Despite being hundreds of kilometres away from the Imperial Castle, Kuro, Dai, Leona and the others could hear and feel the impact of the spells hitting the Imperial Barrier. Loud sounds accompanied by the ground’s shaking both showcase the strength of the attacks of the enemies.

Leona’s expression was grave as she urged everyone to hasten their pace. Pop employed a group levitation spell to allow everyone to fly, while Kuro fully employed the use of the Sagittarius Wings of the YYSC. Despite their efforts, it will take them an hour or two before they can arrive at the Imperial castle.

In order to be fully prepared, Kuro and Hyunckel opted to put on their Cloth/Armor before continuing their pace. Dai also readied his Dual Dragon Crests, while Leona casted a regeneration spell on all of them. Pop also readied 5 compressed Merazomas which is his current limit, all 5 of which were silently floating behind him. Maam opted to load fire and ice bullets on her dual pistols as they neared the battlefield.

Upon coming into 1 km of the fighting, Kuro, Dai, Leona and the others saw a disheartening scene. Numerous cracks can be seen on the Imperial Barrier whilst thousands of monsters were continuously bombarding it with skills. Thousands of flies were crashing towards the same spot of the barrier non-stop, while Merazomas and Hyados were also hitting another spot.

Inside the castle, the Imperial King has turned pale due to excessive blood loss. But without hesitation, he still continued to feed his blood to the sacrificial altar in order to strengthen the barrier.

“Bring me my staff!”

In truth, the Imperial King was also a magician, but he specialized in healing. He has high level heal spells, and he can use those spells on himself. The main problem is that he cannot replace the blood that he lost via spells.

“Self-Regeneration!”

“Self-Regeneration!”

“..."

"Self-Regeneration active, generation of blood at maximum!"

By casting self-regeneration on himself, the King was able to hasten the production of his blood, but the side-effect of this is the over-drafting of his body. With the continuous regeneration of his blood, his face turned paler, his hair turned white and wrinkles can now be found on his face. He aged 10 years in an instant, but this made the barrier firmer due to his blood.

Outside, Kuro, Dai and Leona were discussing with the others about a plan to stall the monsters. They were situated at around a few kilometers away from the Imperial Castle, in the rubbles of the destroyed Imperial City. Numerous citizens who failed to make it towards the Imperial Castle were mercilessly killed by the monster horde and their bodies littered the ground.

"Damnit! Hadlar, Flazzard and the Lord of Flies will pay for this!"

With resolution, Kuro turned to Dai and the others while tightly clenching his fists.

“Dai and Hyunckel, you two go with me and we’ll sneak towards Hadlar.”

“We just need to make him focus his attention on us, and we make a run for it.”

“Pop and Maam, both of you prepare for an ambush, We’ll lure Hadlar and those minions that will case us towards you two.”

“Let’s eliminate them as soon as possible.”

“You guys hide here, behind these destroyed structures.”

“Leona, get ready for your heal spells just in case some of us get injured.”

“For now, please cast regeneration on all of us and wait for us here.”

“The ambush point will be 1 kilometer, around here.”

Kuro pointed on some destroyed structures while discussing on the sequence of the ambush. The plan involved the luring of Hadlar and the minions who would chase the three towards the ambush spot in the middle of the ruined structures.

“Let’s start.”

"Regeneration!"

"Regeneration!"

"..."

"Regeneration buff received. HP recovery + 10 for every minute."

Kuro, Dai and Hyunckel retracted their cosmos/auras respectively, while slowly sneaking their way towards the back of the monster horde. Hadlar, who was exhausted after continuously casting multiple spells on the past 2 days, was resting on his makeshift throne. He was surrounded by some of his guards as he was meditating and recovering his mana.

Flazzard, on the other hand, seemed to have taken some kind of tonic as he continuously bombarded the barrier with his fire and ice spells. Beelzebub lazily stood on one side as his flies still made their dive towards the barrier.

Upon reaching 200 meters away from Hadlar, the three opted to fully unleash their aura.

“Cheiron’s Light Impulse!” "CP -75"

“Double Bloody Scraid!”

“Earth Slash!”

After their initial attacks, they followed up with even stronger ones.

“Cheiron’s Dark Impulse!” "CP -75"

“Amudo Thrust!”

“Avan Strash!”

Hadlar, upon sensing the powerful attacks, shifted his body immediately towards his right. He then jumped backwards towards his minions as he used them as shields. Dozens of Lava monsters, ice monsters, Skeletons, Zombies and Banshees were ripped apart as they were hit by the attacks of the three.

Without hesistation, the three darted towards the ambush point designated by them beforehand. Hadlar, who almost fell victim to the powerful attacks, roared angrily towards the skies.

“Dai!”

“Hyunckel!”

“I will tear you both into a thousand pieces!”

“Attack them!”

300 to 400 monsters immediately gave chase, with Hadlar as the leader. Kuro, Dai and Hyunckel deliberately slowed down their pace as they were nearing the ambush site. Afterwards, they disappeared from Hadlar’s view within seconds as the latter was nearing them and the ambush site.

Hadlar then raised his hand, ordering his minions to stop. As he looked around, he noticed a big “X” mark drawn on the ground near a destroyed fountain. Curious, he stood directly on top of the mark and examined it.

“Why is a big X mark here?” Hadlar asked himself.

Unknown to him and his minions who gave chase, they had already fallen for the trap laid down by Kuro and the others. Within a couple of breaths time, Hadlar sense strong fluctuations of power heading towards them from different directions, and even from above.

Kuro used the Sagittarius Wings while Pop used levitation. They were hiding behind some low clouds as they gathered power. Upon the agreed time of 20 breaths, the both of them unleashed their Area of effect skills, spells and techniques towards Hadlar and his minions who were on the ground.

“Light Arrows!” "CP -10"

“Light Arrows!” "CP -10"

After successively casting numerous techniques, Kuro ingested a couple of CP potions for his cosmos to recover.

"Total Cosmos recovered, 100!"

Pop also unleashed all of his prepared spells.

“Compressed Merazomas!”

“Gigadein!”

“Three-Phased Merazoma!”

On the ground, Dai and Hyunckel also executed their attacks successively.

“Earth Slash!”

“Sky Slash!”

“Avan Strash!”

“Bloody Scraid!”

“Amudo Thrust!”

“Amudo Whirlwind!”

Maam, on one side, would not lose out to them.

“Refractor barrage!”

“Ice Bullet Rain!”

“Fire Bullet Rain!”

Leona also would not be outdone. She aimed at the group of undead, skeletons and zombies and casted a large group healing spell that is deadly to such undead beings.

“Large Scale Behoma!”

Hadlar knew that he had screwed up. He did not hesitate to throw out all of the spells on his arsenal in order to counter-attack.

“Scarlet! Merazoma”

“Shining Hyado!”

A large cloud of dust and smoke arouse from when the spells met. Almost all of the minions of Hadlar were wiped out by the successful ambush of the heroes.