Chapter 227 (1/2)
Chapter 227
The horrific scene that was revealed below her made her skin shudder instantly She wrapped her ariants in the front lines, their legs were as thick as tree logs They charged towards the walls of Ethylene and pounded their iron clubs heavily against it Suddenly, she heard a loud, e fountain of fire
Max turned towards the source of the fla the crowd of the trolls, was a on’s back She then came to a realization: that creature must be the necrohouls The on’s reins that were on to move closer to Ethylene’s defensive wall The necroh; the half-dragon then spewed another ball of fire in the air
Max covered her face, even fro flames The dark red flames flew like a cannon ball towards the Ethylene’s defensive wall and she felt a strong gust of wind blow She ducked against the ground, flattening her body to avoid being carried away by the wind She waited for the gust to stop blowing and as the black san to dissipate, she saw the wall appear half-scorched Then, the ogres rushed forward like a herd of buffalos and pounded their clubs against the wall
The deafening sound of their weapons hitting against the wall pulled her out of her stupor She then hurriedly exaround she was on It wasn’t the tiround and searched the ins of the land where dirt and rock parted The rock was firht She, as testing the ground with the soles of her feet, bit her lips in conflict The cliff was more solid than when she saw it from below She didn’t know if she would be able to break the rock away froic alone Her eyes narrowed as she stared eagerly at the narrowly slanted rock
‘…there’s no other choice but to try’
If she could create even a tiny crack between the rock and the earthen ground holding it stable, the huge rock will collapse by itself with gravity acting upon its heavy weight She walked a few steps back and placed her palic to pull up a barrier froround, between the rock and the earth to create the fissure The ht, creating a coan to slightly shake, the ground then rose up, creating an earthen barrier
She took a step back, avoiding the thick dust that for She bit her lip in frustration and swept away the hair that fell on her forehead Magic barriers were created out of what’s around her, ible wall from whatever is in the environround, the structure beneath was meant to become disrupted However, the structure seemed to be unaffected with only that a ain She created another barrier, just for it to cru another thick layer of dust She did not wait for the dust to settle and pulled up another barrier froround It would have beenthat would directly rupture the ground’s structure instead of pulling up a barrier froic spell for that Her method was foolish, but she had no other choice but to disrupt the ground structure this way
She pulled the barrier again and again, drawing mana froe frohtly but never did the rock show any signs of budging She gradually felt herdrained and Max bit her lips nervously It was possible that the rock was embedded infinitely deep and if that was the case, she would have to repeat this method countless times just to create a rift that would break the rock away from the cliff She clenched her fists in frustration
Max began to think of herself as too arrogant, thinking that she would be able to tip the cliff off this rock wall, the guardian of Ethylene, that has withstood thousands of years
‘…But there is no other way’
She only had a liic: draw out defensive barriers from the earth, heal, recover, and small flames There was no other choice but to try to her best extent Creating this barrier to create a rift on the ground was like trying to break a rock using an egg She repeated creating a barrier for about nine ti heavy and her body feeling like it was bleeding out heavily
Max pulled away quickly, gathering her round If she appliedher mana to be depleted She took a deep breath and looked up at the sky with unfocused vision The sky’s hue was so contrastingly beautiful against her situation that she resented the golden sunset it displayed She blinked eainst her wet cheeks Her entire body throbbed with pain and her head was nu uncontrollably
She was cones or Ruth were here, they would have made it by now If only Ruth had escaped instead of her, he would have destroyed this cliff in a e to theher “useless”, echoed inside her head And he was right, despite trying best and hard as she could, in the end, she was still a helplessly useless person She thought of herself as absurd for trying to fix such a formidable situation on her own
Max’s face twisted in despair and her throat burned with sha misery that threatens to control her, when suddenly, a treot up quickly and ran to the ledge The last of Ethylene’s defensive walls is cru towards the fortress
The soldiers ere on the fortress fired burning arrows at once and the wizards casted blazing fires towards theenerative poere close to iainst the castle gates without a single hesitation Max watched the scene in horror, she gritted her teeth and placed her palround once more
‘This is the last This chance is the last one you have’
She drew out all her ic spell accordingly It felt just like bleeding out as her round treh as 15 kvets (about 45 round but she did not stop, she continued to draw out her h, she needed to pull up her yet the rock was still unbudging She clenched her teeth and spoke to the ground as if to threaten it
“Collapse…!”
Her last sliver of round and screamed in exasperation
“I said co-collapse!”
Hot tears began to form in her eyes Now, she had no mana left The barrier fell in vain as theheavy dust As she watched bitterly at the scene unfolding below her, she suddenly heard a thuan to slide to one side, unable to bear the weight of the collapsing earth
Max looked at the pile of dust with resentment and bitterness when suddenly, she heard and felt it trean to pound With the foundations weakened, the cliff could no longer carry the weight of Ethylene’s guardian and slowly began to fall She staggered backwards and hurriedly tried to turn around and get to safety as the soil and dust began to collapse beneath her However, the strength in her legs were lost and she could not run away fast
She stuet to the other side of the cliff And then, the ground beneath her began to slant her position and fall towards the cliff at an exponential rate She was dragged helplessly by the falling silt, round And just as she was about to turabbed her ar pressure on her shoulder She lifted her head up and saw Yulysion’s ashen face He pulled her toward hiround like a natural instinctive ani the pain of her shoulder, Max allowed herself to be dragged to safety as the ground continued to collapse behind them
She heard Yulysion curse before the boy wrapped an arround Max held her breath at the pain she felt in her side He landed near a tree as niripped one of the tree’s thick branches, then leaned the the soil that rushed with the landfall Max clung to hiround shook violently as if heaven and earth were cracking open and fierce roars and screa time She had no idea how s finally came to a quiet and she was barely able to open her eyes
It took her a while to realize what had just happened Her vision was blurry as if her eyes were covered in frost as she saw the huge rock that had fallen beneath the cliff and the monsters that were crushed and buried under Her eyes blinked in disbelief When the rock on top of the cliff fell, the steep rock wall collapsed along with it
“Oh my God…” Above her, Max heard Yulysion’s bewildered voice
Fearing he htly that it nified the pain she felt in her side
“Half of the monster army was crushed by the rock Do you see it? The entrance has been completely blocked They will be able to hold out until the reinforcements arrive”
He spoke in a shaky voice as he led her away fro to Yulysion for support and barely round with loose dirt as the boy continued to ra! Absolutely aet out of here immediately The monsters would discover we’re up here We need to quickly find a place to hide…”
Suddenly, Yulysion trailed off Max stared at hiasp and quickly went to remove her hood to reveal her face
“Oh my God, blood, blood is…”
At the mention of blood, Max belatedly reoblin to death Its blood was probably still splattered all over her She reached up and touched her face
“T-This is a goblin’s blood It s-splattered on my fa-face…”