116 Sealing the Rifts (1/2)

Upper North District's northern entrance. The Duke arrived at the upper wall and evaluated the situation.

The defensive battle was intense and visible exhaustion could already be seen on the people's faces. From the current look of the situation, it did not seem like they would be able to last until sunset.

People could fight very long battles with adequate rest in between, but a battle like this left them with no rest at all and tested the limits of their endurance.

In the distance, the airship hovered over the rift at low altitude. A portion of the crawlers were attracted by the drumming noise of the airship and began to change direction.

”Damn, why are they flying so low?”

The guards and nobles, who didn't know the situation, took the airship to be filled with civilians.

”I don't know but it works in our favor. The pressure on us has already decreased by half.”

A palace guard said as he hacked away some crawlers with difficulties. In order to cover for these weaker nobles and aristocrats, the palace guards were forced to overuse their earth ability.

There was a severe deficiency in adequate defenders. The nobles and aristocrats had made up the numbers and cultivation, but they had proven to be more burdensome than they are useful.

The defenders fought back the crawlers chaotically and a delicate love-hate relationship was formed between the palace guards and the upper district people.

”Look, the airship stopped moving. Why did they stop at the rift? Are they looking to die?” A noble said dubiously. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.

In his mind, such a move was stupid beyond imagination. Were they going to start tossing civilians off to feed the crawlers next?

The ocean of crawlers over at the rift began to form mountains as their climbed over each other to reach the airship. Duke Ignis knew exactly who was onboard the airship and understood their intentions.

”They are trying to seal the rifts! Allow me to assist them in clearing the path!” Duke Ignis shouted with a dignified bearing.

A flame lance appeared in his hands before he tossed it into the far distance.

The flame lance exploded on a small mountain of crawlers. The area was immediately engulfed in flames and all the crawlers were burned to a crisp.

The Duke soon leaped off the wall and dived into the sea of crawlers. An omnidirectional flame barrier protected him from all attacks and vaporized all that touches it.

His actions grew the attention of all crawlers and they charged at him like a moth in flying into the flame.

”Allow me to help also.”

The general marquis dropped by and summoned another [Tempest] to wreak havoc on the crawlers.

”So, you have come, Hendrick. It seems you have also grown stronger.” Duke Ignis commented with a hint of envy.

”Not much, just twofold.” Hendrick downplayed his achievements, but a grin hung on his face.

When the Duke heard this, his face twitched, and he wanted to smack the person. Twofold is not much!?

The two continued to work together to sweep the area. Their abilities had great synergy as the size of the Duke's flames grew ridiculously large under the nourishment of Hendrick's wind.

The people on the wall all dropped their jaws at the sheer size of the flame.

The giant hellfire dropped into a section of the rift and reduced all the creatures in it to dust, making that patch of area temporarily devoid of crawlers.

”I thank you both for the timely assistance.” Kasif's voice drifted over from the airship, before commanding his men, ”Shadow Guards, go now! Take this chance to seal the rift!”

The Shadow Guards did not answer, but took action immediately, jumping off the airship towards the edges of the rift. The rift was closed at a visible rate under the manipulation of their earth ability.

Any new crawlers that began climbing out of the rift were flattened under the crushing weight of the earth after the Shadow Guards combined their strength.

After working hand in hand with the general marquis and Duke for a full hour, they manage to completely seal off the entire northern rift.

With that, the north side was finally brought under control. It was only be a matter of time before the Lower North District was completely eradicated of crawlers.

Watching this situation, general marquis and Duke felt proud of their accomplishment. They had played a large role in this success.

”The north is finally stabilized. I wonder if you two gents are willing to accompany this Old man in sealing the rest of the rifts?” Kasif asked.

Hendrick and Ignis looked at each other with sweat still trickling down their faces and smiled.