Chapter 528: Rain and Lightning (1/2)

Phft! Phft! Phft!

The rain of spikes shortly struck the vine shields repeatedly with swishing sounds as the soldiers and elven warriors endured the onslaught.

While the rats have mutated into a deadlier beast, their strength had not grown too big.

Even so, few weaker soldiers and elven warriors in the rear formation were unable to withstand the repeated battling of spikes as their arms gave way.

After their vine shields dropped, they were skewered until they fell off the wall and plunge to their deaths. With the number of spikes pierced into their bodies, even if they somehow survive the fall, they were beyond saving either.

”Take cover, everyone!” An Elder warned.

At the bottom of the Great Wall, numerous survivors from the military city immediately screamed at the downpour of spikes that made it past the Great Wall.

Everyone immediately scurried for shelters within the buildings after being warned by one of the Elders.

However, there were few exceptions.

Some were too fricken with fear that they were rooted on the spot as they gazed at the incoming rain of spikes with wide eyes.

The few Elders and elven warriors stationed at the bottom were able to save some of the survivors, but not all of them.

The few unfortunate ones were immediately skewered to death.

Back on the Great Wall, General Marquis Hendrick did not have the luxury to keep tabs on the casualty.

Shortly after the rats fired their spikes, another wave of rats immediately rushed forwards and scaled the Great Wall by leaping on top of each other.

”Burn them!” General Marquis Hendrick quickly roared after the volley of spikes ended.

The soldiers and elven warriors immediately disengaged from their tortoise-like formation before Fire Awakeners stepped forward and produce a large flame wave that dropped down on the mutated rats!

Alongside them, the soldiers quickly brought forward the wine and oil before pouring them over the wall to feed the flames and create a bigger fire!

Squeak! Squeak!

The mutated rats immediately cried in burning agony before the piling mountain of rats quickly collapsed back to the ground.

Even so, the rats quickly avoided the area like a plague before rushing to other places without fire to scale the Great Wall.

Flames were not as effective on the mutated rats as they were before the rat's mutation.

Meanwhile, roughly 80 yards away from the Great Wall, the airship hovered high in the sky under the Elder Tree's crown while the Elder Tree busied stomping down on rats en masse with its large roots.

Boom! Boom!

Every slam shattered the earth and collapsed the ground, revealing the subterranean space underneath as the mutated rats in the area were plunged into chaos.

Nevertheless, the mutated rats ignored the Elder Tree's onslaught and continued to rush towards the Great Wall.

The berserk mutated rats were never interested in anything they could not eat.

If they cannot pick up the scent of other living fleshly beings, they would feed on the flesh of their own dead brethren. And if there were no deceased rats nearby, only then would they attack each other.

”How many exploding pills do we have left?” Princess Thessalia inquired while she observed the situation on the surface from the edge of the airship.

The personal guards following Princess Thessalia immediately checked the inventory before one of them answered, ”We are down to four dozens pills left, Your Highness!”

”I see.” Princess Thessalia nodded before she requested from the airship captain, ”Please take us closer to the wall, captain. We will use these few remaining exploding pills to assist the Great Wall's defense by targeting the mountains of rats!”