Otherworld Adventure 218 Monster Tide

Over at the walls, Eli and the rest quickly arrived and sent a greeting towards the monster tide.

The 3 girls used their largest area spells and sent them hurdling towards the tide of monsters. Numerous flaming swords, blue mana armaments, and a tornado of mist struck the monsters hard, clearing a large area of them out.

The soldiers at the walls were astounded at the power of the spells. They all looked up at the source of these magic spells.

Fina had quickly landed on the ramparts with Yuna. She ignored the soldiers around her and continued sending her magic spells and mana armaments at the monsters.

Eli who was still up in there air loudly raised her voice, "Darkfang City Guards! Hear me! I'm the 2nd Princess of Anglaria, Elizabeth Arks! The instigators of the monster tide are currently attacking the Darkfang family's estate! Look to the back! The colossal wolf and my party are currently combating them as we speak!"

The soldiers turned their attention to the large wolf in the middle of the city, at first they thought that the menacingly large wolf was the cause of the monster tide and they thought it was currently a.s.saulting the city from within.

When the guards took another look at the large wolf, they seemed to find it familiar. It was only until one of the guards shouted that the large white wolf was the Princess' party's battle pet that the rest of the city guards finally realized.

And when some of them strained their eyes and activated sight enhancing combat skills, they were able to somewhat make out the small black figures darting around the large wolf's body and sending combat skills and magic spells at it. The black figures were all unidentifiable and they were also throwing out spells and skills without regards to the surroundings, damaging buildings and houses with their attacks.

The Darkfang family had no secret corps, coupled by the fact that those people were also causing damage while attacking the large wolf the guards were fully convinced of Eli's words. Those black figures were the ones that had caused the monster tide in order to take advantage of the chaos to a.s.sault their city!

"d.a.m.n!"

"Those b.a.s.t.a.r.ds, my family live here!"

"Shut up! Listen to the Princess!!"

Eli's words had stirred up the guards and many began cursing. They didn't let up their a.s.sault on the monster tide however, but many of them were distracted nonetheless.

"If you can see them, then you'll know! The black figures a.s.saulting the large white wolf are the ones who caused the monster tide and are most likely the ones that have caused last night's ma.s.sacre! They used the monsters as a diversion in order to a.s.sault the Darkfang family and send the territory into turmoil!"

Eli yelled once more, she then turned her eyes towards the monster tide and loudly continued,

"We'll let the estate guards handle the situation inside the city! What we all need to do now is protect the walls! Behind us lie our friends, family, and loved ones! We MUST defend these walls!"

Eli didn't say anymore and began chanting another spell, it was the lost ancient spell that she learned from Lucia.

"—let heaven's wrath descend! Meteor Fall!"

A super large-scaled magic formation appeared high up in the sky, it encompa.s.sed almost the entirety of the area just outside the walls. From the magic formation, a large flaming meteor descended slowly onto the ground.

Eli immediately began feeling her mana draining from her body as the meteor slowly descended. She didn't care and poured in more of her mana into the spell formation and the meteor began to descend even quicker. When it made contact with the ground, the large flaming meteor burnt and ground all the monsters into dust and ash.

Eli had summoned the meteor a good distance from the city walls, so the front most monsters were able to escape from the spell's impact, but they were quickly felled by the multiple attacks and projectiles fired from the walls.

The monsters at the back however were erased. When the spell died down and the flames and smoke subsided, a large portion of the monster tide was erased. More monsters still poured in from the forests, but at least this gave the city guards some room to breathe.

"FOR THE KINGDOM!" Eli once more roared and raised her rapier into the air.

"FOR THE KINGDOM!"

"FOR THE KINGDOM!!"

"LONG LIVE THE PRINCESS!!!"

"LONG LIVE THE PRINCESS!!!"

Her actions immediately boosted the morale of the soldiers and they all began roaring and chanting. The captains immediately started rearranging the battle lines, taking swift action to repair some of the damaged siege weapons and bringing back injured soldiers to the barracks.

Eli felt drained. She slowly descended and landed on the walls. Fina quickly walked over to her and held her up. She brought out a Mana Restoration Potion and fed it to her friend. The Guard Commander also quickly made his way over.

"Princess, thank you for your help," The tigerkin commander said with a deep bow. "The monsters are still numerous, but Your Highness has bought us some room to regroup and readjust our soldiers. Please rest and restore your mana before rejoining us, Your Highness!"

"Yes, I will. Please hold on until the chaos in the city subsides, the Darkfang family will quickly send support over, so hang on until then. My friends and I will help you with all that we can!"

"Thank you, Princess. Your a.s.surance and presence on the battlefield will give the soldiers a peace of mind. We'll protect this city with our all!"

Eli smiled and nodded. The Commander immediately saluted in respect before taking his leave.

"Good job, Eli."

"Thanks Fina...Yuna? Are you okay? You look a little pale..."

Yuna was currently staring off into the distance, towards the large white figure currently roaring and raging around in the middle of the city.

"...Fenrirs...do you know about them?"

"Fenrir?" Fina asked, as she took a glance at the slowly paling Yuna.

"They're an ancient creature from the ancient eras...their race has long since gone extinct, but I heard rumors about a community of them hiding somewhere in this world..."

"Uhm...okay?"

"At times, they're a symbol n.o.bility and victory...but also that of calamity and destruction..."

"F-Fina...do you feel this?!"

"!!!"

An ominous distortion began weighing heavily in the air, the monsters in the distance were howling and roaring with even more insanity and they resumed their maddened charge at the city's ramparts.

"A Fenrir's uncontained anger...can cause the monsters and sometimes even the people around it, to be influenced by their enraged aura..."

"Huh?"

"A Fenrir will be born with either a beautiful pelt of white fur, almost like that of the full moon...or a pelt of black fur as dark as the night sky on a new moon...however...there are some who can change back and forth from white to black and from black to white."

As Yuna continued her explanation, Fina and Eli were beginning to sense the origin of the ominous distortion. It was coming from the large white wolf in the distance.

Eli also finally noticed something...but Silver's fur was slowly beginning to grow dark. She still remembered his luminous white fur, but when she took a look at the large figure in the distance, that fur had somehow grown a couple of shades darker. It was now grayer than it was white.

"W-what's happening to him?! How come the aura seems to be coming off of Silvy?" Eli yelled as the oppressive and ominous atmosphere weighed down on them.

She turned around and noticed that the city guards were also being affected by the atmosphere. Their movements were slowing down and some of them had even begun to turn enraged and started to continuously fire attack after attack at the monster tide in wild abandon.

The monsters in the tide were also growing more frenzied. Despite Eli's earlier display of might, the monsters were still charging at the city ramparts without regard for their lives and this time with renewed vigor.

It didn't take long before another wave of monsters slammed into the walls. They turned towards Yuna and noticed that she had started a short incantation.

Yuna finished her spell and raised her hand in the air. A magic spell formation appeared on her palm and mist began pouring out of it.

The oppressive atmosphere was immediately dispersed once the mist permeated into the surroundings.

"I'm not sure if you all know this...but Silver is indeed a Fenrir...I'm not sure how Cecil was able to acquire such a partner, and from what I heard he was with the boy ever since they were young..."

"Silver is..."

"A Fenrir?"

Yuna looked around and made sure that no one else was there that might perhaps over hear them.

"Silver is the cause of this monster tide...it's a unique skill of the Fenrirs called Beast Calamity..."