Chapter 72 - Monster Wave (II)

"The second group, go front! First group retreat!"

I order the first soldier to retreat and take a break. This monster invasion becomes more and more difficult. It has been a day since the sign of the S-class monster being born, and the people in the north have been defending against the monster invasion that happens to every S-rank monster being born.

Lucky for me, Rovul, the master of the sea, and Lucas, the master of the ship, lead the rest of the army to hold the monster coming from the south. Unfortunately for us, we cannot hold them in the gate as they live on the mountain, and if the army stays on the gate, they will get attacked from the mountain and the monster coming from the south.

Lucky for us, the fort is finished being built and ready to use.

The people from Dalagull also sent some of their men to our location to help defend against the monster invasion. Sadly, uncle Lomun cannot come as he needs to defend against the monster that is coming from the north.

When the situation calms down, he will go to my location with his full force.

The same with my grandfather. When the situation is calmed down for his fief to be left alone, he will come. For now, he sent a thousand men for me to command. For now, the only thing I need to do is endure.

"My lord!"

I look at who is calling me and seeing one of the captains come to me and say.

"All the ones that get injured have been gathered together."

"Good."

I lifted my hand to the air and activated my Flowing rune. I activated the Rain of Kindness and saw rain started to appear above them and healed all their injuries. When I see they are healed, I say.

"You have an hour to rest. Spend your rest time to eat, drink or even sleep because, after that, you will go back to the battlefield once again."

After saying that, I look at the battlefield once again and see there is another group of monsters coming from the mountain. It was a group of gnomes riding a shadow wolf. Behind the Gnome rider are a few hundreds of other gnomes.

"Gnome Rider incoming!"

Gnome Rider is a B-rank monster, and when they are in a group, their rank is raised to (A-) rank monster.

"Cavalry unit! Follow me! We will meet the Gnome rider before they can reach the infantry! Charge!"

A few hundred cavalry units follow my lead and begin galloping toward the Gnome Rider. When the Gnome rider sees us, one of them snarls at one of the gnomes, and suddenly a hundred Gnome archers raise their bow and begin to shoot us.

I whip my wand, and the arrow that comes at us begins to change into snow. The Gnome archers try to shoot us once again, but I change their arrow into something harmless like before.

When we almost reach the enemy, I enchant the spear in my hand and activate the fire rune on my spear to make it burn the enemy. I thrust my spear at the enemy, and suddenly, a torrent of fire appeared and blasted the shield wall the gnome created.

I continue to thrust my spear at the gnome and continue to run toward the Gnome rider in the back. The faster we finish the rider, the safer our infantry will be. While riding my horse, my danger screamed at me.

I raised my spear and blocked the snarling wolf that chewed my spear with its teeth. It was the shadow wolf. I look around, searching for its rider, and widen my eyes when I see the rider appear above with its spear pointed at me.

I move my spear to the left and place it under the rider, who decides not to hurt its mount and use its foot instead and kick me away from my mount. I land on the ground with my spear in hand and see the gnome snarling at me.

I frown a little when I see other gnome riders regrouping on the one in front of me.

"4 against one, eh?"

Eight if I count their mount. I take a stance and reinforce my body and charge at the gnome. I appear in front of the gnome in a blink of an eye and thrust my spear at it. However, to my surprise, it can block my attack but only bȧrėly.

I twist my spear and attack the gnome with the end of my spear and push it back slightly. Not only am I busy fighting the Gnome, but I am also busy fighting the wolf using my feet. I wince a little when I feel a pain in my back and see the little shit stab me in the back.

I activate the fire rune on my spear, and I create a fire ring around me, burning the little shit. I jump high in the air and use Geppo to float in the air. While in the air, I took a deep breath and activated the Star rune on my back.

"Twinkling Star!"

Without hesitation, I stab the Gnome in the head and then burn it by activating the fire rune on my spear.

I look at my back and see my men are fighting against the gnome without too many casualties, but some of them have a deep wound on their body from either getting bitten by the shadow wolf or stab by the Gnome soldier.

I lift my hand, and my Flowing Rune appears above my head as I use the Ocean Kindness, the upgraded version of Rain of Kindness.

"Ocean Kindness!"

Suddenly more than a hundred water balls appeared near all my men and then coated them with water-like armor that slowly healed all the wounds. Even when their wound is gone, the water armor stays and even blocks certain damage coming at them.

I then look to my right and see Lucina get surrounded by the Gnome. However, before I could go and help her, a Fire symbol appeared above her head, and I heard.

"Blazing Camp!"

After she shouts that, a triangle barrier appears around her and traps all the monsters inside. A second later, a fire pillar appears from the ground and shoots to heaven, burning all the monsters inside the barrier.

After the barrier is gone, Lucina looks at me with a smug face.

You know what? For some reason, she got hotter than before. Do you get it? Hotter? I'm sorry.

I snap from my self-shame and begin to continue doing what I'm going to do.. Killing all the monsters.