Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

The entire city had prepared for the siege, but as one would expect, even though the gates had been closed to avoid leaving more openings for the enemies, people still demanded them to be opened to let them escape… they claimed that the enemies were in the opposite direction, so it would be fine. The enemies could fly, so walls were useless…

Their decision-making skills were nothing if not astonishing… Still, they had a point. Even the soldiers hesitated as they began to hear the sound of the wings flapping… the students of the magic academy were told to raise their hands and attack, but they were trembling like leaves…

At least those kids stood their ground… until they had to attack the enemies when they entered in range. Fortunately, while they lost their chance to attack, a massive explosion happened on the ground and right below the army of monsters. Rocks flew to the sky and then fell on the area, revealing the ground shaking and falling apart one hundred meters away from the walls of the capital.

No one knew what was going on, and they could only imagine that the enemies were causing that until they saw the salamanders falling and then drowning to death or a massive waterway that emerged around the capital.

Such structure shouldn't exist there, but it wasn't the only thing that surprised everyone… in the next moment, the waters began to move violently, and then a massive blast of water was fired toward the army of enemies on the ground… the salamanders that escaped the fall and the magic people were pushed away for hundreds of meters until a giant sea dragon emerged from there with some people on their back… they were Artisia and the magic people.

After jumping from the waterway to the land, the magic people raised their hands and then revealed some magic staves made of the scales of an ice dragon and that had a blue crystal on them as well… both of them greatly increased their abilities, making them summon ice spears instead of water spears… although the heat sorcerers and golem masters were among them as well, they followed Rain's orders and focused on using that spell.

The attacks hit and froze the wet enemies and began to kill them, thanks to the cold. Still, there were the beast people in the air, and they began to fly toward them… but the sea dragon opened its mouth and fired a power blast of water that split into pieces dozens of the enemies and sent many others flying in the distance.

The sea dragon kept the enemies in the air at bay… the creature looked like it had an endless supply of mana, but that wasn't completely true. It just could use mana more efficiently in the water.

In any case, if the flying enemies couldn't deal with the sea dragon and the others, the enemies on the ground had to do that… the magic people summoned ten meters golems and made them advance toward the waterway like it was a massive wall and blocked the attacks of the defenders…

Seeing their allies up close after so long made that squad flinch for a moment, but that didn't stop them from attacking… Rain had sent them a message about their changes, and so they were ready for it. Their attacks began to topple the mighty golems one after the other, but even so, the enemies kept summoning them and pushing the defenders backward.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Until one of the defenders finally deactivated one spell…

In the next moment, right on the enemy's left flank, a massive army appeared out of nowhere… it was the former members of the king's blade.

For a moment, it looked like they had been teleported there, but they had been there from the very beginning… one of the mages on the defending side just canceled their water-concealing spell… which was one of the abilities that the water snipers used to watch the humans near the border.

Rain had to deal with that several times, and with the knowledge of tactics that he had and the magic relics that Lotto made using the dragons' parts, something like that was possible… the king's blade began to charge and then passed through the enemy ranks like a hot knife in butter.

"What are you doing, you retards? Attack them! Men on me! Use this chance to rip them to shreds?"

An old soldier raised his voice and made everyone on the walls wake up to reality… the old man jumped to the other side of the wall, and eventually, the soldiers began to follow him… they were heavily outnumbered, but the enemies weren't using any tactics, and they had a sea dragon on their side, so they had a chance to win that battle.

The sea dragon moved to the side of the waterway and then approached to let the soldiers climb and read the other side… as one would expect, they hesitated, even more so after seeing Artisia's yes glowing… they didn't have time to waste, so they eventually made up their minds.

The chaotic battle was insane… without clear leaders, both sides could only rely on themselves and their allies to fight properly. The human side had fewer people, so they eventually began to be pushed to the waterway. The former members of the king's blade could only do so much against such overwhelming numbers… However, the surprises were far from over.

When the advance of the hidden force finally came to a halt, the clouds in the sky began to change, and before long, it began to snow on the battlefield… he had waited for that moment to make his entrance because that was what Rain told him to do.

"Just how many steps ahead you can see this kind of battle unfolding?" Branden asked while raising two blue staves with both hands. "Such fearsome head for battle tactics… I guess he learned a lot during the wars instead of just punching people.