Prayers from the people echoed wave after wave from within the city, while the battle outside was drawing to a close.
Seeing his soldiers on the verge of total annihilation, the general from Kish finally had no choice but to order a retreat. Before leaving, he glared with resentment at the distant City of Susa.
To think it had been so agonizingly close!
This city-state was about to fall into his hands!
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