Chapter 1: Prelude (I) (2/2)
Their reaction speed was impressive, luckily for the group, Rey's concealment spell had gotten them too close for the enemy to use the large artilleries in the towers at the ends of the outer wall. It was why the team had chosen to walk instead of fly, because of the dangers in the Darkin mountain range, the enemy would consider it as a line of defense, which meant they would set anti-flight magic and detection spells in the area as that was the only way to cross the mountain range relatively safe.
Doing that would have played straight into the enemy's hands as they would be used for target practice and even though they could survive the bombardment, there would be no point as the mission would be considered a failure.
The sentry arrived before the bell and was about to ring it, just then a white streak of light went through him as the top half of his body fell to the ground.
John swung his sword again and another white light sliced through a different sentry who had run after the previous the moment it notices he was dead. The rest of the undead knights fired their arrows as a red aura enveloped each arrow as it left their bows.
Leo moved in front of the group as he raised his large Shield and banged it with his hammer. ”Come at me!” he yelled with a big smile on his face, his shield glowed brightly as the multitude of rage arrows rained down on him.
He raised his shield and blocked every single one of them, his hammer started to glow red as the strange red aura from the arrows enveloped it. ”Not bad,” he said as he dashed forward, but before he had even moved a gust of wind blew past him.
Arriving at the top of the wall in an instant was Rosie, she took a low stance, holding two silver daggers with a reverse grip. ”Flame dance” the daggers in her hands caught fire as she moved around on the wall in a strange but fluid motion, she slashed any undead knight that came close to her and they bust into flames with one swing.
Leo scratched his head ”She's stealing my thunder.”
”Not the time Leo, we should end this as soon as possible.” The group ran at full speed as they jumped on the top of the wall to give Rosie a hand, the wall was at least 15 meters tall but they had no problem scaling it. There were only about 7 sentries left, Rosie had taken care of more than 30 of them in so little time.
Rey pointed his staff at them and cast a single spell ”Sunlight” the tip of his staff glowed brightly like the sun, the seven undead on the wall were reduced to ashes. They all jump down from the castle's outer wall and as expected there was less protection here than the front entrance. Still, they didn't have time to waste, it would only be a matter of time before the generals in the castle can sense them. Rey's concealment would not be able to protect them for long, there were only about a hundred enemies in the ward.
”Ellie, we'll go on ahead, can you handle things here?”
”Hehe... You insult me.”
”Sorry... sorry... that's my bad, alright Leo creates a part for us.”
”Aye... aye, captain.” Leo roar as his body emitted a faint aura, he dashed straight for the side entrance to the castle, smashing the heads of any undead or beast that came in front of him.
The others followed closely with John behind, protecting their flanks, all except Ellie who just stood there with a faint smile on her face. Most of the undead knights and beasts had ignored the others for some reason and focused on her, they all ran towards her waving their weapons in the air, the tamed beasts roaring as loudly as they could.
The others had finally entered the castle, thanks to Leo they had managed to evade any traps in their way almost as if they could see them. Ellie then brought one of the metal fans in her hand and covered the lower parts of her face, She mumbled a word silently and her eyes glowed in a seductive light. All the knights and beasts that ran towards her were now visibly slowing down.
They seem to be aging at a rapid rate, which was strange because undead creatures didn't age. They slowed down to a crawl as they all collapsed on the ground and turned to dust.
The others had made it into the castle, although according to their information they were in the South Wing of the castle and needed to make it toward the top floor of the North wing, they ran through the hallway of the castle trying to make their way to the other side, at this point, there was no need for Rey to keep his concealment spell up anymore, no matter how powerful he was, the demon generals in the castle would've already noticed them by now.
He needed to save his mana for if and when they were ambushed by any of the generals. They followed the map they had made of the castle making sure they were always on the right track. The castle was massive, it covered over a million square meters and had all of the strongest tamed beasts, monsters, and undead protecting the place, not the mention all of the insanely strong demons that served under the master of the castle including the six demon generals.
Luckily they didn't have to worry about most of these, especially the six generals, by now the war was at its peak and if the demons didn't want to suffer any massive casualties that will dome them even if they won, they would send at least five of the generals to key locations and have them supervise the war, and if they were lucky all six of them would be sent out. The generals were the key to the war, although the group was confident in handling them even if they had to face three or four at a time, they would be in trouble if they faced all six of them.
Right now their only goal was the master of the castle, they didn't have to kill the generals, with that in mind they would be able to hold off the generals while aiming for their master, they had also received the blessings of the goddess, this meant that their Luck would be almost supernatural, and the effects were already visible. So far they had only encountered a handful of stone knights, this meant there weren't that many entities in the castle, meaning everything was going according to plan.