Chapter 87: Struggle

Looking at the gigantic, horned lizards, Shane couldn't help but gulp.

Using their elemental attacks, the close combat unit charged towards them was almost immediately burned, pierced, or split in two, changing the tides of the whole battle almost immediately.

"WHAT?" Shane couldn't help but exclaim and trying to calm down, he instructed loudly, while trying to sound confident.

"Ballistae on the left load anti-mana bolts while the ballistae on the right side use armor-piercing bolts! I don't care about the costs, but these gigantic horned lizards have to die!!"

The soldiers operating the ballistae were still dumbfounded and only Shane's order could barely drag them out of their mindless staring, subconsciously following his orders.

Shivering lightly, the young soldiers never thought that something like this would happen on their first shelter protection mission.

"Focus on the red-scaled gigantic, horned lizards!! They kill most of our comrades down there!! TAKE REVENGE!!" Seeing so many loyal soldiers dying in order to protect the shelter, Shane felt proud and extremely bad at the same time because they died due to his request for reinforcement.

However, he was sure that the shelter would be annihilated otherwise and humanity couldn't take another increase in costs for the world-protection extension at the moment.

The only fortunate fact was that almost all Wild- and Elite- stage scaled lizards were annihilated, while the crystal feathered eagles seemed to be less of a problem.

In total, there were only slightly more than 3000 Wild-, 500 Elite- and at most 50 Awakened- beasts left on the battlefield which was probably a tenth of the complete beast tide..

In the end, Wild and Elite beasts were cannon-fodder for all soldiers here, while the only beasts killing their comrades were awakened crystalized eagles or elemental attacks from awakened scaled lizards and the newly emerged gigantic, horned lizards.

'Who the hell controls them?! Their whole tactic is stupid but these evolved gigantic, horned lizards should reign over a small area with the strength they showcase….' Shane was completely clueless and only the first ballistae shots distracted him, as they pierced through the thick scales covering the evolved gigantic, horned lizards.

Roaring out in pain, Shane's smile brightened almost immediately and the cavalry units gained enough time to approach the first gigantic, horned lizards.

Without wasting a single moment, all of them pierced out with their spears that were enveloped with dense mana, right before thick earth walls, wind blades and compressed water appeared right in front of them.

With widened eyes, Shane could only stare at two cavalry units being blown apart, severed, or thrown high into the sky through the erected wall, while the gigantic, horned lizards that attacked, killed their own brethren mercilessly.

'What is this massacre?' He asked himself, shocked.

There was nothing for him to understand anymore and the only thing that held his own moral together was the fact that the attacking gigantic, horned lizards were attacked by their own brethren were equally mercilessly stabbed, slashed, and chopped by the surviving cavalry and close combat units.

"RELOAD!" Shane shouted out, trying to distract himself from the soldiers on the battlefield crying in anguish which was filled with their will to live, even though most knew that their will alone might not be enough.

Seeing halved, burned, and perforated bodies, Shane almost vomited in front of the soldiers he was in charge of.

Suppressing the desire to vomit, the only thing he could do was reassuring everyone around him that everything would be over soon, once the remaining beasts had been killed.

Looking around, Shane also noticed a small issue, because the crossbow bolts and arrows seemed to diminish, with only a few hundred left, causing him to frown, as he looked at one of the soldiers whose legs gave in by the sight of the bloody battlefield.

"YOU!" Shane shouted, causing the young man to look at him with quivering eyes scared that he would die any moment.

Sighing, Shane said calmly "Take the reserved crossbow bolts, arrows, and ballistae bolts from the barracks...NOW!!"

Getting hold of his body, the young man rushed down the stair, only to fall on his face, causing Shane to helplessly shake his head.

Even though his body was only 16-years-old and he was quite childish the time he lived on earth, Shane knew about the cruelty of this world more than most peers thanks to his father.

Due to this, Shane was sure that humanity had to face a hard time once all soldiers behaved as frightened as the ones he was in charge of.

'Well...it's their first time..' Trying to console himself, Shane noticed that almost not a single WIld and Elite stage beast was left with the last hundreds being slaughtered.

Within the sky, the number of beasts also diminished with the last few crystalized eagles seemingly scared to approach the shelter's range, knowing they would die if they tried.

The newly emerged gigantic, horned lizards turned anxious, seeing all of their brethren dying while the Cavalry consisted of more than one hundred members.

Suddenly the moment, the awakened beasts were about to flee from the siege, a dense, terrifying, yet familiar bloodlust permeated the whole shelter and Shane knew exactly who the culprit was.

Connecting all dots with each other, his assumption was most likely correct.

'The bloodlust thunder wolf is the high-intelligent beast! But...what is it doing here and why is it not in the Wolf den, fighting against the main force…?'

Shane tensed up because of the bloodlust, while the same happened with the beasts and humans on the battlefield, causing them to instinctively halt their fight.

'The bloodlust thunder wolf became even stronger?!' He thought and it felt like the bloodlust around him became even more distinct.

Shivering, Shane sensed fear enveloping him slowly, trying to pierce into his mind when he saw the youths next to him collapsing on the ground while the same happened with the Soldiers and beasts on the battlefield.

Not a single being could control their body anymore, while he heard someone behind him exclaiming astonished

"High-grade ability!! Not bad!" Barely being able to turn around, Shane noticed a young woman with white shining hair and eyes, long white eyelashes, and a perfectly shaped figure standing behind him with a straight back, subconsciously pushing out her chest.

Seeing Shane turning towards her, she smiled brightly, saying "You did a good job, Marshall Kriez will be proud of you! ....You did enough, I'll take care of everything!", before she turned back to walk down the stairs, where Shane noticed a unit of approximately 100 armored women riding on white horses.

'?' Not knowing what kind of unit this was he could only stare down but solely from the pressure these women and their horses endured without sweating a tiny bit, Shane could say for sure, that their mana purity had to be higher than 80%.

But what astonished him, even more, was, that he knew the white-haired women from somewhere, even though he was not sure where…

'Who is she?'

Seeing her summoning a white horse with a horn on the forehead while shouting "Let's go Valkyries! We have to defeat a thunder wolf cub!!", he suddenly remembered the special cavalry unit he saw, while the name of the young white-haired woman reemerged in his mind.

"Aisha Hael and the Valkyries!" he quietly mumbled.