31 Large Territory (1/2)

The next day, every available regiment that wasn't on guard duty on the outer perimeters was gathered inside the school, with the mages on top of the walls surrounding it with their elementals. The lowest level among these Mages was level 10. The women Luna saved beforehand were among them, they stood tall at level 15.

Someone volunteered before to test if someone would gain an elemental if they had different elements, and turns out that they wouldn't. That person was handed other spells of his choosing to continue his path as a hybrid elemental Mage.

Luna had instructed his soldiers to clear the school beforehand and move out things like desks, blackboards, and other school related materials. Thinking about it now, he was probably too naive to think that there might be a chance he could preserve some of the structures, but at least with this, he won't have to worry about school equipment as much.

As soon as everything was set, and the additional turrets he installed were ready, he pulled up the prompt.

<Would you like to claim this territory? Y/N>

”Yes.”

<Challenge for a Large Territory will commence in 5 minutes>

Just as they were bracing themselves, the middle part of the biggest field in the school sprouted 4 saplings in a square formation, each one on top of a mound, this was four <Life Trees> and in the middle of them all was an egg, engraved on it were ancient Filipino characters called Baybayin* that literally translated to ”Sealed by Bathala**: Egg of the Bakunawa***.”

”Damn it!” This sudden mix up just ruined their whole plan, truth be told he was sort of expecting something similar to a Life Tree, but the issue with this is, this school is so large and had different areas, as oppose to the barren medium territory from before, that there was no way they'd possibly know where it would spawn. Thus, Luna was hoping that wouldn't be the case. Alas, luck was not on his side in that regard.

”Boni, take your regiment and surround those life trees! Apple, take four Mage squads and come with me and Boni! Rangers, protect those Life Trees at all costs!” Luna sent out a slew of orders as he dashed to the Life Trees himself with Maxene and Sura by his side.

He had to make sure they gained these Life Trees at all costs. This would be a major source of water for their <Nation> if they ended up having five in total. They were still unsure what fruit these trees would bear as the first one hasn't grown any just yet, but the water alone was more than enough to fight with their lives on the line.

With less than 1 minute left, everyone was in formation, surrounding the saplings.

”SHIELD WALL!”

The moment the command was given, all the higher level VIT-based soldiers who were in front planted the bottom part of their War Shields on the ground. This was much more effective than the previous concrete barricades they used.

As soon as the rifts all over the area spawned, there were no Evolved Zombies or Regular Zombies, they were all Tank Variants. Even still, everyone forming the shield wall was at least level 20, with more similarly leveled people prepared to switch with them during this siege.

The first part where the zombies were attracted to the abundant life force the Life Trees gave, was as expected. It was similar to how it was the first time around.

As the tank variants were dashing towards them, the Mages and their Elemental summons already started firing a barrage of spells. Each Mage squad composed of ten Mages, two of each had the same element: Fire, Earth, Ice/Water, and Wind, and the other two having Lightning.

Earth Mages deployed their arthen Spikes> skill in advance, constantly producing more, wounding the incoming horde, but more importantly slowing them down.

Fire Mages would bombard them with <Fire Balls> while maintaining a <Fire Wall>, far enough from the front line, so the horde would be weakened a bit when they passed through it.

Ice/Water Mages would freeze the ground a decent distance enough behind the Fire Walls catching the zombies off-guard and lose their footing and fall onto the earthen spikes.

Wind Mages would help out with their <Wind Slash> if the zombies got too close, but their most potent skill was their <Cyclone> skill that, despite having a 5 minute cooldown, when used in conjunction with the Fire Mage's <Fire Wall> skill, would produce Fire whirls that spun outwards towards the incoming horde, inflicting massive damage.

The lives of the ones in the front lines were pretty relaxed, as the Mages exchanged shifts when they needed to regenerate their MP.

At this point, Luna could care less about the damage they caused to the school, none of that was in their control now.

Around the 9th wave, as they were observing everything, some people started noticing something peculiar that they didn't pay much mind to before.

The Tank Variants seemed as if they were more resilient. Luna used his <Scan> ability and notice something that made his spine shiver.