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The threat of a plague was something that would stir the greatest of leaders into action. Let it be simple cowardice where they hide themselves inside of their fortresses or those who would assemble forces of paladins and priests to pray against the coming Chaos, all were driven into great actions to try and defeat the coming terrors.
In this Lucian found that the siege needed to end. If they stayed around any longer than their numbers would be lost and a great amount of peril would come to face them. Death on the greatest scale that would surely bring the ire of Nagash upon them.
The next day the forces united against the destruction of the Duke were assembled. Yet the sickness that Lucian had suspected from the Skaven had already gripped a large amount of the army within the day. Many of the Albionish were stricken with foul health from being so far from home, and that had only gotten worse when they grew large red boils upon their face.
Bretonnians were not spare either. A quarter of his Knights found themselves screaming in pain as what was called the Red Pox came upon them. Lucian found that only few could be saved by the prayers of the priests, and for Lucian he could only grant them solace in the afterlife.
The terror of this already caused a number of both Albion Warriors and unchivalrous Knights to flee for the ports of Bordeleaux or the hills of Bastonne. When he asked Tee-Nee-Tyny, the Skink had said that those men were but carriers of the plague now. That what the Skaven had unleashed upon them would was already in their veins.
There was nothing they could do though. A great Pox being released meant that they needed to either act or break the siege. Lucian could not allow the latter to happen, and so brought the forces to bare.
Of his forces were several hundred Knights and a couple thousand Albion Warriors. There were some men at arms and yeoman, but they were operators of the warmachines and siege towers that were being brought to the fore.
The King of Albion had taken to the plague, leaving the rest of them to fight. Being a Dwarf Adok was hardy against the plague, and it seemed that the magics that Tee-Nee-Tyny worked were able to keep him and Bok able against the Pox. Gillot, perhaps through the empowerment of the sword, was still able to stand. As a Dragon, a plague like this was nothing to him. Only the poxes blessed by Nurgle himself would have any grip upon a Dragon.
For Lucian, a Grail Knight, he stood immune and uncorrupted. Thus his divinity was further proven to those who watched as the Knight marched out infront of his troops.
