Vortigan is standing tall and wearing some really strong and elegant looking armour. His left gauntlet looks bigger though with a blood ruby embedded into it. I guess that's what he uses as his foci. "CANNONS, OPEN FIRE!" Vortigan yells out.

At that signal, Shining's pinkish purple barrier forms around the City, leaving the wall exposed. Apparently, we wouldn't be able to shoot out from inside it, just like a shield element barrier.

The thunderous symphony of blasts from the cannons drowns out the orcs war cries as orcs are blown apart left and right. The crystal cannons showing more power than a normal one.

"Sunfire shell loading!" a unicorn shouts out.

'Sunfire shell?' I ask myself confused.

A long cannon is being loaded with a strange looking projectile. It looks like a cannon ball, but made of some kind of glass or crystal and has fire swirling inside it. They close the hatch and aim the cannon.

"Fire in the hole!" another unicorn shouts and pulls a cord connected to the cannon.

The cannon recoils heavily as braces and gears grind loudly in an attempt to keep it in place and absorb the shock. I watch as the shell flies into the mass of orcs.

It detonates and I have to shield my eyes as the blast is so bright it's like looking at the sun itself... Well I guess I know why they're called sunfire shells now.

As the light dies down, I look at the crater that's left in the ground. That blast must have taken at least a hundred orcs with it.

"By the gods... did ya see that?" a dwarf says in awe.

"With how bright it was, I doubt even a blind man could miss it," an elf replies to him while rubbing his eyes.

The orcs are now about half way across the field. Although the cannons have taken out hundreds of them, it barely looks like a dent.

"MARKSMEN! OPEN FIRE!" Vortigan yells out another order again.

The soldiers with rifles begin shooting into the oncoming horde and the orcs at the front are dropping like flies against the hail of gunfire.

Explosions in the ground go off from the mines the mages hid under the dirt while we prepared for the battle. Orcs are sent into each other as they're ripped apart by the elemental blasts.

"Sunfire shell loading!" the unicorn shouts again.

This time I hold my arm over my eyes to shield them. "Fire in the hole!" he yells as the loud roar of the cannon firing alerts us to brace ourselves.

The ground shakes a bit as this one hit a bit closer. Though the effect was still the same, a crater in the ground and around a hundred dead orcs.

"INCOMING!" a soldier yells and I look up.

A boulder the size of a gryphon slams into the sunfire cannon and rips it off the wall. Fortunately, a unicorn teleported the remaining shells away before he was hit as well. Saving us from a massive detonation no doubt.

'Holy shit that was close,' I think to myself as I look out at what could have thrown that. I see four ogres, each with boulders in their hands. 'The hell? They're using ogres as siege engines?'

"CANNONS! CONCENTRATE FIRE ON THE OGRES!" Vortigan yells out.

The cannons all focus on the ogres and open fire as more boulders hurtle towards us and take out three cannons and one crystal cannon along with ten soldiers and guards. Most of the cannon balls hit their marks and two of the ogres go down, the other two only showing some wounds.

"ARCANISTS! FIRE PROJECTILE SPELLS AT THE ORCS!" Voritgan orders and the mages on the walls begin to channel earth elements fused with others as rocks piled along the walls as ammunition float at the tips of their staffs. They charge their spells and launch the fire, cold, arcane, and ice infused rocks at the orcs.

The pegasi in the clouds are firing at the orcs below while the orcs are trying to fire arrows up at them, but they're not reaching them. The arrows even come back down, hitting their own allies.

The orcs are now within melee distance of the ground troops. "JUGGERNAUTS! REPEL THEM! CLERICS! KEEP THEM STANDING!" Vortigan yells down to the troops.

A chorus of highly motivated cries echo out and the juggernauts ram into the orc attackers as their large shields slam into the orcs, impaling and slashing at them. The Scattergunners then take shots through the gaps between each juggernauts, peppering the orcs with holes.

The orcs then try to go around the juggernauts in an attempt to flank them. "LANCERS AND BATTLE-MAGES! DEFEND THE LEFT AND RIGHT FLANKS!" Vortigan orders.

Men in plate armour and lances gallop on their horses towards the sides and run down the orcs that get too close while the battle-mages fire off beams at the orcs that manage to slip through.

So far the battle is going well, we've only suffered about fifty casualties. A juggernaut is then blown back by a boulder slamming into him and he's not getting back up. Orcs start to stream through the gap and begin attacking the Scattergunners. I guess this is where I join in.

I cast my air wings spell and fly above near the gap, I then cast a fire beam in between the two juggernauts still standing and maintain the beam. The orcs keep trying to push through, even as they're burnt to death. Scattergunners quickly converge on the gap and fire into the orcs.

A screeching above us gets my attention as shadow bats with orc archers riding them are heading towards the pegasi in the clouds.

"PEGASI! CONCENTRATE FIRE ON THE SHADOW BATS!" I yell up at them.

They all start firing at the bats and they begin to drop, but the bats also managed to get a few of the pegasi as well. I fly up and channel four lightning elements and cast it at a group of bats in front of me. The lightning courses through them and chains to others nearby.

"Fall back and take out the rest from the walls! Once it's clear return here!" I Order them. They salute and fly off to the walls and I turn back to the horde of orcs, only to see a boulder coming towards me. "SHIT!" I yell and try to move away, but since I'm not using a four air element aura, the wings aren't moving fast enough and I get hit in the back.

I grunt from the hit and start spiralling out of control towards the ground where I manage to set into a glide and ram into some orcs. I Quickly get up and cast a lightning nova around me, the orcs nearby tense up as the electricity paralyses them and chains out to others.

I then channel four earth elements and cast a quake spell. The ground breaks apart around me and stalagmites spear the orcs near me.

A dire wolf leaps over the orcs and lunges at me. I raise my shield and block the attack but stumble back a few feet. I draw my sword and channel four cold elements into it and stab the wolf in its face. The wound is frozen over and so is the blood in it's head. After a second I pull out my sword and turn my attention on the orcs surrounding me.

An orc lunges at me with a spear and I lean out of the way. Another orc throws an axe at me and I drop onto my back to dodge it, the axe continues and embeds itself into an orc aiming a crude looking crossbow at me. I teleport myself back onto my feet and cast a stone armour spell on myself.

I look around and the orcs are all grinning at me. I need to get out of here! I was about to teleport away when someone yelling above me gets my attention. I look up and see Vortigan slam down onto some orcs with his battleaxe and air wings on his back. Unlike mine, his are twice as big as his are the full four element version.

He casts an air nova and blades of air spin around us, tearing the orcs into pieces.

I cast a fire spray spell and hose down the orcs rushing me while Vortigan does the same behind me.

"We need to get back to the walls!" Vortigan tells me.

"I can't fly as fast as you can!" I tell him and cut down an orc swinging a hammer at me.

"Then cast the two element air wings and I'll pull you along!" he tells me.

I guess that could work. I drop my stone armour and cast the fast gliding two air element wings spell. Vortigan grabs the back of my chest plate and lifts me up. We head back to the walls where the fighting is intensifying. Gnolls and manticores are now attacking the defences and the juggernauts are having trouble holding them off.

The Infantry are cutting down any that are making it past the juggernauts though while protecting the Clerics healing them from harm.

I take this chance to heal myself from the blow I took, no doubt I have a nasty looking bruise on my back and a possible fracture. My armour probably has a big dent in it as well.

Two deafening roars echo throughout the battlefield and I look up to see two deathmaws charging at the juggernauts... They'll be crushed under the mighty beasts.

The deathmaws are large reptile dinosaur type monsters as big as the ogres. They have small arms, practically useless, but their strong legs help them chase down their prey. They have a long tail with spines on the end for smashing into their foe and a large powerful jaw able to bend steel. Long razor sharp teeth line their jaws that can rip flesh in an instant and they have two long horns coming out of their head for spearing something just as big as them... class eight monsters.

"Damn, they've brought the deathmaws this time," Vortigan mutters.

I would blind and deafen them with the light and shadow elements, but they mainly hunt by scent... the loss of these senses wouldn't matter to them.

We land on the walls and Vortigan yells out. "FOCUS FIRE ON THE DEATHMAWS! BRING THEM DOWN!"

The cannons aim at them and fire. The shots hit, but cause little injury. They have tougher hides than the dragon I fought!

"Can't anything bring them down?" a soldier asks with worry in his tone.

The deathmaws keep getting closer and it would be a matter of minutes before they hit the juggernauts. A dark blue light from above blinds me for a second as a swirling vortex appears above the battlefield. The Equestrian galleon airship comes through along with four sloops.

"By the gods! What are those?" a dwarf shouts in surprise.

I just grin widely seeing Luna on the galleon's deck. "Reinforcements," I say as the large ballistas on the deck both fire at a deathmaw each. The harpoons pierce their tough hide and pin them to the ground, The thunderous roar of the galleon's fifty cannons going off rips the horde below to pieces. It seems they replaced all the cannons with those crystal cannons.

"Are those the airships you told me about?" Vortigan asks, staring at the ships.

"Yeah, I'm so glad Luna came through!" I reply and recast my wings and fly up to the galleon.

I land on the deck and see Luna with sweat matting the fur on her forehead and panting slightly. "Luna!" I say and hug her.

She returns the hug and smiles at me. "We managed to make the portal bigger than we thought. How goes the battle?" she asks.

"Good now that you're here. You just took out two class eight monsters easily, they would've torn through the juggernauts like paper," I reply and look over the side of the ship as the cannons are still firing down at the horde.

"That is good to hear. The magic required to open such a large portal was too much for ourself to cast, so Tia and Shella aided us in supplying the magic while we cast it. It was quite taxing and we require a moment to recover," she tells me and sits down.

"Alright. I'm going to look around from up here to see if I can spot any commanders among the orcs," I tell her and look around the battlefield.

The juggernauts are holding strong thanks to the constant healing from the Clerics, bloody hell they can take a beating, even the one I thought was killed by that boulder is now back on his feet. The marksmen are firing their bullets, arrows, and bolts into the mass of the orc horde, dropping them quickly. Though they are taking a few losses themselves from the orcs arrows and bolts.

The two ogres that survived the hits they took are back on their feet and throwing boulders at the walls again. We're losing a lot of cannons now.

I then turn to one to the crew. "Tell the gunners to aim for the ogres!" I order him. He salutes and heads below deck.

Seconds later the ship turns with the port side facing the ogres. The cannons fire and rip into the left ogre, blowing it to bits... Holy crap these crystal cannons pack a mean punch when fired as a group.

The other ogre spots us and throws a boulder at us. "INCOMING!" I yell and brace for impact.

The boulder hits the underside of the ship and wood splinters off. I then hear screams that get fainter, I think some of the crew fell off from the hole now in the ship. I frown and channel four earth elements and break off a piece of the boulder lodged into the ship, it hovers in front of my shield and I charge it up. Once strong enough, I fire it off towards the ogre.

The ogre was about to throw another, but the rock slams into its elbow and it drops the boulder... damn, I was aiming for its head. Still, it gave the gunners enough time to fire off another volley and rip the ogre apart.

Screeches fill the sky again as shadow bats swarm towards the airships. If they puncture the balloons, the ships will go down and we'll lose the advantage!

I fly above the galleon and fire a lightning beam at the approaching swarm of bats. I keep the beam on them for a few seconds before they begin to fall. Our pegasi snipers are now on the decks firing at them. A loud bang and rushing air to my left gets my attention. One of the sloops balloons has burst and the crew is abandoning ship. The pegasi carrying the unicorn and earth ponies to the other ships.

The ship goes down and explodes on the horde below... at least it took out what looks like five-hundred of them at least.

The snipers and I take down the last of the bats and I sigh in relief, which is short lived as a shadow passes over us. I look up and go wide eyed. They have a mother fucking wyvern!? A class ten monster!

"LUNA! WE GOT A PROBLEM!" I shout and head back to the deck.

"What is it?" she asks as she stands up.

I was about to reply, but a sloop to my right explodes as the wyvern rams right through it. "That!" I tell her. "Luna, does this ship have anything strong enough to hurt it?" I ask her.

She nodded. "Maybe, there is a sunfire cannon in the bow of the ship," she tells me.

"Alright, I'll get its attention and cast a lightning beam at it to keep it in place while you get the cannon ready and blast it!" I tell her and another sloop gets destroyed, Dammit!

"Okay, just be careful," she says and kisses me.

I smile and fly ahead of the ship and fire a lightning beam at the wyvern, well... I got it's attention now. It screeches and charges at me which I teleport to the right and just avoid it.

I risk channelling an arcane and four lightning elements and fire the strongest beam I can manage. I can feel a backlash of electricity shocking me slightly but I grunt through the pain. I hit the wyvern and its movements are slowed, but not stopped. Oh shit.

It comes back at me and I fear this might be it for me. A second much stronger beam of lightning hits the wyvern from my left. I look to see Vortigan hovering beside me. "Thought you could use a hand," he says.

"Thanks!" I reply. "LUNA NOW!" I shout back to the ship.

After a few seconds, the sunfire cannon fires.

The shot hits the wyvern in the chest and its wings, head, and legs fly off in different directions before I was blinded by the flash.

I blink my eyes a few times and head back to the galleon. "Nice shot, Luna," I say.

"No problem," she replies with a wide smile.

All we have left is a damaged galleon and a single sloop. Things could be worse. I look back down to the battlefield and see the horde down to half their original numbers.

I look around and see some sort of tent near the back of the horde. I take a spyglass from one of the crew and look at it more closely. I can see a human standing in front of it shouting at the orcs, who are running around with scrolls in their hands.

"Vortigan! There's a human out there," I tell him and hold the spyglass out for him.

He takes it and looks, but he then lowers it with a look of anger on his face. "It's my brother."

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