GUARDIAN OF THE END

"Do you think it will hold on for much longer?" Jason asked while looking at the golden barrier outside Duphia.

"It has held on for the past few months. I think it will definitely hold up for a few more months before succumbing to their assault." Amon replied, his eyes staring at the group of red armor-clad soldiers attacking the barrier from outside.

Julian's patron had been telling the truth when he said that he had thousands of soldiers to replace the current ones.

No matter how many soldiers were killed by the residents of Duphia, more would keep popping throughout the place.

They wouldn't have bothered those inside the barrier if not for the fact that their attacks had now started damaging the barrier.

Someone had to be put on guard duty twenty-four seven to make sure the barrier didn't get more of its layers destroyed.

This was a tough job considering the fact that Duphia wasn't exactly a very small region due to the expansion of the other families that had settled inside the barrier.

The Bloodthorn family, the Anvilone Family and the Feuer family were all living inside the barrier together.

The problem was that all the mages sent by Julian were at low Sapphire[S] rank or higher. Only those at a similar rank were able to rival their power and had the potential to win against them.

Only a handful of such people existed inside each of the three families, and they too had to be filtered out on the basis of trust level.

Most of the time, half the area was being taken care of by the members of the Syrward family while the others family divided the remaining portion equally.

"Are you going to do it, or should I do it?" Amon questioned as he looked at the soldiers loading arrows into their bows.

"I will do it. Grandma wants me to try some more things on them to make sure that they are doing this voluntarily." Jason sighed before stepping out of the barrier.

His body buzzed with energy as dark magic oozed out from his body. He summoned thunder magic in his legs as well and targeted one of the dozen soldiers.

His movement weren't visible to the naked eye, yet the soldiers were able to sense his presence due to his mana usage.

Three of them had already turned their bows in his direction and had released their arrows. Jason didn't even bother dodging the arrows and let them hit his body.

The shaft immediately started hissing the moment it came in contact with Jason's body.

'Dark mana mixed with divine energy really does miracle.' Jason observed before tapping the neck of one of the soldiers.

His body immediately crumpled to ground as Jason manipulated the functioning of his nervous system with the help of both the light and dark mana.

It wasn't an easy thing to do yet months of practice had taught him the correct way of doing it. In less than five minutes, he had defeated all of the soldiers while only suffering a minor wound on his face.

The wound had also started healing and closed up in the next minute.

Amon stepped out of the barrier and directly teleported unconscious soldiers to Risa's lab.

Jason on the other hand stared at the barrier once before closing his eyes.

[ Jason, are you done? ] May's voice rang inside his head.𝘧𝔯𝐞𝗲𝙬ℯ𝙗𝐧o𝘷e𝙡.𝐜𝑜𝓶

'Do you need my help to control your divinity?'

[ I do. Things are getting much difficult now that my birthday is barely a few days away. When are we going to set out? ]

'I will see. First, I have to know who else is traveling with us to confirm how many people will be going. I will be planning things according to that. '

[ Amber will be traveling with us, and I think someone else from your family or Amon will come for supervision. You can only take those who know that I am a demi-god. ] May reminded him.

Jason sighed and started making his way to the other side of the barrier where the entrance to the town was situated.

Risa was waiting for him there and he will only final things after discussing them with her.

[ Do you think Wade or Zeke might want to come with you? ] The system questioned.

'They will definitely ask where I am going but they don't know about May. Same goes for you Andrew and Nora. I guess none of them have a divinity either or they would have sensed the divine energy residing inside May's body.'

[ Divinities aren't candies that are given to others for free. Though it might feel like that a lot of people receive them after looking at the bar of gods, it isn't true. There are numerous worlds out there where they can go to. ]

[ Also, they might be suspecting something considering how you have to frequently visit May to keep her divinity under control. None of them even know who she is or why she is so attached to you. ]

'Hopefully things don't get too messed up.'

Jason sighed and kept on walking. Soon he saw Risa standing in the distance and went to discuss things with her.

_{𝑓r𝘦𝘦𝘄eb𝒏𝙤vel.c𝙤𝙢}

"Grandma, May's birthday is coming closer. Do you think we should take her directly to the public capital or find another universal temple?" Jason questioned.

"The problem is that after the rebellion, Julian and his patron went around destroying most of the universal temples. He also created his own temples in a lot of places and only left two universal temples.

One is situated at the royal capital, Troy while the other one is at Troyalias, the place where we will be going." Risa explained.

"Who else will be going with us?"

"Julian will definitely know that we will be leaving so I will keep the number down to five people. I will be going with you and Amber is someone we need as well. We can't take anyone else from our family since we need them here. Amon will be coming.

Nora can't be taken either since I need him to supervise the younger generation and keep a track on the demi-humans movements. Without revealing May's identity, it's impossible for one more person to travel with us."

"I will talk to May regarding this and hear what she says. Personally, Zeke's abilities will be quite useful for us."

"Agreed." Risa nodded. "Now that the plan is finalized, we will be leaving in a day. Prepare accordingly."

"All right." Jason agreed.

For the first time in months, Jason would be stepping out of Duphia, that too for something that was almost impossible.