The darkness imbued within the Harvester hurt the undead, but wasn’t enough to kill him before he could call for reinforcements.
"Are you insane?" Senton retrieved Leria while Rena covered herself and picked the triplets between her arms. "Why did you let him do that? My mother and my father live here as well whereas there’s only one of you!
"How do you plan to protect all of us?"
"All part of the plan." Reaper guffawed as he retrieved Abominus with Spirit Magic and healed his wounds. "What’s a King without his court?"
He tapped the ground with the Harvester, opening several Warp Steps that let the Shyfs of his pack enter the house and hide in strategical spots.
"This is no longer their trap, but our own. Yet there is no safe place on the battlefield so we’ll move your family to the woods." Another dimensional corridor opened, bringing the humans to the safety of Lifebringer’s tribe that was waiting for them.
Reaper silently looked at the undead bursting from the windows and the doors of the house, uncaring to hide their presence anymore. The mission was all that mattered to them.
The king of the woods couldn’t agree more with them. As long as he kept the undead unaware of Rena’s escape, the enemy would split their forces and waste manpower in a fool’s errand.
Only once everyone was in their place did the slaughter begin.
***
Lith sighed in relief seeing Rena’s rune become available again, yet his good mood didn’t last long. His last Warp Steps had failed and so did that he had attempted to open a bit farther from his home, forcing Lith to fly to his destination to not waste more mana.
’Those bastards sure did a thorough job. Even Dad’s fields are covered by an array.’ The realization made him turn into his hybrid form so that when air magic failed him, his wings kept him from crashing on the ground.
’Thank the gods you’re here. I need you to pick me up!’ Solus said through their mind link from the ground.
Lith swooped down and collected the inconspicuous stone that was Solus’s disguise. Without air magic, she couldn’t either use the amulet to communicate or fly to reach him.
The moment she slipped on his finger, Solus used their mind fusion to share with him all that she had learned from the tower’s Mirror Hall while waiting for his arrival. The scenario she showed him went beyond his worst expectations.
He had thought that the assault had been Deirus’s way to get even with Lith for ruining his plans in the Feymar mines, but a human Archmage had no way to recruit so many undead troops.
In the images Solus had collected before perceiving Lith’s arrival, Zinya’s home had crumbled and Selia’s was seconds away from being razed. Only Lith’s house was still standing, yet Yurial’s Hexagram had already absorbed four powerful tier five spells, so its protection was as good as gone.
’Your family is safe thanks to the men of the Queen’s corps taking refuge inside your house and keeping the undead from messing with its defensive arrays, but until we don’t get rid of the air sealing formation, they can’t call for reinforcements.’ Solus said.
Lith nodded and took the black eye of Trouble the Balor out of his pocket dimension in a blaze of emerald flames. Unlike normal dimensional items, an omni pocket could ignore the effects of a dimensional sealing array, if its master knew how.
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