Revenge of the Son of the Nobles

Chapter 28: The Crisis

All the soldiers rushed to each other's combat equipment, a soldier running around the corner of the barracks while shouting the current situation

"DEMON ATTACK! THEY'RE MOVING FROM THE SOUTHEAST! THE FORTRESS SOLDIERS ARE HOLDING THEM! HURRY UP!"

Alex came out of the barracks along with the other troop of soldiers, the atmosphere in the city changed instantly, just a moment ago while he was patrolling, everything was bright and fine, he said, but the mood of the city was suddenly somber after emergency sirens rang.

On the way, Alex met some of his other colleagues, their faces were all tense, the shadow of the attack on the train re-emerged in their minds.

They all immediately headed for the city's defensive line, the southeastern part of the city was a stone hill with an ocean at its end, somehow they reached this place.

As Alex arrived at the defensive line, he was wide-eyed at the sight before him. Hundreds, no, maybe thousands of creatures resembling humans and animals ran towards the city with bodies that had rotted away.

"What the fuck ...."

Some of the soldiers who were in shock immediately vomited on the spot, the officers yelled at them to stay strong, although they themselves also felt trepidation.

In that gripping situation, everyone seemed to be glued to their place, they knew that if the creatures reached the defensive line and reached the fortress, then very, very bad things would happen.

But despite knowing that fact, they cannot move the body because of fear, fear of facing the unknown with unknown risks.

Some of them even fell down and even intended to run away at that moment.

But suddenly a blaze from the defensive line suddenly appeared and shot into the waves of those creatures, blasting most of them. The attack came from Alex, without taking a break, Alex again fired a fire bertubi hit their ranks mercilessly.

As it was only realized, the other soldiers immediately took out the crossbow and started raining down the waves of the cursed creatures with arrows, the artillery operators immediately fired their cannons, and they began to shower themselves with arrows, Alicia also threw cannon ammunition with her bare hands, the force of the throw even surpassed the power of the cannon itself.

Although fear still envelops their hearts, but the flames that continue to fire Alex as if to burn their survival spirit.

Among the long-range attacks launched by the defense forces, there were some creatures that managed to escape, or rather the attacks did not hit them because of their large numbers.

That's where the role of infantry soldiers, they began to unsheathe each other's weapons, mowing down the creatures one by one.

Anford with a weapon fed by heat from his body advanced to the front of the defensive line, dispelling the creatures that tried to break through. The power of his body heat made him capable of splitting their bodies like slicing butter. Desmond who did not want to miss also came forward and shoulder to shoulder to finish off the creatures.

Although their numbers had already dwindled due to Alex's incessant barrage of attacks pounding them, but the creatures were like endless, they kept coming like the waves of the ocean.

But despite their large numbers, thanks to their movements that only ran forward without any calculations made them easily defeated. The problem is that the stamina of the soldiers who slowly began to drain, if this battle lasted too long, it did not rule out the possibility of casualties on their side.

It was aggravated by the appearance of a dog-shaped creature with a decomposing body, his agile movements made the rear line soldiers difficult to aim at them.

"ROUGHSHH!" One of the dogs bit the foot of a soldier, but he swiftly stabbed the dog's head with a dagger, leaving him sprawled instantly.

Some medics tried to help the soldier, only, before they reached his location, the soldier suddenly convulsed followed by a blue rash that appeared all over his body. Shortly after, the soldier stopped moving with his mouth gaping to bleed.

It caused a sense of trepidation on the part of the defense forces, some of them began to feel overwhelmed to face the strange creatures because of the morale that began to fall.

The sound of another shout was heard again, a soldier who was in front of the defensive line was mobbed by some of the creatures, they began to eat the body of the soldier alive.

The morale of the entire army collapsed instantly seeing the scene before them, the soldier was still shouting for help while the parts of his body were eaten one by one.

The sound of cries of pain began to sound alternately, casualties began to fall in the ranks of the defense forces.

"It's crazy ... We can't fight something like this ...." Some of the soldiers began to retreat to the defensive line, making the frontlines even more vulnerable.

Seeing the increasingly precarious conditions, Alicia finally descended to the forefront, "Desmond! Make me a big gun!" Desmond who was showering the creatures with sharp blades immediately formed a Greatsword and threw it at Alicia.

"RAAAAHHHH!" Alicia lunged at the waves of the creatures, slashing the Greatsword to and fro, subverting the creatures in large numbers.

Alex also came forward to the front line, he used the power of the wind fairy to create a whirlwind that sucked most of the creatures, seeing it, and then, Desmond formed a giant hammer and threw it at Alicia who was in front.

Quickly, Alicia caught the hammer, then with a high jump, she smashed the hammer into the gathered group of creatures after being sucked in Alex's whirlwind.

-BOOM!-

The ground they were on shook violently because of Alicia's hammer blow, the place she hit soared to a meter deep, the creatures' bodies crumbled into scattered fragments.

Soldiers who had been frightened finally descended to the front line after seeing the action of people wandering with the power of light, working hand in hand to get rid of the creatures.

Alicia returns to mow down the creatures that arrive, Brenda, Anford and several other soldiers take care of the creatures that escaped the attack of Alex and Alicia, who are not the ones who are in the process, while Desmond and Alex rained down on them with long-range strikes.

"If we continue like this, we may die first!" As Thomas began to get tired, some other soldiers such as Phillip and Trevor also began to be overwhelmed to dispel the waves of attacks by the creature.

"If I had to die anyway, I would rather die in the hands of a demon knight than be eaten by this undead," Trevor said in a trembling voice, but afterwards he chuckled, "Well, "Well, we can't choose how we die anyway."

"Actually I have a solution, but it may be too risky" said Alex, who still threw attack after attack at the horde.

Anford laughed, "In this situation you can still think of risks?! Just do!"

Everyone approved of Anford's remarks, as long as there was a chance of them surviving this precarious situation, whatever the risk was they would definitely bear.

Alex finally nodded and stopped attacking, he closed his eyes for a while, before long his body began to tremble and pale, Desmond looked at him in confusion mixed with anxiety.

Then a few meters above them, several fireballs the size of a bright red head formed, the scorching heat began to be felt.

"Allicia! Back off!" Shouting Alex, Alicia who heard him immediately jumped back, with one jump, she rejoined Alex's ranks.

"Maybe you guys have to shut your ears anyway" Alex said, his voice sounding limp. Then with a single movement of the hand swinging downwards, the ball of light shot towards the line of the creature.

-BOOOMMMM!-

The sound of the explosion was so deafening, the soldiers could not see what was happening because such a powerful heat wave appeared just after the ball of light hit the ground, making them unable to open their eyes.

Desmond immediately formed a large shield, unable to see the surrounding comrades, he only made the shield as broad as possible. The heat wave generated by the explosion was so strong that it made the skin feel roasted even though they were behind Desmond's shield. Even Desmond almost bounced back because of the shockwave from the explosion were it not for Alicia helping him hold the shield.

-BOOOM!-

-BOOOM!-

-BOOOM!-

Another series of explosions followed after deafening everyone there, the people behind Desmond's shield began to shout in heat as the heat wave from the explosion became stronger as the series of explosions.

After all the explosions stopped and the heat wave began to subside. Desmond lowered his shield, he widened his eyes, the sight before him right now would indeed leave everyone flabbergasted and at a loss for words to describe the scene they were witnessing right now.

The area that should have been green hills with many trees was now blackened, completely charred, the trees in the hills were so that they could no longer be burned so badly. The wind that blew from the hill even felt very hot.

"ALEX! ALEX!" Brenda's cry was like resuscitating them all, Alex fell down with his nose bleeding a lot, his body looks trembling with cold sweat drenched his body.

Some of the people who were able to walk immediately carried Alex's body to the city to get treatment.

Desmond's gaze was still fixed on the black plains in front of him, now he understood why Alex was considered one of the strongest people in the academy. Even among people with the power of light, there was a clear difference in strength.

One pat on his shoulder made him wake up and look over, that person is Anford. Unlike the others, his skin did not blush due to the effects of the heat wave, it seemed like his strength provided a higher heat resistance than other humans.

"Let's go back, we win this time, the damned creatures are no longer coming." Anford's voice sounded weak and his face looked exhausted, his stamina was already drained quite a lot due to using his strength too excessively.

Desmond nodded, he followed Anford who walked first towards the city.

This battle they won, but regardless of what would happen in the battles to come, there was no choice for them other than to keep moving forward and become stronger.

When they had all returned to the city, a pale-faced woman with entirely white eyes and dressed in religious ceremonial clothing appeared on the top of one of the burned-out hills, a gripping smile implied on his face.

"Not bad."

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Characters of Tania Serafina and Brian McGray. Illustrations made using AI