124: Bad Situation

Bad Situation

Kai's group entered the hill area with lightning speed, killing every single flying beast that came their way.

As one would expect from an elite group, they were really reliable.

Seeing this progress, Sarah quickly shouted, "Hold your position, everyone! Our reinforcements have arrived! They will arrive at the top in two minutes, so use everything you have in these two minutes!"

"Yes!"

Although she said those words, she sucked a cold breath because even with Kai's group, it was not enough to deal with two intelligent beasts.

Boom!

"Shit!" Sarah turned around only to find the two magical beasts closing in on her. It seemed that they wanted to kill her first. "This is going to be a brutal fight… If we can't hold them on this hill, they will start swarming the general's army before sweeping the middle and right armies…"

"Boom!" She slapped the octopus's tentacle away with her spear. Although she could fight the octopus to a standstill, it was hard for her to defeat this octopus due to the lack of firepower. Not to mention, the soldiers around her had started dying before they could get healed by Evan.

"We are going to retreat to our last line of defense!" She shouted.

"!!!" As soon as they heard her mention the last line of defense, they knew the situation was quite dangerous. Without wasting any time, they quickly blew the enemy away and climbed the cliff.

The gunners started raining their bullets, halting the beasts' advance.

The sea creatures started climbing the hill as Sarah roared, "Set them on fire!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of explosions came out from the ground. Just like Jack, Sarah also utilized everything in their possession. It might not be cost-effective, but it was enough to stop their advance for a few seconds with a wall of dead magical beasts.

Within those few seconds, the elite group finally arrived.

"We are through!" Roga roared as they successfully climbed the hill.

Kai checked the military students' position and found them not far from the foot of the hill. In around five minutes or so, they should arrive here. With five hundred more gunners, he could see a working plan.

"For now, the group will split into two. The first group will fight the flying beasts while preventing them from reaching our gunners, and the other group will stop the magical beasts' advance.

"Roger!" No one had any complaints about Kai anymore after seeing his conduct, strength, and bravery. Instead, their hearts were filled with respect.

Bam!

The wall was shattered by three existences: an octopus, a turtle, and a lobster. The octopus was Sarah's opponent, so Kai quickly turned to the turtle.

"I'm going to fight the turtle, you stop the octopus. Thirty gunners, aim at the lobster!" Kai commanded the army as he raised both of his swords while advancing toward the turtle.

He had a few reasons as to why he wanted to fight the turtle. The first reason was its size. It was five meters in height alone, and under it were several magical beasts. As long as he took it down, he would also kill all the magical beasts below it and create a superior wall on this hill. The other reason was because of its speed. Although it had a considerable speed, it was still too slow for him and his ears.

So, he decided to fight it instead of the lobster. Besides, he could try to aim at its feet. Maybe the turtle would suddenly enter its shell and kill the magical beasts.

With those objectives in mind, Kai leaped toward the back of the turtle without any magical beasts hindering him.

His first target was the turtle's eyes.

As he expected, the turtle went inside its shell, albeit only its head. This clearly told him that his plan failed.

After having his first plan fail, he quickly went to its leg and sliced it with his sword.

Clang!

Kai opened his mouth in surprise, not expecting that his sword would break at a time like this. "How hard is this turtle…"

"What am I supposed to do with this turtle? I can't even cut its skin, let alone its shell. If only I had a Vibration Sword…" Kai thought about it while looking around the turtle while muttering to himself, "And I still need to fight the lobster…"

Bam!

Despite having been shot by a lot of gunners, the lobster continued rampaging around. With that hard shell, no one could stop it. Those small bullets would never pierce its shell.

It killed multiple fighters while climbing the cliff.

On the other hand, Evan was treating a few soldiers at a time. All of them were fighters that needed to fight in the front lines again if they wanted to win, so he didn't have the time to care about anything besides him… except that moment came…

Bam.

"Guah!" The lobsters shattered the fighters' formation as it looked at Evan. It pounded its claw at him.

"Sh*t!" Even Evan couldn't help but throw a curse at this point.

…

In the middle army, Tasha shot every single ray of blue light that was coming toward the army, preventing it from attacking their army.

Luckily, the beast itself didn't have any intention of coming closer, so while she took down the rays of blue light, she had some spare time to kill a few magical beasts.

It was at this time that she began to feel something amiss. The position of battle, the timing, and the unexpected magical beasts, all of them came so perfectly.

'Is someone commanding them? No, there should be no one capable of commanding magical beasts…' Tasha couldn't help but think this. Unfortunately, no matter how hard she thought, the answer would never come.

"Michelle!"

Michelle, whose name was called, glanced in her direction, confused as to why Tasha suddenly called her name. "What?"

"Come to this place right now. Something's not right," Tasha said with a serious expression, making it hard for Michelle to reject.

Michelle didn't have any specific obligation in the army, so she quickly left the battlefield and leaped to Tasha. "What is it?"

"Electric Lance." Before answering her, she noticed another ray of blue light and shot it down.

Boom!

"Everything feels wrong. Don't you feel that everything is too coincidental? It's like we're fighting a human controlling these magical beasts…"

"..." Michelle fell into silence. She looked down and pondered something over. "I think I've read about something like this somewhere… Hmm, the report said that there is actually someone that can control magical beasts… but we don't know if it's a human or something else."

"Something else?" Tasha furrowed her eyebrows.

"I don't know." Michelle shook her head and sighed. "I didn't read that information, so I don't know a single thing. It might only be a rumor."

"Even so, just remembering how Kai has been acting this whole time, I fear there's something bad worrying him… Remember when he wanted to reinforce the left army. Don't you think it's strange?"

"!!!" Michelle finally realized what Tasha was talking about. "I see… So your point is, someone with the ability to control magical beasts intruded in this battle and Kai went to the left army to see it? Finding it too dangerous, he went there by himself…"

"Yeah. That's what I thought." Tasha bit her lips before creating another Electric Lance to shoot down another attack.

"True enough. Normally, he would ask one of us to accompany him. Besides, Evan and Teacher Sanae are in that place…" Michelle paused and fell into deep thought. "I should go there…"

"That might be our choice. You can leave this place to me. Considering that my opponent is a snail that can only shoot out that blue light thing, I should be able to kill it sooner or later with my lightning. I'd need to release my power though." Tasha wanted to go, but she also needed to see the bigger picture.

Sadly, they only guessed half of his original intention right.

"I'll tell that person first before you teleport me."

"Sure."2

Michelle disappeared for one minute before reappearing in front of her.

"Are you ready?"

"Yeah."

"Teleportation!" She snapped her fingers, creating a pink magic circle for Michelle.

"Be careful." Michelle smiled.

"You too." Tasha nodded before her eyes turned sharp, looking at the snail. She drew her bow and pointed it at the sky.

"Lightning Storm." The arrow flew to the sky right above the snail as it slowly became a catalyst to create a purple magic circle. A bolt of lightning struck forth, blasting the snail.

Meanwhile, Michelle had arrived on top of the hill.

"Tch." She looked around and noticed that she was teleported to the middle of the battlefield.

"Michelle?" Below her was Kai and a giant turtle, fighting a useless battle.

"Kai! What are you-"

Before she could finish her words, Kai cut in by saying, "Let's talk later. You deal with this intelligent A-rank turtle, I need to go somewhere else!"

Kai didn't wait for her to reply and quickly leaped toward the lobster.

"Wait- argh!" Michelle gritted her teeth and threw a shadow weapon to Kai.

"Thanks."

She swung both of her swords at the turtle's shell as soon as she landed. "It's because of you!"

"Shadow Slash!"

Roar!

Unfortunately, the slash didn't do anything. Instead, the turtle suddenly whacked Michelle with its tail.

"!!!" Michelle sensed the incoming tail and blocked it with her sword. Even though she was prepared for the impact, the force still blew her away, crashing her to the ground.

Boom.

The dust kicked up. Behind the dust, Michelle wiped the blood that was flowing out of her mouth.

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