The Charge

the enemy charge

After five seconds of stunned silence over Rust's corpse, tens of thousands of enemy troops roar and charge.

Story so far

The instant Rosetta whips the head off King Rust and his body slumps from Gonk into the dirt, the entire battlefield goes still. Five full seconds of stunned silence pass across the Plains of Larracos. Nobody reacts at all — not the horde's officers, not even Rust's own guards walking beside him.

Then the tens of thousands of enemy troops roar in indignation and charge, erasing the withdrawal Carl had negotiated moments earlier and beginning the battle he had spent the whole parlay trying to avoid.

Role

The mass enemy assault triggered by the assassination of King Rust.

Relationships

Rosetta — Her assassination of Rust triggers the charge.

King Rust — His decapitation is the provocation.

The Withdrawal Deal — Destroyed by the charge before it could be enacted.

Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 31

The crawler army's smoke-covered infantry rush across no-man's-land into the enemy trench line.

Chapter 42

After five seconds of stunned silence over Rust's corpse, tens of thousands of enemy troops roar and charge.