-In the South West North Kingdom Territory –

At the same time, while Desmond’s family fled, a lady with long ears was seen hiding in the dark in the small village blind spot.

If Desmond was here, he would be shocked because the villagers were slowly transforming into a ghoul. They were eating at each other flesh.

“Young master…” An elf with long ears and light brown long hair, wearing maid clothes was seen hiding at one of the village houses. She was peeking from the small windows with her body tremble.

“How long it has been,” The elf girl muttered. Her white skin and face have become paled with her body lost its weight. The house was apparent her hiding spot for past months with many women’s clothes and a warm bed.

“I can’t stay forever in this village!” The elf girl was Shelty. After hearing Desmond’s suggestion, she kept feeling until she almost reached the border between the North Kingdom and outer territory beast.

Yet, the beasts horde occurred. At the same time, the last village she visited had strange villagers with all of them having a similarity, red eyes and their bodies full of holes.

They just stared blankly at the sky in daylight but became a monster with their bodies enlarger and their mouths grew many teeth at night.

It was still daylight, Shelty had plenty of chances to escape, she just needed to gather her courage. She was looking at herself in the mirror.

Dark circles under her eyes with her dark blue moist eyes droopy staring at herself. Her cheeks bones could be seen protruding with her pinky lip had dry and turned into dark brown.

The next moment, using her spells, Shelty tried to silence her step as much as possible. She lightly moved between the houses and finally arrived at the entrance without alerting those evil creatures.

The moment she exited the village, she almost burst into tears. She was a timid and cowardly person that actually trapped for more than a month in the same place!

If it was her young master, he might barrage or even massacre all of those evil creatures! Thinking back the rest of her sisters staying with her young master made her daze and envious.

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At the same time, above the wall of Helmfirth City, where all of the mages were seen gathered and kept chanting their spells aimed at those beasts.

The vast green meadows have turned into a dark charcoal barren land with many beasts’ corpses scattered around. It was a huge advantage for Helmfirth city having this landscape as their mages could freely aim their attack without any object blocking their vision.

“Reinforce the walls!”

“Aim at the weaker beasts first!”

“Swordsman, use your strength to push back the beasts that are climbing over the walls!”

*bam*

Suddenly, the entire walls trembled and dropped some dust. Those beasts were seen trying to destroy the gate. Yet, clearly their power was not enough.

Many dark green bloods have tainted the grey color on the walls, with a few debris kept dropping each time those beasts planted their claws.

After the tremor, a light enveloped the entire gate and walls with the light slowly restoring and rebuilding back the broken parts.

Many soldiers and mages overjoyed and shouted at each other. The wall with a height of ten meters was not enough to withstand many beasts attacks if not the help from those mages.

Luckily no one of C or B rank beast was spotted, which made the human relieved. If not, it would not be possible for the city could withstand these attacks for months.

“We ran out of energy!” Those mages suddenly yelled to their comrades, making the swordsman’s complexion and the people who heard it become paled and turned into horror.

The mage was their source of courage, by relying on those mage power they could bravely charge forward without fearing the injure on their bodies!

“Mages go meditate and replace your energy. As for the swordsman, those who were soloing themselves to fight, go regroup with the others, create a group of five men and give ten meters of space to each other!

“The swordsman guarding the gate below, come and help defend the walls from above. Also, one of you calls the elite troops to replace and guard the gate!”

A man with armor on his body was commanded without panicking. His black eyes gazed at the distance behind the beasts, where a small flying shadow could be seen.

“City lord, the elite troops has arrived!” At the same time, a brand new troop with armor more than luxurious or compared to the man’s armor were shouted from below.

The armor had a chap behind it with the chest part made from the most famous material, ‘Blackark’! Its dark blue color was shining and suited with their weapons and the current situation.

On top of that, each of the elite soldiers emitted fierce pressure when compared to those normal soldiers, clearly they were at the peak of 2nd class swordsman.

A group of Upper Stage 2nd class swordsman! Its power was comparable with Desmond’s subordinates!

“Good! I have been with you for years, I trust your ability to defend and protect our family!” The man was the city lord, Greyson who made Desmond retreat back then.

“Yes, sir!” The loud voice and courage within their eyes contained a hint of not fear made the swordsman around them paled in comparison. But this scene also agitated their spirit in their bodies which eventually made their blood boil.

Suddenly, a wave of water came out from nowhere, swarmed the soldiers above the walls that shocked them for a moment.

“The academy is here to help, feel free to call us if needed!” When the wave of water fell down and pushed back those beasts that were climbing, more than three hundred young mages were suddenly appeared and stood in line on every part of the walls.

“The academy! Long live the king!”

“For the humanity!”

Instantly this made the soldiers even the elite troops feel touched by the academy’s contribution.  They never thought that the proud and arrogant people from the academy with their base was safe in the sky actually helped them defend their beloved city.

At the same time, Greyson looked at the leader of the academy people, a mature lady in her late 20 with her white robe and silver hair was seen standing gorgeous with her forced smile.

“Sorry to trouble you, Ms.Quinn,” Greyson spoke with a tone of sadness. His head tilted down while gritting his teeth.

“Please don’t say it again, Sir. That already become a past for us, now we need to keep alive to fulfill his last wishes.” Quinn softly replied.

Yet, she bit her lower lip while looking away from him, clearly she could not hold her anger every time someone mentioned this matter.

[Written by DragonKnov || Published on AnimeDaily.Net]