285 Annihilating Monsters
Wide-eyed, Alexis could hardly believe his eyes. A dragon was flying over the sky of the vast area where hundreds of tents had been erected to support the Broteforgian Volunteer Army.
‘Dragons? They can control even Dragons? That’s not fair!’ Alexis thought.
Drops of cold sweat poured down from his forehead just from seeing that such a kind of legendary monster existed.
The members of the army who were getting ready for battle, wearing armor and picking up weapons, looked up at the sky lit up by the constant explosions and saw the gigantic monster above the clouds. Many lost hope for their lives in the same hour.
“What is that? I’ve never seen something so big!”
“Could it be a Wyvern!?”
“Ah! I don’t want to die!”
“What are you talking about? A Wyvern is at most ten feet tall, this monster is at least ten…” A thick-voiced knight stated as he adjusted the shoulder pads of his armor. “Shall we go?” He asked the man waiting beside him.
The other man, who had light eyes and blond hair, nodded and turned to speak to the dozens of hopeless soldiers. “Don’t mind that, the Special Squadron is with us and will surely take care of it! Archers, protect our rear, squires in front, mages get ready! Focus on the monster hordes!” He roared and raised his sword high.
“EEEEHH!” Most people roared as well with their weapons raised.
This man who spoke was a Class-A Adventurer who was in the first battalion that faced the second horde just a few miles from Oukiwa less than a week ago. He was one of the few who returned from the battalion, but just his return was already a huge accomplishment.
“With him by our side, we will make it!”
“I heard that he has the ability to improve the defense of his comrades, by his side we will be protected from that creature!”
Seeing a symbol of resistance and resilience was a crucial factor for the soldiers at that moment.
On top of a small ridge, Alexis Dmitry watched the chaos spread in the east near the walls of Oukiwa. It was not as if before every Wave Oukiwa received a letter warning day and time, however, this time the surprise attack was certainly more cowardly than the others, for it was during the early morning hours and the day before that same army had fought thousands of other monsters.
The Melki Empire was not letting the Broteforge Empire recover between one offensive and another, and the interval between each attack had become more and more stifling since the day of the attack on the Imperial Capital.
Alexis was thinking about all this, and what she should do now, unlike the other times, was not to go easy on the monsters, not even the dragon. So she bent her knees, put the hands that wore gauntlets of light behind her, and leaped off the ridge toward the vanguard of the monster horde.
‘As an S-Class, my duty here is to lighten the load for the others to be able to break the horde’s formation, meaning I have to kill as many as possible!’
Then, when many soldiers who had already formed the horde-formation, so that they could counterattack in smaller numbers, and began to run towards the vast crowd of monsters, they saw something bright in the sky. The veterans immediately recognized the white glow, which seemed to have put fear into even the dragon, because it had disappeared among the misty clouds that were gathering in the sky above the battle.
Then after the glow landed in the middle of thousands of monsters, an explosion so intense as to shake the ground occurred.
The soldiers struggled to stand upright in the face of the tremor, digging their spears and swords into the ground, which was not the case for the monsters, who had nowhere to stand and many fell to the ground.
As soon as Alexis landed after jumping from the summit, she had used <Divine Blast>, and seeing that all the monsters around her turned to dust, she was not content with so little. She used Gene’s Skill <Fist of Life>, which wrapped her hand with white, translucent gauntlets.
Immediately, she looked back and saw a Nixudaemon, a monster of the same lineage as the Orc’s, but far more dangerous and lethal. His skin was pale blue and his body was the equivalent of two Orcs mixed together, which was probably his nature, because this monster had four muscular arms and four strange tentacles sticking out of his back.
However, such a monster that could wipe an entire small village off the map, was not able to cause any trouble for the S-Class. She simply charged towards him and punched him in the face with her right fist, breaking the glorious fangs from the lower part of his jaw. Nixudaemon had no time to recover after taking the punch, because Alexis amended another attack in the middle of his stomach.
The half-dragon’s plan was to have killed Nixudaemon with that second punch, but his thick layer of fat proved somewhat more effective than he had expected.
“If that’s the way you want it, I will increase the power of my punch as much as I need to!” She exclaimed in mid-attack.
The gauntlet touching Nixudaemon’s belly began to heat up and an instant later it began to rotate, forming a kind of drill. In this way, Nixudaemon’s chest was pierced without him having a chance to react. Alexis’ instincts were what made her notice that her blow would not be enough to defeat her enemy even while it was not yet over. This was her strength, her specialty, her ability to perceive the elements of battle was frightening.
Even after showing such strength the monsters didn’t stop running towards Alexis. It’s not as if the monsters didn’t realize her genius, it’s not as if they didn’t know that the opponent in front of them was stronger than anyone present, but they simply didn’t care about any of it. A clear message echoed in their minds: kill them, kill them, kill them.
And they simply followed the order, without question, without retreat, without fear.
Alexis killed monster after monster with bravery as her horns glowed more and more intensely because of the excitement. When a monster took off on her, it didn’t matter to her whether it was a High Goblin, a Prum, or an Aarakocras, as she simply annihilated monster after monster without stopping, even though she received cuts and scrapes.
However, this monster horde was even bigger than the previous ones. No matter how many monsters Alexis killed, more monsters filled the spaces she tried to create.
At one point, she finally found herself pressed. She was using <Finder’s Tails> to defend herself from the blows coming from various directions, which didn’t leave her totally without attack options like that, but there were so many monsters around that he couldn’t even find gaps to strike them without compromising himself.
‘Shit, the soldiers didn’t advance as far as I expected…. I have to get out of here, otherwise I’m going to die.’ The S-Class concluded.
The hundred or so soldiers who were trying to advance on the monster army had been standing still for some time, as, many soldiers in the vanguard died and those in the rear couldn’t cover the gaps, occasioning more deaths. Now, part of the formation was ruined, which meant that all of Alexis’ efforts were about to be thrown in the trash.
Still, Alexis hoped that if she could get together with the other soldiers, they had a chance to hold out until reinforcements arrived.
However, there was still something in the skies that worried not only Alexis, but all the rest of the army. The dragon appeared again, this time under the clouds that now covered the moon completely, so that only the glow of gene skills, explosions and fire arrows illuminated the battlefield.
In this dark place, Alexis was like a beacon to the monsters, because of the white glow of the gauntlets she wore.
At one point, Alexis was less than thirty meters away from reaching the vanguard of the Volunteer Army, and coincidentally, or not, this was the moment that the dragon roared the loudest. The timbre of its roar was so loud that everyone felt the bones in their bodies tremble, and the S-Class was no exception.
Alexis looked up and realized that the dragon was getting closer and closer to the ground. Although the monster had not attacked yet, everyone felt that the moment it attacked would be the end of the entire Broteforgian army present, after all, no one could reach it in the sky. However, when the monster finally decided to act, he did something that literally no one present could even imagine.
In a swift swooping maneuver, the dragon dove towards the battlefield, and then opened its huge jaws. Quickly, blue rays like those that could be seen in the sky on rainy days were generated around its fangs, and then everything was shot out as a single beam of energy in the middle of the army of monsters.