Chapter 172: Mountain Golems (1/2)

—Back at the Darkin Mountain Range.

As the sky that had swelled up like some sort of gigantic balloon that had been filled to the utmost with water gave way. A sudden and heavy downpour came upon the mountain range and unlike a natural downpour of rain that would be occasionally accompanied by hail and thunder, this had decided to swap out the water for spiked hail completely as the rain had been frozen in the sky and they fell in an area that expanded more than 3,000 meters of their current location.

Everything happened in an instant. Without any time to react, Izabel watched the sky fall in a sudden wave of hail and lightning. The massive range of more than 3,000 meters meant there was no escape as she just stood there hoping to defend herself from this.

Lightning descended on the mountain range in a devastating storm that almost destroyed several mountains and hills. However, some of those mountains were not actually ordinary mountains and Izabel could almost sense the approaching danger. While her instinct told her to flee, she did not have the time to worry about that right now as the magic barrier was her priority if she wanted any chance of accomplishing her goals.

However, while Izabel could easily resist the hail and lightning without issues, the ones that maintained the barrier were not so skilled. This was a large area Spatial suppression barrier that required more than ten mages to cast and the maintenance cost a massive amount of energy that the mages couldn't supply on their own so several devices powered by magic crystals were set up around the barrier and mini barriers were erected there.

However, the continual barrage of hail and lightning did not give Izabel any hope that the mini barriers could withstand the attack even though they were meant to defeat the magic device. Without hesitation, the chaos aura around Izabel intensified as she dashed towards one of the exits of the barrier.

Seeing her opponent retreating, Rain did not bother chasing after her as she could barely stand so she ran back towards Liz with the last of her strength. While Liz tried to restrict the amount of hail and Lightning that came at her, there was really no way to stop a friendly fire and thus she had to defend herself from the rapid storm which was also tasking for her.

There were four locations that housed a device that powered the suppression barrier in each cardinal location and three of Izabel's men were tasked with maintaining and it within the safety of the mini barrier. However, within the span of three seconds, two of them had been desolated by a barrage of lightning making the main barrier unstable.

Izabel was able to save one of the devices but before she could move to save the last, Kazko who was lurking at the edge of the barrier all this time managed to escape after a section of the barrier collapsed for a moment and he immediately destroyed the last device with his skill, •Lacerating Slash•

While the mages that maintained the barriers were pretty strong, they were currently too distracted by the sudden storm and thus had failed to stop him.

With only one device left, the barrier could not maintain its balance and thus collapse. The moment that happened. The storm that came suddenly, disappeared just as fast as it appeared. Everything had only lasted for a little over ten seconds and with the suppression effects of the barrier gone, Liz could move more freely now.

”We need to leave!”

Rain yelled as she reached Liz who wholeheartedly agreed. She was sweating profusely even though it was currently winter and the temperature outside was in the negatives. Most of her wounds were already healed but it didn't seem like she was completely okay and that was not just because of a low stamina state from the overuse of secret techniques.

Before Liz could look further into this, her skill ended and the moment the storm stopped, the entire mountain range, or at least as far as they could see, trembled.

”Damn it.”

Izabel cursed as she sensed them move. It didn't seem like they had enough time to capture their target— who was currently distracted— before they came but Izabel didn't think it would be wise to let them leave here alive.

*Rumble *Rumble *Rumble

As she contemplated her next move, the rumbling of the ground intensified and soon.

*Goudou. Goudou!

They moved.

Several mountains or maybe it would be more accurate to call them hills located some distance from them had rolled around and stood up, shaking off the rocks, dirt, snow, and vegetation that had covered them in their resting state over the years.

They were all at least 500 feet tall and while not necessarily taller or as tall as actual mountains, their size and presence were still very imposing.

Their bodies were made of rocks and dirt although some of them were still covered in snow. The lump of rock on the top of their bodies severed as their heads as it had two sockets that had glowing white orbs in them and severed as their eyes.

Their eyes moved around and looked at them as they had sensed the source of their disturbances and they all moved towards them with Clear malice.

*Goudou. Goudou...

Every one of their steps caused tremors to occur in the vicinity and since they were more than five of them, their foot stops stacked and each one caused a mini earthquake as it severed to awaken even more of them.

They were slow but their feet were long and they covered m a considerable distance in one step so they would arrive before them in less than a minute.

Izabel frown as she thought of what to do. This might've been part of the blonde demoness plan when she used such a massive range skill and although it was very risky, she had to admit she would've done the same if she had been in her shoes.

It wasn't impossible for her to kill a mountain golem but by the time she killed one another would take its place and soon the silver wyverns would join the fray making that a miserable experience for her.

”Fuck. Plan B then.”

Not caring anymore about the other devices and her other men, the chaos energy that surrounded her disappeared and the amulet glowed as a large magic circle appeared under her and the two mages in light armor that stood behind her as they all immediately teleported from the mountain range, device and all.

Kazko on the other hand was preparing to face the two magic users dressed strangely in black leather armor with very few braces as they pointed their weapons at him.