406 The Battle Begins
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His dead-like eyes looked into the distance, as the sight of the village where he had been born, and where he had been exiled appeared before him. Resentful memories of his past emerged one after the other, blossoming like flowers on spring. He was once a weak and afraid little boy… But now, he was a powerful ruler of death, with hundreds of servants at his command.
“It is finally time…” He said with a cold voice. “I will destroy everything, and finally let go of these bitter memories… All of this shall end today.”
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Within the village’s walls, a soldier looked into the distance using a special magic device in the shape of glasses. They were enhanced with Runes of the [Enhanced Vision] Spell and allowed a person to see through long distances by imbuing some Mana into them.
Such magic items were incredibly expensive, a mere soldier would never be able to afford one themselves, but such expensive magic items were handled to them by Ellergest, as they had to keep watch from the distance.
The soldiers were all nervously sweating, afraid of what was to come. Although everybody in the village had prepared, and there were even adventurers with them, the odds were still against their favor.
A young soldier suddenly spotted something at the distance, a black dot slowly moving towards the village from afar.
“Huh? Some sort of… bat?”
However, after a few seconds, that “bat” slowly grew bigger and bigger, until the man realized that creature was not a bat.
“Eh?! This is…!”
It had black scales, rotting flesh, red eyes, sharp fangs, and enormous wings with a long tail ending in a blade-like tip. To make it worst, it was bigger and more terrifying than the one that had attacked the village before, shrouded in an aura of miasma, darkness, and death.
“ROOOOAARRR!”
“W-Wyvern! A Wyvern is getting closer!”
The soldiers immediately cried in horror, as he gritted his teeth, the rest of the people immediately reacted, as an enormous catapult and ballista loaded and slowly began to aim at the flying beast, as the people there panicked, the monster was more than what they could possibly handle.
“GROOARRRR!”
The furious Death Wyvern mere presence sent shivers down the spine of most of the people present, the villagers heard the monster’s nightmarish roars, as they felt their hearts beating faster in their fear of death.
The roar of the enormous wyvern, being as big as twenty-five meters of height came with a gigantic breath attack made out of blue phantasmal flames, which impacted the barrier around the village immediately.
BOOOOOMMM!!!
An enormous explosion of darkness and death essence impacted the holy light barrier, which resisted the breath attack barely. The priests inside the village gritted their teeth, some even falling to their knees as they had to bear with the impact force.
Their assistants immediately handled them Lesser Mana Potions, including the ones that Blake had made. The Priests had already drank all the ones they had in reserves, and had barely felt their MP recovering, however, when they drank these potions, not only their MP was back in large quantities.
Even their MP recovery speed became ridiculous, hastening to an incredible speed for a long period of time, not only this allowed them to hold the barrier for longer without needing to drink a potion again, but it also eased their headaches produced by overusing Mana.
“These potions are amazing; with this we can resist the wyvern’s attack better…”
“Not only they recovered almost all my MP but the potions hastened the natural recovery as well!”
“Yeah, I don’t feel any headache anymore…”
The priests looked into the distance, as they saw the enormous wyvern using its claws and tail to hit the barrier. It was unable to unleash that powerful breath attack at all times, so it had to fight with its body while still waiting for its throat to accumulate more energy to unleash that explosive blow. Although unlike living wyverns, it didn’t felt pain when overusing the breath attack, the requirements for mana were still big.
“Now we have to let the people in there deal with that monster….”
“May the Holy Spirits bless them…”
“It is the only thing we can do now, brothers and sisters.”
The priests prayed to the Holy Spirits, as the Undead Army finally emerged within the forest. More soldiers spotted several zombies and skeletons lurking around the forest in large quantities, until they finally emerged out of the dense forest, only fifty meters away from the walls of the village.
“They are here! The undead!” The panicked scream of a soldier alerted everybody else, as many soldiers and magicians specialized in long range attacks quickly moved near the walls of the village, pointing their weapons and magic attacks.
This was a defensive battle after all, they weren’t going to charge directly into the enemy when their numbers were so high. The original plan devised by Ellergest and Musk was to first take down the initial wave of Undead and then charge towards the forest.
The initial part of this plan was named “Defensive Battle” and the second phase was “Behead the General” which included sending their Elite Group into the forest to kill the necromancer in charge of everything.
If there was an army of hundreds surrounding them, they would never be able to accomplish such a thing, of course. Therefore, the initial plan was to slay as many Undead first until the path was cleared.
“Now… FIRE!”
Lukas roared, raising his magic sword as everyone else obeyed his command. Adventurers, soldiers, hunters, and anyone that wanted to help immediately attacked. As the zombies and skeletons got closer and closer, seeking the life essence these living people emitted, they were immediately greeted with a rain of hundreds of arrows, most of the imbued with the power of skills or magic.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
The arrows reached the Undead, exploding and taking many monsters at once.
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