251 Soul Barrier Stone (1/2)

The soldiers in the city wall had gloomy looks on their faces because the beast horde was attacking the city gate, and the gate wouldn't last for too long. Moreover, there were too many beasts to deal with all of them in a short span of time.

As for the traps, for some reason, they found that there was one way which was completely clear of any traps and that all the beasts chose that way instead of just charging forward like everyone believed they would do.

They couldn't understand how could such a big area be without traps; even if a soldier made a mistake, at most some traps would fail, but in that path, it was obvious that there were no traps at all.

Furthermore, they couldn't believe that someone had really betrayed them because the beast horde was a huge danger for everyone, so even if there was truly a traitor among them, that traitor faced the same danger as them.

When their strength to endure was near the end, their desperation only increased as they saw an army nearing them from the direction of Nacesai City and some of the higher-ups recognized Swordmad in that army.

At that moment, they were already with their hands full due to the beast horde; there were three beasts at the Elder Rank that were pinning down the strongest members of their city, so facing another expert at the Elder Rank wasn't something they could do.

However, they believed that the army would stop and attack when the beast horde ended. After all, it was always better to attack a weakened enemy, and those beasts would also attack them if they neared the city before the assault of the beast horde finished.

Thus, although the situation was problematic, they would still have an advantage on the numbers of Elder Rank experts; even if their three strongest members would be tired after the beast horde, if they acted together no one believed that Swordmad would win.

Sadly for them, that army didn't follow the common sense and didn't stop after seeing the beast horde.

In the eyes of the True Empire, attacking the city at the same time that the city was facing a beast horde was suicidal because the beast horde would also end that army, but a suicidal attack while disregarding their own lives was something that would pose a true threat to their city at that moment.

”They had finally turned crazy after being pushed to the extreme. However, this timing is really bad for us.”

One of the men at the Elder Rank said those words while he blocked the attack of an enormous Frost Wolf; it was the leader of all the Frost Wolves on the surrounding mountains and was the first beast at the Elder Rank to turn into Wyba's servant.

Other beasts were attacking because they couldn't disobey their instincts, but that enormous Frost Wolf had pledged loyalty towards Wyba. The bloodline pressure of a divine beast towards the species similar to it was far stronger than to other beasts; for that Frost Wolf, Wyba was like a goddess that he and his pack needed to worship.

The other two Elder Rank beasts were a Lightning Tiger and a Fire Bear; they weren't weaker than the Frost Wolf, and they could have chosen to resist Wyba's call with their level, but they loathed the people of that city because they hunted for fun and liked to torture the beasts they caught. Of course, there were tigers and bear among those ones, some of them direct descendants of those at the Elder Rank.

In the beast world, if one killed a beast to eat or in self-defense, although there would be a grudge for the part of the beasts and would attack the offender at any opportunity they had, the beasts wouldn't attack a whole city in retaliation.

However, all the beasts hated those who killed them for fun, and a city in which the one who killed more beasts would have more reputation was something that couldn't exist in the eyes of those beasts.

Sadly, they didn't dare to attack the city due to their lack of confidence before that day, but thanks to Wyba they had a powerful horde to deal with them and they even know that there would be some reinforcements later.

Thus, those two prideful beasts choose to obey Wyba and follow the plan to avenge those who had been killed without any reason.

Some fireballs impacted to the already weakened gate getting it close to its disintegration.

The Nacesai Academy also added some powerful mages to their army, and they were silently casting spells while the golem soldiers moved the carriage in which they were traveling. Moreover, they were still quite far while casting those spells and in a normal situation there was no way those attacks would succeed.

”This is a shameless strategy! They are aiding the beast horde with ranged attacks!”

All the soldiers were shouting things like that after seeing that with the aid of those magic attacks, the resistance of their gate was nearing the end. Usually, a human wouldn't assist a beast horde because beast hordes were something that any human should fear, but they couldn't guess that the Nacesai Academy had a divine beast supporting them.

”Stop uttering non-sense, you group of trash! There is nothing bad in being shameless in war, but they won't succeed. This is a Soul Barrier Stone; the elders gave it to me in case we needed it. The barrier generated from it is far stronger than the current one. With this, we don't need to fear that beast horde nor that army!”