2792 Spare None (Part 4)
"No." Farg sighed while walking away. "Kick those undead's asses, come out of there alive, and then I'll give you a lesson about how to deliver a pep-talk without treating your subordinates like idiots."
As soon as the various units confirmed to have reached their respective positions and conjured the battle arrays, Lith repeated the same strategy as the previous branch.
He half-opened the ancient Gate and left Solus behind to keep it from revealing their arrival while he soared in the sky. Then, he dived down and she let him in before going for cover.
Despite the depth at which the branch of the Dawn Court was located and its distance from the Gates, the assembled soldiers managed to perceive a vibration running through their feet at the moment of the impact.
That coupled with the vision of the flaming black meteor falling down the sky raised a question in their minds.
"What kind of spell would be needed to produce this kind of shockwave?" Lantam asked Farg, voicing everyone's curiosity.
"One capable of destroying a city" She replied curtly. "Now get ready. If this goes like the last time, the fattest rats will be the fastest to abandon the sinking ship."
Almost as if answering her command, one of the nearby Gates lit up. A richly dressed gorgeous woman came out of it, followed by men and women dressed like butlers and maids.
The group of people proved to be capable mages, using air and darkness magic to cover the quickest path to the nearby woods from sunlight. The members of the army had no idea who was human and who was undead and even if they did, their orders were clear. Leave no one alive.
The soldiers in the front line raised their shields, each conjuring a small energy field that fused with those on either side, forming a tall wall. Those right behind them used the shoulders of the shield-bearers to support their staves as they unleashed a barrage of fire.
At the same time, the solid ground around the Gate turned into a muddy field.
The mages on the third line only had one spell at the ready and needed to identify the threat at hand in order to weave more and not waste precious mana. The cover fire would either get rid of the enemies or force them to step into the light.
The gorgeous woman snarled, waving her hand to conjure a Warp Steps and get away. Dimensional magic took a great toll on a blood core but undead could still use it. Temporary weakness always beat eternal sleep.
Great was her surprise when her mana faded without producing any effect. She had no time for hand signs and magic words so she used true magic to cast a darkness-based tier four spell.
A thick black mist advanced toward the troops and disappeared as soon as it entered the darkness-sealing arrays around them. The undead woman couldn't fly due to the sun and tried to run along the safe path she had created.
Yet even with the inhuman speed of an undead, she was an easy target as the knee-deep mud slowed her down and the soldiers used the veil of darkness to predict her movements.
'That's why those bastards aren't using darkness magic.' She thought as her servants were ripped apart by the fireballs and damage kept piling up on her body faster than she could heal it.
'Not because they were afraid that I would dodge them but because they sealed my best weapons!"The fact that all undead could conjure darkness magic "out of thin air" was public knowledge.
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