Gate Wrath of a world

EP 4 Battle for Italica Part 1

It seems Mark's group would ride forward with similar numbers of their last expedition

Lelei notice they use magic to make new maps with some writing for a more accurate map compared to the world's map

Nori: "hmm I wonder what those girls are talking about" he looks towards Rory and Tuka who were riding horses some lines back

Mark: "no idea but looking at them, their probably talking some girl stuff"

Ayla would be sniffing the air as she would move forward of the group

Rimuru: "what do you smell Ayla?"

Ayla would look around: "it's smoke, I'll say something is up ahead"

Nori: "is it the dragon again"

Ayla: "maybe but I doubt it"

Weiss: "best we check what's the reason, wait isn't Italica up ahead up"

Lelei: "it should be"

Meta knight: "that isn't good, would there be another reason for a highly populated city as well as a trade city, under heavily amount of smoke for Ayla to smell it"

Ayla: "it's a siege most likely"

Rory: "I can sense the stench of blood"

Mark: "guess that makes our answer clear as day"

Nori: "everyone pick up the pace, and prepare for a potential battle up ahead" they would march a bit faster now as well as those on mounts

Weiss looks at the sky: "Zenberu could you ask those with Wings to look on ahead for us"

Zenberu: "sure Hawks can you go ahead and scout for us" soon one of them would nod as they would fly forward ahead of the group

At italica there would ve a siege as it seems a large hoard of bandits and deserted soldiers were trying to get in

The ones who were fighting were under the command of Pina as it seems her forces mainly had 3 things, former soldiers, mercs, and Militia that was left

Bandit commander: "shit, retreat, retreat" they would fall back as some arrows would hit them

Pina: "Noma, Hamilton you okay" a small wooden wall was made inside of the gate entrance to trap attackers in

Hamilton would take breath of exhaustion: "we're alive" Noma would simply raise his hand

Gray: "Princess are you worried about us humble servants"

Pina: "Gray the safety of the nobles is an obvious concern"

Hamilton: "princess what are we doing in this place, playing around with Marauders"

Pina: "it can't be helped, I thought the Army from the other world might plan to invade Italica, so that's why we rode to here and more so after the rumors, but what we find are deserted soldiers from the unified kingdoms Army and turn into a gang of Marauders"

Soon the milita would be exhausted as they wanted to rest as many were either Young man or man past their prime

Pina: "you guy break's over Marauders will come again soon, I received message that my knights will come here in 3 days, remove the corpses and reinforce the fence, hurry, hurry, hurry"

lady: "everybody we prepare some rations"

Pina: "Noma, you take turns eating and resting as well, no signs from the enemy?"

Noma: "yes all quiet now"

Pina: "Gray, I'll dine at the mansion so I'm leaving the rest of you" gray would nod