Chapter 219 - Boulders in one's Chest!

Once Mogranius turned his gaze around to find what Eric was pointing at, he was left shocked at what was approaching. Well not entirely, but still shocked. An ill.u.s.tratian Army is marching up and has already gone half way through the Carved Path, ready to attack the Kingdom of Maleemia! The only particular reason why Mogranius was surprised, is that the ill.u.s.tratian Army was dumb enough to send more Soldiers even after they lost so many, thousands even! Just to obtain one little domain in the mountain with no particular strong economic value. Pride can get the worst out of people or is there more to this little story?

They can think about this tremendously dumb choice all day, but it isn't neccesarily and it won't prove useful either, it is just a complete waste of time in circ.u.mstances like these! If him and Eric show what they are worth of now, maybe King Tamzar will figure out that the Revolution back in the lowlands indeed shares one thing in common with the Snow Ignites, they both hate the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance. Of course, they don't have to prove themselves worthy in front of a King corrupted with evil and from the looks of it, l.u.s.t. But if they help here it can play out differently, they will be one step closer to finding the Demonite! 

Breaking out of their invisibility, He dragged Eric right in front of the pathway, and they both were ready to give their best in order to protect this... different Kingdom. Well, we shouldn't call it wonderful, but it is important. The people in it are important at least but are under the command of a King with a terrible character but an impactful revolution too.

Odd enough, their sacrifice of invisibility became unnecessary in this battle against hundreds! Why you might ask? Every lending hand leads them one step closer to Victory! It would be the case in most battles, but here they have enough pair of hands to their aid. The most confusing part about this battle, is that neither of the ladies dropped down to start burning enemy Soldiers into a crisp! No, no one seems to have such an intend.

One... thing appeared in front of the two Ignites who were ready to contribute so much for the Kingdom who wants them killed! What appeared you might ask already? I'd like to call it a Fire Shield but that wasn't exactly the case here! But it did share the same intend and use, which is standing strong against an opposer. The Fire stood tall like a wall and worked its way up into half a curl but the upper parts didn't exactly fit with the higher walls of the Carved Pathway, it just stood around 20 meters tall!

Seeing that the battle has already started due to this wall of Fire, the opposing Army started charging forwards with a continuous strong Roar echoing through the Carved Path and making it quite difficult for everyone to properly hear anything else around them! Thinking that the two Ignites themselves caused that wall, the Army felt like they got this invasion in the bag! "What are two Ignites against our large Army?" A huge portion of them thought! 

However, two Fire Controllers wouldn't be able to create such a large wall unless both are Grand Masters! This wall is 10 inches thick! This is easily the work of 5 individuals who have a rank of an Expert (Level 4) in Fire Controlling! The opposing Army came up here with a low Morale, uncertain of Victory. But when they saw that only two Ignites stand in the way, they were all greatly motivated once more! What's to come after the two Ignites is partially uncertain since no Army managed to attain Victory after the Snow Ignites invaded, but the Guard Commanders feel like Victory is quite possible now.

This Army doesn't seem to be small either, the 5 meter wide way easily fits 4-5 men in one row! And this path is 200 meters across! Yet, Mogranius was able to see the end of the Army almost at the other side of this Carved Path!

The Army arrived near the two Ignites and struck against the Fire Wall! Hoping to tare it down and proceed with the invasion! Their Morale is too high for people who were uncertain of Victory up until now. The Fire Wall even started cracking here and there even though it is ten inches thick, but the Army's efforts proved useless because the cracks kept disappearing as if the wall kept renewing itself.

One Sword strike after the other did its own contribution, if the entire Army had the chance to land one strike or two, the wall would have a lot more chances of being broken, but luckily the Carved Path isn't wide enough for such an activity.

Odd enough just after a few cracks were renewed, the Soldiers near it started punching their own chests to relieve the sensation around it that felt like swallowing boulders! They had trouble breathing, they were gasping for air as if someone was strangling them by the throat.

The other Soldiers behind them started sharing similar fate and the disease like impact spread almost like the Domino effect! As if losing breath wasn't bad enough, Soldiers started dropping to the ground a moment after! Gasping for breath, coughing up blood and trying to crawl their way out of this "Demonized" path but they felt too weak to do so! Eventually, these symptoms caused for the Soldiers to get knocked out cold!

A few Soldiers all the way from the back, tried to flee the battle that didn't even start yet and take their chances with the terrible environment they walked their way up too instead of dealing with anything like this. But it was a pale ineffective attempt! Another wall suddenly appeared from the other side! The wall wasn't as big as the one in front of Eric and Mogranius but it was just enough to keep those few Soldiers in, they don't have the energy to fight after all so all they can do is wait to share the same fate.

One after one, the Enemy Soldiers kept dropping to the ground with no particular wound in sight! They have no visible wound but they kept falling down, without aims or the option to stand up once more! If any Soldier from past invasion attempts managed to survive, maybe they would have a different approach instead of just sending bundles of Soldiers to fail once more.

Confused enough and intensely frightened, Eric dragged Mogranius back even though he refused, and shouted. "What the hell is going on here?" After dragging him far away enough!

"I have no idea! I've never seen anything like it! Men just dropping dead? Mass poison maybe?" Mogranius was a bit frightened too but he is mostly curious. This just doesn't make any sense! Why did it happen, how did it happen? "Either way, we won't find anything out from here." Afterwards he tried to go back near the battle scene but Eric refused to let him!

Uncertain how exactly they can poison an Army, Eric asked the "wiser". "They can't poison an Army with a couple of Firewalls, can they?" He didn't know what to believe anymore! Adding, "No, it can't be possible!"

To turn their curiosity for the worse, the Fire wall closest to Eric and Woldemir broke and shattered down into pieces with the biggest pieces reducing into nothingness once meeting with the ground because those pieces took longer to disintegrate.

An Ignite lady dropped down after, and started bursting Fire out of her palms, burning down what she could of the aftermath from this battle. She actually started burning down Soldiers! Not to land the finishing blow either, but to clean the road!

Apparently, some ill.u.s.tratian Soldiers didn't die yet! So they kept screaming for Mercy, while some were screaming out of pain once feeling their limbs being burned badly! To make this scene even more disgusting, often half of their bodies were burned while the rest were left over to prove as a disgusting scene. No one would dare to look at them, not to mention smell!

The Ignite Lady walked through the 200 meter Carved Path burning down as much as she could with her own pace! Afterwards from where this lady started, dropped another Ignite woman then the other and then the third! These ladies however, played no games! One started walking in front, made her way in deep for 20 meters and torched everything on the way there as much as she could.

The second woman started following after and started torching out the ashes and bits of Iron left over by the now considered second Fire Controller to aid in this clean up. But that wasn't enough, it takes a lot of effort to melt Iron especially if done with just a quick walk by! By this task spread in between four ladies, Mogranius was able to find out that none of them are Grand Masters!

The last Fire Controller started off after the second one in line walked for 20 meters, and cleaned up what was left of these brave wholesome amount of Soldiers! Mostly ashes and just a little bit more of Iron. Flesh or bone wasn't to be spoken off! They all even ignored Mogranius and Eric watching from a distance, since these two Newcomers were approved access already. They don't know of the little fight with King Tamzar.

Eric decided to point out. "Just look how unbothered they are! The Army they faced here is the same size if not bigger, than the Army we faced in Pameres Kingdom and lost hundreds of Guards for!" Feeling it but refusing highly to say it, he thought instead. "This portrays demonic powers if not less." He never wants to call his own Kind demons, but for such tremendous flawless success, they have to be using Demonite.

"I'm aware, but we need to disappear!" Pointed out Mogranius, bringing Eric back to reality this time instead of the other way around.

If how all of these Soldiers died isn't confusing enough, Mogranius just confused him more. Baffled, Eric stated. "But there isn't any smoke!"

"That's where you are wrong."