Below the fierce bloodshed of the battle for the ramparts, the core forces of the Steel Horde poured into the breach. Their advance was barred by Nightwalker, who twisted space to slow them down... but after a year of besieging the stalwart city, Azarax had come up with enough countermeasures against this insidious power.
The foremost warriors of the horde carried long metal spikes, each of them engraved with a complicated weave of ancient runes. As they entered the mire of twisted space, they drove the spikes into the mud. Those who followed behind them raised heavy sledgehammers, ready to push the spikes deeper into the ground.
Few of them survived more than one blow, pierced by dozens of arrows and toppling into the mud. But there were more soldiers behind them, each picking up the sledgehammers to continue the task.
