Chapter 617 War In Hell (3)

Meanwhile, Brigitta is standing on the wall with a frown on her face.

Looking at the desolate plain beyond the Great Barricade's wall, Brigitta finds that Rex and the others can't be seen due to the invisible barrier that suddenly expanded. It seems the invisible barrier blocks the vision beyond the Great Barricade.

Just like a tampered video, the desolate plain beyond the walls looks very calm and normal.

Although that is the case Brigitta knows that this invisible barrier that engulfs Rex and the others creates an illusion that can't be seen through from the outside, even when she tries piercing the barrier using her wind arcane mana, she finds that she isn't able to do that.

Without a doubt, the one making this invisible barrier is at least as strong as herself.

But based on what she heard earlier when Flunra tries to test the invisible barrier she knows that it should be made by the Vampire King and also the Undead King, both are ninth-rank realm entities with power equivalent to her.

It's not a surprise that she can't do anything to the invisible barrier with her arcane mana.

Glancing to the side, Brigitta saw a couple of mounds on the ground right beside the Great Barricade's wall. It was Rex's parents' temporary graves that were made in a hurry earlier, Kyran and Gistella made these graves quickly.

Upon seeing Rex suddenly got pulled down from the wall, both of them decided to help.

But leaving Rex's parents' corpses out in the open would be disrespecting Rex himself so they decided to dig temporary graves for them. Even before jumping down to help Rex, they asked Brigitta to watch over the graves until they finished whatever was attacking them.

While looking at the two graves, Brigitta ponders for a brief moment.

Just before Rex got pulled down by the blue flaming chains, he said something that is still stuck in Brigitta's head. It was the fact that he said that there are three Kings of Supernatural gathered here to attack him, and this is the perfect opportunity to strike.

Out of the ninth-rank realm Supernaturals, only two were not here.

Although the ones attacking Rex right now should be the Queen of Succubus, Azzen, and King Baralt, the invisible barrier was conjured and sustained by the Vampire King and the Undead King. Five of the seven ninth-rank Supernaturals are gathered here.

Even if the Vampire King and the Undead King are not actually here, their focus is definitely here.

It leaves only the Demon King and the Shapeshifter King that is not present, but the two of them shouldn't be at the Demon Stronghold. Even if they were there, fighting two of them would still be a far better deal.

Realizing this Brigitta nodded to herself but decided to check just one more thing.

Facing the invisible barrier with a cautious expression, Brigitta stretches her arm forward before lightly touching the invisible barrier. Upon a touch of her finger, a ripple was made almost as if she was touching a water surface.

While putting her senses on alert, she dipped her arm into the invisible barrier.

Expecting a restraint that would push her out, Brigitta doesn't find any resistance as her arm penetrates through the invisible barrier easily. On the other side, she can feel the burning air that definitely the work of the demons.

"It's not the usual type of barrier...", Brigitta mutters in confusion.

But as she was trying to decipher the use of the invisible barrier, she remembered that pushing her arcane mana into the invisible barrier is impossible. From that alone she realizes the use of this invisible barrier, "It's not blocking someone from getting in or out, it's blocking any kind of energy from getting in and out..."

Since her arm can get in but her arcane mana can't, this is the only explanation.

For some reason the Supernatural doesn't want the rampaging energy inside the invisible barrier to come out, Brigitta can't figure out why they feel the need to do this. Usually, they don't care about the destruction they caused.

In fact, they like the destruction they caused.

Brigitta then pulls her arm back out before conjuring a small wind bird on her palm.

Whispering something to the small wind bird, she then lifts the wind bird up before it flew away quickly and disappears into the sky. Upon reaching quite a distance, the wind bird split into two before they went in different directions.

"I need to stay and guard here, but they should be able to handle it themselves", Brigitta mutters.

A moment later,

Inside the Cessation Knight compound in front of the Demon Stronghold, Denzel came out of his hut before looking up into the sky. For a while now he has already sensed something approaching, and he recognized the mana.

Looking up to the bright sky, he saw a bird that should be an owl made of wind arcane mana.

Upon seeing Denzel in sight the wind owl dives swiftly from the sky, the air resistance doesn't affect it at all as it only takes a few seconds for the owl to reach Denzel's arm, "It's Brigitta's Drifting Humming Owl...", he mutters recognizing the bird.

Soon enough the bird looks at Denzel before it finally opens its mouth.

"Five ninth-rank realm Supernaturals are gathered here to ambush Rex, we can use this opportunity to seize back the Demong Stronghold. Check if the Demon King and the Shapeshifter King are there, if only one of them is there then you can attack. I've sent a message to Sebrof and Giana, maybe one of them can help you in reclaiming the Demon Stronghold"

Although it was a direct message that went straight to the point, Denzel can't help but frown.

Even the mention of five ninth-rank realm Supernaturals alone gives a shiver running down his spine, he can't believe that five of them actually try to take Rex down. It seems the Supernaturals are also unwelcoming of him.

Which is a good thing, at the very least humanity doesn't have one more powerful enemy to fight.

Glancing at one of the Cessation Knight captains on his side, Denzel then asked knowing that they still haven't recovered fully from the fight against the Demons' attack, "How are our forces looking? Can we take another all-out fight against the Demong Stronghold?"

"Military forces have been reinstated, but the Awakened force is still crippled", the captain replied.

Opening a hologram interface on his watch, the captain then continues, "Currently the Awakened under our ranks are reduced from 13,520 units to 6,100 units, three-quarters of them are fifth-rank, 1,300 sixth-rank, 220 seventh-rank, and 5 eighth-rank. If the Demons haven't recovered their numbers, we can take one more fight but after that, we will be drained completely"

Upon hearing this, Denzel nodded his head, "Go and notify our forces to be ready"

"Right away, Sir. I'll make sure that each one of them will be ready to fight at a moment's notice, they'll be ready before you even require them to, Sir!", the captain replied, saluting before he left to do what Denzel asked him to do as soon as possible.

From the looks of it, another fight would break out soon.

~

Back to the hellish plain,

Although having superior physical strength in her Werewolf form, Adhara focuses on using more of her fire and wind elements that are imbued into the Duality Daggers. Most of the Werewolves are sixth-rank and seventh-rank which can still be killed or hurt using her spells alone.

Knowing that the battle will be an endurance battle, later on, she decided to do this.

Since mana and stamina are two completely different things, Adhara decided that it would be better to take out the weaker ones with her spells while the stronger ones with her daggers. It's a way to reserve her energy.

Swoosh!

Like a dancing goddess, Adhara exhibits her dagger-wielding skills as she butchers the enemies.

Adhara's movement was elegant but abstract at the same time, her movement looks to be slow but it can increase in speed substantially in the blink of an eye. Using her dagger-wielding skill, she takes also manages to take down many Werewolves in the process.

The Werewolves that she killed were dead due to one clean slice to their vital part.

Spinning her entire body, Adhara creates a vortex of purple fire as her body turns into a tornado.

Many of the Werewolves that leaped towards her got scorched into nothing.

Unlike Adhara that are wielding weapons despite being a Werewolf herself, these primal Werewolves that are born and lived as Werewolves all their lives harness only their claws and animalistic instincts.

Even though many of them got scorched to ashes, their battle instincts kicks in.

It was like their minds are in harmony and now they decided to jump away when Adhara is covering her body with purple flames before jumping in when she wasn't, and this surely gives them some hits here and there due to their sheer number.

Despite being surrounded was not an ideal situation, she can't avoid this situation either.

If there are one or two hundred of them then she might be able to avoid being surrounded from all sides and keep the Werewolves in front of her, but their numbers are reaching the thousands and it was only a matter of time before some of them started attacking from the back.

Clang!

Swish!

Slash!

Adhara gritted her teeth when the Werewolves started aiming for his legs.

'How can they move like this in my presence? This shouldn't be possible!', Adhara exclaimed inside her head after getting slashed on her shin, her murderous eyes gazes around her, and finds about 30 Werewolves leaping towards her from all directions.

But these Werewolves are only sixth-rank realm, their bloodline can't compare to Adhara's.

Even back during her fight against Gistella, her outburst of energy exploded Kyran's eyes and makes Gistella's eyes bleed which is equivalent to a seventh-rank realm Werewolf. Right now, her aura did the same but these Werewolves are very much still in fighting mode.

Without even their eyes, these Werewolves' senses still allow them to fight.

Something like this surprised Adhara greatly as these blind Werewolves leaped at her perfectly as if their eyes can still see, it seems their minds are more in tune with their bodies compared to Gistella, Kyran, or even herself.

Probably due to the fact that they were born Werewolf from the get-go, unlike the three of them.

Adhara's insane reflex allows her to dodge and counter-attack most of the Werewolves that leaped at her, but a small portion of them manage to land hit after hit on her body leaving bloodied scratches here and there.

Of course, as a Werewolf, her wounds healed quickly but the attack also keeps on coming endlessly.

But her battle gets increasingly harder as more powerful Werewolves join in.

Up to seventh-rank realm Werewolves she can deal with them pretty swiftly, but when the Alphas came out the battle started to take a drastic turn. Adhara roared in pain when her abdomen suffered a deep cut from a Werewolf with grey furs.

It was similar to Jarvald's grey furs but this one is sparkling, almost like silver itself.

Gritting her teeth while touching the wound on her abdomen that is bleeding profusely, Adhara's eyes glow powerfully as her energy becomes even stronger. Soon enough she also activate her elements and blasted the entire ground around her.

KABOOM!!

From that, alone many Werewolves died and turned into ash.

While she was being protected by the purple flames that are swooshing around her body, Adhara use this breathing time to search for Flunra with her senses. But out of nowhere, the same Alpha came rushing into the purple flames.

Adhara widened her eyes seeing the Alpha already reaching right in front of her, inches away.

On top of that, this Alpha is even faster than Adhara as its claws are already heading towards her head, but a blue barrier materializes in the clutch moment and blocks the Alpha's claws which are threatening to slash Adhara's face.

Knowing that it was Gistella that saved her, Adhara's eyes went bloodthirst again.

A red crescent moon symbol appears on her forehead as she activates the Berserker's Curse skill, her eyes then glisten fiercely as she jabbed her claws into the Alpha's chest before flinging the Alpha to the side roughly.

Bits of flesh were left on her claws as she did that, but then a powerful shockwave hits her.

SWOOSH!!

Despite her current power, the shockwave sent her rolling back and so does the Werewolves around her, she recovered soon after and saw Rex and King Baralt clash in the sky showing that the fight is still young and far from over.

Rex's and King Baralt's kingly energies clashes against each other, tearing the fabric of dimension.

Upon seeing this Adhara didn't sit idle and intended to jump back to search for Flunra knowing that if there is more than one Alpha then she would be in trouble, these Werewolves are definitely stronger compared to normal.

All because of King Baralt's kingly energy that is ingrained in them.

Soon enough after somersaulting a couple of times back, Adhara saw Flunra on the side surrounded by Red Demons. It was a daunting feat as the Red Demons are as fierce as any Werewolves she was fighting or perhaps even fiercer.

Knowing that she can't go there, she decided to head to Gistella blocking the Incubus' charge.

Landing beside her, Adhara then shouted about the extreme situation, "We need to find a way to escape this place, we will be overrun the longer this goes on! There are just too many of them for our few numbers!"

"I'm thinking of letting the Incubus go to Kyran, he will be safe with the bubble around him!"

But just as they both are trying to find a way to buy more time or search for a path to escape this army of Supernaturals, their heads snapped to the sky before their eyes dilated in crisis. There was a demon in the sky that are looking straight t them.

Not a regular demon judging from its devastating aura, it's Azzen.

"Looking at your fight, it seems that both of you are having fun. I'm quite jealous"

"May I join in the fun...?"