Humanity Return

Ch. 157 – Unexpected Change of Situation

Is he scared?

“All long-range weapon users and healthy Magic Users quickly gathered on the city wall! Do not forget to take a maximum of three bottles of healers from the new supply place next to the stairs up!”

Of course he was afraid, he was still an ordinary human being.

“Master, take cover-”

“What's the difference between me taking cover and standing here?! Go help others do something, anything!”

He was just an ordinary merchant without the slightest magic talent, who had never put up any fights either. But somehow one couldn't help but look at him seriously as he spoke, no matter how powerful the Hunter that just saw him was.

“Prepare stone throwing and scribbling on city walls! Use wood, iron, or whatever you can find! Scramble behind me!”

Actually Barnum had tried to swing a sword in his youth, but that only made him realize his limits and finally made him choose to continue his father's Magic Plant trade.

In addition to one incident that made him the man he is today, Barnum's life is arguably not much different from other ordinary residents.

“No need to save in the use of healing drugs, use as you like. Dan-“

Rumbles!

So, of course he's scared.

“T-lord, i-it..!”.

“...ya”

His shock finally reached a level that could not be ignored anymore, making everyone on the city walls become aware of the dust fog that had started to appear in the distance.

Thousands of Beasts could be seen moving at breakneck speed towards their city from the horizon line, forming an enormous and terrifying wave.

“Breve...! Attack everything in the air first!”

Several tens of Beasts could also be seen flying in the sky, which would be the main problem, considering they could directly pass through them and attack the residents and injured people in the city without caring for the city walls.

Rumbles!

Some Beasts with the highest speed could be seen starting to separate themselves from the waves after seeing the large number of humans on the city walls in the distance, looking even fiercer than before.

Some of the archers became indecisive when they saw that, not knowing whether to aim their bows at the group or the Beasts in midair.

A young man with a rough face instantly realized that then took one step forward while carrying one large stone one meter tall in his right hand, taking the attention of most of the people around him.

“Quiet! That beast with such high speed did not have the ability to tear down the city walls! Focus on the Beasts in the air and hand the Beasts on the ground on-“

“Chairman!”

The man was a little surprised when he heard a panicked voice from behind him and found his other Party members were pointing towards the other side of town with pale faces. He immediately realized something was wrong with this already bad situation.

“S-something has been spotted d-from the other side of the city.. and is moving with high-speed k-tos here!”.

“What?!”

Most of the Hunters in this city were on the side of the wall that would receive the first clash of that huge Beast wave, which would also be the main battle ground. The two sides of the city walls were also filled with the rest of the Hunter, tasked with stopping the Beast from encircling the city from four sides.

The wall on the other side of the city that remained had only a few Hunters with the weakest destructive power that were tasked with restraining and reporting the Beast that happened to pass through three sides of the already heavily guarded wall.

And in the seconds before the start of the fight, an unexpected attack came upon that wall?

“B-how much!”

The pale young man still did not lower his hand which was still pointing to the other side of the city, making the young man with a rough face look there...

And as it turned out, he could also see ‘Sesatu’ which the young man in front of him was referring to.

Whooong...!

He could feel an enormous pressure that suddenly appeared when he saw that one point, a pressure that continued to increase as the creature approached.

And before the young man could do anything, the newcomer had already passed through one wall of the city, as well as through all the Hunters there who had been sculpting. All of the residents and Hunters in the city could also feel a great pressure on their bodies and see one long line flying above them.

“What..”

Barnum who was under the city wall finally realized the identity of the mysterious creature, who coincidentally met a gaze with him. It had only happened in an instant, but all the previous panic had instantly disappeared.

“...who?”

Barnum was pretty sure in the blink of an eye they met it, he could see a smile on his face.

[Lilena]

A whisper suddenly rang out beside the ears of everyone in the city, which happened simultaneously with when the newcomer passed through the second city wall and slid towards the Beast wave that was already visible in its entirety.

One purple wing on its back could be seen shrinking at high speed and turning into a thick purple mist that swirled behind it. A small purple flame could be seen appearing on his palm that was being lit by the fire that looked like it was going to be extinguished by the slightest wind.

[[The Manifest]]

The whispering sounds formed from the mixture of the voice of the young man and girl speaking together suddenly sounded in the same way, shocking everyone present in the city.

They also saw that all the purple mist that was around the young man had already started moving at high speed and had finally started to form ten swords behind him...

What turned out was ten 1-meter-high purple crosses with skull headdresses in the center.

[Invalidation Zone\, Barrage] [Divided]

The young man swung his hand and the ten crosses floated swiftly in the air, then broke into 50, 250, 1,250... and finally over 6,000 small needle-sized crosses started to slide rapidly and hit that Beast wave, one Beast had at least one cross with some of the biggest Beasts getting dozens of crosses at once.

Rumbles... Booms!

What followed was that all of the Beasts instantly fell to the ground, motionless. All the Beasts in the air also started to fall on top of the pile of Beasts that had already stopped gliding on that grass field.

That Beast Wave, just stop.

“Hah..”.

While the perpetrator of the incident had just landed and was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the meadow not too far from the city wall, turning his back on everyone who was looking at him with an expression of disbelief.

The young man's hair started to cut off at high speed along with his little wings which turned into a purple mist that floated for a moment before disappearing without a trace.

“Fiuh..”.

A sigh of relief escaped from his mouth after seeing the result of his attack and the distance between all the Beasts and the city wall behind him. He's almost too late.

Leinn then fell lying on the grass with both arms wide open, letting him see the rows of faces of people who were looking at him.

Coincidentally, his gaze met a middle-aged man who did not look like a fighter with a different expression to the others....

An expression of nostalgia?

“Haha”