Chapter 477 - Big Attack (1/2)
The Redwing army continued to travel further and deeper into the Shadow content, walking through the thick and heavy snow. The further they went, the deeper they were involved, and the harder it was for them to all turn back. They were pretty sure they were already beyond the point of return now.
According to Bliss, they were getting closer as they had entered a mountainous area. This was between the border of two kingdoms which in the past would constantly be at war, but both of the kingdoms had built their castle within the mountainous area, making it hard for either one to attack.
Right now they were walking up quite the deep slope, up ahead several odd-looking mounds could be seen. They had walked past some on the ways, and they had just assumed that they were rocks or boulders that had been covered with snow. At first, they had only passed a small amount and thought nothing of it, but now they were seeing many.
”Stop!” Bliss shouted. She was getting increasingly worried about these strange looking boulders and the way they were positioned. Going up to one, but staying a fair distance away. She started to chant a spell.
”Gustonte!” A big gust of wind blew out from her staff, and the snow was thrown off from the boulder. To her disappointment, it looked like that, just an ordinary boulder, she had suspected it to be a beast in disguise.
”Move!” Kyle shouted as he managed to reach Bliss just in time, pushing her out of the way. The snow beneath the boulder had moved ever so slightly and out from under, a spear could be seen coming out.
Kyle had his back faced towards the spear, and a clang was heard as his beast shell and the spear collided.
”It's another ambush, prepare for battle!” Harry shouted.
If a spear had come from underneath one of the boulders, it could only mean one of two things. It was a high-level humanoid beast which was very unlikely, or it was humans. The Redwing army drew their blades under Katy's command, while the Dragon knights made sure to protect both Van and Bliss.
Out from underneath the snow, black armour could be seen with the emblem of the eye. They were people from the Dark Guild. However, that didn't seem to be their only worry. Large white gorilla-like creatures with white fur and four arms could be seen as not too far away in the distance.
In total around twenty or so of them. The Dark Guild members numbered around two hundred, and they also had the beasts on their side. Even though the redwings outnumbered them, they were struggling with the terrain, and the beasts were extremely agile. They were advanced tier beasts affected by the shadow, making them as strong as a king tier.
It was by far the biggest force the Shadow had sent after them.
”We're on to them, I know we are!” Bliss said as she fired off several energy blasts in different directions. Her magic wasn't the strongest, but she certainly had control.
Most of the Redwing leaders were fearing fine, dealing with the opponent in front of them without too much trouble, but the beasts seemed to go right past them and headed for the main army in the back being led by Katy.
”Their goal was never to kill us in this attack.” Kyle said, but it was to weaken us.”
Leaving the other stronger members behind, Harry went ahead to try to help the main army with the beasts.
Katy had just blocked a hammering blow using her shield, and she had stabbed one of its hands before it could retreat, but it felt pretty useless as there were three others it could use. Aiming to hammer down its first one after the other, she eventually rolled out of the way, Into the thick snow. But the blow continued from the gorilla beast, hitting one of the Red wing members on top of the head. The blow was so hard that the snow around them was being dyed red.
A few seconds later, and someone was seen leaping up on top of the gorilla stabbing it right through the head a couple of times. Its body started to sway, and before it did, Harry had jumped off into the snow.
Katy wanted to thank him for getting revenge, but he had already left to deal with the next ones, and that's when she noticed the army wasn't faring well at all to these beasts. Turning her head, she looked at the Redwing leaders.
It was a strange sight to see, a few of the Redwings were holding back an army of around two hundred Dark guild members, and at their end, a thousand Red wing members were being held up by only twenty or so beasts.
”I nearly forgot that these guys work for the shadow!” Kyle said, kicking one of them away, and then quickly turning his back to another to avoid a stab with a spear.
”It was always a worry,” Martha replied. ”We aren't just going up against Gary. He has the whole shadow backing him, and that includes Morfran and his men.”
Among the chaos, Van hadn't really done much, but he couldn't either. All the other members, Badger, Sloth, Dan, Jack were protecting him, he felt useless. But then, something warm was felt by the side of his leg. Looking down, he could see the crystal pulsating in and out once again.