Chapter 887 - The statues power (1/2)

Seeing how quickly the towers had been destroyed, Quinn could only come up with one conclusion.

'A vampire leader… they really sent a frigging leader to the tenth castle?! So much for Bryce keeping his promise! What the hell is he doing?!' Quinn was furious.

'To be fair, Bryce never promised you anything. I thought he made that bit quite clear.' Vincent pointed out.

At the speed his towers fell, building new ones in the same place would be impossible. Since they required a bit of construction time, the enemy would just destroy them mid-process, especially since he could see the red colored army run forward, chasing behind his own people.

'I might be unable to defeat them, but there should be a way to at least slow them down!' Quinn thought.

Quinn selected a place on the map that was a little further up ahead from where he could see the green dots, and he placed two more towers with his reputation points.

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In the tenth area itself, Sam and the others were falling back, Linda had shrunk down as her larger form had made her more of a target and her movements in that form were a little slow.

Fighting the enemy army would be suicide, so they had opted for a tactical retreat. A wise choice, since Sam could see something forming up ahead.

”Everyone keep running! I see another set of towers! That should help us reach the castle!” Sam informed the others who immediately picked up their pace a little bit more.

Although the towers were incomplete, he had no hopes for them lasting longer than the previous ones. Still, they should be enough to buy them time. He also wanted to get his people to the gargoyles that Quinn had made, as he knew their power would help in the current situation.

Just as the group had passed the towers their construction had ended. They immediately started to shoot, even though the speed of their projectiles was slower than before. Nevertheless the eighth family's vampires were being careful after having seen how dangerous they were. They stopped and waited for Jill and her knight Tifu to destroy them.

'Those towers appear weaker than the ones at the front gate. If I remember correctly Quinn mentioned something about the towers having four levels, so the new ones must still have been at the first level.'

'Which means the towers were never built to stop them, just to slow down Jill and her knight.' Sam concluded, but there was one thing he was wondering about, how did the towers suddenly appear like that.

Was Quinn helping them from somewhere, somehow?

The plan had worked, and while running back the group could see Xander, Amy and Timmy coming towards them with the other members.

”Keep going back, let's head back to the castle where the gargoyles are. The towers have been destroyed and the others are useless.” Sam tried to explain in a hurry. As if to stress that point, the sounds of two falling towers could be heard behind them.

”I think you might be right there.” Xander agreed, as the group turned around and were preparing for a fight.

Finally they had reached the statues, and Sam was confidently waiting by them. They stood around thirty or so meters in front of the castle, and the men stood behind the statues.

”What can these statues even do?” Amy asked.

”Just wait and see!” Sam replied cryptically.

The reason he wanted to get to this position wasn't just because of the statues, it was because Quinn had also built another two level four towers in front of the castle.

Sam looked at the others behind him, he thought that they might be worried as they saw the large army approach them, but they didn't look scared at all.

'It's good to have real soldiers at a time like this. Having experienced a war before really helps, but this isn't a normal fight.'

When Jill got close, she could see the statues in the form of giant sized gargoyles on them, a muscular beast with a tail and wings. Behind them she could see the towers and all the men.

Even for her, she wasn't planning to fight through all of the tenants just to get to the tower, so she did one thing.

”All the nobles charge in! Me and Tifu will get rid of the towers. They are our main threat, without them these guys are nothing!” Jill ordered and her Vampire nobles moved out, this time the whole lot of them came charging forward. As they moved closer though and got within a certain range, the statues' eyes started to glow green and the stone started to crack off them.

A few seconds later, the rest of the dry stone fell from them and both gargoyle statues stood up, and let out an almighty roar. They flapped their heavy wings that were incapable of allowing them to take flight, but were perfect to make themselves even larger and more intimidating before they hopped off their stone pillars.

The first thing they did was a sweeping motion with their two large tails hitting the vampires in front of them. Most of them avoided the slow attack, but one of the vampires failed to do so and got sent flying through the air.