months.
So fast isn't it?
With an outer wall length of 140 km and more than 3000 towers. This was only possible because human mages helped to build it.
More than 100,000 Mages worked hand in hand to create every inch of stone in everything seen from this City's defensive building.
The ground that would not be able to withstand the weight of the six-meter wall and twelve-meter tower would be hardened by using the [Earth Hard] spell.
This spell was inspired by [Skin Hard], where the user was able to harden the skin and withstand attacks from sharp objects. when applied to the soil it would cause land hardening due to changes in soil density.
The stone towers and walls were made from large stones that were found around Mount Delin Fall. The largest rock they brought down had a diameter of 12 m and weighed 200 tons.
They were brought down with [Earth Control] which was able to temporarily change the weight of inanimate objects, then cut with the [Fire Laser] spell which was able to cut through hard objects with incredible accuracy.
Each stone was cut into a rectangle with a length of 50 cm, a width of 20 cm, and a height of 25 cm. The stones were then glued together using the [Stone Glue] spell.
Heles had three gates. North, South, and East Gate.
The North Gate was the busiest because it was located opposite the human area. Every day many caravans of merchants passed through this gate to sell in the City of Heles.
The South Gate was heavily guarded, the number of adventurers entering the Bog forest made the guards at the gate carefully check the identity of everyone.
These adventurers were mages who possessed powers capable of threatening the security of Heles. So the inspections for adventurers entering and leaving Heles City were much stricter.
This was to avoid any mage from criminal organizations or fugitive mages who leave or enter the city of Heles.
Adventurers or mages who wished to live in Heles City were required to register themselves in an organization. This organization was named 'Guild'.
Guilds were for-profit organizations, whose job was to list, classify, and assess adventurers. The Guild also gave missions to adventurers at the request of the residents of the city of Heles and the surrounding villages.
Adventurers who have registered in the guild then they were required to show an adventurer's identity card.
The East Gate was the most deserted gate, only a few caravans of small merchants entered through this gate. They buy goods in Heles and sell them in nearby villages or they buy goods from villages and sell them in the City.
It was facing the elven territory, so this gate was guarded by many mages.
Even though the truce between humans and elves has lasted for 100 years, the fire of vengeance between the two mana species was still burning. Mainly due to the large number of war veterans who were still alive till today.
The wars of 100 years ago had caused too much harm to both humans and elves. The number of victims and the destruction of territory on both sides were still monuments to the hatred of the two mana species.
One of those wounds and monuments of hatred was Mount Delin Fall
Mount Delin Fall was not formed due to the movement of the earth's plates but was formed from a pile of soil.
Mount Delin Fall was a mountain formed by the Mana explosion during the Human Alliance's first war against the Elf Alliance.
At that time there was a massive war where the human army led by Micheil Forbeis against the Elf Alliance led by a mountain dwarf Delin Opalhide.
She was a hero and the proud leader of the Mountain Dwarves. Delin was very famous for her cleverness in war strategy and her ability to use the earth spell.
Carrying 100,000 mountain dwarves, Delin's army circled the defensive line of the human alliance and managed to enter the southern part of the human territory.
This army wanted to break through the human defenses and attack the royal capital of Stonhold.
This splendid deception tactic took the Humans by surprise, as their enemy could circle their line of defense with that amount of troops. The Kingdom of Stonfold, which is a human stronghold, was in danger of being destroyed.
Delin's twisting attack made the human alliance stumble. Their troops on the front line could not be pulled back.
Until King Andre von Luis III decided to use his knight guard to confront Delin's army.
He gave orders to Micheal Forebis, a head knight guard, to form an army as soon as possible and block Delin's troops for as long as possible until help from the frontlines arrived.
Micheal promised not to let the Elf set foot on human land even an inch, even if he had to give his life.
Micheal with 500 men of the king's guard knights moved.
Every time he passed a village, Michael forcefully recruited people. Every adult man and woman who had a healthy body would be forced to join.
Providing weapons, armor, and food for the militia army was not an easy thing. Micheal took all the food supplies, and livestock, and harvested all the farms even those that had not yet entered harvest time.
Then he armed the militia with every sharp iron tool they could find, many among them only carried a single kitchen knife.
Whenever Michael's troops stopped in a village, all that was left after they left were only buildings, old people, and children.
Some resistance by the villagers occurred during recruiting, but Michael and his 500 knights were mages. The villagers who were only ordinary people were no match for them.
Michael slaughtered all the rebels and their families.
The massacres were cruel, they were shackled and skinned alive. No matter if the rebels were children, women, men, pregnant women, adults, or the elderly no one could escape Micheal's wrath.
The executions carried out at the entrance of the village made their entire population submit.
In the third week, Micheal managed to gather 500,000 people.
Michael forced the militia troops to march day and night, they only stopped to eat or repair the ranks of the militia so that no one ran away.
Until the fourth week, Micheal's militia army met with Dilan's troops.
Militia with limited food and weapons were forced to march on, putting them on the verge of collapse before the battle even began.
Micheal knew that his army which only consisted of militia would be torn apart when Dilan's troops attacked.
He made a strategy to tie up the militias so they wouldn't escape.
Micheal ordered his militia troops to form a square formation. In one formation there were 50,000 militia, then Micheal chained every militia that was in the front, rear, and side of the square formation so the formation resembled a prison box.
Ten prison boxes confined 500,000 militia troops.
The battle began. 100,000 mountain dwarf warriors against 500,000 human militia.
The bards told the story of the battle in a poem.
"The mighty army of mountain dwarves charged forward with bloodthirsty eyes
Their arms were big, bigger than our thighs
Their hair and beard were very long, longer than our feet
Their bodies were short, shorter than ours' mule
Their ears were sharp, but not as sharp as their axes
The Dwarven army showed no mercy despite the militia's pleas
They killed as if they were breathing
Their short bodies were covered in blood from head to toe
Human flesh and blood stuck to their long hair and beards
A scream of pain was heard
Torn meat
Broken bones
Clinking iron
Those voices were carried by the wind into the sharp ears of the mountain dwarves
But unfortunately
Their sharp ears were covered with the blood of their victims
They couldn't hear anything
They could only see through the eye sockets on their helmet
Even so, their hands that were holding axes, swords, and spears continued to swing and stab every human that was still moving in front of them
A father wanted to go home to meet his son.
A mother wanted to go home to meet her son.
Their son was 6 years old.
Without both parents, the child would end up as a corpse on the street.
But unfortunately.
The prison box locked up and blocked their way home.
The ax tore the mother's stomach until her intestines burst open.
The spear pierced the father's chest until his heart burst.
But it was all right, as their son will follow soon.
A young man with a pale face.
His hands were shaking holding the wooden axe.
He was just a woodcutter.
He never thought of becoming a war hero.
He just wanted to support his elderly parents.
He just wanted to go home.
But unfortunately.
The prison box locked up and blocked their way home.
The sword slashed the youth's neck until his head was severed.
The headless body fell to the ground.
The young man's hands were no longer shaking.
But it was all right, his elderly parents would follow soon.
The dwarf's eyes which were visible through the holes in their helmets seemed to be trembling.
This was not a war but a massacre.
They killed ordinary people, not soldiers.
Until finally the eye holes on their helmets were covered by the human flesh they tore apart.
The Dwarves' eyes were closed as were their consciences.
While the Militia awaits their death.
An army of white knights descended from the hill.
They broke through the Dwarven army like needles through the cloth.
They charged forward to the enemy commander's base.
Michael the Brave.
Micheal the Brave fought with Delin the Butcher.
Trees fell, and boulders scattered.
All the Dwarven soldiers and the human militia saw the world of the apocalypse on that day.
Until there was a big explosion that turned the earth upside down.
The upside-down earth formed a mountain.
Standing on top of the mountain was Micheal the Brave.
His left hand held the Sword of Faithkeeper.
His right hand held Delin the Butcher's head.
But the head was without the body.
That mountain was Mount Delin Falls"
Three years after that battle, the brave Micheal Forbeis died from his wounds from fighting with Dilan.
His funeral was attended by the kings of all the human kingdoms. He was known as a hero because of his services that have saved humans from the attacks of 100,000 mountain dwarves.
The battle resulted in more than 400,000 casualties, of which 95% were human.
In addition, all the food in the village was exhausted because it was taken as war supplies and this caused the children and the elderly who were left behind to starve to death.
It was recorded that more than 500 villages were found empty without inhabitants, all that was left were the bodies of parents and children hugging each other. Their bodies were emaciated.
Several bodies were also found with only the skeleton left. Most likely the villagers made the corpses of their comrade as a source of food.
20 years after the truce, humans rebuilt villages and founded a city near Mount Dilan Fall. In the middle of the city, there was a statue of a large woman carrying a jug that was overflowing with water. She was Heles, the goddess of prosperity and safety.
The city was built to commemorate the sacrifice of 500,000 militia and Micheal Forbes. This city was named Heles, with the hope that all the people in it could live in prosperity and safety.
It was in this city that the first woman who became the bride of an orc was born. The first woman to meet the king of monsters.
Annaira Morris or better known as the Monster named Nevare.
