Chapter 6

(Yuna-Korima POV)

Once the thirteen aircrafts reached the battlefield we saw a carnage being unfolded.

The warriors of Astarte were fighting with everything they got to keep the monsters away. But it was an impossible feat to accomplish.

The monsters were too numerous as the army of the demons was too large to fight off with but a mere one hundred thousand soldiers that only kept decreasing while the enemy forces would increase with each loss our side suffers.

Monsters of all kind, mutated corrupt and sickly looking. But they were strong, some were giant sacred beasts, while others were but small animals like wolves and boars of the nearby forests…this disgusting army was approaching the city and all the warriors of Astarte could do is just an attempt to halt their advance.

Once we were in range our aircraft began shooting spells bombarding them from afar.

However the moment we did so some sort of flying beasts began charging at us…corrupt wyverns…

The aircrafts were forced to descend a bit far from the battlefield, while we lost one that belonged to the house Vendi.

Thankfully the aircraft was evacuated before the one driving it could manage to crash it into the ranks of the gores…however the whole plane was now consumed with slime looking creatures that just grew in size…

They feed on magic. Any magic that cannot deal enough damage to destroy them will only make them grow…what a stupid situation…

“Time to go.” Said Ryouka Gaz-sama

And once he said so, we, the four clan leaders inside the main cabinet of the plain left.

I was the first to exit from a side of the giant aircraft and soon my clan followed suit.

Once all the forces left I was joined by Vessma stronghold and Zeles Vendi

“Yuna-sama” said the red head

“Yes?” I replied

“Are you to fight in this war? Shouldn’t you remain where it is safe?” said the girl

“Sorry but it is a duty of mine and I cannot let my subordinates do the fighting while I hide in safety…” I replied while moving forward with both of them

“I didn’t mean it like that…I just feared for you as you know well how dangerous those things are…”

“Worry not” I said “I am well aware of the dangers.”

Zeles then spoke

“Our house with the addition of the house stronghold and Starsoul are doing the same. However I can’t see Shiki or Nassi here”

“Huh. Well they were grounded for attempting to secretly climb the aircraft this morning. They are back at Alsa with the old water dragon clan…they can’t escape that man. It is better this way. It is for their own safety.”

“True…although they are strong those guys just made it to their second year attending Albion…we can’t have students fighting wars can we now.”

It’s not like you or I are any better you just graduated and I am supposed to be in my second year…well I don’t need to tell her that now.

Once we were close enough we saw how bad the situation truly was. The ranks of the fighters from Astarte are all jumbled up and disorganized even more the ranks of the enemy are in an even more chaotic state…this is a mess

Our forces are barely a tenth of those that are already fighting…I can’t see what our existence here could do to change things...yet we needed to be here…for they are our brethren in these times of need. And we will have to help with all our might.

I began by casting one of my strongest spells as I began to summon the ice dragon.

While at the same time the lightning clan leader began casting his own version of the summoning and started to conjure a lightning made cloud that began to formulate his own spell

It was an enormous beast made of lightning and electricity it looked like a lion with blue and golden streaks of lightning enshrouding it while its mane, had the color of topaz.

The earth golem clan leader did the same creating a gigantic golem made of stone, and giant boulders. It looked like the ones from the crucible, only bigger.

Ryouka Gaz-sama was next and for him he summoned a flame that transformed into a giant serpent like dragon with an enormous size. The dragon would coil around itself and screech as flames breathed flame.

This is blood inheritance magic, a type of spirit magic that is only available for the elite and the ones blessed by the clan’s specific and sacred being. Being the head would grant anyone the said blessing of this protector. But a ritual must be passed before this power is passed on from head to another.

Once our beasts were manifested the enemy forces took proper notice of us and a huge portion of the grotesque looking beings began to head our way. Black dirty and defiled they all began their march screeching and threatening to corrupt any that would touch them. However in their front was a man wearing a black veil while death itself was hovering around him.

This man had a giant looking scythe and was leading the charge while running.

A few of the Astartian army tried to stop him from advancing forward but they were disposed of as if they were nothing.

He slashed at some with his scythe, splitting them in halves and using death magic to entrap the souls of anyone that manage to avoid the blade.

He would dodge twirl and strike any that approached like if he was some sort of an acrobat.

The summoned beasts began their attack as the giant flame dragon shot a fireball that the man easily avoided making it collide with the gores that were following him.

My own ice dragon shot an ice breath that was rendered useless the moment the hooded man pressed his free hand forward as a wave of black magic melted the whole attack and destroyed a portion of my dragon’s head.

Our followers then began casting spell after spell toward the man that forced him to change tactics. Although strong he would never be able to handle all the attacks from thousands of mages at once.

He slowed down to a complete halt while he brushed some attacks that would have nearly hit him with his scythe.

Then he left the gores act as a meat shield taking the damage from the spells.

We lost vision of the man for a moment and I took that chance to use more mana to restore the dragon’s head to where it was.

“It seems that that thing was the devil lord controlling this army…we need to take him down. And fast.” Said the lightning clan leader.

And with that the lightning beast began to jog toward the incoming gores while our army backed it up with supporting fire.

Once it was close enough it jumped high and crashed with its paws first into the horde and electrified everything within hundreds of meter’s radius. Burning most to cinder.

The beast began to tear away at whatever survived and looked like it was wining the match.

The sound of thunder and lightning was spreading throughout the battlefield and we were now almost certain of our victory as the power of the sacred ones is not to be underestimated.

However, the devil lord seemed to be unscathed. As it now jumped toward the beast and twirled around itself in midair dodging a swipe from the lion and rewarding it with a slash from its scythe that forced the lion to disappear while screeching from pain.

However the cost of forcefully unsummoning a being of that power is great…not to the Devil lord…but to us

I looked at the lightening clan leader who now had blood dripping from his mouth but had yet to show a sign of weakness.

“Are you alright Youtaro-sama” said Ryouka Gaz.

“I am fine…but I don’t think I can do anything else…my mana is depleted…”

“I got you.” Said Ryouka gaz. “You should rest.”

Yet the problems only kept compiling. As the other portion of the army that was fighting the Astartians seemed to be winning their part of the game and rather…easily.

The biggest and largest of beasts were on that side and were clearly outmatching the warriors from Astarte…they are brave but that is not enough…more than half of their forces is now dead and the rest is either wounded or barely able to fight back…

“Kurogane-sama!” said Ryouka gaz. “we need to help the others. Youtaro-sama, guide Yuna-sama here. We need to assist the others…if they can’t hold…we all die.”

“Very well.” Said the lightning clan leader. “I just need some time to recuperate my mana” said the lightning clan head

“Vessma, Zeles. Follow me. In the absence of your parents you are under to be under my supervision. Come and bring the members of your houses with you.” Said Ryouka Gaz-sama

In that moment they both began to walk with him while we saw our own meager forces become even less…I can’t even see how we are supposed to help with these numbers but this is all we have and we have to use them the best we can.

“Can you use your ice to make the playground to our favor?” said the lightning clan head

I pressed both my hands down on the ground and made almost the entire field in front of me and all the way to the gores become that of ice. The whole land froze making it much more difficult for the beasts to approach but it was at a huge cost of my mana.

I was huffing for a bit suffering from minor signs of mana poisoning but it was still manageable.

The ice dragon that I have now fully restored began shooting ice breath after ice breath as it further hindered the gore’s approach…yet with each step these beasts would make, even if they slip and fall. The magic that was used to turn the earth to ice would disappear as they would consume it…

They only got closer…even under the heavy artillery of our forcers they kept getting closer…

I felt weak once Ryouka-sama went to help the others but I have to manage things here…he entrusted it to me and I need to do it no matter what it takes…

“Don’t worry dear child. We can hold them back for a bit…”

Said the Clan leader who clearly did not believe what he was saying…

If we fall…then there will be no one left to protect Alsa…

Not only this…now that Alikh had fallen the army is headed toward our interception force…they will be wiped out if they don’t get out of there fast enough…

The man who was wearing black now showed himself as he was now just lightly tapping on the ice while approaching. It was as if he was walking on the thinnest of layers while gracefully dodging any attacks.

I summoned some heaven piercing javelins and threw them his way but they were dodged along with another ice breath from my ice dragon that was instantly stopped with a black miasma casted from his free hand.

We have to stop him from getting closer! That man is dangerous!

The figure now jumped high and grabbed his scythe with both hands swinging it down where I and Youtaro-sama were standing

But right before he would strike

“Martial Poise!” said a womanly voice

And in an instant the scythe was stopped by the woman from the Verda tribe. The girl was glowing red as a small sun made of wrath and fire while the man was enshrouded with a black and foul miasma.

The aura surrounding the girl and her weapons were enough to stop the black smoke but was not enough to stop the might of his strike.

As once the glaive and the scythe collided it took but a moment for the man to shove down the girl back to the ground as it crushed the earth and ice beneath her while she coughed a mouthful of blood.

The girl rose once more roaring to the heavens and dashed toward the now landed man.

Swing after swing only the air would throb from the might and speed of the strikes but the Devil lord would yield not a step.

It took me a second to realize that the girl was outmatched so I tried to assist her by making some of the ice rise up from underground in an attempt to bind the devil lord.

An attempt that was futile from my part it was.

The devil just raised his right leg lightly and stomped the ground making the entirety of the ice surrounding him transform into a pool of foul water.

Yet this was done without him removing his eye for a single second from the girl in front of him

“We need to assist her…” said the lightning clan leader

“How are we supposed to do that…we have no warriors that are capable of stopping that man…Alsa is a country of magic…we need warriors…if only he was here…”

“Even if Alsa is a country of magic this does not mean you don’t have allies that can use the arts of the blade.” Said a man with green hair and emerald pupils…he looked like Lori…

He appeared next to us and almost out of nowhere then a moment later he disappeared and managed to land a strike on the back of the hooded man.

He had a long sword that was engulfed with fire and the attack was so fast the Devil lord did not even see it coming.

In that moment, Lori managed to land a perfect diagonal slash on the man’s chest area tearing at his robe and making a deep gash within.

The Devil lord reeled from the strikes and jumped back a bit only to have the same man follow him and kicking him on the side, forcing the devil lord to land back in a very painful manner that I heard his bones crack from the strength of the impact.

“What a strong fella…”said the lightning clan leader.

“They look like they are well coordinating together…we still need to help them. If the monsters reach where the devil lord is…they won’t stand a chance.”

The two of them kept on attacking the Devil lord while it fought back with distress.

A few more hits and he will fall…

However something is really not right here…Why is he on the defensive? he had many chances to retaliate but he didn’t take them…

“Something is wrong…”said the lightning clan head.

In but a moment the hooded man rolled back from a strike and a dark made shockwave erupted from his body.

The radius of that wave was enormous and it increased exponentially engulfing both of them in a single second and reaching almost all the way to us. Only stopping a few meters away.

The two of the Verda tribe fell down to the ground.

The glowing hue on the girl was rapidly fading away while the man had not the slightest sings of life in him…

Seeing this the entirety of the lightning and water clan members began shooting water and lightning at him trying to push him away and force him to back off…

However the gores were too close for our attacks to be of use…

Our forces were losing the fight here…Ryouka-sama’s dragon was suffering to fight off the demons that were coming his way…even the giant golem was now tackled and surrounded by the gores that are now climbing it and consuming its energy…

We are losing this fight…

…

The hooded man began to walk toward the unmoving two. Our attacks were useless as many of the gores have now bypassed him and are in the line of fire…

Yet even within the gores I was able to see the man move slowly step by step until he was near the girl.

He placed his black and clearly rotten hand forward trying to cast some sort of spell but he instantly grabbed his scythe and slashed forward.

His act created a ginormous shield made of dark that blocked a bolt made of light.

The impact of this bolt was not destructive at all...it was like a beacon of light that began to shine on this world scorching all gores close to it.

Another bolt then struck closer making many of the gores die from the light.

Taking a look at the source of these attacks I saw something I didn’t believe it to be true before…

Up in the sky and far, far away there was something that was closing on this place very fast.

It was made of stone and rock as it flew toward this place. While cannons that were placed on the side of this flying rock shot these bolts toward the coagulation of the gores.

Hundreds of suck bolts were shot all over the field and with each impact the attack would kill all that was close to it fully vaporizing the creatures in a screaming and agonizing looking way.

The flying rock approached and closed down while many of the wyverns started their assault on it only to be rewarded with artillery of the divine. Descending upon the foul and rotten organisms.

Once the flying rock was on top of us it managed to eclipse the sun from its size.

And in a moment a very large looking door that was installed under it slowly withdrew back, making the shaft under the flying rock slowly open

A moment later some things began to fall from the shaft in an organized and almost mechanical manner.

These things would fall and crash into the ground caving a small piece of it with each ascent.

It took about few minutes until these things were fully down and none fell anymore.

They looked like spheres made of gold…

A red hue of light began to shimmer from within the cracks of these golden spheres.

And in seconds they opened up and reformed themselves into humanoids made of steel and gold.

These things had six arms and no facial expressions they all looked identical and they all had the same size and shape.

Each of these things had six small blades on their hands.

They began to slowly walk forward… and regroup.

Making a perfect square made of probably one hundred by one hundred of these things.

A thousand in total.

The walked slowly toward the Gores.

Their pace began to increase until it reached a full jog.

They all flicked their arms making the blades heat up and turning red at the same time.

The gores in front of them began to charge and the robotic looking creatures clashed with them.

Like ants to a bigger prey the golden humanoids latched to the gores and began slashing at them yet amazingly with each attack the gore in question would instantly vaporize.

I even saw one of the big looking sacred beast gulp up a mouthful of these things but they ripped him from within and got out…unscathed

Not even a single dent was on these things as they continued on with their assault.

The flying rock then moved a bit to the side and began its descent.

The golden made things were still ripping away at any gores that was close to them.

Always using numerical advantage to take down anyone.

The Hooded man then jumped toward one of the metallic things and managed to slash it in halves.

The thing crumbled and fell down…only to begin crawling back to its other part and fusing its body back to its former self.

The golden humanoid now looking as new then once again charged at the Devil lord.

The lord began using death magic but it was usless.

He used flame to melt it but the thing proved to be fire proof

It was now encircled with many of these things

As he slashed and cut at them with no avail. The Devil lord then jumped back dodging several attacks that were sent his way only to use his scythe to swat them away.

He looked frustrated.

Two of the humanoid figures pulled their sword and were now trying to attack the still fallen girl.

But only a second later they both stopped and grabbed her while they walked away from the battlefield.

Many of the humanoids would be crushed and destroyed but they would just fix themselves up as if it was nothing and go back to fight once again

While every, and any attack by them would kill the gore that they were attacking.

Once the flying rock landed I could see the top of a golden pyramid in the far distance. And from it something was coming at full speed.

It looked like a small dot at first but once it got closer I knew instantly who it was

“Asura!”