Imperium Knight Chaos Rising (The Hunter Imperium Book 6) by Ellis Timothy

Author:Ellis, Timothy [Ellis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty Four

Talk turned towards defenses.

She seemed to accept the Trixone were coming in force as given. Their shields had already been changed to burn up anything solid coming down on the top of the city, and over the area behind the walls. If the plants tried parachuting troops in again, they were going to regret it.

The bad news was they couldn’t shield the top of the walls themselves. Why wasn’t offered, but obviously it was something to do with the nature of the shield generators. It meant the walls had to be defended the old fashioned way, like everyone else. I made it quite clear the plants could climb the walls without needing ladders, siege engines, or tech help. Willow gave orders to mobilize the entire garrison.

Now didn’t appear to be the time to ask why they needed a garrison at all. The kingdoms were at peace with each other, were way too far away to even grind against each other, and garrisons appeared to be redundant. But apparently they all had them.

The word had gone out to all outlying areas already, and farming communities were either heading for cities as fast as they could, or somewhere they could both hide, and defend easily. Again, I wondered why defensive positions were readily available on such a peaceful world. Could just be paranoia held over from centuries before, being hunted by tigers, but my gut said this wasn’t the only reason. But now wasn’t the time to ask.

Willow led me to the city’s armoury, where I was surprised to see only swords, spears, and a kind of transparent shield. Since her knights only carried swords, I guess this wasn’t surprising, but unless they were going to field more troops than they had swords for, the city was doomed.

My expression must have said as much, as she burst out laughing, and led me into another much larger room. They didn’t have laser weapons, but they did have large gatling gun like slug throwers, too big to be carried by any one person. And while these seemed out of place with their actual level of tech, when I was shown a demonstration of one, it was very obviously more in the way of rail gun tech, than machine gun tech. Once again, I wondered why their arms development had gone this way, when these things were completely unsuitable. Although, for shooting at fast running tigers, it would give the tiger a run for its life.

Actually, they weren’t very suitable for shooting plants either, but as I was then shown, a single slug went a long way, and anything solid, like tree trunks, was shredded by the impact of many fired rapidly. Hose them across a mass of Trixone like they tended to attack with, and they’d be just as effective as my own guns were. And according to the armoury master, the solids would bounce when they hit the ground, and continue like a flat stone skipping across water.

Orders went out to distribute

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