Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

Chapter 175: War (17)

"Oh, I get it now... since the others will be on both sides, we don't have to worry about changing directions or being attacked from those sides as well," Jori said when the group reached the ground.

"Took you long enough," Rain said. "Anyway, do you really want me to take the position that will lead the group? I am not good at pacing myself and keeping my eyes looking to the sides."

"It is time to learn that," Jori said when the enemies were fifty meters away, and they pointed their hands toward the group and the royal guards.

The Golems began to fire earth bullets toward them. The royal guards had no difficulties blocking them with their shields. Still, since Jori's group didn't have that kind of defensive gear, they had to block the attacks with their weapons while the others assumed their positions.

The golems stopped moving and focused only on attacking; thanks to that, the sound of stone hitting iron shields echoed in the area like Rain until the entire formation was completed. Aside from Jori's group, the others had split themselves into five lines of one hundred and began to march toward the enemies.

"Well, this is quite fun," Rain thought while he was blocking the earth bullets with his forearms guard.

It felt like a rhythm game; aside from the noise, it was pretty relaxing. In any case, while Rain was like that, Liss and Asche were itching to do something, but they couldn't since their real goal was to target the golem's masters. They couldn't waste energy and resources until they found an opening in the golems formation. Still, the golems began to back down when the humans began to get close.

"Increase your pace and kill them all!" One of the guards shouted.

Everyone followed that lead, and Rain kept an eye on the back of the enemies... unfortunately, he couldn't see that well because the golems were too large. Still, while it was a bit too soon for that, he solved the problems by making the golems trip while they were walking backward, thanks to some bumps in the ground.

A line of five of them fell and showed a hole in their formation... The third battalion was marching toward them as well.

The Fighter's Path received 100 experience points.

An unknown skill leveled up.

The Fighter's Path received 100 experience points.

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While the golem masters were falling, the third battalion passed by the sides of their formation, and they approached quite fast... considering what the enemies had done until now, it was quite surprising that they weren't trying to keep their distance.

As if things weren't weird enough, out of nowhere, those guys suddenly took out their cloaks and revealed the appearance of quite buffed figures. All of them had silver hair, and it was pretty long; their silver hair began to shine, and in the next moment, some glowing weapons started to appear in their hands. Swords, spears, axes, even shields... that was really unexpected.

"Are they from an unknown tribe?" Jori asked, visibly surprised.

Everyone around also looked surprised... no one heard of such a tribe before. Rain assumed that it was a tribe that worked for one of the generals who worked on the other side of their country. It was the only explanation.

Aside from that, Rain didn't let himself be surprised by the appearance of those people and their weapons... his eyesight was better than most, and thanks to that, he quickly confirmed what it was: the shining thing... It was mercury, being enhanced by mana to change its shape and become more durable and or sharp.

"They can even do that, huh?" Rain thought. "Attacking from a distance with that would be the same as throwing a bunch of mana, and they can only produce or carry so much of that, so they developed a melee combat to deal with that."