The Land

Jacob had spent so much time worrying about himself, those people and things nearby, that he had paid no regard to the giant massing army not altogether too far in the distant. In fact, it seemed, once Jacob looked about his group, he was the last individual to take notice of the huge army ahead. Alfred, Miller, Rat-face, the girl, the guard and the few others were all watching intensely at the men and machinery gathering in greater numbers. Jacob looked forwards for the first time with a greater curiosity and again saw another great frightening yet intriguing sight. Ahead the group watched as the few battle towers and Magno-chines that took a part in the seizing of the gate sped ahead to join the colossal size army, which was now at a stand still. As the group roamed closer, Jacob could see millions upon millions of more soldiers that made the attacking battalions of the gate look like a mere few in comparison to the overall number. The soldiers were all in gigantic formations, apparently in their own reg iments and not all the same. The majority of soldiers were in the unchanged armour as the attacking force but there were also few units that seemed made up of medieval style knights in plain steel coverings, not to compete in grandness in comparison of the armour dress of the Keepers. Other smaller companies seemed dressed as soldiers would appear on Earth, without any steel armour but dressed in uniform clothing with perhaps just an unusual helmet. The men alone were a dazzling sight with all their reflective armour glittering under the sparkling sun but they did not steal the spotlight for this show appearance. The main attraction for Jacob and his fellow on lookers were the magnificent machines that slowly moved about between each company, waiting to be driven into the mouth of madness. There were many more battle towers, much higher and bigger than those giant ones that Jacob saw in the hall, these were much too big to have gotten inside and they were almost as huge as a small mountain. Their metallic bla ck coverings shined under the sun that Jacob could not find when he first arrived, but now he could surly see it, glaring mercilessly hot in the now slightly cloud forming sky. The sun was much smaller than that he would usually see on Earth but it was there up. Giant guns of all weird sorts hung off the back of these steel beasts and once again he saw the many glass half moon pocket of windows with men cradled inside, caressing the machine gun they wielded from the side of the monster. Other than these giant roaming machines were more vehicles of probable destruction. Not as high but massive in width were long silver cylinders that what Jacob first described to himself as big futuristic looking battle trains. The long rounded vehicle had a huge beam resting above it, which Jacob supposed to be the biggest cannon weapon he had seen so far and engines on either side in which it much project itself. Apart from these, there were also many smaller vehicles in which the average soldier travelled and fought in. In the low sky, hundreds of little Magno-chines whizzed around, looking black against the bright heavens, in the appearance of many flies busying about. Also landed on the ground, waiting for departure were the travel vehicles Jacob had seen in happier times, such as the large bus style vehicle he travelled through the mountain in, but the ones he saw ahead were altered with military additions. Though Jacobs group was getting near to the nearest of soldiers in the army, his band was still a fair bit away from the death delivering services. On they strode, venturing ever closer, if natural death was a possibility most of the group’s poor hearts would have failed long ago but of course none had hearts.