Chapter 175 War in the north 5 (2/2)

Mars' expression hardened slightly before he kneeled down and Lee whispered the order they had received into his ear, Mars' expression continued to harden, if not for the fact that the twins were right next to him he would have let out an enormous amount of killing intent when Lee finished speaking he stood up again and let out a sigh before he patted them on the head and spoke

”don't worry, I'll come with and make sure to protect you guys”

strategically he did not disagree with the plan the higher ups had made but morally he disagreed with them, after all the twins were only 11 years old and building an operation around them were it was necessary for them to kill was frankly insane. nevertheless he was unable to take their place so he could only support them and make sure they were safe

'well I could always murder the higher ups and do a hostile takeover of the troops and command them though fear but that sounds like a pain...'

time passed and soon it was time for the operation to begin, Mars showed up where the rest of the personnel were gathered for the operation and mingled with them for a bit until the twins showed up accompanied with an officer that had an emotionless look on his face, Mars lined up along with the troops and waited for the officer to declarer the start of the operation. The officer looked over the, some 50 troops that all were equipped with heavy shields before his gaze stopped on Mars for a little while before he gave a sigh and spoke up

”we will now begin the operation... move to your assigned positions and get ready to charge!”

the soldiers moved and formed a shield dome around the twins, Mars moved behind the shield dome and waited for the formation tom move towards the walls

”you... your name is Mars right?”

”yes”

the officer had walked over to Mars and looked him over with slight disdain on his face before he continued talking

”if you want to participate in this operation I won't stop you, just know that I won't guarantee you life”

after saying that the officer turned and walked away and the shield dome formation with the twins in the middle began moving forwards, Mars put a hand on the hilt of his sword and followed after in a light jog as the shield dome formation moved out onto no mans land and began receiving an ever increasing amount of bombardment form spells and arrows, Mars also drew his sword and deflected the arrows and spells that came his way. After moving for some time the shield dome formation reached the middle of the no mans land and stopped before the troops began spreading out and forming a shield wall in front of the twins, Mars stepped up and gave them a reassuring pat on their heads before he stood in front of them, protecting them as a last line of defense, the twins ignored the heavy bombardment the shield wall in front of them took and hugged each other tight as the formation runes tattooed on their bodies began lightning up, at this moment the enemy began focusing their fire on the shield wall they had clearly found out something was wrong and so the first casualties began appearing in the shield wall formation. A painful 30 seconds later the twins both opened their eyes at the same time and let out a low shout, Mars felt the ground rumble and looked to the front were a giant earth spike shot out of the ground and rushed forwards at high speed before it collided with the tightly closed gate, when it did the entire walls of Irker trembled for a moment and a dull deafening sound spread across the battlefield and for a moment the entire battlefield seemed to turn silent before it quickly resumed its chaos again a moment later and soon the troops of the shield wall formation began yelling

”no way, the gates held!?”

”you gotta do it again!”

”for our fallen comrades!”

'this is bad...'

at the moment the first attack on the gates failed the moral of the troops had fallen significantly, no doubt if the twins refused to attack the gates again they would be jumped by Destra's troops, Mars calmly turned around and asked in a soft voice

”can you do it again?”

”yes Mars but...”

”only one more time”

Mars gave a smile

”I'll count on you guys then”

the twins gave a nod and closed their eyes again as the formation runes on their bodies began lighting up again, this of course made even more fire from the walls consecrate on them and soon Mars also began deflecting arrows and spells that made their way through the holes in the shield wall formation but just as everything seemed to be under control a giant fireball appeared over the walls of Irker and it quickly began descending on the shield wall formation

'shit..!'

time slowed down for Mars as he activated [Instant movement] and disappeared from view before he reappeared in the air in front of the giant fireball and swung his sword down with all his strength cutting the fireball in half before gravity took over and he landed on the ground again and quickly retreated behind the shield wall formation again and mumbled

”I knew they would have tactical class mages too but this is just...”

Mars looked up at the 3 giant fireballs that slowly formed above the walls of Irker with an annoyed look on his face