406 Incoming Enemies
Selma Payne’s POV:
How far was a hundred kilometers?
This was almost the distance from the Spring Rain Pack to the edge of the Elf Forest. It would take more than an hour to cover it if one drove at full speed.
The journey would have been much slower if it had been in the forest because the trees and shrubs that covered the sky and earth made it difficult for any means of transportation to move forward. If we didn’t take the road, it was possible to spend three to five hours walking through the forest on foot.
Did we have three to five hours to prepare?
Obviously not, because the other party had the ability to jump through space, which meant that any obstacles were practically non-existent to them. Even the friction between the soles of their shoes and the road disappeared without a trace. Considering our estimated cooldown time, it was good enough that it gave us two hours to prepare!
It just so happened that the timing was too coincidental. Although Garland City had already asked for help from other city-states, it was still being determined when this help would come, judging from the history of the elf race’s sweeping the snow in front of their doors.
The defense of the city itself was not very strong. As it had not experienced the baptism of war for many years, the standard of the guards could only be said to be at the passing level. There were less than a thousand of them, barely enough to cover the entire city for security work. It was impossible to ask for anything else.
There were only three city gates in Garland City. One faced the sea, while the others were connected to major traffic routes. In other words, two city gates needed to be heavily guarded.
Of course, considering the style of these lunatics, the city gate might not be their target. It was already the 21st century. Could the strongest city wall resist modern military technology? The city walls of Garland City were less indestructible than those of the Elven Capital City, which had all kinds of runes and magic arrays. They were purely made of cement and bricks.
Now, the most important thing was allocating the limited defensive forces. Including my men, we could only mobilize a little more than a thousand people. It was impossible to recruit civilians. Letting people who had no iron in their hands and no military training face the vicious evil cultists was wasting lives.
Fortunately, we were well-prepared to take refuge. Master Hayley and the masters in Garland City had jointly built a temporary shelter. This shelter used a special method to condense my New Flow into a protective layer outside, which could effectively block and absorb evil power.
Since this part of New Flow was temporarily separated from me, there was a limit to the amount of evil energy we could store. We couldn’t let the cultists enter the city to kill and loot, so it was better to finish the battle outside the city.
As soon as the mayor received the news, he arranged for the city’s residents to take refuge in the shelter. The mayor, who was no longer young, was even prepared to fight in person to protect Garland City and fight the cultists to the death. Even the seemingly gentle and elegant lady of the city was ready to fight with her sword.
Dorothy kept a close watch on the cultists attacking Garland City and reported their whereabouts to me at all times. As expected, they gave up on attacking from the side by the sea. I guessed it was because they had to go around to the northernmost side of Garland City, so it was easy for us to outflank them.
The cultists were not large in number, only a hundred or so. However, considering that they had an unsolvable evil power concentration and that each of them was likely to have been modified by the demon, the combat power of this group of less than a hundred people could be compared to an army that was several or even a dozen times larger.
Could Garland City survive this?
I wasn’t sure, but I had to do my best to keep Garland City safe.
“The last ten kilometers,” Dorothy said. They’re running at full speed toward the west gate, and they’ve completely given up on the north and east gates. I don’t find any traces of the wanderers anywhere else!”
I immediately ordered everyone to be on guard.
Some of the younger soldiers were trembling. I knew what they were afraid of. The rumors from Elven Capital City had become increasingly exaggerated as time passed. Those extremely vicious criminals had almost been demonized, and each of them had become an indestructible demon of the seventy-two sacred pillars.
Rumors could always easily sway people’s hearts. Now that it was their turn to face this group of thugs, how could they not be afraid and worried?
However, there was no time for a pre-battle speech because a large flock of birds had already been startled in the distant forest. The sounds of movement gradually grew louder, and as the decisive battle approached, everyone became more and more serious.
Finally, the enemy revealed their true colors!
A group of weirdly-shaped wolves rushed toward Garland City. They had all kinds of deformed, sharp bones and ugly limbs. At first glance, one could tell they were the demon’s products.
Suddenly, a shiny object in the enemy’s team attracted my attention.
What was that thing? It was round and massive, shining with a dazzling light, just like… It was like a cocoon.
At that moment, Dorothy’s terrified voice rang in my mind, “It’s a light cocoon! Just now, the other party suddenly condensed a light cocoon!”
At this moment, I was already stunned-a light cocoon. Of course, I could recognize what that was.
