“Hold off the lines!!! Don’t let any of these vile creatures get past our defense!!”
“Fuck!! Those kids are going in too deep within the enemy forces!!! Damn!! Even the viscounts will take too long to reach them!!”
“Baron Smith died for you brats!! Be sure to make his sacrifice worth it and grow as powerful defenders of the city!!!”
“Soldiers!! Prepare for breach!!!”
Reaching near the gates of the city, Wu Xiaotian witnessed a spectacle, people from all walks of life struggling against the massive horde of beasts moving to infiltrate the city, the soldiers fighting directly against these vicious creatures outside the walls of the city proving their efficiency with what they’re doing, the white blade of their spears going in and going out of their enemies’ bodies as blood-soaked weapons.
As both commoners and nobles of the city struggles to defend their land, Wu Xiaotian is watching above them, marveling at the unity of the people while secretly assisting those in danger of losing their lives, sneakily using his soul power to debilitate any enemy that threatens the lives of the humans around them.
Spreading his senses across the entire battlefield, Wu Xiaotian is like a chess player that can see the entire situation of the playing board, using his wits to easily reverse the tide as the enemy playing against him seems to be not too adept at strategic battles.
This battle seems to directly affect the soldiers below as well, the human side feeling even more powerful as if their filled to the brim with a weird energy that starts coursing through their entire body, each of the swings they are performing right now feeling like its twice, or even more powerful than how they normally do.
Looking at the events proceeding down below, Wu Xiaotian nods in approval again as he saw the ones in the higher society of the city taking the lead with the attack, opening up a path within the enemy forces with their weapons, leading valiantly as they order the ones behind them to spread out and clear the enemy forces, them travelling around the battlefield to ease the pressure bearing on the normal soldiers’ back.
“HAHAHAHA!!! Beasts!!! Feel the strength of the people of the Frontier City!!!”
“Death to intruders!!! HAHAHA!!!”
“Destroy these invaders and drive them back to their mountains!!! Do not leave any attacking ones alive!!!”
“Push them back!!! Don’t let anything slip past the line!!!”
With all sorts of people screaming to encourage the ones around them, the humans are steadily pushing their enemies back to their place, the image of the people from different standings in life united as they defend their home against the invading beast threatening to destroy it leaves quite the visual to the people who saw it, even the younger ones who were fighting for their lives against the enemies previously were enthralled by the scene, a burning desire to become stronger and defend this city growing bigger in their hearts.
As the battle continues, piles of dead monster were starting to gather on the ground, near them some dead people, ones who were unlucky enough not to survive until Wu Xiaotian arrives.
After a few more minutes, a galloping horse starts to resound from inside the city walls, the vigorous running sound of the horse approaching closer and closer to the city gates, only stopping for a bit as a shadow was cast upon the ground while a figure leaps above the city walls, covering the sun for a while before it lands on the ground, continuing its travel, moving closer and closer to the front line.
“City Lord is here!!! City Lord is here!!!”
“Push them back!!! The strongest reinforcement arrives, HAHAHAHA!!!”
“Don’t show any weakness in front of the city lord if you don’t want to be beaten up!!!”
“Brats!! Hold your weapons tight!!!”
“Open your innocent eyes and take inspiration from the current hero of our Frontier City!!!”
As the soldiers and all the other people defending the city saw Astaria’s figure, they started regaining their vigor again, fighting against the almost endless numbers of beasts as if they are reborn from ashes, their renewed strength inspiring and fueling the motivation within the younger men and women’s hearts, pushing them to move towards the waves of beasts as they plunge their weapons into all sorts of weakness, proving their significance to the battle while the adults clean up the stronger beasts surrounding them.
What inspires the young ones even more though is the valiant figure of Astaria roaming around the battlefield while wielding a peculiar weapon; a guandao with its blade measuring the same length as its pole, the heroic lady deep into the enemy’s ranks swinging it unceasingly, severing multiple beasts into two or more fragments every time the weapon moves to mow down the creatures surrounding its owner.
With Astaria showing her might, the human forces start following her example, exerting themselves even harder to push through the enemies, some of them even battling so hard that their weapons start deteriorating, the blood covering their metallic weapons sometimes sizzling, a result of some beasts possessing poisonous properties in their bodies.
“A pity they can’t manifest qi outside their bodies, if they can, they might even be able to go against these beast with only a small amount casualties even without my interference” Wu Xiaotian mutters while he continues paying attention to the battlefield, oftentimes conjuring a sharp surge of soul power to sever nerves from all sorts of limbs of the opposing force, rendering them battle incapable, making the fight easier for the humans as all they need to do now is kill their immobile opponents.
These subtle, but immensely significant help though were failed to be recognized by the soldiers and other people in the battlefield as it is already chaotic enough just paying attention to the fights proceeding from everywhere around them, much less paying attention to the small things like wounds and damages their opponents acquired out of nowhere.
What the citizens of the Frontier City recognizes the most is the contribution that their city lord made in this battle, seemingly amassing an enemy kill count far more than them already despite her arriving late in the battlefield, mowing down dozens of beasts with each swing of her weapon, her posture like a general that bravely charges through the enemy’s ranks with absolute confidence in her strength, instilling courage and inspiration to her allies while planting terror into the hearts of her enemies.
“Forward, push them to the Grand Valley Line!!! Prepare to use explosives to cover their path of entry here again!!!” as she starts seeing a large chasm separating two great landmasses, all sorts of creatures moving not only on the surface but also on the walls of the chasm.
As they continue to push their enemy, the human forces continue to enlarge the gap between the two forces as the beasts are now forced on their backs as they are pushed towards the chasm, making them quite helpless since they can no longer move in any direction but backwards.
“Now!!! Throw the explosives!!!” Astaria commanded as she points towards a seemingly vulnerable portion of the chasm, the people holding makeshift explosives precisely throwing the thing they’re holding towards the area, causing rocks to fall and block the path of the beasts to the outside.
Seeing that they are successful in defending the city once again, the people already started sighing in relief as they hold each other in celebration, and even Astaria is already starting to relax herself, only for everyone to hear a loud roaring echoing from the depths of the chasm. A mind-numbing sound that sounds all too familiar to the life-long elders of the city, a sound that they already heard once before.
“It’s awake again…” most of the old people said as they look at the horizon, the impending calamity about to approach making them worry for the younger generation of their city.
