"What's happening down there?"
"Who are those people in gray robes?"
"Be alert! Stay on guard!"
Panic-stricken shouts echoed, but their long-standing negligence left them slow to react and chaotic in movement. No one immediately ordered an attack, nor did anyone swiftly activate the City Defense Array to full capacity.
A few officer-like figures rushed to the wall's edge, leaning out and questioning below with a tone of suspicion and arrogance:
"Who goes there?!"
"State your identity and purpose!"
"Cease advancing immediately, or face certain death!"
Meanwhile, as the garrison's attention was drawn to the army clad in gray robes ahead, no one noticed a phantom-like shadow. Utilizing the shadows at the wall's corner and the garrison's chaotic blind spots, it silently scaled the smooth, towering walls of several dozen meters at an almost vertical angle!
It was Black-robed Modus!
