The last thundermaker ball inside the compound was fired at the seventeenth hour.
The ball crossed the two-hundred-pace distance between the compound's northern wall and the Rakshas' position at the palace avenue's approach and struck the ground three paces in front of the formation's front shield. The impact cratered the cobblestones and the shockwave shook the shields in the Rakshas' front rank and the warriors behind the shields braced against the shockwave's force with the automatic response that sustained thundermaker bombardment had trained into the warriors' neuromuscular systems across two days of continuous urban combat.
