Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

Chapter 169: War (11)

The enemies kept summoning their earth spears, even though it took a while for any cracks to appear on the walls. They kept going even though all of a sudden, the air around them began to get colder...

"Do it now, Rain!" Branden said.

Rain made three sets of staircases appear on the other side of the wall. The soldiers stationed behind the walls began to go down and dash toward the enemies.

At first, the mages ignored and waited until those guys got closer, but then their legs began to get covered in ice... they didn't learn a single thing from Tristan... or perhaps they just thought that the walls would fall before anything happened.

In any case, the enemies still could use their hands, and while their bodies were suffering frostbites at that moment, they still pointed their hands toward the humans and bombarded them with earth spears. Rain watched the battle unfold before his eyes while furrowing his eyebrows.

The soldiers blocked the earth spears with their weapons, but some of them were knocked down thanks to the sheer power of the attacks. Still, it didn't take long before they reached the enemies and began to slaughter them.

"Don't rush, and don't get impatient," Branden said while he was clenching his fists since he was seeing some of his soldiers die. "The battle just started. They only sent a small portion of their soldiers... we can't get exhausted before the real battle begins.

Rain closed his eyes and tried to meditate while he was standing... Still, he wasn't able to focus on doing that. It was only natural since he needed to relax as much as possible to be able to meditate... but it was a problem at the same time.

Still, the second battalion of enemies soon joined the first and began to march together toward the walls. Much to everyone's surprise, they crossed that three-hundred-meter line, and soon Branden gave the order for the archers and mages to attack them.

Unfortunately, since they only had one hundred of those, the projectiles were stopped... the new battalion used wind walls to stop all the projectiles. It soon began to fire wind blades toward the walls. Jori and Reca stepped forward and blocked the projectiles that targeted their friends. However, the impacts still pushed them a couple of centimeters.

"We can't let them dictate the pace of the battle," Branden muttered and looked around. "Guys, I will need you to lead the charge. I will be safe here, so focus on stopping the second battalion and returning in one piece. Support Rain as much as you can since he doesn't have much mana."

That choice of words was problematic since it could make the others jealous of Rain. Still, they weren't kids anymore... they were in Rain's eyes. Still, they didn't behave like that often, so they seriously nodded while looking at Branden.

The same looked at Rain and also nodded... they couldn't risk too many more soldiers to stop the second battalion... they had to do that with the ones they had on the field.

"Well, let's go then," Rain said and then jumped from the wall.

Rain wanted to dash toward the enemies, but he waited for his friends since the enemies were moving toward them... when the soldiers were about to reach the wall, they saw the signs that Branden had made. He raised his right arm and then moved to the side... it was the sign for them to stand their ground and prevent further damage to the walls.

The earth mages began to attack the walls again, on the same spot since they believed that they were almost there... It was time for Rain to crush their dreams. Once everyone was ready, they took the lead of the first line of defense, and then they charged toward the enemies when Rain used Impulse.