[Raven's POV!]
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-Tung! Tung! Tung!
And the town bell rang as we turned towards the stairs leading up on the town boundary walls. While players with close combat skill were to be prepared for a wall breach, ranged fighters like me had to go up there and fight alongside other archers, etc.
My weapons were throwing knives, and I had already secured a good number of them in the past 2 days. That should last me till the end of a couple of waves, before I switch to close combat again.
Running up to the high wall, I then stood beside one of the archers of the city. I think he was the assigned invigilator for overseeing the adventurer's exam of the players in the guild.
"We got about 3 minutes before they come close," the NPC said as he looked deeper into the forest. I couldn't see, but I held my breath before I prepared myself for the incoming wave.
[Hudson Lvl 62!]
"Is this a usual occurrence here? The wave, I mean," I asked, trying to get more information, wondering if I could trigger some sort of event.
"The wave? It's only happening because of the new duke," he sighed as he shook his head before he added,
"Previously, hell itself descended upon us. And now a monster wave... I mean, the conditions of the town weren't really as good before, but at least we didn't have to sightsee monsters every now and then."
He then turned to me before his eyes widened. As if he made a mistake, he shut up with his eyes widened before a slight sigh escaped his mouth and then he spoke.
"I said nothing."
I just looked at him with interest. I landed on some sort of gold mine, didn't I? I couldn't help but smile as I tried starting the conversation once more.
"The new duke? Hell?"
But then he chuckled as he looked from the corner of his eyes as he added," don't think I don't know what you are trying to do. I am not telling you anything anymore. Anyway... here they come."
I looked at him, amazed at the intelligence of the NPCs, before turning to the wave of monsters appearing in the forest.
The first ones were...
"Goblins!!" One of the NPCs shouted, informing the rest of the people down in the city.
"ARCHERS! READY!!" And the man beside me shouted with his hands raised, while the archers and other ranged units prepared their weapons.
"THREE!!"
"TWO!!!"
"ONE!!"
"SHOOT!!!"
And a barrage of arrows came, directed at the goblins, slaughtering them before they could even reach 100 meters of the town.
"More of them are coming," he added, reloading the arrows. I, too, picked another pair of knives as I prepared for another throw.
Though as they reached about 20 meters away from the wall, a shout came and about half the archers dropped their bows before each of them chanted their own spell,
[FireBall!]
[Ice Spikes!]
[Flare!]
[Earth Spikes!]
The spells were chanted all over the city walls, before they took form and then reached those stronger monsters and...
-BOOM!!!!
Charring them into pieces.
"Beautiful," I just couldn't help but comment as I saw those spells taking form in those mages' hands over and over, showering on those monsters gradually coming towards us.
"WE GOT A BIGGER ONE COMING!!" One of the archers shouted, and Hudson chuckled before shouting,
"IT'S MINE!!!"
"Huh?" I turned to look at the archer guy, preparing his bow as he mumbled,
"[Art of the Bow Master: Love letters of Death!]"
And his arrow, which was plain wooden before, was now dark black with a reddish hue radiating from it.
-Bam! Bam! Bam!
On the other side, a giant rhinoceros was thrashing everything on its way, shattering all the trees as it reached closer to us.
[Rhiana Ostera Level 78!]
A level 78?!!!
I was shocked to see such a high level monster in a starter town. Can we survive-
-Whoosh!!
And that black arrow left the bow, trailing through the forest towards that giant rhino, hitting directly in the eye.
-KAAAAAAA!!!!!
The rhino shouted in agony as it kept running, stumbling with each step, before it emerged from the forest. And just after that, it slowed down a little 30 meters away from the town walls.
-Thud!
And it fell to the ground.
-BOOM!
And its body exploded into pieces, leaving the blackened inside in our view, while we barely held our breaths