Chapter 81 Defending The City Of Arkansas (2) The First Wave

---Alina's PoV---

The alarm bell rang, and all of the mercenaries and city guards immediately take their positions with their weapons ready.

"Belle! Xena! Good luck!"

"You too, Alina! Play it safe, you hear me?" (Xena)

"Don't do anything stupid like rushing forward alone, okay?" (Belle)

Xena and Belle reminded me as they went to their respective positions. Geez, I'm not a kid, I wouldn't do anything stupid.

"I know!"

"She'll be fine, she's going to be together with us, after all. We'll be watching over her, so make sure you two didn't get hit by any stray arrows up there, you hear me?" The Madam said to ensure my two best friends.

'Well, if the opponent had any archers in their ranks, I guess,' The madam adds under her breath.

But sure, with the Madam and gramps together with me, I doubt I would even get into any dangerous position. I'm more concerned for the goblins instead, the two of them are crazily strong, after all.

There are about 900 infantries, 200 archers, and 10 magicians at our assigned gate. Belle obviously got assigned together with the magicians, Xena decided to join the archer rank after saying that she got a new move for her to use her bow again, while for me, of course, I'll be in the infantry ranks.

For the commander...

"Archers ready!!" The Madam's firm voice resounded throughout the whole place. Standing on top of the gate, she sticks her morningstar forward with an excited smile.

"She completely entered her battle freak mode, isn't she...?"

She's completely transformed from the enchantingly beautiful and flirtatious madam of the courtesans' house into a veteran mercenary respected and feared by everyone.

"Loose!!" (Madam)

Piercing sound from the arrows loosened by the archers resounded, followed by the groans of pain and cries from the goblins on the other side of the walls.

The archers are obviously positioned and spread on top of the walls, while the magicians are located at several different points. The watchtowers are filled with highly skilled archers, I could see Xena continuously shooting her arrows from the watchtower from down here.

The infantries are waiting on standby in front of the gate in case the goblins successfully break through the gate, or if the command to charge out of the gate came in.

Because of that, I couldn't see a single thing about what happening outside the gate, how much the number of the goblins there, and whether they are strong or not. If it came to this...

"Monila. Please give me a view to see what is happening on the other side of the walls,"

With a deep nod, Monila turns invisible and flies to the watchtower where Xena and Galia are at.

'I've arrived, mama,' Monila sent me with her telepathy.

(Okay. Thanks Monila) (Alina)

She's very obedient to my words, what a good child.

The moment I closed my eyes, the image from Monila's line of vision appeared inside my mind. But when looking from Monila's vision, the sight of a moonlight butterfly is different from a human's.

When I'm looking by using Monila's vision, the world seems to be more colorful, and the things that should be invisible to me before became visible to me as well. Things like mana, air, breath, and even souls.

I could also activate my eyes to see like her, but only temporarily. Only about one hour or so.

"Kkiieee!!" The shrieks and cries of the goblins continue.

"Whoa... There are lots of them, but it looks like they're not getting any closer..."

There are about 300 green goblins running toward the gate, but none of them could even get close to the gate because of the continuous waves of arrows showering them. Especially Xena's arrows, she must be shooting her arrows that got enchanted by Galia's wind mana since the arrows are hitting even the goblins at the furthest point.

After only about five minutes, the showering of arrows ended. It's not because they run out of arrows, but it's because their targets had all got annihilated.

"I guess we're not going to get any turn, huh..."

Should I sit and take a rest? It looks like the goblins wouldn't be-

"Another wave is coming!! Their number is bigger than before!! Prepare yourselves!!" The Madam's voice once again resounded.

Bigger?

I once again closed my eyes, and the sight before me made me widen my eyes in surprise- Well, no, I'm closing my eyes, but the surprise made me want to widen my eyes.

"There are even battering rams... They are completely ready to start a siege war..."

From the forest, came out an army of goblins lined up in a neat formation with swords and spears. There are about 1000 of them acting as infantries, there are hobgoblins, red goblins, and red hobgoblins in their ranks.

At the top front of their formation are four battering rams made simply from fallen trees held by muscular red hobgoblins. Not only that, there are more. At the back of their formation...

"Archers..." One of the archers on top of the walls uttered as they saw the ranks of goblins coming out of the forest.

Yes, there are archers coming out of the forest. There are about 400 goblin archers in their ranks. It's a magnificent amount of them, but still, it should not be enough to break through the gate yet.

"Are we going out? Or will we let them in and kill them by taking advantage of the gate and surround them, Madam?" (Abraham)

"Let them in. We'll try leaving it to the magicians and the archers first. If they couldn't finish them off, then we'll open the gate, lure them in, and start a free-for-all brawl. If we went outside, the magicians and the archers will need to hold their fire, after all. With them getting inside, we could fight them from inside while they continue to trim the goblins' forces outside the walls," (Madam)

"Indeed. It'll be more advantageous for us that way," (Abraham)

"But gramps. Tell me your honest thoughts, What do you think about this number of goblins?" (Madam)

"Hm..." Looking at the sight of the army of goblins marching toward us, gramps calmly stroked his beard with his right hand.

"Their number is terrifyingly huge, they unexpectedly apply military tactics on their attack, and there are uncommon goblins on their ranks. To be honest, it's worrying. I believe that we would be able to succeed in repelling their forces or even wiping them out, but I'm worried about our subjugation force..." (Abraham)

Gramps is right, if the amount and types of goblins coming here were like this, how about the goblins guarding the goblin king's lair? They would be much stronger and have a greater number than this, wouldn't they?

"You're right..." The Madam uttered with a troubled look. She looks like she's very worried about something, but not only her, but I could sense some unease from gramps as well. I guess the both of them are worried about Lyan.

But it's fine. They didn't know that Lyan is a summoner. Even without using his strength as a summoner, he's strong enough to kill several goblin champions and even the variants alone. He must be stronger than we know so it should be fine!

"Aim at the battering rams!! Loose!!"

The archers continue to loosen their arrows, most of them aimed at the hobgoblins holding at the battering rams, forcing the goblins to drop the battering rams as they died. But as expected, they won't give up on the battering rams that easily.

"They're gathering and surrounding the battering rams..."

Not only that, the goblins use the dead bodies of their brethren and use them as shields, blocking the arrows showered on them. Because of that, they are steadily approaching the gate even if their number continues to decrease.

"Fire!" (Belle)

Together with Belle's voice, several sounds of explosions sounded, and the battering rams suddenly exploded with a powerful force, sending the goblins surrounding it to get burned into cinders.

"That's kind of overkill..."

Having magicians on our side really changes the tides of battle greatly. The number of magicians on our side is the same number as what a decent kingdom would have. With their explosive strength, they are very effective to get rid of a great number of enemies.

"Hm? This purple mist... It's Belle's and Pilia's illusion mist!"

After the explosion, the purple mist started to flood the goblins, and their formations started to went disarray. The illusion mist must be showing them a sudden change of terrain and other kinds of illusions.

The goblins suddenly started to slash and strike in thin air, while there are not a few that slashed and struck at their allies because of the illusion.

"Continue fire!!"

Looking at the disarrayed goblins, the shower of arrows continue to befall them, and their number got trimmed even faster than before. But as they thought they were about to win, the second wave of goblins appeared out of the forest.

"G-Goblin champions spotted!!!"

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Name: Lyan Arkanium Evocatore

Occupation: Gold-ranked Mercenary

Money: 49,722,400 Elnes

Weapon: None

Equipment: Black leather cloak, Leather Armor, 1 (Decent) One-handed Sword, 2 (Good-Quality) One-handed swords, 2 Health Potions, 2 Poison Vials

Grimoire's Companions: 8 High Spirits, Shadow Hobgoblin, Papilio Slime, Galewing Butterfly, Rock Golem, Deadlight, Moonlight Butterfly, Ice Golem