In the forest deep, a chariot with grim rider began to appear and wreak havoc splitting and torn the trees out of their way. A fifteen feet tall clad in rusty black armor with a weird deformed helmet. He rode a horse thrice larger than regular and much taller that is equivalent to three men. It vanishes as if returning to the dark knight shadow.

The dark knight held his sword and in one fell swoop, it overthrows indiscriminately the monsters and the mercenaries. It raised its dark sword again and on its tip glows red.

Kazan immediately builds a wall of fire. “Engage in defense position! Do not engage alone! I repeat, do not engage alone! Focus on defense! To those who can use protective magic contain that monster until we find out what kind it is.”

Dozens of mercenaries gathered and chanted magic that produces barriers in many kinds of elements from earth to fire, water, and pure mana. The other mercenaries focus on defending them from the monsters that aim to flank them.

Alastor is one of the people who focus on killing the monsters and stopping them from marching to their base. The archers were finally able to stop the goo monsters from climbing on top. Their attention wills back to the dark night but their attacks were meaningless to it as the arrows were black with mere aura.

The blade shone brightly in red and as it swung its trails to the tower. The archers are not dumb enough to go wait for the enemy’s attack to hit them, they undoubtedly jump down to the roof of the mansion. One of them did not manage to make it gracefully and felt the pain crept in his bones specifically on his Achilles heels. They aided him to the medic station.

Kazan presses his communication device and contacts all of the mercenaries.

“Can anyone tell me what is that thing?!” He shouted.

Inside the mansion, the heads are busy reading the books finding out what kind of monster it is. Rod accidentally stumbled upon a clustered several books. He quickly got up and uses magic that allows him to read multiple books at once.

One of the members of the heads shouted in contentment and joy with an intense expression. “Finally! I found it!”

He contacted Kazan through a communication device.

“Kazan. This is director Pietro.”

“Sir, do you have any idea what kind of monster this is?”

Currently the dark knight is destroying the barrages with ease. The magic casters’ strength slipping off and unable to maintain layer by layer of the walls.

“That this is what we called Deziun Alle. It’s a monster that came from the rift.”

“That shit came from Rift?!” He was staggered by his remark. “Shit. Most of us are below rank B and we have only a few rank A’s here.”

“I know that.”

Kazan questioned, “Does it have any weaknesses?”

“Not at the given moment. We will have to dig more, the information I found is from old mythology. In the meantime, have rank B who can’t assist in battle retreat and handle the lower-level monsters.”

“Yes sir!”

The communication ended. Kazan glance at Linda who’s busy. “Everyone! Those people who are rank A and below ranks who can use barrier and projectile magic come with us. The rest will hold off the monsters!”

Linda came over. “I will help. I’m a rank A.”

“Very well. Let’s go.”

The directors and the trainees gathered all the textbooks to find out what weaknesses it possessed. In the middle of searching, Rod stops and beckons Pietro.

“Pietro. Take a look at this.”

Rod gave him the book. This time it has information about that monster’s abilities.

“It can’t be…” Pietro muttered. His eyes reflected worriedness and horrendous expression.

The moment the last line of barrier broke, Kazan leads the attack. He was followed by his fellow ranks, most of them are melee fighters. The enemy howl like a warrior that has a lust for fight. Kazan’s attack was easily deflected by the Deziun Alle.

The monster quickly delivered a horizontal attack that disrupts the formation of the mercenaries. Luck on their side, there were no casualties.

The indomitable strength of the enemy left them no choice but to continuously defend themselves. The mercenaries jump or use barriers to protect themselves against it. Kazan and the other two went behind and attack it, but their swords bounce back it wore a shield beneath its robe.

“What the hell?!” One of the men shouted.

“It looks like we can’t penetrate. We must blow it with a powerful attack.”

“A one-hitter, eh?” Linda asked.

Kazan nods. Linda sheathes back her blade and prepares an ice lance. Even still, her attack did not do any kind of damage against it.

“What a tough guy.” She can only mutter in astonishment.

“Sir Pietro, do you have any idea how to bring this thing down.”

Pietro gave a serious tone, “Listen to me very carefully, that thing is made of a spontaneous amount of dark magic. It is so strong that it can even neutralize any kind of elemental magic. The only thing that can damage it is holy magic.”

“Holy magic? The fuck? None of us know that kind of magic.”

“I know, that is why we want you all to hold them back until they come.”

“They?”

Pietro nods. “We have sent a message to a hawk to request for their aid. Even their appearances should be next month, but we don’t have that much time.”

“Sir, how many hours do you think they can make it here?”

“One hour.” He simply replied.

Kazan closes his eyes. “Alright then, we will do our best to hold them down.”

“Kazan! Look out!” Someone shouted.

He felt the killing intent behind him and he quickly rolled over and evaded the blade of the enemy.

“Shit!” He cursed. The enemy did not stop there and attack him one more time. He used his blade to shield against it. “Fuck! Its attack is dragging me out!”

His body hardly landed on the trees. He quickly got up on his feet but still felt the trembling pain on his back. He presses his communication devices and announces, “Everyone! Please hold that monster for one hour, until they arrive!”

Everyone heard it loud and clear. The pressing question is that, who is he talking about?

“They? You mean the Rooks?!” Someone asked. “Is it true that they will come here?”

“Y-Yeah. Absolutely, the directors assured that they will come.”

One of the men grinned. “One hour, you say? Ok then, it’s been a while since we’ve been overpowered by some pesky monster. Let’s make sure everyone that within one hour, we’ll beat this fucker so that they won’t have the hard time to finish it off.”

His friend laughed. “Optimistic as always, but I can’t disagree with that. I’m not going to let them take all of the fun while suffer for waiting.”

They all dashed and proceed to rang their war cry. They attack the monster with the utmost of their strength and coordinated attacks. Whenever it tried to attack, someone would catch it and have the other people attack from its rears. Even if it has endurance and high durability, it is still confused about their incessantly changing of their disposition.

The valiant ones who charged first to it finally had lost their strength, the position that they have no longer has an effect on regaining their strength, thus, they were sent to the medic to tend their wounds.

Linda used her ice whip to attack the enemy have her whip wrapped around its sword to stop it from attacking. Kazan forces his way to stabbing the armor, but to no effect at all.

“Dammit!”

The enemy did not forget that it can use its left hand and punched Kazan halfway. The Deziun Alle grabbed the whipped and along with it, Linda was thrown away. The other mercenaries leaped and attack the enemy again.

Its dark aura suddenly grew stronger and spewed within a long distance to the mountain. It even knocked some of the rank B mercenaries and scared off the rest of the monsters having them retreating back to the ocean and the forest.

The mercenaries stopped halfway and did not dare to cross blades against the monster.

“It seems that it’s pissed off.” The tall man said.

The monster’s shadow quickly grew and formed into humanoid monsters in a form of shadow. It attacks them and quickly the mercenaries defend themselves.

Deziun Alle went on a rampage this time and killed some of the mercenaries in the process. It swings its giant sword from left to right, sparing no one with its might.

The damaged Linda received was not enough to put her courage down and she fought again. She uses her ice magic to immobilize Deziun Alle’s feet.

With ease, the monster broke the spell by melting it with its mere shadow.

Linda animated her sword and was prepared to defend herself, but as the monster came closer to her, a pang of fear suddenly rushes to her mind and locked away her confidence.

The monster raised its sword and in a swift, she closed her eyes.

There was a ring, a familiar one, it’s a ring that occurs should there two swords clashed one to another. She lifted her eye and saw Alastor defends against the attack.

“I understand that you’re beaten up, but hey, it’s not like your character to shit quickly.”

Alastor uses protection magic and conjured barriers to push the enemy way.