Two days later.

*Boom*

Finally, several breaches appeared at the walls and she could move the siege to the more active and violent phase.

The situation at the front lines was dire and headquarters ordered her to finish the battle as soon as possible in their today’s letter.

Sighing because of the failure of most of her slow strategies, Aurelia was about to give an order for the total attack when something happened at the enemy camp.

Several moments later, a bright light appeared there, forming a dome around the fort.

Aurelia opened her mouth agape when she noticed what was happening there.

A magic shield appeared, covering the walls and the whole fort. It was a human technology nagas shouldn’t have!

She wasn’t the only one who was shocked when they saw a magic shield appearing at the enemy camp, especially when they realized it was a medium-type magic shield that could easily block a 10. 000 army for several days.

As soon as she recovered from the shock, another realization hit her. Part of her forces was left at the enemy walls, divided by the layer of a magic shield that blocked anyone who tried to enter the fort. Hundreds of her men remained behind the shield.

She wasn’t the only one who realized the dire situation of their people there and soon her adjutant, near officers, turned in her direction.

At first, Aurelia stayed calm and silent before releasing a sigh and turning at her adjutant.

“Let the ships come, let’s check how long this shield will hold against heavy magic canons. Besides, tell the mage’s formation to continue pouring the shield with as many spells as feasible. It’s better to drain the shield as much as possible before our high calibers.” Adjutant saluted to her order and quickly left to fulfill them.

Finishing with that, Aurelia turned and looked toward her people, stuck at the enemy walls near the towers. She could only hope that they would hold long enough till her ships would come.

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At the same time as the magic shield appeared, there were several groups of knights and mages fighting at the walls.

Right now, Mordred, the captain of one group responsible for attacking the tower in the middle section of the walls, was busy crying many commands when a bright light showed on the battlefield.

A short time later, when Mordred turned back toward his camp, he saw that thing, a magic layer was blocking their way back. At that moment, he realized they were fucked up big this time. Anyway, few guys raised their hands and touched the shield, only to realize that there was no way back.

There was nothing strange that knights and mages inside the shield were shocked.

Just now they were at the attacking side while nagas at the defending, but moments later their roles got reversed, they lost their support and ended up in a situation where they needed to fight in a desperate situation against much more enemies.

Realizing their new condition, Mordred started crying, one order after another.

“Form the formation around the tower, mages and archers go inside it while shield knights, warriors and everyone else who can fight in melee get ready to meet the enemy!”

“Take the injured to the tower!”

“Scouts and archers, aim at the shamans!”

“Mages, concentrate your spell power at the groups of enemies!”

Though his orders were banal, just the fact that his subordinates heard his voice and realized that their captain was together with them in such a dire situation returned their battle spirit and they quickly started making preparations.

All the groups that attacked the nagas had such captains like Mordred and such scenes started happening all over the walls. They even forced some groups to storm their way towards the closest tower to get some advantages they could use in the coming battles.

At the same time as trapped groups were making preparations, a naga chief smiled as he looked in the enemy's direction. He was holding a unique-looking and decorated trident before turning and looking at the noble generals gathered around him.

“Finish them, they are nothing more than helpless fish, trapped in our pond.” said the naga chief, sipping. Naga nobles seemed to nod before giving several orders. Soon, hundreds of elite nagas and dozens of shamans moved out to each tower or section of the wall controlled by the enemy.

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The incoming battle was violent!

Right now, Mordred was gripping his wound and looking at more dead than alive. More than half of his group died in the recent battle when nagas unleashed a whole elite group of skilled warriors with the support of shamans. Even the swallowing of the special pills helped little because those bastards jumped at such people and tried to kill them as soon as possible. In short, they just couldn’t survive long enough to inflict serious damage.

Gathering his last strengths and throwing a glance at his subordinates that looked not better than him, Mordred spitted blood before raising his sword and pointing at the approaching nagas. There were hundreds of them, including another group of elite warriors and more shamans than in the previous battle.

“For Freinos! For the knighthood!”

Hearing him, few survivors raised their swords, spears, and other weapons similarly before forming something similar to the line with hordes of enemies in front of them and many injured behind.

They knew what they needed to do, and nobody needed orders to swallow that pill.

Immediately, battle energy and mana covered the bodies of all those survivors before they started making preparations for their last battle.

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At the same time as trapped forces were fighting for their lives, Aurelia continued to sit restlessly. Even though it took only a half of the day for the ships to arrive here and start bombarding the magic shield with their canons, the combined efforts of the mage’s formation and canons were still not enough to break the shield.

However, it wasn’t futile. With each passing hour, as more spells and cannonballs hit the shield, the weaker the shield got and soon it already started wavering.

Noticing such change, Aurelia stood from her place gathering all her mana for one and strong advanced spell.

The commander herself just joined the mage’s formation!

A short time later, when another cannonball hit the shield, its surface started wavering and even shelters started appearing in many places.

Realizing what was happening, Aurelia pointed in a certain direction before sending her ice-advanced spell that looked like a huge iceberg in that direction. Other mages also sent their own icebergs, following commanders.

A short time later, when all those spells hit the shield, it finally happened. A big shelter appeared at the surface of the shield!

And it didn’t take long for another cannonball attack to appear and create more breaches, following Aurelia’s attack.

Noticing what was happening, Aurelia nodded to the adjutant and soon another signal resounded and reinforcements moved out to save their forces.

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When fresh groups of knights finally reached Mordred’s tower, they saw many dead bodies and only one man still alive. It was Mordred!

He had many wounds on his body and was literally pinned by the trident to the ground, unable to move, but he was still holding his sword, using those tridents as his support.

Just a glance at the hundreds of dead naga bodies was enough to send shivers to everyone who saw such a scene.

Noticing friendly forces, Mordred made something that looked like a smile before gathering all his left forces and saying his last phrase.

“Check the tower.” said the brave captain before departing to the kingdom of the dead.

He lived his last battle fighting and standing on his legs and left, still standing on them.

All onlookers who saw him could only stop for several seconds to salute him, engraving this scene into their memory.

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With the fall of the magic shield, and the appearance of ships with magic canons, the fate of the fort was sealed.

Soon, those ships quickly created several breaches at the walls in which cavalry and other knights groups moved out.

With the appearance of several breaches, nagas started losing their advantages, ships created new breaches faster than nagas closed them and soon their defense crumbled apart and it didn’t take long for the battle to move from the walls to the space inside the fort.

That was it!

The fate of this fort was already sealed.

Even the elites of the naga race wouldn’t be able to hold against twice the bigger enemy with the artillery support to which they could do nothing.

They just could continue to fight, trying to kill as many humans as possible.

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At the same time as the 6th special started the phase of the siege, something interesting was happening in the forest a mile away from the naga chief fort.

A group of elite knights and mages finished surrounding a certain figure that was meditating the top of the stone.

A half an hour later, when his subordinates finished their preparations and reported their readiness using the mental link, Alex nodded to himself before raising his bow and aiming at the shadow ahead of him.

A moment and an arrow covered with thick battle energy flew at the target and hit him moments later.

Though they saw how their arrow hit their target, none of the hunters made a move and stayed at their positions without revealing themselves, only to see how that shadow’s figure disappeared and appeared several meters away from his initial place.

The shadow seemed to smile when he looked in Alex’s direction.

‘Move to the 2nd phase’ said Alex, using the mental link before leaving his position and firing at the shadow as he approached it.

Besides, four knights in cloaks appeared from the 4 sides, quickly approaching the shadow.

At first, the shadow remained calm, but a short time later he made a surprised expression on his face when he realized how his opponents were moving.

They were moving strangely, turning at strange moments, always staying under the visual contact of the moving archer.

In case he tried to attack one of them with his unique abilities, an archer will always be able to attack him.

Realizing that he met experienced warriors who knew how to dodge his abilities, the shadow released a sigh before clenching his daggers and jumping in the direction of the closest enemy.

*Slash*

*Boom*

*ZZZZZ*

The sword and the daggers met each other and started the dance of blades with more swords and weapons to join with each passing moment.

Knights tried to put him down with their battle-energy rich attacks from all sides while Alex shot one ballista-like arrow, one after another.

They tried to kill him and do it mercilessly.

Besides, their raging and cold eyes were good proof of that.

Angled from all sides, they forced the shadow to use his ability to move for a short distance just to evade the enemy attacks. He was like a dancer that appeared and disappeared, evading swords and arrows.

Such dance continued for several minutes before the shadow finally escaped from the enemy's constant attacks and created a short distance between them when several magic spells appeared out of nowhere, aiming at his back with more arrows that followed them.

Only now, the shadow finally realized that he clearly underestimated his opponents and realized that there were at least 10 of the professionals he was facing right now.

At that moment, he started regretting that he agreed to follow his master’s plan and wished he never came here.

As if to prove that point, the shadow once again evaded from all incoming sword attacks, using his unique technique only to appear at the place at which the arrow hit seconds later.

*Boom*

They sent the shadow into the short flight and it lost its hand.

That was it!

A wounded opponent without an extra hand would be less dangerous than before.

When the shadow spitted some blood and swallowed a pill, he raised his dagger in his sole hand before looking seriously at Alex and others.

“You do not know, what you have started! Do you really think you won’t pay for attacking a member of the Syndicate? Do you really think the power behind you will actually have enough strength to save you from our vengeance?”

When the shadow finished those words, Alex and others made no reactions and almost immediately moved out in his direction.

They were just too experienced and knew which tricks members of the Syndicate could use during the battle.

They could stop to talk with you only to kill you moments later.

The one lesson they learned during their previous encounter with them was that they couldn’t let them have any free moment because you never know what would happen next if you give it to them.

Just as four knights were several meters away from the shadow, a sudden voice resounded from the unknown direction.

“Not bad. Looks like the dogs of Freinos have grown up significantly. What a pity that you didn’t grow with intellect.”

Finishing his speech, a shadow appeared next to the mage before cutting his throat and moving to the next target, that hid in their positions.

As soon as an unknown voice appeared, Alex felt uneasy, and just as he wanted to give an order to regroup, he heard a death cry from their rear, and another cry moments later.

At that moment, Alex felt as if he returned to the days of that operation when his friends and subordinates were dying at the hands of the same technique.

As soon as he gave a command and everyone started regrouping, there were 5 dead bodies left behind and Alex felt a tremendous pain in his heart, realizing who was dead.

Finishing with the last easy target, the unknown shadow once again disappeared, seeing 15 cloaked people at the center around their leader.

At the same time as everything was happening, his apprentice succeeded in killing two of those knights before using the chaos to escape, using his technique.

“I remember you, archer, you were back then when we called them right?” asked the unknown shadow with ridicule in his voice.

“You were a weakling back then and could only observe after the battle, unable to do anything, right?” said the same shadow, increasing his ridicule.

“Hahahaha.”

“I can still remember that day. You can’t even imagine how good we felt when we killed them one by one.”

Alex, who stayed calm through the entire battle, finally showed some reaction and clenched his bow before raining his arrows and shooting suddenly in a certain direction.

The unknown shadow was still saying something when he halted for a moment.

*Boom*

Blood appeared, covering the nearest tree and earth.

That was it!

One enemy was down!

As soon as Alex and others saw that a shadow was dead with a huge hole in the heart area, they smiled with delighted expressions on their faces. Finally, they made their first step to return the favor to the Syndicate.

However, there was another person whose feelings differed from them.

He has just witnessed the death of his apprentice and now his blood and all his life experience demanded revenge.

Clenching tightly his short sword, the shadow moved his cold eyes at Alex and others.

“You really think that your weak formation will stop me? You are such a fool archer, looks like you will need a last lesson from the Syndicate to learn what fear truly is.”

Just as he finished his speech, a shadow appeared right at the center of Alex’s forces before swinging his swords and instantly cutting the necks of three people that were standing near each other.

Knights and mages couldn’t even react to what just happened when several shadow knives appeared, hitting two more people at the mouth, killing them in seconds.

Following their death, the shadow disappeared from his place when spells, arrows, and other attacks landed at his previous position.

Appearing again, the shadow killed another archer and mage before disappearing to evade Alex’s arrow.

In such a manner, the shadow killed more than half of the group, solely by himself!

Realizing their dire situation, Alex quickly ordered several quick commands, using the mental link, while knights surrounded their two surviving mages and Alex to let them finish their strongest spells and attacks.

*Boom*

*Whoosh*

*ZZZZZ*

A half an hour later, only Alex and two wounded knights were still standing at their legs against totally untouched shadow.

“This is the difference between us. It was your mistake to come with such inexperienced Great mages and Great knights. They are too green to face someone like me.”

Alex and his subordinates didn’t react to his words and just clenched tightly their fists, watching as the shadow disappeared from their sight.

He appeared near one knight and inflicted his fatal attack on his neck. However, it didn’t go according to his plan, and that knight could hold under the effects of the posing and grabbed him with both his arms.

A moment later, another knight hit him in the leg with his sword and gripped him in the same manner.

Still surprised at such a flow of events, the shadow realized that he couldn’t escape using his technique when they held him in such a manner.

Just as he released himself, Alex unleashed his strong ballista-like arrow right at the stomach of the shadow.

The quickly incoming arrows were the last thing he saw before the imminent collision.

*Boom*

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As soon as the dust dispersed, two dead and one injured body appeared before Alex.

The star shooter opened his mouth agape when he saw his opponent was still alive, seriously injured, but still alive!

The sound of breaking armor was a straightforward answer to how his opponent survived.

Realizing that he had lost his last chance to kill the shadow, Alex almost immediately threw several smoke bombs before retreating.

“You think you can escape after you broke my armor?” asked the shadow, appearing right in front of him.

Raising his sword, the shadow planned to behead Alex when the “Star shooter” suddenly moved back, raising his bow.

As a result, the shadow’s sword just made a light wound on his neck while Alex made his preparation and unleashed his arrow.

*Boom*

As soon as he unleashed his arrow, Alex already knew that only a portion of his previous attack reached the shadow and he knew his opponent was still stronger than him. So, Alex could only grit his teeth and swallow some detoxification pills and start escaping to save his life.